The news of Philip Hoffman’s death in February 2014 hit an exceptional number of people exceptionally hard. ibid.
‘The greatest character actor of his generation.’ ibid. Jack Garner, film critic
He demonstrated his versatility in over fifty films; he was nominated for an Oscar four times, and was awarded one. He appeared in the theatre on Broadway and off of Broadway and was regarded as one of the top stage actors. ibid.
Then suddenly on a night in October 1927 a voice was heard from the screen proclaiming a fabulous era in Hollywood. The night of the movies became the Talkies with the premiere of The Jazz Singer and the voice of Al Jolson. The Movies s1e1: The Golden Age, Sky Arts 2020, Henry Fonda
‘The first all-talking feature: Lights of New York’ (1928) … ‘a terrible movie.’ ibid.
A Lady to Love (1930) … Anna Christie (1930) … Dracula (1931) … Frankenstein (1931) … The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) … King Kong (1933) … Monkey Business (1931) … A Night at the Opera (1935) … Footlight Parade (1933) … Swing Time (1936) … She Done Him Wrong (1933) … It Happened One Night (1934) … My Man Godfrey (1936) … Twentieth Century (1934) … The Awful Truth (1937) … Bringing Up Baby (1938) … The Philadelphia Story (1940) … His Girl Friday (1940) … I’m No Angel (1933) … Show Boat (1936) … The Blue Angel (1930) … Blonde Venus (1935) … The Petrified Forest (1936) … Of Human Bondage (1934) … Dangerous (1935) … The Women (1939) … Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) … Stagecoach (1939) … Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) … Of Mice and Men (1939) … The Wizard of Oz (1939) … Gone With the Wind (1939) … The 39 Steps (1935) … Rebecca (1940) … Suspicion (1941) … Rope (1948) … The Lady Eve (1941) … Citizen Kane (1941) … ibid.
The Great Dictator (1940): Tragedy and comedy into one … Casablanca (1942) … Wake Island (1942) … It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) … The Maltese Falcon (1941) … Double Indemnity (1944) … Out of the Past (1947) … Laura (1944) … The Third Man (1949) … The Hitch-Hiker (1953) … Sunset Boulevard (1950) … All About Eve (1950) … Born Yesterday (1950) … Quo Vadis (1951) … The Ten Commandments (1956) … Singin’ in the Rain (1952) … Meet Me in St Louis (1944) … High Noon (1952) … Conspirator (1949) … The Think From Another World (1951) … Them! (1954) … Tarantula! (1955) … Gorija! (1954) … Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) … On the Water Front (1954) … East of Eden (1955) … Rebel Without a Cause (1955) … The Seven Year Hitch (1955) … Some Like It Hot (1959) … Fort Apache (1948) … The Searchers (1956) … To Catch a Thief (1954) … North by Northwest (1959) … City Lights (1931) … A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The Movies s1e2: The Golden Age II
West Side Story (1961) … Exodus (1960) … The Longest Day (1962) … Spartacus (1960s) … Lawrence of Arabia (1962) … The Apartment (1960) … Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) … Lolita (1962) … The Manchurian Candidate (1962) … The Thrill of It All (1963) … The Pink Panther (1963) … The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966) … Dr Strangelove (1964) … The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) … Tom Jones (1963) … The Sand Pebbles (1966) … A Man For All Seasons (1966) … The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) … Cleopatra (1963) … The Hustler (1961) … Hud (1963) … Cool Hand Luke (1967) … Harper (1966) … The Great Escape (1963) … The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) … One Eyed Jacks (1960) … A Fistful of Dollars (1964) … The Movies s1e3: The Sixties I
