[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rev. Rikard:
Here is a list that will always remain too short:
The Grapes of Wrath
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Psycho
12 Angry Men
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Rosemary's Baby (scared the dickens out of me)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cool Hand Luke
Rebel Without a Cause
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf (sp?)
African Queen
Casablanca
Citizen Kane (sp?) (the most complete movie I've ever seen)
Easy Rider (remember, I'm a child of the 60s)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

I would also have to add ("Capote" allowed me to remember this film, which I bought a few years ago and have watched it four times. It is "In Cold Blood") Robert Blake's acting is outstanding, and the film has a gritty, distrubing reality about it. It is a unique movie in that the viewer finds that they care as much about Blake's character as the family he murdered.(Blake's "Perry" lived in great dysfunctional pain; no excuse for murder, but still the film makes us care about him). The film raises issues like the legitimacy of captial punishment, our responsibility for our actions in light of the abusive childhood we might experience, etc. This is indeed a classic that needs to be viewed.

My favorite classics, in no particular order:

Arsenic and Old Lace
Whistle Down the Wind
The List of Adrian Messenger
They Might Be Giants
Frankenstein
The Maltese Falcon
King Kong
Dracula
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Lost Horizon
The Wolf Man
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
Key Largo
To Catch A Thief
Dr.Zhivago
Billy Liar
North By Northwest
Meet John Doe
Mouse That Roared
Dr.Strangelove
Once Upon A Time in the West
The Adventures of Robin Hood
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Day the Earth Stood Still

-gone with the wind
-la dolce vita
-casablanca
-8 1/2
-the bicycle thief
-umberto d.
-la'avventura
-rashomon
-persona

are some classics that i loved and cant get enough of it their the best for me

Since its right off the top of my head, I'm pretty syre its my favorite classic movie: It's a Wonderful Life.

I tried to shy away from the number of great films that have already been mentioned, but there are a few films below I couldn't help but repeat, as these are most of my favorites prior to 1960:

A Star is Born
Gilda
Sweet Smell of Success
The Apartment
Anatomy of a Murder
Leave Her to Heaven
On the Waterfront
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Sunset Boulevard
The Bad and the Beautiful
A Streetcar Named Desire
Roman Holiday
The Phildelphia Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Double Indemnity
East of Eden
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
It Happend One Night
Kiss me Deadly
The Band Wagon
Force of Evil
To Have and Have Not
Written on the Wind
Duck Soup
Pickup on South Street

Jane Eyre (1944)...I could watch it a thousand times and still be swept away by the chemistry between Welles and Fontaine...great classic!

Here's a list of my favorites from '31-'80. Perhaps in 2030 I'll do '81-'30. *heh*


Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
M (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
Mad Love (1935)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Harvey (1950)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Shichinin No Samurai (1954)
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957)
Kumonosu-jo (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Smultronstället (1957)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
8 1/2 (1963)
Harakiri (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
Onibaba (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
True Grit (1969)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Lone Wolf And Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Solyaris (1972)
Sleeper (1973)
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next (1975)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
Star Wars (A New Hope) (1977)
Woyzeck (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
City Lights (1931)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)

it's gonna sound so generic, but i absolutley adore the godfather and casablanca. all of the films have memorable characters, where no one is the good guy or the bad guy necesarily, but redemption does occur. pacino and deniro in pt 2, caan and brando in part one, the essential fantastic performances. duvall did well, as did diane keaton and talia shire (two great femme performances) but tom hagen wasnt really that much of an animated character. as far as casablanca, claude reins, peter lorre, bogart AND bergman. thats just gold right there.

and ivocaliban im just gonnahave to disagree with you on your bond choices, goldfinger was fantastic, but no film ever brought as much realism to bond as from russia with love, which is what turns me on to it, maybe even more so than goldfinger

DeNiro convincing Martin Scorsese to film a movie about a life of a low-class boxer bemused Scorsese. As did it bemuse audiences with its direct honesty of La Motta's life. DeNiro's notably controlled performance as boxing guru Jake La Motta appeared to be his wondrous portrayal and Scorsese's finest character study. When Raging Bull achieved a nice supplement of Academy Awards, at that time, it was labeled as an American classic.

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Originally posted by thommy thom:
and ivocaliban im just gonnahave to disagree with you on your bond choices, goldfinger was fantastic, but no film ever brought as much realism to bond as from russia with love, which is what turns me on to it, maybe even more so than goldfinger

You'll get no argument from me that From Russia With Love is a terrific film. It was a toss-up, quite frankly. I love them both.

How about some foreign classics... Trufaut's The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, 8 1/2, The Bicycle Thief, The Third Man, Yojimbo, The Battle of Algiers, Weekend. American classics...Sweet Smell of Success, On The Waterfront, All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Vertigo.

Casablanca
Lancelot du lac
Aguirre, Wrath of god
Sunset Boulevard
Shadow of a Doubt
I walked with a Zombie
Charulata

Here are a few of my favorites:

Psycho
Casablanca
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Laura
Sunset Boulevard
The Letter
The Philadelphia Story
Notorious
It Happened One Night

Casablanca
Psycho
Rear Window
Seven Samurai
Barefoot Contessa
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
The Godfather
Dr. Strangelove

if it doesn't have to be black and white

the maltese falcon
star wars (ok, i know what you're thinking, but this is one of that great films of all time, and it is 30 years old now)
on the waterfront
psycho
ben hur
and showgirls

Although I wouldn't call Showgirls a classic, I DO believe it's far better than a "guilty pleasure". Of course, I'm taking your inclusion of it far more serious than you probably did.

i guess im gonna take the role of the generic poster and say all of Tarantinos stuff

Resevoir Dogs- Outstanding Film, memorable scenes great Dialouge(a usual for Tarantino) everything was great

Pulp Fiction- Only improvement over Resevoir Dogs, only improvement, every aspect of this film is classic, memorable, and its my fave movie of all time

Jackie Brown- Even though it slowed down the action it still had the solid Tarantino feel to it, it wasn't his original idea(it was based of a book) but you could still tell that it was his work.

I just think that tarantino is the best Modern day director, he has made many classics and his continuing to shape the world of movies