Just watched It Happened One Night. 90 year old movie ahead of its time. Same with Freaks. Rear Window still my favorite.
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Classic Movies
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The original The Day the Earth Stood Still is awesome. For the time it was made Metropolis is amazing.
I love the original War of The Worlds.
Agree with Rear Window. Great film. Also like Hitchcock classics, Rebecca and Psycho.
Favorite classic westerns, The Magnificent Seven, High Noon, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, and The Wild Bunch.
Classics taken from kids' books, The Wizard Of Oz and Mary Poppins. Both great!
Also love all the classic monster movies from the 30s and 40s, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man.
And perhaps my favorite classic movie, Cool Hand Luke.
I grew up watching classic movies with my mom and dad. Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Betty Davis, Lauren Bacall etc. Also love the old horror movies with Legosi, Karloff and Chaney. Hammer horror movies with Lee and Cushing are classics too.
Buster Keaton was amazing. For sheer funny, a short movie called "One Week." For sheer courage, the falling house scene in "Steamboat Bill Jr." Not trick photography and not a stuntman. And as a director, he didn't take shortcuts. In "The General," that's an actual train falling off a bridge; not a model.
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Check out 5 Fingers - a spy noir film with James Mason
As Damone said in Fast Times, "You won't regret it..."
As Damone said in Fast Times, "You won't regret it..."
This is how I look at it.
If it is a movie I could have reasonably been expected to/or rather COULD have seen, first run, in the theatre, then it's not a classic movie, for ME. So, it's a variable scale.
For example: I was born in 1963, so anything made before 1968 or so, I would consider a classic movie. It's not a perfect measure, I'll admit, but you get the drift.
If it is a movie I could have reasonably been expected to/or rather COULD have seen, first run, in the theatre, then it's not a classic movie, for ME. So, it's a variable scale.
For example: I was born in 1963, so anything made before 1968 or so, I would consider a classic movie. It's not a perfect measure, I'll admit, but you get the drift.
Officially, the Silent Era lasted until the late 1920s, the Golden Age lasted from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, and the New Hollywood Era (my favorite) lasted from the late 1960s to the end of 1983. But to me, a "classic" movie's any movie that you like, because in the grand scheme of things, movies are still relatively brand-new ("The Horse in Motion" is only around 140 years old and "A Trip to the Moon" was made in 1902).
We showed a young relative of ours Bringing Up Baby. She not only had never heard of Cary Grant or Katherine Hepburn, it was the first B&W movie she'd ever seen.
[This is how time flies when you're old. I just calculated when that might have happened, and it was at least 8 years ago now.]
[This is how time flies when you're old. I just calculated when that might have happened, and it was at least 8 years ago now.]
Not a classic but still effective: Repulsion. An early Roman Polanski movie. Still one of the 2 movies that have given me nightmares.
I can relate. Around ten years ago I tried to show one of my best friends Clerks and she refused to watch it, she actually got a little testy and said that she's never seen a B&W and never will. She's around 35 now -- I need to trick her into watching one, like maybe take her to one at the Kentucky Theater and not tell her that it's B&W. XD
This a great call. But it also should come with a more cautionary note.
Tread lightly, and consider whether or not you want this film in your head.
I like Polanski's films, despite him being about as reprehensible as is possible. But even by HIS standards, this is just, well, fcked UP.
I wonder what in the hell happened to Roman Polanski, as a kid, because, damn... the true heart of darkness lies between Polanski's ears.
I would imagine that David Lynch himself, upon watching this movie, might have said, "This guy needs a LOT of therapy..."
(Yeah, there is some hyperbole in my comments, but truthfully, when I saw this, it was the darkest thing I had ever seen.)
There are 2 modern Polish movies (Ida and The Cold War) that were filmed in B&W. Serious work and subtitles.
So, now that there are 2 people still reading I can say that they're fantastic movies. Ida is about a woman thinking about becoming a nun. The other is a piece set in the early 50s as Poland was coming to terms with its communist regime. A folk music group has been organized by officialdom a) to preserve disappearing traditions or b) put a happy face on the oppression.
I have no idea why The Cold War got to me so much since it's an overly familiar story.
A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau is a favorite classic of mine. It gives you a completely contrasting character from Andy's normal roles. Good movie.
I believe one version of Das Boot was filmed in B&W. Excellent movie.
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Geez how could I forget…Young Frankenstein is B&W.
I had to Google that reference. I thought it sounded like a porn parody of the Cagney classic.
Keep the change, you filthy animal.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still original sci fi classic
It Happens Every Spring Classic Baseball movie
Abbot & Costello films
Frankenstein movies with Boris Karloff
March of Wooden Soldiers Laurel & Hardy
It Happens Every Spring Classic Baseball movie
Abbot & Costello films
Frankenstein movies with Boris Karloff
March of Wooden Soldiers Laurel & Hardy
Back in the 80's, the local independent TV station used to play great classic action movies on Sunday afternoons.
Captain Blood
Gunga Din
Beau Geste (Gary Cooper version)
The Black Swan
Ivanhoe
Fort Apache
Captain Blood
Gunga Din
Beau Geste (Gary Cooper version)
The Black Swan
Ivanhoe
Fort Apache
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Great call. You hit a HR with that one. What a fantastic movie, and REALLY displayed the depth of talent AG had.A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau is a favorite classic of mine. It gives you a completely contrasting character from Andy's normal roles. Good movie.
I used to watch it on TCM when it was in their rotation. My wife wanted to see it a couple of months ago, so we watched on Prime. Yeah, it shows you that Griffith isn't just a comedic small town sheriff or country lawyer. He was a narcissistic asshat in this movie, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Speaking of Jack Lemmon movies, The Apartment is excellent. 1960, my birth year. Shirley Maclane was a babe.
Another favorite...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
King Rat
The Railway Man
and I think one other movie whose name escapes me
All about the same lightly fictionalized Japanese POW camp.