Old films.

Lou.m

cat people 1942 amazing film

the pool scene...

metropolis


unsilenced version based on audio script.

M....one of the most moving and impressioning films ever at the end..

the original the night of the hunter

funny face love Audrey Hepburn!

KERSPLAT!

I don't watch many old films but 12 Angry Men would be one of my favorites

Lou.m

What are some of your recommendations and favs?

Lou.m

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I don't watch many old films but 12 Angry Men would be one of my favorites

That's amazing. Henry Fonda was great!

Ruu

Anything Vincent Price. Dr Phibes/Dr Phibes Rises Again.

kneemos

Showcase have some of the really old stuff.

Lucifer MorningStar

One of my fav old films

monkeysnapper

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

One of my fav old films

I watched this a few weeks ago and was a little disappointed at end when the credits went up...... I was sure there was more to the story, .like the fabulous escape part. Anyway I got the book and again was very disappointed with what was in the book vrs what the facts were.

Billy Hayes was also critical of the way the film was made. I suppose isn't that always the way when someone from Hollywood gets there hands on a true story ? Have to day tho I enjoyed the film.

Banjo String

My fave old film would have to be cocoon.


All them pensioners jumping in and out of that pool like flaming gallahs, and riding each other like teenagers.


2 things I got from that movie. 1, I need to retire in Miami, 2, I need to find alien eggs.

Grayson

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I don't watch many old films but 12 Angry Men would be one of my favorites

Highest voted film on IMDB.

I love Hitchcock. North by Northwest is one of my favourites. For those that are interested To Catch a Thief is on at the IFI right now
http://www.ifi.ie/film/to-catch-a-thief-2/

I also love the 30's and 40's film noir. Some of the dialogue on films like the maltese falcon is amazing.

thefasteriwalk

I'm with you, Grayson. I love The Maltese Falcon. The Third Man is probably my favourite:

LizzieJones

I'm a big fan of the old classic black and white movies. I also love Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and comedies like this ........

And movies by this couple are fun to watch too ........

Grayson

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

I'm with you, Grayson. I love The Maltese Falcon. The Third Man is probably my favourite:

That's a fantastic film.

For the week that's in it, here's Lauren Bacall telling Bogart to whistle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

This was when they were falling in love. I think you can see it in the way he acted.

Apparently he said just after they met "That dame sure has cojones"

Harry Palmr

Ruu wrote: »

Anything Vincent Price. Dr Phibes/Dr Phibes Rises Again.

Been years since they were on telly. Pity the third Phibes film never got made.

Oranage2

Barberella

El Guapo!

On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando.

We had to watch it in school for the leaving cert but it's remained one of my favourite films of all time. Brilliant performance from Brando.

Kalimah

Anything with David Niven, Errol Flynn or Bette Davis in it.
My Dad loved The Bridge on the River Kwai and 12 Angry Men.
I love A Man for all Seasons.

scream

Was watching 'Daemons of the Mind' yesterday. It's an old Hammer film that gets slated quite a bit, but was actually one of the best I've seen from them. Another good one is 'Lair of the White Worm', a Bram Stoker story. Very weird in places, but very good.

scream

Oranage2 wrote: »

Barberella

+1

Couldn't agree more. They're supposed to be making a TV series based on it. I can't link to the relevant site due to low post count, but you can search for 'Gaumont International Television', although there's not much there at the moment anyway.

LizzieJones

Movies by this lady .....

scream

'Brief Encounter' was pretty good too if you're into that kind of thing. I didn't expect to like it but it was very atmospheric. But then I've a thing for steam trains and station workers that are helpful and polite and talk to people like they actually matter.

/rant

saintsaltynuts

Psycho.

gg2

I love old movies.. Gone With The Wind, Roman Holiday, Camille, a Star Is Born (Kristofferson / Streisand version), Ryans Daughter, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane would be my favourites

ruthloss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU

eisenberg1

Depends on the definition of old, I suppose.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest......very hard to beat.

Ice Cold in Alex, The Family Way

Pretty much any Bela Lugosi/Hammer House films

Cool Hand Luke

Lou.m

Oranage2 wrote: »

Barberella

YES!:)

Lou.m

scream wrote: »

+1

Couldn't agree more. They're supposed to be making a TV series based on it. I can't link to the relevant site due to low post count, but you can search for 'Gaumont International Television', although there's not much there at the moment anyway.

OMG REALLY?

scream

Lou.m wrote: »

OMG REALLY?

One of those things that's been talked about for years but does look like it may actually happen now. Well, maybe...

e_e

Great pre-1950 films:

Bicycle Thief
City Lights
Double Indemnity
Freaks
It's a Wonderful Life
Late Spring
Man With a Movie Camera
Modern Times
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Red Shoes
Sherlock Jr
The Third Man

People who refuse to watch a film if it's in black and white or was made before a certain date just make me sad tbh.

e_e

For sheer innovation though you can't beat the 1960s for film.

eisenberg1

e_e wrote: »

For sheer innovation though you can't beat the 1960s for film.

