Classic Film nights

914Driver wrote: Where are you showing these movies? I live in a small village where they put a big tarp over the side of a building next to a park and chow classic movies every Friday night for free. Some of the stuff young people have not see like the Keystone Cops, Laurel & Hardy, WC Fields. That gets old fast but they're short movies. Dan

Just at our apartment. Basically me and my roommate like classic movies but I also I like making mixing drinks (although I prefer drinking just beer) and he likes cooking. So we are going to do a cocktail and a appetizer or desert to go with the movie.

Nice.

Perhaps not a Classic, but once upon a time we watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being made in 1988. It was the first movie in a long time that prompted conversation when it was over. Most movies tell a story and tell how it ends leaving you only entertained for 90 minutes.

Dan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being_(film)

I like The Ghost & Mrs. Muir.

Rear Window

Sunset Blvd.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Apartment

It Happened One Night

Some Like it Hot

pete240z wrote: For a clean, family movie; we love this one.

+1

Arranged somewhat by theme:

Intrigue:

Double Indemnity

Laura

Romance:

Roman Holiday

To Catch a Thief

Jane Eyre (the Joan Fontaine version--this is here because there's a new version out)

WWII:

From Here to Eternity

The Great Escape

WWII/homefront:

Mrs. Minniver

Best Years of Our Lives

These would all combine in category to create double features.

Margie

Here are a few newer movies but :

Das Boot

Kelly's Heros

The Guns of Navarone

The African Queen

Zulu

All Quiet on the Western Front (the original)

Most of the usual suspects have been covered. But for WWII movies I can't say enough good things about 'Battle of Britain' made in 1969.

Two Mules for Sister Sarah

Some Like it Hot

The Godfather 1 & 2

The Graduate

Citizen Kane

Mogambo

Gone with the Wind

*EDIT...also check out The Cheyenne Social Club, and My Name is Nobody.

**EDIT...The Quiet Man and McLintock

That sounds like a great idea. Once I know what next months days off are we may try the same. I'm surprised how many of these movies I haven't seen

For something different, Hatari, with John Wayne. You can marvel at how many scenes were ripped off for the trilogy of Jurassic Park movies.

Two Mules for Sister Sarah

So it's gonna be that kind of movie night.

Once Upon a Tine in the West - Charles Bronson as the good guy with a chip on his shoulder, Claudia Cardinale with gorgeous eyes and enough curves to seduce the Pope, Henry Fonda wonderfully miscast as the evil villain. And its' a spaghetti western to boot.

North by Northwest - A Hitchcock masterpiece with Cary Grant as the cool and suave hero, Eva Marie Saint as the comely femme fatale, Mount Rushmore completes the supporitng cast. The dining-car reparte between the male and female leads is lively with a very adult theme considering the era.

Once Upon a Tine in the West - Charles Bronson as the good guy with a chip on his shoulder, Claudia Cardinale with gorgeous eyes and enough curves to seduce the Pope, Henry Fonda wonderfully miscast as the evil villain. And its' a spaghetti western to boot.

My favorite western of all time. The SOUNDTRACK! Holy crap. Composed by Ennio Morricone. That dude is a genius.

Edit: Here yee go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlbB1pD3y0A&feature=related

North by Northwest

To Catch a Thief

Mr Majestyk

Westerns:

High Noon

True Grit

The Cowboys

Tom Horn

The Wild Bunch

Honorable Mention, Western:

Cheyenne Social Club

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

12 O'clock High.

Tora, Tora, Tora.

Strategic Air Command (if only for the B-36 porn)

Oh and Maximum Overdrive.

JoeyM wrote: You started out with Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia, and those are the two I would have suggested. (BTW, Casablanca is one of the most misunderstood movies ever....A guy who spends years pining over a girl, finally gets the chance to be with her, and decides that killing nazis is more important than the relationship. How was that a romantic movie?)

Rick Blaine is a classic romantic figure. I could do a lot of retyping but go here instead Romantic hero Therefore, Casablanca is a romantic movie, with a somewhat decent love story involved.

Not sure how all these westerns are mentioned, without The Outlaw Josey Wales. Or High Plains Drifter.

JoeyM wrote: You started out with Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia, and those are the two I would have suggested. (BTW, Casablanca is one of the most misunderstood movies ever....A guy who spends years pining over a girl, finally gets the chance to be with her, and decides that killing nazis is more important than the relationship. How was that a romantic movie?)

It helps if you remember that the Nazis were winning at the time (1942).

EDIT:

1941 It was on AMC at about 1am, so I stayed up to watch it yet again.

Fail Safe

lewbud wrote:

JoeyM wrote: ... and decides that killing nazis is more important than the relationship. How was that a romantic movie?

Rick Blaine is a classic romantic figure. I could do a lot of retyping but go here instead Romantic hero Therefore, Casablanca is a romantic movie, with a somewhat decent love story involved.

I wasn't aware that rejecting the girl counted as romantic, but I certainly agree that he fit's wiki's description: "a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has the self as the center of his or her own existence."

friedgreencorrado wrote: It helps if you remember that the Nazis were *winning* at the time (1942).

Yeah, but that's why I think of Rick Blaine as a tough guy, not some "you've got mail/sleepless in seattle" irritant.