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MacGuffin
01-31-2008, 04:28 AM
I am not very knowledgeable in this area of movies. I'll use this thread to get a definitive list of recommendations. Thanks in advance.

Philosophe_rouge
01-31-2008, 04:33 AM
I feel like molding you in my image, but it'll never work. We are not the same size, you can't fit in my shoes, but we can try. I hear the stepsisters cut off their heels and toes. For the greater good Clipper, the GREATER GOOD.

Just 20

Gun Crazy
The Red Shoes
Portrait of Jennie
Unfaithfully Yours
Odd Man Out
The Killers
The Body Snatcher
Laura
To be or Not to Be
The Magnificent Ambersons
Sullivan’s Travels
Le Quai Des Brumes
Pepe le Moko
Nothing Sacred
The Awful Truth
Partie de Campagne
The Bride of Frankenstein
L'Atalante
Trouble in Paradise
City Lights

MacGuffin
01-31-2008, 04:36 AM
I feel like molding you in my image, but it'll never work. We are not the same size, you can't fit in my shoes, but we can try. I hear the stepsisters cut off their heels and toes. For the greater good Clipper, the GREATER GOOD.

Just 20

Gun Crazy
The Red Shoes
Portrait of Jennie
Unfaithfully Yours
Odd Man Out
The Killers
The Body Snatcher
Laura
To be or Not to Be
The Magnificent Ambersons
Sullivan’s Travels
Le Quai Des Brumes
Pepe le Moko
Nothing Sacred
The Awful Truth
Partie de Campagne
The Bride of Frankenstein
L'Atalante
Trouble in Paradise
City Lights

Bolds are the ones I am interested in; I've seen City Lights already.

Philosophe_rouge
01-31-2008, 04:41 AM
Bolds are the ones I am interested in; I've seen City Lights already.
City Lights as a gamble. I have to say though, those bolded ones are muchos greatness. I don't remember, did you like the Third Man? Or did you not see it?

Melville
01-31-2008, 04:42 AM
Everything that I would give at least 9 out of 10 (although I know you've seen a few of them):

Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Girl Shy
Emak-Bakia
Metropolis
Napoleon
The Circus
The Passion of Joan of Arc
City Lights
Duck Soup
The Old Man of the Mountain
Fetiche
His Girl Friday
Citizen Kane
Children of Paradise
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
The Blood of the Beasts
All About Eve
The Third Man
Gun Crazy
In a Lonely Place
Sunset Blvd.

Spinal
01-31-2008, 04:44 AM
Four-star films:

Los Olvidados (Bunuel)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
The Bicyle Thief (De Sica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Great Expectations (Lean)
Peter and the Wolf (Geronimi)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Children of Paradise (Carne)
Hangmen Also Die (Lang)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid)
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Lady Eve (Sturges)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
Wuthering Heights (Wyler)
The Grand Illusion (Renoir)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
Vampyr (Dreyer)
M (Lang)
Tabu (Murnau)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
Metropolis (Lang)
The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Seven Chances (Keaton)
The Last Laugh (Murnau)
Nosferatu (Murnau)
The Goat (Keaton/St. Clair)
One Week (Cline/Keaton)
Neighbors (Cline/Keaton)

MacGuffin
01-31-2008, 04:45 AM
City Lights as a gamble. I have to say though, those bolded ones are muchos greatness. I don't remember, did you like the Third Man? Or did you not see it?

I loved it.

Anyways it seems the situation is worse than I thought. I'm making a list of my favorite movies by year since my old ones got deleted, and I can hardly list one movie each year, and I'm only on 1953 (I did a post 1950s thing so it wouldn't look too pathetic). I guess I'm just more of a contemporary cinema sort of guy, or do you all think I simply haven't given this era enough of a chance?

Philosophe_rouge
01-31-2008, 04:48 AM
I loved it.

Anyways it seems the situation is worse than I thought. I'm making a list of my favorite movies by year since my old ones got deleted, and I can hardly list one movie each year, and I'm only on 1953 (I did a post 1950s thing so it wouldn't look too pathetic). I guess I'm just more of a contemporary cinema sort of guy, or do you all think I simply haven't given this era enough of a chance?
It's hard to say really, I can't judge whether you have a preference or not although I will always incline to say that you probably haven't seen enough. Your love of The Third Man wants me to push Odd Man Out a little harder, it's also by Carol Reed, many similar themes, and visually they're both attributable to Reed's style. I like both about the same personally, and I think if you liked one you'll like the other. Odd Man Out also has a more "youthful" angle. I don't know why, but that strikes me as something that might appeal to you. It's a very dark film, the end might even be darker than the Third Man.

