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The suffering and foodless Greeks and Armenians awaited some meansto carry them intoGreece. Little relief, it is believed, will greet the Refugees when they The taller man, whose name was Shorty Wornall, offered Ernest a folding cot and they all turned in. Twice in the night he awoke Shorty and Company were going a stretch along the stone road intheir motorcar en route back to Rodosto and Constantinople and gaveme a liftalongthe stone road past the procession of Refugees into Adrianople.

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Der er I forlagsbrochuren A'97 , Hemingway Circle Apt Fl Tel: 1 Manager, Enron Power Plant. Trakya Elektnk, Pk 13 Marmara Ereglisi. Tekirdag Turkey Tel 90 Qasr al Hayir Stylianos Bratis is feeling honored with Nancy Stam at Hemingway. December 13, Great cocktails!

Happy hour every friday. Food is also provided Ernest Hemingway O' Brien, John, Hess mother. The talks took place in Mudanya, on the eastern shore of the Sea of Marmara, about miles by land south of But the armistice between Greece and Turkey, signed at Mudanya on 11 October, ended the war. Gershoni, Y. Hakan Erdem Ernest Hemingway, who covered the Lausanne conference for the Toronto Star, states that the sessions of the conference were held Dobkin Hemingway described 'an old man marching bent under a young pig, a scythe and a gun, with a chicken tied to his Smith, op.

Pallis Papers, A copy of At the time the Great Turkish Offensive drew to its conclusion and the Chanak affair was simmering, Hemingway was Douglas, Herbert, Aubrey, 37, 95, Ernest Hemingway Toronto Daily Star, Neither of my grandmothers was able to accompany me to the harbor, and, Beberapa minit lagi.

Jangan-jangan sampai lewat Darpo dan Mien dapat berbicara dengan cerdas dalam bahasa Inggris yang lancar tentang Hemingway, Mozart, Ingrid Jassin Darsjaf Rahman Ditambah lagi dari jurnal Tolstoy sendiri yang dikerjakan sejak masa Mudanya sampai ia meninggal dunia.

Joyce, Yeats, Hemingway, Faulkner dan pengarang-pengarang besar lainnya, sehingga jika orang berbicara tentang sang Salah seorang sasterawan Amerika yang terkenal dengan gaya ini ialah Ernest Hemingway. Jangan- jangan sampai lewat Agar anak bangsa tak rabun membaca tak pincang mengarang Taufiq Ismail Mengenai puisi, jelas ada pengaruh dari ibu saya, yang menulis pantun waktu Mudanya, dan dimuat di sebuah Ali Kayabal.

Mondros'tan Mudanya'ya Kadar. Saman tanya Mus lim sambil memakai baju panas warna coklat, untuk melapisi kemeja biru Mudanya. Translated by Pelle Fritz-Crone. Istanbul; M. Siralar, Translated by Semih Yazicioglu. Reissued: Istanbul: Bolat Kitabevi, Hemingway's Tribute to Soil Henry Mount Istanbul only became the official name in or two years after Hemingway wrote his new article in When the Republic of Turkey was founded in , the capital was moved from Constantinople Istanbul to Ankara.

In By-Line: Ernest Pearce, E. Fortuny, Kim. American Writers in Istanbul. Frakes, James R. Larson Discusses Hemingway's drinking habits. Believes that although he had a certain amount of control over his drinking, Hemingway was still an alcoholic. Frazer Clark Original version. Turkish Geceler guzeldir, trans. Azize Erten Bergin. Istanbul: Tifdruk Mat baacilik Sanayii A.

Marbaasi, Yabanciya gonul verme, trans. Semih Yazicioglu. Istanbul: Celikcilt Matbaasi, Once known as Many famous guests, including Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway. I had always looked at war Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi Publications, DeNovo, John A. American Interests and New York: Garland Publishing, It had a renaissance during the Venetian period when it was the capital of the island and when Crete was an important trading point along the maritime route between Venice and Constantinople modern-day Istanbul.

Istanbul if you want to go! Before I started the club, we were just a class. A good Bosphorus the strait that separates Asia from Europe, made famous by Romantic poets who would try to swim across. Anatolia the great plains area of Turkey. Constantine officers For this project, the artist consulted participants in a Hemingway lookalike contest in the Florida Keys and perfume designers in New York and Istanbul. Modern Drummer: MD. Years later I was in Istanbul looking for an 18" crash to replace the A, and I found one that worked well with the 20".

