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Recommend me an older film (before 1980) that you consider to be an absolute classic
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I co sign this movie. I totally forgot about this movie when I made my small list. This movie is great.
Planet of the Vampires(1965), if you want a great old school sci-fi horror film. Bonus points for getting ripped-off by Scott and O'Bannon for Alien.
Message from Space(1978), if you want the craziest and best movie that was trying oh so hard to capitalize on the success of Star Wars. Just look at baby Hiroyuki Sanada back there!
40 Guns(1957) if you want to see Samuel Fuller just going for it. So many amazing shots and moments in the film: 50 year old Barbara Stanwyck doing her own stunts, including a very dangerous 'getting dragged by her horse' bit(she became an honorary member of the Stuntmen Hall of Fame!). Camera in the barrel of a gun ala James Bond, Fuller and 40 Guns did it. Intense close up of the eyes ala Leone, Fuller and 40 Guns did it. When you start watching the good "old" westerns you start to realize that the spaghetti westerns didn't really bring much of anything to the genre except for blood.
edit: Found a great review of Message from Space that gets to the heart of its greatness -
Message from Space (1978) - DVD - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
***/**** Image C+ Sound C- Extras C Madness A starring Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan screenplay by Hiroo Matsuda directed by Kinji Fukasaku by Walter Chaw Essentially a big-budget, feature-film version of Calvinball if Bill Watterson were a manga artist undergoing a...
www.filmfreakcentral.net
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Off the top of my head:
Blow Up
Nights of Cabiria
Stalker
The Conversation
8 1/2
Midnight Cowboy
All That Jazz
Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2 and Stalker are currently on the Criterion channel. All of the rest are in the Criterion collection.
Edit: The Conversation isn't don't know why I forgot.
Blow Up
Nights of Cabiria
Stalker
The Conversation
8 1/2
Midnight Cowboy
All That Jazz
Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2 and Stalker are currently on the Criterion channel. All of the rest are in the Criterion collection.
Edit: The Conversation isn't don't know why I forgot.
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Clockwork Orange
Gone in 60 Seconds (the original)
The French Connection
Bullitt
Clockwork Orange
Gone in 60 Seconds (the original)
The French Connection
Bullitt
Watched this last night on the Criterion Channel (it leaves tomorrow!) and it was amazing! Everyone is such a scumbag and the dialogue is super sharp. Feels really modern for a 50s movie.
"Abracadabra I sit on his knee
Presto Chango now it's me
Hocus Pocus we take her to bed
Magic is fun; we're dead."
Also, Fantastic Planet
Its an animated movie but regardless after watching you will wonder how the fuck you went your whole life without seeing it.
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Its an animated movie but regardless after watching you will wonder how the fuck you went your whole life without seeing it.
Fantastic Planet
This animated tale follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam. While the Draags have long kept Oms as illiterate pets, this hierarchy shifts after an Om boy becomes educated, thanks to a young...
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It's one of my annual holiday movies, and maybe the one I look forward to most.
Dr strangelove, which feels more on point every day. Honestly I think it's funnier today especially during a crisis after a post Trump administration
Thief of Bagdad
Specifically the 1940 colour one starring Conrad Veidt and Sabu (not the earlier silent version, though that's decent). Simply one of the greatest fantasy movies ever made
Specifically the 1940 colour one starring Conrad Veidt and Sabu (not the earlier silent version, though that's decent). Simply one of the greatest fantasy movies ever made