Which film do you think is a classic?
I think
The East of Eden with James dean is a classic for me.
James Dean was a classic actor.
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Which film do you think is a classic?
I think
The East of Eden with James dean is a classic for me.
James Dean was a classic actor.
Another James Dean one - Rebel without a cause - perhaps his most Iconic role?Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
My personal favourite film of all time....... Sunset Boulevard - Sheer Classic.
Akira Kurosawa
Jean Luc Godard
Federico Fellini
Jim Jaramusch
Paul Thomas Anderson
Jean Pierre Melville
Kenji Mizoguchi
Andrei Tavorsky
Francois Truffaut
Some of my favorite directors. I'm a fan of a lot of French new wave films and Japanese movies.
The Seven Samurai is amazing, and I think due to that and its far-reaching influence earns itself the title of a classic. I mean, basically every "get together an elite team to face insurmountable odds" movie that came subsequently comes from The Seven Samurai.
A lot of movies were based off of Akira Kurosawa films. Eastwoods A Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were based off his movie Yojimbo. The Magnificent Seven a popular movie in the 60's with Steve Mcqueen and others is the exact same movie as Seven Samurai. The Hidden Fortress is supposedly what inspired George Lucas to make Star Wars. Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remakes...Akira_Kurosawa and when I say the Magnificent Seven is the exact same movie I mean it. Yojimbo Rashomon Ran Throne of Blood are all great movies. One of my favorites was his last movie called Dreams. Check it out, it's not long. It is a story broken into 7 dreams. I find it necessary to mention the movie Harikiri by Masaki Kobayashi. Toshiro Mifune has to be one of the greatest actors of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkyCetacean
'The Social Network' is a classic film which, if not made so well, would've unfortunately ended up as a documentary... Lot of thanks to Aaron Sorkin & David Fincher!!
And a set of two films: {1. Flags of our Fathers & 2. Letters from Iwo Jima} is a masterpiece in sense of narration.
Two points of view for one situation. Ingenious experiment by Client Eastwood and Spielberg.
How about Film noirs.
Some of them because of their genre could be classified as classics
I came across this film a silent film drama classified as a lost film. Weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escape_(1914_film)
12 Angry Men is an unforgettable classic.
Silent films are a different game but for film noir I look to the French. Jean Luc Godard (Breathless and A Band of Outsiders are fantastic films), Francois Truffaut(Shoot The Piano Player), Jean Pierre Melville (La Samurai)Quote:
Originally Posted by cacian
The surrealist Federico Fellini is also a very important film maker. Jim Jarmusch is my favorite working director. I think his best work was Dead Man starring Johnny Deep, William Hurt, Iggy Pop and Robert Mitchum. Though I thought all his movies were great.
There are many lists available online from Sight and Sound, Cahiers du cinema, and others. For documentaries, there are "Top 50 Documentaries" from various sources, etc. My favorite is Kevin Kelly's "true films" list:
http://www.truefilms.com/
Gone with the wind...my favorite :)
Documentary: Super Size Me
There are far too many classic films to list. Here's my own personal Top 50:
1 Neon Genesis Evangelion / The End of Evangelion
2 The Seven Samurai
3 Rear Window
4 2001: A Space Odyssey
5 Vertigo
6 The Seventh Seal
7 The Passion of Joan of Arc
8 Mulholland Drive
9 The Wizard of Oz
10 A City of Sadness
11 Late Spring
12 Ikiru
13 The Rules of the Game
14 Persona
15 My Darling Clementine
16 Marnie
17 Meet Me in St. Louis
18 Gone With the Wind
19 Sunrise
20 The Godfather Pt. II
21 Ordet
22 Last Year at Marienbad
23 Grave of the Fireflies
24 Yi Yi: A One and a Two
25 Contempt
26 Once Upon a Time in America
27 Notorious
28 Raging Bull
29 Three Colors: Red
30 Au Hasard Balthasar
31 The Third Man
32 O Thiassos (The Travelling Players)
33 Psycho
34 Touch of Evil
35 Ugetsu
36 L'avventura
37 Satantango
38 The Puppetmaster
39 Dekalog
40 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
41 The Grapes of Wrath
42 Only Angels Have Wings
43 Citizen Kane
44 Pather Panchali
45 Eight and a Half (8 1/2)
46 M
47 Distant Voices, Still Lives
48 The Princess Bride
49 Star Wars
50 Some Like it Hot
Good list Morpheus. Here's mine.
