Ewelina Siarkiewicz

Americans films of all times

Casablanca (1942)

American romantic melodrama,

Directed by Michael Curtiz, 

Produced by Hal B. Wallis,

Screenplay by : Julius J. Epstein, Philip G.Epstein, Howard Koch

Music by Max Steiner

 Based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's,

Release dates: November 26, 1942(Hollywood Theatre) ; January 23, 1943(United States),

In World War II , Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining a Czechoslovak underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....

Awards: Academy Awards, USA 1944Won

*Best Picture*Best Director *Best Writing, Screenplay

Nominated*Best Actor in a Leading Role:Humphrey Bogart *Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Claude Rains *Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: Arthur Edeson *Best Film Editing : Owen Marks * Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture : Max Steiner 

DVD Exclusive Awards 2003Nominated

DVDX AwardBest Overall DVD, Classic Movie

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2008

WonBest DVD (Packaging, Design and Content)

National Board of Review, USA 1943Won

(NBR Award)Top Ten Films

New York Film Critics Circle Awards2nd place

*Best Actor:Humphrey Bogart 3rd place

*Best Director : Michael Curtiz Online Film & Television

Association 1997Won

OFTA Film Hall of Fame Motion Pictur

American epic romantic disaster film,  

Directed by James Cameron ,

Produced byJames Cameron, Jon Landau,

Written by James Cameron,

Music by James Horner,

Release dates : November 1, 1997 (Tokyo); December 19, 1997(United States)

Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional message of the disaster.

Titanic (1997)

An old lady who claims to be a survivor of the Titanic tells her story to an eager group of tresure hunters, who are insearch of a rare diamond in the Titanic's wreckage.Her name is Rose and she was a passenger on the Titanic along with Jack.The two meet and Rose, unhappy with her arranged marriage Cal. Jack, a young artist, who struggles to get through with life yet inexplicably enjoys it, sees the true Rose hidden behind the upper,, class snob'. As he continues to spend time with her the two fall in love and kiss on the bow of the Titanic. Meanwhile the ship hits an iceberg and Jack is framed for theft and chained up in the lower levels of the ship whilst it is siking. Rose tries to find a way to free him, and get off the ship.

Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved critical and commercial success. 117 wins and 73 nominationsNominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it tied All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations, and won eleven, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director, tying Ben Hur(1959) for the most Oscars won by a single film. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. A 3D version of Titanic,released on April 4, 2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, earned it an additional $343.6 million worldwide, pushing the film's worldwide total to $2.18 billion. It became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (after Avatar).

The Godfather American crime film,

directed by Francis Ford Coppola,

produced by Albert S. Ruddy,

music by Nino Rota,

based on Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name,  is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema, and as one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre,

release dates: March 15, 1972(Loew's State Theatre) ; March 24, 1972(United States),

25 wins and 27 nominations

(1972)

the story spans the years 1945-55

The Godfather "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter's wedding. Micheal, Vito's youngest son and a decorated WW II Marine is also present at the wedding. Micheal seems to be uninterested in being a part of the family business. Vito is a powerful man, and is kind to all those who give him respect but is ruthless against those who do not. But when a powerful and treacherous rival wants to sell drugs and needs the Don's influence for the same, Vito refuses to do it. What follows is a clash between Vito's fading old values and the new ways which may cause Micheal to do the thing he was most reluctant in doing and wage a mob war against all the other mafia families which could tear the Corleone family apart.

‘’The Godfather’’ was a blockbuster, breaking many box office records to become the highest grossing film of 1972.It earned $81.5 million in theatrical rentals in North America . (In 1997 It earned $135 million.)

News articles at the time claimed it was the first film to gross $100 million in North America, but such accounts are erroneous since this record in fact belongs to The Sound of Music, released in 1965.

‘’The Godfather’’ ranks among the top 25 highest-grossing films in North America.

It won three Academy Awards for that year: Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando) and in the category Best Adapted Screenplay for Puzo and Coppola.

Its nominations in seven other categories included Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director.

Two sequels: The Godfather Part II in 1974, and The Godfather Part III in 1990.

Citizen Kane (1941) American drama film,Directed by Orson Welles,Produced by Orson Welles,Screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles,Release dates : May 1, 1941(Palace Theatre), September 5, 1941(United States‘’Citozen Kane ‘’was Welles's first feature film,The story is a film à clef (It presents the true story behind the facade of a fictional scenario, using the changed names)

Played by Welles, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, and aspects of Welles's own life. Upon its release, Hearst prohibited mention of the film in any of his newspapers. Kane's career in the publishing world is born of idealistic social service, but gradually evolves into a ruthless pursuit of power. Narrated principally through flashbacks, the story is told through the research of a newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word: "Rosebud".

 Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made;

Citizen Kane is particularly praised for its cinematography, music, and narrative structure, which were innovative for its time.

It topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as AFI's 2007 update.

Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles.