Classic cinema - thoughts and questions

Probably my favourite European film. :)

Interesting. I don't know if I would say its my favourite european film, but it is certainly up there. It is really hard to make a list like that too for me. But yes, the impact that this movie had on so many of the would-be famous directors was very crucial indeed  :)


Do you know The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur, an exciting film (in colour) from the same director, Henri-George Clouzot? Tense in a different way, more an adventure


Yup. I have this movie in my collection as well. The one I have is also the black and white version, came in a cardboard slipcase kind of box. I've only seen it once, and I did like it, but it didn't floor me as any great masterpiece, but maybe I need to re-watch it. Some of the scenes in the movie came off to me as being very humorous instead of terryfying  :blush: But maybe I just need to re-watch it  :)

I should make a post with the movies I have. Like I said I don't really have so many obscure ones, but it is nice to read what others have. I checked your list on the first page and there is lots of movies there I have not heard of. So lots to browse and discover  :ok:
 
Later I'd like to make some lists of favourite films by genre/country or decade.

First I'll post which films I own and have seen. I have seen more (I borrow a lot from two collegues and work, plus I do not need to own every film I see in the movie theater). There's not much info (e.g. no genre, director or year and such), just an alphabetical list.


12 Angry Men
1984 (1956)
20,000 Years In Sing Sing
20.000 Leagues Under The Sea
2001 : A Space Odyssey
25th Hour, The
3 Godfathers
39 Steps, The
Aanslag, De
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abilene Town
Ace In The Hole
Aces High
Across The Pacific
Act of Violence
Action In The North Atlantic
Adventures Of Robin Hood, The
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The (1939)
Adventures Of Tartu
Advise & Consent
Affair To Remember, An
African Queen, The
After The Thin Man
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Alamo, The
Alexander Nevskiy
All About Eve
All Quiet On The Western Front
Als Je Begrijpt Wat Ik Bedoel
Amadeus
Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The
Ame Agaru
Amelie
American Psycho
Anatomy Of A Murder
And Then There Were None
Angel
Angel And The Badman
Angel Face
Angels With Dirty Faces
Anna Karenina
Another Man's Poison
Apache
Apartment, The
Ape, The
Arabesque
Army In The Shadows
Around The World In Eighty Days
Arsenic And Old Lace
Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud
Asphalt Jungle, The
Assassin, The
Attack Of The Clones - Star Wars Episode II
Attack Of The Giant Leeches
Autumn Sonata
Awful Truth, The
Baby Face
Back To Bataan
Bad Day At Black Rock
Bad Sleep Well, The
Bandolero!
Barefoot Contessa, The
Bataan
Batman Begins
Battle Cry
Battle Of Britain
Battle Of The Bulge
Battleship Potemkin
Beat The Devil
Bedlam
Beguiled, The
Behind Locked Doors
Behold A Pale Horse
Bells Of San Angelo
Bells, The
Ben Hurr
Bend Of The River
Berlin Express
Best Years Of Our Lives, The
Between Heaven And Hell
Beware My Lovely
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Beyond The Forest
Bible, The
Big Clock, The
Big Combo, The
Big Country, The
Big Heat, The
Big Knife, The
Big Sleep, The
Big Steal, The
Birds, The
Bishop's Wife, The
Black Angel
Black Dragons
Black Legion
Black Narcissus
Black Room, The
Black Sabbath
Blackboard Jungle
Blackmail
Blake Of Scotland Yard
Blood Alley
Blow-Up
Blue Angel, The
Blue Dahlia, The
Blue Gardenia, The
Blue Steel
Bluebeard
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Bob Le Flambeur
Body Heat
Boom Town
Born To Kill
Boston Strangler, The
Boys From Brazil, The
Boys Town
Brannigan
