Red Knight Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 39 Steps - A Classic Hitchcock The Passion of Joan of Arc - Amazing Silent Film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nleyetn Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/"]The Great Escape[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da T Films Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 The Great Dictator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyola Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 [quote name='Red Knight' post='1469152' date='Feb 26 2008, 10:45 AM']The Passion of Joan of Arc - Amazing Silent Film[/quote] I had that soundtrack on CD and lost it, man I love that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socrates Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 (edited) I've seen a fair amount of old movies. I've gotten into watching the films noir of the '40s and '50s. [i]Double Indemnity[/i] (1944) is basically the noir classic, which pretty much defined the genre. (It may seem somewhat trite now, but that's because it was so influential on film, and so often imititated, that many of it's themes have since become cliched.) [i]The Postman Always Rings Twice [/i](1946?) plays on a similar theme, but isn't quite as good, imo. [i]D.O.A. [/i](1950), a small independent film, is a minor masterpiece of noir. Orson Wells' [i]Touch of Evil [/i](1958) is another great noir flick. (Of course, [i]Citizen Kane[/i] [1939] is also classic.) [i]Detour[/i] (1945) is a fun cheapy noir. [i]The Hitch-hiker[/i] (1953) is a spare movie with only a few actors that is one of the most suspenseful flicks I've ever seen. And anything by Alfred Hitchcock is classic. Most of the John Ford/John Wayne westerns are classic, but I'd especially recommend [i]The Searchers [/i](1956), and [i]The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [/i](1962). Other great classic westerns of the '50s are [i]High Noon[/i] (1952) and [i]Shane[/i] (1953). I'm also a huge fan of Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy starring Clint Eastwood: [i]A Fistful of Dollars[/i]; [i]For a Few Dollars More[/i]; and [i]The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly[/i] (1964-66). His [i]Once Upon A Time in the West[/i] (1968) is a great western epic, paying tribute to many westerns of the past. [i]The Treasure of the Sierra Madre[/i] (1948) is another classic I watched recently. Edited February 27, 2008 by Socrates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 The Sandlot Ok, it's not that old, but, hey, it has the Great Bambino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrestia Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 thanks again for all the suggestions! I just watched To Catch a Thief. loved it. the "making of" section on the DVD is almost as good as the movie. (I heart DVD special features - except the deleted scenes. They were usually deleted for a good reason.) I've seen tons of Hitchcock flicks... pure genius... thinking about watching them again on DVD to get the special features. I liked The Bridge on the River Kwai... but I wish they were a little closer to the true story. Sabrina was cute, a little too cute. It's the kind of movie I enjoy with my girlfriends when curled up on the couch with a blanket and a bowl of ice cream. I'm not the biggest fan of movie musicals. I'd rather see a musical on stage. I'm weird like that. Roman Holiday is next. I've got quite a queue going on Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abercius24 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 El Cid (with Charlton Heston -- a movie I forsee being remade someday) The Cardinal And any movie produced by Frank Capra! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell_b55 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but one of my favourite films is Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy [i]The Shop Around the Corner[/i] (1940) starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. Just brilliant. I could drive you nuts with quotes from it, but I won't. Oh, and while I second the recommendation for Otto Preminger's [i]The Cardinal[/i], I warn you that it isn't even in the same league as the book, which I really enjoyed. By the way, if anyone wants to read the book, but can't find it. I will so totally trust you enough to send it too you with postage to send it back. It is one of the only books that actually caused me, someone who almost never displays this particular emotion, to cry. Some have criticised it as too dramatic, but I loved it. Go figure. Edited March 8, 2008 by petrus_scholasticus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nleyetn Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/"]Rear Window[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
29908 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 ANYTHING, and I mean anythinggggg, with Doris Day James Dean movies, too! : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 The General....how's that for old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Fast and the Furious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filiusInFilio Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 [quote name='scardella' post='1475760' date='Mar 11 2008, 03:27 PM']Fast and the Furious...[/quote] i was about to ask are you serious? but then i remembered there was a 50's version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 [quote name='filiusInFilio' post='1475788' date='Mar 11 2008, 03:43 PM']i was about to ask are you serious? but then i remembered there was a 50's version[/quote] There's a 50's version? Did it feature deuce coupes with neon under-body lights and nitrous? I was just goofing off... I did like it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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