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#1 Arvestaked

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Posted 31 August 2005 - 02:26 PM

QUOTE (Anileve @ Aug 29 2005, 01:06 PM)
I want to see your list of favorite old movies. In fact everyone should post their favorite old movies. Do we have a link like that?


I was going to have you make the thread but eh...

I'm sure I missed plenty in the following list but I got bored by the end. They are not in order of priority.

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Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948)
M (1931)
Ordet (1955)
The Parson’s Widow (1920)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Day of Wrath (1943)
La Strada (1954)
8 ½ (1963)
Sayat Nova (1968)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Sunrise (1927)
City Girl (1930)
Tartuffe (1926)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Casablanca (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Captain Blood (1935)
Maltese Falcon (1941)
Playtime (1967)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Sword of Doom (1966)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Hidden Fortress (1958)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Satyricon (1969)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Grand Illusion (1937)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Golden Coach (1953)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nosferatu (1922)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Killing (1956)
Les Diabolique (1955)
Jenny Lamour (1947)
Wages of Fear (1953)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Dark Passage (1947)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Trial (1962)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rear Window (1954)
Psycho (1960)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Metropolis (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Hustler (1961)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Silence (1963)
Winter Light (1963)
Through the Glass Darkly (1961)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Blowup (1966)
L’Avventura (1960)
Story of a Love Affair (1960)
Le Voleur (1967)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Golden Age (1930)
Casque d’Or (1952)
400 Blows (1959)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
A Woman is a Woman (1961)
Haxan (1922)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Posted 31 August 2005 - 04:28 PM

Wow - a few of my favourites on there - one being Touch of Evil. They released a remastered version in the repertory theaters afew years back. It was amazing seeing it again in an actually theather - and not just on my dinky TV.

You missed High Noon - one of my favourite westerns... otherwise thumbup.gif

BTW is this list exclusively pre-1970's? There were plenty of great flicks in the 70's as well...

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Posted 31 August 2005 - 04:29 PM

QUOTE (vava @ Aug 31 2005, 06:28 PM)
BTW is this list exclusively pre-1970's? There were plenty of great flicks in the 70's as well...


Doh! Nevermind - I just re-read the title of the thread. oops.gif

#4 Arvestaked

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Posted 31 August 2005 - 04:37 PM

Yea, I love Touch of Evil.

I don't like Westerns. I hate cowboys and the likes of them. But I'll still admit that The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has a couple of interesting scenes. That's all though.

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Posted 31 August 2005 - 09:13 PM

Arvestaked, you should visit the Autry National center. they have a GREAT exhibit on Sergio Leone

http://www.museumoft...exhibits/leone/

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Posted 01 September 2005 - 11:24 AM

Spaghetti maghetti.

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Posted 01 September 2005 - 01:56 PM

The only thing I like about Sergio Leone's movies are Ennio Morricone's scores.

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Posted 01 September 2005 - 02:01 PM

That did produce some good stuff.

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Posted 01 September 2005 - 02:51 PM

QUOTE (Arvestaked @ Sep 1 2005, 01:24 PM)
Spaghetti maghetti.


I don't know - I kind of liked the whole series... smile.gif and you can't deny Leone's influence on American cinema...

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Posted 02 September 2005 - 11:03 AM

Influence is something I never really care about. George Lucas had plenty of influence and he sucks.

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Posted 02 September 2005 - 09:44 PM

QUOTE (Arvestaked @ Sep 2 2005, 01:03 PM)
Influence is something I never really care about. George Lucas had plenty of influence and he sucks.


Lucas was an innovator - his early productions spawned the growth of an entire (multi-billion dollar) industry. Your subjective evaluation of 'he sucks' seems quite unimportant when considering the sum of Lucas's contributions (and his enormous impact) upon modern day film-making. Influence, yes, but he's also garnered a good share of critical acclaim...

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Posted 03 September 2005 - 10:26 AM

QUOTE (Arvestaked @ Aug 31 2005, 02:26 PM)
I was going to have you make the thread but eh...

I'm sure I missed plenty in the following list but I got bored by the end. They are not in order of priority.

