Friday, February 18, 2011

10 Movies with Masks


Since the greek theatre, the masks give a special charm to arts.
This list brings 10 movies where the masks are crucial to the plots.


1.  V for Vendetta (2006 - James McTeigue / starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving) 

2.  The Mask ((1994 - Chuck Russell / starring: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz)

3.  Phantom of the Opera (1943 - Arthur Lubin / starring: Nelson Eddy, Claude Rains)

4.  Scaramouche (1952 - George Sidney / starring: Janet Leigh, Stewart Granger)

5.  Scream (1996 - Wes Craven / starring: Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell)

6.  The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 - Randall Wallace / starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich)

7.  The Mask of Zorro (1998 - Martin Campbell / starring: Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta Jones)

8.  The Silence of the Lambs (1991 - Jonathan Demme / starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)

9.  Eyes Wide Shut (1999 - Stanley Kubrick / starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman

10.  Nacho Libre (2006 - Jared Harris / starring: Jack Black)

Thursday, January 20, 2011

10 Movies with TV Stars that get Success at Cinema


Do you remember that those movie stars were famous before they made their first movies? This list selects movies from actors and one actress that first were tv stars.

1.  
Bruce Willis - Die Hard (formerly known by tv series: 'Moonlighting')

2.  
Helen Hunt - As Good as it Gets (formerly known by tv series: 'Mad About You')

3.  
Michael J. Fox - Back to the Future (formerly known by tv series: 'Family Ties' )

4.  
George Clooney - Ocean's Eleven (tformerly known by tv series: 'E.R.' )

5.  
Robin Williams - Good Morning Vietnam (formerly known by tv series: 'Mork and MIndy')

6.  
Pierce Brosnan - Goldeneye (formerly known by tv series: 'Remington Steele')

7.  
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven (formerly known by tv series: 'Rawride' )

8.  
Johnny Depp - Pirates of Caribean, the Curse of the Black Pearl  (formerly known by tv series: '21 Jump Street' )

9.  
Ashton Kutcher- The Butterfly Effect (formerly known by tv series: 'That '70s Show' )

10.  Michael Cera - Scott Pillgrim vs. The World (Cformerly known by tv series: 'Arrested Development' )

Others that are on the right way: Mia Kunis (That '70s Show), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd Rock From the Sun) and Jenniffer Aniston (Friends).

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

10 Movies with Wind


This list has 10 movies where the wind is the main character...

1.  
A Ostra e o Vento / The Oyster and the Wind (1997 - Walter Lima Jr. / starring: Leandra Leal, Lima Duarte)

2.  
Dersu Uzala (1975 - Akira Kurosawa / starring: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin)

3.  
O Menino e o Vento / The Boy and the Wind (1967 - Carlos Hugo Christensen / starring: Ênio Gonçalves, Luiz Fernando Ianelli)

4.  
The Wizard of Oz (1939 - Victor Fleming / starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger)

5.  
Volver (2006 - Pedro Almodóvar / starring: Penélope Cruz, Carmem Maura, Lola Dueñas)

6.  
Twister (1996 - Jan de Bont / starring: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton)

7.  
The Quiet Man (1952 - John Ford / starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara)

8.  
Wuthering Heights (1939 - William Wyler / starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven) 

9.  
Into the Wild (2007 - Sean Penn / starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt)

10.  
The Seven Year Itch (1955 - Billy Wilder / starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell)

10 Movies with Rain


Here's a list of 10 movies with a lot of rain...

1.  
Singin' in the Rain (1952 - Stanley Donnen / starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds)

2.  
The Perfect Storm (2000 - Wolfgang Petersen / starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg)

3.  
Blade Runner (1982 - Ridley Scott / starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer)

4.  
雨あがる / Ame Agaru / After the Rain (1999 - Takashi Koizumi / starring: Akira Terao, Yoshiko Myiazaki)

5.  
Shutter Island (2010 - Martin Scorsese / starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Max Von Sydow)

6.  
Magnolia (1999 - Paul Thomas Anderson / starring: Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, William H.Macy)

7 
Psycho (1960 - Alfred Hitchcock / starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles)

8.  
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 - Blake Edwards / starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard)

9.  
Identity (2003 - James Mangold / starring: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet)

10.  
Hard Rain (1998 - Mikael Solomon / starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater)

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

10 Movies About Trains


This list brings 10 great movies about trains. If you know any other, please comment!

1.  
Unstoppable (2010 - Tony Scott / starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine)

2.  
Runaway Train (1985 - Andrei Konchalowski ased on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa / starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts)

3.  
The General (1926 - Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton  / starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack)

4.  
Emperor of the North (1973 - Robert Aldrich  / starring: Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Keith Carradine)

5.  
Murder on the Oriente Express (1974 - Sidney Lumet  / starring: Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman)

6.  
The Polar Express (2004 - Robert Zemeckis  / starring: Tom Hanks)

7.  
Strangers on a Train (1951 - Alfred Hitchcock  / starring: Farley Granger, Leo G.Carroll)

8.  
The Darjeeling Limited (2007 - Wes Anderson  / starring: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston)

9.  
The Lady Vanishes (1938 - Alfred Hitchcock  / starring: Margareth Lockwood, Michael Redgrave)

10.  
Ostre Sledované Vlaky / Closely Watched Trains (1966 - Jiri Menzel / starring: Váklav Neckár, Josef Somr)