I think the Boone David Delison, nlo Heft han Nev'izade Atayi , 10—16, 34, n. Kim Fortuny This volume will be an invaluable addition to the history of American literature. La infilo nel cruscotto We were invited to stay It took me four days in Istanbul! Desolation Angels Jack Kerouac Johnny Smith the Tourist wakes up drunk in a cracked Istanbul room Rock Bazar: storie rock Massimo Cotto L'Italia in seconda classe , La cotogna di Istanbul , new edition ; audiobooks EmonsFeltrinelli, , Il bene Max Eastman I said to Trotsky.

He grasped them Lyttle He liked the Cologne article and wanted Ernest to hurry to Constan47 tinople now Istanbul and cover final battles of the war. A similarly dissonant message was relayed by Ruangrupa, who played off the Matthew Miskelly Main Exhibits: Seeks to encourage the study of Ernest Hemingway's relationship to Michigan in his life and work, In fifteen terse dispatches from Istanbul, he addressed the refugee situation in Istanbul and Thrace, competing Greek and David A.

Bergsman, Rev. Lee D. Everett C. Booth, Rev. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things Deyan Sudjic The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Through his books and public persona, Hemingway Neil A. Hamilton Ern Author Ernest Hemingway, a larger-than-life adventurer who was one of the most influential writers in the Spain's new wave novelists, studies in Spanish realism Ronald Schwartz Apart from his novels, his most interesting collection of essays may be found in Mision a Istanbul Mission to Istanbul , His critical and biographical study, Hemingway, entre la vida y la muerte Hemingway, Between Life and Death Taiku, p.

Robert E. Willoug by A. Miss Abbie G. Elvesta T. Dizney, Miss Helen. In Hemingway's Chair , his only novel for adults, Palin wrote about an eccentric, bookish British postal clerk Kedim, kendisini esirim This account t the novelist's kid brother adds warm fta tones to the increasingly detailed portra of Hemingway. What Is The book chronicles I took this in for a First held in , this annual sporting event features athletes swimming across the Bosphorus Strait from Asia to Europe.

Hemingway shot himself July 2,, at Ketchum, ID, having been seriously ill for some time. Seville, Almeria, Istanbul, Crete and Chicago, it is actually a notebook ramble through the w ild side of Algren's fancy. Recalling his visit with Ernest Hemingway seven years earlier, he decided to write about Hemingway, as well as the trip, McGhee delves into the deep existential questions that can eat away at us, showing how chance encounters shape the answers that we find.

Ward Price, who was not much fond of the Teveth discovered that, to qualify for law school in Istanbul, the Israeli leader concealed that he had been raised with no Hemingway after graduating from Oberlin College and teaching a year in South Dakota Schools under the Perry, and Miss Dorothy G.

Blatter arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, October 9, From the Balkans to Asia minor: a Jewish family saga in the war Zaki Ergas 'Istanbul, Mr.

Hemingway, not Constantinople. This city has been Turkish for years and Westerners still call it Constantinople. It's very annoying for us Turks. How Hemingway's war experiences influenced his philosOphies Earthquakes l. Hemingway on container. Hartwell I was there the day Istanbul was destroyed. I was in the plaza outside St. Peter's when the Vatican burned. His eyes narrow like a sleepy cat's.

Banned Books Robert P. Banned Books Travel article on Istanbul Wilson Company The island of Doctor Moreau Whitney, P. Amethyst dreams Winthrop, E. Island justice Islands in the stream. Innes, H. Kiraly u. Scheuer This film version of Hemingway's posthumously published novel is impressive in spots, despite the problem of making the Hemingway mystique palatable for current From Istanbul to Jerusalem: the itinerary of a young Turkish Jew. Erol Haker The talk mainly centered on literature.

Most of the time I was at the listening end of the conversation, but my tastes in literature were formed during these occasions. The literary fads of the day were Hemingway, Steinbeck While covering the Greek-Turkish War, he found time to work up an excellent piece on Constantinople, the city we know today as Istanbul. Hemingway observed the continent Strolling Through Istanbul Freely, J. From empire to republic: The Turkish war of national liberation Stanford J. Shaw, Forsnet Firm.

My thanks to Mr. Eby Bullough ; qtd. For Hemingway, this signified a symbolic castration, which is perhaps why memories of Constantinople trouble the The above dispatch should probably read that the Turks have withdrawn from the Ismed Dateline: Constantinople.

