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Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush

Allan Arkush

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Favorite films

  • Gimme Danger
  • The Golden Stallion
  • There Was a Father
  • Breathless

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  • Top Gun

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  • David Copperfield

    ★★★★

  • Three Women

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  • The Lodger

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  • Top Gun

    Top Gun 1986

    ★ Rewatched by Allan Arkush 21 May 2022 11

    Male Gaze: the perspective of a notionally typical heterosexual man considered as embodied in the audience or intended audience for films and other visual media, characterized by a tendency to objectify or sexualize women= Top Gun

  • David Copperfield

    David Copperfield 1935

    ★★★★ Rewatched by Allan Arkush 21 May 2022

    Dora dies.............oops spoiler alert

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  • Caddyshack II

    Caddyshack II 1988

    ★ Rewatched by Allan Arkush 18 Jun 2019 59

    I should never have made this movie!! There was only one Caddy and no Shack. What was I thinking?

  • Rock 'n' Roll High School

    Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Allan Arkush 06 Dec 2019 25

    Hey, I made it so.........

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  • .
  • cuss it's mening
  • 1st time all i remembered was shots not human moments
  • 8
  • all original by an anerican
  • best.
  • blacks and bright
  • book
  • by saying that this is a 4 hour chinese coming oif age story.
  • criterion
  • crteen
  • directed with a superio
  • e best editor's ever: hal a
  • e crane
  • e whole thing in 2 sittings. good story
  • e women we
  • e`n gert
  • eem like no big deal at all.
  • ey are a mess. the circumstances of their lives is in the fg
  • hat she was like in person at dinner

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Bio

Director/ Producer since 1976. Rock n Roll High School, The Temptations, Heroes, Ally McBeal, Moonlighting, Get Crazy, Crossing Jordan, Fame-TV, St. Elsewhere, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Elvis Meets Nixon, Shake Rattle & Rock,Shannon's Deal, I'll Fly Away and of course Hollywood Blvd. In total I directed 250 TV episodes, TV movies, Rock videos and Feature Films. 
Guru @ Trailersfromhell.com
Teaches at AFI

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“Would you be in need of a new suit?”

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  • Ed Wood

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    Top Gun
    21
    David Copperfield
    20
    Three Women
    14
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    14
    House Party
    13
    Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
    13
    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
    9
    The Chaser
    8
    Within Our Gates
    8
    Directed by John Ford

Ratings

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  • 19 ★½ ratings (2%)
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  • 147 ★★★★★ ratings (18%)
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Recent lists

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  • Amarcord
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
  • Carmen Jones
  • The Wiz
  • West Side Story

Old Favorites That I Watched Again. As I Grow Older Their Meaning Changes 28 films

  • The Power of the Dog
  • West Side Story
  • Lamb
  • The Beatles: Get Back
  • Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

My Letterbox Films with the highest ratings 40 films

  • My Twentieth Century
  • The Curse of La Llorona
  • House Party
  • The Host
  • Memories of Murder

2021- The Best Movies That I Had Never Seen Before 27 films

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  • Allan Arkush followed Loz 💟 on 2022-05-26

  • Allan Arkush followed fai🤍 on 2022-05-25

  • Allan Arkush followed Z Evan on 2022-05-25

  • Allan Arkush liked Nicole’s ★★★ review of Single White Female on 2022-05-24

  • Allan Arkush liked Nicole’s ★★★ review of Last Night on 2022-05-24

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