Movie Recommendations

THE film about the American theater. Great performances all around, esp. by George Sanders, with Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter, and a very young Marilyn Monroe. Has Davis’s classic line: Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy evening.

Arthur Penn Warren’s revisionist look at nearly a century of American history, through the eyes of a white man/Indian raised in and moving between two very different cultures. A western only in part, it’s also a lengthy political statement cum diatribe against the scourge of modern times—the white man, species americanus predatorus. Made at the…

Topnotch Tennessee Williams play is given its due by a first-rate cast. Vivien Leigh won best actress Oscar honors for her portrayal of the fragile, mentally unstable Blanche DuBois, a refined lady who’s fallen on hard times. When she comes to stay with her more earthy sister, Stella, she sets in motion a tragic confrontation…

Though Austen’s magnum opus gets slightly filtered for modern audiences, this engaging adaptation is still quite faithful.

Two California senior dudes are given a time machine so they can pass their history course, graduate high school, form a rock band, and bring peace and enlightenment to all mankind. Enormously goofy but good-natured fun.

Engagingly theatrical feature has some wonderful characters and sparkling tunes.