Baby boomers have always had an intimate relationship with the movies. Born in the age of Saturday matinees, boomers came of age just as the movies began to awaken to the radical changes taking place in American culture.
In a special Newseum program co-sponsored by AARP, movie critics Arch Campbell, Ann Hornaday and Bill Newcott present their choices of the top 10 movies that shaped the boomer generation.
Each critic will reveal their three choices and together they will present a unanimous choice. Clips from each of the films will be played during the program.
Campbell has reported on movies, theater, entertainment and the arts since the 1970s and has appeared regularly on Washington television for more than 40 years.
Hornaday has been a movie critic for The Washington Post since 2002 and was previously the critic for The Baltimore Sun and the Austin American-Statesman.
Newcott, the creator of AARP’s Movies for Grownups, reviews movies weekly at AARP.org and his Movies for Grownups Radio Show, now in its 13th year, is heard on 600 stations nationwide.
Speakers in sequence:
* John Maynard, director of programs, Newseum
* Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director, AARP
Discussion:
* (Moderator) Bill Newcott, film critic and creator, AARP's Movie for Grownups
* Ann Hornaday, movie critic, The Washington Post
* Arch Campbell, movie critic
The ten movies selected, BTW, were:
* All The President's Men
* Apocalypse Now
* The Godfather
* Psycho
* American Graffiti
* Goldfinger
* Wizard of Oz
* Sound of Music
* Star Wars
And the final one for everyone....
* The Graduate
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
IP Address: 18.118.200.86 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
") are described as follows: