さて、蓮実なんかに言わせると、こういう映画しか観る価値がないんですが・・・ http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics.html
Sight and Sound Critics Top Ten Poll 2002
1 Citizen Kane (Welles)
2 Vertigo (Hitchcock)
3 La Règle du jeu (Renoir)
4 The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola)
5 Tokyo Story (Ozu) 6 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
7 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
7 Sunrise (Murnau)
9 8 1/2 (Fellini)
10 Singin' In the Rain (Kelly, Donen)
This is just a guess.
A "critical release" of a film prob. is a release to the critics and movie reviewers,
as opposed to a "commercial release" to the general public.
Page 196: I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. If I had a whole book of Shakespeare they could keep me in the hospital for a year.
Page 274: You can hear plays by O'Casey, Shaw, Ibsen and Shakespeare himself, the best of all, even if he is English. Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Page 275: And Mrs. Purcell says, Do you know what, Frankie? What, Mrs. Purcell? That Shakespeare is that good he must have been an Irishman.
I just found some DVD's for one dollar each at my local dollar store. Quality is very good. All public domain stuff, but for a buck...what the heck?
I picked up....
1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Peter Lorre)
2. The 39 Steps (Robert Donat)
3. Jack & The Beanstalk (Abbott & Costello)
4. Royal Wedding (Fred Astaire)
5. Nothing Sacred (Carole Lombard)