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CATAGORIES & GENRES
Drama Adventures of Sebastian Cole, the D: Todd Williams '99 Age of Innocence, the D: Martin Scorsese '93 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore D: Martin Scorsese ( The movie the tv show 'Alice' was based on) '74 Apostle, the D: Robert Duval (Small town preacher on the run from the law, murder and redemption) '97
Atlantic City D: Louis Malle (Romance between older man and younger woman, set at the boardwalk) '81
About Schmidt D: Alexander Payne (Jack Nicolson in late-mid-life crisis road flick) 2003
Adaptation D: Spike Jonze ( Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper) 2002
Bamboozled D: Spike Lee (Something to offend everyone) 2000
Bear, The D: Jean-Jacques Annaud (Beautifully shot and told) '89
Beautiful Mind, A D: Ron Howard (Nobel Prize winner turned coo-coo John Nash) 2000
Before Night Falls D: Julian Schnabel (About gay cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas) 2000
Blue Collar D:Paul Schrader (with Richard Pryor in strong dramatic role) '78
Brubaker D: Stuart Rosenberg ( Robert Redford as a new reform minded warden who 1st sneaks in as prisoner) '80
Badge, the D: Robby Henson (w/Billy Bob Thorton) 2002
Believer, the D: Henry Bean (based on actual person who was a Jewish nazi-skinhead) 2001
Business of Strangers, the D: Patrick Stettner 2002
Butterfield 8 D:Daniel Mann (Elizabeth Taylor as a hooker trying to go straight) '60
CopLand D:James Mangold (all star cast about corrupt Jersey town founded by corrupt NYPD) '97
Charly D: Ralph Nelson (based on Flowers for Algernon) '66
Chattahoochee D: Mick Jackson (Gary Oldman & Dennis Hopper @ insane asylum)true story '89
China Syndrom, the D: James Bridges (power plant melt down thriller w/ Jane Fonda) '79
Coming Home D: Hal Ashby (Vietnam movie about returning vet's affair with a married woman) '78
Colors D: Dennis Hopper (Sean Penn & Robert Duval)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind D: Geo. Clooney (Chuck "Gong Show" Barris (who claimed he was a spy) Story) 2002
Dangerous Liaisons D: Steven Frears '88
Death of A Salesman D: Volker Schondorff (Hoffman and Malkovich give great performances) '86
Devils, the D: Ken Russell (one of his best - set during the inquisition in a nunnery) '71
Devil's Advocate D: Taylor Hackford '97
Dancer in the Dark D: Lars Von Trier ( w/ Bjork as a factory worker lost in musicals and going blind -heartwrenching) '99
Dog Day Afternoon D: Sidney Lumet (true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery gone awry w/ Al Pachino) very good '75
Dreamchild D:Gavin Millar (based around 'real' Alice; from Wonderland) Jim Henson FX '85
Eight Men Out D: John Sayles (Black Sox World Series Scandal) '88
Faces D: John Cassavettes '68
Fargo D: Joel Coen (William H. Macy, Steve Buschemie, Francese McDormet; Murder in North Dakota) '96
Fat City D: John Huston ( w/ Stacy Keech, Jeff Bridges, about boxing) '72
Fat Man & Little Boy D: Roland Joffe (All star cast / How the Bomb was made) '89
Field of Deams D:Phil Alden Robinson (farmer builds a baseball park on his field after hearing voices) '89
Five Corners D; Tony Bill (Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Tim Robbins) '92
Front, the D: Martin Ritt (Woody Allen and others star ; about 50s commiewitch hunts) '76
Gangs of New York D: Martin Scorcesse (Brutal gangs and revenge in 1880s NYC)
Glengarry Glenross D: James Foley (All star cast in Mamet drama about real-estate salesmen on the skids) '92
Ghost World D:Terry Zwiegoff (based of the Daniel Clowse comic strip from 8ball)
Gods & Monsters D: Bill Condon (about James Whale director of Frankenstien and Bride of...) '98
Goodfellas D: Martin Scorsesee (true story mob epic w/ R. De Nero, J. Pesci, R. Liotta)
Hard Eight D: P.T. Anderson (Anderson's (Boogie Nights) first movie) '96
Hamlet D: Franco Zeffirelli (w/ Mel Gibson, Helina Bottom Carter, Glen Close) '90
