Top 10 Favourite Movies (No 10 to 6)
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10. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Director:
Sidney Lumet
- Actors:
Al Pacino (Sonny), John Cazale (Sal), Chris Sarandon (Leon), Charles Durning (Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti), James Broderick (FBI Agent Sheldon) and Penelope Allen (Sylvia)
- Filming Location:
Brooklyn and Queens, New York, United States
- Favourite Quote:
TV Anchorman: Sonny, you could give up? Sonny: Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison? TV Anchorman: No! Sonny: No! Well let's talk about something you fucking know about, okay? How much do you make a week? That's what I want to hear. Are you going to talk to me about that?
- Favourite Scene:
The 'Attica' Scene
- Synopsis:
Based upon true events, a New York man and two accomplices are besieged in a bank with all the bank employees after his attempt to rob enough money to pay for his male lover's sex change operation goes awry. What results is a two day media circus in which his private life and the humiliation of the police is laid bare for the whole city.
- Director:
Steven Spielberg
- Actors:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Frank Abagnale Jr.), Tom Hanks (Carl Hanratty), Christopher Walken (Frank Abagnale, Sr.), Martin Sheen (Roger Strong), Jennifer Garner (Cheryl Ann), James Brolin (Jack Barnes), Nathalie Baye (Paula Abagnale), Amy Adams (Brenda Strong)
- Filming Location:
New York City and Yonkers, New York, United States Pasadena/Compton/LA/Santa Ana/Ontario, California, United States Montréal/Quebec City, Québec, Canada Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Favourite Quote:
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16. Brenda Strong: Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?
- Favourite Scene:
The one when Frank was in the aeroplane for the first time, disguising as co-pilot and could not find the seat.
- Synopsis:
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son.
- Director:
Michael Moore
- Actors:
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Jenna Bush, Al Gore, Abdul Henderson, John Ashcroft, Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, George Bush Sr and etc
- Filming Location:
Baghdad, Iraq Chicago, Illinois, USA Enron - 1400 Smith Street, Houston, Texas, USA Flint, Michigan, USA Houston, Texas, USA Kentucky, USA Walter Reed Army Medical Center - 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Favourite Quote:
[a special Taliban envoy is at a news conference] Aggressive Female Reporter: You've imprisoned the women. It's a horror! Taliban Envoy: I'm very sorry for your husband. He must have a difficult time with you.
- Favourite Scene:
The scene during 911 where Bush was in classroom reading "My Pet Goat" even though he was aware his country was under attack.
- Synopsis:
In this film, muckraker Michael Moore turns his eye on George W. Bush and his War on Terrorism agenda. He illustrates his argument about how this failed businessman with deep connections to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the Bin Ladins got elected on fraudulent circumstances and proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When that treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend his nation, only to later cynically manipulate it to serve his wealthy backers' corrupt ambitions. Through facts, footage and interviews, Moore illustrates his contention of how Bush and his cronies have gotten America into worse trouble than ever before and why Americans should not stand for it.
- Director:
Michael Moore
- Actors:
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Marilyn Manson, Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, victims/survivors/witnesses of Columbine shooting, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Joseph Liebermen etc
- Favourite Quote:
Michael Moore: Why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have guns, and he beat the British Empire. John Nichols: I'm not... familiar with that.
- Favourite Scene:
The 'John Nichols' Scene
- Synopsis:
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.
- Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
- Actors:
Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), Marlon Brando (Don Corleone), James Caan (Sonny), Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen), Diane Keaton (Kay Adams), Talia Shire (Connie), John Cazale (Fredo), Sterling Hayden (Capt. McCluskey), Richard S. Castellano (Pete Clemenze) etc.
- Filming Location:
New York City, New York, USA Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Long Island, New York, USA Savoca, Sicily, Italy
- Favourite Quote:
Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
- Favourite Scene:
The scene towards the end, when Michael plotted against his enemies, and became the GODFATHER.
- Synopsis:
The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
9. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
8. Fahreinheit 9/11 (2004)
7. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
6. Godfather (1972)
