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Disney Films:
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Fantasia (1940)
4. Dumbo (1941)
5. Bambi (1942)
6. Saludos Amigos (1943)
7. The Three Caballeros (1945)
8. Make Mine Music (1946)
9. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
10. Melody Time (1948)
11. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
12. Cinderella (1950)
13. Alice in the Wonderland (1951)
14. Peter Pan (1953)
15. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
16. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
17. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
18. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
19. The Jungle Book (1967)
20. The Aristocats (1970)
21. Robin Hood (1973)
22. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
23. The Rescuers (1977)
24. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
25. The Black Cauldron (1985)
26. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
27. Oliver & Company (1988)
28. The Little Mermaid (1989)
29. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
30. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
31. Aladdin (1992)
32. The Lion King (1994)
33. Pocahontas (1995)
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
35. Hercules (1997)
36. Mulan (1998)
37. Tarzan (1999)
38. Fantasia 2000 (1999)
39. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
40. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
41. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
42. Treasure Planet (2002)
43. Brother Bear (2003)
44. Home on the Range (2004)
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The statistics on arranged marriage are surprising. In every country where it is still common practice, including Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Iran and, to a lesser extent, Japan, an arranged marriage has a higher success rate than a so-called "love marriage."
It's impossible to say what this augurs for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. Of course, theirs isn't an arranged marriage-though it was certainly arranged quickly. The awesomely public couple had all of six weeks, during much of which Holmes was on the Batman Begins junket, to decide that they loved each other, that they wanted to spend their lives together and that they would buck Hollywood convention, to say nothing of common sense, and sing their joy from the mountaintops (or from flashbulb-blitzed press conferences, red carpets and vastly popular TV talk shows). Arranged marriages are measured, often solemn affairs; the fist-pumping pomp of the Cruise-Holmes union is another story. And the more times Holmes tells it, the stranger it sounds.
"I've found the man of my dreams," says the 26-year-old actress, sitting in a bathrobe as a manicurist paints her nails the color of kryptonite and a stylist teases her hair into wavelets in preparation for her W photo shoot. It's 8 a.m., and Holmes looks astonishingly fresh for a woman who taped several television shows the previous day before heading back to Cruise's New York apartment, putting on her sweatpants and UGG slippers, and settling in for a late movie with her sweetheart. "From the moment I met him," she continues, "it just felt like I'd known him forever. I was blown away. He's the most incredible man. He's so generous and kind, and he helps so many people, and, um, he makes me laugh like I've never laughed, and he's a great friend...."
This is how the conversation begins; this is also how it continues, and how it ends. No question can do much to change its course. Do you worry that this might be a rebound romance for either of you? "I've never met anyone like Tom," Holmes replies, her beautiful green eyes focused on nothing in particular. Do you ever wonder whether this is just a honeymoon phase? "Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase."
Did you learn anything in your previous relationship (five years with actor Chris Klein, which came to an end when they called off their engagement this past winter) that has been a benefit to this one?
"Chris and I care about each other and we're still friends. Tom is the most incredible man in the world."
Do you feel that, with more relationship experience, you get better at resolving conflicts?
"Meeting Tom-I'm just exhilarated. He makes me laugh, we have fun, we understand each other, everything is so aligned. I feel so lucky and so-like I've been given such a gift, such a gift, you know?" She pauses. "And it's just really amazing."
If Holmes were actually answering the questions posed-rather than simply reciting the same mantralike love letter-she'd be making a somewhat provocative point: Her relationship is not like other relationships, with their conflicts, compromises and complications there will be no apology flowers, nights spent on the couch or couples therapy for these two (as a practicing Scientologist, Cruise strongly disapproves of psychiatry).
Is there anything you guys don't have in common?
"You know, we appreciate each other."
Has it been a challenge to make his kids feel comfortable?
"They're just exceptional people."
Isn't it an adjustment to move in with someone-and after only a month? (In late May, Holmes packed up her apartment in Hollywood's El Royale complex and moved into Cruise's Beverly Hills manse.)
"He's the man of my dreams."
Does he leave his dirty socks on the bedroom floor? Something? Anything?
"No."
The lady doth protest not nearly enough. It's impossible, even for a moment, to slip under the halo of cartoon hearts dancing around Holmes's head-which partly explains why the media has so relished the project of puncturing her happiness ever since it was first broadcast,from the David di Donatello awards in Rome, on April 29. (Even People magazine, a typically unwavering Hollywood celebrant, has published polls indicating that the majority of its readers believe "TomKat" is a hoax.) Though Holmes's star has surely risen, its motion is more akin to the teacup ride at the fairground: a spin that brings queasiness, not thrills.
