Izzy has selected the 1984 Best Picture Academy Award Winner Amadeus as her selection this week, the depiction of the life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), as told by Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman
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Stage Fright (1950)
Hal is back with the next in the series of his favourite Hitchcock films starring Jane Wyman & Marlene Dietrich. Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich) is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Phantom Thread (2017)
Izzy's next choice is yet another Paul Thomas Anderson film with Phantom Thread (2017), a extraordinary portrait of renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London -- dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come and go in Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship. His carefully tailored existence soon gets disrupted by Alma (Vicky Krieps), a young and strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Hal has chosen an iconic Hollywood Classic comedy film Some Like it Hot about two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) during the prohibition era who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.
Director: Billy Wilder
"And where did you get that phoney accent? Nobody talks loike that!"
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Izzy has gone big for her next choice with Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic period drama starring Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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