Movies in a Minute: The Essence of the 100 Greatest Films Distilled into a Page or Two of Poetry

By Tom Pontac

The book is a combination of love and art. It presents classic films in a new way, reminding the readers about what they felt and enjoyed when they first experienced these films. It allows them to run the film and the enjoyment of it once again in the theater of their minds. It helps brings back the good old times in a brand new way. Its time to enjoy the essence of the hundred greatest movies in a page of poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496947802

Tom Pontac

Tom Pontac is an accomplished poet, starting to write seriously at the age of fifty. He went to college at the age of sixty, graduating when he was sixty-four, earning a degree in psychology/gerontology. He enjoyed college so much he continued his academic studies for another thirteen years, taking over two hundred courses! He is also an accomplished long distance runner having completed over 250 races of marathon distance or longer. He is married to Dr. Jeanne, a psychologist, who reminds him to heed the advice of George Elliot who said “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” This is his first book, although he has written “enough poetry to fill several volumes.” His work spans the spectrum of human experience, including love, war, loneliness, the human condition, and the universe itself. He has recently completed a respectful yet witty rendition of Genesis in rhyming poetry, which is sure to inform and amuse both the faithful and nonbeliever alike. He lives in Seal Beach, California with his wife.

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Movies in a Minute

The Essence of the 100 Greatest Films

Distilled into a Page or Two of Poetry

TOM PONTAC

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/25/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-4779-6 (sc)

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Contents

1. Citizen Kane

2. Casablanca

3. The Godfather

4. Gone With The Wind

5. Lawrence Of Arabia

6. The Wizard Of Oz

7. The Graduate

8. On The Waterfront

9. Schindler’s List

10. Singin’ In The Rain

11. It’s A Wonderful Life

12. Sunset Boulevard

13. The Bridge On The River Kwai

14. Some Like It Hot

15. Star Wars

16. All About Eve

17. The African Queen

18. Psycho

19. Chinatown

20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

21. The Grapes Of Wrath

22. 2001: A Space Odyssey

23. The Maltese Falcon

24. Raging Bull

25. E.T.-The Extraterrestrial

26. Dr. Strangelove Or:

How I Learned To Stopped Worrying And Love The Bomb

27. Bonnie And Clyde

28. Apocalypse Now

29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

30. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

31. Annie Hall

32. The Godfather, Part II

33. High Noon

34. To Kill A Mockingbird

35. It Happened One Night

36. Midnight Cowboy

37. The Best Years Of Ours Lives

38. Double Indemnity

39. Doctor Zhivago

40. North By Northwest

41. West Side Story

42. Rear Window

43. King Kong

44. The Birth Of A Nation

45. A Streetcar Named Desire

46. A Clockwork Orange

47. Taxi Driver

48. Jaws

49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

51. The Philadelphia Story

52. From Here To Eternity

53. Amadeus

54. All Quiet On The Western Front

55. The Sound Of Music

56. M*A*S*H

57. The Third Man

58. Fantasia

59. Rebel Without A Cause

60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

61. Vertigo

62. Tootsie

63. Stagecoach

64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

65. The Silence Of The Lambs

66. Network

67. The Manchurian Candidate

68. An American In Paris

69. Shane

70. The French Connection

71. Forrest Gump

72. Ben-Hur

73. Wuthering Heights

74. The Gold Rush

75. Dances With Wolves

76. City Lights

77. American Graffiti

78. Rocky

79. The Deer Hunter

80. The Wild Bunch

81. Modern Times

82. Giant

83. Platoon

84. Fargo

85. Duck Soup

86. Mutiny On The Bounty

87. Frankenstein

88. Easy Rider

89. Patton

90. The Jazz Singer

91. My Fair Lady

92. A Place In The Sun

93.