Classic films.
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Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
Another I recalled while musing in bed last night. Duel. 1971. A road movie with a difference... starring Dennis Weaver and I think an early Spielberg job.
cobbers
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To make sure the rest of the world has a place in this here is my 2 pfennig worth
Aguirre wrath of God----Werner Herzog
Alice-----Jan Svankmaier
Cyrano de Bergerac-------Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Das Boot (Directors cut or full TV)------Wolfgang Petersen
Delicatessen------Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Downfall-----Oliver Hirschbiegel
Eat,drink,man,woman-----Ang Lee
Jean de Florette-------Claude Berri
Kagemusha------Akira Kurosawa
Lives of others-------Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Three colours blue,white,red-----Krysztof Kieslowski
Underground------Emir Kusturica
Aguirre wrath of God----Werner Herzog
Alice-----Jan Svankmaier
Cyrano de Bergerac-------Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Das Boot (Directors cut or full TV)------Wolfgang Petersen
Delicatessen------Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Downfall-----Oliver Hirschbiegel
Eat,drink,man,woman-----Ang Lee
Jean de Florette-------Claude Berri
Kagemusha------Akira Kurosawa
Lives of others-------Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Three colours blue,white,red-----Krysztof Kieslowski
Underground------Emir Kusturica
I am a fugitive from a chain gang.
Cape Fear, watch both versions for the different takes at the end.
The Hustler and The Cincinatti Kid. Watch both, one guy wins the game and loses in life, the other the other way.
Citizen Kane is overrated. I found it a long hike to not much.
Cape Fear, watch both versions for the different takes at the end.
The Hustler and The Cincinatti Kid. Watch both, one guy wins the game and loses in life, the other the other way.
Citizen Kane is overrated. I found it a long hike to not much.
Barrymagrec
pfm Member
A Canterbury Tale
I know where I`m going!
The small back room
Cinema Paradiso
The Dish
Casablanca
Key Largo
To have and have not
The Dead
I know where I`m going!
The small back room
Cinema Paradiso
The Dish
Casablanca
Key Largo
To have and have not
The Dead
Mystic Mac
cauliflower ears not golden ears....
North by Northwest is a stand out classic for me
Paths of Glory, an early Kirk Douglas film.
Paths of Glory, an early Kirk Douglas film.
2ManyBoxes
pfm Member
The Searchers - best Western by far and best ending, you can even sing along. John Wayne absolutely brilliant
Rumble Fish - 80s black & white forgotten Coppola but one of his best
Apocalypse Now - best opening of any film
2001 A Space Odessy - best seen when 10 years old when it first came out
Bicycle Thieves - best socialist film, very powerful
Dersu Uzala - best Kurosawa film, second best opening
Big Sleep - best film noir, although who does kill the chauffeur?
Blade Runner - best sci-fi and soundtrack
Cyrano de Bergerac - best insight into the soul of Frenchmen. Best line "Ne dits mois que cette impossible - JE SAIS"
Yojimbo - best badass film, although Get Carter is very, very close
Some great, great films there. Almost enough to make me put my home cinema set up back together
Rumble Fish - 80s black & white forgotten Coppola but one of his best
Apocalypse Now - best opening of any film
2001 A Space Odessy - best seen when 10 years old when it first came out
Bicycle Thieves - best socialist film, very powerful
Dersu Uzala - best Kurosawa film, second best opening
Big Sleep - best film noir, although who does kill the chauffeur?
Blade Runner - best sci-fi and soundtrack
Cyrano de Bergerac - best insight into the soul of Frenchmen. Best line "Ne dits mois que cette impossible - JE SAIS"
Yojimbo - best badass film, although Get Carter is very, very close
Some great, great films there. Almost enough to make me put my home cinema set up back together
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You've mentioned the greatest film ever made. The Swimmer of 1968 is absolutely brilliant. Summed up American society in a way no other film has dared to do.