Hoosiers D: David Anspaugh (Timothy Hutton, Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper) '86
I Shot Andy Warhol D: Mary Harron (about Valerie Solanas, creater of S.C.U.M. - who shot Warhol) '96
Ice Storm, the D: Ang Lee
In the Bedroom D; Todd Field 2001
Iron Weed D: Hector Babenco (skid row Albany during 1930s w/ J.Nickolson, M.Streep & T. Waits)
Invisibles, the D: Noah Stern '99
Jesus' Son D: Alison Maclean '99
Joe Gould's Secret D: Stanley Tucci 2000
King of Marvin Gardens D: Bob Rafelson (Jack Nickolson & Bruce Dern) '72
"Lenny" D: Bob Fosse (Dustan Hoffman gives convincing performance in title role) '74
L.I.E. D: (w/ Brian Cox, about young male hustlers)
Lolita D: Adrian Lyne (not as good as Kubrik, or Nabakov, but not bad) '97
Los Ojos De Un Nino D:
Marat Sade D: Peter Brook (Royal Shakespearean Co. under the direction of Marquee DeSade) '67
Midnight Cowboy D: John Schlesinger (John Voit and Dustan Hoffman the only X to win best pic.) '69
Magnolia D: P.T. Anderson (3rd p.t.a. film with his many regs. and some new faces) '99
Man on the Moon D: Milos Forman (Andy Kaufman bio-flick w/Jim Carry) '99
Midnight Express D: Alan Parker (true story of why you should never smuggle hash out of Turkey) '78
Mission, the D: Rollin Joffe (De Niro and Jeremy Irons missionaries in South Am.1700s) '86
Mosquito Coast,the D: Peter Weir (w/Harrison Ford, River Phoenix -ice is civilization) '86
Ma Vie en Rose D: Alain Berliner ('My Life in Pink', gender-bender about young boy)
Monsoon Wedding D: Mira Nair 2002
My Wife is an Actress D: Yvan Attal (ma femme est une actrice) 2001
Naked Civil Servant, the D: Jack Gold (John Hurt as Quentin Crisp, gay rights champion) '75
Name of the Rose, the D: Jean-Jacques Anaud (from the Umberto Eco novel, w/ Sean Connery) '86
Naked Lunch D: David Cronenberg (Peter Weller stars in movie from Burroghs book) '91
Night Moves D: Arthur Penn (Gene Hackman as hard boiled privet eye) '75
NorthFork D: Michael Polish (Polish Bro. 3rd, in "town name trilogy" w/James Woods)
Ode to Billy Joe D: Max Baer (from song to movie - with new shocking twist) '76
One From The Heart D: Frances Ford Coppola (score by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle)
Out of the Blue D:Dennis Hopper (daddy's a looser and his daughter is following his path) '80
Pandemonium D: Julian Temple (about Collrage & Wordsworth & drugs) 2001
Paper Chase,the D: James Bridges (Timothy Bottoms in law school dramady) '73
Philadelphia D:Jonathan Demme (w/Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington) '93
Picnic at Hanging Rock D: Peter Weir (based on true story of several girls who went missing at a picnic) '75 LTBX
Player, the D: Robert Altman ( w/Tim Robins as movie exec. involved in murder) '92
Play Misty for Me D: Clint Eastwood (good thriller about radioDJ (Clint) and his stalker) '71
Prick Up Your Ears D:Steven Frears (Gary Oldman and Alfread Molina; about playwright Joe Orton) '87
Quills D: Philip Kaufman (Geoffrey Rush as Marquis DeSade) '99
Quitting D: Zhang Yang (Japanese movie about dysfunctional family and son) 2001
Raging Bull D: Martin Scorsese (w/De Niro & Pesci, Jake LaMotta story, boxer) '80
Rainbow, the D: Ken Russell (Ken Russell does D.H. Lawrence) '89
Romeo & Juliet D: Baz Luhrmann (slick update with Leo Decaprio & Claire Danes)
Rumble Fish D: Francis Ford Coppola '83
Salvador D: Oliver Stone (James Woods as photo-journalist in El Salvador) '86
Saturday Night Fever D: John Badham (the film, the craze, the white suite) '77
Secret of Roan Inish, the D: John Sayles (Tales of Mer-folk in Ireland) '93
Smoke D: Wayne Wang (Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Witaker)
A Soldier's Story D: Norman Jewison (murder mystery takes place during segregation era army) '84
Stonewall D: Nigel Finch (dramady about the era of Stonewall Riots - gay rights) '95
Streamers D: Robert Altman '83
