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I just watched Leon for the first time in donkeys years and forgot how great it was.
What else would you recommend that I should re watch?
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest.
Jaws.
The Green Mile.
Batman Forever (seriously)
Poltergeist 2 (God is in his ho-l-ee temple, earthly thoughts be silent now)
& what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing a satanic ritual?
Just been up the loft to dig out the Christmas decorations and ended up bringing down a few DVDs to re-watch:
-Reservoir Dogs.
-Monty Python's Life of Brian.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Sorted for a few evenings now 🙂
King Kong (1930s)
Back to The Future
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Cinema Paradiso
Blade Runner
Chinatown
Shawshank
Rear Window
& what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing a satanic ritual?
Race with the Devil
The Third Man
Bad Santa
To kill a Mocking Bird
what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing some carpenters fashion a neat sloping edge?
Everything pre 2000, back in the days when film makers actually had an imagination and making a film wasn't about reboots and having people stand in front of green screen for the whole film.
Sadly the shitness of modern films has made me lose all appetite for watching films. That and lack of time, or so I argue but then I'll go waste it anyway (STW for example 😉 )
How about Nikita?
Or The Day of the Jackal.
Or The Day of the Jackal.
Good Shout!
Sadly the shitness of modern films has made me lose all appetite for watching films.
Have you considered that you might just be watching the shit ones?
Nikita, as long as it's the original French version.
Anything David Lean.
Would love to see Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia or Dr Zhivago on the big screen.
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Nikita, as long as it's the original French version.
Definitely. In fact, anything Luc Besson pre 2000.
Early Michael Caine, Funeral in Berlin, Ipcress File, Get Carter, The Italian Job and Alfie (for the Carterusm bits). But not bloody Zulu!
Toy Story (so disappointed that now children are getting older they don't want to watch it).
Pressburger and Powells 'a Canterbury tale'
Rewatched it recently and its just charming
Classic eh.....
It happened one night
Bringing up baby
Philadelphia Story
Who shot liberty valence
Maltese Falcon
39 steps
Lady vanishes
The third man
Citizen Kane
The day the earth stood still not the keanu reeves one
Invasion of the body snatchers both the fifties and seventies version
Parellex view
Butch classify and the Sundance kid
All quiet n the western front
French connection
The general busterkeaton
Cyrano de Bergerac
The life and death of colonel blimp
Matter of life and death
Blithe spirte
The prisoner of zenda
IF,
The Lavender Hill Mob,
The Railway Children,
Goodbye Mr Chips,
War Game,
Schindlers List,
The wizard of Oz
Blithe Spirit
Harvey
It's a Wonderful Life
Duck Soup
High Society
Guys n Dolls
Brazil
(One of these is not like the others...)
Deer Hunter
True Romance
Stand By Me
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A few of my faves...
Sullivan's Travels
My Name Is Nobody
Repo Man
Dazed and Confused
Bring It On
All uplifting in their own way.
Fitzcarraldo, Betty Blue and how about a bit of classic sci-fi, Fifth element?
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The Third Man "
Correct
I watched "a Canterbury tale" again recently.
It is excellent.
My suggestion,as usual ,The Fifth element .
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Ice Cold in Alex
Enjoy.
And not to forget Singin' In The Rain - even if you don't think you like musicals.
Some like it hot
Dr Strangelove (or how I ...)
Kes
The Green Mile is a great shout. Watched it on an oil rig earlier this week and there were more than a few blokes quietly sniffling into their sleeves.
For me:
Lethal Weapon
Moulin Rouge
Fargo
12 Monkeys
Ghostbusters
Carlito's Way
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (all-time favourite film ever, of all time)
Flying down to Rio
Top Hat - best film ever
The Producers
Wages of Fear (50s not the Sorcerer remake with the TG soundtrack)
a clockwork orange.
The Princess Bride
That one with Elvis in a nursing home... but the title escapes me
Ferris Buellers Day off.
Heat.
The Goonies.
The Lost Biys.
Ronin.
Ghostbusters
And yup, Leon..
I watched "a Canterbury tale" again recently.
It is excellent.
Powell and Pressburger did a lot of good films. Maybe I'm old but I would only regard pre 1970 films as "Classic".
The Deer Hunter
Apolocalyse Now
The quiet american
Pan's Labyrinth.
Anything by the Coen Brothers.
The original Blues Brothers.
Anything with Gene Wilder in it.
Jaws and Planet of Apes 1968
Ice Cold in Alex
great film, but I'll raise you The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
It's a Wonderful Life
As the festive season approaches, this film must be watched by everyone. And when I say "everyone", I say it in exactly the same way Stansfield says it to Malky in Leon.
