want movie recs

[Ivan Kipling]

I thought Suspicion showcased one of Cary Grant's best performances. He did 'sinister,' very well. The film's conclusion, was a disappointment. To tell you the truth, I find a number of Hitchcock movies to be rather glacial, so far as pacing goes. The Birds, was one of them. He sometimes built quite slowly, to a climax.
The Bad Seed is another suspense yarn, that I love. Again, the film's trumped up ending, did not deliver the goods. Temperamental theatricality, throughout.

 

[nioh]

A wide variety of lovely oldies:

Key Largo
L'Eclisse
Divorzio all'italiana
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Vivre Sa Vie
This Gun for Hire
The Roaring Twenties
Le Samourai

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by Violinist

What's the obsession with old movies?

People are ignoring films with Pacino, Deniro...

I specifically requested them since I'm totally ignorant of the older stuff, although I have liked what I've seen. I've seen almost all good movies of the last 15 years that pander to mainstream audiences. That includes most deniro & pacino flicks, and of course, Die Hard.

And thanks for the recs, guys.

 

[globetrotter]

cincinatti kid
all quiet on the western front

 

[Fuuma]

Alexander Nevski
Le corbeau
Out of the past

I just picked three movies at random, I made a kind of top100 list with some short descriptions that I posted on superfuture (just a fancy way to make recommendations) I'll link to it when it's back on.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by Ivan Kipling

Ever see Laura?? You must. Splendid murder mystery, starring the incomparable, Gene Tierney. Another, GT movie, that you can't miss: Leave Her to Heaven. Miss T. stars as a neurotic newlywed, who can't cope with her little brother-in-law's competition. Chilling, spellbinding, disturbing tale. Another, great and deeply affecting movie: Room at the Top. Simone Signoret won a Best Actress Oscar, for this film. Tragic romance. The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall, is also a must see. To watch Miss D. stare directly at her co-star, and listen to her deliver these lines: 'I hope you die. I hope you die, soon. I'll be waiting, for you to die!' is an unforgettable experience.

Laura is an excellent movie, good rec.

 

[Fuuma]

In the spirit of recycling (I think I've posted this list 4 times now) here it is again:

Fuuma's "top 100" movies
How it works:
"¢\tI'll make a post for every decade, starting with the 1910s, for a total of 100 movies
"¢\tI didn't include more than two movies by the same director for variety's sake
"¢\tThe list is, of course, heavily slanted towards my own taste; for example you'll find a proportionally large numbers of French films
"¢\tI tried to give the list a modern angle by including a lot of recent films (80s and up)
"¢\t Those are only small blurbs, if you're interested in one of those movies, feel free to ask, I like watching "˜em and I like talking about "˜em!

Fuuma's top 100: 10s

• Vampires, les/France/Feuillade/1916: Engrossing crime serial with a macabre edge, the main character is boring but you'll be cheering for the amoral members of "les vampires" gang

Fuuma's top 100: 20s

• Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the/Germany/Wiene/1920: Made in the aftermath of WW1. Not so subtle critique of the powers that be, the nightmarish landscapes of this expressionistic movie are a sight to behold
  
• Nosferatu/Germany/Murnau/1922: Another fine example of German expressionism, this one is truly creepy thanks to Max Schreck eerily performance who owes as much to the elaborate gestures of theatre actors as to the much more restrained style that would soon emerge in the cinematic world.
  
• Metropolis/Germany/Lang/1926: Probably the first dystopian sci-fi movie, certainly the best
  
• An andalusian dog/Un chien andalou/France/Bunuel/1929: A dreamlike journey through the subconscious mind of Bunuel (and Dali). The Surrealists were among the first to understand that cinema could be a viable artistic pursuit, worthy of other visual arts

 

[chronoaug]

I'm going to pretend you didn't talk about woody allen movies and not list Annie Hall. I'll definitely second 8 1/2. Great flick.

Try "Mediterraneo" as well. Not black and white, but has that old time movie feel. It's an Italian movie, but a really good one. I think it won best foreign film when it came out.

I'll have to think of more. It's hard off the top of your head.

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

I'm trying to broaden the scope of movies I've seen so I'm sure I can count on some good recs here. I've seen just about every mainstream big release and all the standard guy movies, so let's ignore those. I'm interested in seeing some more black and white films. I'm not so in to movies that try too hard to be artsy or intellectual.

I'll throw-up a short list so you can get an idea of my general preferences.

Woody Allen movies (i've seen all of them)
Babel
Anything with Audrey Hepburn
Casablanca
Laurence of Arabia

Of the Woody Allen movies, I particularly enjoyed the ones that examined relationships: Manhattan, hannah and her sisters, and annie hall. That might carry-over to other films.

i posted this in a previous thread:

italian:
accatone (best film ever)
la dolce vita
rocco and his brothers
teorema
8 1/2
le notte di cabiria
il bell'antonio
l'amore (best performance by an actress ever, also best "just got dumped" scene ever)
the bicycle thief
umbert d
family diary

in english:
taxi driver
raging bull
2001: a space odyssey
a clockwork orange
husbands
a woman under the influence
godfathers 1 and 2
last tango in paris
the last emperor
the hot chick
nacho libre
the doors
natural born killers
the graduate

shanghai triad (chinese)
yojimbo (japanese)
hunger (danish or norwegian) best starving artist movie ever
tampopo (japanese)
rififi (french) the original 'ocean's eleven' was based on this
my life to live (french)
les enfants terrible (french)
eyes without a face (french)
man bites dog (belgian)


anything by almodovar, cassavettes, or pasolini

ps
if you haven't seen it yet, i would put 'nacho libre' at the top of your list.

 

[jackmccullough]

On the Waterfront
Nosferatu (the Werner Herzog version)
Catch-22
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Princess Bride
My Dinner with Andre

 

[matadorpoeta]

my favorite by godard, contempt if you have a girlfriend, i suggest viewing this film with her.

 

[designprofessor]

by ruling out artsy and intellectual, you are denying yourself of what might be a very entertaining genre.....
"Realm of the Senses" banned in Japan
I also like the documentary on director, David Lynch.

 

[gehrig]

Seconds and One, Two, Three; both are black and white but felt modern to me