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Marathon #20: Ernst Lubitsch Year Adam Matty
1. Trouble in Paradise 1932    
2. Ninotchka 1939    
3. The Shop Around the Corner 1940    
4. To Be or Not To Be 1942    

 


The Bronze Fronds
Golden Palm Awards
  Adam Matty
Cinematography Taste of Cherry Taste of Cherry
Best Actor Homayoun Ershadi, Taste of Cherry Homayoun Ershadi, Taste of Cherry
Best Actress Bjork, Dancer in the Dark Catherine Deneuve, Dancer in the Dark
Mira Furlan. When Father Was Away...
Best Moment/Scene Dancer in the Dark, factory dance scene When Father Was Away...,hanging scene
Most Depressing Scene/Moment Dancer in the Dark, Bill spies on Selma with money Dancer in the Dark, the stand-off
Picture Taste of Cherry Dancer in the Dark

Marathon #19: Cannes Winners Year Adam Matty
1. When Father Was Away on
Business
1985
2. Farewell My Concubine 1993
3. Taste of Cherry 1997
4. Dancer in the Dark 2000
5. The Son's Room 2001


The Ronins
Kurosawa Awards
  Adam Matty
Supp. Perf. I. Yamada, Throne of Blood I. Yamada, Throne of Blood
Non-Mifune Perf. T. Shimura, Ikiru T. Shimura, Ikiru
Mifune Perf. High and Low High and Low
Moment/Scene Death scene, Army of trees, Asagi as 'ghost', Throne of Blood Killing of messenger, Throne of Blood
Picture Rashomon Throne of Blood

Marathon #18: Kurosawa Year Adam Matty
1. Rashomon  1950
2. Ikiru  1952
3. Throne of Blood  1957
4. The Hidden Fortress  1958
5. Yojimbo  1961
6. High and Low  1963


The Plastics
New Hollywood Awards 
  Adam Matty
Supp. Actress Lee Grant Sylvia Miles
Supp. Actor Jack Nicholson Sterling Hayden
Actress Anne Bancroft Sissy Spacek
Actor Rod Steiger Rod Steiger
Screenplay In the Heat of the Night Bonnie and Clyde
Moment/Scene opening/closing
Bonnie and Clyde 
tracking shot Mean Streets
Dir. of Photography Badlands Easy Rider
Antihero Jon Voight Jack Nicholson
Picture Badlands Badlands


Marathon #17: New Hollywood Year Adam Matty
1. Jules and Jim 1962
2. Bonnie and Clyde
1967    
3. The Graduate 1967    
4. In the Heat of the Night 1967
5. Easy Rider 1969


6. Midnight Cowboy 1969
7. The Long Goodbye 1973  
8. Mean Streets 1973
9. Badlands 1973


The Kitchen Sinks
Angry Young Men Awards
  Adam Matty
Supp. Performer Michael Redgrave Robert Swann
Actress Rachel Roberts Rachel Roberts
Actor Tom Courtenay Albert Finney
Moment/Scene final race in  L of LDR ending of If....
Kitchen Sink Scene father/daughter LBinA ironing board LBinA
Best Screenplay Look Back in Anger Look Back in Anger
Director Tony Richardson John Schlesinger
Picture Loneliness of LDRunner Billy Liar

Marathon #16: Angry Young Men Year Adam Matty
1. Look Back in Anger 1958
2. Sat. Night and Sunday Morning
1960
3. The Loneliness of the Long
Distance Runner
1962
4. This Sporting LIfe 1963
5. Billy Liar 1963
6. If.... 1968


The Stephies (Le Stephanois)
Classic Heist Awards
  Adam Matty
Actress Marie Sabouret, Rififi Marie Windsor, The Killing
Actor Alain Delon, Le Cercle Rouge Sterling Hayden, The Killing
Supp. Performance Stanley Holloway, Lavender Hill...  
Moment/Scene Final shot, The Killing Heist run-through, Rififi
Non-Rififi Heist The Killing The Getaway
Picture Rififi Le Cercle Rouge

Marathon #15: Classic Heist Year Adam Matty
1. The Lavender Hill Mob 1951
2. The Killing 1956
3. Rififi 1955
4. The Italian Job 1969
5. Le Cercle Rouge 1970
6. The Getaway 1972

The Damn Dirty Apes
'70s Sci-Fi Awards
  Adam Matty
Actress Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run
Actor Charlton Heston, Omega Man Bruce Dern, Silent Running
Supp. Performance E. G. Robinson, Logan's Run The Drones, Logan's Run
Visual Effects Silent Running Silent Running
Dystopia Most Like to Live in Logan's Run The Omega Man
Moment/Scene 'Going Home', Soylent Green 'Going Home', Soylent Green
Picture Soylent Green Man Who Fell To Earth

Marathon #14: '70s Sci-Fi Year Adam Matty
1. The Omega Man 1971
2. The Andromeda Strain 1971
3. Silent Running 1972
4. Soylent Green 1973
5. Logan's Run 1976
6. The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976

