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Boston on Film: A Retrospective

Since Boston has been on our minds lately, I thought of featuring some Boston-set movies.  These films are all set in the historical city.  Some do not depict Boston in the best light, but nonetheless, they showcase the many facets of Beantown.


Bluehill Avenue. R. 2001.
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. R. 2009.
The Boondock Saints. Not Rated. 1999.
The Bostonians. Not Rated. 1984.
Children of Invention. Not Rated. 2009.
A Civil Action. PG-13. 1998.
Coma. PG. 1978.
The Departed. R. 2006.
Edge of Darkness. R. 2010.
Fear Strikes Out. Not Rated. 1956.
Fever Pitch. PG-13. 2005.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle. R. 1973.
Gone Baby Gone. R. 2007.
My Best Friend’s Girl. R. 2008.
Mystic River. R. 2003.
Saint Ralph. PG-13. 2004.
The Thomas Crown Affair. R. 1968.
3 Americas. Not Rated. 2008.
The Town. R. 2010. (also on blu-ray)


 

Waking the Dead (television series)

Even though I am a sucker for British TV series, I had somehow skipped this one because I thought it would be too much like CSI for me. But, it most definitely is not...it's a must see for anyone who likes crime shows. If anything, it's unlike most crime shows because it focuses on cold cases...cases no one cares about anymore. And, yes, there is a certain CSI and Bones aspect to it...since one of the team members is an forensic pathologist. But, the show is much more than that. It's about a people and the relationships between all of the team. They have to battle themselves and the past when looking into these past cases. All in all, a great, fascinating show that will keep you glued to your TV.

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

BY FAR the best Romeo and Juliet adaptation out there, this film is a classic for The Bard himself would be proud of. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring two then-unknown teenage actors as the star-crossed lovers, this movie oozes sensuality, humor and utter despair. Set, as the play is, in Verona, Italy, Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet and they fall in love at first sight. One MAJOR problem is that the Montagues and the Capulets are major enemies. We all know the rest of the story...what's special here is the way Zeffirelli captures the passion and the intensity of the romance. And by using teenagers, we focus on what their young, impulsive relationship might really have been like. After-all, no one is more impulsive than an adolescent. And, then there is the music Zeffirelli picked (probably the most famous part of the movie) and the way he shot the film with such lush colors and muted lighting. Basically, if you've never seen an adaption of this story, this is the one to watch. And if you have seen others, this one will surpass all!

War Horse

http://niles.patch.com/articles/war-horse-transitions-easily-to-the-big-screen

The Descendants and The Ides of March

http://niles.patch.com/articles/clooney-chases-oscar

A Better Life

http://niles.patch.com/articles/oscar-nominee-shines-in-small-film

It's Kind of a Funny Story

http://niles.patch.com/articles/dramedy-more-hearts-than-laughs

The Tourist

http://niles.patch.com/articles/tourist-has-some-sights-to-see

In Her Skin

http://niles.patch.com/articles/in-her-skin-depicts-troubled-woman-alienated-by-mother-misunderstood-by-father

Hereafter

http://niles.patch.com/articles/latest-eastwood-film-inspires

Black Swan

http://niles.patch.com/articles/portmans-performance-overrated

The Fighter

http://niles.patch.com/articles/even-if-you-hate-boxing-the-fighter-wins-with-story-acting

Welcome to The Rileys

http://niles.patch.com/articles/gandolfini-leo-star-in-intelligent-rileys

True Grit (2010)

