What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Cotillion]

these are really great movies and essential,

I'd add to that some of my favorites that are less known and my have slipped under the radar for some, but if you like classic cinema should be a good watch:

Ace in the Hole
Out of the Past
Harvey
The Hill
The Train
Anatomy of a Murder
Harakiri
Laura
Lifeboat
To Have and Have Not
Heaven Can Wait
Divorce Italian Style
The Shop Around the Corner
To be or not to be
Stairway to Heaven aka A Matter of Life and Death
To catch a thief


..they don't make them like they used to.

Some great picks here. Great to see another noir and Hitchcock aficionado! Some of these I haven't seen though so thanks for posting, I will check those out.

 

[double00]

interesting that shawshank makes so many folks' lists , i just watched Green Mile for the first time and i thought it was superb .

 

[ter1413]

Films that I consider essential viewing:

Comedies:
It Happened One Night
Arsenic and Old Lace
Roman Holiday
Sabrina
Sabrina (seriously, the remake is excellent)
Bill & Ted

Drama:
Casablanca
Napoleon
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
North by Northwest
Rear Window
In the Heat of the Night
Easy Rider
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather

Horror:
Night of the Living Dead (orig.)
2001
Jaws
Alien
Martin
Aliens
Halloween
Suspiria
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Get Out
Candyman
Let the Right One In (Swedish version)
Dawn of the Dead (the remake!!!)
Evil Dead

Unclassifiable Insanity:

Faust by Svankmajer
Alice, also by Svankmajer
Nekromantik
Der Todesking

-Guess Who would just be off my list. Solid though.
-Halloween...yes.

 

[wojt]

Some great picks here. Great to see another noir and Hitchcock aficionado! Some of these I haven't seen though so thanks for posting, I will check those out.

Guilty as charged. I love them, the only drawback is there are very few people to talk to about them 😄. Most of friends and peers are either in to sci-fi(which I enjoy fortunately), main stream super hero movies(which i don't) and occasional movie on Netflix(which mostly suck).

 

[ter1413]

What do you guys think of....

The Graduate?
Maltese Falcon?
Pulp Fiction?
Psycho?
Lost in Translation?
Blair Witch?
Maltese Falcon?
Rosemary's Baby?
Casino?
Hoffa?
The Irishman?
Donnie Brasco?

 

[ter1413]

Some great picks here. Great to see another noir and Hitchcock aficionado! Some of these I haven't seen though so thanks for posting, I will check those out.

I am def a film noir fan!

 

[imatlas]

Shock Waves 1977. Caught in my favorite Amazon Prime method: light the fireplace and dig around for oldish movies and take a swing. It rarely fails so I never bothered with any of the Oscar nominees for 2023. Anyway, the plot: a group of passengers on a chartered boat get shipwrecked off a deserted island. They get picked off one by one by part dead/part alive nazi super soldiers (to be clear it is decades after WWII). It's a very good horror/thriller. It has a few horror movie tropes but is never boring and very satisfying.

A classic of the Underwater Nazi Zombie genre!

Dead Snow is another great entry in this category!

 

[imatlas]

What do you guys think of....

The Graduate?
Maltese Falcon?
Pulp Fiction?
Psycho?
Lost in Translation?
Blair Witch?
Maltese Falcon?
Rosemary's Baby?
Casino?
Hoffa?
The Irishman?
Donnie Brasco?

All great, though Hoffa and The Irishman I haven't seen. A few of these I think I've seen enough times - I don't need to see Lost in Translation again, for example.

 

[ter1413]

All great, though Hoffa and The Irishman I haven't seen. A few of these I think I've seen enough times - I don't need to see Lost in Translation again, for example.

Maltese Falcon and The Irishman are on my all time OVERRATED list!

Here are a few more OVERRATED ones...Will add as I remember:

-Pulp Fiction(I admit that I would need to watch it again...only saw once when it first came out.)
-Fight Club
-Wolf of Wall St.
-American Psycho

 

[double00]

What do you guys think of....

