I’m sure most of you have seen this film, or one that’s like this film. Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn’t ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. With Warren Beatty, James Mason and Julie Christie.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxE9MriSy4I

1. Elizabeth Taylor
2. Meryl Streep
3. Barbra Streisand
4. Audrey Hepburn
5. Vivien Leigh
6. Grace Kelly
7. Bette Davis
8. Jane Wyman
9. Olivia de Havilland
10. Julie Christie

A film by François Truffaut with Oskar Werner, Julie Christie and Cyril Cusack. In a future totalitarian and oppressive society, where books are forbidden, Guy Montag (Oskar Werner) is a fireman. The mission of firemen in this society with fireproof houses is to burn books at 451o F, the temperature of combustion of paper.

Plot:

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government’s motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQ-yGCyjyM

Plot:

Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother’s lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can’t compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago’s half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.

Won 5 Oscars

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www

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