“Contagion” (2011)

Anyone my age or over - or film buffs with a perverse interest in the more commercial end of 1970s Hollywood cinema - will know all about the disaster movie cycle.  “The Poseidon Adventure”, “The Towering Inferno”, “Earthquake” and “The Swarm” were the key titles in a genre that both […]

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Top 100 Films stocked by Auteur House (in chronological order)

                         Top 100 Films stocked  by Auteur House (in chronological order)

  1.  1916 Intolerance (DW Griffith, USA)   2.  1924 Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, USA)
  3.  1925 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
4.  1925 The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, USA)
  5.  1926 The General (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton, USA)
  6.  […]

Posted at 7pm on 11/16/11 | no comments; | Filed Under: Top 10 Lists | read on

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