Classic films
 

I'm talking TMC. I'm talking pre-1970. Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Bogey/Bacall, Monroe, Kim Novak, etc

What are your favorites? What are the best ones out there?

A few I've been watching lately:
Bell, Book and Candle
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The pre-Lazenby Connery James Bonds
The Seven Year Itch
Rope

Pre 1970? Okay...

Branded to Kill
Alphaville
Breathless
Masculin Feminin
Pierrot Le Fou
8 1/2
Night of the Living Dead
Casablanca
Freaks
Dracula
The Wolf Man
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Glen or Glenda
Blood and Black Lace
Planet of the Vampires
The Wasp Woman
I Bury the Living
King Kong
Once Upon a Time in the West
Blood Feast
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!
The Birds
Psycho
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Fando y Lis
Daisies
The Nutty Professor
Shock Corridor
Rosemary's Baby
Faces
Shadows
Nosferatu
Dr. Strangelove
Robot Monster
Farenheit 451
The Wizard of Oz

All James Dean movies are classics

Fave pre-70s Hollywood:

Westerns:
My Darling Clementine
High Noon
Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
The Searchers
... too many greats to mention

Ten of the usual suspects:

Citizen Cane
Casablanca
Singin' in the Rain
To Have and Have Not
The Night of the Hunter
It's a Wonderful Life
The Big Heat
Some Like it Hot
Vertigo
His Girl Friday

I love that movie so much! It's like a comfort film for me. One I watch as often as I can but sort of take for granted. I've never included it in any personal top tens but I really should. Have you seen the sequels, The Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among US? Absolutely fantastic stuff - especially Walks Among US. The kind of film that immediately makes me want to grow a square jaw, marry a sweater girl and live in 1950s Florida.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!!

Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Any Laurel and Hardy
North By Northwest
The Ladykillers
The Lavender Hill Mob
White Heat
Duck Soup
Brighton Rock
Billy Liar

As much as I hate to admit it, I actually haven't seen either of the sequels. But I have heard of 'em. I must've seen the original at least 4 times though. I once caught it at this extremely old fashioned theater downtown on Halloween night, they were presenting it in (old school) 3-D, and even had an orchestra present! THAT was really neat.

A favorite "classic film" that I forgot to mention is Bunuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz or Ensayo de un Crimen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048037/













This one is pretty weird. Kinda slow, but it definitely deserves more attention than it gets.

^ The Wasp Woman... ain't that neat?

LONG LIVE THIS THREAD

If you ever get the time, you really must see them. I get the two sequels mixed up. It's the second sequal I like most, not the first: the one where the creature becomes an attraction at a Florida theme-park (shades of Jaws 3). Great stuff. One of those movies where it's impossible for me to pin down precisely what I love about it but if you're at all into that 50s Americana thing then you should really enjoy it. It even features a really early performance by Clint Eastwood!