Anyone who has seen photos from the couple's June tour of European capitals in support of their summer movies will recognize the tall, cold-eyed Jessica Rodriguez, a third wheel at all of Holmes's recent public appearances. Rodriguez, 29, was described to me as Holmes's "Scientologist chaperone," and it was clear that she would be on hand during our interview despite my protests. Polite and restrained but alert to troublesome questions, Rodriguez chimes in only to offer an amen following one of Holmes's rhapsodies. ("You adore him," Rodriguez says after the actress explains that she can't keep her hands off Cruise.) But she rises from her chair when Holmes is asked how she feels about the widespread disbelief in her new union.
"The truth is, we don't read that stuff because it's just rude," Rodriguez says-referring to rumors that Cruise made a financial arrangement with Holmes (after auditioning a field of other young starlets, including Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba and Kate Bosworth). When I suggest that the televised hyperbolizing of their happiness may have undercut its credibility, Rodriguez asks, "Have you ever been in love? you just want to share it with the world." I suggest that many couples prefer to cherish the feeling privately, especially in the delicate first months. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, whatever the nature of their relationship, come to mind.
"But why can't they go public, you know what I mean?" Rodriguez continues. "Like, Brad and Angelina-that's just a shame for them. Right, Katie?"
"Yeah. I mean, I'm just so happy," Holmes says in reply as a makeup artist begins to powder her cheeks. (Holmes's skin, in contrast to the evidence of a recent barrage of embarrassing tabloid photos, is perfect.) "And I love celebrating our happiness. I can't keep it in."
Meanwhile, the tabloids report that friends back in Toledo, Ohio, where Holmes grew up, are worried about her. ("People who say that aren't my friends," she says.) They wonder whether Cruise is sabotaging her career by steering her away from roles that deal with subject matter that Scientology disapproves of?in particular, the role of the drug-addled Edie Sedgwick in George Hickenlooper's upcoming FactoryGirl, which Holmes pulled out of. "Tom's so supportive and he's such an inspiration," she protests.
"I just felt that the role wasn't right for me, and in light of my Batman Begins schedule and everything, it was just not the right time. When I pick roles, I ask, first, Is this a story that I want to tell? Can I help move this story along, and will I be an asset to it? I'm excited to keep expanding and finding different roles to play." What about a film with Cruise? "That would be such an honor. Such an honor."
Cruise may not be imposing his will on Holmes's career, but, with Rodriguez's help, he appears to have made a strong bid for her soul. After the interview, when I ask Rodriguez how long she's worked with Holmes-reports call her a longtime employee of the Church of Scientology-she waves her hand and says, "Oh, no, we're just best friends.... Well, Katie has a lot of friends." And how long have you been friends? "Oh, a while," Rodriguez answers. "I don't know."
It turns out the two women were introduced only six weeks earlier-right around the time when Holmes met Cruise. (Holmes prefers to keep the details of the couple's first date to herself, but Cruise is said to have invited her to a sushi dinner on his plane.) Rodriguez comes from a family of wealthy Bay area Scientologists; she attended a boarding school in Oregon linked to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, then went to work for the church, reportedly attaining membership in the Sea Org-Scientology's elite religious order, whose members commit to the church for one billion years-in 1998. No one close to Holmes will venture to say exactly what Rodriguez's role in the actress's life is these days.
On the day we meet, Holmes tells me she's not a Scientologist. (Three days later, in Europe, she will announce that she has converted.) "You know, it's really exciting," the actress says of the religion. "I just started auditing"-Scientology's word for receiving spiritual counseling-"and I'm taking some courses, and I really like it. I feel it's really helping. What I like about it is that, you know, I was raised Catholic, and you can be a Catholic and a Scientologist, Jewish and a Scientologist." Holmes went to Notre Dame Academy, a Catholic high school in Toledo, and was accepted at Columbia University before she landed the role of the lovelorn tomboy Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek. Her parents, devout Catholics, are said to be a weekly fixture at Christ the King church in Toledo. "I'm learning," Holmes says, as the makeup artist applies eye shadow, "to celebrate my own spirit, my own being."
No pressure from Cruise, she swears: "That's really ludicrous because, I mean, you have to know Tom. He is the most loving, generous man who... first of all, he wants to help people. He doesn't put pressure on people. He is the kindest, smartest, most adoring man. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be with him."
As if that weren't already perfectly clear, just then a security guard lumbers into the dressing room and presents Holmes with a giant silver box tied in a thick purple ribbon. A small crowd gathers to watch her gleefully tear open the package and pluck out a Chanel diamond necklace-a gift, naturally, from Cruise. "He's my man! He's my man!" she screams, then jumps up on her chair to do an impression of her fianc�'s now-famous sofa shtick from Oprah.
People begin to cheer. "This is your moment!" cries the manicurist.
"I can do splits too," Holmes says, jumping down and splaying herself across the floor. On that note, I suggest, we should probably get the photo shoot started.
"On that note," she replies, "I love him."
"Holmes Sweet Holmes" by Robert Haskell has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the August 2005 issue of W. from http://imdb.com/name/nm0005017/board/thread/35484676
80s comedies:
Better Off Dead
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Just One of the Guys
Secret Admirer
Pretty in Pink
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller�s Day Off
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Class of 1984
Say Anything
Heathers
WarGames
Risky Business
Lucas
My Bodyguard
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Fame
Can't Buy Me Love
Valley Girl
Less Than Zero
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American Experience: D-Day Remembered (1994)
A stunning technical achievement, and a refreshing break from the rubbish that composes modern cinema,
D-Day Remembered * * * */ * * * *
"If you're going to die anyway, move in and die!"
D-Day Remembered is simply the story of the Allied Forces in the first few hours of June 6, 1944. For those unfamiliar with history, it was arguably the most important single event of the war. The invasion of Normandy, France pretty much laid out the groundwork for the rest of the war; the Axis Forces were demoralized, battered and had little reason to go on fighting. The war for Europe ended a little less than a year after D-Day.
In what the L.A. Times calls "a kind of film-making miracle," director Charles Guggenheim ingeniously combines archive film footage and pictures with the narration of historians and soldiers who took part in D-Day. History buffs like myself will be deeply immersed in the historical beauty of a film of this scope. This is not a "war film," like Saving Private Ryan, The Pianist or Patton. This is more like an art film, rare film archives that one interested in the subject would yearn to see. It's absolutely amazing how each scene is precisely shot, scene breaks and angles are perfect. A thrilling score accompanies.
This is as real and as close one will ever get to World War II. Roger Ebert did not like the film because he claimed it not to be feature-length and probably did not appreciate the hard-to-find film footage. In the hectic lives most people have these days, there's nothing like a 53-minute break to relish the efforts of 150,000 brave men who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country on film. After seeing more than six hundred films so far (not having commented on them yet), I was looking really forward to seeing rare film footage of a historical event I admire so much. I was not disappointed and I assure you won't be either.
The film is not easy to find, although a large library may have it in their historical films section. You can see, only nineteen people voted for it on IMDb! But that 9.0 you see is very well deserved. Watch this film with an open mind, don't expect Spielberg or Polanski, and you will be pleased.
Kudos to Charles Guggenheim. He did what no other documentary filmmaker may ever do: keep the viewer thoroughly engaged while keeping a bearable time limit. 10/10
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The perfect combination of propaganda and preaching
Martin Scorsese definitely has a gift of film-making. That said, many people want to know about this movie in terms of The Passion of Christ, a more recent film.
Wilem Dafoe is definitely not as convincing as Jim Caviezel in the role of Jesus, but then you have to remember that the two movies focused on entirely different points. This focused on and celebrated a twisted and fictional version of his life and the experiences that led him to become the savior that he is remembered to be today, while The Passion aims to show the last twelve hours of his life. Caviezel was more dramatic, but Dafoe was very passionate. They both embodied Jesus in very memorable performances. Why they were overlooked in awards selection is baffling.
Overall, this film, aside from being a work of fiction, had one flaw that took away potential viewership: timing. Scorsese's films are excellent but films such as this and The Aviator had lots of parts that could be fast forwarded. The ending music and overall score is one of the most memorable scores in film history. Keep in mind that this is a fictional epic and enjoy it for what its got to offer, forget about the controversy and for your money's and time's worth, you've got a pretty good deal. 7/10
Cellular (2004)
Awfully Brilliant? Or just plain awful?
Now, don't get me wrong. This movie did have its good elements, here and there, but it wasn't consistent as thrillers are. Being a huge fan of thrillers, such as those of Hitchcock and Mann, I can faithfully tell you that this movie did not make the cut. To start off, this was a straight up desperate effort to remake 2003's Phonebooth, with Colin Farell. Phonebooth was a keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller that had only minor flaws. Phonebooth was about a movie man who cheated on his wife and was corrected by an insane man. Cellular is a direct slap in the face to that movie. This is about, NO SPOILERS HERE, a woman who was kidnapped, and everything miraculously works out from there. For example, she can figure out lots of things because she's a science teacher. A weak story is sometimes helped by strong acting. In this case, Oscar winner Kim Basinger played an overly-emotional, easily distressed mother and teacher. Jason Statham, perhaps best known for hardcore action in Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels and Snatch was also a figure of weakness in this film. Like I said, somehow everything works out (I mean, c'mon, how often are you talking on a cell phone and your line mixes with someone else? Its not a two way) The ending was very good. It brought life back into the movie. I seriously thought of trashing this movie, but because of the last part of the movie, I changed my mind. So its up to you. You make up your mind: Is it brilliant or awful? Am I wrong by saying it's awful? That's for you to decide, as you can conveniently click that "Was this comment useful to you" button. For me, though, this was a 5/10 flick.