MacGuffin
01-31-2008, 04:51 AM
It's hard to say really, I can't judge whether you have a preference or not although I will always incline to say that you probably haven't seen enough. Your love of The Third Man wants me to push Odd Man Out a little harder, it's also by Carol Reed, many similar themes, and visually they're both attributable to Reed's style. I like both about the same personally, and I think if you liked one you'll like the other. Odd Man Out also has a more "youthful" angle. I don't know why, but that strikes me as something that might appeal to you. It's a very dark film, the end might even be darker than the Third Man.

Wow, sounds great. I'll be sure to check it out. In other news, I came across my original list (I guess I didn't delete it), so I won't have to start from scratch. Yay!

Velocipedist
01-31-2008, 07:03 AM
Häxan

Dreyer

That is all.

Mysterious Dude
01-31-2008, 02:55 PM
1890: Monkeyshines (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuXhbO8I03g)
1891: Dickson Greeting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVintjK5lKU)
1892: I haven't seen any movies from this year! I'm so ashamed. :sad:
1893: Blacksmith Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZa-RLtCU0)
1894: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaJ1r0udvQ)
1895: Annabelle Serpentine Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXNfcEo5dQ)
1896: The Kiss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zURTEs8C1lo)
1897: Admiral Cigarette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ureJ9CYFPaA)
1898: Un homme de têtes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLoStiQLBJI)
1899: The Kiss in the Tunnel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_89uZv5_pQ)
1900: Grandma's Reading Glass (see above)
1901: Bluebeard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr5vRQTTQMU)
1902: A Trip to the Moon (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=68113810327535 5387)
1903: The Great Train Robbery (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7949193416885414135)
1904: The Voyage Through the Impossible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8N-sQQ4T6s)
1905: Le Diable Noir (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbJ01n5uoxc)
1906: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7dex_5AZA)
1907: The Golden Beetle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIxoUGkT2c)
1908: Fantasmagorie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbETWEYxAhY)
1909: Princess Nicotine (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=11336649585936 49200)
1910: Frankenstein (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2360119136900154767)
1911: Little Nemo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSp2ej2S00)
1912: The Musketeers of Pig Alley (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6324080369173435884)
1913: The Last Days of Pompeii
1914: Cabiria
1915: Regeneration
1916: Hell's Hinges
1917: The Dying Swan
1918: The Blue Bird
1919: Broken Blossoms
1920: Der Golem
1921: Tol'able David
1922: Häxan
1923: Our Hospitality
1924: Sherlock, Jr.
1925: Cyrano de Bergerac
1926: The Scarlet Letter
1927: The Kid Brother
1928: The Man Who Laughs
1929: Hallelujah!
1930: Westfront 1918
1931: Mädchen in Uniform
1932: Freaks
1933: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934: It Happened One Night
1935: The Informer
1936: Fury
1937: Dead End
1938: Port of Shadows
1939: Of Mice and Men
1940: Rebecca
1941: The Maltese Falcon
1942: Casablanca
1943: Ossessione
1944: Gaslight
1945: Scarlet Street
1946: Shoe-shine
1947: Ride the Pink Horse
1948: The Naked City
1949: All the King's Men
1950: The Asphalt Jungle

Eleven
01-31-2008, 04:44 PM
That no one else has said:

15: Les Vampires [serial] (Feuillade)
22: Foolish Wives (Von Stroheim)
23: Safety Last! (Lloyd)
25: The Freshman (Lloyd)
26: Tartuffe (Murnau)
27: October (Eisenstein)
28: The Crowd (Vidor)
29: Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov)
30: The Blue Angel (Von Sternberg)
31: Dishonored (Von Sternberg)
32: Scarface (Hawks)
33: Zero for Conduct (Vigo)
34: A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu)
35: A Night at the Opera (Goulding and Wood)
36: The Crime of M. Lange (Renoir)
37: You Only Live Once (Lang)
38: Jezebel (Wyler)
39: The Roaring Twenties (Walsh)
40: Christmas in July (Sturges)
41: Ball of Fire (Hawks)
42: Cat People (Tourneur)
43: Le Corbeau (Clouzot)
44: Ministry of Fear (Lang)
45: Detour (Ulmer)
46: The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett)
47: Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
48: Force of Evil (Polonsky)
49: Jour de fete (Tati)
50: The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini)

Lots of these are easy to find and/or Criterionized.

dreamdead
01-31-2008, 05:16 PM
Without using any of the torrents, where can I get ahold of Vidor's The Crowd? Netflix has no copy of it...