Notable movie anniversaries of 2016

100th Anniversary (1916):

Intolerance (dir. D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Douglas Fairbanks)

75th Anniversary (1941):

Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten)

The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor)

Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake)

Dumbo (supervising dir. Ben Sharpsteen, narrated by John McLeish)

50th Anniversary (1966):

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton)

Batman: The Movie (dir. Leslie H. Martinson, starring Adam West and Burt Ward)

25th Anniversary (1991):

The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins)

Hook (dir. Steven Spielberg, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Julia Roberts)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (dir. James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton)

Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, and Ice Cube)

Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves)

Thelma & Louise (dir. Ridley Scott, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis)

Beauty and the Beast (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, starring Paige O’Hara and Robby Benson)

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