The 100 Most Significant German Films. The 50 Greatest Cult Movies of All Time. Cinema History: Classic Films from the Hollywood Studios, 1934-1946. CINEMA HISTORY, Chapter 2, Classic Films from the Hollywood Studios, 1934-1946 Compiled by Robert E. Yahnke Professor, General College, Univ. of Minnesota Stars powered the American Studio System from 1934-1946. Various studios, such as 20th-Century Fox (1935), Paramount Pictures (1912), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1924), Columbia Pictures (1920), and Warner Brothers (1923) held long-term contracts both on directors and stars. A listing of some of the stars under contract to the studios gives some idea of the Studio System's power during these years. 20th Century Fox: Directors--Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Henry Hathaway, and Elia Kazan.
Actors--Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, and Gregory Peck. Paramount: Actors--Mary Pickford, Mae West, W. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM): Directors--Eric Von Stroheim, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Victor Fleming. Warner Brothers: Actors--Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Commentary: Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time. 10,000 Empire readers, 150 of Hollywood's finest and 50 key film critics voted in the most ambitious movie poll evert attempted. 500. Ocean's Eleven (2001) Director: Steven Soderbergh Slick, suave and cooler than a penguin's knackers, Soderbergh's starry update of the Rat Pack crime caper not only outshines its predecessor, but all the lights of The Strip combined.Read our Ocean's Eleven review 499. Saw (2004) Director: James Wan The never-ending stream of sequels may have diminished its impact, but there's no denying the shock we got when we first entered the puzzle-loving psycho Jigsaw's fiendish, deathtrapped world.Read our Saw review 498.
Director: Robert Zemeckis From the past to the present to the future and back again, Zemeckis hits his time-travelling stride with this chronology-screwing popcorner - only seven years to go until we discover if his vision of 2015 was on the money.Read our Back to the Future Part II review 497. 496. 495. 494. 493. 492. 491. 490. 489. 488. 487. 486. Blue Valentine (2010. Trust (2010. Big Fat Liar (2002.