OT: Old movies during The crisis....

[GregL]

The Manchurian Candidate" by John Frankenheimer, 1962. Black and white. IMO, Frank Sinatra's best screen performance. Angela Lansbury was absolutely chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Gt0d2zGUI

Greg

[veloduffer]

Originally Posted by Tickdoc

My all time favorite western for sure. The music, the acting, the story, the spahgetti weirdness. Claudia. It’s just spectacular.

+1 My favorite western - easily. Ennio Morricone’s score is fantastic, which has been performed by others globally. Beautifully haunting.

All the right actors for their roles and Henry Fonda playing a bad guy for once!


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[gdw]

A Face in the Crowd is a classic and has Walter Matthau in it.

[Tickdoc]

Originally Posted by veloduffer

+1 My favorite western - easily. Ennio Morricone’s score is fantastic, which has been performed by others globally. Beautifully haunting.

All the right actors for their roles and Henry Fonda playing a bad guy for once!


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Yes I have yo-yo ma’s ennio morricone movie score album and it features the main track. It’s a great album.


https://youtu.be/iAR3_qPXIaM

[paredown]

Really, the only thing I miss about cutting the cord is TCM.

My local art house/second run theater in Vancouver used to do classic double bills and introduced me to a number of films and I got to see them on the big screen too.

A couple of favorite pairings:

Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story and Bring Up Baby

Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and To Have and Have Not

Agree with Double Indemnity--that is as good as film noir got IMO--screenplay by Raymond Chandler, and along with Barbara Stanwyck, it also featured Fred MacMurray--who by the time I was of movie-going age was a Disney kid film staple--but boy did he make a good bad guy.

[colker]

Rio Bravo by HOward Hawks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBBuV1jZpE

This is so warm to watch right now.

[colker]

Kurosawa. Yojimbo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0


One step above Sergio Leone.

[johnmdesigner]

And because I had lunch at the table next to Faye Dunaway once...

3 Days of the Condor
Bonnie and Clyde

[colker]

Originally Posted by johnmdesigner

And because I had lunch at the table next to Faye Dunaway once...

3 Days of the Condor
Bonnie and Clyde

I hope you didn´t feel compelled to rip a strand of her hair. Do you know that piece of gossip from Chinatown?

[echelon_john]

Kind Hearts and Coronets-brilliant, dark, really funny

[johnmdesigner]

Originally Posted by colker

I hope you didn´t feel compelled to rip a strand of her hair. Do you know that piece of gossip from Chinatown?

Oh that was years ago in Tribeca but I remember being impressed that she had ordered pasta in squid ink and she was indifferent to her stained teeth. I was not acknowledged.
I was on 79th street early morning once and walked passed Isabella Rossellini who gave me a nice smile.

[Ken Robb]

"Tunes of Glory" with Alec Guiness, Susanna York and several other people I recognized is an old favorite of mine. I recently found it free On Demand with Direct TV. It is a neat study of PTSD (before that term was invented), the fascinating world of unit pride and traditions in the British/Scottish regiments.

[cgolvin]

Originally Posted by paredown

Agree with Double Indemnity--that is as good as film noir got IMO--screenplay by Raymond Chandler, and along with Barbara Stanwyck, it also featured Fred MacMurray--who by the time I was of movie-going age was a Disney kid film staple--but boy did he make a good bad guy.

Fred MacMurray also is great as a heartless lothario in yet another Billy Wilder film, The Apartment. Nice little role for Ray Walston, of My Favorite Martian fame (or, for the younger folk, Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High).

I had the same experience of surprise seeing a TV dad (Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons) playing a baddy in the earlier mentioned A Face in the Crowd: Andy Griffith.

Nothing against Double Indemnity but I'd put The Maltese Falcon at the top of my film noir list.

[avalonracing]

I'm a big fan of classic movies. Here are two recommendations to see them:

If your cable network doesn't have Turner Classic movies you can stream TCM through a service called WATCH TV from AT&T. It's $15 a month and will work on your computer or Apple TV etc (it also has a bunch of other lame channels that come with basic cable but it's worth it for the TCM).

If you have a local library card you can sign up for Kanopy. It's FREE and it has a great library of class movies including silent and foreign movies (and it has a ton of non-classic movies). If you don't have a library card you can often sign up for one online.

[veloduffer]

A great start to any classic movie list is the AFI 100.

My favorite comedy is His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Rapid fire dialogue and Rosalind giving back whatever Grant dishes out is great.

https://youtu.be/m8lzyaMZ-mA


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