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TIM DIRKS
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Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

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When I noticed the lack of serious information on classic American/Hollywood films on the Web in early 1996, I decided to try to remedy the situation by creating an educationally-oriented web site with in-depth content and information on the "Greatest Films."
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"Dracula (1931) is one of the earliest classic American horror films from Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures - an acclaimed masterpiece directed by Tod Browning..."
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Dracula (1931)n/a
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"The King and I (1956) is the popular and elaborate musical and story of the tutoring of the stubborn, King of Siam's wives and children by widowed English school teacher Anna Leonowens in 1862."
Posted Aug 26, 2006
 
King and I (1956)100%
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"The screen's first science fiction story - a 14 min. masterpiece, created by imaginative French director/master magician Georges Melies in his version of Jules Verne's story."
Posted Mar 16, 2004
 
A Trip to the Moon (1902)n/a
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"Days of Heaven (1978) is an exquisite, lyrical film of exceptional visual beauty and only the second film of writer-director Terrence Malick,"
Posted Apr 30, 2002
 
Days of Heaven (1978)91%
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"Written on the Wind (1956) is generally regarded as the best of director Douglas Sirk's 1950s lush, vibrantly colorful..."
Posted Apr 23, 2002
 
Written on the Wind (1956)79%
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"The Killers (1946) is director Robert Siodmak's screen classic - an intense, hard-edged, stylish classic film noir..."
Posted Apr 12, 2002
 
The Killers (1946)100%
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"12 Angry Men (1957) is the gripping, penetrating, and engrossing examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors - all male, mostly middle-aged, white, and"
Posted Apr 5, 2002
 
12 Angry Men (1957)100%
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"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is the immensely popular magical fantasy movie myth and one of the box office champions..."
Posted Mar 22, 2002
 
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial The 20th Anniversary (2002)98%
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"The Last Picture Show (1971) is an evocative and bittersweet slice-of-life 'picture show' from newcomer 31 year-old director Peter Bogdanovich"
Posted Jan 15, 2002
 
The Last Picture Show (1971)100%
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"Blade Runner (1982), director Ridley Scott's follow-up to Alien (1979), is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time -"
Posted Oct 30, 2001
 
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (1982)95%
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"The Wild Bunch (1969) is director Sam Peckinpah's provocative, brilliant yet controversial Western, shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence"
Posted Oct 30, 2001
 
The Wild Bunch (1969)97%
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"Fargo (1996) is a self-proclaimed "homespun murder story" set in the white-washed, winter wilderness of the frozen and bleak Upper Midwest."
Posted Aug 27, 2001
 
Fargo (1996)93%
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"One of the milestones in film history was the first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter"
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
The Great Train Robbery (1903)n/a
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"Baby Doll (1956) has been called notorious, salacious, revolting, dirty, steamy, lewd, suggestive, morally repellent and provocative."
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Baby Doll (1956)100%
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"Anna Christie (1930) was advertised as the first talking picture for the cinema's greatest silent star"
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Anna Christie (1930)n/a
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"The Exorcist (1973) is the sensational, shocking horror story about devil possession and the exorcism of the demonic spirits from a young, innocent girl (of a divorced family)"
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000)88%
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"Apocalypse Now (1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences"
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)92%
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"Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is an ascerbic, dynamic and intense film that exposes the diseased under-side of New York City's glamorous night life, revealing..."
Posted Aug 20, 2001
 
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)100%
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"Brazil (1985) is from British director/co-screenwriter Terry Gilliam - a combination science-fiction, despairing black comedy and fantasy that combines elements of..."
Posted Aug 7, 2001
 
Brazil (1985)97%
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"Out of the Past (1947), (aka Build My Gallows High, its title in Britain), is one of the greatest, multi-layered film noirs of all time..."
Posted Apr 18, 2001
 
Out of the Past (1947)96%
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"Trouble in Paradise (1932) is generally considered producer/director Ernst Lubitsch's greatest film..."
Posted Apr 2, 2001
 
