Touch of Evil (1958)
- Aug 19, 2011
FP119: “What does it matter what you say about people?"
We here at Filmically Perfect believe that Orson Welles' worst film is better than some directors best film! There is no doubt in our...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Aug 12, 2011
FP118: A Fellow American, Down On His Luck...
There are few directors as good as getting under the skin of a character than John Huston. In this film, Huston pulls an astounding...
The Getaway (1972)
- Aug 5, 2011
FP117: “Punch it, Baby!"
For those of you who thought "Finally! FP is doing a Alec Baldwin movie!" SHAME ON YOU! This is the one and only original film, directed...
White Heat (1949)
- Jul 29, 2011
FP116: “TOP ‘A THE WORLD, MA!"
James Cagney proves that he still has what it takes in this film, one of his last for Warner Bros. Playing the psychotic mama's boy Cody...
Young Man With a Horn (1950)
- Jul 15, 2011
FP115: “I’m Playing It My Way!"
Michael Curtiz proves there’s no genre he can’t handle with this music filled fictional biography of tightly wound jazz trumpeter. Kirk...
Singin’ In the Rain (1952)
- Jul 8, 2011
FP114: “You Are My Lucky Star…"
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly created pure celluloid gold with this musical tale of the upheaval of hollywood with the Coming of SOUND!...
The Man from Laramie (1955)
- Jul 1, 2011
FP113: “The Man from Laaaarrraammieee…"
James Stewart and Anthony Mann team up for one last time—and the only time in CinemaScope—to bring to life one of the best and grittiest...
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- Jun 24, 2011
FP112: “If You Can’t Find a Partner…"
Elvis Presley at his most Elvis-like-ness! In one of his few films not overseen by Hal B. Wallis, Elvis shines as the young...
The Natural (1984)
- Jun 17, 2011
FP111: “The Best That Ever Was…"
Barry Levinson’s film of Bernard Malamud’s novel is Baseball as Mythology. It is also one of the most lyrical, beautiful, and sparse...
Rabbit of Seville (1950) & What’s Opera
- May 27, 2011
FP110: “Kill the Wabbit!!"
The Film Guys and Niki Dakota do it LIVE for the second time before a stunned audience at the FilmDayton Festival! Charles M. “Chuck”...
Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Aug 13, 2010
FP109: “In the dark, your fantasies get so out of hand."
Herk Harvey's horror tour de force is a low-budget delight and a perfect example of creativity triumphing over a lack of funds! A...
T-Men (1947)
- Jul 23, 2010
FP108: “What’s the matter, you getting the wim-wams?"
Anthony Mann and John Alton combine their amazing powers to bring one of the first and best police procedural/film noirs of the early...
Sunset Boulevard (1951)
- Jul 16, 2010
FP107: “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. Demille…"
Billy Wilder’s painful salute to the crumbling facade of “old Hollywood” bears watching again and again. Gloria Swanson, who truly was a...
Psycho (1960)
- Jul 9, 2010
FP106: “We all go a little mad sometimes…”
Alfred Hitchcock reportedly said that he felt Psycho was his best comedy. Of course, the joke is on you, the audience. After a decade of...
The Loved One (1965)
- Jul 2, 2010
FP105: The Movie with Something to Offend Everyone!
After thrilling the world with his bawdy and award-winning comedy Tom Jones, director Tony Richardson came to the States to make this...
M (1931)
- Jun 18, 2010
FP104: “I Can’t Help Myself!”
Not surprisingly, it took Germany's "uber-director" Fritz Lang a few years before he was ready to make his first sound film. In fact, he...
Employees’ Entrance (1933)
- Jun 11, 2010
FP103: “The Men’s Bathroom is out of order again...”
Warren Williams goes toe-to-toe with the demure and extremely cute Loretta Young and the not so demure but still somewhat cute (in a...
Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois) (1932)
- May 28, 2010
FP102: “The erupting night will crush us all…"
As far as French film directors go, Raymond Bernard is one of the most neglected. At the time he made "Wooden Crosses" in 1932, there...
White Zombie (1932)
- May 21, 2010
FP101: “I have taken a liking to you…"
Arguably one of the best and most gothic of the early sound horror film cycle, with Bela Lugosi at his best as the villainous Murder...
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- May 7, 2010
FP100: It's a hard world for little things
WELCOME TO EPISODE 100!! Charles Laughton created a singular work of art with "The Night of the Hunter." A film so intensely personal...
Los Olvidados (1950)
- Apr 30, 2010
FP099: “kill every one of them before they are born!”
The last time we spoke about Luis Buñuel, he was making fun of rich hypocrites in The Exterminating Angel. In this earlier film, a far...
The Music Box (1932)
- Apr 23, 2010
FP098: Another Fine Mess
“The Boys.” “Two Minds Without a Single Thought.” “The Fiddle and the Bow.” “Dick and Doof.” No matter what they are called, or in what...
The California Kid (1974) & Streets of Fire
- Apr 16, 2010
FP097: Guilty Pleasures No. 4
Back again after a much longer hiatus than we expected!! Two movies, both great in their own way but not quite perfect, chosen without...
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dec 4, 2009
FP096: “Smells Like Victory...”
An intensely personal piece of cinema, which severely damaged its director’s career and almost killed its star. Yet thirty years on it...
Delicatessen (1991)
- Nov 27, 2009
FP095: “Nobody is entirely evil: it’s circumstances that make them evil, or they don’t know they are
Jeunet and Caro's delightful delicacy "Delicatessen" is arguably the best post-apocalyptic cannibal comedy—ever. Combining a singular...
