Classic Movies

[Mr Lick]

Post 21

Saving Private Ryan

I, Legend (written in 1959)

Titanic

Castaway

Road to Perdition

Dead Poets Society

Pulp Fiction


Just about anything with Hanks, Damon, Robin Williams and Washington in.



Like BC, 'Bad Day at Black Rock' one of my favourites.

Great actors around then, Bogart, Tracey, Gable, Stewart, Grant.

[Zooheekock]

A couple of pre-70s

Battle for Algiers (if Frenchies are allowed)
12 Angry Men
Night of the Hunter
Rosemary's Baby
Ben Hur

[Zooheekock]

I just felt that it kind of detracted from the suspense a little bit. If you compare it to Zodiac (some people on IMDB say that Fincher was influenced my memories and you can see the similarities, but they are similar cases in certain respects) which is about the same length and on similar subject matter, I thought that was perfect.

I'm not saying that it wasn't a superb film or anything like that, it didn't drag, it just started off so well that in it's quieter moments it wasn't quite as good. Then again it's set over a long period of time...

What do I know anyway, I'm a none paying punter!

Ah, you'll see that I edited my post - Now I think about it, I'm not at all sure...I'll have to watch it again....

[FailSafe]

If you want a good, underappreciated western, try 'One Eyed Jacks' with Marlon Brando.

[Troy]

1959: Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon...has to be in the classic collection

[youneverknow]

This thread is on fire!



On Golden Pond

The Boys in Company C

[Davis Knowlton]

Classics:

Cool Hand Luke

The Great Escape

Birdman of Alcatraz

[Davis Knowlton]

Classics:

Just as a comment after having watched a slew of old movies (Post #4) recently:

Everybody smokes - I mean EVERYBODY.

All the men wear jackets and ties - no matter what they're doing.

All the women's hair is so hair sprayed that it looks as if it would shatter if hit with a hammer.

Just saying..........

[alwarner]

Every kiss is close mouthed too.

[Zooheekock]

Everyone drinks spirits. A LOT of spirits.

[alwarner]

Rich people are always shady.

[youneverknow]

Some decent films of recent years...

Good Will Hunting

Philadelphia

Awakenings

The Green Mile

What's Eating Gilbert Grape




And older ones...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

How Green Was My Valley

Roman Holiday

Catch 22

Raging Bull

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Midnight Cowboy

[Lambik]

Another good site IMHO :

Watch Free Online Old Classic Movies at OldMovieTime.com

[The Big Fella]

Why no comedy ?
classics like
Blazin Saddles
Police squad
Airplane
hot shots etc
Nobody like a good giggle ?

[crepitas]

Classic:

Almost forgot "Zulu", the first film appearance of Michael Caine. In fact, it might be perfect for this rainy afternoon.

and of course The man Who would be King.

mentioned on another thread just bought High Noon
Wild Bunch would be good methinks
Street Car named Desire?

plus: the Bogies


Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
African Queen
Caine Mutiny...etc etc...

The Man Who Never Was
Elephant Walk
Dam Busters

..frick I should live so long..lol

just watched what I think was a remake of Million Dollar Baby...Girl Boxer.story

[youneverknow]

Oldies comedy makes me think of Jerry Lewis.

Nutty Professor

It's a Mad Mad Mad World

I think he was often in movies with Dean Martin. There's got to be some other good Jerry Lewis films.



That reminds me of The Absent-minded Professor starring the father from My Three Sons.

[Latindancer]

Last week I downloaded and watched
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
It's a 1953 B&W movie and was quoted by Rowan Atkinson as being the film that inspired him to make Mr Bean.
Watch it and you will see why.

Jacques Tati films are great ! If you liked Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, take a look at Playtime before you view the other Tati films. It also features Monsieur Hulot.



