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2. Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning Rating: R Al Pacino stars as Sonny, a criminal who teams up with his dim-witted sidekick, Sal, to rob a Brooklyn bank on ...
The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...
It’s safe to say that the ’70s was one of the greatest decades in cinema history. Apart from introducing us to the notorious Michael Corleone from The Godfather, the film industry ushered in a ...
The original list has 75 Academy Awards Best Picture nominees and 33 winners. In the 2007 list, eight of the top ten films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with five winning. In the original list, nine out of the top ten were nominees, and six won. Two animated films appear on each list.
Highest-grossing films of 1980 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Empire Strikes Back: 20th Century Fox: $209,398,025 2 9 to 5: $103,290,500 3 Stir Crazy: Columbia: $101,300,000 4 Airplane! Paramount: $83,453,539 5 Any Which Way You Can: Warner Bros. $70,687,344 6 Private Benjamin: $69,847,348 7 Coal Miner's Daughter: Universal ...
(1980) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Chucky and Willie Wanker's Chocolate Starfish (1984) Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind; History of the World Part 1; I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) Johnny Dangerously 1984; The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Night of the Comet (1984) Spaceballs (1987) Top ...
The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. [1] The period was when the "high concept" picture was established by producer Don Simpson, [2] where films were expected to be easily marketable and understandable.
Inaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol 's Blue Movie, the phenomenon of adult erotic films being publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope), [5] and taken seriously by critics (like Roger Ebert), [6] [7] a development referred to, by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, as "porno chic", and later known as the ...