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Peter Bart: CNN’s ‘The Movies’ Honors The Hits, Skips The Ego Wars And Studio Strife

Tom Hanks considers Fargo the "perfect movie." But Alec Baldwin feels Chinatown is the "perfect movie," as does Morgan Freeman for Moulin Rouge. And Steven Spielberg always felt Lawrence of Arabia represented perfection, until he saw The Godfather. I elicited these random superlatives from CNN's star-laden, six-part…

By Peter Bart
Aug 8, 2019 12:55 pm
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CNN Launches ‘The Movies’, A Cinephile’s Dream Look At Film And Its Impact Over The Decades

After the success of CNN’s continuing miniseries chronicling the decades — beginning with The Sixties in 2014 — all the way up to The 2000s last year, it seemed natural to do a follow-up on the movies of those years. And thus we have the new six-part limited series, The Movies. Each weekly installment is two hours and…