Do any of you tropers like classic films?

I like Hitchcock - Does suspense like no other - but I've never fully watched all his films. I like what I see, however.

Recently watched:

Casablanca (1942) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

On the list:

Ladri di Biciclette (1948) Una Giornata Particolare (1977) Die Bleierna Zeit (1981) Die Blechtrommel (1979)

Hitchcock is good, even though I don't like pure horror.

edited 5th Sep '10 7:44:15 PM by GameGuruGG

Meet Me In St Louis is still worth watching.

1989 is now classic? Jeez, that makes me a classic.

I'm a fan of the really old stuff, mostly—silents (especially dramas), screwball comedy, spectacles, and the like. But I'm also amenable to Hitchcock, classic Bond, old school Disney, and that sort of thing.

You may want to start a more specific thread if you don't want to just get a long list of movie recommendations.

Do Ed Wood films count as classic? Well, I personally find them classics for bad movie fans. The loving incompetence displayed in the dialogue and production has a quality that is unmatched.

I have a soft spot for All Quiet on the Western Front. Oh, that butterfly...!

I watch movies from all throughout the medium's history. Got to see The Maltese Falcon for the first time last night. Thought it was fantastic.

I'm also big on The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. And I loved the Peter Sellers Pink Panther films.

I am a mad fool for John Barrymore.

Not just because he played Lupin shut up ._.

I like old movies. Last Christmas I watched Its A Wonderful Life for the first time. I've also seen Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, Twelve Angry Men, and A Man For All Seasons.

I'd count Ed Wood as classic. Classic in a different sense, but still fair game.

One of my absolute favorite films is Bride of Frankenstein. I adore that movie. But then again, anything James Whale is just fantastic... All the Universal Horror, actually... I'm salivating...

If you can speak Spanish, you might like "El Gran Calavera".

"Enamorado" is another Mexican film, but it's a little too silly.

edited 11th Sep '10 1:24:37 PM by Tromes

Oh, I love those old screwball comedies, because witty writing was king. My all time favorite? Harvey, where James Stewart played Elwood P Dowd.

"I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it!"

In those old movies, devoid of explosions and special effects, every line was a memorable quote.

^ Slight nitpick, but I don't really think Harvey would count as a screwball comedy.

It's still an excellent film though. One of my favorites because it manages to use the fantastic premise and still have a deeper meaning to it.

edited 16th Sep '10 12:34:49 PM by Jumpingzombie

I'm a big fan of the Marx Brothers movies. I have a DVD set of several of their movies, and watch em whenever I get really bummed about something.

I really liked the original version of Twelve Angry Men. I introduced it to my parents. Can you believe that?

Well I recently saw Fritz Lang's Metropolis (Over 100 years old, and it had 96 percent original footage. Long story) and I enjoyed it.

Like Nineteen Eighty Four, but on drugs. With bad screen effects.

With lashings and lashing of Large Ham.

Also, Milking the Giant Cow. It's hard to take this film seriously in most of the scenes, yet it is still powerful to watch.

I'm trying to watch a movie every day for a year (for the purposes of a blog and for making a dent in my lengthy netflix list), and I'm also sometimes using it as an opportunity to catch up on classics. I think officially the oldest movie I have ever seen is now Nosferatu. Metropolis is in the queue too, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

edited 17th Sep '10 12:25:40 PM by MikeK

^Make sure you watch the one with about 80-90 percent original footage. It used to be just 60 percent or something, but they found an original and remastered it.

Still misses out on one crucial scene though :(.

Metropolis isn't quite 100 years old (released 1927), but I know what you mean. It's so over-the-top, yet awesome. And I haven't even seen the new restored version yet.

Big Daddy P: You saw the Metropolis rerelease? Lucky! You'd think it would be showing somewhere in LA, but nooooo, I have to wait until November to get it on DVD.

You forgot to mention the copious amounts of Ho Yay. Freder is incapable of talking to someone he isn't clinging to.

(Have any of you seen Moroder's version? Now that's ham!)

edited 17th Sep '10 2:46:49 PM by jewelleddragon

Its a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, Singing in the Rain, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, and numerous others for me.

Alternatively, watch the version of Nosferatu set to hard rock. It's... an experience. And best done while drunk.

I've heard about a version that uses Type O Negative music, if that's what you mean.

The version of Nosferatu streaming on netflix has a pretty terrible score, so at one point I decided to start over and watch it again while replacing the soundtrack with Godspeed You Black Emperor. It worked pretty well, although the spoken bits in the beginnings of songs made things seem kind of surreal - during the scene where Hutter first arrived at Orlock's castle, the "Welcome to Arco AM/PM Mini-Market" announcement started up, for instance.

Ooh, I just figured out that the re-release of Metropolis is showing at MIT this weekend, I'll have to go.

edited 22nd Sep '10 6:03:55 PM by MikeK

I watched Citizen Kane a few weeks ago. Been meaning to track down a copy of A Touch Of Evil for a while.