Straight out of Brooklyn D: Matty Rich (Rich's debut, gritty drama about teens-n-hood) '91
Safety of Objects. the D: Rose Troche 2003
Talented Mr. Ripley, the D: Anthony Minghella '99
Talk Radio D: Oliver Stone (about hated radio talk show host) '88
Taps D: Harold Becker (Tim Hutton, Sean Penn, cadets take over military school) '81
Taxi Driver D: Martin Scorsese (psst. I think he's talking to you) '76
Tender Mercies D; Bruce Beresford (Robert Duval plays a troubled family man and country singer) '83
Tribute D: Bob Clark (Jack Lemmon give fine performance) '80
Twin Falls Idaho D: Michael Polish (Polish bros.1st film; conjoined twins in love with hooker) '99
What's Eating Gilbert Grape D: Lasse Hallstrom '93
Waiting for the Moon D: Jill Godmilow (about Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein) '87
Walkabout D:Nicolase Roag LTBX (Aboriginal boy guides two lost kids to safety) great '71
Water Engine,the D: Steven Schachter (from the David Mamet play w/ William H. Macy) '92
Whore D: Ken Russell '91
Zed & Two Naughts, A D: Peter Greenaway (strange story of twin brothers and a zoo) '88
Comedy After Hours D: Martin Scorsese (A date gone bad leaves Griffen Dunne stranded in an unfamiliar neighborhood) '85 Amateur D: Hal Hartley '94 Amazon Women on the Moon D:Joe Dante, John Landis and others (Spoof on late night tv with many cameos) '87
American Beauty D: Sam Mendes (Kevin Spacey in a better than average mid-life crisis movie) '99
American Graffiti D: George Lucas (set in '63, great cast with many stars, great oldies soundtrack) a must '73
American Splendor D: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (Story about Harvey Pekar) 2003
Andy Kaufman - I'm From Hollywood (Chronicles Andy's wrestling career)
Andy Kaufman - The Andy Kaufman Show tv (from PBS's 'Soundstage')
Andy Kaufman - The Midnight Special tv
Best in Show D: Christopher Guest (usual ensemble cast takes on show dog circuit) very funny 2000
Blue in the Face D: Wayne Wang & Paul Auster (made with leftover budget from "Smoke" with lots od cameos '95
Boogie Nights D: P.T. Anderson (the height and then waning years of 70s-80s porn w/ big cast, great songs) '97
Bottle Rocket D: Wes Anderson (child hood friends with big plans get waylaid at a desert motel; Anderson's 1st) '95
Buffalo 66 D:Vincent Gallo (w/ Gallo & Christina Ricci) '99
Cabin Boy D: Adam Resnick (Chris Elliot stars in fantasy film homage) '94
Caddyshack D: Harold Ramis (Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfeild, Bill Murray, Ted Knight) '80
Candy Mountain D: Robert Frank (many cameos incld. Tom Waits, David Johansen) '80
Catch-22 D: Mike Nicoles (Joseph Heller's defiant book becomes sprawling movie) '70
Christmas Story,A D: Bob Clark (charming story of a boy's attempts to secure a bee-bee gun for Christmas) '83
Diner D: Barry Levinson (all star cast of would-be's to many to mention - funny comeing of age film) '82
Down by Law D: Jim Jarmusch (great 2nd movie from Jarmusch with Roberto Bennini, Tom Waits and John Lurie) '86
Down With Love D: Peyton Reed (Renee Zellweger & Ewan Mcgregor) 2003
Dumb & Dumber D: Farrelly brothers '94
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid D: Carl Reiner (Steve Martin film-noir homage) '82
Defending Your Life D: Albert Brooks (After death, we go to a processing station!) '91
Ed Wood D:Tim Burton (Johnny Depp, Martin Landu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray) '94
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas D: Terry Gilliam (Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Tompson) '98
Fireman's Ball D: Milos Forman (Comedy of errors durring a retierment party) '68
Flirt D: Hal Hartly '95
Fight Club D: David Fincher
Happiness D: Todd Solondz (disturbingly funny - funnily disturbing) '96
Harry & Tonto D: Paul Mazursky (Bittersweet comedy about an old man (Art Carney) and his cat) '74
Heaven Help Us D: Michael Dinner (catholic school comedy set in the early 60s) '85
Henry Fool D: Hal Hartley (a garbage man inspired by a stranger in town writes a poem that changes the world) '98
High Fidelity D: Steven Frears (John Cusack, Jack Black -indi record store owner contemplates love/relationships)2000
Household Saints D; Nancy Savoca '93
How to Get Ahead in Advertising D: Bruce Robinson (What if your zit grew into your doppleganger) '89
Incredible Shrinking Woman, the D: Joel Schumacher (Lilly Tomlan & Charles Groden) '81
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka D: Keenen Ivory Wayans (Blaxploit satire/homage) '88
Johnny Suede D: Tom Dicillo (w/ Brad Pitt) '92
King of Comedy D: Martin Scorsese (w/ De Niro & Jerry Lewis, obsessed fan comedy) '82
King of Hearts D: Philippe de Broca '66
King Pin D: Peter & Bobby Farrelly ( Bill Murray & Woody Haroldson) '96
Kissing Jessica Stein D: Charles Herman - Wurmfeld 2002
Knack & How to Get It, the D: Richard Lester (60s brit. Mod comedy) '65
Last American Virgin, the D: Boaz Davidson (80s teen-sex tragacomedy, good soundtrack) '82
Last Remake of Beau Geste D: Marty Feldman, (Foreign Legion Comedy) '77
Lonely Guy D: Arthur Hiller (w/ Steve Martin & Charles Groden)
M*A*S*H* D: Robert Altman (the movie-from a book- that started the tv series) '70
Man of the Century D: Adam Abraham (inventive homage to those 20s news-man screwballs w/ Gibson Frazier)
Miss. Firecracker D:Thomas Schlamme (Small town woman with 'bad rep' enters local beauty contest) '89
Moderns, the D: Alan Rudolph (Good w/many people about art forgery in 20s-30s Paris) '88
Modern Romance D: Albert Brooks (Albert Brooks looks at Relationships) '81
My Dinner With Andre D: Louis Malle (Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory) '81
Midsummer Night's Dream, A D: Michael Hoffman (many people incld. Kevin Kline) '99
Mighty Wind, A D: Christopher Guest (usual gang takes on 60s folk reunions) funny 2003
Monty Python's - the meaning of life D: Terry Jones '83
National Lampoon's: Vacation D: Harold Ramis (Chevey Chase, Beverley D'Angelo) '83
National Lampoon's: European Vacation D: Amy Heckerling (Same Parents- different kids?) '85
1941 D: Steven Speilberg (John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and many others) '79 LTBX
Navigator, the D: Vincent Ward (A time-travel adventure from New Zealand) '88
No Such Thing D: Hal Hartley (cruel tabloid tv show sends office flunky to Iceland to find real monster) 2002
Nutty Professor, the D: Jerry Lewis (Jerry Lewis classic take of on Dr. Jeykell...) '63
O'Brother, Where Art Thou? D: Coen Brothers ("Modern" retelling of the Odyssey. set durring 30s depression)2002
Oh, God! D: Carl Reiner (John Denver as grocery store manager, Geo.Burns as God) '77
Out-of-Towners D: Aurther Hiller (Jack Lemon goes through hell in nyc for job interview; Neil Simon comedy) '70
Pumpkin D: A. Broder & T. Abrams (perfect sorority girl Christina Ricci falls for 'Special Olympian' Hank Harris)'02
Punch Drunk Love D: P.T. Anderson (4th film from p.t.a. w/ Adam Sandler)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure D: Tim Burton (Classic Pee-Wee & Burton w/ commentary) '85
Pretty in Pink D: John Hughes (Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy,John Cryer)
Peggy Sue Got Married D: Francis Ford Coppola '86
Producers, the D: Mell Brooks (Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, very zany) '68
Prairie Home Companion, A - the last show t.v. (P.H.C. left the air in 1987, it came back)
Quick Change D: Bill Murray & Howard Franklin (Bill Murray, Gina Davis, Randy Quaid) '90
Real Genius D: Martha Coolidge (goofy 80s about geeky collage kids - w/ Val Kilmer) '85
Real Life D: Albert Brooks (his first and one of his best, with many laughs) '79
Richard Pryor - here & now D: (concert film of R.P.at his best)
Richard Pryor - live & smokin' D: (club footage of early R.P.)
Risky Business D: Paul Brickman (young Tom Cruise turns pimp while parents are away) '83
Roadside Prophets D: Abbe Wool (John Doe & Adam Horovitz on motorcycles) '92
Road to Wellville, the D: Alan Parker (very funny movie about health guru Kellogg) '94
Room Service D: William A Seiter (Marx Brothers w/young Lucy Ball) '38
Rosalie Goes Shopping D: Percy Adion (satire about American consumerism) '89
Royal Tenenbaums D: Wes Anderson
Rushmore D: Wes Anderson '98
Say Anything D: Cameron Crowe (John Cusack & Ione Sky in teen-angst love story) good '89
Schizopolis D: Steven Soderbergh (very strange and funny - too hard to explain) '97
Scotland PA D: (w/ Christopher Walken, Macbeth in 70s PA fast-food motif)
Shampoo D: Hal Ashby (Warren Beaty as hair stylist to the rich and famous) '75
Simon D: Marshall Brickman (Alan Arkin as nyu Prof. who thinks he's an E.T.) '80
Simple Men D: Hal Hartley '92
Sixteen Candles D: John Hughes (non-gritty comedy about teens-n-suburbia, classic 80s) '84
Slacker D: Richard Linklater (stream -of- consciousness comedy set in Austin tx) '91
Slums of Beverly Hills D: Tamara Jenkins (funny coming of age in 70s LA w/ good cast) '98
Smile D: Michael Ritchie (comedy about teen beauty pageants) '75
Stripes D: Harold Ramis (Bill Murray as misfit who goes into the Army) '81
Something Wild D: Jonathan Demme '83
Stranger than Paradise D: Jim Jarmusch (Jarmusch's first feature) '84
Steve Martin Live (Concert of S.M. in his hey-day, with short)
Surviving Desire D: Hal Hartley
Sweetie D: Jane Campion (Qwerkie Aussie comedy about two sisters, one strange)
Three O'Clock High D: Phil Joanou (under-appreciated high school comedy) '87
Tin Men D: Barry Levinson (part of the Baltimore trilogy; this one's about aluminum siding salesmen)
2000 year-old man, the D: (animated version of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner routines)
Take the Money and Run D: Woody Allen (Allen's first feature as director - very funny) '69
This is Spinal Tap D: Rob Reiner's 1st (mockrockumentary of worlds loudest/worst band) '84
Trust D: Hal Hartley '91
UFORIA D: John Binder (goofy comedy with Fred Ward, Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton) '81
Valley Girl D: Martha Coolidge (80s romance-comedy between Punk and Valley Girl) '83
Vampires Kiss D: Robert Bierman (Nicholas Cage as business man who thinks he's a vampire) '88
Waiting for Guffman D: Christopher Guest (community theater in small town America) '96
Wedding Singer, the D: Frank Coraci (Adam Sandler & Drew Barrimore set in 80s) '97
What's New Pussycat? D: Clive Donner (Woody Allen wrote/stars w/Peters Sellers & O'Toole) '65
What's Up Doc? Peter Bogdanovich (tribute to screwball comedies of the 30s-40s w/ Babs and Ryan O'Neil) '72
Which Way Is Up? D: Clive Donner (Richard Pryor in several roles) '65
World According to Garp, the D: George Roy Hill (one of Robin Williams' best movies) '82
Yours, mine and Ours D: Melville Shavelson (L. Ball & H. Fonda - singles w/ too many kids meet and marry) '68
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