Classic cinema - thoughts and questions
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national acrobat
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Have you seen the clip of him accepting his Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award? A very short "Thank you" and walk-off. Bitter maybe?
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Have you seen the clip of him accepting his Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award? A very short "Thank you" and walk-off. Bitter maybe?
Robbiedbee
Trooper
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Of older films, I really like Twelve Angry Men. I have always liked movies that stay on one place, and thus rely heavily on dialogue and the characters to keep the plot moving.
My next classic movie I'll be watching will be The Seventh Seal.
Of older films, I really like Twelve Angry Men. I have always liked movies that stay on one place, and thus rely heavily on dialogue and the characters to keep the plot moving.
My next classic movie I'll be watching will be The Seventh Seal.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Twelve Angry Men is a great movie. Lotta sweat in that movie. (Why they remade it, I have no idea.) I'm a lawyer, and at a recent deposition we got to talking about law-related movies, and Twelve Angry Men was the consensus top choice, followed closely by My Cousin Vinny.
Following up on a discussion between me and Foro in the Welcome New Posters thread, here is a link to one of the most famous Three Stooges bits ever: Niagara Falls!
Twelve Angry Men is a great movie. Lotta sweat in that movie. (Why they remade it, I have no idea.) I'm a lawyer, and at a recent deposition we got to talking about law-related movies, and Twelve Angry Men was the consensus top choice, followed closely by My Cousin Vinny.
Following up on a discussion between me and Foro in the Welcome New Posters thread, here is a link to one of the most famous Three Stooges bits ever: Niagara Falls!
national acrobat
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Completely unknown to me, bar a few references to them in other US TV shows. I'll stick to 12 Angry Men though and agree that it's a sensational film.
Completely unknown to me, bar a few references to them in other US TV shows. I'll stick to 12 Angry Men though and agree that it's a sensational film.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Unquestionably my greatest contribution to this forum -- which, admittedly, isn't saying much -- is introducing you folks to the Three Stooges. Perun is right: they are very silly, a vestige from slapstick vaudeville acts. Intellectually a step (or many steps) down from the Marx Brothers. Nonetheless, they are comedy legends in the U.S. -- I actually have a picture of them in my office.
Here is one of my favorite short films: Curly's line at 7:44 always makes me crack up, and the oil well scene at around the 14:00 mark is a classic.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the Stooges.
Forostar said:Thanks! Never heard of them before.
Unquestionably my greatest contribution to this forum -- which, admittedly, isn't saying much -- is introducing you folks to the Three Stooges. Perun is right: they are very silly, a vestige from slapstick vaudeville acts. Intellectually a step (or many steps) down from the Marx Brothers. Nonetheless, they are comedy legends in the U.S. -- I actually have a picture of them in my office. Here is one of my favorite short films: Curly's line at 7:44 always makes me crack up, and the oil well scene at around the 14:00 mark is a classic.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the Stooges.
mozzle
Trooper
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Alright Foro
Lets start with some background.
I’m about to start my fourth year of film school. I’ve written four screenplays, and have sold one.
Although uncredited, I’ve worked here and there on the script for “500 Days of Summer” as I went to school with one of the two guys who wrote it.
Despite my love of film, I try my best to avoid “film Culture”. I’m not the type to wear sweater vests, and I don’t own any scarves. I drink coffee, not 10 dollar lattes, and I have no interest in debating existential themes in later Bergman films.
Despite my distaste of film culture, I still manage to see at least seven movies a week.
Now onto your questions.
1. What are your favorite Films
Rather then list what I think technically are the best films. I’ll say two films, I know are flawed, yet I still love.
The Weather Man
Into the wild
2. Do you also appreciate older films? Which Ones?
I love older films, everything from Silent German expressionist Cinema, to screwball comedies like “It Happened One Night”
3. Do you have favorite directors?
Bergman
Tarkovsky
Capra
Kurosawa
Fellini
Godard
Ozu
Almodovar
Kieslowski
4. Do you have a favorite actor?
Favorite working actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Favorite working actress: Tilda Swinton
5. Which genres do you prefer
Rather then talk about genres, I’ll mention two “movements” that have my attention.
First: Romanian New Wave.
4 months 3 weeks and 2 days
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Police, Adjective
12:08 East of Bucharest
Second: South Korean Revival (that may not be a real term)
The Vengeance Trilogy
JSA
Memories of Murder
Mother
The Chaser
... And that’s all the time I have time to write for now. Perhaps I can add more, when I get the chance.
Foro, you may already know about “The Auteurs” but if not, check it out. http://mubi.com/topics At times people can be pretentious, but overall, it’s probably the best film community on the net. I think you'll love it.
P.S. The last couple posts mention Metropolis. I just want to say, I saw it at the Vancouver Cinematheque less then a month ago. They showed it because of the 25 minutes of lost footage that was just recently found. The movie actually makes sense now! http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/metropoli ... estoration
Alright Foro
Lets start with some background.
I’m about to start my fourth year of film school. I’ve written four screenplays, and have sold one.
Although uncredited, I’ve worked here and there on the script for “500 Days of Summer” as I went to school with one of the two guys who wrote it.
Despite my love of film, I try my best to avoid “film Culture”. I’m not the type to wear sweater vests, and I don’t own any scarves. I drink coffee, not 10 dollar lattes, and I have no interest in debating existential themes in later Bergman films.
Despite my distaste of film culture, I still manage to see at least seven movies a week.
Now onto your questions.
1. What are your favorite Films
Rather then list what I think technically are the best films. I’ll say two films, I know are flawed, yet I still love.