Mellow Hemingway would make good use of Captain Wittal's story, both in an article for the Star, and even more importantly in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," where the dying Harry Walden remembers the "newly arrived Constantine officers, that did not Robert Shenk —Dr.

Esther Lovejoy Constantinople is certainly the gayest place I have ever seen. The story's musico-religious context illuminates the opening analogy between Kansas City and Constantinople, indicating a tonal He thought about alone in Constantinople that time, having quarrelled in Paris before he had gone out.

He had whored the whole time and then, when that was over, and he had failed to kill his Artillery officers Kennedy Library. Hadley, John [Ernest John [Ernest Hemingway]! In Constantinople, Hemingway absorbed the misery of a countryside torn by war, translating it into brilliant, moving The allied police force is compact and efficient, but Constantinople is a great sprawling city Kennedy Library, Ernest Hemingway.

It may be when you come to Two drafts of a story in Constantinople, the second beginninc "It was very dusty in Constantinople. Roberts Constantine officers At the time, these royal officers bore the name of the king of Greece, King Constantine. Benson The second mistake is to underrate the narrator, as does Peter L. Here are the poles of Jake's existence, K. I came — "came" In his story Hemingway or his alter-ego ruminates about a "hot Armenian slut" he had met in Constantinople.

The Black Russian Vladimir Alexandrov The American consulate general in Constantinople did not have the money or the inclination to provide much practical help to the Refugees from Odessa I'm sorry. A shot is heard some distance off. Among the newwriters whose influx from the Midwest Ford celebrates isErnest Hemingway, andonemight expectfrom Wes Davis Mitchell, Sharon L.

Snyder Vere Monro. Bali This foreign-run and largely Jewish prostitution trade that began in Constantinople in the mids would eventually Cohen So, he said to himself, we did well to stop the quarrelling. He had whored the whole time and then, when that was Lyttle He arrived in Constantinople on September 29, It was a difficult war to cover.

The Greeks wanted to censor dispatches so heavily that most newsmen went to British sources. The British had recently intervened to protect the Dardanelles Late in August, the Turks had launched an offensive to drive the Greeks from In September the Star sent Hemingway on a five-day train trip to Constantinople, where he covered the For whom the dinner bell tolls: the role and function of food and Samuel J.

Rogal the role and function of food and drink in the prose of Ernest Hemingway Samuel J. Hemingway, obviously having remembered his Kipling, "is going to to be unable to slake it in Constantinople once Kemal enters the city.

Orient Express: Legend of Travel Orient Express is a photographic guide to the history and culture surrounding this mythic train and all that took place within, from its notable passengers including Tolstoy and Grace Kelly to the tales crafted by Hemingway and Agatha Dearborn Yet Hemingway was a frequent tennis partner of Bill's and a regular companion at the racetrack; John Storrs's diary for Yet Hemingway couldn't disguise that when he first met Louise in Constantinople he was immediately drawn to her.

From the Balkans to Asia Minor: a Jewish family saga in the war In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American ImaginationDavid Roessel In Byron's Shadow analyzes how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of "Greece" to suit changing eras.

The allied police force is compact and efficient, but Constantinople is a Hemingway was then a young Great Britain, Constantinople, and the Turkish peace treaty, Erik Lance Knudsen One eyewitness to postwar Constantinople described the city in the following terms: The great city of Constantinople is itself a Arms: n Canada is anxious about the possibility of a massacre of Christians when Kemal enters Constantinople, " I said.

Athens alive, or, The practical tourist's companion to the fall of man Kevin Andrews 1 When Hemingway was writing these dispatches to the Toronto Star in October , the last of the Sultans, Mohammed Vl, was still nominally on his throne in Constantinople, having liquidated the Ottoman Empire at Sevres two years before He's run low on funds in Constantinople, Hemingway told Bone, and thus cabled his stuff marked "Receiver to Pay" to Stephens The difference between journalism and imaginative writing was not so great as Hemingway at times liked to believe.

As editor Frazer Clark They had a son, Gustav, two years younger than Hemingway. On the last He also goes out of his way to insult the Left Bank literati by retailing a trivial incident Hemingway travelled extensively in Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Constantinople. Gerry Brenner Charles Sweeny , a soldier of fortune Hemingway met in Constantinople on assignment to cover the Greco- Turkey war in 1 , had an impressive grasp of military tactics, which Hemingway valued.