Trouble in Paradise (1932)100%
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"Badlands (1973) is the remarkable and impressive directorial debut from twenty-nine year old director Terrence Malick"
Posted Mar 19, 2001
 
Badlands (1973)100%
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"Cat People (1942) is a low-budget horror classic from RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. - the haunting, low-key story"
Posted Feb 13, 2001
 
Cat People (1942)94%
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"10 (1979) is known for its numerical rating system for beautiful women. It described itself as "a temptingly tasteful comedy for adults"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
10 (1979)70%
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"The 1990s was the Decade of Money, Mega-Spending and Special Effects. In the 1990s for the most part, cinema attendance was up - mostly"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
1990's Decade-in-Review (1990-1999)n/a
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"2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic, an epic film containing more spectacular imagery than verbal dialogue."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)96%
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"42nd Street (1933) is the classic, fast-paced, backstage movie musical - a refreshing film that changed the film musical forever and saved Warner Bros. studios from bankruptcy"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
42nd Street (1933)95%
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"A Clockwork Orange (1971) is producer/ director/ screenwriter Stanley Kubrick's randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphic film"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Clockwork Orange (1971)90%
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"A Day at the Races (1937) is a classic Marx Brothers comedy, often argued as one of their three or four best works."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Day at the Races (1937)91%
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"A Night at the Opera (1935), a musical comedy, is the sixth of thirteen Marx Brothers films, and their first for MGM Studios under Irving Thalberg's production."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Night at the Opera (1935)97%
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"A Place in the Sun (1951), a melodramatic film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's lengthy, best-selling 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, was also"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Place in the Sun (1951)76%
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"A Star is Born is the superb 1954 musical, acclaimed by many as the greatest Hollywood musical ever made. Judy Garland's intense performance as the main"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Star Is Born (1954)100%
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"A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a subversive, steamy film classic that was adapted from Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)100%
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"Adam's Rib (1949) is director George Cukor's most famous film of the battle of the sexes - between two married lawyers."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Adam's Rib (1949)100%
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"Alice Adams (1935) is RKO's touching, effectively poignant portrayal of small-town, mid-Western American pretenses"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Alice Adams (1935)93%
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"Alien (1979) is 20th Century Fox's extremely suspenseful, space science-fiction horror film about a menacing, unstoppable,"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Alien (1979)97%
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"All About Eve (1950), is a realistic, dramatic depiction of show business and backstage life of Broadway and the New York theater."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
All About Eve (1950)100%
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"All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is the first major anti-war film of the sound era, faithfully based upon the timeless 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)97%
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"All the King's Men (1949) is the fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a backwoods rebel - a story inspired by the rule"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
All the King's Men (1949)96%
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"Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
American Graffiti (1973)97%
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"An American in Paris (1951) is one of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM's 50's musicals, with Gershwin lyrics and musical score"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
An American in Paris (1951)98%
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"Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) is a classic example of a Warner Bros. gangster/crime melodrama of the 1930s"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)100%
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"Animal Crackers (1930), the second of many classic Marx Brothers films (their first film was The Cocoanuts (1929), also for Paramount Studios)"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Animal Crackers (1930)95%
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"Annie Hall (1977) is director /actor / co-writer Woody Allen's quintessential masterpiece of priceless, witty and quotable one-liners"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Annie Hall (1977)98%
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"Apocalypse Now (1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Apocalypse Now (1979)98%
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"Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is a frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy from celebrated director Frank Capra"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)91%
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"Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is both a tightly-written, suspenseful, dramatic action film (with film noirish qualities) and a western."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)100%
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"Bananas (1971) is the story of a New Yorker who becomes a South American rebel leader, to impress his political activist love interest Nancy (Louise Lasser)."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Bananas (1971)88%
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"Basic Instinct (1992) is a suspenseful, cat-and-mouse erotic thriller with psychosexual overtones."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Basic Instinct (1992)59%
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"Beau Geste (1939) is director/producer William Wellman's superb, high adventure tale set in the desert - a classic melodramatic, rousing film of the late 30s"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Beau Geste (1939)100%

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