AFI Countdown Challenge #93: The Apartment
Jack Lemmon is consistently pushed out of his own apartment by philandering supervisors at his job, but then he meets the delightful Shirley MacLaine in this 1960 Best Picture winner.
Jack Lemmon is consistently pushed out of his own apartment by philandering supervisors at his job, but then he meets the delightful Shirley MacLaine in this 1960 Best Picture winner.
Martin Scorsese’s work makes its first appearance in the countdown with one of Watson’s favorite films, the based-on-a-true-story mob drama Goodfellas.
Quentin Tarantino;s second–and possibly best–movie, a collection of stories about criminals and other lowlifes in Los Angeles made some careers and revived one other.
John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter won’t give up the search for a girl kidnapped by Comanches in this John Ford Western.
Cary Grant is a quiet scientist who catches the eye of ditzy socialite Katherine Hepburn in this 1938 screwball comedy.
Clint Eastwood rode off into the sunset with this, his last Western and a beautiful meditation on the effects of legend and violence on the West.
It’s the landmark 1967 film on interracial marriage.