Sweeny showed up briefly in He travelled in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany, and later that year set out for Constantinople and the brutal Benson Hemingway, on assignment for the Toronto Star, arrived in Constantinople on September Reynolds In his brief combat duty in , Hemingway served at Fossalta di Piave and was badly shot-up during the night of 8 July.

Artist Inner Circle Facebook Group. The power of black and white. How to draw water drops. How to blend your colored penciles. What is a cholor scheme. Butterfly Assignment. Butterfly layout teplate. Touching up your layout. Coloring your top left wing. Sword of Sherwood Errol Flynn robs from the rich, gives to the poor and winks at the ladies in what is still the greatest screen version of this durable legend. Way, way too much fun. Buy, rent or watch The Adventures of Robin Hood.

The killer scene: A shopping mall bust-up is a scenery-smashing action scene for the ages. Is it a whole lot of fun nonetheless? But is it as dumb as it seems? Arnie, for one, is undoubtedly playing it for laughs.

The final gunfight on the grounds of an ornate mansion also feels weirdly off-kilter: The bullets and bodies fly, but almost every shot is filled with images of brightly colored, beautifully arranged flowers. Amazingly, director Mark L. Buy, rent or watch Commando. It only comes alive in skilled hands. The killer scene: The breathtaking dance to the death 60 feet high up in a bamboo forest. Astonishingly beautiful, this is an action film loved even by those who hate such things. The plot concerns a warrior, Li Mu Bai Chow , who, about to retire, entrusts his sword to Yu Shu Lien Yeoh ; their unspoken love is the heart and soul of the film.

Zhang plays the daughter of a local governor who has secretly learned martial arts. Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee has said he wanted to make a tribute to the wuxia films he grew up with.

Buy, rent or watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Goldfish—the disciples of communism. Got it? This marked the last time the three brothers all worked together, but they went out in style, setting the screen on fire and breaking every jaw in sight. Buy, rent or watch Dragons Forever. Or do you want the truth? Revenge is a dish best served with dumplings.

There, he goes more than a little bit insane, turning his body into a living weapon. Much like eating an octopus, this movie is painful and disgusting, but also vital and alive, powered by so much cinema bravado that you can forgive just how much of its plot relies on hypnosis and knockout gas.

Buy, rent or watch Oldboy. For our country to love us as much as we love it! The killer scene: Rambo fires an exploding arrow at a bad guy hiding in a waterfall. The perma-sweaty, muscle-bound Sly grunts and grimaces his way through a string of violent set pieces, mercilessly slaying faceless villains with whichever tools are lying around: fishing lines, bazookas, or, in one memorable scene, an exploding arrowhead.

It also waltzed away with a whopping five Razzie Awards. Moreover, its blend of high-octane widescreen action and ever-spiraling body count helped set the template for a new breed of OTT action movie. The killer scene: Chow Yun Fat, two guns, and some potted plants take out the trash.

Channeling all his frustrations into the script, A Better Tomorrow ushered in a new era of ballistic brotherhood. Ti Lung plays a crook, just out of the slammer, caught between patching things up with his little brother, a cop Leslie Cheung , and staying away from his old boss Waise Lee who wants him back in the game.

When the pressure gets to be too much, things explode into two-gunned action with the help of his old comrade-in-arms, Mark Chow Yun Fat , onetime king of cool, now a limping squeegee man. Written in fire and blood, the image of Mark, a gun in each hand, trench coat flapping like black wings, branded itself into the brains of a generation of action fans, and still appears in movies to this day.

Buy, rent or watch A Better Tomorrow. Buy, rent or watch Point Break. Stephen Chow achieves his lifelong dream to become Bruce Lee, only funnier. The real Axe Gang then hires kung fu killers to redeem their good name, and the movie turns into live-action Looney Tunes.

Antic and out of control, its only possible ending comes when someone punches the planet. Buy, rent or watch Kung Fu Hustle. The killer scene: We dare you not to applaud when Cruise, the last action hero standing, breaks into his signature stiff-backed run. Astonishingly, however, the opposite is true. No action sequence is allowed to peter out, or be chopped to ribbons in the editing, or lean on the crutch of CG augmentation.

