The result is the perfect basis for what’s probablythe best gangster biopic ever.
Brilliantly directed and with some stunningly great performances,Goodfellasis as stylish and entertaining as it is emotionally devastating.
There’s a good reason whyShawshankis so beloved.
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It’s a brilliant adaptation and an even more brilliant film.
His masterpiece isHarakiri, a samurai story set during the Edo period.
As he starts to retell the events that led him there, surprises start to reveal themselves.
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These reasons are depicted inPaul Schrader’sMishima: A Life in Four Chapters.
Tolkien’s masterpiece:The Lord of the Rings.
Jackson,Fran Walsh, andPhillipa Boyensturned those volumes into three ofthe greatest screenplays of all time.
There has never been a trilogy like theLord of the Ringstrilogy, and perhaps there never will again.
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