The Graduate?
Maltese Falcon?
Pulp Fiction?
Psycho?
Lost in Translation?
Blair Witch?
Maltese Falcon?
Rosemary's Baby?
Casino?
Hoffa?
The Irishman?
Donnie Brasco?

love this question as many of these films i watched back in the 90s and i feel differently about a lot of them in retrospect . here we go :

the graduate has gotten cheapened somewhat as i've seen some of mike nichols' other work , i sort of look at him as a cheap shot artist .

i enjoyed maltese falcon and i'm a fan of dashiell hammett , the adaptation was good .

pulp fiction is not my favorite tarantino film or script . to me it has not held up as well as its original fanfare would suggest but i also think tarantino has made some incredible movies , particularly jackie brown, death proof, django, and basterds.

psycho is spectacular .

lost in translation i rewatched recently and i think it holds up well .

blair witch i haven't seen in a while ... not sure .

rosemary's baby : i started to watch this the other day and i wasn't in the mood but i appreciate polanksi's approach to horror-as-farce . i started the fearless vampire killers and so far it is hilarious .

i did not like casino when i first saw it , i thought it was a bloated three card monty version of goodfellas . i recently watched it again and even tho i still feel that way in general i also think it is astoundingly beautifully shot and really cinematic , i just wish the domestic drama in particular was handled a bit differently .

didn't see the irishman .

i've seen donnie brasco but dont' remember it fwiw .

 

[beargonefishing]

Few great international films are The Yellow Sea (or any Na Hong-jin film), Beanpole (I can't remember the name of another great Russian or balken film about a Jewish girl dating a non-jewis borderline nazi guy in secret but will update when it comes to me), and The Raid.

 

[beargonefishing]

Closeness was the other Russian film I couldn't remember the name of. Also great.

 

[Cotillion]

Guilty as charged. I love them, the only drawback is there are very few people to talk to about them 😄. Most of friends and peers are either in to sci-fi(which I enjoy fortunately), main stream super hero movies(which i don't) and occasional movie on Netflix(which mostly suck).

I'm in the same boat. My wife likes watching contemporary neo-noirs with me but can't get into the classic film noirs. Fortunately, she doesn't mind subtitles so a lot of the good stuff coming out of Asia recently is a good watch (Black Coal, Thin Ice, Wild Goose Lake). I really need to see Anatomy from your list so I've queued those up for this week. I can't really rate films objectively, just what I love but from Hitchcock Dial M for Murder was always a favorite. Do you have any obscure film noir picks?

I am def a film noir fan!

I think this has become my new favorite thread! Same question. Any obscure film noir picks for me to add to the watchlist?

 

[Cotillion]

What do you guys think of....

The Graduate?
Maltese Falcon?
Pulp Fiction?
Psycho?
Lost in Translation?
Blair Witch?
Maltese Falcon?
Rosemary's Baby?
Casino?
Hoffa?
The Irishman?
Donnie Brasco?

None of those are favorites of mine to be honest.

Few great international films are The Yellow Sea (or any Na Hong-jin film), Beanpole (I can't remember the name of another great Russian or balken film about a Jewish girl dating a non-jewis borderline nazi guy in secret but will update when it comes to me), and The Raid.

The Yellow Sea was fantastic. I really like a lot of recent Asian neo-noir. Besides the Diao Yinan movies I mentioned in the above post, I also really liked Memories of Murder, I Saw the Devil, Long Day's Journey into Night, Stray Dog, Coin Locker Girl, Night in Paradise, Touch of Sin, and some I am definitely forgetting. Oh, I loved Decision to Leave (very Hitchcockian) from last year and I'm a fan of Hirokazu Koreeda.

 

[beargonefishing]

None of those are favorites of mine to be honest.


The Yellow Sea was fantastic. I really like a lot of recent Asian neo-noir. Besides the Diao Yinan movies I mentioned in the above post, I also really liked Memories of Murder, I Saw the Devil, Long Day's Journey into Night, Stray Dog, Coin Locker Girl, Night in Paradise, Touch of Sin, and some I am definitely forgetting. Oh, I loved Decision to Leave (very Hitchcockian) from last year and I'm a fan of Hirokazu Koreeda.

I have seen probably a dozen fantastic South Korean films in the last 5-8 years. When I watched Parasite with my wife I joked that "now it's a proper SK film" when the guy got stabbed at the end.