Incredible film you likely have not seen.
On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude
Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper
of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1
racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No
streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
Make sure sound is turned on!
I think this driver drove our cab taking us back to the airport!
Bottle Shock - Based on the book Judgment of
Paris Starring Bill Pullman, Dennis
Farina, Chris Pine.
Dec 22, 2006 - The Good Shephard Robert DeNiro, Matt Daman, Angelina Jolie,
Alec Baldwin - Technical advisory Jon Monette.
Based upon the book "Wilderness of Mirrors"
Rick's Favorite Movies
Spygame
Released 2001
Starring
Robert Redford & Brad Pitt
Directed by Tony Scott
The Insider
Released 1999
Starring
Al Pacino and Russell Crowe
Based on the true story about
Dr.
Jeffrey Wigand and a CBS 60 Minutes episode in
1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired
because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected.
Several
featuring Matt Damon ....
Bourne Identity - 2002
Starring
Matt Damon with Franka Potente and Chris Cooper -
Based on the Robert Ludlum novel.
Bourne Supremacy
- 2004 - Sequel to
Bourne Identity.
The Greatest Game
Ever Played
Released 2005
Based on the book The Greatest Game
Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of
Modern Golf
Directed by Bill Paxton
Starring:
OCEAN'S ELEVEN
Released 2001
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Don
Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts
A selection of Sean Connery flic's
...
Hunt
for Red October - 1990
Finding Forrester - 2000
Entrapment - 1999
Starring Sean Connery & Alec Baldwin, James Early
Jones and Scott Glenn
Starring Sean Connery and F. Murray Abraham
Starring
Sean Connery & Catherine Zeta-Jones
Based on one of Tom Clancy's first classics that put him on
the
map.
Check out the cool scene that takes off from a classic scene
from Grand Slam below.
Searching For Bobby Fisher
Released 1993
Starring
Joe Montagna, Lawrence Fishburne, Ben Kingsley, Joan Allen and Max
Pomeranc as Josh Waitzin. Based on the true story by Fred Waitzin about his son Josh, a chess
prodigy.
RONIN
Released 1998
Starring Robert De Niro
and Jean Reno
Directed by John Frankenheimer
De Niro at his best, great scenes of Paris and southern France,
good plot and some exciting intense chase scenes.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Released 1981
Starring
Harrison Ford
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by George Lucas
Best adventure
movie of all time?
Reflecting my Hoosier heritage and personal
connections to these Indiana based movies...
Hoosiers - 1986
Breaking
Away - 1979
Rudy - 1993
Starring
Gene Hackman,
Dennis Hopper and Barbara Hershey
Starring Dennis Christopher,
Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie,
Paul Dooley, and Robyn Douglass
Starring
Sean Austin and Ned Beatty
Directed by Peter Yates
Written by Steve Tesich
Technical Advisor Tom Schwoegler
Directed by David Anspaugh
Written by Angelo Pizzo
Last of the Mohicans
Released 1992
Based on classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Starring Daniel Day Lewis with Madeleine Stowe
Good Will Hunting -
1997
Starring
Robin Williams and Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Minnie Driver
Written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
A couple featuring
Denzel Washington ...
Pelican Brief - 1993
Starring: Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law
student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants
her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Remember the Titans
-
2000 Starring: Denzel Washington, Bill Patton
-
The true story of an newly appointed
African-American coach and his high school team on their first season
as a racially integrated unit.
Another Julia Roberts ...
Another John Grisham ...
Notting Hill
Released 1999
Starring
Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts
The Firm
Released 1993
Starring Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Gene Tripplehorn
A couple featuring Tom Hanks ...
You've Got Mail - 1998
Starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Dabney Coleman
Apollo 13 -
1995
Starring: Tom
Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen
Quinlan Plot Outline:True
story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and
the men that rescued it with skill and dedication.
Tagline:Houston, we have a problem.
