Film: The Good Earth Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on laptop. I’ve spoken of the acting prowess of the great Paul Muni bef...

Film: The Robe Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on rockin’ flatscreen. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the number of Biblic...

Film: How the West Was Won Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on laptop. This is not going to be easy. How the West Was Won is a...

Film: The Greatest Show on Earth Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on various players. It would be completely dishonest of me t...

Film: Quo Vadis Format: Turner Classic Movies on rockin’ flatscreen. There are times when I don’t look forward to a particular film sp...

Film: Cloud Atlas Format: Kerasotes 16 theater. Sometimes I love what I do. I don’t go to the movies very often. It’s not the expe...

Film: Xia Nu ( A Touch of Zen ); Wo Hu Cang Long ( Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ) Format: DVD from NetFlix on kick-ass portable DVD pla...

Film: Around the World in 80 Days Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on kick-ass portable DVD player. ...

Film: Out of Africa Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on big ol’ television. I spent more than two and a half hours watching Out...

Film: Gladiator Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. When the Academy Awards for 2000 rolled around, I don’t rem...

Film: Braveheart Format: VHS from personal collection on big ol’ television. In this world, post Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic, drunken tirade, ...

Film: O Thiassos ( Travelling Players ) Format: Internet video on laptop. I’ve never really objected to long films. Some of my favorite fil...

Film: Lawrence of Arabia Format: DVD from personal collection on big ol’ television. Epic films seem to come and go in waves. Every now and ...

Film: Ran Format: DVD from NetFlix on big ol’ television. Akira Kurosawa is one of those directors who has enough great films in his reperto...

Film: Gone with the Wind Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on middlin’-sized living room television. Let’s talk movie event, shall we? Wh...

Film: Barry Lyndon Format: DVD from Rockford Public Library on big ol’ television. When I started this a little more than a year ago, I watc...

Film: Satantango ( Satan’s Tango ) Format: DVDs from NetFlix on various players. There are plenty of films in this world that make the aver...

Films: Intolerance, The Thief of Bagdad Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on laptop. When D.W. Griffith filmed The Birth of a Nation , he...

Film: Doctor Zhivago Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Library on big ol’ television. The epic romance is a style from a bygone ...

Film: Saving Private Ryan Format: DVD from personal collection on laptop. There was a time in cinematic history when war movies followed a p...