[3] It is possible to pinpoint precisely the moment that Steve McQueen became a movie star. It comes in the last 20 minutes of The Great Escape [4]. It's so exciting you can taste it. And you know that the cocky, handsome, volatile actor was a bona fide movie star.
[6] In Nights of Cabiria [7] actress Giulietta Masina and director Federico Fellini give us a funny, beguiling, and heartbreaking examination of innocence that has yet to be surpassed.
[9] Alfred Hitchcock liked to take chances. He took a huge one with The Birds [10], a story about our feathered friends turning homicidal and waging war on humanity with one of his most puzzling endings.
[12] Sleepless in Seattle [13] is a romantic comedy that slyly ridicules Hollywood's unrealistic depictions of love and at the same time wants to be the same sort of preposterous-but-beloved screen romance it spoofs.
[15] It says something that Bye Bye Birdie [16], a musical inspired by a very specific news story of the late 1950s and devised as a humorous commentary on the cultural ethos of that era, has over the last 50 years become timeless.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-great-escape-1963
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22John+Sturges%22+title:%22Great+Escape%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19570#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-nights-cabiria-1957
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Federico+Fellini%22+title:%22Nights+of+Cabiria%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19518#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-birds-1963
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22DVD%22+author:%22Alfred+Hitchcock%22+title:%22Birds%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19513#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-sleepless-seattle-1993
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Nora+Ephron%22+title:%22Sleepless+in+Seattle%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19458#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-bye-bye-birdie-1963
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22George+Sidney%22+title:%22Bye+Bye+Birdie%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19451#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=4
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=1
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=2
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=3
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=6
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=7
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=8
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=9
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61