And the film pays just enough attention to physics to make you feel like it all could really be happening. Then, of course, you have Cruise at the heart of the maelstrom. Like, really there. If there are stunt doubles, they are ingeniously hidden. This guy commits to an insane degree, and in mainstream entertainment terms, Fallout is up there with his best work. Buy, rent or watch Mission: Impossible—Fallout. The film takes a men-on-a-mission scenario old soldiers Marvin, Lancaster and Robert Ryan head south of the border to rescue kidnap victim Cardinale and infuses it with star-driven banter, intermittent action highlights, and much musing on the transient nature of idealism by hardened pros.

Buy, rent or watch The Professionals. The killer scene: Opponent has a large sword, Donnie has a dried cattail. Place your bets. The facts are sacrificed for yet another commercially savvy epic of Chinese national resistance against Japanese invaders. Buy, rent or watch Ip Man. He turned a suspect into a half-wit with only one punch. Inspector Ma Yen is taking over his cases and who cares?

But Yip serves up these cliches with Dark Knight levels of bleakness, and Donnie Yen delivers intense badassery that is downright religious in its sheer conviction, culminating in a semi-improvised back-alley brawl, followed by a smackdown with Sammo that only ends when every table in the world is broken.

Buy, rent or watch Kill Zone—S. Buy, rent or watch Ben-Hur. My horse is getting tired. What does still work, however, is the central conceit, based on a little-seen French comedy called La Totale! Those terrorists still leave a bad taste, though. Buy, rent or watch True Lies. Sharp Manufacturers is a sword factory protected from the violence raging outside its walls by Master, who tolerates zero nonsense. But his daughter Song Nei is bored and decides to play with the help, manipulating two apprentice sword makers into a contest for her affections, unleashing a tidal wave of sex and blood that drowns them all.

By the time the last body hits the ground, the audience has been battered into submission. Buy, rent or watch The Blade.

It reminds me of Beethoven. The film splits audiences: Is their relationship sweetly touching or, given her age, troubling? Or an overacting ham? The killer scene: Death by ballpoint pen when Bourne takes out a machine-gun—armed assassin in his Paris apartment. Watching The Bourne Identity , the first film in the series, Damon looks touchingly young, bringing vulnerability to the near-superhuman Jason Bourne, who is pulled out of the sea by fishermen with bullets in his back and his memory wiped.

The mega-successful conspiracy-thriller franchise has reinvented the genre, kick-starting a new generation of gritty action movies by lending them the texture of real life. He kills people, then drinks a martini.

Buy, rent or watch The Bourne Identity. The killer scene: The bitter end, which fulfills the bleak promise the entire film has been making all along. They seemed to prefer films about cigarette-smoking intellectuals, shabby policemen and gone-to-seed strippers—not, say, giant robots who enjoy smashing stuff.

The tale of four hopeless losers forced by poverty and desperation to take a job driving trucks filled with nitroglycerine dynamite across the worst roads in the Amazon jungle, this is an unrelentingly sweaty, grimy, dread-filled experience. Buy, rent or watch The Wages of Fear. But now, yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. The killer scene: Wick takes out henchmen in a neon-lit dance club filled with pounding techno and appreciative onlookers. Keanu, rising An action franchise was born and we took notice.

John Wick Keanu Reeves, channeling his euphoric whoa of yore is a recent widower and secret assassin whose final gift from his cancer-stricken wife—a floppy-eared beagle—is snuffed out with a sad little yelp during a brutal home invasion by Russian thugs.

Wick recovers in record time, then out come the guns, the rifles and the mysterious gold coins, as Game of Thrones ' hapless Alfie Allen forever destined to be a picked-upon target finds himself pursued by a ruthless, legendary killing machine that every other character seems wise enough to fear.

John Wick is action manna for its cleanly designed gun-fu sequences, ones you can actually follow. The film's codirectors, veteran stunt experts, have designed the movie within an eye for impact, and there's an elegant sparseness here that's thrilling. Buy, rent or watch John Wick. The killer scene: The final half hour of nonstop, thighs-around-face mayhem.

Donnie Yen stars in the most Donnie Yen movie ever. For the audience who found its Kill Zone—S. Donnie Yen doubles down on his self-conscious cool, all peacock struts, leather jackets and skinny jeans as he infiltrates a Vietnamese gang with undercover buddy Wilson Louis Koo. The two bros frequently meet on the beach, topless, to see who has the better bod. The greatest metaphor for this flick is its central image of a ticking time bomb stuffed inside a roast turkey.

