Most Wanted
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Il Grido
(Antonioni, 1957)

The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)

-30-
(Webb, 1959)

Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)

Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)

The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)

Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)

The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)

In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)

That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)

The Fox
(Rydell, 1967)

Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)

Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)

At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)

Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)

Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

Mike's Murder
(Bridges, 1984)

Reader Submissions

1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
'Doc'
(Perry, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
(Pakula, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Running on Empty
(Lumet, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Men Don't Leave
(Brickman, 1990)
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

Upcoming

June 11

Tetro

June 12

Call of the Wild 3D

Food, Inc.

Imagine That

Moon

Sex Positive

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love

June 16

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

June 19

$9.99

Dead Snow

The Proposal

Whatever Works

Year One

June 24

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

June 26

Cheri

Fireflies in the Garden

The Hurt Locker

My Sister's Keeper

The Stoning of Soraya M. 

Surveillance 

July 1

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Public Enemies

July 3

The Girl from Monaco

I Hate Valentine's Day

July 10

Bruno

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Soul Power

July 15

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

July 17

(500) Days of Summer

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

July 24

All Good Things

The Answer Man

G-Force

In the Loop

Orphan

The Ugly Truth

July 29

Adam

July 31

The Cove

Funny People

Lorna's Silence

They Came from Upstairs

August 7

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Julie & Julia

Paper Heart

Shorts

When in Rome

August 14

A Perfect Getaway

Bandslam

District 9

The Goods: The Don Ready Story

I Sell the Dead

Ponyo

Pool Boys

Spread

Taking Woodstock

The Time Traveler's Wife

August 21

Five Minutes of Heaven

Goose on the Loose!

Inglorious Bastards

It Might Get Loud

Post Grad

World's Greatest Dad

August 28

The Boat that Rocked

Final Destination: Death Trip

H2

September 4

All About Steve

Amreeka

Black Dynamite

Carriers

Citizen Game

Extract

Pandorum

Shanghai

September 9

9

September 11

The Red Canvas

Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself

Whiteout

September 17

The Burning Plain

September 18

Armored

Brand New Day

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Jennifer's Body

Splice

September 25

Fame

The Invention of Lying

Surrogates

October 2

A Serious Man

More Than a Game

Sorority Row

Toy Story/Toy Story 2

Taken

Pierre Morel's Taken (20th Century Fox, 9.18.08) is a thriller about an ex-spook (Liam Neeson) using his espionage skills to save his estranged daughter (Maggie Grace) from baddies who've kidnapped her and sold her into the slave trade. A rescue is necessary because once a beautiful young woman has been abducted and sold, she has no choice but to do what she's been told to do, and is of course powerless to attempt an escape on her own.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 20, 2008 at 12:56 PM

comment #1

CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page says ...

does anyone else have problems with Firefox after attempting to watch embedded videos on Hollywood Elsewhere?

Every damn time now. I have to restart and look for the vids via Google.

Posted by CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 1:51 PM

comment #2

Redmond Author Profile Page says ...

CinemaPhreek, no problem here, but I have noticed that Firefox 3 does behave a little weird. I don't want to say choppy, but something is off.

Posted by Redmond Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 1:54 PM

comment #3

Undercover Brother Author Profile Page says ...

TAKEN - Starring Liam Neeson as Harrsion Ford!

Posted by Undercover Brother Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 1:55 PM

comment #4

CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page says ...

Not being able to see the trailer, don't know if this is mentioned:

This is the director of District B13, his follow up to that. Written by TRANSPORTER duo Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen (Besson also wrote District B13 I keep forgetting)

Bad sign though: apparently it has been cut from the versions already playing in France and Korea in order to get a PG-13 rating.

Posted by CinemaPhreek Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:02 PM

comment #5

Balerion Author Profile Page says ...

Reminds me a little bit of Man on Fire. Could be a fun confection, I suppose.

Posted by Balerion Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:05 PM

comment #6

cinefan Author Profile Page says ...

Not a fan of Maggie Grace - she's always bland in whatever she's in, including the remake of The Fog and Lost, which made a wise decision to kill her off early in its run.

Posted by cinefan Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:06 PM

comment #7

Mark Author Profile Page says ...

To defend themselves against the finger wagging of the Jeffrey Wells of the world, the wrtiers should have taken a cue from Ron Howard's The Missing. Have the subject girl capable and determined enough to escape on her own, only to be undermined after trying to save an even stupidier girl of less merit.

Posted by Mark Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:10 PM

comment #8

Aladdin Sane Author Profile Page says ...

Re Firefox 3, go turn off any addons that you don't deem necessary. I did that and it's been running smoother.

As for the trailer, I like it. It'd be nice to see Neeson not playing the mentor figure and kicking ass. If it's not rated R though, why bother? Guess there's always DVD.

Posted by Aladdin Sane Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:37 PM

comment #9

LexG Author Profile Page says ...

MAGGIE GRACE OWNS YOUR ASS.

KNOW IT.

BOW TO THE HOTNESS.

BOW.

Posted by LexG Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 2:49 PM

comment #10

UnChien Author Profile Page says ...

Banlieu 13 was my second walkout ever. 15 minutes was all I could take.

Morel won't get more cash from me.

Posted by UnChien Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 3:20 PM

comment #11

Griff Author Profile Page says ...

Sounds very similar to Mamet's underseen "Spartan" with Val Kilmer.

Posted by Griff Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 4:53 PM

comment #12

lipranzer Author Profile Page says ...

This is the third time Famke Janssen's played a mother of a kidnapped child (GINGERBREAD MAN and DON'T SAY A WORD being the other two).

Posted by lipranzer Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 8:44 PM

comment #13

actionman Author Profile Page says ...

Morel did a stylish job with District B13

The PG-13'ing of this film blows goat

Posted by actionman Author Profile Page at June 20, 2008 9:36 PM

comment #14

Spacesheik Author Profile Page says ...

This film was released in europe ages ago and was 18 - it wasnt very good from what i heard.

Who wants a pg13 version here?

Posted by Spacesheik Author Profile Page at June 21, 2008 3:36 AM

comment #15

JTag Author Profile Page says ...

PG-13?!! The international trailers alone show how much the movie is hardcore rated R material. Isn't that the basic draw for this film - Liam Neeson going all Charles Bronson.

And I don't care if Famke Janssen is repeating herself - anything that keeps her on the big screen is fine by me.

Posted by JTag Author Profile Page at June 21, 2008 9:19 AM

comment #16

hatchetface Author Profile Page says ...

CinemaPhreek, I had the same problem and it's not Firefox 2 or 3, it's Adobe flash's plug-in for the browser. If you go to the Adobe site and download the beta of Flash Player 10 it will fix all this nonsense. Very frustrating problem.

Posted by hatchetface Author Profile Page at June 23, 2008 12:29 PM

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