Classic Film Buffs - Check in Here!

I actually haven't seen this since I was a baby.. Like Quartermass and the Pit (1967); I haven't seen since I was a baby.
I just remember certain scenes from both of these.

I never saw myself as a classical movie buff.
....


I was a child, I liked this but, I've honestly never seen this in colour.

The Boy With Green Hair ( 1948 )
This was in black and white when I saw it.
I can't find a black and white version of this to show you.

 

A great movie for scenery and wildlife is"Across the Great Divide." The scenery in the movie is gorgeous. The animals in the movie are amazing.

 

OMG!; Quatermass and the Pit (1967) looks like the set of Eastenders!.. To me.

That said, the actress who played Bianca's mother was that little girl in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), but then, c'mon, who doesn't love this Disney classic?

 

This gave me nightmares.

Pinocchio (1940)

 

The very best two classic movies are:
Gone with the Wind.

The Wizard of Oz.

Neither of which are quite better than the original 1984, "The Terminator."

 

I loved Terminator 2 Judgement Day (1991) that I thought it came first and I thought The Terminator (1984) came out after because I saw the sequel first... I was a baby. I remembered I liked it because of the semi chase too reminded me of Duel (1971).

 

I was a young man when The Terminator first came out. Don't think Duel can much in common with it besides a short truck case.

 

Yeah, I liked that.
I remember thinking the truck from The Terminator (1984) reminded me of Duel (1971) than from Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991).
Random fandom of a baby; also, Terminator 2: Judgement Day got me into Guns N' Roses which in turn got me into music, it was that cool.

 

I remember watching The Blue Bird (1940)


I remember liking Singing in the Rain (1952)

but then I only saw this scene, so this scene was all of 'Singing in the Rain' to me; I also liked Thomas the Tank Engine at the time too, so, y'know, I was a baby and all that.

 

I saw this when I was a little older..

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

 

I want to see:
King Kong (1933)
The Exorcist (1973)

 

I've only ever seen 1 silent movie in my life so far, and that was Nosferatu (1922)

I borrowed it from the public library for a week for like £1.50 as a preteen or whatever on VHS back in the late 1990s.
It kind bored me tbh.

 

This places reminds me of mine - if I had a gun..

Taxi Driver (1976)

 

Anyone seen Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) ?

I've never made it passed the first 10 minutes..

 

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)

I was around 20 when I bought this on DVD; I remember making my friends watch this when they stayed over.
They watched it, one of them I think enjoyed it. They all never had heard of it.

 

I've never seen a silent movie that wasn't boring.

When I was studying film many moons ago we had to watch Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which is actually pretty good from a cinematographer's perspective.





The Odessa Steps scene is the most famous part of the movie. I think there are YouTube vids of just that one scene.

Eisenstein is considered by many to be the first great filmmaker, in part because he recognized and treated film as its own art form instead of an extension of other art forms such as the Stage/Theater.

LOL - Russ Meyer - cheesy 'exploitation' films...

 

My favorite film is Lawrence of Arabia because it gave me a life long love of movies. I was satisfied that it inspired Steven Spielberg too.

 

Lawrence of Arabia was directed by this guy from my town, Sir David Lean; also... There's a cinema in his honour in Croydon Clocktower;



Croydon Clocktower is home to Croydon Library's Central Croydon main library, The Museum of Croydon, Croydon Council, where a Sherlock Holmes mysery is set for a Sherlock Holmes WhoDunnItParty (that now tours the world) and The David Lean Cinema..
If ever there was an iconic place for a Croydonite to be remembered, this is it, The Croydon Clocktower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_the_London_Borough_of_Croydon

 

Cool.

I never saw a David Lean film I didn't like. My personal favorite is Doctor Zhivago and I have a copy of it and Lawrence of Arabia in my personal film/DVD collection. He's probably my third favorite director behind Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa (David Lynch comes in a close fourth).

Getting back to Doctor Zhivago, a couple of years ago I decided to read the novel and I was astonished at how different the film was from Boris Pasternak's masterpiece, which is what truly one him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 (his poetry isn't all that great, IMO). What surprised me even more was how much better the book is than the movie. You could probably make another film that is true to the book and it would be quite different from Lean's beautiful adaptation of the novel, but I don't think it would appeal as much to a general audience as Sir David's film.



The novel is extremely long - reading it is akin to eating an elephant - but I must say it was well worth the effort. It is the best piece of literature I have ever read and it is beautifully written - you can tell the author was a poet. I can also see why it took him years to write and edit the novel before he had the manuscript smuggled out of the USSR. If you ever have a hankering to read it I recommend the Hayward and Harari translation of the novel, which also happens to be the first/original translation:



https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Everymans-Library-Pasternak/dp/0679407596

There's a more recent translation of the novel that is inferior to Hayward and Harari's translation and I would take the advice of Pasternak's niece and stick to the older, original version.

 

I actually haven't seen a David Lean film yet, but that said, that film looks good, Doctor Zhivago.

I have seen this though

 

That is cool.

Do yourself a favor and watch Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia - you won't be disappointed. They're two of the best movies ever made.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the cinematographer in both of those films - Freddie Young:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Young
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/young.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/

Young's work on both films won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. In my opinion, Young and Lean made one of the best teams in film history.

 

David Lean directed In Which We Serve, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Summertime, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago and a nice little comedy called Hobson's Choice.

Not bad

 

The grapes pf wrath




Reds

 

One of my favorite lines is from Lawrence of Arabia:

Arthur Kennedy;

"What attracts you to the desert?"

Peter O'Toole;

"It's clean"

 

Akira Kurosawa's Ran: