So /tv/ I'm a little ashamed to admit there's a lot of classic cinema from before the 60's I haven't seen yet, but I want to learn. What movies from the golden age of cinema would you recommend?
>>67648313
You act like people here actually like film.
>12 Angry Men
>Once Upon a Time in the West
>It's a Wonderful Life
Be careful, it's full of capeshit out there.
>>67648313
North by Northwest
>>67648412
I have a hard time watching Christmas movies outside of Christmas time, does Its a Wonderful Life hold up other times of the year?
>>67648313
Phantom Carriage
Häxan
Universal Monsters
M and just about any other Fritz Lang film
Anything by Powell and Pressburger.
>>67648471
Yeah it works any time of the year.
It does feel a little better around Christmas though.
La Strada
>>67648313
The General
You need to watch some Hawks and Ford films. I'd recommend:
Hawks
>Red River
>Rio Bravo
>To Have and Have Not
>The Big Sleep
Ford
>The Searchers
>Stagecoach
>How Green Was My Valley
Also, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh, Murnau, Jacques Tourneur...the list is endless
>>67648313
My favorite
>>67648313
I just watched odd man out with james mason from 1947 i think it is. Great noir with a unique plot and stellar acting. Its about a wounded ira leader trying to avoid capture one rainy night as he relies on people to help him. Old movies are just too comfy really. The music, the acting, the everything. I will never understand why people dont like them or think they are boring. I grew up on em and even though it took a little while i learned to appreciate them. People who complain that a movie is in black and white are just some of my least favorite
In 2 weeks you'll be back to watching Dredd and Edge of Tomorrow and talking about how old films are "boring"
Just give up now, plebbo fag.
How about some older films with a story or narrative to be specific? I don't feel like watching 3 hour art films with no structure, I want to get invested in story and character.
>>67648313
Dracula
>>67648313
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Ladykillers
Arsenic and Old Lace
Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and Charlie Chaplin stuff.
>>67648709
Oh lots of old films have amazing stories. Believe it or not, old mainstream hollywood movies had great writing and acting. Films were held in a different regard, lots of theater pros and playwrites and such. Id look at some lists of genres you like and look at the older ones. 1001 movies to see before you die aint a bad place to start for old ones. Criterion collections are good for old foreign films.
Some Brando-core for you
>On the Waterfront
>A Streetcar Named Desire
Horror
>The Invisible Man (1933)
>The Wolf Man (1941)
>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
>The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
>Dracula (1931) both the English and Spanish versions
Sunset Boulevard
Grand Hotel
Rear Window
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>>67648767
Anything by Ealing Studios!
>>67648313
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
>>67648313
metropolis
chaplin movies
>>67648767
Kind Hearts and Coronets is the fucking bomb, man
>>67649177
When it comes to the Lugosi Dracula if u find it hard going watch it with the official soundtrack recorded in 2000s
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Glen or Glenda
Mad Max Fury Road is better than every film mentioned so far.
I think it would be better if op named what kinds of movies he liked to get recs of similar things than just 3 dozen random movies
>>67648412
>on your high horse naming 3 of the most well known "old movies" ever, one a decade than he requested
>>67648313
Angels with Dirty Faces
Casablanca
The Seventh Seal
All Quiet on the Western FRont
Witness for the Prosecution
The Kid
Wild Strawberries
M
Rashomon
Things to Come
Ace i nthe Hole
White Heat
Double Indemnity
Bttleship Potemkin
Rope
The Killing
>>67648313
I'll give my top ten of each era. (I wish I could add more)
Pre-30s
>Birth of a Nation (1915)
>Broken Blossoms (1919)
>Phantom Carriage (1921)
>Safety Last! (1923)
>The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1925)
>Metropolis (1927)
>Sunrise (1927)
>The General (1927)
>Le Passion de Joan D'arc (1928)
>The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
30s
>City Lights (1931)
>M (1931)
>King Kong (1933)
>Duck Soup (1933)
>Modern Times (1936)
>Snow White (1937)
>The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
>Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
>The Wizard of Oz (1939)
>La Regle Du Jeu (1939)
40s
>The Great Dictator (1940)
>Fantasia (1940)
>Citizen Kane (1941)
>Casablanca (1942)
>Double Indemnity (1944)
>It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
>The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
>Rope (1948)
>On the Town (1949)
50s
>Rashomon (1950)
>Singin' in the Rain (1952)
>The Wages of Fear (1953)
>Rear Window (1954)
>Seven Samurai (1954)
>Paths of Glory (1957)
>12 Angry Men (1957)
>The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
>Vertigo (1958)
>North by Northwest (1959)
>pre-60s
>golden era
Holy kek look at this pseudo-patrician regurgitating those memes!
