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FANTASIA
Disney, 1940

DIRECTORS Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
PRODUCER Walt Disney
Disney's groundbreaking union of classical music and animated images is a visual feast for young and old. Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is one of the film's most indelible images.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966

PRINCIPAL CAST Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
DIRECTOR Richard Fleischer
PRODUCER Saul David
SCREENWRITERS Harry Kleiner, Otto Klement, Jay Lewis Bixby
This science fiction journey follows a group of doctors who are reduced to a microscopic size, injected into a human body, and then have one hour to travel through the bloodstream, find and destroy a blood clot in the brain.

FARGO
Gramercy, 1996

PRINCIPAL CAST Frances McDormand, William H. Macy
DIRECTOR Joel Coen
PRODUCER Ethan Coen
SCREENWRITERS Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
A frigid Minnesota landscape is the setting for a series of gruesome murders intertwined with a botched kidnapping job. McDormand is Marge, the pregnant police officer who reconstructs the crime with a style all her own. "You betcha."

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
Universal, 1982

PRINCIPAL CAST Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold
DIRECTOR Amy Heckerling
PRODUCER Art Linson, Irving Azoff
SCREENWRITER Cameron Crowe
Penn leads an ensemble cast of newcomers in this sharp and painfully funny look at what's on the mind of teenagers in a southern California high school peer pressure, sex and the mall. "Hey, Bud, let's party!"

FATAL ATTRACTION
Paramount, 1987

PRINCIPAL CAST Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
DIRECTOR Adrian Lyne
PRODUCERS Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
SCREENWRITER James Dearden
Douglas is a married man who has a brief but torrid affair with an obsessive woman, played by Close. Her brutal revenge and ultimate demise had America discussing adultery and assigning blame.

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
Paramount, 1986

PRINCIPAL CAST Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
DIRECTOR John Hughes
PRODUCERS John Hughes, Tom Jacobson
SCREENWRITER John Hughes
Broderick is Ferris Bueller, a teen whose theory about life is that it "goes by so fast that if you don't stop and look around, you might miss it." Ferris and two friends play hooky one day in Chicago and experience life to its fullest...from the top of the Sears Tower to a moment when he jumps up on a parade float and sings "Twist And Shout" to a throng of thousands.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
United Artists, 1971

PRINCIPAL CAST Topol
DIRECTOR Norman Jewison
PRODUCER Norman Jewison
SCREENWRITER Joseph Stein
A proud Jewish father struggles to hold on to "Tradition!" as the world around him changes. The film is based on a Broadway musical and features the songs "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Sunrise, Sunset."

FIELD OF DREAMS
Universal, 1989

PRINCIPAL CAST Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan
DIRECTOR Phil Alden Robinson
PRODUCERS Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon
SCREENWRITER Phil Alden Robinson
Costner is an Iowa corn farmer who hears voices telling him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his farm-sustaining corn field. He does and miracles, faith and family arrive in the form of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the 1919 White Sox. "If you build it, they will come."

FIVE EASY PIECES
Columbia, 1970

PRINCIPAL CAST Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
DIRECTOR Bob Rafelson
PRODUCERS Bob Rafelson, Richard Wechsler
SCREENWRITERS Adrien Joyce, Bob Rafelson
Nicholson is a gifted pianist who has chosen the life of an oil field worker and passes the time just hanging out. He comes to terms with this life choice when he visits his ailing father, and eventually abandons everyone he knows and all he owns to hop a truck to Alaska. The film includes the infamous chicken salad scene.

FORCE OF EVIL
M-G-M, 1948

PRINCIPAL CAST John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
DIRECTOR Abraham Polonsky
PRODUCER Bob Roberts
SCREENWRITERS Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert
The hypnotic story of a lawyer corrupted by greed and numbers runners is noted for its atmospheric photography, detailed script and Garfield's wide-ranging performance.

