Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1990

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip50banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1955</b></b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><a href=persac55.html>(Favorites in Major Categories)</a></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Pather Panchali</Font></b></Font> Dir. Satyajit Ray. With Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Karuna Banerjee <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Smiles of a Summer Night</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Gunnar Bj&#246rnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Night and Fog</Font></b></Font> Dir. Alain Resnais. Documentary about World War II concentration camps <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Night of the Hunter</Font></b></Font> Dir. Charles Laughton. With Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Rebel without a Cause</Font></b></Font> Dir. Nicholas Ray. With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=allheavn.html style="text-decoration:none">All that Heaven Allows</a></b></Font> Dir. Douglas Sirk. With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Diabolique</Font></b></Font> Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. With V&#233ra Clouzot, Simone Signoret <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">I'll Cry Tomorrow</Font></b></Font> Dir. Daniel Mann. With Susan Hayward, Jo Van Fleet, Richard Conte <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">East of Eden</Font></b></Font> Dir. Elia Kazan. With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Lola Mont&#232s</Font></b></Font> Dir. Max Oph&#252ls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1955</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Guys and Dolls</b></Font> Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Killer's Kiss</b></Font> Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Frank Silvera, Jerry Jarret <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing</b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Jennifer Jones, William Holden <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b><a href=marty.html style="text-decoration:none">Marty</a></b></Font> Dir. Delbert Mann. With Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Joe Mantell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Pete Kelly's Blues</b></Font> Dir. Jack Webb. With Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Rose Tattoo</b></Font> Dir. Daniel Mann. With Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1955</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Summertime</b></Font> Dir. David Lean. With Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda<br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Oklahoma!</b></Font> Dir. Fred Zinnemann. 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