Classic Movies You Love - Post Your Recommendations

[MineralMan]

I'm going to mention two that I think are worth hunting down and viewing:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) - French language version. This jazz opera is a classic, and stars a very young Catherine Deneuve. 1964

Tom Jones - A rollicking comedy, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, that is a film version of one of the first novels written in English. Four Oscar winner. 1963

Oddball and old, they are time-tested.

[el_bryanto]

1. Duck Soup - the Marx Brothers - Banned in Fascist Italy

Still their best.

Bryant

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I'm going to LOVE this group!

Charade - Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - doesn't get better than that. Or sexier. Or better banter, line delivery and timing.

I will always always laugh at: Tootsie and Arsenic and Old Lace.
I was born in 1973 - so for me - Classics are anything from my childhood - and Tootsie was a classic from my child hood.


Best Suspense Movies - Rear Window and Niagara. It's completely possible (particularly with Niagar) to have a terrifying murder 'on screen' but not be able to see it at all.

Best Love Stories - The Ghost and Mrs Muir and The Shop Around The Corner

Guilty Pleasures - Regardless of how many times I've seen them . . .
Marty, Miracle in the Rain, High Society/Philadelphia Story, In The Heat of Night, Stormy Weather, The Petrified Forest, and Gilda.

Ohhh - I'm going to love this group!

[whathehell]

4. You're quite right about

Charade -- Love Audrey Hepburn in virtually everything, but if you want to see her in something great

(besides Breakfast at Tiffany's, of course) see her in Two For the Road with Albert Finney.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I've seen that!

I own all of her movies. Met her when I was a very little girl while being naughty in a department store in Rochester NY. Her last love was Robert Wolders and his family came to Rochester after WWII.

Audrey told me I was very exotic and it would serve me well when I was older.

Then proceed to chastise every other adult and tell them, "But she's LITTLE!"

Me? I'd just seen Breakfast at Tiffanys for the first time the day before on an old UHF channel. I kept thanking her for going back to get 'Cat' and calling her Holly.

My mother to this day won't let me live it down.

I also love The Children's Hour - her remorse at the end . . .

[whathehell]

6. Oh Good!

You met her...and she talked to you and became your "champion", as it were, in the department store!

Wow...You thanked her for going back for the cat and called her Holly...How cute, and what a great story!

She was very caring for children, as you probably know...Suffered during WWII and became a big spokeswoman

for UNICEF.

You make an interesting comment about The Children's Hour regarding the character's "remorse"?...I didn't get that takeaway,

I mean I know she felt very bad about the Shirley MacClaine character, but I didn't see that she did anything wrong to be sorry for.

My take was that she walked away sorrowful at leaving her fiancée, but proud because it was the right thing to do,

what with his doubting her. I'm curious..Why do you think she was remorseful?

[JustAnotherGen]

7. That's what I mean

Her sadness - the loss. She lost so much. Some via choice - another through a *spoiler* I don't want to give away.

And she didn't do it via over emoting as was the standard for about five years in Hollywood. It's the way she held her shoulders and neck - and the grief in her eyes.

Audrey was so subtle at times - but could convey more with those eyes than Jack Nicholson has in all of his 'grand speeches' in movies for his entire career.

Ahhh - a Hepburn fan! We need to share books, knowledge, experiences. My office at work? Ode to Audrey. My collection at home? Relegate to the attic for now. My handbags? Bagghys. All Audrey ones now.

[valerief]

10. I adore Josephine Hull in Harvey and Arsenic and Old Lace. I love both those movies, too.

All your choices are winners!

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I have not even heard about Niagra

so looked it up...
had no idea Monroe was in a movie I have not seen...
and ..yayyyyyyyy.....Netflix actually has it!

Thanks for the title, Gen.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. Your welcome

If you are a person who imbibes - a cocktail in hand might be a good way to get through the suspense!

[whathehell]

3. Tom Jones, The Miracle Worker, The Victors,

Breakfast at Tiffany's, the underrated "Heaven Help Us" and more that don't immediately come to mind.

"Coming Home" is my favorite of all time

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Oh

I love Heaven Help Us! Great reminder to add to my collection!

[whathehell]

18. Isn't it great?

If you went to catholic school, especially at that time, which I did, you could REALLY relate to it!


Seems like we have similar taste in movies, JustAnother, despite the age difference -- I'm Just Another Boomer.

[Scuba]

8. Since I apparently get to define "classic", I'll go with ....

The King of Hearts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Hearts_(1966_film)

King of Hearts (original French title: Le Roi de Cœur) is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Alan Bates.
The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby trap the whole town to explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town — thoroughly confusing the lone Scottish soldier who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb.

... and ...

The Gods Must Be Crazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 South African comedy film written and directed by Jamie Uys. Originally released in 1980, the film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series. Set in Botswana, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert (played by Namibian San farmer Nǃxau) whose tribe has no knowledge of the world beyond.

[valerief]

9. A Woman's Face (with Joan Crawford)

Delicious characters. Joan's best.

Leave Her to Heaven (with Gene Tierney)

Glowing colors light up a savage mind.

The Cobweb (by Vincent Minnelli)

Surreal. Patients at a psychiatric clinic fight over library drapes. Really!!! Must be seen to be believed.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I just saw

Leave Her To Heaven for the first time a few weeks ago. Diabolical.

[valerief]

22. Wasn't it though! But it was so pretty, too.

Another outdoorsy old flick that's a lot of fun--but pure camp--is Bette Davis's Beyond the Forest. That's where she says, "What a dump." The ending where she puts on her makeup really sloppily always cracks me up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Two of my favorite creepy films and one funny one

Night of the Demon (original British title and released in U.S. as Curse Of The Demon) by the great director Jacques Tourneur (Out Of The Past, Cat People) based on the story Casting The Runes by British Victorian era horror master M.R. James. The film starts at about the 2:40 mark.

The Innocents, based on Victorian era writer Henry James' ghost story The Turn Of The Screw (I love writers from the Victorian era like Conan Doyle and others).

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I also think the Italian film directed by Vittorio de Sica with Peter Sellers and Victor Mature from the 60s After The Fox (original Italian title Caccia alla Volpe) is a lot of fun (screenplay co-authored by Neil Simon).

[whathehell]

19. The Innocents!...Yes, definitely one of the spookier films ever made..

I saw it at age 11 and it made quite an impression.

It was all shadows, and subtlety and inference and it kept you guessing to the very end.

[LauraNb]

12. Audrey Hepburn

I completely agree about Audrey Hepburn, she was amazing! I love "Breakfast at Tiffany's", it's one of my all time faves. Another film that she starred in that I love is "The roman holidays"...just fills me with joy

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Brief Encounter

Struck me when I saw it a few years ago ( probably saw it on Turner network)
and has always stayed in my mind. It quietly rather intense, and deliciously British.
David Lean did a lot of marvelous films, I found this one by accident.

"Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce"
wiki.....

[Little_Wing]

20. Five that never fail to thrill me

Island of Lost Souls (1932) Are we not men?

The Life of Emile Zola (1937) J'accuse! Sadly, Paul Muni is so under-appreciated these days.

The Lady Eve (1941) Barbara Stanwyck is pure deliciousness (as opposed to pure evil in Double Indemnity)

Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper and Frank Capra bring Depression Realness (bonus points: Barbara Stanwyck!)

Children of Paradise (1945) Ah, Garance! Oh, Baptiste! Mmmm, the shimmering beauty of old Paris.

[MineralMan]

21. 'Paul Muni is so under-appreciated these days. '

A number of years ago, I was talking to my late former father-in-law and the subject turned to the movie, "Cool Hand Luke," which said former, late FiL had seen. He said,

"I always did like Paul Muni."

Interestingly enough, Paul Muni also made a chain gang move, "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," in 1932. I always wondered if there was a connection there, somehow.

[Little_Wing]

23. I see what you did there

[MineralMan]

24. Look at the post again. I added some more information.

Amazing coincidence, I think.

[Little_Wing]

25. Serendipity indeed!

That poster is awesome, btw

[MineralMan]

26. A cool example of 1930s poster art, I think.

I haven't seen as many movies from that era as I would like. I'm 68 years old, and watched a lot of 1930s films on television as a kid. The TV stations ran them frequently in the 50s, since they were cheap to show, so I saw a bunch of the major ones. Still, there are many I missed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. Check out Polish movie posters

They're really interesting.

http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT

Here's the one for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[trof]

27. 'Casablanca'. I watch it every time it's on TV.

And I always, ALWAYS see something I missed before.

[trof]

28. IMDB on my laptop while I watch a movie.

'Trivia', 'Goofs', actors bios.
Really fun and interesting to do this.

[sweetloukillbot]

29. The Best Years of Our Lives

I'm still amazed that a movie about soldiers dealing with PTSD and trying to reintegrate into society after World War II would be made less than a year after the war ended. And I just love Theresa Russell.
Which leads me to...
Shadow of A Doubt - My favorite Hitchcock outside his run from Rear Window to Psycho.

[brooklynboy49]

31. Classic Movies I Love?

Where does one begin? I'm sure to leave out a dozen or more, but I consider these to be among my favorite classic movies (classic for this purpose meaning released before 1960):

In no particular order:

The Apartment
It Happened One Night
Casablanca
Destry Rides Again
Stagecoach
Angel and the Bad Man
Red River
The Searchers
Double Indemnity
The Lady Eve
Our Man Godfrey
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Captain Blood
They Died With their Boots On
Sabrina
Roman Holiday
A Nun's Story
Love in the Afternoon
The Maltese Falcon
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Bringing Up Baby
Alice Adams
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Thin Man
Another Thin Man
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sunset Boulevard
The Big Sleep
White Heat
A Walk in the Sun
Rear Window
Rebecca
The Lady vanishes
The 39 Steps
Saboteur
Notorious

I'm just gonna cut it "short" there. There are so many titles I can't remember, so many I've simply overlooked. And that's with a 1960 cut-off!

I watch too many movies lol. And I've watched the overwhelming majority of the movies listed multiple times!

North by Northwest!

Stop!!
Annie Oakley

[Portland Cyclist]

32. My Favorite would have to be The Sound of Music

Lately I've been watching all the other Julie Andrews movies too!

[OmahaBlueDog]

33. Three classic comedies

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Carey Grant & Myrna Loy leave the city to build a house in the suburbs in post-war Connecticut. What could possibly go wrong?

Kind Hearts & Coronets

Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D'Ascoyne family who are knocked off in comic fashion by unlikely would-be Duke of Chalfont Dennis Price.

One, Two, Three

Jimmy Cagney - in one of his last roles - has to deal with the visiting daughter of a Coca Cola executive falling in love with a strident East German communist. Billy Wilder directs this madcap comedy about Cold War Europe.