Bravados
Braveheart
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Bridge On The River Kwai, The
Bridge Too Far, A
Bridges At Toko-Ri, The
Bringing Up Baby
British Intelligence
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Arrow
Broken Lance
Brute Force
Burmese Harp, The
Bus Stop
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The
Caine Mutiny, The
Call It Murder
Call Northside 777
Camille Claudel
Canterbury Tale, A
Cape Fear (1962)
Captain Blood
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Carrie
Carrington V.C.
Cars
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Casablanca
Cassandra's Dream
Cat People
Cause For Alarm!
Celebrity
Cercle Rouge, Le
Champagne
Champion
Charade
Charge Of The Light Brigade, The
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Chase, The
Chemical Wedding
Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Social Club, The
Chienne, La
Children of Men
Chinatown
Chisum
Chushingura - The Loyal 47 Ronin
Citizen Kane
Clash By Night
Cloak And Dagger
Clockwise
Code Name: Emerald
Collector, The
Comanche Station
Comancheros, The
Conflict
Conspirators, The
Contact
Control
Corbeau, Le
Corpse Vanishes, The
Country Girl, The
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
Crime Wave
Criss Cross
Crossfire
Cry Of The City
D.O.A.
Dakota
Dam Busters, The
Dark City
Dark Corner, The
Dark Mirror, The
Dark Passage
Dark Victory
Dawn Rider, The
Day The Earth Stood Still, The
D-Day The Sixth Of June
Dead End
Dead Of Night
Dead Poets Society
Dead Reckoning
Dead Ringer
Deadly Pursuit
Decision At Sundown
Decoy
Deep, The (1977)
Defiant Ones, The
Dementia 13
Dersu Uzala
Desert Fox, The
Desert Rats, The
Desert Trail, The
Design For Living
Designing Woman
Desire
Desperate
Desperate Hours, The
Destry Rides Again
Detective Story
Devil Is The Woman
Devil-Doll, The
Devil's Doorway
Diaboliques, Les
Dial M For Murder
Diary Of Anne Frank, The
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Different Kind of Blue
Dirty Dozen, The
Dirty Harry
Doctor X
Dodge City
Doomed To Die
Double Indemnity
Doulos, Le
Downhill
Dr Mabuse: The Gambler
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dr. No
Dracula (1931)
Dracula's Daughter
Dragonwyck
Dressed To Kill
Drunken Angel
Duel In The Sun
Dune
Dupont Show Of The Month: Treasure Island
Eagle Has Landed, The
East Of Eden
Eastern Promises
Edge Of Darkness
Edge Of The City
El Dorado
Empire Strikes Back, The - Star Wars Episode V
Enemy Below, The
Enforcer, The
English Patient, The
Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwillówny
Erik The Viking
Escape From Alcatraz
Escape To Athena
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Without A Face
Fail-Safe
Fallen Angel
Fallen Idol, The
Fallen Sparrow, The
Family Plot
Far Country, The
Farewell To Arms, A
Farmer's Wife, The
Fatal Hour, The
Father's Little Dividend
Faust
FBI Story, The
Fearless Vampire Killers, The
Fellowship Of The Ring, The - The Lord Of The Rings
Fighting Kentuckian, The
File On Thelma Jordon, The
Fire And Ice
First Man Into Space
Flags Of Our Fathers
Flic, Un
Flight Of The Phoenix, The
Flying Leathernecks
Fonda On Fonda
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Force 10 From Navarone
Force Of Evil
Foreign Affair, A
Foreign Correspondent
Fort Apache
Fourteen Hours
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman
Frenzy
From Hell
From Here To Eternity
From Russia With Love
Fugitive, The (1947)
Funny Face
Fury
Gaslight
Gentleman's Agreement
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ghost Of Frankenstein, The
Ghost Writer, The
Gideon's Trumpet
Gilda
Giornata particolare, Una
Glass Key, The
Glenn Miller Story, The
Gods And Monsters
Goldfinger
Gone With The Wind
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good, The Bad & The Ugly, The
Gorilla, The
Grapes Of Wrath, The