Dr No (1962) … From Russia With Love (1963) … Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969) … The Wild Bunch (1969) … My Fair Lady (1964) … The Sound of Music (1965) … Funny Girl (1968) … To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) … The Defiant Ones (1968) … A Raisin in the Sun (1961) … Lilies of the Field (1963) … Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) … In the Heat of the Night (1967) … Psycho (1960) … Night of the Living Dead (1968) … Planet of the Apes (1968) … 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) … Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1968) … Bonnie & Clyde (1967) … The Graduate (1967) … Easy Rider (1969) … They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1969) … Midnight Cowboy (1969) … True Grit (1969) … The Movies s1e4: The Sixties II
The Last Picture Show (1971) … Paint Your Wagon (1969) … The Sugarland Express (1974) … The French Connection (1971) … Straw Dogs (1971) … The Long Goodbye (1973) … Klute (1971) … Patton (1970) … The Godfather (1972) … Mean Streets (1973) … Taxi Driver (1976) … Cabaret (1972) … All that Jazz (1979) … The Ricky Horror Picture Show (1975) … Saturday Night Fever (1977) … Grease (1978) … Serpico (1973) … Dog Day Afternoon (1975) … Shaft (1971) … Foxy Brown (1974) … Coffy (1973) … Minnie & Moskowitz (1971) … Husbands (1970) … Opening Night (1977) … A Woman Under the Influence (1974) … Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) … An Unmarried Woman (1978) … A New Leaf (1971) … Jaws (1975) … Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) … The Movies s1e5: The Seventies I
American Graffiti (1973) … Little Big Man (1970) … Carnal Knowledge (1971) … Chinatown (1974) … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1974) … MASH (1970) … McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) … Nashville (1975) … Harold & Maude (1971) … Shampoo (1975) … Being There (1979) … Play It Again Sam (1972) … Annie Hall (1977) … Manhattan (1979) … Blazing Saddles (1974) … Young Frankenstein (1974) … National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) … The Great Gatsby (1974) … The Candidate (1972) … The Conversation (1974) … Three Days of the Condor (1975) … All the President’s Men (1976) … Network (1976) … Rocky (1976) … The Deer Hunter (1978) … Coming Home (1978) … Apocalypse Now (1979) … The Exorcist (1973) … Alien (1979) … Star Wars (1977) … Superman (1978) … Heaven Can Wait (1978) ... Monty
Python & the Holy Grail (1975) … Carrie (1976) … The Movies s1e6: The Seventies II
Raging Bull (1980) … The Elephant Man (1980) … Blue Velvet (1986) … The King of Comedy (1982) … The Shining (1982) … Heaven’s Gate (1980) … The Empire Strikes Back (1982) … Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) … ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) … Poltergeist (1982) … The Goonies (1985) … Back to the Future (1985) … Robocop (1987) … Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) … Brazil (1985) … Blade Runner (1982) … Aliens (1986) … Fatal Attraction (1987) … Broadcast News (1987) … Tootsie (1982) … The Verdict (1982) … The Big Chill (1983) … Terms of Endearment (1983) … Hannah & Her Sisters (1986) … Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) … Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) … The Movies s1e7: The Eighties I
This is Spinal Tap (1984) … The Princess Bride (1987) … Stand By Me (1986) … Police Academy (1984) … Crocodile Dundee (1986) … The Woman in Red (1984) … Ghostbusters (1984) … 48 Hours (1982) … Coming to America (1988) … Risky Business (1983) … Top Gun (1986) … The Color of Money (1986) … Rain Man (1988) … Rocky IV (1985) … Commando (1985) … Predator (1987) … Scarface (1983) … Wall Street (1987) … Platoon (1986) … Born on the Fourth of July (1989) … Full Metal Jacket … Silkwood (1983) … Out of Africa (1985) … A Cry in the Dark (1988) … Dirty Dancing (1988) … Purple Rain (1984) … Sixteen Candles (1984) … The Breakfast Club (1985) … Glory (1989) … Amadeus (1984) … Stranger than Paradise (1984) … Sex, Lies & Videotape (1989) … Raising Arizona (1987) … Beetlejuice (1988) … Batman (1989) … Do the Right Thing (1989) … Driving Miss Daisy (1989) … Field of Dreams (1989) … Parenthood (1989) … The Movies s1e8: The Eighties II
