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Posted by: BSaunders, April 4th, 2016, 5:57am
I want to broaden my horizon in this film game and what better way than to go back to where it started.
I'm very much of the new era and I think the oldest movie I have seen is Psycho. If I want to some day be an award winning writer/director I'm going to need to see the greats that made the filmmakers of our time want to be a filmmaker.
Hit me with your favourite movies pre 1960s.
Please, no horrors. Yes, I'm a little bitch and I don't get a kick out of demon children climbing out of televisions. I couldn't sleep for a week after watching that movie.
Cheers
Posted by: DustinBowcot (Guest), April 4th, 2016, 6:35am; Reply: 1
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Posted by: khamanna, April 4th, 2016, 8:45am; Reply: 5
This one is a very good movie! I love it.
Depending on what you like. If comedies and rom coms I could give you a few.
My personal favorite is a comedy named
Harvey (with James Stewart)
There are also famous romantic comedies:
How To Steal a Million (with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole)
Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn)
Posted by: Athenian, April 4th, 2016, 9:23am; Reply: 6
Posted by: khamanna, April 4th, 2016, 10:27am; Reply: 7
A Streetcar Named Desire (1950s with young Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh)
Marty (1955) and it's absolutely fenomenal!
Posted by: Heretic, April 4th, 2016, 11:10am; Reply: 8
Duck Soup (1933)
Modern Times (1936)
The two funniest movies ever made.
Posted by: alffy, April 4th, 2016, 2:30pm; Reply: 9
Les Diaboliques (1955). One of my favourite movies.
Posted by: JonnyBoy, April 4th, 2016, 2:35pm; Reply: 10
Casablanca (1942) and Singin' in the Rain (1952), definitely. Lots of Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954) is a personal favourite. Oh, and anything with Robert Mitchum. Lots of great film noir out there.
Posted by: stevemiles, April 4th, 2016, 5:32pm; Reply: 11
Bad Day at Black Rock and Ice Cold in Alex. Two films I've come back to a lot. Great dialogue and locations.
Posted by: BSaunders, April 4th, 2016, 5:46pm; Reply: 12
Quoted Text A Streetcar Named Desire (1950s with young Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh |
You had me at Marlon Brando. I'm not sure what it is about his name, but I just seem to really dig it. Haha. This is also one of my sisters favorite movies.
Quoted Text Lots of Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954) is a personal favourite. |
I have heard of this one. Do the Simpson do a rip off of it? This will be one of the first I watch.
Cheers folks.
I have compiled a list of 30 or so pre 1960 movies. I'm going to vedge out for the next couple of weeks and hopefully I learn something cinema. I must reap the benefits of being unemployed while I can.
Posted by: Heretic, April 4th, 2016, 6:40pm; Reply: 13
Posted by: Grandma Bear, April 4th, 2016, 6:49pm; Reply: 14
Great list, Chris! I actually have the The Great Train Robbery script somewhere if anyone is interested. Not sure where it is, but somewhere on an external drive. I haven't checked, but maybe it's readily available online too. I just remember that it is the oldest script I have! :D
Posted by: Ryan1, April 4th, 2016, 9:18pm; Reply: 15
The Searchers
Citizen Kane
The General
Sullivan's Travels
Posted by: LC, April 5th, 2016, 2:38am; Reply: 16
One more:
Double Indemnity 1944 (if you like your Noir) - Billy Wilder/Raymond Chandler, based on a crime novel by James M Cain (he also wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce).
Some believe the writing and film to be a masterpiece.
Posted by: Gum, April 5th, 2016, 11:05am; Reply: 17
The Wizard of Oz (1939). A blunt force trauma induced coma that’s loaded with strange characters and fantastic imagery; including an opium induced awakening within the coma itself (not to inadvertently revisit another thread… a dream within a dream? Perhaps Nolan was influenced by this one, lol).
… anyways, a timeless classic that I find it truly surreal on many levels.
Posted by: DustinBowcot (Guest), April 5th, 2016, 12:01pm; Reply: 18
… anyways, a timeless classic that I find it truly surreal on many levels.
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Try reading the rest of his books... the WoO is just the beginning. Ol' Baum was definitely on something. Could have been opium.
Posted by: Gum, April 5th, 2016, 12:43pm; Reply: 19
Quoted from DustinBowcot Try reading the rest of his books... the WoO is just the beginning. Ol' Baum was definitely on something. Could have been opium. |
Definitely way out there, maybe Lewis Carroll was his supplier, lol. I’m not too familiar with (Baum’s) other works; I’ll definitely have to see what I can dig up online, cheers!
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