Old films.

scream · 17-08-2014 10:38PM

gg2 wrote: »

[... ] Whatever Happened To Baby Jane would be my favourites

My wife loves Bette Davis. This is one of her favourites too.

17-08-2014 10:46PM

'Imitation of Life'

Lana Turner.

I cry at the end everytime.

The Th!ng · 17-08-2014 10:46PM

The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio, 1968), or The Big Silence, is an Italian spaghetti western.[2]
The movie features a score by Ennio Morricone and stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, a mute gunfighter with a grudge against bounty hunters, assisting a group of outlawed Mormons and a woman trying to avenge her husband (a murdered outlaw). They are set against a group of ruthless bounty hunters, led by Loco (Klaus Kinski).
It is one of Corbucci's better known movies. Unlike most conventional spaghetti Westerns, The Great Silence takes place in the snow-filled landscapes of Utah during the Great Blizzard of 1898.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNlF8HZ-xAI

Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law.[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6It5ouqR40U

barneysplash · 17-08-2014 10:50PM

marozz wrote:

The Man with the Golden Arm /quote]
Excellent performance by Frank Sinatra, proving he's more than a singer.

The Forbidden Planet - classic space saucer sci-fi

Defence of the Realm - great cold war thriller, starring our very own Gabriel Byrne.

Fresh - 90s forgotten gem about a boy who is both an avid chess player and a criminal mastermind.

recylingbin · 17-08-2014 10:57PM

Big fan of Bogey's films
Casablanca is amazing
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
We're no Angels is great.

17-08-2014 11:04PM

The original Cape Fear is a masterpiece.

dr.bollocko · 17-08-2014 11:26PM

Aside from the already mentioned, Inherit the wind. Dat Spencer Tracy.

Pumpkinseeds · 17-08-2014 11:27PM

I do love a good Betty Davis film.

Fate Amenable To Change · 17-08-2014 11:40PM

Other than whats mentioned Shane

and well The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

17-08-2014 11:42PM

I always thought Gone With The Wind would be a cliche of a movie.

I was wrong, it's brilliant.

LEE9396 · 17-08-2014 11:45PM

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE , TOP FILM

Fate Amenable To Change · 17-08-2014 11:45PM

Oh and Der Golum

17-08-2014 11:49PM

Psycho is another masterpiece, great suspense.

To Kill A Mockingbird is exceptional too.

Leogirl · 18-08-2014 12:03AM

Jake1 wrote: »

'Imitation of Life'

Lana Turner.

I cry at the end everytime.

Fantastic film- bawl every time!

AoifeCN · 18-08-2014 12:22AM

Most of my favourites have been mentioned already but here's a couple more:

The lady vanishes and The man who knew too much (the original) are some great early Hitchcock films.

The hustler, I love a bit of Paul Newman.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, classic for good reason.

The towering inferno, great disaster flick but don't watch if you have regular contact with tall building's.

--LOS-- · 18-08-2014 12:29AM

I like you Lou I do

Old films especially old horror/thriller/sci-fi/western is the best

offhand random....

The Time Machine 1960
House on Haunted Hill
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Silent Running
El Topo
Anything Hitchcock
A boy and his dog
The wizard of oz!

Tony EH · 18-08-2014 03:29AM

e_e wrote: »

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

Um, I think the 1970's trumps the 1960's.

For a while there, it was anything goes. Studios were willing to take a punt on things they wouldn't have touched with a barge pole in the 60's.

The likes of 70's classics 'Taxi Driver', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Star Wars', 'The Exorcist', 'Death Wish', 'Dirty Harry' or 'Zardoz' wouldn't have been even remotely considered in the previous decade.

takamichinoku · 18-08-2014 03:40AM

Tony EH wrote: »

Um, I think the 1970's trumps the 1960's.

For a while there, it was anything goes. Studios were willing to take a punt on things they wouldn't have touched with a barge pole in the 60's.

The likes of 70's classics 'Taxi Driver', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Star Wars', 'The Exorcist', 'Death Wish', 'Dirty Harry' or 'Zardoz' wouldn't have been even remotely considered in the previous decade.

I'd say e_e is talking about the 60s internationally, the US lagged a bit there.

Pulsating Star · 18-08-2014 04:14AM

The Th!ng wrote: »

The Great Silence

Death Rides a Horse

Just watched both thanks, less said about the first, the better.

LizzieJones · 18-08-2014 06:32AM

Candie wrote: »

Clint Eastwoods 'Play Misty for Me'.

If you get a chance to see him in The Beguiled go for it. It was an interesting movie.

e_e · 18-08-2014 10:58AM

takamichinoku wrote: »

I'd say e_e is talking about the 60s internationally, the US lagged a bit there.

Yep, the New Hollywood is just minor in terms of what was happening all around the world in the 60s. I haven't even scratched the surface either. A lot of film watchers seem to think of cinema in terms of America alone when there's often so much else going on elsewhere. I'd say even as a big movie 2001 A Space Odyssey trumps most (if not all) of what was made in the 1970s in terms of creativity, ambition and uniqueness.

donegal__road · 18-08-2014 11:15AM

this is one of the best black and white short films I have seen in a long time, probably the best thing Michael Hordern has been in... it is a 40 minute ghost story, of sorts. It's a wonderful exercise in economy, and the character drama is engaging enough to make it worth re-visits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUQzd-7dn4

eisenberg1 · 18-08-2014 11:17AM

Any Marx Brothers film

dodzy · 18-08-2014 11:27AM

Dorris Day, yummy.

cloud493 · 18-08-2014 11:29AM

The Million Pound Note.

caustic 1 · 18-08-2014 12:07PM

Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid.

michaelr666 · 18-08-2014 12:15PM

Watched this in college, amazing film but the ending has stuck with me for a long time.

bonzodog2 · 18-08-2014 12:18PM

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/
Citizen Kane (1941) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058213/
All About Eve (1950) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/

are all excellent; plus many already mentioned.

Heisenberg1 · 18-08-2014 12:46PM

Some of my fav old films was Boys town Mickey Rooney was excellent the fighting Sullivans and White Heat. All the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes and of course the universal monster movies all classics.

Tony EH · 18-08-2014 03:27PM

e_e wrote: »

Yep, the New Hollywood is just minor in terms of what was happening all around the world in the 60s. I haven't even scratched the surface either. A lot of film watchers seem to think of cinema in terms of America alone when there's often so much else going on elsewhere. I'd say even as a big movie 2001 A Space Odyssey trumps most (if not all) of what was made in the 1970s in terms of creativity, ambition and uniqueness.

Well, if we're talking Europe, then yes, the 60's was a great era. Too much "by the book" work going on during most of the 60's in American film. In general, European cinema tends to trump the majority of what comes out of US anyway.

As for '2001: A Space Odyssey', while it was certainly all of those things you say, I can't agree that it bests everything from the 70's. That's a big statement there.

A film like 'Silent Running', or even 'THX1138' would give it a good run for its money. Other offbeats like 'Phase IV' too would certainly be high on the "creativity, ambition and uniqueness" metre too.

Old films.

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