Play Time is one of the most exuberant, free-spirited, formally playful tributes imaginable to the spirit of invention and humor that leads people to make their own fun in the most unlikely of contexts. Director Jacques Tati constructed a formalist masterpiece in which characters, story, and dialogue are all but absent. The film takes place in a gray urban center, a prototypical modern city — it's meant to be Paris, but it hardly matters, because as Tati notes in a sly joke involving some travel posters, globalization and industrial progress are eliminating the differences between cities.
As a group of American tourists arrive, taking snapshots of office blocks while ignoring the historical Paris landmarks (which show up from time to time as ghostly reflections in highly polished windows), Tati's Monsieur Hulot character wanders aimlessly through a corporate maze, baffled by the antiseptic neatness he encounters all around him.
With the film's spare dialogue almost entirely relegated to the level of background chatter with little meaning, Tati allows his images to carry the film's subtle but often hilarious humor. A businessman's precise, choreographed movements take on syncopated musical rhythms as he goes about his routine. The white flaps on a nun's habit flutter like the wings of a seagull as she walks. An apartment block is turned into a cutaway Brechtian stage like the kind Godard would later employ in Tout Va Bien; Tati uses this setup for a series of deadpan, entirely silent gags about the conformity and complacency of modern families, who settle into box-like homes and stare at their walls to watch TV.

But the film's centerpiece is undoubtedly an extended sequence set at the opening night of a high-class restaurant where the staff and designers are still putting the finishing touches on the place even as the first customers arrive. As the night goes on, the restaurant's fancy façade begins to disintegrate, as one mishap after another shatters its fragile and counterintuitive construction: the stylish chairs leave crown-shaped indentations in the customers' backs; the wooden designs above the bar block the view between the bartender and his patrons; the air-conditioning unit is located in a huge pillar that is perpetually in the way of the maître d'. Finally, Hulot himself triggers the worst of the disasters, accidentally pulling down a large section of the ceiling, which has the effect of sectioning off one area of the restaurant into an ad hoc VIP section with a boorish American tourist playing bouncer. The more the restaurant falls apart, the more the people there seem to enjoy themselves, and the staid, ordinary dinner transforms into a wild, frenetic party with a packed dance floor and little pockets of merry-making scattered around the room.
Tati captures everything with his long shots, packing the frame with people, all of whom have little bits of business and subtle sight gags: there's too much to focus on at any given moment, since literally every shot is packed with visual humor and miniature narratives playing out on the fringes of the image. The cumulative effect can't help but put a grin on anyone's face, as these anonymouse city-dwellers take such great delight in subverting and destroying the pre-packaged entertainment parceled out to them, instead making their own fun by playing in the wreckage of the modern world.

[Lambik]

"Zulu", the first film appearance of Michael Caine

In fact his first appearance was in " A hill in Korea" aka "Hell in Korea" ( 1956)

[Davis Knowlton]

"Zulu", the first film appearance of Michael Caine

In fact his first appearance was in " A hill in Korea" aka "Hell in Korea" ( 1956)

Whoops. His 2nd then?

[Bettyboo]

You boring old farkers...

Here's a couple going thru the ages:

African Queen.
All the Road to films...
The original (not the original original from 1929..) 4 Feathers. A very fine watch indeed.



Warriors.
Wonderers (no, not that one...).



The Elephant Man and 1984 are 2 good John Hurt films.

The original Get Carter with Michael Cain.

[Rural Surin]

Any [and most] Marx Brothers films.

My understand that they were allowed to improvise [because they could].....as 85% of their film projects were of this nature.

Their insightful and twisted humour still holds up today.

[Pragmatic]

Why no comedy ? classics like Blazin Saddles Police squad Airplane hot shots etc Nobody like a good giggle ?

Because American comedy ain't funny. Classic UK is 'Pink Panther'.

[Pragmatic]

Their insightful and twisted humour still holds up today.

It reflects in your posts. Along side DrAndy's. Both old fashion and outdated.

[Rural Surin]

Any film starring Michael Caine.

[Bobcock]

Going the Clint route tonight, watching A Few Dollars More at the moment....