Name some movies 50 or more years old you like.
White heat. Film noir done to a tee. Shows us a monster named Cody Jarrett and makes us see he's still human.
War of the worlds. Yeah we can see the wires, it's still a great movie. The scene where the colonel get disintegrated managed to be horrifying and holds up today.
Forbidden planet. The special effects in space weren't equalled until kubrick did 2001abd weren't beaten until star wars.
Metropolis. Duh!
All quiet on the western front. Didn't glamorize or glorify war. Showed as much of it's horror as it could.
Most of them. :wink:
So, movies before 1968...
Just going off my website sidebar...
8 1/2
THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)
BELLE DE JOUR
THE BLACK CAT (9134)
BRANDED TO KILL
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
DAISIES
DEMENTIA (1955)
DJANGO KILL... IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!
DOG STAR MAN
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
THE FACE OF ANOTHER
FANTASIA
HAXAN
KWAIDAN
L'AGE D'OR
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
MANIAC (1934)
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
NOSFERATU
PERSONA
PIEROT LE FOU
A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND GUESTS
REPULSION
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT
SHOCK CORRIDOR
SPIDER BABY
THE TINGLER
THE TRIAL
VAMPYR
VERTIGO
WEEKEND
THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES
ZAZIE DANS LE METRO
to name just a few.
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
City Lights
The Gold Rush
The Great Dictator
The War of the Worlds
Touch of Evil
2001: A Space Oddyessy
There are a lot more, but that's just off the top of my head
Too many to list, but here are a few:
* ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES
* JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
* THE WAGES OF FEAR
* M
* LES DIABOLIQUES
* NORTH BY NORTHWEST
* THE HUSTLER
* ANATOMY OF A MURDER
* THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
* SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
* SHANE
* THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
* HOUSE OF WAX
* INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
The list goes on and on.
I can offer you guys a 50+ year old film archivist :wink:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sons of the Desert
Swiss Miss
Buck Privates
Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbot & Costello In the Navy
Psycho (1960)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Birds (1963)
Freaks (1932)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
The Blob (1958)
The Innocents (1961)
Cape Fear (1962)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Haunting (1963)
Them! (1954)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
The Fly (1958)
House of Wax (1953)
etc
Heh! Most of my favorite movies are 50 years old.
I almost started a thread about one I watched last night. Maybe I will.
BONNIE & CLYDE (1967) Still holds up great, still revoltingly violent, depressingly fatalistic, great performances and a completely functioning, pointed screenplay. Lots of smart decisions that un-date the movie...
Quote from: Trevor on March 20, 2018, 11:42:30 AM
I can offer you guys a 50+ year old film archivist :wink:
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King Kong
Jason & the Argonauts
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
The Blob
12 Angery Men
Huckleberry Finn
Things to Come
Island of Lost Souls
Instead of rattling off a long list of movies. Could people list a few and why they still like them?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 20, 2018, 02:51:00 PM
Heh! Most of my favorite movies are 50 years old.
Same here.
I'd rather watch old B movies on Tubi than new million dollar F/X messes.
2 Louise Brooks films come to mind-
DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929) has some surprising sexual overtones.and PANDORA'S BOX (1929) is a close to a horror film towards the end.
miranda & it's sequel, mad about men-why? i have a great and enduring love for glynis johns, and for mermaids.
blithe spirit-it's hilarious, and it has rex harrison and margaret rutherford!
my fair lady-again, it has rex harrison and it's a riot!
doctor doolittle-yeahyeahyeah, i have a thing for rex harrison, sue me.
there's 5 to start.
Quote from: 316zombie on March 21, 2018, 03:57:28 PM
miranda & it's sequel, mad about men-why? i have a great and enduring love for glynis johns, and for mermaids.
blithe spirit-it's hilarious, and it has rex harrison and margaret rutherford!
my fair lady-again, it has rex harrison and it's a riot!
doctor doolittle-yeahyeahyeah, i have a thing for rex harrison, sue me.
there's 5 to start.
So did you like Cleopatra? I did. Not quote historically perfect but not badly done.
it isn't bad,but i'm not much into historical movies really. :cheers: