VDOProduction.Blogspot.Com: Pondering about Films!

Video and films are different things!

Video tech. has brought movie making to every common people.

But film making still holds the charm with the superior quality.

Trying to gather more information on film making....

starting with 16 mm Arriflex :)

What's In My Mind?

==>Final submission deadline for entries: 30 June 2009 (for films made after April 2008)

==> The Lord of the rings
==>The Matrix
==> Pirates of carrabien

Mr. Showbiz's CRITICS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies of All Time
The films chosen for this list were limited to English language films made since the birth of the talkies.

69 seen

1. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
2. The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
3. North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
6.Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
7. Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
8. Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
9.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir. John Ford
10. City Lights (1931), dir. Charles Chaplin
11. Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor

16. The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
17. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
18. Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
19. It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra

21. Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
22. Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
23. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
24. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg

26. Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
27. Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder

30. The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
31. Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
32. Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen

36. Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks

38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
39. Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
40. Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder

42. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
43. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese

46. Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola

48. The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
49. Bonnie And Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
50.Unforgiven (1992), dir. Clint Eastwood
51.Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
53. Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
52.The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
54.The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
55.Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), dir. Woody Allen
56.Gunga Din (1939), dir. George Stevens
57. Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg

60. Modern Times (1936), dir. Charles Chaplin
61.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg

63.The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner

65. Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

73.Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
74. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra

76. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
77.The Apartment (1960), dir. Billy Wilder
78.A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
79. Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

81.GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
82. Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford

84.Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
85. Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger

87. The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford

89. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), dir. Nicholas Ray

93.The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion

96. It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
97.Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee

100.The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron

31 unseen

15.To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
20. The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
25.The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
28.The Manchurian Candidate (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer
29. All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
33. Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
34.Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
35. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
37. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
41. On The Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
44. Touch Of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles
45. Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
47.The Hustler (1961), dir. Robert Rossen
58.Hud (1963), dir. Martin Ritt
59. The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
62. Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
64.Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
66. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), dir. Elia Kazan
67.Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
68.Sweet Smell of Success (1957), dir. Alexander Mackendrick
69. Out Of The Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tournier
70.All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
71. Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
72.The Misfits (1961), dir. John Huston
75.Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman
80.Moonstruck (1987), dir. Norman Jewison
83.The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
86. West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
88.Reds (1981), dir. Warren Beatty
90.A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
91.A Room With A View (1986), dir. James Ivory
92.From Here to Eternity (1953), dir. Fred Zinnemann
94.Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
95.This Is Spinal Tap (1984), dir. Rob Reiner
98.The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke
99.Patton (1970), dir. Franklin Schaffner

Mr. Showbiz's READERS' Picks:
The 100 Best Movies of All Time
Visitors were asked to vote for their Ten Best Movies of All Time, and the responses were tabulated.

1. Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
2. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
3. Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
4. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
5. Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
6.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg
7. Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
8. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
9.The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner
10. It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
11.The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
12.Braveheart (1995), dir. Mel Gibson
13. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
14. The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
15.Forrest Gump (1994), dir. Robert Zemeckis
16. Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
18. The Shawshank Redemption (1994), dir. Frank Darabont
19. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
20.Independence Day (1996), dir. Roland Emmerich
21.GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
22. Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
23.Return of the Jedi (1983), dir. Richard Marquand
24. Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
25.Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), dir. Mike Judge
26.Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
27. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
28.The Sound of Music (1965), dir. Robert Wise
29. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned
To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
30.The Usual Suspects (1995), dir. Bryan Singer
31.Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), dir. Tom Shadyac
32. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
33.A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
34. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
35. The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
36.Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), dir. James Cameron
37.The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron
38.Fargo (1996), dir. Joel Coen
39. North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
40. Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
41. Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
42.Grease (1978), dir. Randal Kleiser
43. Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
44.Reservoir Dogs (1992), dir. Quentin Tarantino
45. Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
46.Aliens (1986), dir. James Cameron
47. Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
48. Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
49.Dances With Wolves (1990), dir. Kevin Costner
50.The Princess Bride (1987), dir. Rob Reiner
51.Top Gun (1986), dir. Tony Scott
52.Unforgiven (1992), dir. Clint Eastwood
53.Seven (1995), dir. David Fincher
54. West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
55. Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
56.The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion
57.Field of Dreams (1989), dir. Phil Alden Robinson
58.The Rock (1996), dir. Michael Bay
59.Trainspotting (1996), dir. Danny Boyle
60.Jerry Maguire (1996), dir. Cameron Crowe
61.The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
62.(Monty Python's) Life of Brian (1979), dir. Terry Jones
63. Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder
64.Jurassic Park (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
65. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
66.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), dir. Steven Spielberg
67. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
68.Twister (1996), dir. Jan De Bont
69. Ben-Hur (1959), dir. William Wyler
70.Heat (1995), dir. Michael Mann
71.When Harry Met Sally...(1989), dir. Rob Reiner
72. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
73.Back to the Future (1989), dir. Robert Zemeckis
74.Apollo 13 (1995), dir. Ron Howard
75.Rocky (1976), dir. John G. Avildsen
76.Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
77.Amadeus (1984), dir. Milos Forman
78.Speed (1994), dir. Jan De Bont
79.Dead Poets Society (1989), dir. Peter Weir
80.Rain Man (1988), dir. Barry Levinson
81.The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), dir. Sergio Leone
82. Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
83.Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
84.The Lion King (1994), dir. Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
85.Platoon (1986), dir. Oliver Stone
86.Brazil (1985), dir. Terry Gilliam
87. All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
88.Raising Arizona (1987), dir. Joel Coen
89.The Breakfast Club (1985), dir. John Hughes
90. The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford
91.Doctor Zhivago (1965), dir. David Lean
92.A Time to Kill (1996), dir. Joel Schumacher
93.Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), dir. Blake Edwards
94.A Few Good Men (1992), dir. Rob Reiner
95.Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
96.The Fugitive (1993), dir. Andrew Davis
97.The English Patient (1996), dir. Anthony Minghella
98.Toy Story (1995), dir. John Lasseter
99.Alien (1979), dir. Ridley Scott
100.Patton (1970), dir. Franklin Schaffner

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