Any Classic Cinema fans?

[LeoNerdo]

I'm just throwin this out there because most people I know my age or younger don't really seem to know much about any kind of classic cinema. And I'm talking like golden age of Hollywood stuff from the 1930's & 40's. If you do, what are some of your favorites movies or your favorite actors and genres? I'll watch just about anything if it sounds interesting but I will say I really like tough guy flicks with guys like Cagney, E.G. Robinson, or Bogart. There's of course classic horror movies and westerns and junk that I like too but I like to try and find stuff I've never seen, which is a LOT.:D

[joe-eyeball]

I only really go back to the 60's and a few films of the 50's. I have seen many films from the "Golden Age" and never could get into them. The primary reason being that the acting is really nothing more that overacting. Despite that I do understand the appeal those films have for others.

[Mecha Cow]

"Classic cinema"? What does that even mean?

[Hannah]

Silent films are pretty funny sometimes

[Mr. Snackpants]

I'm taking a "History and Appreciation of Cinema" class right now and I've been enjoying it a lot. So far far we've watched Birth of a Nation(1915), Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box(1920's), and Charlie Chaplan's The Gold Rush(1920's ???).

[Zog the Equalizer]

Thanks to my mom I kind of grew up on old movies. I think my personal favorites would have to be Casablanca, To Catch a Thief, and Arsenic and Old Lace

[Spitfire]

Old movies are important and I respect them but I don't often watch them. I usually don't go past the 60's. Honestly I'm a huge production value guy and when I see something with low value it makes me tune out. Unfortunately they had no choice back then and what they did was the best they could. Bad audio is usually a deal breaker and most old movies have insanely bad audio. I do however love when they re-master stuff. "Metropolis" is coming out soon re-mastered I'm excited about that, it's like the mother of all sci-fi movies. Funny enough I've actually had several of my film teachers discredit old movies I've been told my whole life to watch and say their boring or not worth the time.

[Zog the Equalizer]

Forgot to mention A Night in Casablanca. The Marks Brothers are hilarious

[Hero]

The earliest film I recentley saw was North by Northwest (1959) starring fellow Bristol bloke Cary Grant.

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[Sewer Bull]

I love "Gone with the Wind" to death, hands off.

Seriously, the movies from older than 70s are just... different. More theoretical in a way.

[raphael_is_cool]

North by Northwest is my all-time favourite film. Love it.

Technically, the Golden Age of Hollywood spans 1910s to early 60s. As far as classic films goes I only really know of ones shown during film classes (not all Hollywood either) when I was at university and some great Hitchcock ones. Some of them will be obvious for real film-lovers. Off the top of my head:

- Citizen Kane
- The Battle of Algiers
- The Bicycle Thief/Bicycle Thieves

[Tinuvielsdreams]

I absolutely love Casablanca.
North by Northwest is great but I think Rear Window might be my favorite.

I did see bicycle Thief and enjoyed the story. We also watched it in a narrative cinema class when I was in college. I saw a lot of older movies in that class I doubt I would have gone out of my way to see otherwise.

[Leo656]

In my creative writing HS class we watched some classic flicks, can't remember titles, but I appreciate how performance and set design were so important back then since there was so little money to spend. Otherwise though, I don't get to watch too many old movies.

The oldest flick I've seen recently was "Gojira", the original Japanese cut of Godzilla, and I enjoyed the hell outta that.

[Golden ShredHead]

I can go no earlier than the 90s.

[Sage Ninja]

"The Mad, Mad World" is my all time favorite old movie. It's not that old since it was made in the 60's but man in my opinion it was a classic. Funniest freaking movie from those days! I can almost quote the whole movie by heart.

This movie was beyond funny, it starts off with a group of random people driving in a California high way area and this guy drives off the side. Several people stop their cars to find out if the guy is alright. Turns out he is a famous old gangster and tells the people who went down check on him that he has a money buried somewhere (kind remember where) undewr a big "W", right before he kicks the bucket--litterly.

This starts off a series of wacky events as the people, who the old gangster told, try to beat each other into getting to the place first to get the money, where they betray each other beat each other up, try to run each other over, and more random people get involved who hear about the money so that it becomes a giant free for all to get the the spot where the money is buried before any one else. All the while a famous old straight arrow cop, who was on the case to find the gangster desides to find the money for him self. This movie has one of the most outragious endings ever!

If you haven't seen it or heard of it, look it up! I highly recomend it.

Another old movie that I love is "the Greatest Show on Earth" it takes place in circus and has one of the most amazing train wrecks you'll ever see from back then.

[Tinuvielsdreams]

I thought of another movie I loved.
On the water front starring a very young Marlon Brando

[raphael_is_cool]

Man, how could I forget 'The Third Man'?

[cqb101]

I love the classics. Casablanca is one of my all-time favorite films. I love all of James Deans work, Marlon Brando, any and all Hitchcock. I absolutely adore film noir (Double Indemnity is my favorite). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sahara, It Happened One Night, Duck Soup, The Virgin Spring, The Bicycle Thief, King Kong, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Arsenic and Old Lace are some of my favorites. There are plenty of other classics that I love, but those were the ones that popped into my head (or that I could see on my DVD shelf from here).

[Hero]

Some Like It Hot (1959) is our screening today at Uni. We'll be talking about Marylin Monroe and sex symbols etc in the following seminar.

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[Ginny]

One of my favorite older movies is Jane Eyre from 1944 with Orson Welles. I've seen every Jane Eyre movie ever made and no other actor's Edward Rochester can come close to Orson Welles' Edward Rochester.