Great Escape, The
Greed
Green Glove, The
Guadalcanal Diary
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Gun Crazy - aka Deadly Is The Female
Gunfighter, The
Guns Of Navarone, The
Hands Across The Table
Hangmen Also Die
Harvey
Haunting, The
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not!
He Walked By Night
Heaven Can Wait
Heiress, The
Hell In The Pacific
Hell Town
Herbie Fully Loaded
Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (3: 1977)
Herbie Rides Again (2: 1974)
Hidden Fortress, The
Hiding Place, The
High And Low
High And The Mighty, The
High Noon
High Sierra
High Wall
Hirishima Mon Amour
His Girl Friday
His Private Secretary
History Of Violence, A
Holiday
Home Town Story
Hondo
Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1939)
Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1959)
Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1983)
Hour Of The Wolf, The
House By The River
House Of Bamboo
House Of Dracula
House Of Fear, The
House Of Frankenstein
House Of Strangers
House On 92nd Street, The
How Green Was My Valley
How The West Was Won
How To Marry A Millionaire
How To Steal A Million
Howards Of Virginia, The
Human Condition, The - part 1: No Greater Love
Human Condition, The - part 2: The Road To Eternity
Human Condition, The - part 3: A Soldier's Prayer
Human Desire
Humoresque
Hurricane Express, The (film = ge-ed. serie)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Confess
I Walked With A Zombie
I Was A Male War Bride
Idiot, The
Ikiru
Illusionist, The
Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, The
Impact
In A Lonely Place
In Harm's Way
In Old California
In Old Oklahoma
In The Heat Of The Night
Indiscreet
Inherit The Wind
Inheritance, The
Inland Empire
Innocents, The
Into Great Silence
Intolerable Cruelty
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
Invisible Agent
Invisible Ghost
Invisible, Man (1933)
Irma La Douce
Island In The Sky
Isle Of The Dead
It Happened One Night
It's A Wonderful Life
Jackal, The
Jamaica Inn
Jane Eyre
Jarhead
Jesse James
Jezebel
Journey Into Fear
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Judgement At Nuremberg
Juggernaut
Julius Caesar
June Night
Jurassic Park III
Kaidan
Kansas City Confidential
Key Largo
Khartoum
Kid Galahad
Killer Is Loose, The
Killer's Kiss
Killers, The (1946)
Kind Hearts And Coronets
King Arthur
Kiss Before Dying, A
Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss Of Death
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Knock On Any Door
Krzyzacy
Lady Eve, The
Lady From Shanghai, The
Lady In A Cage
Lady In The Lake, The
Lady Vanishes, The
Lady Without Passport, A
Ladykillers, The
Last Man On Earth, The
Last Run, The
Last Train From Gunhill, The
Laura
Lavender Hill Mob, The
Lawless Frontier, The
Lawless Range
Lawless, Street A
Lawrence Of Arabia
Leave Her To Heaven
Leopard Man, The
Letter From The Unknown Woman
Letter, The
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
Life With Father
Lifeboat
Lift, De
Lodger, The
Long Dimanche De Fiancailles, Un
Long Night, The
Lord Of The Rings - animation
Lost Patrol, The
Lost Weekend, The
Love Bug, The (Herbie) (1: 1968)
Love In The Afternoon
Lower Depths, The
Lucky Texan, The
M
MacArthur
Machinist, The
Mackenna's Gold
Macomber Affair, The
Mad Love
Maigret tend un piège
Malaya
Maltese Falcon, The
Man From Laramie, The
Man From The Alamo, The
Man From Utah, The
Man Hunt
Man In The White Suit, The
Man Of The Frontier
Man Of The West
Man Who Cheated Himself, The
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Man With The Gun
Manchurian Candidate, The
Manpower
Marie Antoinette
Mark of the Vampire
Marked Woman
Marnie
Marooned
Mask Of Fu Manchu, The
Master And Commander
Mata Hari
Matrix, The
Matter Of Life And Death, A
McLintock!
Metropolis
Midnight
Midway
