Last 15-20 Great Movies You've Seen

Last 15-20 Great Movies You've Seen Feb 21, 2019 22:31:27 GMT mikef6 likes this

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Post by mortsahlfan on Feb 21, 2019 22:31:27 GMT

Feb 21, 2019 20:14:28 GMT mikef6 said:

Feb 21, 2019 19:28:58 GMT mortsahlfan said:

Nice list - I imagine you are from Europe. You have a lot of good directors from the 40s, 50s, etc., I just haven't seen them. I'll add them - thanks!

Ha ha! Nope, I'm from Texas, currently living in New Mexico. I started watching Eddie Muller's Noir Alley series on TCM last fall and have been devouring noirs and B crime pictures from the '40s and '50s since then. So many of them, made on the cheap as second features and filler, can really pack a punch. Studio execs and the Production Code didn't keep quite so close a watch on what they considered negligible films. This gave screen writers and directors a little more freedom to express themselves. They are surprisingly good.

Ha, I see.. I just canceled cable a few months ago, because TCM was the only channel I watched, but then thought I could find most anyway. But TCM plays a LOT of stuff you can't even find online, and they play some really far-out stuff after midnight!

Speaking of "The Code", have you seen Dodsworth? I gave it a 10/10 (and I rarely do that), and it was right before "The Code" and it was very surprising to watch it and not realize there was a time of no censorship. Walter Huston is great, but the movie is so well-written, just a great experience.