Starting with The Apartment

e_e

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Starting with The Apartment

Also L'Avventura, watched it last night and it really is like no film made before it.

thefasteriwalk

Grayson wrote: »

That's a fantastic film.

For the week that's in it, here's Lauren Bacall telling Bogart to whistle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

This was when they were falling in love. I think you can see it in the way he acted.

Apparently he said just after they met "That dame sure has cojones"

Ah yes! I enjoy all the films they're in together. I love almost every film starring Bogie, though. I'm inspired - I've decided I'm going to spend my day/evening curled up watching some classics

eisenberg1

e_e wrote: »

Also L'Avventura, watched it last night and it really is like no film made before it.

Just watched the Trailer, I will have to get to see that. The priest in Cinema Paradiso would be ringing the bell like the clappers:D

thefasteriwalk

El Guapo! wrote: »

On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando.

We had to watch it in school for the leaving cert but it's remained one of my favourite films of all time. Brilliant performance from Brando.

Nothing is sexier than a young Marlon Brando. I love him in A Streetcar Named Desire too. Steelllllllllla!

DEFTLEFTHAND

They sure don't make them like they use to.

losthorizon

Now this is a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL2HLEZP9so

takamichinoku

Looks like someone uploaded this to YouTube!:D

Absolutely fantastic documentary series about the silent era in the US. Managed to get a lot of interviews with people who were around at the time, has tons of great footage is extremely well put together and is NARRATED BY JAMES MASON!!!

Bit slow for the first few episodes but the whole thing's a peach.

LizzieJones

e_e wrote: »

For sheer innovation though you can't beat the 1960s for film.

The 50s weren't bad either ...

scream

Oranage2 wrote: »

Barberella

And by a happy coincidence, it happens to be on Sky ScFi/Horror tonight at 11.25pm.

e_e

LizzieJones wrote: »

The 50s weren't bad either ...

Tonnes of great films for sure, but with the 60s there was a real sea change in how films were starting to be made. Stuff like Persona, Red Desert, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Play Time, 8½ and Last Year at Marienbad all worked like nothing that has been made before or since. It's as if a load of great directors just thought "Things sort of reached a peak in the 50s, so let's throw out the rule book for how we make movies."

Martin Scorsese talks about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0eFv1vHxo

Andrewf20

One the best films ive ever watched and i love the trailer also. Not that old in fairness. 100% on rottentomatoes all the same.

Fr D Maugire

Some of my favourites already listed but a few more

Bad Day at Blackrock-nothing to do with D4 but a Spencer Tracy Classic.
Battleground-fantastic 40s war movie about regular soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
The day the earth stood still(original of course)- great 50s sci-fi.

Quite a few of the Ealing Comedies, Kind Hearts & Coronets picking one

The original 'The Ladykillers' starring Alastair Sims, very funny old Ealing comedy with sparklingly witting dialogue.

The original 'Flight of The Phoenix' starring James Stewart. You can feel the desert heat.

White Heat, starring James Cagney - brilliant old gangster stuff with obligatory crazy steering in a car while on a straight road and dialogue delivered like a machine gun.

Rosemary's Baby starring Mia Farrow, one of the few genuinely creepy old horrors.

Hold The Front Page, starring Walther Matthau and Jack Lemmon, comedy generously laced with pathos. Brilliant.

To Have and Have Not, the late Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart being gravelly and laconic in equal measure.

I love old movies.

MRnotlob606

Capt'n Midnight

++1 for The Ladykillers

Nosferatu , the remake is good too

The Day the Earth Stood Still.

King Kong ,

Duck Soup

Rashomon

The Seventh Seal

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Young Frankenstein - not an old film, but if you've ever watched the original Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein it's a must see.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Three Humphrey Bogart films to watch, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure Of Sierra Madre.

There's a reason why the American Film Institute ranked him as the greatest actor of all time in 1999. The guy was a 'man's man' and belonged to the studio house culture that's now lost in Hollywood.

A time where there was no CGI or special effects, a good plot and acting led the way, they told a story.

Buona Fortuna

A few of my favs

Great story, great acting, humour, action, tension ...

Ingrid Bergman just stunning and Bogie of course.

We used to use this as a management training film. Used to be great to be paid to ...

John Mills, Sylvia Simms - not the best scene from the film but always makes me fancy a ... cuppa tae:)

marozz

Many of the films already mentioned are great. Some of my favourite films are :

Rope
The Man with the Golden Arm
Point Blank
The Sting

gladrags

Dog Day Afternoon

It is on TV tonight

Shakespeare's Sister

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (My avatar is a still from a Simpsons spoof of same).