#77

This has turned out class.

#78

Saturday night and sunday morning
The 400 Blows
Rashomon

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#79

I don’t really like war films but Ice Cold in Alex is really good. It’s got John Mills in, and is basically one man’s quest for a beer.

I realise this makes it sound like the most lads lads lads thing ever, but it’s almost like a one-roomer given that all the action takes place on an ambulance in the desert.

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#80

Just remembered a couple of Bank Holiday classics:
Spartacus
The Great Escape

#81

Can’t believe I didn’t say this already.
Let’s add Woman in the Dunes (superb 60s Japanese psychological drama).

#82

Woman in the Dunes is mint

I would therefore raise UGETSU

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#83

His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Captain Blood
To Have And Have Not
High Noon
M
633 Squadron
The Scent of Green Papayas
…and sooooo many other wonderful films! As we all move to streaming services I worry that older movies will become even more of a specialised interest. Also, as someone said upthread, pacing of recent movies has become so frenetic (warning: broad generalisation!) that the barrier to entry for new fans is probably quite high.

#84

…although His Girl Friday is probably quicker-paced than anything made since…

#85

Yeah, this really annoys me. Would be so cheap (I presume) to stack the likes of Netflix/Amazon with loads of classics instead of The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (etc) but you’re lucky if you can find half a dozen films on there released before 1960

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#86

Netflix has got more ‘old films’ than you think on it. The Apartment is on there for instance (which you mentioned).

Seems to select old films at the same quality ratio as new films - a handful of brilliant films amidst a load of absolute shite. Same for everything. But yeah I would get much more out of Netflix etc. if it did major on classic cinema, agreed.

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#89

Southern Comfort (Walter Hill southern gothic nightmare caper). genuinely exciting and creepy in a proper-night-out-at-the-pictures old fashioned way. can’t believe i waited so long to watch it.

#90

The Bloodening

#91

So is Sorry Wrong Number which was mentioned and is top

#92

Awesome, never heard of it, will have to check it out.

#93

A few not yet mentioned;

Point Blank (1967) Lee Marvin comes out of Alcatraz hellbent on revenge. Greatest ever hard man screen performance imho, just relentless

The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet’s debut, a Quincy Jones Harlem free jazz soundtrack & Rod Steiger playing a Holocaust survivor slowly losing his mind and being overtaken by the chaos of 60s Manhattan while being haunted by the ghosts of his past - powerful stuff. Morgan Freeman’s film debut too

Blue Collar (1978) Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel & Yaphet Kotto play 3 Detroit auto assembly line workers struggling to make ends meet when they get caught in a union conspiracy

Also, the original Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) is an absolutely brilliant film. Walter Matthau & Robert Shaw are terrific in it. Such a well paced thriller of a type you don’t really see anymore

Finally, and totally different, if you want an old style British adventure film then Connery & Caine in The Man who would be King (1975) is a classic Sunday Afternoon watch

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#94

These all sound AMAZING.

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#95

Completely forgotten about blue collar. Great film.

#96

i really enjoy it but it’s problematic as all hell

#97

Yeah, but so are about 85% of 70s films

In fact, all the films in my list are problematic in one way or another

The 70s were pretty problematic

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