Classic Film Buffs - Check in Here!

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  1. Jonsa

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    Vanishing point.

    Saw it in the theatre, blitzed. The ending BLEW MY MIND. never forget it.
     
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    An old drinking buddy I had in college saw The Day After Tomorrow (2004) at the cinema on shrooms, said he thought it was a weather report...

    Wikipedia had to explain the ending to Vanishing Point to me even though I didn't go looking for an answer, just on the status of Barry Newman being alive or not, but Wikipedia explained the ending anyway, which I saw but now I get thanks to reading that page and now I like that ending even better than when I saw it, and that ending now makes a lot of sense given the earlier scenes in the film.
    That blew my mind.

    I already enjoyed the movie, but when I found out the meaning of the ending and it all, loved it.
     
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    It was a phenomena when it came out. Rushed home every week to watch the next episode. John Rys Davies was classic.
     
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    OMG, waaay to many for me to list, I really am a fan of the B&W movies, silent, sound, domestic and foreign. Here's a favorite, Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast", French.... beast.jpg
     
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    I'm a big fan of the B&W movies of the 30's and 40's. The Thin Man - they just don't write dialogue like that anymore. Gotta say tho I have to swallow my reactions to the casual racism of the age at times. It is of its age.
     
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    Oh man I know. Davies (the Spaniard) is awesome. The visual quality is pretty good too. It was a boxed set, I think from Amazon.
     
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    I have about 20 terabytes of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and adventure movies on my Plex server, from 1923 to today. I’m a bit of a movie nut :)
     
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    Usenet and access to an indexer is the key to a growing collection. That and a 1 gigabit FTTH fiber connection.
    I download about a year worth of material every two days. Once I reach the modern stuff I may go back and get the crime, film-noir and war from the 20’s and up. I did get all the buster keaton and laurel and hardy so I do also enjoy comedy once in a while.

    I have another 5 disk array box on the way with another 20 terabyte on the way.

    I’m sad that because of COVID the national library and archive in Montreal is closed because they’ve a vast selection of blurry, DVD and CD to borrow, 10 at a time. I usually park there when I go to work, so I’d borrow a full set during lunch, ripping them in the evening and dropping them in the return box next morning and doing another batch at lunch...
     
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    I love "Rebecca"!

    Then there is "The Heiress" the opposite of a love story starring Olivia de Havilland. Seriously, it's a great movie and one of my favorites.

    Another favorite of mine is Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 "Cleopatra" starring Claudette Colbert.
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    Love Cinderella and Disney's old Sleeping Beauty too!

    I also like the modern live action Cinderella.
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    This post is taking me down memory lane when i use to watch these films with my gran , we go around to her and watch black and white films most of them are better than the new ones
     
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    Yes,quite Fantastic.Then again so were most of Walt Disney classic cartoons.
    Don't forget ... - One Hundred and One Dalmations - {1961 }
    One of me favorite.With an unmatched classic evil nature from Cruella de Vil.
    In many regards a political match to Nancy Pelosi.
     
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    Watched "Razors Edge" last night it was a pretty good movie. It will be on my OK list not great just OK.

    Recording a Doris Day movie tonight, "Tea for Two." Have you seen it Foolardi?
     
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    One more great movie is "Pygmallion" starring Wendy Hiller.
     
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    I think Lenora Valera did the best Cleopatra.
     
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    ~ Don't forget "The Master of suspense " ...

     
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    Not sure what the definition of a classic movie is exactly, but the following I consider to be favorite classics.

    From Here To Eternity



    Manchurian Candidate


    Wizard of OZ


    Hombre


    Dr. Strangelove
     
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    Just a comment...

    When I was kid, the choices on TV were few. In NY City there were five stations... ABC, CBS, NBC, WNEW and WOR. WNEW was started to support the Yankees and WOR to support the METS. They played a lot of movies between games. The "Million Dollar Movie" played the same movie all week, twice each night and four times on Saturday and Sunday.

    I watched a lot of movies. Most were uplifting. The story of Madame Curie with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon described the struggle young scientists fought through to change the world. You felt like cheering when it ended. "Dr Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" had Edward G. Robinson battling and defeating rabies. Paul Muni in the story of Louis Pasteur made you want to run out and enroll for medical school. "Patton" made me proud of my military career. Jimmy Cagney in "13 Rue Madeleine" inspired me to consider a military career in the first place. "Midway" had me cheering! Spencer Tracy in "Boys Town" helped me understand the innate goodness in people. Tracy's "Northwest Passage" showed me that the good guys rightfully win. John Wayne fostered my belief in heroes.

    Now we are inundated with stories describing a seedier side of life. I find today's movies downright depressing. Usually there are no winners, just survivors. A friend told me to watch a movie (The Butler) where a poor black kid became a butler to Presidents. It started out with this kid watching a white racist kill his dad. The story went on to show how he was a butler at the White House. Ok, so the poor kid's dad is murdered and he works and works to become a servant. Depressing. I know its a true story and all, but I felt like jumping off a bridge when it ended. Better they make it fiction and have him grow up to be President with servants of his own. I would have smiled at that ending.

    Remember the movies with guys like Burt Lancaster playing sports greats? Now we see multiple movies about Jeffrey Dahlmer or druggies that die alone in an alley with a needle in their arm. Its depressing. We had heroes as role models... now we have zeroes as role models.

    Add in the COVID tyranny that keeps us house bound and things are even more depressing.

    We need some new movies to brighten our day... maybe a movie about a Medal of Honor winner in Iraq or Afghanistan. Or a movie about someone who invented something really important that changed the world... like the iPhone, open heart surgery, or pizza. We need more happiness and less sadness.
     
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    Great call...

     
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    Day After Tomorrow was a left wing radical GoreBull Warming political movie.
     
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    I'll watch anything with Jimmy Cagney... over and over. My fave movie is "13 Rue Madeleine", but "G-MAN", The Twilight Hours", "Roaring Twenties", and everything Cagney is great in my book. My parents were extras in the beach scene in "Ragtime". I got to meet Cagney at West Point when I was a Cadet.
     
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    Cagney was Awesome...



     
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    He was an awesome dancer

    i rediscovered the classic comedy “Murder by death” the other day
     
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    Just watched two Burt Lancaster movies yesterday. Not great movies, but movies with great actors.

    The Professionals (with Lee Marvin, and Claudia Cardinale) back when women looked like women. For those who like Cardinale I recommend Once Upon a Time in the West.



    The Unforgiven (with a young looking Audrey Hepburn, and Audie Murphy) A movie ahead of it's time with a dramatic theme of white racism.

     
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