Guest chunky Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Sick of Taranolan's Batjo Unchained Knight Hype Nigga Tranny Movie 27? This is the thread for you I'll start with Great Expectations (1946) Everyone who's seen the Pip episode of South Park or read Dickens will know the plot of this one but it's really great and worth a watch. The accents really get me going and the movie is well made with the moral aspects of it really shining. It's a story that is very touching and moving, made professionally, and with a sort of beauty to it that's extinct in today's films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinski Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 duck soup (1933), probably marx brothers best movie. absurd and fast paced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chunky Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Nice. That geezer looks like AliG/Borat/Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJW Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Good thread! Lookin forward to see what crops up here. Ones that spring to mind are: Modern TImes Freaks I Live In Fear Rashomon Ikiru The Third Man Night Of The Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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keltoi Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 good thread. i went through some lists and selected some favourites... night of the hunter. vertigo. citizen cane. ben hur. paths of glory. spartacus. moby dick. the wizard of oz. pinocchio. les diabolique. seven samurai. the 7th seal. rashomon. high noon. 12 angry men. the maltese falcon. forbidden planet. the invisible man. king kong. the fly. metropolis. frankenstein and bride of... abbot and costello meet frankenstein. nosferatu. the time machine. the 7th voyage of sinbad. ride lonesome. journey to the centre of the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chunky Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Ikiru Got to see this in the cinema. It's very long and the main character is interestingly dull in a subtle and clever way. An old Japanese geezer tries to get funding for a children's park? Gotta watch this one again.The Third Man Love the music, sad creepy emotionscitizen cane.rose bud. epic from child to old man life story. seven samurai. brilliant, especially love the way that the characters interact with each other, the men on an impossible mission theme, and the use of intelligently cunning tactics&strategy in battle Orson Welles was in a movie of Franz Kafka's The Trial - have a look at that, another beautiful nightmare type of film By the way, thanks for the responses, thread turned out right! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirezzi Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Terrible thread; simply too few to choose from! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nowyouknow Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 All About Eve (1950) my interest in old movies starts with this movie.$$ but i don't like old comedys like Capra's or some like it hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 We should probably just make this "Akira Kurosawa and other notable films before 1960" side note: If you guys haven't checked out the Metropolis anime it pairs quite nicely with psychedelics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 There were great films up through the 70s, and plenty of 80s films (less 90s flicks that weren't revival efforts) that still "felt" like old films. These two from 1970 are two of my favorite: ^1964 but as a anti-nuclear war flick it easily could of been a late 50s film, like this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Also, before 1934 there were no formal censorship codes in place, so there some pretty graphic and gritty crime and horror films (especially in context) before that. So you can find some pretty flat-out exploitative films from that era apparently (if they haven't been lost) 1960 is a random and arbitrary cut-off imo, but I know what you mean about how so many films now, even critically acclaimed and objectively good ones, are with few exceptions filmed and written with such frantic pacing, so much where you can't just sit and absorb the beauty of film itself. Soundtracks are often overdone (i.e. no "silence" or pure natural background noise). Unless it's an indie flick, there's probably a very clear and literal plot, nothing to think or talk about or reflect on after the film ends. There's no repeat value to a lot of new films, especially Blockbusters, because it's an experience that doesn't warrant further exploration or thought. There's not as much to cherish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 La Strada Death of a Cyclist The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries The Cranes are Flying Letter Never Sent Le Notti Bianche Il grido Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frankie5fingers Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 duck soup (1933), probably marx brothers best movie. absurd and fast paced. YES!! just about any Marx brothers movie from A Day At The Races and back are friggin amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Al Capone (1959). A factual biography. Fantastic. Strange Illusion (1945). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I enjoyed "No Way Out" from 1950. I just clicked on it randomly on youtube one day. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042792/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBLsHLdncDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adjective Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Pickpocket (1959) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Some good ones mentioned. Also Public Enemy (1931) Angels With Dirty Faces Yankee Doodle Dandy ... just about any other movie with James Cagney The Grand Illusion Rules Of The Game It's A Wonderful Life A Streetcar Named Desire Casablanca Sunset Blvd Asphalt Jungle Touch Of Evil Ugetsu Throne Of Blood To Be Or Not To Be Some good ones came out in 1960: Eyes without a face Psycho The apartment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 the bicycle thief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Pre-1960, huh?As Chunky mentioned, Shichinin no Samurai is definitely one worth mentioning. I also watched the original 1954 Gojira (Godzilla) in one of my history courses a few years back.As for American films, I'd say Some Like It Hot and Plan 9 From Outer Space, though both films preceded 1960 by only a year. The latter is actually quite badly done, but is famously entertaining for that very reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 This is 1963 but it's awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Sweet Smell of Success Letter from an Unknown Woman The Third Man Gun Crazy Citizen Kane Night of the Hunter Les Diaboliques Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 a lot of good ones have already been mentioned but i hold The Day The Earth Stood Still in a special place in my heart. For coming out on the heels of the Korean war it's a pretty provocative and anti military movie for the time. Great theremin centric score by Bernard Hermann which was emulated and basically recreated for the Tim Burton movie Mars Attacks also if you like scifi but think most of it from this era sucks (and you would be right) check out Forbidden Planet, and if you have a blueray player or HD TV check it out in HD, it's one of the best looking transfers i've ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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