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Required films pre 1980

Little Big Man( 1970)

Simply amazing movie... Also, one of the few films that made me cry after watching it.:\

Oh btw, if anybody knows the song they play every time the Americans go into battle against the Indians, let me know, is now stuck in my had;)
 
trying not to repeat others

the time machine (1960)
la planete sauvage (1973)
eraserhead (1977)
the killing (1956)
lolita (1962)
barry lyndon (1975)
willy wonka and the chocolate factory (1971)
the good, the bad and the ugly (1966)
inherit the wind (1960)
 
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978)
Flawed but brilliant Fassbinder film made shortly after the suicide of his lover. Famous for its graphically violent slaughterhouse scene, the film gradually unfolds the story of Elvira, a transsexual who is left to come to grips with the meaning of her existence as she seeks out the man responsible for her sex-change operation, corporate criminal Anton Saitz.

The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
One of the few genuinely frightening movies I have ever seen. Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a Polish-born French citizen who moves into an apartment whose previous tenant committed suicide. Trelkovsky comes to believe that his fellow tenants are engaged in a conspiracy to drive him to suicide by forcing him to take on the personality of the dead woman.

Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
Realistic portrait of Italian slum life follows a despicable pimp named Vittorio who lives comfortably until his female companion and hooker, Maddalena, is sent to prison for perjury. Starving and unwilling to work for himself, Vittorio lures Stella, a peasant worker, into prostitution.
 
did anyone say "sunset boulevard" or "on the waterfront"? i really love those old film noir/detective/crime style movies. good shit.
 
i have many repeats but i will mention them again for emphasis :D

the obvious loved series: star wars and godfather

les miserables 1935 just watched this last week and loved it!
clockwork orange
easy rider
one flew over the cuckoos nest
gone with the wind
12 angry men
inherit the wind
mr smith goes to washington
harold and maude
streetcar named desire



i never really understood the appeal of casablanca, i found it a bit boring. i may watch it again someday to see what i missed out on.

any chaplin fans? i have city lights in my collection but have yet to get in the mood to watch it. i am also very interested in seeing the great dictator, his first talkie

i went through a phase about 10 years ago where i rented every b&w in teh library, but can't recall one title! a lot of the less memorable ones, and they were all still delightful to watch.
 
Paths of Glory

Definately the most underexposed of Kubrick's films. A 1957 black and white about a absoutely insane WWI commander. Great stuff and well worth it if you can find it.
 
Anything by Hitchcock. Someone mentioned Rope - that's good but my favourites would be North By Northwest, Vertigo, and Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock can wring unbearable tension out of a tennis match, and characters trying to retrieve a set of keys lost down a drain. That's true talent).

Otherwise:

Battleship Potemkin - story from the Russian Revolution.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) - brilliant choreography from Busby Berkeley

Duck Soup (1933) - Marx Brothers comedy gem.

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles masterpiece.

Third Man (1949) - Orson Welles again

The Bicycle Thieves (1946) - Italian neo-realism. Never has the loss of a bicycle provided the source for such a dramatic story.

In A Lonely Place - Bogart from the early 1950s, playing an over the hill, hard bitten actor. He's fantastic.

The Battle of Algiers (1960-something) - suicide bombers? freedom fighters? Algerian muslims fighting against the French who occupy their land. The film refuses to take sides, showing humanity and evil among both the French and Algerians. A whole lot of resonance for us, right now.

Breathless/A Bout De Souffle (but I can do without most of the rest of Godard's work).

The Wild Bunch - Western, bloody.

Andrei Rublyov (1969) - long, gripping film about 16th century Russian monk and painter. Waaaay better than that makes it sound.

Pink Flamingos (1972) - sickest film ever.

Blazing Saddles (1974) - funny as hell Western parody.

Taxi Driver (1976) - Robert De Niro has some emotional problems.

Star Wars (1977) - You probably heard of this one.

Alien (1979) - And this...

Apocalypse Now (1979) - "Charlie don't surf!"

Raging Bull (1980) - Scorcese does boxing.

That's only listing films I've seen. I've never seen the Godfather films, or a bunch of other classics.
 
DarthMom said:
any chaplin fans? i have city lights in my collection but have yet to get in the mood to watch it. i am also very interested in seeing the great dictator, his first talkie
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oh oh oh Modern Times (1936) is fantastic. I accidently downloaded The Great Dictator when i was after something else but the file shits itself.
 
Some great films listed... I especially like Sn2.ru's and Sim0n's lists.

Pedant's point of order: although Orson Welles stars in The Third Man, it was actually directed by Carol Reed. The one and only Graham Greene wrote the novel and the screenplay.
 
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