Drama

The 400 blows

The film caused a revolution in cinema’s around the world with the story of a young Parisian who tries to survive an unfair and judgemental society. Directed by François Truffaut. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.
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8½

A semi-autobiographical story about a worshipped filmmaker who has lost his inspiration. He fends off the inquiries of his actors, reporters, and screenwriter
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
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The African Queen

War in Africa and war between a disreputable captain of a steamboat and a prim and disapproving Christian lady.
Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
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The age of innocence

Romance in 19th century New York. Newland Archer is going to marry May Welland but is in love with Countess Olenska.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Daniel Day Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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All about Eve

Eve schemes to gain both the affection of Margo Channing’s friends and a starring role originally written for Margo.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter.
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Amadeus

In 1781 court composer Antonio Salieri plots to destroy bawdy, impish, and impossibly gifted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Directed by Milos Forman. Starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce.
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American beauty

The Burnham family is trapped in a suburb life. They try to make things better, but instead their lives start falling apart.
Directed by Sam Mendez. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening.
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The bicycle thief

Ladri di biciclette. The story of a long-unemployed bill sticker becomes a bitter cry against poverty and the establishment.
Directed by Vittorio de Sica. Starring Lamberto Maggiorani.
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The breakfast club

Five teenagers from different social circles get to know each other in a detention at a suburban US high school.
Directed by John Hughes. Starring Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald.
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Breathless

A bout de Souffle. A revolution in cinema, going back to the basics. Locations, natural lightning, jump cuts and hand-held camera’s.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
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Brief encounter

A proper British housewife gets a piece of grit in her eye and falls desperately in love with the kind stranger who removes it.
Directed by David Lean. Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
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Casablanca

The most classic of them all. Former lovers Rick and Ilsa collide once again in the fraught atmosphere of war-torn Casablanca.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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Cinema Paradiso

When Salvatore returns to his village in order to attend the funeral of a friend, he reminisces about their childhood together and how he met the love of his life.
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Starring Jacques Perrin.
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Citizen Kane

A newsman embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s dying word “Rosebud”
Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
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Do the right thing

On the hottest day of the summer tensions are growing in in a ghetto-area of Brooklyn and in Sal’s Pizzeria.
Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Danny Aiello, John Turturro and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Gladiator

Roman's general Maximus, fights as a gladiator for vengeance. His family was murdered on the order of wicked emperor Commodus.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Rusell Crowe, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris.
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Gone with the wind

The largest grossing movie in history. The love between the selfish Scarlett O’Hara and the macho Rhett Butler during the civil war.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
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The graduate

And he should be, because he’s having an affair with the wife of his father's boss.
Directed by Mike Nichols. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.
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It’s a wonderful life

George Bailey is a man who sacrificed his dreams to help his hometown. Faced with a financial and legal crisis, he is contemplating suicide. But then an angel comes to the rescue.
Directed by Frank Capra. Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
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Lawrence of Arabia

Legendary British scholar and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, united Arab tribes in battle against the Ottoman Turks during WWI.
Directed by David Lean. Starring Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif.
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My fair lady

The big screen adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, which is in itself a reworking of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Directed by George Cukor. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
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One flew over the cuckoo’s nest

MacMurphy is a jailbird sent to a mental hospital for evaluation. Crazed or not crazed, the other loony bin inhabitants are definitely disturbed.
Directed by Milos Forman. Starring Jack Nicholson.
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On the waterfront

Terry Malloy, a retired prize-fighter who has started running errands for the Dockers Union finds himself involved a the murder. He becomes involved with the dead man’s sister.
Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden.
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Pride and prejudice

The adventures of the five Bennet sisters and their attempts to find husbands an a financially secure future.
Directed by Simon Langton. Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
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Raging bull

The true story of middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta who descends from unstoppable fighting machine to overweight goon.
Directed by martin Scorsese. Starring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci.
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The road

Gelsomina is sold by her mother to the cruel Zampano, a strongman in a traveling circus. The two travel together, with her beating the drum, playing a trumpet, and serving as his slave.
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Anthony Quinn.
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The rules of the game

La regle du jeu. The rules of the love game in pre-war France ordered by ideas of appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Directed by Jean Renoir. Starring Nora Gregor.
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Schindlers list

Oskar Schindler is a German businessman who becomes a lifesaver when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley.
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The seven samurai

In the 1600s the residents of a small Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band of marauding thieves.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Takashi Shimura.
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The Shawshank redemption

Adaptation of a Stephen King's novella. Accused of murdering his wife Andy’s facing hard time in a corrupt prison.
Directed by Frank Darabont. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
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Sunrise

A farmer is tempted by a vamp from the city to murder his wife. Will he do this and run off with the Woman from the City?
Directed by F.W. Murnau. Starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor.
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Sunset boulevard

Joe Gillis is a bankrupt screenwriter caught up in the sticky web of sleaze and insanity spun by a faded star.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Buster Keaton.
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The sweet life

La dolce vita. The adventures of a disillusioned journalist in the Rome party circuit. Including the famous showering in the Trevi fountain.
Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni.
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Taxi driver

Travis Bickle an alienated insomniac, cabbie and war vet violently lashes out at the scum of society.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel.
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Thelma and Louise

Louise and Thelma, take off for a few days but they encounter people and situations that put their settled-for lives at risk.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and Harvey Keitel.
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Titanic

The romance of a lowly aspiring artist and a beautiful socialite aboard the unsinkable but doomed ocean liner.
Directed by James Cameron. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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Tokyo story

Tokyo monogatari. The changing life in postwar Japan is portrayed in this tale of an elderly couple visiting their grown-up children in Tokyo.
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Starring Chishu Ryu.
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Trainspotting

The days in the lives of Mark Renton and the scabby crew of junkies, deadbeats, thieves, liars and nut jobs he calls friends.
Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle.
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Wild strawberries

Smultronstället. Professor Isak Borg’s is going on a journey to receive an honorary degree. This evokes dreams and recollections.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Victor Sjöström.
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The wizard of Oz

Dorothy is told to follow the yellow brick road by the Munchkins, she meets the Lion, Tin Man and the Scarecrow... and finally, the Wizard himself.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Judy Garland.
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Spotlight

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

John Huston: The trouble with Bogart is, he thinks he's Bogart.

Movie news:

This week 58 years ago In a lonely place premiered (May 17, 1950)

Born:

December 25, 1899

Born as:

Humphrey Deforest Bogart

Died:

January 14, 1957

He grew up in New York, met with disciplinary problems at school and was expelled.

After his discharge from the Navy, Bogart never took acting lessons, but just started an acting career on the Brooklyn stage in 1921. In 1935 he would act in his last Broadway play The Petrified Forest, a role he would reprise on film in 1936.

In 1930 Humphrey went to Hollywood. His big break came in 1941 with High Sierra and The Maltese falcon. Now Bogey was a big star and he made classics like Casablanca and The African Queen. The Caine Mutiny was Bogart's last major movie, a film made when he was already seriously ill. He dropped his asking price to get the role of Captain Queeg.

Selected Movies:

Academy awards :

1955 Nominated Best Actor for: The Caine Mutiny
1952 Won Oscar Best Actor for: The African Queen
1944 Nominated Best Actor for Casablanca

Books:

Terrence Pettigrew -> Bogart: A Definitive Study of His Film Career (1981)
Stephen Humphrey Bogart -> Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995)
Gerald Duchovnay -> Humphrey Bogart: A Bio-Bibliography (1999)