Mildred Pierce
Miles Davis Story
Ministry Of Fear
Mirage
Mississippi Mermaid
Mogambo
Mondo Balordo
Monkey Business
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Moonfleet
Moonrise
Mortal Storm, The
Moses
Most Dangerous Game, The
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Mr. Wong In China Town
Mr. Wong, Detective
Mrs Miniver
Mummy, The (1932
Murder Ahoy
Murder At The Gallop
Murder Most Foul
Murder On The Orient Express
Murder She Said
Murder!
Murder, My Sweet
Murders In The Zoo
My Darling Clementine
My Name Is Julia Ross
My Name Is Nobody
Mystery Of Mr. Wong, The
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
Naked City, The
Naked Kiss, The
Naked Spur, The
Nanny, The
Narrow Margin, The
Neath The Arizona Skies
New Hope, A - Star Wars Episode IV
Niagara
Night And The City
Night Editor
Night Flight From Moscow
Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Night Of Terror
Night of the Demon
Night of the Hunter, The
Night Of The Iguana, The
Night Of The Living Dead
Night Passage
Night Train To Munich
Nightmare Alley
Ninotchka
No Highway
No Man Of Her Own
No Way Out
North By Northwest
North To Alaska
Nosferatu (1922)
Nothing Sacred
Notorious
Now Voyager
Number Seventeen
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Objective, Burma!
Odd Man Out
Odds Against Tomorrow
Of Human Bondage
Old Acquaintance
Old Dark House, The
Omen, The
On Dangerous Ground
On Golden Pond
On Our Merry Way
Once Upon A Time In The West
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One-Eyed Jacks
Only Angels Have Wings
Only One Night
Operation Pacific
Operation Valkyrie
Ossessione
Other Boleyn Girl, The
Out Of The Past
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Outlaw, The
Oxbow-Incident, The
Pandora's Box
Panic In The Streets
Pan's Labyrinth
Papillon
Paradine Case, The
Paradise Canyon
Paris - When It Sizzles
Pasazerka (aka The Passenger)
Passage To Marseille
Passion, A
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Patch Of Blue, A
Paths Of Glory
Patton
Pearl of Death, The
Peeping Tom
People Against O'Hara, The
Perfume
Persona
Petrified Forest, The
Phantom Lady
Phantom Menace, The - Star Wars Episode I
Phantom Of The Opera (1943)
Philadelphia Story, The
Pianist, The
Picknick At Hanging Rock
Pickup On South Street
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
Pitfall
Place In The Sun, A
Plainsman, The
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet Of The Apes
Point Blank
Pork Chop Hill
Poseidon Adventure, The
Possessed
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Pot o' Gold
Pregi
Prince And The Showgirl, The
Private Lifes Of Elizabeth And Essex, The
Prowler, The
Psycho
Purple Heart, The      
Purple Plain, The
Pursuit To Algiers
Quai des Brumes, Le
Quai des Orfèvres
Quiet Man, The
Raid On Rommel
Railroaded
Ran
Randy Rides Alone
Ransom
Rare Breed, The
Rashomon
Raw Deal
Reap The Wild Wind
Rear Window
Rear Window (1998)
Rebecca
Reckless Moment, The
Red Beard
Red River
Red Sun
Remember The Night
Return of Frank James, The
Return Of The Jedi - Star Wars Episode VI
Reunion In France
Rich And Strange
Ride Lonesome
Ride The High Country
Riders Of Destiny
Riders Of The Whistling Pines
Rififi
Ring, The
Rio Bravo
Rogue Cop
Roman Holiday
Ronin Of The Wilderness
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
Run Silent, Run Deep
Sabaka
Sabotage
Saboteur
Sagebrush Trail
Sahara
Samouraï, Le
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai 2: Duel At Ichijoji Temple
Samurai 3: Duel On Ganryu Island
Samurai Assassin
Samurai Rebellion
Samurai Wolf
Samurai Wolf II
Sanjuro
Saving Private Ryan
Scandal
Scapegoat, The
Scarface
Scarlet Claw, The
Scarlet Empress, The
Scarlet Street
Schindler's List
Se7en
Sea Of Grass, The
Searchers, The
Secret Agent
Secret Beyond The Door
Secret Weapon, The
Seperate Tables