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Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet  (1948)
M  (1931)
Ordet  (1955)
The Parson’s Widow  (1920)
The Passion of Joan of Arc  (1928)
Day of Wrath  (1943)
La Strada  (1954)
8 ½  (1963)
Sayat Nova  (1968)
Battleship Potemkin  (1925)
Modern Times  (1936)
City Lights  (1931)
Sherlock, Jr.  (1924)
Sunrise  (1927)
City Girl  (1930)
Tartuffe  (1926)
To Have and Have Not  (1944)
Casablanca  (1942)
The Sea Hawk  (1940)
The Black Pirate  (1926)
Captain Blood  (1935)
Maltese Falcon  (1941)
Playtime  (1967)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday  (1953)
Sword of Doom  (1966)
Throne of Blood  (1957)
Hidden Fortress  (1958)
Yojimbo  (1961)
Sanjuro  (1962)
Seven Samurai  (1954)
Satyricon  (1969)
La Dolce Vita  (1960)
The Grand Illusion  (1937)
The Rules of the Game  (1939)
The Golden Coach  (1953)
Night of the Living Dead  (1968)
Nosferatu  (1922)
2001: A Space Odyssey  (1968)
Paths of Glory  (1957)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  (1964)
The Killing  (1956)
Les Diabolique  (1955)
Jenny Lamour  (1947)
Wages of Fear  (1953)
Night of the Hunter  (1955)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre  (1948)
Double Indemnity  (1944)
Sunset Blvd.  (1950)
Dark Passage  (1947)
The Big Sleep  (1946)
Touch of Evil  (1958)
The Magnificent Ambersons  (1942)
The Trial  (1962)
Citizen Kane  (1941)
Rear Window  (1954)
Psycho  (1960)
Vertigo  (1958)
North by Northwest  (1959)
Metropolis  (1927)
It Happened One Night  (1934)
The Hustler  (1961)
A Streetcar Named Desire  (1951)
The Silence  (1963)
Winter Light  (1963)
Through the Glass Darkly  (1961)
The Virgin Spring  (1960)
Blowup  (1966)
L’Avventura  (1960)
Story of a Love Affair  (1960)
Le Voleur  (1967)
Elevator to the Gallows  (1958)
The Thin Man  (1934)
The Golden Age  (1930)
Casque d’Or  (1952)
400 Blows  (1959)
Andrei Rublev  (1966)
Oliver Twist  (1948)
Band of Outsiders  (1964)
A Woman is a Woman  (1961)
Haxan  (1922)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari  (1920)


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Posted 04 September 2005 - 01:06 AM

QUOTE (Armat @ Sep 3 2005, 08:26 AM)
Kudos to your memory. smile.gif


I had to look up the dates, if that's what you're refering to, and had to make certain that some qualified to be on the list.

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Posted 04 September 2005 - 01:09 AM

QUOTE (vava @ Sep 2 2005, 07:44 PM)
Lucas was an innovator - his early productions spawned the growth of an entire (multi-billion dollar) industry. Your subjective evaluation of 'he sucks' seems quite unimportant when considering the sum of Lucas's contributions (and his enormous impact) upon modern day film-making. Influence, yes, but he's also garnered a good share of critical acclaim...



Lucas had little to no influence on the art of film-making. He made three artistically unimportant movies and then became a corporation. Screw him. No film-maker of any artistic significance was influenced by that quack.

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Posted 04 September 2005 - 07:34 PM

two movies which kept my interest after repeated seeing and most influencial in my life
Tarkovsky "Stalker" and "Solaris"

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Posted 04 September 2005 - 10:55 PM

QUOTE (Arvestaked @ Sep 4 2005, 02:09 AM)
Lucas had little to no influence on the art of film-making. He made three artistically unimportant movies and then became a corporation. Screw him. No film-maker of any artistic significance was influenced by that quack.


Regardless I LOVE four of the six StarWars, and think they make fine computer games. smile.gif

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Posted 06 September 2005 - 11:23 AM

QUOTE (Armat @ Sep 4 2005, 05:34 PM)
two movies which kept my interest after repeated seeing and most influencial in my life
Tarkovsky "Stalker" and "Solaris"


Phenomenal director. I grabbed my signature from Solaris.

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Posted 08 September 2005 - 04:16 PM

This is unrelated but I didn't want to start another thread for it.

I just noticed my IMDb comment for Mulholland Dr. is rated best/most helpful. Hell I didn't even include everything. I rock.

Or maybe I don't rock. Maybe only stupid people voted it helpful. Maybe I committed a major disservice to the film by posting it. Hmm. Crap.

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Posted 08 September 2005 - 11:37 PM

What a funny post tongue.gif

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Posted 08 September 2005 - 11:52 PM

It's not very old, but I recently caught Network when it aired on TCM a few days ago. I hadn't seen it in a long time. Both Peter Finch and William Holden are brilliant. I highly recommend it.




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