Marlon Brando

The Godfather

Where do I start, The Godfather is truly a masterpiece of cinema, it has some of the most memorable lines("I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."), characters and scenes in motion picture history, from the beautifully choreographed wedding scene, to the gunning down of Sonny, to the attempted assasination of Don Corleone, to his Death and finally, the rise of his son Michael, it is a story of innocence, love and corruption like no other film before or after, I found this film to be one of the most moving films I've ever seen and I recommend it to you but only if you can stomach some of the more violent scenes, there is also a great recipe for spaghetti sauce hidden within the film if you watch and listen closely.

Trailer:


Favorite Scene:

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Top 10 Films of the '50s

1.Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa



2.On the Waterfront (1954)
Directed by Elia Kazan



3.Vertigo (1958)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock



4.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed by David Lean



5.The Seventh Seal (1957)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman



6.Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Directed by Billy Wilder



7.Rear Window (1954)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock



8.Rashomon (1951)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa



9.All About Eve (1950)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz



10.Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

Top 10 Films of the '40s

1.Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by Orson Welles



2.Casablanca (1942)
Directed by Michael Curtiz



3.The Third Man (1949)
Directed by Carol Reed



4.It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed by Frank Capra



5.The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Directed by John Ford



6.The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed by John Huston



7.The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Directed by George Cukor



8.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Directed by John Huston



9.The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica



10.Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed by Billy Wilder

Top 10 Films of the '30s

1.Gone With the Wind (1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming



2.The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed by Victor Fleming



3.The Rules of the Game (1939)
Directed by Jean Renoir



4.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Directed by Frank Capra



5.City Lights (1931)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin



6.M (1931)
Directed by Fritz Lang



7.Modern Times (1936)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin



8.King Kong (1933)
Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack



9.All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Directed by Lewis Milestone



10.The Grand Illusion (1937)
Directed by Jean Renoir

Top 10 Films of the Silent Era

This is a quick list of films from the Silent Era widely considered to be the best.

1.The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Directed by D. W. Griffith



2.Wings (1927)
Directed by William A. Wellman



3.Modern Times (1936)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin



4.Intolerance (1916)
Directed by D. W. Griffith



5.Metropolis (1927)
Directed by Fritz Lang



6.The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein



7.City Lights (1931)
Directed by Charlie Chaplin



8.Napoleon (1927)
Directed by Abel Gance



9.The General (1927)
Directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton



10.The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Directed by Rupert Julian

Welcome

Hello, my names is Dominique and this is my new blog The Action Star, which is dedicated to films, seeing as Music Martyr is dedicated to my other passion music, so come back soon and I will try to make this as interesting as possible.

Thanks, DJL