Seppuku
Servant, The
Set-Up, The
Seven Days In May
Seven Men From Now
Seven Samurai
Seven Year Itch, The
Seventh Seal
Seventh Victim, The
Shadow Of A Doubt
Shadow Of The Thin Man
Shane
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Shenandoah
Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Sherlock Holmes In Washington
She-Wolf Of London
Shop Around The Corner, The
Side Street
Silence of the Lambs, The
Silver Blaze
Sink The Bismarck!
Skin Game, The
Skyjacked
Sleepy Hollow
Sleuth (1972)
Slim
Snake People, The
Sniper, The
Snows Of Kilimanjaro, The
Soldaat Van Oranje
Some Like It Hot
Somewhere In The Night
Son Of Dracula
Son Of Frankenstein
Spartacus
Speckled Band, The
Spellbound
Spiral Staircase, The
Spirit Of St. Louis, The
Spoilers, The
Spoorloos
Stage Fright
Stagecoach
Stalag 17
Star Packer, The
Star Trek XI
Strange Love Of Martha Ivers, The
Stranger On The Third Floor
Stranger, The
Strangers On A Train
Strategic Air Command
Stray Dog
Street With No Name, The
Stromboli
Study In Scarlet, A
Sudden Fear
Suddenly
Suddenly Last Summer
Sugata Sanshiro
Sunset Blvd.
Suspicion
Swamp Water
Swarm, The
Swedenhielms
Sweet Smell Of Succes
Sword Of Doom
Sword Of The Beast
Tall T, The
Tall Target, The
Targets
Taste Of Fear
Ten Commandments, The
Tenant, The
Tension
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Terror On A Train
Terror, The
Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das
Testosteron
Texans, The
Texas Terror
That Touch Of Mink
That Uncertain Feeling
The Hitch-Hiker
The Killing
Them!
These Three
They Died With Their Boots On
They Drive By Night
They Live By Night
Thieves' Highway
Thin Man, The
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
This Gun For Hire
Three Outlaw Samurai
Throne Of Blood
Thunder Bay
Thunderball
Thunderbolt
Time Machine, The
Tin Star, The
T-Men
To Be Or Not To Be
To Catch A Thief
To Have And Have Not
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Topaz
Torn Curtain
Touch Of Evil
Touchez pas au grisbi
Tower Of London
Track Of The Cat
Train Robbers, The
Train, The
Treasure Island
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The
Tribute To A Bad Man
Trouble In Paradise
Trouble With Harry, The
True Confession
True Grit
Twelve O'Clock High
Two Rode Together
Two Towers, The - The Lord Of The Rings
Ulysses
Unconquered
Undefeated, The
Under Capricorn
Undercover Man, The
Unforgiven
Uninvited, The
Unsuspected, The
Untergang, Der
Untouchables, The
Valley Of Decision, The
Vampire Bat, The
Velvet Goldmine
Vengeance Valley
Vertigo
Vierde Man, De
Virginia City
Virginian, The
Vivement Dimanche!
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
Wages Of Fear, The
Wait Until dark
Wake Of The Red Witch
Walpurgis Night
War And Peace
War Lover, The
War Wagon, The
Warlock
Waterloo
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
We're No Angels
Werewolf Of London
West Of The Divide
Western Union
Westerner, The
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
When Trumpets Fade
Where Danger Lives
Where Eagles Dare
Where The Sidewalk Ends
While The City Sleeps
Whirlpool
White Heat
White Zombie
Wicker Man, The
Wild Raspberries
Winchester '73
Winds Of The Wasteland
Wing And Prayer
Without A Clue
Witness For The Prosecution
Witness To Murder
Wizard Of Oz, The
Wolf Man, The (1941)
Woman In Green, The
Woman In The Dark
Woman In The Window, The
Woman Of The Year
Woman's Secret, A
Wrong Man, The
Wuthering Heights
Yearling, The
Yellow Sky
Yojimbo
You Can't Take It with You
You Only Live Once
You Only Live Twice
Young And Innocent
Young Lions, The
Young Mr. Lincoln
Zatoichi At Large
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival
Zatoichi in Desperation
Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatoichi The Outlaw
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Ziemia obiecana
 