2012 Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit, Django Unchained
2011 The Tree of Life
2010 I Saw The Devil, Inception, The Yellow Sea
2009 The Secret in Their Eyes
2008 The Good The Bad The Weird, In Bruges, John Adams
2007 No Country For Old Men, The Man From Earth
2006 Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, The Fountain, Curse of the Golden Flower
2005 Serenity
2004 Downfall, The Aviator, Tai Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War,
2003 Master and Commander, LOTR Return of the King, Oldboy, The Best of Youth, The Fog of War
2002 Infernal Affairs, City of God, Bowling For Columbine, 28 Days Later, LOTR: The Two Towers, Hero, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance,
2001 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Band of Brothers, The Devil's Backbone, Black Hawk Down, Spirited Away, Amelie, A Beautiful Mind, Training Day
2000 Battle Royale, Memento, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Requiem For a Dream, Traffic
1999 The Matrix, American Beauty, One Day in September, The Boondock Saints, Dogma
1998 The Big Lebowski, Saving Private Ryan, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Thin Red Line
1997 L.A. Confidential, Character, Boogie Nights, Life is Beautiful, Gattaca, Taste of Cherry,
1996 Hamlet, Trainspotting, Pretty Village Pretty Flame, Fargo
1995 The Usual Suspects, Shanghai Triad, Mallrats, Se7en, Ghost in the Shell, Day of the Beast
1994 Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, To Live, Forest Gump, The Professional, Natural Born Killers, Three Colors Red,
1993 Schindler's List, Farewell My Concubine, The Fugitive, Sonatine, Stalingrad, Tombstone,
1992 Reservoir Dogs, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Few Good Men
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Raise the Red Lantern, Terminator 2, JFK
1990 Goodfellas, Total Recall, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Dances With Wolves, Cyrano de Bergerac, Europa Europa, Dreams,
1989 Do the Right Thing, Lonesome Dove, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Henry V, When Harry Met Sally, Field of Dreams, Driving Miss Daisy
1988 Die Hard, Heathers, Akira, Cinema Paradiso, A Short Film About Killing, Dangerous Liasons, Rain Man
1987 Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, The Princess Bride, Predator, The Last Emperor, Wings of Desire, Au Revoir Les Enfants
1986 Aliens, Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Big Trouble in Little China, Jean de Florette, Ginger and Fred
1985 Brazil, Ran, Back to the Future, Come and See
1984 The Terminator, Amadeus, Once Upon a Time in America, The Killing Fields
1983 Scarface, The Right Stuff, And the Ship Sailed On
1982 Fanny and Alexander, Blade Runner, The Thing, Ghandi, The Wrath of Khan, First Blood, Conan the Barbarian
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Das Boot, Chariots of Fire
1980 Raging Bull, Kagemusha, The Shining, The Empire Strikes Back, Ordinary People, Breaker Morant
1979 Apocalypse Now, Alien, Stalker,
1978 The Deer Hunter, Autumn Sonata, Dawn of the Dead
1977 Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever
1976 Rocky, Network, Taxi Driver, All the President's Men
1975 Jaws, Barry Lyndon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dersu Uzala
1974 Hearts and Minds, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II
1973 Amarcord, Mean Streets
1972 The Godfather, Solaris
1971 A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, Dirty Harry
1970 Patton, The Conformist, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1969 The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Z
1968 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Lion in Winter, Hour of the Wolf
1967 In the Heat of the Night, Samurai Rebellion, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Marat/Sade
1966 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Andrei Rublev, Sword of Doom, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Battle of Algiers, Closely Watched Trains, Persona
1965 Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Shop on Main Street, For A Few Dollars More, The Flight of the Phoenix, Juliet of the Spirits
1964 Dr. Strangelove, A Fistful of Dollars, Zulu, Zorba the Greek
1963 8 1/2, High and Low, The Leopard, The Great Escape
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, Harakiri, The Longest Day, The Miracle Worker, Sanjuro
1961 Yojimbo, Through a Glass Darkly
1960 La Dolce Vita, Spartacus, The Virgin Spring, Inherit the Wind
1959 Anatomy of a Murder, 400 Blows, Fires on the Plain, Some Like it Hot
1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hidden Fortress
1957 Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Paths of Glory, Nights of Cabiria, Throne of Blood, The Bridge on the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, Witness For the Prosecution, Kanal
1956 The Searchers, A Man Escaped
1955 Smiles of a Summer Night, Night of the Hunter
1954 Seven Samurai, La Strada, On the Waterfront
1953 Julius Caesar, The Wages of Fear, From Here to Eternity, I Vitelloni,
1952 High Noon, Ikiru, Umberto D., Singin' in the Rain, Forbidden Games, The White Sheik
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, The African Queen
1950 Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Asphalt Jungle, Harvey
1949 All the King's Men, Stray Dog, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1948 The Bicycle Thief, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Drunken Angel, Red River, Rope, The Red Shoes
1947 Out of the Past, The Lady From Shanghai
1946 The Big Sleep, It's a Wonderful Life
1945 Rome, Open City, Children of Paradise, Scarlet Street
1944 Double Indemnity, Arsenic and Old Lace
1943 Ossessione
1942 Casablanca
1941 Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, How Green Was My Valley
1940 The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday
1939 Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz
1938 Pygmalion
1937 The Grand Illusion
1936 My Man Godfry
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1934 The Scarlet Empress
1933 Gold Diggers of 1933
1932 Trouble in Paradise
1931 M, City Lights
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 Living Russia, or The Man With A Camera
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927 Metropolis
1926 The General
1925 The Gold Rush
1924 Sherlock Jr.
1923 Safety Last!
1922 Nosferatu
1921 The Kid
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari