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Society for Independent Film - Top Foreign Language Films. Infamy. Infamy is an intense journey into the dangerous lives and obsessed minds of six of America’s most prolific graffiti artists.

Infamy

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Doug Pray (Hype and Scratch) who teamed up with writer, publisher, and graffiti guru Roger Gastman, the movie takes you deep into the world of street legends Saber, Toomer, Jase, Claw, Earsnot, and Enem. With brutal honesty, humor and charisma, these artists reveal why they are so willing to risk everything to spray paint their cities with “tags,” “throwups,” and full-color murals.

You’ll also meet Joe “THE GRAFFITI GUERRILLA” Connolly, a notorious “buffer” who paints out graffiti on his neighborhood’s walls with a vengeance matched only by those who vandalized them. The 30 Best Films of the Decade - Part 3. Cognitive Science Movie Index. Woman's Face. Released in 1941, A Woman's Face tells the story of Anna Holm (Joan Crawford), a mysterious woman on trial for murder.

Woman's Face

The story unfolds in flashbacks related by Anna Holm's partners in crime. Anna is a very bitter woman, unable to accept the fact that her once-beautiful face has been horribly disfigured by fire. She takes out her anger and frustration on just about everyone, and not surprisingly, incurs a lot of bad feeling among her little band of associates. Anna's specialty is blackmail, and one of her victims is the erring wife of a prominent plastic surgeon (Melvyn Douglas). He persuades Anna to undergo several operations, although he has his reservations: "If I am successful I will have created a monster: a beautiful face with no heart.

" Continue. Top 10 Shocking Documentaries. Movies and TV As a visual medium, documentaries frequently succeed in portraying the unimaginable far better then any book alone could do.

Top 10 Shocking Documentaries

Animated shorts: 10 Must Watch Short Films. Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film. Interviewing Martin Scorsese is like taking a master class in film.

Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film

Fast Company’s four-hour interview with the director for the December-January cover story was ostensibly about his career, and how he had been able to stay so creative through years of battling studios. But the Hugo director punctuated everything he said with references to movies: 85 of them, in fact, all listed below. Some of the movies he discussed (note: the descriptions for these are below in quotes, denoting his own words). Others he just mentioned (noted below with short plot descriptions and no quotes). But the cumulative total reflects a life lived entirely within the confines of movie making, from his days as a young asthmatic child watching a tiny screen in Queens, New York to today, when Scorsese is as productive as he’s ever been in his career–and more revered than ever by the industry that once regarded him as a troublesome outsider.

55 Ep. 7/10. Good Movies Streaming on Netflix Instant. Best Movies to Watch: 100 Must See Movies For Men. For whatever reason (most likely the fact that viewing is easier than reading), films don’t seem to get the same kind of cultural respect as books do.

Best Movies to Watch: 100 Must See Movies For Men

Which is a shame because excellent movies can be just as entertaining, mind-expanding, and life changing as good books. Scenes, characters, and quotes from the greatest movies stay with us long after we view them. Their ability to transport you to different times and exotic locations, to completely absorb you in the story, make movies one of the closest approximations of real magic we have in this world. And for better and for worse, film has had a huge impact on masculinity in the 20th Century. Netflix and the IMDB Top 250.

We wanted to know which of the IMDB Top 250 movies were available streaming on Netflix.

Netflix and the IMDB Top 250

Unable to find any sources online and unwilling to resort to manual searches, we built this page as a utility. Here it is for your benefit--free! No. 1: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ – Top 20 Movies of 2012. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ may be the more important film, but this is the one I’m going to watch again and again until the day I die.

No. 1: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ – Top 20 Movies of 2012

It captures the excitement and sadness of youth in ways both buoyant and restrained. The 16mm look, the music, the costumes, the camera moves and Bob Balaban’s Greek Chorus are just a few of ‘Moonrise Kingdom’s charms. TSPDT - The 1,000 Greatest Films: The Top 500 Films (51-75) Untitled. Classical Music in Movies : S - Classical Soundtrack and Classical Background Music. The 25 coolest winter movies to see this season. Sports movies: The top 50 sports films of all time. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Instant. We love the convenience of streaming movies on Netflix Instant, but we don’t always love the navigating through the countless films in the service’s ever-expanding catalog to find something to watch.

The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Instant

So we’ve compiled our list of recommended titles for you—whether you love classics, comedies, documentaries or just good ol’ fashioned kung-fu. Films Selected to The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1989-2009 (National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress)<li> 35 must watch TV series before u die (2000 onwards) - a list by ayas_ranjan.

The best films of the '00s. Top 20 Movies for Philosophy Students. Best Survival Movies. From surviving natural disasters, nuclear wars, and shipwrecks to sci-fi alien invasions and zombie plagues, survival movies cover a wide range of genres.

Best Survival Movies

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