Goodfellas (1990) … The Usual Suspects (1995) … Out of Sight (1998) … The Silence of the Lambs (1991) … Thelma & Louise (1991) … The Shawshank Redemption (1994) … Casino (1995) … Apollo 13 (1995) … JFK (1991) … Quiz Show (1994) … Malcolm X (1992) … Philadelphia (1993) … Forrest Gump (1994) … The Tin Red Line (1998) … Saving Private Ryan (1998) … Pretty Woman (1990) … My Best Friend’s Wedding (1998) … As Good as it Gets (1997) … Sleepless in Seattle (1993) … You’ve Got Mail (1997) … Jerry Maguire (1998) … Boyz in the Hood (1991) … Juice (1992) … Poetic Justice (1993) … New Jack City (1991) … Friday (1995) … House Party (1990) … Crooklyn (1994) … Daughters of the Dust (1991) … Dead Presidents (1995) … Soul Food (1997) … Bad Boys (1995) … Men in Black (1997) … Poison (1991) … To Sleep with Anger (1991) … Trust (1991) … Slacker (1991) … Reservoir Dogs (1992) … Pulp Fiction (1994) … Swingers (1996) … The Movies s1e9: The Nineties I
Dances with Wolves (1990) … Unforgiven (1992) … The Last of the Mohicans (1992) … Heat (1995) … Fargo (1996) … The Big Lebowski (1998) … Miller’s Crossing (1990) … Boogie Nights (1998) … Hard Eight (1997) … Beauty and the Beast (1991) … Aladdin (1992) … The Lion King (1994) … Toy Story (1995) … Edward Scissorhands (1998) … Ed Wood (1994) … Groundhog Day (1993) … Rushmore (1998) … Austin Powers International Man of Mystery (1997) … Wayne’s World (1992) … Dumb & Dumber (1994) … Office Space (1999) … Little Women (1994) … Jurassic Park (1993) … Titanic (1997) … American Beauty (1999) … Election (1999) … Boys Don’t Cry (1999) … Fight Club (1999) … Trainspotting (1996) … The Movies s1e10, The Nineties II
Gladiator (2000) … A Beautiful Mind (2001) … Ocean’s Eleven (2001) … The Departed (2006) … Training Day (2001) … Almost Famous (2000) … Moulin Rouge! (2000) … Chicago (2002) … Dreamgirls (2006) … LaLaLand (2016) … Shrek (2001) … Monsters Inc (2001) … Wall-E (2008) … Up (2009) … There Will Be Blood (2007) … Gangs of New York (2002) … The Social Network (2010) … Black Swan (2010) … The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) … The Bourne Supremacy (2004) … Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2014) … The Hangover (2009) … Fast & Furious 6 (2013) … The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) … Moonrise Kingdom (2012) … Django Unchained (2012) … Old School (2003) … Elf (2003) … The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) … Superbad (2007) … The Movies s1e11: 2000s to Today
Avatar (2009) … The Hurt Locker (2009) … Zero Dark Thirty (2013) … Winter’s Bone (2010) … The Hunger Games (2012) … Silver Linings Playbook (2012) … American Hustle (2013) … Something’s Gotta Give (2013) … The Holiday (2006) … It’s Complicated (2009) … My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) … Lost in Translation (2003) … Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2003) … Brokeback Mountain (2005) … Memento (2001) … Batman Begins (2005) … The Dark Night (2008) … Iron Man (2008) … The Avengers (2012) … Doctor Strange (2016) … Birdman (2014) … Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) … The Shape of Water (2017) … Gravity (2013) … Children of Men (2006) … The Revenant (2016) … 12 Years a Slave (2013) … Selma (2014) … Straight Outta Compton (2015) … Fruitvale Station (2013) … Black Panther (2018) … The Kids Are All Right (2010) … Lady Bird (2017) … Tangerine (2015) … Get Out (2017) … Roma (2018) … The Movies s1e12: 2000s to Today II