The Weather Man
Into the wild
2. Do you also appreciate older films? Which Ones?
I love older films, everything from Silent German expressionist Cinema, to screwball comedies like “It Happened One Night”
3. Do you have favorite directors?
Bergman
Tarkovsky
Capra
Kurosawa
Fellini
Godard
Ozu
Almodovar
Kieslowski
4. Do you have a favorite actor?
Favorite working actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Favorite working actress: Tilda Swinton
5. Which genres do you prefer
Rather then talk about genres, I’ll mention two “movements” that have my attention.
First: Romanian New Wave.
4 months 3 weeks and 2 days
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Police, Adjective
12:08 East of Bucharest
Second: South Korean Revival (that may not be a real term)
The Vengeance Trilogy
JSA
Memories of Murder
Mother
The Chaser
... And that’s all the time I have time to write for now. Perhaps I can add more, when I get the chance.
Foro, you may already know about “The Auteurs” but if not, check it out. http://mubi.com/topics At times people can be pretentious, but overall, it’s probably the best film community on the net. I think you'll love it.
P.S. The last couple posts mention Metropolis. I just want to say, I saw it at the Vancouver Cinematheque less then a month ago. They showed it because of the 25 minutes of lost footage that was just recently found. The movie actually makes sense now! http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/metropoli ... estoration
snake plissken
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema / current cinema - thoughts and questions
Anyone else think this has been the worst summer in long time for, so called, blockbusters? All of them have been shit.
Anyone else think this has been the worst summer in long time for, so called, blockbusters? All of them have been shit.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
Re: Classic cinema - thoughts and questions
Mozzle, great post! Sounds like you have a different taste from mine, although I have seen some Dekalogs by Kieslowski (very strong stuff), and Kurosawa is one of my three favourite directors of alltime, plus I have seen several Capra films which I enjoyed very much. And there's film noir, of which I have seen many.
For the rest I like e.g. westerns, war films, thrillers, spy/crime films, old horrors (Karlof and Lugosi!) and drama, plus some other Japanese directors, especialy the ones who made classic samurai movies in the 1960s such as Hideo Gosha, Kihachi Okamoto, Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Inagaki. But My favourite Japanese director, next to Kurosawa must be Masaki Kobayashi. He made four must seens, all with actor Tatsuya Nakadai. Perhaps you've already seen these superb films, but I'll list them here anyway, also for others:
Kwaidan
The Human Condition (trilogy)
Harakiri
Samurai Rebellion
Mostly I seek for suspense, but I do enjoy comedies as well. I guess there's only one genre which I completely try to evade and that's musicals.
Thanks for the link, I might check that out!
edit:
I'll change the title of this topic into "Classic cinema" because I am afraid the current one "Classic / current cinema" was misleading. The opening post was meant as a comparison between new and old films and asked about films in general, though later it evolved to old/classical movies.
Question at the members and mods:
Shall we use the NOW WATCHING topic for recent/new (e.g. 1980s - 21st century stuff) only, and this one for older stuff or should the rules not be so strict? I am fine with several options, only hope both topics won't get in eachother's way, and I hope both will still be active once in a while.
Ideas on this issue are appreciated!
Mozzle, great post! Sounds like you have a different taste from mine, although I have seen some Dekalogs by Kieslowski (very strong stuff), and Kurosawa is one of my three favourite directors of alltime, plus I have seen several Capra films which I enjoyed very much. And there's film noir, of which I have seen many.
For the rest I like e.g. westerns, war films, thrillers, spy/crime films, old horrors (Karlof and Lugosi!) and drama, plus some other Japanese directors, especialy the ones who made classic samurai movies in the 1960s such as Hideo Gosha, Kihachi Okamoto, Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Inagaki. But My favourite Japanese director, next to Kurosawa must be Masaki Kobayashi. He made four must seens, all with actor Tatsuya Nakadai. Perhaps you've already seen these superb films, but I'll list them here anyway, also for others:
Kwaidan
The Human Condition (trilogy)
Harakiri
Samurai Rebellion
Mostly I seek for suspense, but I do enjoy comedies as well. I guess there's only one genre which I completely try to evade and that's musicals.
Thanks for the link, I might check that out!
edit:
I'll change the title of this topic into "Classic cinema" because I am afraid the current one "Classic / current cinema" was misleading. The opening post was meant as a comparison between new and old films and asked about films in general, though later it evolved to old/classical movies.
Question at the members and mods:
Shall we use the NOW WATCHING topic for recent/new (e.g. 1980s - 21st century stuff) only, and this one for older stuff or should the rules not be so strict? I am fine with several options, only hope both topics won't get in eachother's way, and I hope both will still be active once in a while.
Ideas on this issue are appreciated!
Forostar said:
I think that's too rigid and difficult to enforce. As I see it, the now watching thread is for reviews of films you've recently seen, whereas this one is for general discussion about older films. I understand that people often don't see this thread, but I don't think setting an arbitrary date as a dividing line is the solution. It feels unnecessary to have two threads with the same purpose, distinguished only by the time period they cover.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
Shadow said:
Do I understand that you mean that if you have seen an older film recently, this topic can't be used? Why would that be less rigid?
General discussion about older films: do you mean, we could talk about old actors and stuff? For the rest I guess most discussions spring from having seen a film recently.
Without distinguishing the periods it's hard to estimate this topic on its value I'm afraid, or at least it will be forgotten soon again.
I'll give this status quo (let's keep it like this) some more thought. Other ideas are still welcome.