All the President's Men -
1976
Directed by Alan J. Pakula Written by Carl Bernstein & Bob
Woodward Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards,
Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden. Plot - Historical account of the investigative
reporting by Washington Post reporters that uncovered the
Watergate cover-up that led to the resignation of President
Richard Nixon
A couple featuring Albert Brooks ...
Broadcast
News (1987)
Starring : William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Jack
Nicholson
Directed and written by James L. Brooks
Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one
talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch
the sparks fly.
Lost in
America (1985) Starring Albert BrooksJulie
Hagerty; Directed & written byAlbert Brooks
A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as
free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
Return to Snowy River
Released 1988
Starring : Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton,
Brian Dennehy Directed by : Geoff Burrowes Great family flick.
A most incredible chase scene that rivals any in the
movies - except this ones on horses! A great musical score too. Sequel
better than the original.
Romancing the Stone
Released 1984
Starring
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito
Rival to
Indiana Jones Temple of Doom. One of my favorite jazzy musical scores.
Another
featuring William Hurt ...
Body Heat
Released 1981
Starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner,
Ted Dansen, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke Directed and
written by Lawrence Kasdan
Did you know
this was a remake of the 1944 classic Double Indemnity?
See below.
Classics & eclectic -
Casablanca
Released 1942
Starring
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman with Claude Rains, Sydney
Greenstreet and Peter Lorre
The
greatest movie ever made?
Grand Slam(1967) Starring:
Janet Leigh, Edward G. Robinson Director:
Giuliano Montaldo Synopsis:Eclectic and little-known heist film
details an attempted diamond heist from a Rio de Janeiro vault during
Carnival. Boasts a number of clever twists and an excellent,
international cast. Country of
Origin:Italy
Year of the Comet - (1992)
Directed by Peter Yates
Starring Penelope Ann Miller,
Timothy Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik, Ian Richardson, Ian
McNeice
Discovering the existence of an extremely rare bottle
of wine. Fun and adventurous with interesting character subject near
and dear to my heart - see
www.mcnees.org/winesite/
Grand Prix (1966) Cast: James Garner,
Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis: There's a few million dollars' worth of star power and a nickel's
worth of plot in the lavish race-car melodrama
Grand Prix. Among the participants in this annual
cross-continent competition are
James Garner,
Yves Montand,
Brian Bedford and
Antonio Sabato. Interested parties include
Toshiro Mifune (his voice dubbed by
Paul Frees),
Adolfo Celi and
Claude Dauphin, while the women who agonize on the sidelines
include
Eva Marie Saint,
Jessica Walter and
Francoise Hardy.
The racing sequences are top-rank, cleverly utilizing
those 1960s devices of helicopter angles and multiple screens. Oscars
went to editor
Frederick Steinkamp and the sound-effects supervisor
Franklin E. Milton. Filmed on location,
Grand Prix made back its cost about half a week into its run. ~
Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
DOUBLE
INDEMNITY
Release Date: September 6, 1944 Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck,
Edward G. Robinson
Plotline similar to
Body
Heat above ...
Being There
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers as Chance ('Chauncey
Gardiner')
Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Turnbull Rand
Jack Warden as President 'Bobby'
Richard A. Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov
Directed by
Hal Ashby Writing credits Jerzy Kosinski (also
novel)
Sideways
(2004)
And last but not least
..... two classic New York stories ....
The famed
movie critic Gene Siskel's all time favorite movie ...
Saturday
Night Fever - 1977
Starring John Travolta Directed by
John Badham Writing credits Nik Cohn (magazine
article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night) and Norman Wexler
(screenplay)
The movie that
launched a whole genre - famous for the classic album by the Bee
Gee's that became the standard bearer that made disco
'mainstream'.
and what
Roger Ebert calls the greatest police movie of all time ...
The French
Connection - 1971
Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
Directed by William Friedkin Writing credits Robin Moore (novel)
and Ernest Tidyman (screenplay)
Based on real
characters - classic cop flick with one of the greatest chase
scenes ever that wasnt totally planned! Film launched the career
of Gene Hackman. See
Trivia.