It's a wonderful life is a just about as perfect a film as you can get, the premise hasn't dated at all.
Heat
Seven
Trainspotting
Cool hand Luke
Top gun
PrinceJohn; Bubba ho tep?? Crazy film!
Convoy
Cannonball run
Aliens
Young Frankensteinp
Men of honour
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
Rosemarys baby
The wicker man (1972)
The man who fell to earth
Performance
Casablanca
The shining
A matter of life or death
Groundhog Day
Kellys Heroes
Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
Convoy
Hannah
Shooter
Christmas themed?
Die Hard
Trading Places
Scrooged
Thank me later
P'tang Yang Kipperbang!
La Haine you dozy fools, La Haine!!
also The Conversation is a personal favourite.
and Arsenic and Old Lace, mainly for Peter Lorre's brilliantly unhinged performance 😀
Not seen some of these, ta.
🙂
Everything by Hitchcock, but North by Northwest just for Cary Grant's suit.
Anything by Powell and Pressburger, but A Matter Of Life And Death is perfect.
All the Ealing stuff, all those WW2 propaganda films like Went The Day Well?, The Cruel Sea, In Which We Serve.
The Leone/Eastwood stuff.
Randomly,
Two Lane Blacktop.
The Conversation.
Halloween.
In Bruges.
Dead Letter Office.
La Cabina.
Das Boot.
Casablanca.
Get Carter.
Wings of Desire.
Alien.
Blazing Saddles.
And hundreds more.
🙂
In Bruges.
One of the best recent films I've seen, absolutely a modern classic.
And "The Guard" by the same director (and also starring Brendan Gleeson) was even better IMO.
Groundhog Day
Debbie Does Dallas
Bad Wives 2
The Devil in Miss Jones
Which reminds me, An American Werewolf In London.
The Guard is fantastic.
🙂
In Bruges gets the nod purely for the line 'Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf..'.
SBS used to have a Cary Grant season on friday night when I rolled in from the pub. A lot of very entertaining films those nights.
Subway with Christopher Lambert.
Brazil
Eating Raoul
Vanishing Point
Goodbye Pork Pie (1979) They've just remade it & it looks shit.
Quiet Earth
Rising Damp
Man Bites Dog
To Live & Die In LA.
Twin Town
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn (who didn't know how to fence) and Basil Rathbone (who did - and it shows!)
Rio Bravo
Blazing Saddles
Seven Samurai
I'd like to rewatch Ghostbusters, Airplane and The Blues Brothers, but I'm a bit worried that they might not have aged well..
Oh, Show Me Love is a bit of a gem.
Classic teenage angst stuff, but really well done.
I'm surprised it's not had the Hollywood remake treatment yet.
Classic: judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind
for me...
The Holy Mountain
Solaris (the original version)
Enter The Void
All staggering odd but great. And brilliantly re-watchable.
Bubba ho tep?? Crazy film!
Yup that's the one.
Also add Robocop (original) to the list
Tampopo
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Delicatessen
I'd like to rewatch Ghostbusters, Airplane and The Blues Brothers, but I'm a bit worried that they might not have aged well..
they've not done too badly, actually!
In fact I think Airplane in particular has aged brilliantly. Still hilarious, absurd and stupid 😀
also: Dog Day Afternoon. banger.
Quick PSA for one mentioned further up the thread ... The Ipcress File is on BBC4 tonight at 9
Blue Ruin on Film4 tonight. Bit new to be a "classic" in the literal sense but it's a great film.
Akira, Yojimbo and M*A*S*H.
Passport to Pimlico
Rumble Fish
Risky Business
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Silent Running
Apocalypse Now
LA Confidential
The Big Blue
And a lot that have already been mentioned
Young Frankenstein......on the tellybox now.
"..there wolf."
Animal House
A Bridge Too Far
The Magnificent Seven
An eclectic selection
Downfall
2001
Rust and Bone
Blue Thunder
The Railway Man
South Park, the Movie
Vanishing Point
Ronin
Cars
The good, the bad and the ugly
The Last King of Scotland
The Constant Gardener
P'tang Yang Kipperbang!
Uh!
Thelma and Louise
Killing Zoe
They Live
Man with the x-ray eyes
The Graduate
Blue Thunder
*Stares in disbelief*
PSA - The Deer Hunter - ITV4 9pm tonight
Vanishing Point
+10! I can still hear the sound of that Dodge. Classic in every sense.
On another note I haven't seen many supernatural/pschological thrillers in the list so here's a few:
The Haunting (1963)
The Innocents (1961)
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Tenant
Repulsion
Suspiria