100 Years at the Movies (1994) (TV)

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Director:

Chuck Workman

Genre:

Documentary | Short

Plot:

Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.

Plot Keywords:

Compilation | Anniversary | Birthday | Hollywood | Centenary

Cast

Clara Bow	...	(archive footage)
Rin Tin Tin	...	(archive footage)
Eugen Sandow	...	(archive footage)

Runtime:

9 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Movie Connections:

Features Love Story (1970)

Soundtrack:

Rocky: Gonna Fly Now

Movie heaven

No great theories to spin here, or trends to notice, or criticisms to unload. Quite simply, this is the most carefully chosen, best-edited, most entertaining montage/tribute to the cinema ever put together. Covering, as it says, the whole first century of the cinema, it consists entirely of clips from a cavalcade of box-office favorites and historically-significant films, edited in roughly chronological order, accompanied by equally-well chosen scores. Some excerpts are as short as two or three seconds, sometimes just a word or a gesture from a film, sometimes a famous line, sometimes a look on a beloved movie star's face, but always one of those indelible moments, those "pieces of time," as Jimmy Stewart called them, that are the shared heritage of everyone who loves movies.