http://niles.patch.com/articles/hailee-steinfeld-brings-grit-to-debut-role

Love and Other Drugs

http://niles.patch.com/articles/romantic-drama-aided-by-comedy

The Classics on DVD Decade by Decade From The National Film Registry

1900s-1920s
Blacksmithing Scene (1893) (part of the Treasures From American Film Archives)
Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
From The Manger to the Cross (1912)
In the Land of the War Canoes (1914)
Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Regeneration (1915)
Hell's Hinges (1916) (part of the Treasures From American Film Archives)
Intolerance (1916)
The Immigrant (1917) (part of the Chaplin Mutuals)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Kid (1921)
Tol’Able David (1921)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Salome (1922)
Safety Last (1923) (part of the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection)
The Chechahcos (1924) (part of the Treasures From American Film Archives)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Peter Pan (1924)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Clash of the Wolves (1925) (part of the More Treasures From American Film Archives)
The Freshman (part of the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) (part of the More Treasures From American Film Archives)
The Lost World (1925)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Black Pirate, The (1926)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926) (part of the Charley Chase Collection)
Son of the Sheik, The (1926)
The Strong Man (1926) (part of the Harry Langdon Forgotten Clown collection) 
Flesh and the Devil (1927)
General, The (1927)
It (1927)
Jazz Singer, The (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
The Cameraman (1928) (part of the Buster Keaton Collection)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (part of the Treasures From American Film Archives)
There it is (1928) (part of the More Treasures From American Film Archives)
Applause (1929)
Big Business (1929) (Laurel and Hardy)
Hallelujah (1929)

1930s
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Big Trail (1930)
Little Caesar (1930)
City Lights (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
Front Page, The (1931)
Tabu (1931)
Freaks (1932)
Grand Hotel (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
The Music Box (1932) (Laurel and Hardy)
Scarface (1932)
Trouble In Paradise (1932)
42nd Street (1933)
Baby Face (1933) (part of the Forbidden Hollywood Collection 1 set)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Emperor Jones (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)
Invisible Man, The (1933)
King Kong (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Imitation of Life (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Punch Drunks (1934) (Three Stooges)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Dodsworth (1936)
Flash Gordon serial (1936)
Fury (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
The Women (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

1940s
Mark of Zorro, The (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Dance Girl Dance (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Melody Ranch (Gene Autry) (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941) 
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Road to Morocco (1942)
To Be or Not To Be (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Why We Fight (Series Of Films) (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Going My Way (1944)
Laura (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Detour (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Killers, The (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Louisiana Story (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Red River (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Adam's Rib (1949)
All the King's Men (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
Twelve O’clock High (1949)
White Heat (1949)

1950s
All About Eve (1950)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Bambi (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Singin' In the Rain (1952) 
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
Duck Amuck (1953) (Looney Tunes cartoon)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The Little Fugitive (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Shane (1953)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
A Star Is Born (1954)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Marty (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Oklahoma (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Court Jester (1956)
Giant (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
7th Voyage of Sinbad, The (1958)
Gigi (1958)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Jazz On a Summer's Day (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Shadows (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

1960s
The Apartment (1960)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Primary (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Dog Star Man (1961-1964) (By Brakhage collection)
Exiles, The (1961)
Flower Drum Song (1961)
The Hustler (1961)
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Music Man (1962)
Ride the High Country (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Nothing but a Man (1964)
Point Of Order (1964)
Pink Panther, The (1964)
The Sound Of Music (1964)
Pawnbroker, The (1965)
The Endless Summer (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Don't Look Back (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
In Cold Blood (1967)
In The Heat of the Night (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Bullitt (1968)
Faces (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Producers (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Medium Cool (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Salesman (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

1970s
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Patton (1970)
Woodstock(1970)
The French Connection (1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Hospital (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Cabaret (1972)
Deliverance (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Harold and Maude (1972)
Exorcist, The (1973)
The Last Picture Show (1972)
American Graffiti (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Antonia: A Portrait Of The Woman (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Hester Street (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
All the President’s Men (1976)
Grey Gardens (NF) (1976)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) (NF)
Network (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Animal House (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Eraserhead (1978)
Halloween (1978)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)

1980s-1990s
Airplane (1980)
Atlantic City (1980)
Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Chan is Missing (1982)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Terminator, The (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Hoosiers (1986)
Sherman's March (1986)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
El Mariachi  (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Hoop Dreams (1994) (NF)
Toy Story (1995)
Fargo (1996)