Do You Like Classic Films?

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Do you like classic films? Which ones (if any)?

Inherit The Wind
12 Angry Men
The Blob
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Freaks (1932)
The Passion of Joan d'Arc (restored)
-Most- Charlie Chaplin

There's a starter list.


M.

You're unclear. DO you mean old hollywood? Old in English? Black and White?
My def of favourite is that you have to watch it at least once a year. But I'll go with the wider def as well


==old favs I see yearly==
The Thin Man (series)
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
We're No Angels (bogart christmas on devil's island; colour)
Scrooge (alister sims)
African Queen


==old favs I should see more==
La Régle du jeu (the rules of the game)
Nosferatu
Seven Samurai
Third Man
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Rear Window
Duck Soup
Rashomon

Wizard of Oz.

Ben-Hur
The Birds
Psycho
Spartacus
The Wickerman

Probably more, but I don't remember them at the moment.

Speaking of Psycho, did you see the remake of it starring Anne Heche?

12 Angry Men
Scrooge (Alastir Sims, best version!)
It Happened One Night
Boys Town
GUys and Dolls (I love old, and new, musicals)

Being a movie lover, I of course love older movies as well. Lately, I've been into some of Erroll Flynn's movies like The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Sea Hawk. And I love the old school Universal monster movies like Frankenstein and The Wolf Man.

I plan on getting The Searchers and High Noon on DVD sometime in the near future as well.

A Hard Day's Night
Help
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
Annie
Gone With The Wind

I grew up watching classic films on late night television. Initially, I just liked the comedies - Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, films by Preston Sturges, etc. But over time, my interests broadened to include all films from the 1930s (up to WWII) & later, the 1940s & 1950s. For a number of years, I had a Special Interest in the films of Carole Lombard (who died young in 1942, on a tour to sell war bonds.)

Here are some of my all-time favorites:
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Philadelphia Story (1941)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
The Gay Divorcee (1934) - Still my favorite Astaire/Rogers film
Mr & Mrs Smith (1941)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Thin Man (1934)
Libeled Lady (1936)

I especially love the actors & actresses from the '30s & '40s - Cary Grant, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, Barbara Stanwick, Katherine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers - they really don't make stars today the way they used to - larger than life.

Holiday (1938) Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn/makes a great introduction to classic cinema.
The Awful Truth (1937) Cary Grant and Irene Dunne/very smart and funny.
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1931) Charles Laughton.
Top Hat (1935) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Monty Woolley and Bette Davis.
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Humphery Bogart and Mary Astor.
The African Queen (1953) Humphery Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

Pre-World War II movies were so well written.

Absolutely!

I totally agree with your list - especially Holiday & The Awful Truth (I love Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn & Irene Dunne!)

After watching movies like those mentioned in this thread it changes one's perception of more recent films. It's rather amazing that there hasn't been another period like that for movies, where there's a surfeit of interesting scripts. Tying it into AS, is it possible that the writing style of that period is more appropriate for those with Asperger's Syndrome? Perhaps they spelled things out more thoroughly verbally, and relied less on implied meaning.

The Awful Truth and Holiday are great; it’s vexing that Dunne isn’t as well remembered as Hepburn or Bette Davis.

She certainly had the talent. Maybe if she had kept acting as long as Hepburn or Davis, instead of retiring from the screen in 1953, more people would remember her.

I think you're onto something with the comment about things being spelled out more in the dialog of older films. Films today are made with the intention of being released (& making money for the studios) internationally - so they tend to be light on dialog & heavy on visual elements. Bad news for those of us who have to rely on words to understand people's intentions.

What would you consider classic?

Personally I enjoyed German expressionist films like "Der Golem" or "Metropolis" and America's ancient politically incorrect "Birth of the Nation". That's as classic as it gets.....

I have seen practically all the old classics, they are very important to me. I have seen the most well known ones, some which are less well known I haven't, others I am not really interested in, I'd end up doing something else at the same time and missing everything.