Old films.

e_e · 16-08-2014 1:49pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Starting with The Apartment

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

thefasteriwalk · 16-08-2014 1:51pm

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 · 16-08-2014 1:54pm

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 · 16-08-2014 1:57pm

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 · 16-08-2014 2:02pm

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

losthorizon · 16-08-2014 2:07pm

Now this is a classic

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

takamichinoku · 16-08-2014 2:27pm

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 · 16-08-2014 3:15pm

e_e wrote: »

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

The 50s weren't bad either ...

scream · 16-08-2014 4:40pm

Oranage2 wrote: »

Barberella

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

e_e · 16-08-2014 5:06pm

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 · 16-08-2014 5:09pm

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 · 16-08-2014 5:20pm

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

16-08-2014 5:52pm

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 · 16-08-2014 5:54pm

Capt'n Midnight · 17-08-2014 3:31am

++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 · 17-08-2014 4:28am

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 · 17-08-2014 7:48am

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 · 17-08-2014 7:30pm

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 · 17-08-2014 7:34pm

Dog Day Afternoon

It is on TV tonight

Shakespeare's Sister · 17-08-2014 7:57pm

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

e_e · 17-08-2014 8:08pm

gladrags wrote: »

Dog Day Afternoon

It is on TV tonight

"ATTICA! ATTICA!"

Such a great Pacino role, think I like it even more than The Godfather.

spurious · 17-08-2014 8:10pm

Harold and Maude.

Saw Metropolis recently in the NCH with a live soundtrack - amazing experience and pretty good special effects in most of it, considering it's so old.

glynf · 17-08-2014 8:12pm

The French Connection

the Conversation.

Links234 · 17-08-2014 8:13pm

Yojimbo
A Fistful of Dollars

takamichinoku · 17-08-2014 8:19pm

Here's one that seems a bit surprisingly underappreciated considering the names involved

John Huston's Fat City
Film from the 1970s about two boxers starring Stacy Keach and a young Jeff Bridges, some exceptional cinematography work by Conrad L Hall (American Beauty, Butch Cassidy ...the dude rules!) and fits right at home with the whole early 70s US film scene, despite being directed by a (very very very skilled and talented) guy nearing his 70s. Really surprised me just how good it was.