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Winter Break Assignment – Levine – ELA10/Honors ELA10 – Best Movie List Ever Winter Break Assignment – Levine – ELA10/Honors ELA10 – Best Movie List Ever Due as the bell rings the first day back after winter break. Please choose movies from the following list (and only the following list) and watch them over break. Write a 5-sentence summary and one paragraph review.. The summary should be no more than 5 sentences and the review should be about what you liked or disliked about the film and why. Grading: If you complete the assignment correctly (summary & review): 1 movie = 1 (NP) 2 movies = 2 (C) 3 movies = 3 (B) 4 movies = 4 (A) 1. A Day at the Races 17. Apocalypse Now 2. A Hard Day’s Night 18. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 3. A River Runs Through It 19. Avalon 4. Abbot and Costello (ALL of their 20. Back to the Future (#1 only) movies) 21. Being There 5. Airplane 22. Better Off Dead 6. Alien or Aliens 23. Big 7. All That Jazz 24. Blade Runner 8. All the Presidents Men 25. Blazing Saddles 9. American Graffiti 26. Blow Out 10. An Affair to Remember 27. Body Double 11. An American in Paris 28. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 12. An American Werewolf in 29. Brazil London 30. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 13. Anchors Away 31. Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 14. Angels with Dirty Faces 8th 15. Animal House Dimension 16. Annie Hall 32. Butch Cassidy and the 66. Full Metal Jacket Sundance Kid 67. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 33. Cabaret 68. Giant 34. Caddy Shack 69. Gigi 35. Camelot 70. Goodfellows 36. Casablanca 71. Grease 37. Catch 22 72. Grey Gardens (1975) 38. China Town 73. Guys and Dolls 39. Citizen Kane 74. Harold and Maude 40. Clerks 75. Heathers 41. Clockwork Orange 76. Hell’s Angels (1930) 42. Close Encounters of the Third 77. High Society Kind 78. History of the World, Part I 43. Clue 79. House of Games 44. Coal Miner’s Daughter 80. I’ve Heard the Mermaids 45. Cold Comfort Farm Singing 46. Dangerous Beauty 81. Into the Night 47. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid 82. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 48. Diner (1956) 49. Dirty Dancing (1987) 83. It Happened One Night 50. Do the Right Thing 84. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World 51. Dr. Strangelove (1963) 52. Duck Soup 85. Jaws (1975) 53. E.T. 86. Joe vs. The Valcano 54. East of Eden 87. Johnny Dangerously 55. Easy Rider 88. Jungle Fever 56. Enchanted April 89. Kalifornia 57. Eraserhead 90. Kramer vs Kramer 58. Evil Dead 2 (1987) 91. La Dolce Vita 59. Fandango 92. Lady Hawk 60. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 93. Last Tango in Paris 61. Field of Dreams 94. Lifeboat 62. Flashdance 95. Lolita 63. Footloose (1984) 96. Love Story 64. From Dusk til Dawn (1996) 97. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 65. From Here to Eternity (1981) 98. Major League (1989) 129. Porky’s (#1 only) 99. Marathon Man 130. Pretty in Pink 100. Marty 131. Psycho (1960) 101. MASH 132. Pulp Fiction 102. Metropolis 133. Radio Flyer 103. Midnight Cowboy 134. Raging Bull 104. Midnight Express 135. Real Genius 105. Mildred Pierce 136. Rear Window 106. Modern Times (1936) 137. Rebel Without a Cause 107. Monty Python and The Holy 138. Repo Man Grail 139. Reservoir Dogs 108. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 140. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1936) 141. Rollerball (1975) 109. Mr. Smith Goes to 142. Roman Holiday Washington 143. Rope 110. My Mother Wore Tights 144. Royal Wedding (1951) 111. Night of the Comet 145. Sabrina (1954) 112. Night of the Iguana 146. Scarface (1932 or 1983) 113. Night of the Living Dead 147. Seventh Samurai (1968) 148. Sex, Lies and Videotape 114. North by Northwest 149. Shampoo 115. Notorious 150. She’s Gotta Have it 116. Oceans Eleven 151. Silverado 117. Officer and a Gentleman 152. Singing in the Rain 118. Oh God! 153. Sixteen Candles 119. On the Town 154. Slaughterhouse Five 120. On the Waterfront 155. Some Kind of Wonderful 121. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s 156. Some Like it Hot Nest 157. Something Wild 122. Paper Moon 158. Splendor in the Grass 123. Patton 159. Stage Door 124. Philadelphia Story 160. Stalag 17 125. Pillow Talk 161. Strangers on a Train 126. Pink Flamingos 162. Streets of Fire 127. Plan Nine From Outer Space 163. Stripes 128. Polyester 164. Suddenly Last Summer 165. Sunset Boulevard 196. The Sting 166. Taps 197. The Terminator (#1 only) 167. Taxi Driver 198. The Thin Man 168. The African Queen 199. The Three Musketeers 169. The Apartment (1973) 170. The Big Sleep 200. The Usual Suspects 171. The Birdman of Alcatraz 201. The Wall 172. The Breakfast Club 202. The Way We Were 173. The Candidate 203. The Wild Bunch 174. The Deer Hunter 204. The Women (1939) 175. The Exorcist (1973) 205. The Year of Living 176. The French Connection Dangerously 177. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 206. This is Spinal Tap (1947) 207. Three O’clock High 178. The Godfather I & II (but not 208. To Sir with Love III cuz it sucks) 209. Tommy 179. The Good, The Bad and The 210. Tootsie Ugly 211. Top Hat 180. The Graduate 212. Trading Places 181. The Great Dictator 213. Tron (1982) 182. The Gumball Rally 214. True Grit (1969) 183. The Hustler 215. True Romance 184. The Kid (1921) 216. Vacation 185. The Last Picture Show 217. Valley of the Dolls 186. The Lost Boys 218. Vertigo 187. The Maltese Falcon 219. Victor/Victoria 188. The Man with Two Brains 220. War Games 189. The Manchurian Candidate 221. War of the Roses (1962) 222. When Harry Met Sally 190. The Misfits 223. Woman of the Year 191. The Natural 224. Working Girl 192. The Postman Always Rings 225. Young Frankenstein Twice (1981) 193. The Princess Bride 194. The Seven Year Itch 195. The Shining .
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