Classic Film Buffs - Check in Here!

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    Maureen O'Sullivan... she was so hot in that.
     
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    Birdie num num. Bimb.:razz:
     
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    Network is really good
     
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    Casablanca


    I've seen it at the cinema's, owned VHS, DVD and Bluray to me one of the perfect films
     
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    :roflol: Nobody does it better than Sellars?
     
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    I can't remember what the timings were in Sleeper, when Diane Keaton is talking to Woody Allen (who has just been 'thawed out' after being cryogenically frozen for 50 years) about his past life. She asks him 'So when did you last have sex?' and he replies 'Thirty-two years ago . . . . thirty-five years ago if you count my marriage.' :roflol:
     
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    For some reason that vid reminded me of a cartoon I saw once: it showed two hippos in a small jungle pool, in a place where time itself is absolutely meaningless: they have just their snouts and eyes above the water, and one is saying to the other one, 'I keep thinking today's Wednesday.' lol
     
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    If you haven't seen it, "Key Largo" is an interesting study in the definition of courage.
     
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    Seen all Bogarts film many many times, when I was a kid they used to show old B&W films in the day on TV and we only had 4 channels in the UK so you watched what was on during holidays.

    I wish I could remember 1/2 the B&W films I saw names some of the best films I've seen I saw as a kid but I just can't remember enough about them to find them again.

    It saddens me the new generation have no connection to B&W films outside the artsy fartsy.
     
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    Those are fun memories, even if you can't remember all the names. Imdb site has lots of films. You might be able to search and find some.
    While I'm not the best noir fan, every Saturday night TCM has a noir film and they are usually fun to watch. I say this because of my post.

    I grew up with older parents. Mum liked movies and we'd sometimes watch an old one. I didn't appreciate them as a child, but I do now. I'm lucky, as you were to have had some reason to be exposed to them.

    You can also start with certain actors and watch their films to see what they are like. Gene Tierney was a great actress. She had some great movies. Exploring actors from those days is fun too.
     
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    The postman always rings twice.
     
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    The Lion in Winter

    You can't beat the acting in this film, from Kate Hepburn's Academy Award winning performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine to Peter O'Toole's King Henry II of England to a young Anthony Hopkins as their son Richard the Lionheart and Timothy Dalton as King Philip II of France:



     
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    My favorite genre is comedy. Classic film comedies: Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times; Buster Keaton's The General; Top Hat; The Philadelphia Story; The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (plus others)

    Color comedies (various years): Singin' In the Rain; The Gods Must Be Crazy; A Shot in the Dark; Addams Family Values; My Fair Lady

    B&W comedies that aren't really "classic" (i.e., from the 1940s or earlier): Some Like It Hot; Young Frankenstein; The Apartment

    Comedy that I like no one else seems to: Yellowbeard

    Comedies that everyone else likes that I don't: It Happened One Night; Caddyshack; Airplane; The Naked Gun; There's Something About Mary; M*A*S*H (love the TV show, hate the movie); Raising Arizona; Groundhog Day; National Lampoon's Animal House; Fargo (how is this even considered a comedy?); Dinner at Eight (super-depressing; the one funny line at the end doesn't make up for the rest of it); A Fish Called Wanda

    Comedies that I think are good movies but not really funny, so I wouldn't call them comedies: The Thin Man; The Graduate; The Producers; My Man Godfrey; Silver Streak; The Lady Eve; Ninotchka; Arthur; Beat the Devil; Roxanne; The Freshman (1990)

    I'm sure there are a bunch I'm forgetting, but that's all I can think of for now.
     
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    Star Trek......
     
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    best film ever.....

    ...why can't they make films like this anymore.....
     
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    I am watching the Kentucky Derby on local TV and had to watch this scene from a great movie:
     
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    I've finally gotten around to seeing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
    I recorded it on my DVR the other night, looked forward to the recording of it, checked in on at the last scene out of sheer luck, saw the credits roll, watched it, fell asleep after the first act break/on the train to Washington, re watched it last night from that act break and, now I'm watching it again.
    One of my favourite movies now.
    Last night, though... When I saw this for the first time, I found myself crushing on Jean Arthur's Clarissa Saunders a lot, which was fine and all, but a real downer was, it's so old, everybody who's in it, is dead - so, as be smitten as I was, she was dead...
    I woke up and Wikipedia'd it, yup. Jean Arthur, died aged 90, 1991.
     
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    TCM channel has been showing
    Gone With The Wind.

    It seems this part has been edited out.



    What a shame old classic films require editing for today's PC

    May as well live in
    :flagcanada: :no:
     
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    @Sallyally
    Shocked I am you "like" the consideration of the
    opening "poem" of GWTW.

    There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South...
    Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow..
    Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair,
    of Master and Slave...
    Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered.
    A Civilization gone with the wind...


    Some of those "masters" were Free Men Of Color ;)
    Some be Jews too.
    Imagine their Passover meal, being served by "slaves".

    Not the same as slaves to Pharaoh.
     
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    The kids too?
     
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    We’re all familiar with some of the famous movie lines, even when our memory of the lines may not be correct. It was actually “Play it once, Sam,” not “Play it again, Sam.”

    My favorite movie line of all time?

    “You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.“ — Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), Body Heat
     
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    Doris Day is my Goddess! I love anything and everything Doris Day!

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    I just saw Vanishing Point (1971) for the first time today.
    I really liked it.
    It turns 50 this year.
     
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    For Christmas, Mrs. Claus gave us the Shogun series on DVD. It is about nine hours in length, came out in 1980 and stars Richard Chamberlain, among others. It is surprisingly good. The audience at Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 91% rating.[​IMG]
    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shogun
     
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