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions

Forostar said:
Last week I saw a film by legendary Russian director Sergei M. Eisenstein, called Aleksandr Nevskyi.

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After Pskov had been invaded by the crusading Livonian Knights, the Novgorod authorities sent for Alexander. In spring of 1241 he returned from his exile, gathered an army, and drove out the invaders. Alexander and his men stood up against the Livonian heavy cavalry led by the Magister of the Order, Hermann, brother of Albert of Buxhoeveden. Nevsky faced the enemy on the ice of the Lake Chudskoe and crushed the Livonian Knights during the Battle on Lake Chudskoe on April 5, 1242.

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Again I found out how much inspiration George Lucas took from old films. The highly stylized costumes are carefully designed to make the Teutonic Knights and their footmen seem to be inhuman robots. This theme George Lucas would pick up in Star Wars, as well as the imagery of the Emperor, who is clearly derived from the evil black-robed monk.

Just browsing the thread. This movie seems really good. Do you know of other really good historical adventure movies? Or maybe just myth/legend adventure movies or, well, just adventure movies?  :lol:

That is some list of movies you have there, I can't get any close to that. There is a few I also have on your list, but soo many I don't know. Sometime over the weekend I'll try and rack together what I have of DVD movies and make a list
 
Of course, all this begs the question - to Foro and anyone else - what would you say is the best and what is the worst film you have ever seen?

I am actually more interested in hearing what the worst film is, in your opinion, but you might as well add the best one too.
 
The worst film I've ever seen would be one with Boris Karloff, called Snake People.

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Also (according to imdb) known as:
La muerte viviente
A Serpente do Terror (Brazil) (imdb display title)
Cult of the Dead (Hungary)
Gli adoratori della morte (Italy)
Isla de los muertos (Spain)
Isle of the Living Dead (undefined)
Isle of the Snake People (USA)
Todeskult (West Germany)


The film was released in 1971 and was one of the low budget Mexican horror films, the ones most Karloff fans wished he never made. Probably he needed the money, but the films were terribly bad.
Made shortly before Karloff's death and released a couple of years after his death.

The problem is that I forgot what it was about but the acting was so crap that I couldn't stand it, and I decided to fast forward all the scenes without Karloff. This summary found in imdb shows some of its crappiness:
"Evil scientist runs a veritable army of LSD crazed zombies."

My favourite is probably still Psycho. Very tense and scary (and shocking!) movie with brilliant music.

@SixesAlltheway:

Nevsky is more history/drama/war, rather than adventure, but I will still mention some historical either adventurous film. Some are pretty different, though, I hope that's OK.

I'm afraid that epic/adventure/history films is a category of which I still have to see many famous ones. You know Spartacus and Ben Hur? Not quite historical, but surely adventurous and epic.
Other one that pops up: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes. Do you also count WWII movies of which some can be seen as adventurous?

E.g. The Great Escape, Guns of Navarone, Das Boot, Khartoum & Lawrence of Arabia

There are also some Japanese movies which could fit in the category, and belong to the very best:

Ran
Kagemusha
Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress
The Human Condition-trilogy

From more recent ones I liked Kingdom of Heaven.

Russian:
Andrey Rublyov (still have to see it, but heard it is excellent and maybe similar to Nevsky.
Ivan the Terrible (part 1 and 2)

Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon.

Others: The Bible, Ten Commendments.

Anthony Mann epics: El Cid & The Fall of the Roman Empire (haven't seen both, but I intend to do one day)

Maybe more later. :)
 
Thanks, gives me, even more, movies to check out  :bigsmile: I've always had a soft spot for adventure films, a good adventure film can really drag you in, some of the best cinematic escapism lies in adventure films if you ask me -  Stuff like: Robinson Crusoe, the original Treasure Island, The Man Who Would Be King with Sean Connery (Maiden might have nicked this title eh?)

And of course, a movie like Doctor Zhivago, amazing movie, which I bet you've already seen  :D
 
I still haven't seen Doctor Zhivago, but I'll give another recommendation, which might fit to your taste:

Hell On The Pacific (1968)

From wiki:

Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune. It was directed by John Boorman.

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Two men, one American and one Japanese, are marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island. In order to survive they must accept their differences and work together, despite their two countries being at war.

Containing little dialogue, this film is not dubbed or sub-titled, thus authentically portraying the frustration of restricted communication between the two characters. The film was entirely shot in the Rock Islands of Palau in the north Pacific Ocean, near the Philippines in the Philippine Sea.
 
