NOTE: The first several posts of this blog (scroll down to the blog’s beginning, please) include 20th Century film rankings from several sources, including “Four Star Movies The 101 Greatest Films of All Time”, a book produced by Gail Kinn & Jim Piazza in 2003.
Although famed movie review critic Roger Ebert always refused to rate movies, he pleasured himself in watching and reviewing them, and his comments were usually a very telling indication of just where he would rate a certain movie in the category of all-time importance.
There can be no doubt that films in the 20th Century reflected life, and that many of these films also were created out of the condition of life. Whether they were musical, sports-generated, comedic, or dramatic, they had stories to tell and lessons to teach.
My favorite movie kiss of all time.
The list of movie-makers in the 20th Century, their personal stories, their personal endeavors and achievements, and their drive to put the truth in film is long-recorded. As a matter of fact, that all came with the territory from the beginning with silent films, before “talkies” changed the industry forever. Silent messages were as powerful as later ones stated emphatically by the “live” voices of a film’s characters.
We are who we are as nations because we’ve been, and sharing that “been” in whatever discipline helps preserve our societal struggles and triumphs for the benefit of all generations to come. Movies, by their very nature, however, provide us with more than historical reminders. They entertain, they employ humor in relief doses, they laugh at our vanities, they momentarily suspend realty too harsh to accept.
To create some light-hearted fun while endeavoring to remember the importance of the great films of the 20th Century, I’m sprinkling in game information from mysteries, dramas, sports, and humorous scripts alike while living in the 20th Century of film.
Let’s enjoy the name and number game of movies!
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Credit:
“Lady and the Tramp” VHS Cover, 1952, Disney Enterprises, Inc.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment, from my personal home collection
Favorite 20th Century Films 