Muscle Beach was shown in competition at Cannes in 1949 and won a prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1951. The short became a cult favorite, screening at film clubs around the world. Strick used an army surplus movie camera to shoot the film during weekends in the fall of 1948. The songs in “Muscle Beach,” composed and sung by political folk singer Earl Robinson, with lyrics by screenwriter and poet Edwin Rolfe, accent the film’s three-movement structure as it transitions between soaring gymnastics shows, flirty beachgoers and children playing near the now-demolished pier at Ocean Park. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Heartless
Drama
6.8
Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
Comedy
6.1
RE:BORN
Action, Crime
7.1
Road
Thriller
4.7
Home
7.0
Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Comedy
7.7
Home
TV Movie, Drama, Horror
6.9
Re-Existences
Documentary
7.4
Studio One Forever
Documentary
7.8
Truce(S)
Romance, Drama, Comedy
5.1
Tomie: Rebirth
Horror
7.2
Comment tuer sa mère
Comedy
5.1
Best Worst Movie
Documentary, Comedy
7.0
Journey Of John
7.5
Stephanie
Horror, Mystery
6.2
The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka
Drama, Comedy, Romance
6.6
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf 4
Animation
6.9
Übriggebliebene ausgereifte Haltungen
Documentary
7.5
Re-Cut
Horror, Thriller
6.6
Primary
Documentary
6.4
Railway with a Heart of Gold
Documentary
0.0
Appointment in Tokyo
Documentary, War, History
5.8
Women in Defense
Documentary, War
4.8
I Be Done Been Was Is
Documentary
0.0
The Town
Documentary
5.0
God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance
Documentary
5.5
Showman
Documentary
6.0
Hoop Dreams
Documentary
7.6
Sikkim
Documentary
6.5
Screen Actors
Documentary
6.0
Not a Pretty Picture
Crime, Drama, Documentary
7.6
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Documentary
0.0
Hearts and Minds
Documentary, War
7.7
Marjoe
Documentary
7.7
The Battle of Midway
Documentary, War
5.9
No No Nooky T.V.
Documentary, Animation
6.0
The Art Director
Documentary
0.0
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk
Documentary
10.0
Why Man Creates
Documentary, Animation
6.6