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Okay, so which is your favourite movie decade?? I am focusing on sound film here so that's why I'm starting with the 30s and since we're in the middle of a decade the 90s is the latest decade that you can vote for.
Some examples:
1930s: Gone with the Wind, M, Duck Soup, All Quiet on the Western Front, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Modern Times, The Wizard of Oz, La Grande illusion, The 39 Steps, Stagecoach, La Règle du jeu
1940s: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Ladri di biciclette, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Red Shoes, The Great Dictator, Notorius, The Third Man, Roma, cìtta aperta
1950s: Rear Window, 12 Angry Men, Shichinin no samurai, Sunset Blvd., Le Salaire de la peur, North by Northwest, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, Det sjunde inseglet, On the Waterfront
1960s: Psycho, Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 8½, Yojimbo, The Manchurian Candidate, Easy Rider, Persona, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Wild Bunch
1970s: The Godfather(s), Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Alien, A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Solyaris, All the President's Men, Jaws
1980s: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raging Bull, Das Boot, Ran, Once Upon a Time in America, Blade Runner, Stand By Me, Platoon, The Breakfast Club, Brazil, Die Hard
1990s: The Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Schindler's List, La Vita è bella, The Matrix, Fight Club, The Silence of the Lambs, La Haine, American Beauty
So... what do you say??
Some examples:
1930s: Gone with the Wind, M, Duck Soup, All Quiet on the Western Front, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Modern Times, The Wizard of Oz, La Grande illusion, The 39 Steps, Stagecoach, La Règle du jeu
1940s: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Ladri di biciclette, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Red Shoes, The Great Dictator, Notorius, The Third Man, Roma, cìtta aperta
1950s: Rear Window, 12 Angry Men, Shichinin no samurai, Sunset Blvd., Le Salaire de la peur, North by Northwest, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, Det sjunde inseglet, On the Waterfront
1960s: Psycho, Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 8½, Yojimbo, The Manchurian Candidate, Easy Rider, Persona, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Wild Bunch
1970s: The Godfather(s), Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Alien, A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Solyaris, All the President's Men, Jaws
1980s: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raging Bull, Das Boot, Ran, Once Upon a Time in America, Blade Runner, Stand By Me, Platoon, The Breakfast Club, Brazil, Die Hard
1990s: The Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Schindler's List, La Vita è bella, The Matrix, Fight Club, The Silence of the Lambs, La Haine, American Beauty
So... what do you say??
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