FORREST GUMP
Paramount, 1994

PRINCIPAL CAST Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
DIRECTOR Robert Zemeckis
PRODUCERS Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch
SCREENWRITER Eric Roth
Hanks is Forrest Gump, who despite being mentally challenged, tries hard, is honest and places his trust in luck. He tells his life story to anyone who sits next to him at a bus stop, and the flashbacks follow Forrest and his good heart through some of the highlights of modern American history. Through the use of digital imagery, Forrest appears to interact in scenes with John F. Kennedy, John Lennon and George Wallace. "Life is like a box of chocolates."

42ND STREET
Warner Bros., 1933

PRINCIPAL CAST Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler
DIRECTOR Lloyd Bacon
PRODUCER Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck
SCREENWRITERS Rian James, James Seymour
This quintessential backstage musical stars Keeler as the girl whose career begins when she stands in for the leading lady. It was the first film to feature choreographer Busby Berkeley's dizzying overhead shots of dancers moving in kaleidoscopic patterns.

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Metro, 1921

PRINCIPAL CAST Rudolph Valentino
DIRECTOR Rex Ingram
SCREENWRITER June Mathis
Valentino's spectacular success in this film propelled him to become one of the most popular stars of the 1920s. His version of the Argentine tango soon became a national obsession.

FRANKENSTEIN
Universal, 1931

PRINCIPAL CAST Boris Karloff, Colin Clive
DIRECTOR James Whale
PRODUCER Carl Laemmle, Jr.
SCREENWRITERS Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh
Whale ushered in a new era of horror films, and Karloff was never quite able to shake his image as the frightening, yet often sympathetic "monster" of Dr. Frankenstein.

FREAKS
M-G-M, 1932

PRINCIPAL CAST Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
DIRECTOR Tod Browning
SCREENWRITERS Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf, Al Boasberg
Banned in some countries and generally ignored in the United States until it was shown at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, this picture sympathetically portrays sideshow freaks who ultimately mutilate one of the "normal" people.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971

PRINCIPAL CAST Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
DIRECTOR William Friedkin
PRODUCER Philip D'Antoni
SCREENWRITER Ernest Tidyman
Hackman stars as "Popeye" Doyle, a brash New York City detective who uncovers a heroin-smuggling operation. The car chase under the elevated train tracks is movie legend.

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Columbia, 1953

PRINCIPAL CAST Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
DIRECTOR Fred Zinnemann
PRODUCER Buddy Adler
SCREENWRITER Daniel Taradash
The image of waves crashing over the passionately embracing Kerr and Lancaster is one of the most sensual ever filmed in this story of Army life in Honolulu on the eve of World War II. The bombing of Pearl Harbor interrupts the two love affairs in the film.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
United Artists, 1963

PRINCIPAL CAST Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
DIRECTOR Terence Young
PRODUCERS Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
SCREENWRITER Richard Maibaum
Agent 007's second appearance features Connery as the dashing James Bond, this time pitted against villains Shaw and Lenya. The film is particularly renowned for the fight between Connery and Shaw aboard the train.

THE FUGITIVE
Warner Bros., 1993

PRINCIPAL CAST Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones
DIRECTOR Andrew Davis
PRODUCER Arnold Kopelson
SCREENWRITERS Jeb Stuart, David Twohy
Ford is Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused of murdering his wife. After surviving a spectacular train crash, he escapes from custody in order to find a one-armed man and prove his innocence. Jones' hard-bitten U.S. Marshal doggedly pursues him.

FUNNY GIRL
Columbia, 1968

PRINCIPAL CAST Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
DIRECTOR William Wyler
PRODUCER Ray Stark
SCREENWRITER Isobel Lennart
Streisand is Fanny Brice, the vaudeville comedienne whose career blossoms as her personal life falls apart, in this musical adaptation of the Broadway show. The film's songs include "Don't Rain on My Parade," "Second Hand Rose," and "My Man."

FURY
M-G-M, 1936

PRINCIPAL CAST Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy
DIRECTOR Fritz Lang
PRODUCER Joseph L. Mankiewicz
SCREENWRITERS Bartlett Cormack, Norman Krasna, Fritz Lang
The psychology of mob violence and the plight of the individual are explored in this dark, expressionistic film about a wrongfully accused man's secret quest for vengeance after he becomes the victim of mob violence.


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