The Matadors
Pedro Almodovar Awards
  Adam Matty
Actress Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother Cecilia Roth, All About My Mother
Actor Gael Garcia Bernal, Bad Education Dario Grandinetti, Talk to Her
Transgendered
Performance
Gael Garcia Bernal, Bad Education --
Cinematography Bad Education Live Flesh
Moment/Scene Opening / birth scene, Live Flesh Bernal as Zahara, Bad Education
Picture Talk To Her Talk To Her

Marathon #13: Almodóvar
Buy Viva Pedro: Almodóvar Coll.
Year Adam Matty
1. The Flower of My Secret 1996
2. Live Flesh 1997
3. All About My Mother 1999
4. Talk To Her 2002
5. Bad Education 2004

The Svens
Ingmar Bergman Awards
  Adam Matty
Actress Liv Ullman, Shame Gunn Wållgren, Fanny and Alexander
Actor Victor Sjostrom,
Wild Strawberries
Victor Sjostrom,
Wild Strawberries
G. Bjornstrand Performance The Seventh Seal Winter Light
Max von Sydow Performance Shame The Seventh Seal
Best/Most Haunting Scene Chess w/ death, Seventh Seal Wailing mother, Fanny and Alexander
Picture Wild Strawberries Wild Strawberries

Marathon #12: Bergman Year Adam Matty
1. Smiles of a Summer Night - Info 1955
2. The Seventh Seal - Info 1957
3. Wild Strawberries - Info 1957
4. Winter Light - Info 1963
5. Shame - Info 1968
6. Fanny and Alexander - Info 1982

The Marlowe's
Film Noir Awards
  Adam Sam
Gumshoe/Dupe Robert Mitchum, Out of the Past Ralph Meeker, Kiss Me Deadly
Femme Fatale Jane Greer, Out of the Past Ava Gardner, The Killers
Cinematography The Killers Kiss Me Deadly
Moment/Scene Double Indemnity - 'Perfect' plan The Killers - Opening scene
Picture Double Indemnity The Asphalt Jungle

Marathon #11: Film Noir Year Adam Sam
1. Double Indemnity - Info 1944
2. The Killers - Info 1946
3. Out of the Past - Info 1947
4. Gun Crazy - Info 1949
5. The Asphalt Jungle - Info 1950
6. Kiss Me Deadly - Info 1955

The Chaneys
Silent Movie Awards
  Adam Sam
Actor Alfred Abel, Metropolis George O'Brien, Sunrise
Actress Maria Falconetti, Passion of Joan... Maria Falconetti, Passion of Joan...
Visually Stunning Metropolis Metropolis
Moment/Scene Odessa Steps, Battleship Potemkin Lincon's Assassination,
Birth of a Nation
Picture Sunrise Sunrise

Marathon #10: Silent Films Year Adam Sam
1. The Birth of a Nation 1915
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
3. Battleship Potemkin 1925
4. Sunrise 1927
5. Metropolis 1927
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928


The Harryhausens
Animation Awards
  Adam Sam
Character Seita (Grave) The Iron Giant
Villain The Espers (Akira) Starvation/War (Grave)
Moment/Scene Setsuko death montage (Grave) Rabbits make boat of wood (Watership)
Visually Stunning Spirited Away Spirited Away
Picture Grave of the Fireflies Grave of the Fireflies

Marathon #9: Animation Year Adam Sam
1. Watership Down 1978
2. Grave of the Fireflies 1988
3. Akira 1988
4. Ghost in the Shell 1995
5. Spirited Away 2001
6. The Iron Giant 1999


The Nanooks
Documentary Awards
  Adam Sam
Editing Vernon, Florida Vernon, Florida
Subject Dan Harberts,
Gates of Heaven
Florence Rasmussen,
Gates of Heaven
Scene Who threw the glass,
Don't Look Back
All Over Now Baby Blue,
Don't Look Back
Picture Harlan County, USA Don't Look Back

Marathon #8: Documentaries Year Adam Sam
1. Don't Look Back 1967
2. Harlan County, USA 1976
3. Hearts and Minds 1974
4. Gates of Heaven 1978
5. Vernon, Florida 1981
6. The Times of Harvey Milk 1984


The Astas
Screwball Comedy Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture Sullivan's Travels Adam's Rib
Director George Cukor,
Adam's Rib
George Cukor,
Adam's Rib
Actor Cary Grant,
The Awful Truth
William Powell,
My Man Godfrey
Actress Barbara Stanwyck,
The Lady Eve
Barbara Stanwyck,
The Lady Eve
Supp. Actor David Wayne,
Adam's Rib
Ralph Bellamy,
The Awful Truth
Supp. Actress Gail Patrick,
My Man Godfrey
Judy Holliday,
Adam's Rib
Comedic Moment Cary Grant watching Dunne/Bellamy dance Carlo's acts like an
ape in 'Godfrey'
Comedic Duo Tracy/Hepburn,
Adam's Rib
Tracy/Hepburn,
Adam's Rib

Marathon #7: Screwball Comedies Year Adam Sam
1. The Thin Man 1934
2. My Man Godfrey 1936
3. The Awful Truth 1937
Bringing Up Baby 1938
4. Sullivan's Travels 1941
5. The Lady Eve 1941
6. Adam's Rib 1949


"Our Best Fiends"
Herzog-Kinski Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture Fitzcarraldo Cobra Verde
Kinski
Performance
Fitzcarraldo Woyzeck
Supporting
Performance
Isabella Adjani,
Nosferatu
Eva Mattes,
Woyzeck
'Herzog
Moment'
Dance of dead, plus pig and rats from Nosferatu Boat touches water in Fitzcarraldo
Long March
Through Jungle
Opening shot,
Aguirre
Opening shot,
Aguirre
Starving child/insane person on the fiddle Cobra Verde Cobra Verde

Marathon #6: Herzog/Kinski Year Adam Sam
1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
2. Nosferatu 1979
3. Woyzeck 1979
4. Fitzcarraldo 1982
5. Cobra Verde 1987
6. My Best Fiend 1999


"The Gingers"
Musicals Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture West Side Story The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Director Wise/Robbins,
West Side Story
Bob Fosse,
Cabaret
Performance "Pick Yourself Up," Swing Time
"I've Got Rhythm," An American In Paris / "Money," Cabaret
Song "The Way You Look," Swing Time "Pick Yourself Up,"
Swing Time
Actor J. Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy J. Cagney, Yankee
Doodle Dandy
Actress Ginger Rogers,
Swing Time
Liza Minnelli,
Cabaret
Supp. Actor George Chakiris,
West Side Story
Joel Grey,
Cabaret
Supp. Actress Rita Moreno,
West Side Story
Rita Moreno,
West Side Story

Marathon #5: Musicals Year Adam Sam
1. Yankee Doodle Dandy 1936
2. Swing Time 1932
3. An American In Paris 1951
4. West Side Story 1961
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
6. *Cabaret 1972
*replaced Seven Brides for Seven Brothers  


"The Andy's"
Overlooked Auteurs Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture Solaris Tokyo Story
Ensemble Tokyo Story Floating Weeds
Actor Donatas Banionis,
Solaris
Lee Marvin,
The Big Red One
Actress Nat. Bondarchuk,
Solaris
Setsuko Hara,
Tokyo Story
Cinematography Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublev
Screenplay Shock Corridor Tokyo Story

Marathon #4:
Overlooked Auteurs
Year Adam Sam
1. Shock Corridor 1963
2. The Big Red One 1980
3. Andrei Rublev 1969
4. Solaris 1972
5. Tokyo Story 1953
6. Floating Weeds 1959


"The MacGuffins"
Master-of-Suspense Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture Vertigo Vertigo
Screenplay Notorious Strangers on a Train
Actor Jimmy Stewart,
Vertigo
Robert Walker,
Strangers on a Train
Actress Ingrid Bergman,
Notorious
Kim Novak,
Vertigo
Supp. Actor Robert Walker Alec McCowen,
Frenzy
Supp. Actress Kim Novak Ruth Roman,
Strangers on a Train

Marathon #3: Hitchcock Year Adam Sam
1. The 39 Steps 1935
2. Notorious 1946
3a. Rebecca 1940
3b. Shadow of a Doubt 1943
4. Strangers on a Train 1951
5. Vertigo 1958
6. Frenzy 1972


"The Haddonfields"
Horror Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture Halloween Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Director John Carpenter,
Halloween
John Carpenter
Actor Bruce Campbell,
Evil Dead 2
Bruce Campbell
Actress Jessica Harper,
Suspiria
Jessica Harper
Supp. Actor Donald Pleasance,
Halloween
Donald Pleasance
Supp. Actress Barb Crampton,
Re - Animator
Marilyn Burns,
Texas Chainsaw...

Marathon #2: Horror Year Adam Sam
1. Dawn of the Dead 1978
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974
3. Suspiria 1977
4. Halloween 1978
5. Re - Animator 1985
6. Evil Dead 2 1987


"The Dukes"
Western-a-Week Awards
  Adam Sam
Picture The Searchers Rio Bravo
Director John Ford,
The Searchers
Howard Hawks,
Rio Bravo
Screenplay High Noon Stagecoach
Actor John Wayne,
The Searchers
John Wayne,
Rio Bravo
Actress Angie Dickinson,
Rio Bravo
Katy Jurado,
High Noon
Supp. Actor Dean Martin,
Rio Bravo
Gian Maria Volonté,
A Fistful of Dollars
Song/Score A Fistful of Dollars Rio Bravo

Marathon #1: Westerns Year Adam Sam
1. High Noon 1952
2. The Searchers 1956
3. Stagecoach 1939
4. My Darling Clementine 1946
5. Rio Bravo 1959
6. A Fistful of Dollars 1964
7. Winchester '73 1950
8. The Wild Bunch 1969