Filmically Perfect

FP 124 Blade Runner (1982) by Filmically Perfect

FP 123 Brian's Song (1971) by Filmically Perfect

FP 122 On The Waterfront (1954) by Filmically Perfect

FP 121 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) by Filmically Perfect

FP 120 Sound Cues, No. 5 by Filmically Perfect

We here at Filmically Perfect believe that Orson Welles' worst film is better than some directors best film! There is no doubt in our minds that this IS one of his best, a twisted sadistic tale of love, murder and drugs on the border. And while some will fault Charlton Heston for his mucho gringo Mexican character, it was he who made sure that Welles was in the director's chair and for that, we can forgive all else!

There are few directors as good as getting under the skin of a character than John Huston. In this film, Huston pulls an astounding performance from Humphrey Bogart, whom he had made into a star some years earlier with The Maltese Falcon. And if that weren't enough, Walter Huston, the director's father and an actor among actors, turns in the performance of a lifetime which garnered him an Academy Award that year!

For those of you who thought "Finally! FP is doing a Alec Baldwin movie!" SHAME ON YOU! This is the one and only original film, directed by the masterful but highly self-destructive Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, and the usually lovable Ben Johnson as one of the great swine of the screen! "The Getaway" is one of the great heist capers of all time, told with all the panache and bravado that Peckinpah had at his command.

James Cagney proves that he still has what it takes in this film, one of his last for Warner Bros. Playing the psychotic mama's boy Cody Jarrett, Cagney sets the world on fire (well, the top of it anyway) in Raoul Walsh's explosive drama!

Michael Curtiz proves there’s no genre he can’t handle with this music filled fictional biography of tightly wound jazz trumpeter. Kirk Douglas plays the eponymous Young Man and plays him much like the brash pugilist in Champion, which just preceded this film. And as in any good tale of morals there is good (Doris Day) and evil (Lauren Bacall). Acting as Muse, holding the whole lurid tale together is composer-lyricist-singer-pianist-actor Hoagy Carmichael.