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1986-12-31
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8 min
A cross-cut of nearly 100 years of American movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From Citizen Kane to Star Wars, from Some Like It Hot to E.T. The incredible short cuts of roughly a second each push the audience into a kind of trance and take them on a journey into their individual memories of great films of the 20th century. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Made to celebrate the centenary of the Director’s Guild of America, this rather expertly edits together hundreds of short extracts from just about every significant film made in the English language during the twentieth century (so far). Just about everything from “Amadeus” to “Star Wars” and everyone of note who ever set foot on a sound stage is included. Aside from just watching this parade of stars whizz past our eyes, our ears have an opportunity to take in some of the scores and soundtracks that so often prove way more memorable than their films, and with many a genre getting a few minutes to showcase their song and dance, western, sci-fi, melodrama and horror stories - it’s one of those pieces of nostalgia that sees you trying to guess which films feature and whose agent would be fired for not getting their talent included in this ultimate montage that goes to prove that cinema really is “a wonderful life”.