Honorable mentions
.....
What about Bob?
Groundhog day.
Uncle Buck.
Chinatown.
French Kiss.
Chocolate.
When Harry Met Sally.
Glory Road.
The Natural.
Medicine Man.
Goodfellas.
M*A*S*H
Favorite episode - # 41. For Want of a
Boot (K-417)
January 12, 1974
Written by Sheldon Keller
Directed by Don Weis
Guest Stars: Michael Lerner, Suzanne Zenor,
Johnny Kaymer
A riotous episode in which
Hawkeye will do anything to get a new pair of boots. In order to
get Zale to get him some, he must get an appointment for Zale with Futterman, the camp dentist, who will only do it if Henry will give
him a pass to Tokyo, and Henry will only grant the pass if Houlihan
will get off his back, which she will do only if the guys throw a
party for Frank's birthday with a cake, and Radar will only help get
the cake if he gets a date with Nurse Murphy, who will only date
someone with a hair dryer, and Klinger won't give up the hair dryer
unless he gets a section 8 (and Frank won't sign). The deal falls
through, much to the chagrin of Hawkeye.
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Episode # 97 - Aired September 14, 1974
Production code 4014
Writer:
Ed Weinberger &
Stan Daniels
Director:
Jay Sandrich
Guest Stars:
Barbara Colby (as Sherry)
James Randolph (as Harrison)
Mary Ann Chinn (as Kim)
Darlene Conley (as Matron)
Charles Woolf (as Mr. Everett)
Don Macon (as Reporter)
Mary refuses to reveal a news source
for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail. Hilarious
scene when Ted has to testify in court about Mary's role at the
station. This episode won the 1975 Emmy for Best Writing in a Comedy
Series.
Everyone Loves Raymond
The Tenth Anniversary
Episode # 89
First Aired February 14, 2000
Ray and Debra renew their wedding vows after they find
out that Ray accidentally taped over their wedding with the 1991 Super
Bowl.
The Checkbook
Episode # 38
First Aired February 2, 1998
First Aired February 2,When Raymond takes over the
family checkbook to prove to Debra how "easy it can be" to balance it,
he discovers he is no accountant. After he quickly runs out of money
and starts bouncing checks, he tries to hide the truth from Debra and
winds up entangled in a mess of lies, two fake checkbooks and a large
loan from his brother. 1998
Tissues
Episode #113
When Debra grudgingly agrees
to let him be more involved in the daily decision making, Ray starts
grocery shopping for things that he likes and Debra lets him choose
where the family will go in it's next vacation. However, this newfound
power quickly becomes Ray's undoing.
Seinfeld
"The Package"
Episode Number: 139 Season Num: 8
Prod Code: 805
First Aired: Thursday October 17, 1996
Kramer tries to scam
the US Post Office to get a refund for Jerry's stereo,
(because "they write it off") and gets investigated by
Neuman. George tries to lure Sheila, the photo store
girl with seductive photos. Elaine has a rash and tries
to get her medical chart revised with the help of Dr Von
Nostrum Kramer.
Kramer:
It’s a write off for them. Jerry: How is it a write off? Kramer: They just write it off. Jerry: Write it off of what? Kramer: They just write it off! Jerry: You don't even know what a write off is,
do you? Kramer: No. Do you? Jerry: No I don't!! Kramer: No, but they do. And they're the ones
writing it off.' Jerry, "I wish I had the last 20 seconds of my
life back."
Kramer:
Yes, I'm Dr. van Nostrand from the clinic. I need Elaine
Benes's chart; she's a patient of mine and she's not
going to make it. It's, uh, very bad, very messy. Nurse: I see. And what clinic is that again? Kramer: Uh, that's correct. Nurse: Excuse me? Kramer: From the Hoffermanndale Clinic, in
Belgium. Nurse: Really? Kramer: The Netherlands?
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