Classic Film Buffs - Check in Here!

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    The Copper with Ernest Borgnine was very good, have not found a complete movie, they are missing a good chunk of the last few minutes.
     
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    Battleship Potemkin:







    An awkward moment:



     
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    Hollywood don't make movies that good anymore. They kinda lost it.
     
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    What a great film. Sergei Eisenstein is considered by many to be the first great filmmaker and Eduard Tisse's cinematography in Battleship Potemkin is downright masterful.

    For me, the Odessa Steps sequence is the signature scene in the movie...

     
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    While this classic is not terribly old (1985), I was pleased to find that Studio Canal has finally re-released Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, which is currently available on DVD at Amazon for a reasonable price. Last year it cost a small fortune to purchase Ran from the few dealers who still possessed a copy. If you've been trying to get your hands on this masterpiece now is the time to jump...

     
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    Sad but true.

    It seems that a lot of the finest talent has moved away from making films and on to producing shows on pay TV, Netflix, etc.
     
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    I've seen a Leni Riefenstahl propaganda movie where she extols her ''Aryan'' comrades by using steps in the same manner. I tried but couldn't find a segment to show it. No doubt she was influenced by Eisenstein.
     
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    Sexmission 1984, Polish film about Women ruling the world it's excellent!

    If you google it you will find a copy you can watch with English subtitles it's probably the funniest Polish film ever made.

    It's carry on style humour.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/
     
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    Operation Petticoat a classic watched it a few days ago
     
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    When I was studying film in art school we watched Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will - I presume this is the film you're thinking of:



    She was a fine filmmaker - it's too bad her talent and reputation got squandered producing propaganda for Hitler's National Socialists.

    Unfortunately, the same thing happened to a lot of artists in the Soviet Union, and to some degree, Eisenstein, as well. I read a fascinating book several years ago called The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book and in it you can read how Boris Pasternak lamented this situation in the USSR, where artists were secluded in isolated communities and forced to produce state propaganda, usually in the form of "Socialist Realism". Naturally, artists like Pasternak found the creative restraints imposed on them by the Soviet government suffocating and denigating. It's little wonder that Doctor Zhivago had to be written without the knowledge of the authorities and then smuggled out of the country to get published (the book was banned in the USSR until 1988 but was secretly circulated in samizdat before that).
     
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    LOL - I thought women already ruled the world. :lol:

    I'll have to check that film out...
     
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    When you have post back what you thought! My best friend is Polish so I saw this back in the mid 80's (I was only 8 ) when he got a smuggled copy from Poland.

    Everyone I have shown it to has loved it.
     
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    Just about any film with Cary Grant in it is a classic. I like the stuff he did with Hitchcock later in his career...

     
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    Will do - I'll try and watch some of it tonight. The premise of the film sounds hilarious.

    I don't watch a lot of foreign films, and I don't think I've ever seen a Polish film.

    One of my favorite foreign films is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. The storyline is kind of silly and cheesy like a lot of French films, but Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography is beautiful. His eye for color is what really struck me - it's something I've only seen in Akira Kurosawa's color films, such as Ran and Dreams.

    My favorite shot in the film is the canal scene in this trailer, although the video doesn't do the color in the film justice, where you have these brilliant greens contrasted by Amélie in her red dress. The attention to detail in the film is really wonderful...



    Trailer:

     
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    Amelie is great I love the gnome lol, Intouchables is another good French film and the best French film ever

    A town called panic!

    I have seen 1 Polish film lol but if you're going to only see one Sexmission is the film to watch ;)

    My mate had loads of Polish films when we were kids but without subtitles they're not so much fun.
     
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    Who's harry crumb?


    12 Angry men
     
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    Thought Id throw this here...

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    Destry rides again, if you like Jimmy Stewart you must see this!

    BBC2 and C4 had the best films when I was a little kid sad I can't remember half of them.

     
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    Back in the 1970s, the Mr Hulot series by Jacques Tati was very popular:


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    The character was largely based on Charlie Chaplin's little tramp though was a bit different in that he was tall, reasonably well dressed, employed, had a family, was not a lady's man, and could get out of a problem without getting slapped or striking back. The series was very influential on American tv/movies.
     
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    Dr. Zhivago

    Stagecoach (1939)
    the original, no remakes.
     
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    Amazing film, thank god for BB2 and C4 as a kid they had the best B&W films on I just wish I could remember the titles of 90% of them! The kids of today just don't get B&W films and that's sad.
     
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    Stagecoach is fantastic. Good call.

    Citizen Kane, the Godfather and Godfather II, Cool Hand Luke and The Adventures of Robin Hood are also good flicks.
     
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    Never liked Citizen Kane.
    Always seemed over rated and an ego trip for Orson Wells dislike of Hearst.

    Regarding the others, good flicks but not the top 20.

    Besides the writing, directing, etc. of the original, Stagecoach,
    it set the standard for "the Western". Similar to animation, the western is underappreciated.

    One comment that helped me like it more was about the scene where the stagecoach starts out across the desert. A vast nothing, desert ocean and the stagecoach was a lifeboat. What it took to settle/civilize the West.



    And of course the morality play. A standard Western concept.

    Esp.: 6:30 and 7:15
     
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    Completely disagree about GF and GF II. Fantastic writing, acting and stories.
     

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