>>67651646
It isn't pseudo-patrician, it's just what old normies believe, and it mostly had to do with how Hollywood was perceived, and how Hollywood was utterly peerless in terms of innovation and quality before the effects of New Wave Cinema and the Counterculture changed everything. Holy shit, read a book or two on the subject.
>>67649312
>rear window
Mein Negger
>>67651619
Nice list tbphf.
>>67651619
Outside of the duplicate directors this is a great beginners list
Without memeing me into oblivion, can someone help me get over this feeling of older movies being boring as all fuck?
There are some that I like. I like Hitchcock, Welles, Lang, Leone and Ford... But when I try to watch stuff like Tarkovsky or Tokyo Story, it just feels like homework. Do I just have bad taste? I don't particularly care for Godard or Tarr either.
>>67652343
No, you're right for the most part. Most of those movies were severely hampered by censorship, restricted camera movements, stage actors coming into cinema and treating performances like stage plays, and editing which is deliberately trying to be under the radar and without detection, stopping some of the flourish that didn't arrive until the New Wave. That said, I respect those films a hell of a lot more for what they're trying to do.
Tarkovsky was notoriously pretentious, and added a ten minute long scene of a car trip in Solaris as an endurance test for people, as he felt that only those who endured the scene should stick to the end.
>>67648471
Much of It's a Wonderful Life takes place outside of Christmas. Really, the only thing Christmas-y about it is that George Bailey tries to off himself on Christmas Eve because he'd otherwise go to federal fuck-me-in-the-ass prison for non-Christmas-related reasons coincidentally that same day (and for a constant resentment of his sense of duty forcing him to stay behind and support his friends and family when he wanted to go out into the world and do great things on his own).
>>67651619
This guy knows what he's talking about,except Rope and On the Town. They're good, but there are much better 40's movies like A Matter of Life and Death.
>>67652343
I find older movies to be more character oriented which I like
Anything with Alec Guinness and Peter O'toole
>>67648313
i've watched The time machine recently and it was better than most of the timetravel movies after.
i want yet to see Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai, they say they're great.
>>67653694
>1960
sorry one year late
bing "pre-code Hollywood"and pick the highest rated ones in the wiki entry
>>67653726
>>67653758
>>67653808
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>>67653891
Great lists. Do you have more? I'm saving these.
>>67654036
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
>>67654076
Tank you veddy much.
>>67648313
>>67651619
What the hell, I'll add a few more pre-1960 films that deserve some love.
>Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
>Ninotchka (1939)
>The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
>A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
>Odd Man Out (1947)
>The Red Shoes (1948)
>All About Eve (1950)
>Ace in the Hole (1951)
>The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
>An American in Paris (1951)
>The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
>Ikiru (1952)
>High Noon (1952)
>Roman Holiday (1953)
>On the Waterfront (1954)
>Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
>Les Diaboliques (1955)
>The Ladykillers (1955)
>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
>The Red Balloon (1956)
>Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
>The Seventh Seal (1957)
>Touch of Evil (1958)
>The Horror of Dracula (1958)
>>67654147
>>The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
>>A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
>>The Red Shoes (1948)
The Archers are the most underrated filmmakers in history.
Trouble in Paradise
>>67648609
>no His Girl Friday
10/10 screwball comedy right there famalam
Why do people always say The General is the best Keaton? Our Hospitality and The Cameraman are far better.
