Classic Films You Think Are Wonderful!!

[Minor Axis]

Any old movies you think are outstanding?

The top of my list in no particular order includes:
Giant (1956)- A great movie, probably James Dean's best role.
In Harms Way (1965)- Outstanding WWII film.
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Casablanca (1942)
The Graduate (1967)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Star Wars (1977)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
North by Northwest (1959)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
American Graffitti (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

 

[Obdurate]

I'll try to just add movies that you don't have, though I'll agree with everything on your list that I've seen... except, how are we judging classic here? How old do they have to be? And some of these directors have made an astonishing amount of good movies but I'll limit it to a max of 3 for each.

Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai (1954)


Andrei Tarkovsky:
Stalker (1979)
Mirror (1975)
Andrei Rublev (1966)

Alejandro Jodorowsky:
El Topo (1970)
The Holy Mountain (1973)

Ingmar Bergman:
Persona (1966)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
White Light (1962)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
In A Year of 13 Moons (1980)

Alfred Hitchcock:
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
Rebecca (1940)

Roman Polanski:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Chinatown (1974)

René Laloux
Fantastic Planet (1973)

Isao Takahata
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira (1988)

Federico Fellini (I haven't been able to see any of his other movies yet though)
8 1/2 (1963)

Michael Powell
Peeping Tom (1960)

Vittorio De Sica
The Bicycle Thief (1948)

Hector Babenco
Pixote (1981)

Luis Buñuel (haven't gotten to see any of his other films either..)
The Golden Age (1930)

Werner Herzog
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Where The Green Ants Dream (1984)

Isidore Isou
Venom and Eternity (1951)



And there's tons more...

Modern classics (and I'm sick of the format I had going above there):

Harmony Korine - Julien Donkey-Boy, Gummo
David Lynch - INLAND EMPIRE
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Tropical Malady, Mysterious Objects at Noon, Syndromes and a Century
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - Last Life in the Universe
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colors: Blue, The Decalogue (even though it's actually a TV mini-series and it was made in 1988, that's modern enough to put here since I put his other movie, which is '93, here).
I'd probably get shit for this but David Fincher - Fight Club.



Edit: I just noticed you said "old movies." Oh well, screw you creepo!

 

[NicAuf]

I love me some 12 Angry Men, Streetcar Named Desire, and East of Eden.

 

[Obdurate]

Y'argh, I forgot some that I wanted to include.

Fritz Lang - M (1931) and Metropolis (1927).

M pre-dates film noir and created the blue prints to it, along with being one of the first flicks to use a leitmotif.

Metropolis, which is a dystopian silent film that comments on the relationship between workers and owners in capitalism. It has absolutely stunning set pieces. It's amazing that he was able to do what he did back then.


Dziga Vertov - Man With A Movie Camera (1929).

It's a silent Russian documentary film. Wikipedia says it well:
This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, animations and a self-reflexive style (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

He's made other great movies but this is my favourite. Can't go wrong with Full Metal Jacket or the Shining as well. What's interesting about the Shining is how it's a mirror of the original novel.


Sidney Lumet - Network (1976)

Excellent satire of television.


I also think that There Will Be Blood will go down as a classic. And No Country for Old Men is the best thing the Coens will ever do. Oh and The Dark Knight. I'm also pretty quick to label things as classics, though, so who knows?

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

Any old movies you think are outstanding?

The top of my list in no particular order includes:
Giant (1956)- A great movie, probably James Dean's best role.
In Harms Way (1965)- Outstanding WWII film.
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Casablanca (1942)
The Graduate (1967)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Star Wars (1977)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
North by Northwest (1959)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
American Graffitti (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

You got some mad movie taste:thumbup

American Graffitti although not TOTALLY classic so far as age....Well mebbe...Damn that's old

I watched it last night for about the 1,000th time

And I like the rest of your choices. I would add

The African Queen

Mutiny On The Bounty

Hellfighters (The only John Wyane fil I have watched loosely based on the life of Red Adair)

A Clockwork Orange

Psycho

To Kill a Mockingbird (the original)

Rebel Without A Cause

to name a few

 

[Dana]

It's A Wonderful Life
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Grease

 

[Zorak]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[wednesday]

Defo Its a wonderful life...has to be the best movie ever,(james stewart...fantastic)
Cary Grant in "every girl shoul be married"
Harvey...with again james stewart
and i hate to admit this but..."jason and the argonauts"..i love that flick!!

 

[Peter Parka]

Hmmm, my favorite old classics

The Great Dictator
Giant
Dr Zhivago
Oliver!
Alfie
Get Carter

 

[gLing]

Dances With Wolves. Watching that makes me want to go live in the country.

 

[SouthOfHeaven]

Dances with Wolves is my dads fav movie.

 

[teh_fuzz]

Star wars!!! the original 3 though, the rest are shit.
Alien
Night of the living dead (the classic one)

 

[gLing]

Dances with Wolves is my dads fav movie.

It's truly wonderful. I've been into cowboy movies lately. I have been getting country lust real bad. lol

 

[MMMMatilde]

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS!!! YAY!

and.. Roman Holiday
Paris, when it Sizzles.
Sabrina



Audrey Hepburn <3





Blue Hawaii
Viva Las Vegas

..


Some Like It Hot!
Dreams

 

[GuesSAngel]

anything audrey hepburn

 

[MMMMatilde]

anything audrey hepburn

Yeah baby!!! hehe