This is my list of movies that I own on DVD. As you will see by no means extensive, and its a bit all over the place genre and age wise. I've been in a down period with regards to buying DVDs lately, so latest addition to this list was like autumn of last year maybe. I just wrote this down fast after checking titles, so beware of spelling errors, bound to be a few! But here goes:

10 rillington place
12 angry men
A fish called wanda
After hours
Annie hall
Apocalypse now
Aquirre, the wrath of god
Arizona junior
Badlands
Baghdad café
Bitter moon
Black Christmas
Blue velvet
Brazil
Chinatown
Close encounters of the third kind
Clue
Cool hand luke
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Dancing with wolves
Dead of night
Deer hunter
Doctor zhivago
Easy rider
Eyes without a face
Fear and loathing in las vegas
Five easy pieces
Ghostbusters
Glengarry glenn ross
Godfather
Godfather 2
Goldfinger
Harvey
Heathers
Jacobs ladders
Jaws
jFK
Jim Henson the storyteller
La cite des enfants perdus
Le salaire de la peur
Lolita
Macbeth
Manhunter
Mean streets
Meet the feebles
Midnight cowboy
Millers crossing
Mississippi burning
Moby dick
Mon oncle
Mulholland drive
Murder by death
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Peeping tom
Playtime
Psycho
Rain man
Ran
Rebecca
Salem’s lot
Salo o le 120 giomate di sodama
Scarface
Seven
Stand by me
Sunset boulevard
Suspiria
The birds the innocents
The burbs
The conversation
The fearless vampire killers
The French connection
The haunting
The ice storm
The man who would be king
The Manchurian candidate
the name of the rose
The night of the hunter
The player
The quiet earth
The searchers
The secret of nimh
The snowman
The sting
The tenant
The thing
The third man
The trap door complete collection
The usual suspects
The witches
Where the buffalo roam
Where the wild wind blows
Who frames roger rabbit
Young posoners handbook
 
Nice list! There's quite some that I haven't heard about. Cool that you have Ran as well. Does Ran invite you to see more Japanese films?
 
Forostar said:
Nice list! There's quite some that I haven't heard about. Cool that you have Ran as well. Does Ran invite you to see more Japanese films?

Thanks! There is quite a lot of 90s cinema there. I had a fascination with the movies made in the beginning of the 90s, end 80s for some reason, some of them have a kind of aura or feel to them, thats hard to desribe. Most of them are a bit surreal as well. Check them on IMDB those you do not know  :)

Sure, I don't know if you're familer with the hip hop group Wu Tang Clan? They have many intros and sounds bits stolen from old Japanese samurai movies. I have to watch some of those movies for sure!!  :ninja:
 
SixesAlltheway said:
Glengarry glenn ross

This is a film which I think is really fantastic, and even though it has a stellar cast I'm not sure it's all that well known - more of a cult film. It's a totally engrossing film with great dialogue, and every character portrayal is spot on - without doubt the best Alec Baldwin performance I've seen.
 
Here's something that some of you might appreciate.

On Tuesday evenings, I'm usually over at a mates' place. It's sort of an institution, and we usually just hang out, watching TV or something. Last night, there was another friend of ours over, so there were four of us just hanging around talking (my mate, his girlfriend, our mutual friend and myself). Our friend started rambling about her ex-boyfriend and how he was never into really interesting stuff, and mentioned old films as an example. All of us are intermediate film buffs (nowhere near Foro or others who posted in this thread, but still), and so the conversation started revolving around classic films. My mate mentioned 12 Angry Men as an example of a film that is both very engaging and very interesting to analyse. When both our friend and myself said that we had never heard of that one, let alone seen it, my mate took the DVD from his shelf and announced that we had just decided what to do this evening.

