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Post by kijii on Dec 29, 2018 23:18:43 GMT
What are some classic films (1930-1970) that you saw for the first time (and liked very much) this year?
Here are some of mine, in the order that I saw them in 2018:
The Naked Edge (1961) / Michael Anderson
The Good Fairy (1935) / William Wyler
The Unguarded Hour (1936) / Sam Wood
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) / Stanley Kramer
Wild Is the Wind (1957) / George Cukor
The Long Gray Line (1955) / John Ford
Knight Without Armor (1937) / Jacques Feyder
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) / John Huston (Yep, first time)
On the Beach (1959) / Stanley Kramer (Loved it a first sight)
Black Hand (1950) / Richard Thorpe
Run Silent Run Deep (1958) / Robert Wise
Deathtrap (1982) / Sidney Lumet
The Rains Came (1939) / Clarence Brown
Good-bye, My Lady (1956) / William A. Wellman
Forty Guns (1957) / Samuel Fuller
The Crimson Kimono (1959) / Samuel Fuller
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) / Clarence Brown
Come Live with Me (1941) / Clarence Brown
The Molly Maguires (1970) /Martin Ritt
No Down Payment (1957) / Martin Ritt
Holiday Affair (1949) / Don Hartman
Night People (1954) / Nunnally Johnson
Hell and High Water (1954) / Samuel Fuller
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 29, 2018 23:47:52 GMT
Here is a sampler of 25 first-time classic titles that I liked very much
The Beguiled / Don Siegal Gold Rush Maisie / Edwin L. Marin Fire Over England / William K. Howard Damn Yankees / George Abbott and Stanley Donen Black Widow / Nunnally Johnson Macao / Josef von Sternberg Gunfight At The OK Corral / John Sturges Fallen Angel / Otto Preminger Roxy Hart / William A. Wellman Crime Wave / André De Toth Brewster McCloud / Robert Altman The Lady From Shanghai / Orson Welles Three Strangers / Jean Negulesco Please Murder Me! / Peter Godfrey Pitfall / André De Toth Blonde Ice / Jack Bernhard A Life At Stake / Paul Guilfoyle The Left Hand Of God / Edward Dmytryk The Painted Veil / Richard Boleslawski Hellzapoppin’ / H.C. Porter I Am A Camera / Henry Cornelius Girl In The News / Carol Reed Angel Face / Otto Preminger Monkey Business / Howard Hawks Woman On The Run / Norman Foster
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 30, 2018 0:04:41 GMT
1st viewings of 2018 rated 7.5 or more - (some of these I'd seen bits and pieces through the years but not start to finish in one sitting)
Imitation of Life (1959) White Heat (1949) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Elmer Gantry (1960) Outcast of the Islands (1951) The Post (2017) The Shape of Water (2017) The Messenger (I) (2009) I, Tonya (2017) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Wings (1927) American Made (2017) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Wind River (2017) The Disaster Artist (2017) Molly's Game (2017) No Down Payment (1957) The Seventh Seal (1957) Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Brute Force (1947) Destry Rides Again (1939) Scandal Sheet (1952) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) A Star Is Born (2018)
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