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Nov 13, 2009
FP094: “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
This might better be titled "Sullivan's Travails" for all that poor John L. Sullivan is put through in trying to research his new pet...
Memento (2000)
- Oct 30, 2009
FP093: “We all need memories to remind ourselves who we are…"
Christopher Nolan is now best known for resuscitating “Batman,” to the delight of the Dark Knight’s minions everywhere. He burst on the...
Down With Love (2003)
- Oct 23, 2009
FP092: Guilty Pleasures No. 3
It's three for the price of one this week as The Film Guys and Niki Dakota present three films which don't appear on their List of...
Black Narcissus (1947)
- Oct 16, 2009
FP091: “Without discipline we should all behave like children.”
A production of The Archers, aka Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, "Black Narcissus" is great for only the spectacular Technicolor...
The Animated Chuck Jones, 1912-2002
- Oct 2, 2009
FP090: Chuck Jones
From lowly cel washer to head of a cartoon studio bearing his name, Charles M. "Chuck" Jones was one of the great success stories in...
Salesman (1968)
- Sep 25, 2009
FP089: The Father’s Business
Albert and David Maysles' "Direct cinema" masterpiece tells the story of four door-to-door bible salesman and the people and problems...
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
- Sep 18, 2009
FP088: Life Out of Balance
The grand combination of Godfrey Reggio's thoughts, Philip Glass' music and Ron Fricke's cinematography make this film not only an...
8½ (Otto e mezzo) (1963)
- Sep 11, 2009
FP087: “stringing together the tattered pieces of your life...”
As the result of a horrible case of writer’s block, Federico Fellini created one of his most seminal and autobiographical films. The...
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
- Sep 4, 2009
FP086: “I Know You Are, But What Am I?"
What a way to start your career! Tim Burton’s debut feature and Paul Reubens’ big screen debut as his beloved and bizarre man-child...
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Oct 17, 2008
FP085: A Relaxing Game of Solitaire...
John Frankenheimer's political thriller, based on Richard Condon's novel, is as riveting today as it ever was, remakes notwithstanding....
Winchester '73 (1950)
- Oct 10, 2008
FP084: “The Gun That Won the West."
Anthony Mann took an aging genre, the western, and an aging star, James Stewart, and turned them both around in Winchester '73. This film...
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
- Oct 3, 2008
FP083: “Whaddaya Hear? Whaddaya Say?"
Pat O’Brien as a priest, James Cagney as a murderous hood, and Humphrey Bogart as a sleazy lawyer? How can you go wrong? Lay it all in...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
- Jun 13, 2008
FP082: “We’ll Meet Again Some Sunny Day…"
What a better choice for Friday the 13th than Stanley Kubrick acidic comedy about the destruction of our world via Nuclear Holocaust?...
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Jun 6, 2008
FP081: “Snakes—why’d it have to be snakes?"
The first and best-often imitated, never equalled—even by its creators! Join us as we reminisce about one of THE summer movies! IMDb entry
Citizen Kane (1941)
- May 23, 2008
FP080: “Rosebud...”
Orson Welles—twenty-five years old—comes to Hollywood and makes this film. Amazing. IMDb entry
The Right Stuff (1983)
- May 16, 2008
FP079: “No Bucks, No Buck Rogers!"
Philip Kaufman’s EPIC filming of Tom Wolfe’s book about the Mercury Space Program is not only a PERFECT MOVIE, but arguably one of the...
Metropolis (1926)
- May 9, 2008
FP078: The Heart Must Be The Mediator
From that fateful day in 1975, when Film Guy Geo. Willeman got his Super 8mm print of Metropolis, it was a given that this film would be...
Elvis: That’s The Way It Is (1971)
- May 2, 2008
FP077: “Thangyuverrahmuch…"
Denis Sanders created the perfect Elvis Time Capsule with his 1970 film Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. Elvis fan or no, one cannot deny the...
The Exterminating Angel (1961)
- Apr 25, 2008
FP076: ¡El Ángel Exterminador!
After returning from exile to his native Spain, director Luis Buñuel made one his greatest and most controversial films—Viridiana. After...
Raging Bull (1980)
- Apr 18, 2008
FP075: “Come on, hit me. Harder. Harder.”
Harsh—gritty—dark—and that’s just the opening credits!! Martin Scorsese’s unflinching portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta won the “Best...
Gattaca (1997)
- Apr 11, 2008
FP074: “IN-VALID"
GUANINE—ADENINE—THYMINE—CYTOSINE. The four amino acids that make up deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, the stuff that we are made of, to...
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
- Apr 4, 2008
FP073: “Offerings to the Gods of Speed"
Roger Donaldson’s unfairly overlooked gem is, in our minds, one of the finest stories of the power of the human spirit EVER. Anthony...
North by Northwest (1959)
- Mar 28, 2008
FP072: “You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?"
Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Lehman, Bernard Hermann, and Cary Grant—what a glorious quartet! Hitchcock winds up the 1950’s with one of his...
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- Mar 14, 2008
FP071: “Oh, Lover...”
Orson & the soon-to-be-ex Mrs. Orson Welles on a cruise of total weirdness. A crazy amalgam of style and mystery and the strangely blonde...
Sound Cues, No. 4
- Mar 7, 2008
FP070: Bloop Marks*
Once again, The Film Guys take to the phones to answer questions about love, life, and movies. The day this show was recorded, the...