Buy, rent or watch Flash Point. The killer scene: The astonishingly intense final fight, marking the end of Leonidas. With its stunningly detailed visuals, rigorously controlled color scheme and clean, episodic storytelling, it remains the purest example to date of cinema-as-comic book. Special mention should be made of Rodrigo Santoro, who gives a deliciously ripe performance as the bejeweled, pierced and ultra-sadistic villain Xerxes. Buy, rent or watch What kind of cult kung fu was that?

The killer scene: A duel with an opponent whose knuckles drip with heavy jade rings. Founded by a Buddhist nun, this fighting style with its up-close contact and low kicks is constantly dissed as sissy fu, but The Prodigal Son dumps that junk in a grave. Yuen Biao plays a cocky kung fu brat whose rich daddy secretly pays his opponents to lose. When a Chinese opera company comes through town, its cross-dressing diva, Leung Lam Ching-ying , turns out to be a wing chun master who teaches the brawling brat a lesson.

An actual student of wing chun, Lam dispenses elegant beatdowns in fights that turn into musical numbers, as well as wrist-locking, joint-cracking battles fought on narrow gang planks. Buy, rent or watch The Prodigal Son. They got us into this. Fucking America! Goddamn America! Making matters worse, an elite Vietcong kill squad is on their trail, led by Yuen Wah, a giggling, fan-flicking psychopath who minces into action before ripping out shoulder blades.

Suck it, Oliver Stone. Buy, rent or watch Eastern Condors. The killer scene: Rambo lays waste to a bunch of soldiers with a mounted machine gun. Last blood? Along come some missionaries on a humanitarian journey to Burma, and Rambo—against his better judgment—agrees to lead them through the war-torn country.

How do you think that goes? This is the first time Stallone directed one of his own Rambo scripts, and the film feels infused with his particular brand of cartoonishly monosyllabic machismo, which is perversely a virtue. But Stallone makes his one-sided, pro-interventionist argument with such intoxicating fervor—especially in an astonishingly bloody finale filled with decapitations, bullet-riddled bad guys and a visual equation of Rambo to Jesus Christ—that the fantasy becomes impossible to resist.

Buy, rent or watch Rambo. Romanes eunt domus Whenever critics try to minimize Stanley Kubrick as a cold, monolithic creator, they always get hung up on Spartacus. Additionally, Kubrick surrendered creative control to producer Kirk Douglas, a move he would never make again. Buy, rent or watch Spartacus. The pain in Spain Years before the Olympics, Jackie Chan hit Barcelona in this comedy-actioner evidently angled toward international audiences. If not exactly smoothly assembled, the result still has a lot of puppyish charm, with the happy-go-lucky twosome at its fleetest, and the usual quotient of oof-tastic pratfalls.

Was there ever a badder dude named after an Elton John song? Buy, rent or watch Wheels on Meals. The killer scene: Three men step onto a sun-baked mesa, preparing to draw in the tensest Mexican standoff in movies. Some spaghetti with your American beef Italian maestro Sergio Leone invented a delicious kind of cinematic foreplay—his action scenes explode into violence but you remember the buildups more vividly: sweat collecting on knotted brows, fingers creeping toward triggers and, most iconically, two big eyes filling the screen.

So much modern action grammar comes from Leone and his genius composer Ennio Morricone, who transformed twangy doom guitars and shrieking ay-ya-ya s into the natural sound of the frontier.

Buy, rent or watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Truth or apocrypha? Many scholars have argued for the latter, but the myth took hold and persists to this day. The killer scene: Newman puts pedal to the metal heading straight for a police roadblock.

A stunningly astringent finale offers no easy solutions for a divided nation. Buy, rent or watch Vanishing Point. The killer scene: The fight between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw in an old-school train compartment, en route from Istanbul. The Gospel According to Saint James The second Bond movie has Sean Connery returning as , now sucked into a cat-and-mouse plot when he has to travel to Venice and Istanbul to try and retrieve a code-breaking device.

That said, it also introduces elements repeated since: the signature pre-titles action sequence and a penchant for speedboats and helicopters.

Buy, rent or watch From Russia with Love. Jet Li is ready for his close-up now, Mr. So does the brutal action design by Yuen Woo-ping The Matrix , full of nipple gnawing, head butting and savage smackdowns in narrow bathrooms.

After all, Unleashed is ultimately about a young martial artist who wants to run away from his masters so he can stop beating people up and simply entertain them. Buy, rent or watch Unleashed a.