Warning: If you like the Jimmy Stewart Xmas movie, avoid this film unless you want you illusions shattered.
fegs
pfm Member
The Searchers - best Western by far and best ending, you can even sing along. John Wayne absolutely brilliant
Rumble Fish - 80s black & white forgotten Coppola but one of his best
Apocalypse Now - best opening of any film
2001 A Space Odessy - best seen when 10 years old when it first came out
Bicycle Thieves - best socialist film, very powerful
Dersu Uzala - best Kurosawa film, second best opening
Big Sleep - best film noir, although who does kill the chauffeur?
Blade Runner - best sci-fi and soundtrack
Cyrano de Bergerac - best insight into the soul of Frenchmen. Best line "Ne dits mois que cette impossible - JE SAIS"
Some great, great films there. Almost enough to make me put my home cinema set up back together
Great list, Rumble Fish is a classic IMHO
kjb
Proof reading not always a strength
Quite right - nearly all the best movies have subtitles IMO
I'd suggest some of the following - keeping with the 40s - 60s preference in the OP. I saw quite a few of these on BBC 2 in the late 70s/early 80s - I got a lot of my education on foreign movies there and in the late night double bills at the Phoenix in East Finchley
Jules at Jim
Cleo from 9 to 5
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Cinema Paradiso
M
Lift to the Scaffold
Nosterafu
I would highly recommend Mubi: they curate great programmes of world and indie cinema. I initially signed up for a try it and see package and became hooked. Im seeing so many great films each week - quite a few of which I'd never come across before.
Films Now Showing on MUBI
It's an absolute bargain for £2.50 a week. If you scroll down there's a set of 1940s masterpieces and their top 100 gives a good idea of the range of films they show.
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Very easily is the reply ! A bit like a slightly more adult version of that terrible TV show, "Friends".
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
Jesus, you lot couldn't stick to a spec if you tried.
10 films from the 40's to the 60's that BBC2 might show in the 70's and 80's?
This Happy Breed (Noel Coward & David Lean's stiry of a Claphanm family between the wars)
Le Bonheur (French - Agnes Varda's riveting new wave study of domestic disharmony)
Forbidden Games (French again - two children dealing with grief in WW2, heart rendingly lovely)
Ace in the Hole (The blackest reation of both Kirk Douglas and Billy Wilder)
The Entertainer (Laurence Olivier chews the scenery as failing end of the pier entertainer)
Tom Jones (just the best British film of the 60's - a riot)
The Fireman's Ball (The film that got Milos Foreman - who later directed One flew over the cuckoo's nest - chucked out of Czechoslovakia. Hilarious)
The Killing of Sister George (Sapphic Noir with Beryl Reid, chilling and very evocative of the period)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Wild Bunch
10 films from the 40's to the 60's that BBC2 might show in the 70's and 80's?
This Happy Breed (Noel Coward & David Lean's stiry of a Claphanm family between the wars)
Le Bonheur (French - Agnes Varda's riveting new wave study of domestic disharmony)
Forbidden Games (French again - two children dealing with grief in WW2, heart rendingly lovely)
Ace in the Hole (The blackest reation of both Kirk Douglas and Billy Wilder)
The Entertainer (Laurence Olivier chews the scenery as failing end of the pier entertainer)
Tom Jones (just the best British film of the 60's - a riot)
The Fireman's Ball (The film that got Milos Foreman - who later directed One flew over the cuckoo's nest - chucked out of Czechoslovakia. Hilarious)
The Killing of Sister George (Sapphic Noir with Beryl Reid, chilling and very evocative of the period)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Wild Bunch
martin clark
pinko bodger
Others not yet mentioned:
Three utterly-brilliant Ealing Comedies, no, four:
Three utterly-brilliant Ealing Comedies, no, four:
- The Man in the White Suit
- The Maggie
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Passport to Pimlico
- A Man for All Seasons
- Becket
- The Lion in Winter
- The Merchant of Venice (- Al Pacino et al, 2004)
cubastreet
Espresso Fiend
This is a goodie:
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