Thread: Classic Movies

Originally Posted by Looper

One silver cloud from enduring the painful Killing of a Sacred Deer was that I was reminded to rewatch Groundhog Day which I had been meaning to do for ages.

I remembered it as a funny movie from the 90s and wondered if it had aged well.

I think it has more than aged well. I think it has matured into a classic movie that not only has genuinely fresh humour but resonates with timeless philosophical themes.

It is February 2nd this Friday so if you are staying in then watch punxatawney Phil strut his stuff in his 25th anniversary year...

Agreed. GD has become and under-rated classic and is timeless.

The Wind and the Lion

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073906/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw_Josey_Wales

Many really great films mentioned in these posts. Reaching way back, I'd put in a mention for Hitchcock's "The Thirty-nine Steps," as it broke ground in so many ways.

But almost all of my friends in the film business--I was in the business for years as a screenwriter--will list "The Godfather" as possibly the greatest film of all time. Have to agree it's a masterpiece.

Lawrence of Arabia - scope !

Did I mention a few classics from my formative years?

The Dambusters
633 Squadron
In Which we Serve
The Battle of Britain

How I ended up in green baggy skin, and not the RAF or the Navy is beyond me.

Originally Posted by SoiNongbua

Agreed. GD has become and under-rated classic and is timeless.

For just a supposed comedian, Bill Murray has been in some great films over his career.

Casablanca - script !

Citizen Kane - technique !

Too many to mention...

Rear Window
Vertigo
Psycho
The Birds
North by Northwest
Rope
The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much

Originally Posted by kmart

For just a supposed comedian, Bill Murray has been in some great films over his career.

He made a mistake doing "Lost In Translation".
He's too "expectantly non-commital" as I put it. Like, he says something blank-faced and expects it to be appreciated, but really the humour is only in is mind.

Too many to mention...

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Coogan's Bluff
Dirty Harry
The Beguiled
Charlie Varrick
The Shootist
Escape From Alcatraz

Originally Posted by Maanaam

He's too "expectantly non-commital" as I put it. Like, he says something blank-faced and expects it to be appreciated, but really the humour is only in is mind.

Loved him in Caddy Shack and Royal Tennenbaums

Had some great lines in Tootsie

Having just re-watched it AGAIN, I'll throw in "Zulu".....and, to a lesser degree, "Zulu Dawn".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3grk-slP0LU

classic Howard Stern

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Having just re-watched it AGAIN, I'll throw in "Zulu".....and, to a lesser degree, "Zulu Dawn".

Too Welsh

Bob le Flambeur



After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

French language with English subtitles.

https://thepiratebay.cr/torrent/6226....H264.AC3.Gopo

Tallyho chaps and chocks away for the 80th anniversary viewing of The Battle Of Britain



The expansive footage for the 1969 movie uses scores of real spitfires, hurricanes, Me109s, stukas and He111s and was filmed from a converted B-25 before the days of CGI

My top ten classic movies in no particular order are...

Fistful of Dynamite
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
Kelly's Hero's
Quadraphenia
Trainspotting
Matrix
Italian Job
Zulu
Apocalypse Now

Must have watched them all multiple times.

Once Upon A Time In The West is pretty iconic.

As is 2001 : A Space Odyssey

In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier passed away so I dusted off a download of this classic.

So many quotable lines from this move and such sharply drawn characters.

It is decades since I have seen it but I could quote half the lines in sync with the actors.

Glad to discover that it has aged so well.

A merciful relief to watch an old school racial-righteousness movie that is not creaking under the self-conscious weight of woke politics.

I think I will go and see if Mississippi Burning has fared well with the passing of time or not.

Another Late Sidney Poitier outing tonight, but one which I had never seen before

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - also from 1967

Good fun to watch an old fashioned take on what has become a radioactive minefield of a subject for any but the wokest or bravest of film directors

It has an odd rhythm and meter, veering from bubbly and comedic to righteous to soppy and earnest, but given the 2022 temperature of the topic it cannot fail to entertain

Interesting to note that Poitier's mum in the movie is the abortion doctor he talks to just before the denouement of In the Heat of the Night

The closing shot of ITHOTN is a masterpiece for its time. I had not noticed when I was younger but the camera tracking his departure through the train window leaving Sparta Alabama is in a helicopter which rises up to take in an aerial view of the town as his train snakes off to the North. An easy shot today but more difficult in 1967

Originally Posted by Looper

Another Late Sidney Poitier outing tonight, but one which I had never seen before

I grew up on movies like this as a kid. Seen them all once twice three times, they are great.

That is why I am shy to post what I think is a classic, simply because the movie changed the way most special effects had to become more realistic.

Here goes.
Alien (1979)



And Sigourney Weaver was the alpha.

Amadeus 1984

Have not watched this for many a long year. Defo has the feel of a classic now. F. Murray Abraham easily steals that Oscar.



I had never seen the Directors Cut before which adds 20 minutes to make it a 3 hour movie.

Getting to see Constanze's knockers (or any lady's knockers in a movie) feels strangely exciting and pervy now - thankyou #metoo!

Got a new 60s mod-style slim-fit Ben Sherman shirt

So I thought I would christen it with a viewing of Quadrophenia - 1979.

Never seen it before.

Quite good fun and a minor who's who of TV faces in youthful early roles.

I just need a Joe90 pork-pie hat and I will be pukka innit