Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".
Peter Sellers as a gardener whose TV platitudes are mistaken for wisdom in Washington.
Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.
Zombies in a shopping mall; Romero's consumerism satire with the gore of Tom Savini.
Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.
Sissy Spacek at the prom, the bucket of pig blood, and the hand from the grave.
A newsreader who is "mad as hell" becomes a ratings hit; Chayefsky predicted television.
Schoolgirls vanish on a Victorian rock in 1900 and nobody explains it.
Altman's 24 characters over five days of country music and a political rally.
Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"
Brooks' western parody with a Black sheriff and a campfire scene of beans.
Mel Brooks in black and white with Gene Wilder; "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Leatherface, a dinner table and almost no blood on screen; the horror film that feels like a documentary.
Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".
A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.
Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.
A possessed girl in Georgetown, a spinning head and the most profitable horror film ever.
Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.
Three sisters and a maid in a red house while one of them dies.
Klaus Kinski leads conquistadors down the Amazon into madness; the raft of monkeys.
A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.
Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.
Jack Nicholson as an oil-rig worker who was once a concert pianist; the chicken salad scene.
Bertolucci and Storaro's fascist Italy in tilted frames and autumn light.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.
Newman and Redford, the cliff jump and the Bolivian freeze frame.
Peckinpah's ageing outlaws in 1913 Mexico and a shootout cut like a ballet.
Mia Farrow, a Manhattan apartment building and very helpful neighbours.
Romero's farmhouse siege invents the zombie film for $114,000.
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