![]() You’re one of the luckiest people ever if you saw this in full packed house the weekend it opened. Travolta and Uma Thurman’s dance scene, stand up and cheer. Jackson’s first wacky dialogue together – you must applaud aloud. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Bloody crime story gone black comedy. Artistically, the black & white is not only essential, it is a definitive example what the best high contrast lighting cinematography can do.ģ. Somehow we feel like we meet the 1,100 people too that were saved. Ben Kingsley is Itzhak Stern, the Jewish accountant and Schindler’s right-hand man. Ralph Fiennes is the Nazi prison camp commandant Amon Goeth, unblinking in his evil and alliance to National Socialism. Liam Neeson is the enterprising businessman who came to Nazi-occupied Poland to exploit Jews as free labor but then became a humanitarian when he witnessed genocide in Krakow. “List” did more than transform public perception of the horrors of the Holocaust – it was the first big budget film to depict bloody horrors, the mass genocide, and the few lucky to get out – it had transformed director Steven Spielberg as well who found his spiritual calling when he created the Shoah Visual History Foundation after the film was released. Perhaps you have never considered yourself one that could handle a Holocaust film but deep down you want to see just one so you get the Holocaust in one swing. Schindler’s List (1993) – When it’s over, it is emotionally overwhelming in the most positive respect. ![]() ![]() Arrive at the scene where the camera tours through a red-lamp nightclub via the backdoors, then through the kitchen, and then onto its service floor so Liotta and Lorraine Bracco get seated at their exclusive table, and you will begin to understand why Scorsese is such a huge deal.Ģ. If you have never seen a Scorsese film, which should be a constitutional duty in this lifetime, then start here. The problem is the 1950’s and ’60’s didn’t last forever, for the coolness of gangster life was trashed by 80’s drug-dealing. “The Godfather” is a classic handsome Greek tragedy of a film, but have you ever fantasized about being one of the Corleones? The cars, the booze, the nightclubs, the all-night card playing, the stacks of money, the mistresses, the fur coats, the ball-busting… what a glorious time. We know that these wiseguys are a morally corrupt outfit and yet it so appealing and tantalizing that you can’t help but fantasize being a part of it. We are taught by grade one that murder, robbery, loan sharking and all that other mayhem stuff is a sin. GoodFellas (1990) – Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci in the untouchable Martin Scorsese film that immortalized them. But with twenty films it covers the broader range! And after twenty, I wanted to mention twenty-five! These core films of the 1990’s do say something about the culture, the information breakthroughs, and represent the artistic pinnacles.ġ. I don’t believe an entire decade can be summed up with ten films.
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