Showing posts with label Steve McQueen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve McQueen. Show all posts

12/15/2015

Bullitt (1968) and The Peanuts Movie (2015)

I really enjoyed Bullitt, with Steve McQueen playing the title role, who is cool and slick. 

I like the way the blogger at Just Hit Play describes the movie:

It is a smart, stylish cop drama/thriller that gets better with each viewing. For starters, it was filmed in San Francisco, setting the stage for Dirty Harry, McQ and a whole cop genre to move into the city. It is an ideal backdrop for the story; a polished, good-looking city that is nonetheless hiding secrets. The score from Lalo Schifrin is a good mix of quiet, soothing jazz and faster-paced, more traditional yet still exciting musical cues. The style in an almost documentary-like fashion reflects some of the French crime thrillers that I’ve really come to appreciate, giving ‘Bullitt’ a different edge more than just the same old, same old cops and robbers story.

What was really interesting is that in one scene, a hospital is shown, and a Peanuts calendar is on the wall. It was really interesting to see that Snoopy and the Peanuts comics were already a cultural landmark back in 1968.

Incidentally, I also did see  The Peanuts Movie (2015), a brand-new computer animated iteration, and I really liked it; it wasn't bad. It wasn't the best movie ever but it captured the feeling of the original television and film characters. It's really a different kind of animation than the South Park or Family Guy series.


4/04/2011

Top 10 Box Office Stars of 1973 (USA)


The rankings come from Quigley Publishing Co.'s annual list (since 1932) of top money making stars in the USA, which based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives. The list does not rank stars only on how much cash their films made, but on what theater owners say about who attracts audiences on their star power alone.

1. Clint Eastwood



2. Ryan O'Neal




3. Steve McQueen

4. Burt Reynolds


5. Robert Redford


6. Barbra Streisand

7. Paul Newman


8. Charles Bronson


9. John Wayne


10. Marlon Brando



1932| 1933| 1934| 1935| 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 |
1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 |
1947 | 1948| 1949 | 1950 |

3/12/2011

Top 10 Box Office Stars of 1972 (USA)


The rankings come from Quigley Publishing Co.'s annual list (since 1932) of top money making stars in the USA, which based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives. The list does not rank stars only on how much cash their films made, but on what theater owners say about who attracts audiences on their star power alone.

1. Clint Eastwood


2. George C. Scott



3. Gene Hackman

4. John Wayne

5. Barbra Streisand


6. Marlon Brando

7. Paul Newman

8. Steve McQueen

9. Dustin Hoffman

10. Goldie Hawn



12/20/2010

40 Years Ago - Top 10 Box Office Stars of 1970 (USA)


The rankings come from Quigley Publishing Co.'s annual list (since 1932) of top money making stars in the USA, which based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives. The list does not rank stars only on how much cash their films made, but on what theater owners say about who attracts audiences on their star power alone.

1. Paul Newman


2. Clint Eastwood

3. Steve McQueen


4. John Wayne

P.S. - Read a review of the new True Grit movie
from the blog We Are Movie Geeks

5. Elliott Gould



6. Dustin Hoffman

P.S. - Back on big screen this weekend in Little Fockers! (official movie website)

7. Lee Marvin



8. Jack Lemmon

9. Barbra Streisand



P.S. - Back on big screen this weekend in Little Fockers! (official movie website)
10. Walter Matthau

1932| 1933| 1934| 1935| 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 |
1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 |
1947 | 1948| 1949 | 1950 |



11/13/2010

Top 10 Box Office Stars of 1969 (USA)


The rankings come from Quigley Publishing Co.'s annual list (since 1932) of top money making stars in the USA, which based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives. The list does not rank stars only on how much cash their films made, but on what theater owners say about who attracts audiences on their star power alone.

1. Paul Newman

2. John Wayne


3. Steve McQueen


4. Dustin Hoffman



5. Clint Eastwood


6. Sidney Poitier



7. Lee Marvin


8. Jack Lemmon

9. Katherine Hepburn


10. Barbra Streisand