I agree with my mate that it is an extremely engaging film - in fact, I can't remember when I was last this captivated by a film. The thing is, when I watch a film, I am mostly interested in things like plot and character development, looking for things the film is trying to tell me and trying to read between the lines. In this way, the film had a lot to offer. But what I felt was really an interesting experience was watching it with my mate's girlfriend, who is a camerawoman. Hence, she has a trained eye when it comes to things like scene composition, camera angles and cuts and the like. We had a bit of a talk about that matter afterwards. I mentioned that one thing I like watching old films for is the way the camera captures close-up shots of faces, which means there is much more emphasis to expression. When I said that this sort of thing simply isn't done anymore, she stated that quite simply, it isn't possible with modern-day cameras, because of the film format that is used nowadays. She agreed that she prefers the old-fashioned way, with very long shots that gradually zoom in or allow little details to develop in a shot, like the appearance of sweat on someone's forehead. Throughout the film she would also mention how much she enjoys how a particular shot or angle emphasises a plot element or a characterisation. Put simply, I never paid much attention to this sort of thing before, but I saw exactly what she meant. And I agree completely with her about the fact that although the entire film is shot in basically one room (with three brief scenes being the exception), and there are only these twelve characters in it, not one second becomes dull or tedious to look at, because the plot is engaging, the performances are great, and the camera makes the very most of the set.

Maybe I'm not telling anything new to some here, but I found that being confronted with a completely different point of view on this sort of thing really enhances the experience.
 
Very nice Perun. Nowadays I also can enjoy a particular camera movement. Lighting is also interesting. In the classic period there were many legendary cameramen (no women I think :/ ).

I paricularly like John Alton and the few films I have seen of Lucien Ballard too.
See these two posts from this same thread:
John Alton
Lucien Ballard

12 Angry Men is in my top 5 (maybe even 3 or 2!) of all films I've seen. I find it incredibly cool how a main character stands alone and later gets more people on his side.
even the most biased ones!
 
I agree with the praise for 12 Angry Men, and I expect you'll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't. It's interesting what you say about camera-shots and methods of filming, Perun. Although it's something I don't know anything about, the more films I watch I do find myself noticing more and more the way scenes are shot, and also where the emphasis is etc., without any particular intention on my part to notice such things.
 
+1 on 12 Angry Men. Easily in the Top 5 screenplays of all-time for me. I find it amazing how a film can be driven primarly - almost solely - by the strength of its screenplay alone and end up being one of the best films I've ever seen. The dialogue is superb.

They rarely make films like this anymore. Last great film I saw that was purely driven by its screenplay was 2004's Before Sunset.
 
12 Angry Men was certainly a great movie, Lifeboat is another that comes to mind that I really enjoy that was driven almost solely by the screenplay (which is strange considering Hitchcock's innovations in camera movement)
 
Well, Hitchcock sure was innovative in the way he portrayed it. At least, it looked pretty realistic, that sea and all.

wiki:
Hitchcock pre-planned the camera angles for the film using a miniature lifeboat and figurines. Four lifeboats were utilized during shooting. Rehearsals took place in one, separate boats were used for close-ups and long shots, and another was in the studio's large-scale tank, where water shots were made. Except for background footage shot by the second unit around Miami, in the Florida Keys and on San Miguel Island in California, the film was shot entirely in the Twentieth Century-Fox studio on Pico Boulevard in what is now Century City.

And did you notice Hitch's cameo?  :D

wiki:
Director Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in most of his films. He once commented to François Truffaut -- in Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967) -- that this particular cameo was difficult to achieve, due to the lack of passers-by in the film. While having originally considered posing as a body floating past the lifeboat -- which he later considered for his cameo in Frenzy -- after his success in weight loss, Hitchcock decided to pose for "before" and "after" photos for an advertisement for a fictional weight-loss drug, "Reduco", shown in a newspaper. Supposedly he later received hundreds of letters from people asking where they could buy Reduco, which he used again in Rope where Hitchcock's profile and Reduco appear on a red neon sign. The Lifeboat cameo appears 24 minutes into the film.

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Hitchcock's inventiveness extended to the problem of how to justify a cameo appearance on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean.
 
The cameo was great, I am a big fan of Hitchcock, have all his movies on either DVD or LaserDisc ... from a technical standpoint he was way ahead of his time for a mainstream director, but never let the technology get in the way of telling the story, in fact it enhanced it.  I was not a big fan of his long takes in Rope (still a good movie) and Under Capricorn (not a very good movie), but it was interesting at least.
 
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