The Creature Features Movie Guide by John Stanley

‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.’ Ray Liotta’s opening line is the crime movie equivalent of ‘Once upon a time…’, and what follows is Martin Scorsese’s version of a fairy tale – the story of a starry-eyed Brooklyn kid who realises his boyhood dream and still comes out a schnook in the end. 🏆 The most deserving Oscar winners of all-time

Written by Abbey Bender, Dave Calhoun, Phil de Semlyen, Bilge Ebiri, Ian Freer, Stephen Garrett, Tomris Laffly, Joshua Rothkopf, Anna Smith and Matthew Singer No matter where you are on the movie appreciation spectrum, we’re sure you’ll find something to love here. Because this is a list that covers a lot of ground: over 100 years, multiple countries, and just about every genre you can imagine, from monolithic blockbusters to treasured cult classics, ridiculous comedies to freaky horror, sweaty-palmed thrillers to eye-popping action flicks.

And if you’re filling in the gaps of your movie knowledge – or heck, just starting to build it – this is a tremendous place to start. If you’re enough of a cineaste to claim to have seen every movie here already, maybe think of it as a way to rethink your own personal rankings and challenge your own preconceived notions about what makes any movie one of the GOATS. Really, think of it more as a jumping off point. Well, perhaps it’s best not to think of this – or any list, for that matter – as any attempt at solidifying any sort of canon. So then, why bother even attempting to rank the best movies ever made at all? Tastes in cinema vary wildly, of course, and one person’s Citizen Kane is another’s Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. But it’s what makes putting together a list of the greatest movies of all-time a particularly fraught assignment. Heck, who doesn’t? Trouble is, not everyone loves the same movies. Urn:oclc:611500098 Scandate 20110623083912 Scanner case you couldn’t tell, we love movies. OL2807134W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.13 Pages 458 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0940064057 Urn:lcp:revengeofcreatur00stan:epub:ff338b5b-2f3b-4c95-a44c-df342a866ded Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier revengeofcreatur00stan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3gx56p32 Isbn 0940064049Ġ940064057 Lccn 87091426 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition BoxID IA1557302 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:02:35 Boxid IA119802 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Pacifica, CA Donor

The Creature Features Movie Guide by John Stanley