oldest film that you really like?
I remember seeing 'bezt film evaaar' Citizen Kane at the cinema when I was at uni and being bored out of my mind.
its just got me thinking...The oldest film I genuinely find really good is Psycho, which is 1960. that probably makes me sound like an uncultured twit but I cant think of any earlier ones Id happily sit through again. then again my film knowledge is patchy as heck
saw another 'classic' Gone With The Wind a while back and that was just like some random olden days chick flick...
its just got me thinking...The oldest film I genuinely find really good is Psycho, which is 1960. that probably makes me sound like an uncultured twit but I cant think of any earlier ones Id happily sit through again. then again my film knowledge is patchy as heck
saw another 'classic' Gone With The Wind a while back and that was just like some random olden days chick flick...
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or Nosferatu (1922)
dont think i have anyway
Zulu, Alfie, Get Carter - with Michael Caine
I can watch these films over and over again.
Then again, I can watch Shakespeare In Love, Flushed Away, Goonies, Perfume, Lucas, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Addams Family + Values without getting bored.
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Both total classics, Obviously Nosferatu is the earliest ever vampire film and been on telly, Metropolis i first saw as it was a free video on the front of a film mag (cant remember the name now)
Various will hay films . 1922 to 1943
laurel + hardy, obviously Im familiar with them but don't know the films so much.
trying to think of a single film from the 50s that I even like. had to study On The Waterfront and Streetcar Named Desire for A levels but cant say Ive ever wanted to watch them again since.
Im talking about films you would maybe stick in your top 100 of all time, not just ones you quite enjoy.
- Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff.
- They died with their boots on & Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn.
- Any Marx bros. film (Go West, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, a Day at the Races, ...)
- Hold that Ghost starring Abbot & Costello
- Safety Last starring Harold Lloyd
- Frau im Mond (woman in the moon), a german film directed by Fritz Lang.
Murder, She Said (1961)
Murder Ahoy (1963)
Murder At The Gallop (1963)
Murder Most Foul
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I think currently "Rear Window" (1954) , I cannot immediately think of anything else apart from...
I was going to say one of the "it came from outer space" type films but most of them appear to be 60's even though one of them was in b+w. The one where there is the sandpit at the top of the hill and 'taken over' people have a cross on the back of their neck. The original version not the new remake. :D
There's also a surreal French film from about 1928/29 but i can't remember the name of it. Someone gets their eye cut out or something.
I think you're referring to 'A Chien Andalou', a surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel.
That's the one! Very strange but oddly entertaining film. I've just read that both actors commited suicide years later.
The Will Hay films - Ask a Policeman, Oh Mr Porter, Where's That Fire, Boy's Will Be Boys, The Ghost of St. Michaels, The Goose Steps Out, etc,
King Kong,
Nosferatu,
Oh, the individual stories in The Dead of Night are very tame and predictable by today's standards (I don't know how different that was when the film was first released), but what makes it by far the best film of it's type, in another way is that it has by far the best over-arching story that connects the mini-stories together. In most films of this type, the connection is just a weak one such as five strangers meet up somehow, each tells of a strange dream, then it turns out that the stories were true and the five of them are actually dead.
The Dead of Night's story is much better, and is shown really well (please don't spoilt it by mentioning it, anyone. Instead let any potential viewers watch the film anew for themselves).
And of course there are Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Carnival of Souls (the latter is a good, failry unknown horror film in black and white), and the original The Fly (with Vincent Price).
another film from 1960 my brother recommended and I saw recently is City Of The Dead. thought it was surprisingly un-dated for a horror,considering the era. got Christopher Lee in it, not in a dracula type role though
check out Triassic Park...even older!