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Tim Dirks

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Biography:

Filmsite - also known as Greatest Films (http://www.filmsite.org/ and www.greatestfilms.org/) is a unique website containing lengthy, interpretive, and descriptive review commentary and background history on hundreds of the best Hollywood and American classic films in the last century. It initiated the recent trend to select 100 Landmark Movies in the history of American/Hollywood cinema that are the milestones of our cinematic past, and the site has been recognized by Wikipedia as "an introduction to cinema literacy." The site was established by Senior Editor and Film Historian-Critic Tim Dirks in 1996 and continues to be managed and edited by him. It has over 4,500 web pages, and has provided a valuable curriculum resource for film studies courses (high school, undergraduate and graduate) throughout the country and world, and accolades from Roger Ebert and other noted writers and critics. The site includes comprehensive reference material including film reviews, Academy Awards history, film genres, film terms, film history by decade, trivia, and lots of information on the 'best' films, stars, scenes/moments, quotes, posters, and much more.

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There are no personal favorites, although the site has selected for commentary cinema's most critically-acclaimed, significant

Location:

California

Official Website:

http://www.filmsite.org/allfilms.html

Reviews

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Last Tango in Paris (1972) 81% “Director Bernardo Bertolucci's landmark and controversial erotic film - an arthouse film, told about the development of a destructive relationship, as it followed a distraught, confused, grieving widower and middle-aged American exile named Paul” – Filmsite Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Repulsion (1965) 96% “Co-writer/director Roman Polanski's disturbing, tense, frightening horror-psychological thriller was about the mental deterioration into schizophrenia of beautiful, timid, vulnerable and paranoid young 18 year-old blonde manicurist Carol Ledoux ” – Filmsite Nov 3, 2023 Full Review The Band Wagon (1953) 95% A+ “Director Vincente Minnelli's and MGM's great "backstage" movie musical, under the guidance of producer Arthur Freed, was satirically self-mocking, and also took shots at show business and those who were involved in musical-dance productions. ” – Filmsite Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 100% A+ “Witness for the Prosecution (1957) is co-writer and director Billy Wilder's brilliant film, with crisp dialogue, a complicated and intriguing plot, unique characters and excellent acting performances. It was a convoluted, twisting courtroom drama-mystery ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review The Producers (1968) 91% A+ “Writer/director Mel Brooks' debut film and most popular farce was a zany, often brilliant spoof comedy about Broadway productions (and their producers) and the Nazis that many considered shoddy and in very bad taste. The subversive and irreverent film ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review Saturday Night Fever (1977) 82% A+ “Director John Badham's melodramatic, out-dated, coming-of-age, Bee Gee's-saturated disco dance classic was a defining 70s dance film that was the biggest musical sensation and blockbuster of the late 1970's (from co-producer Robert Stigwood). ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 96% A+ “Director George Seaton's popular and perennial Thanksgiving and Christmas classic holiday film was a dramatic comedy-fantasy about the commercialization of Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) and Christmas itself. The sentimental and appealing ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review No Time to Die (2021) 83% A “The 25th installment of the long-running spy series: James Bond film franchise. The blockbuster film's plot opened with a prologue explaining how Agent 007 James Bond's (Daniel Craig in his last outing as MI6 agent) former partner and psychotherapist ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 95% A+ “Producer Tim Burton's imaginatively dark, musical fantasy and original yet spooky stop-motion animated tale was directed by Burton's colleague at Disney Animation Henry Selick. It was also known as "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" and served ” – Filmsite Oct 12, 2022 Full Review The Great Dictator (1940) 92% A+ “The Great Dictator (1940) is director/actor Charlie Chaplin's first full all-talking ("talkie" with dialogue) picture (in a film similar to the Marx Brothers' anti-war comedy Duck Soup (1933)) in which he delivered spoken lines...” – Filmsite Dec 26, 2019 Full Review The Scarlet Empress (1934) 86% A+ “The Scarlet Empress (1934) is director Josef von Sternberg's startling, dark, visually opulent, hauntingly expressionistic, semi-erotic and mostly fictional biopic of one of 18th century Russia's most illustrious historical figures -” – Filmsite Dec 19, 2019 Full Review The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 97% A+ “The Thief of Bagdad (1924) is Raoul Walsh's timeless and expensive silent costume fantasy. It was a lavish and bold Arabian Nights swashbuckler-adventure film - and an epic, spectacular accomplishment in production design and revolutionary...” – Filmsite Dec 17, 2019 Full Review A Face in the Crowd (1957) 89% A+ “A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later” – Filmsite Nov 2, 2019 Full Review The Wind (1928) 100% A+ “The Wind (1928) is one of Lillian Gish's greatest achievements in a powerfully dramatic silent film - her fourth and last MGM film and the last of her silent films. She had previously collaborated with Swedish director Victor Sjostrom...” – Filmsite Oct 19, 2019 Full Review The Freshman (1925) 95% A+ “The Freshman (1925) is actor/director Harold Lloyd's silent film satire of college life (aka College Days), one of his best-remembered and well-crafted films and also his most successful effort. It was one of the top-grossing films of the year...” – Filmsite Oct 13, 2019 Full Review The Kid (1921) 100% A+ “The Kid (1921) is silent comic star Charlie Chaplin's classic of comedy and pathos - his first feature-length film (it was a more sophisticated six-reeler or "6 Reels of Joy" than his previous shorts).” – Filmsite Oct 8, 2019 Full Review Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 86% A+ “Sherlock Jr. (1924) is stone-faced director/producer Buster Keaton's marvelously inventive, short silent film era, comic fantasy - his third and shortest feature film. It was filled with the comedian's trademark physical gags...” – Filmsite Oct 4, 2019 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% A+ “Toy Story (1995) is the first completely computer-generated, animated feature film. The visuals were entirely generated from computers, creating a wonderfully-realistic 3-D world with lighting, shading, and textures...” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review Tootsie (1982) 91% A+ “Tootsie (1982) is an engaging, original, hilarious gender-comedy story of an unemployed actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) whose disguises as a feminist named "Dorothy" fooled his/her co-actors and helped him get a job and become a female star” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review To Be or Not to Be (1942) 96% A+ “To Be or Not to Be (1942) is Berlin Germany-born director Ernst Lubitsch's sophisticated screwball masterpiece, with satirical comedy, romance, and suspense. The controversial anti-war comedy about espionage and politics from producer Alexander Korda” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review The Thing (1951) 87% A+ “The Thing (From Another World) (1951) is an influential and taut horror and science-fiction B-film hybrid, loosely based (by screenwriter Charles Lederer) on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review Strangers on a Train (1951) 98% A+ “Strangers on a Train (1951) was director Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful, noirish black and white thriller about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and psychopathic dandy Bruno Antony (Robert Walker)...” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% A+ “Planet of the Apes (1968) is a classic, thought-provoking and engrossing science fiction film that was the loosely-adapted film version of Pierre Boule's 1963 science-fiction novel La Planète Des Singes (Monkey Planet).” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% A+ “Pulp Fiction (1994) brought director Quentin Tarantino, a B-movie fanatic and ex-video store clerk, to mainstream attention with this stylish and inventive episodic thriller about corruption and temptation. It featured guns, femmes fatales, deadly hit-men” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% A+ “Platoon (1986) is a harrowing, visceral, ultra-realistic, gutsy, visually-shattering Vietnam-war film, based on the writer/director's own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. The insightful Best Picture-winning war film” – Filmsite Sep 29, 2019 Full Review
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