>>67654403
They may be funnier, but General is breathtaking in its scope.
>>67654403
No. If you had said Sherlock Jr. or maybe even Steamboat Bill Jr. I might agree with you, but The General is better than both you mentioned.
>>67654519
Sherlock Jr. and Steamboat Bill Jr. are only good in the last 15 minutes.
>>67654555
Sherlock Jr. is Keaton's masterpiece and you know it.
>>67651619
>>67654147
>All thisgoodtaste
>>67652343
Well, Ozu and Tarkovsky are just slow directors, in that they aren't overly concerned with propelling plot like those other guys you listed are. The others are great, but Ozu and Tarks have just got a different approach. Try looking for stuff other than just plot information in their films, like composition, editing, mise-en-scene, etc. You gotta try challenging yourself a bit, because you're missing out on a lot of great films and directors if you don't. Maybe read some critical analyses for their work to try to understand why people enjoy their films
>>67648313
the wizard of oz is super fun
>>67652343
You like story driven movies, which is ok. I personally hate it when a movie only has the objective of telling a story. You might want to check out I was born, but...
what are some good bogart films besides casablanca?
90% of pre-1960 movies labeled "classics" are seriously overrated. Don't even try to prove me wrong. I have never been more disappointed than when I went through the Top 250, but there are some cases of properly good movies like 12 Angry Men and Rear Window.
>>67654798
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
In a Lonely Place
>>67654798
In a lonely place is his best tbqh also his other high rated noirs are tops
>>67654798
In a lonely place, terrific.
Also Treasure of the Sierra Madre
>>67654835
>top 250
>90% of pre 60s classics
Nigga wat?
>>67654835
Its not overrated, you're just not used to classic cinema, it feels weird if you're only into contemporany.
Obviously, some are shit, but there's some great classic movies, especially outside of hollywood.
>>67652501
>Most of those movies were severely hampered by censorship, restricted camera movements, stage actors coming into cinema and treating performances like stage plays, and editing which is deliberately trying to be under the radar and without detection, stopping some of the flourish that didn't arrive until the New Wave.
None of this bothers me at all. For me the only thing "holding back" classic hollywood films is the dialogue, and how much of it there is. Once sound came out it seems like the movies' MO was to talk as much as possible, using 20 words to say what you could in 10. And then actors often speed through the dialogue and the whole thing is a slog of overacting and overwritten dialogue
Not to say dialogue was bad then, it was just over indulged. It makes perfect sense to me why art critics gravitated to slow movies from outside of America over what was in Hollywood at the time
is the original scarface worth watching?
>>67648313
>>67655124
Totally, it's only like 80 minutes compared to the bloated remake too so its not a big effort to check out
It has the unnecessary comic side character indicative of the time but the rest is top tier rise and fall gangster stuff
>>67655124
I didn't really care for it, but it's not bad. Some people really dig it.
Top 250 classics I've seen:
12 Angry Men - 9/10
Seven Samurai - 7/10
It's a Wonderful Life - 5/10
Casablanca - 3/10
City Lights - 6/10
Psycho - 8/10
Rear Window - 9/10
Modern Times - 5/10
Sunset Blvd. - 6/10
Paths of Glory - 6/10
Citizen Kane - 3/10
North By Northwest - 7/10
Vertigo - 6/10
Witness for the Prosecution - 6/10
Singin' in the Rain - 4/10
Bicycle Thieves - 4/10
The Kid - 7/10
Rashomon - 5/10
Metropolis - 7/10
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 7/10
The Third Man - 5/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - 6/10
The Gold Rush - 7/10
The General - 7/10
Dial M For Murder - 8/10
The Maltese Falcon - 6/10
The Wizard of Oz - 5/10
Strangers on a Train - 7/10
High Noon - 8/10
L'ascension du chevalier noir
>>67655250
that's not 250
>>67655250
>Casablanca - 3/10
>Citizen Kane - 3/10
>Singin' in the Rain - 4/10
>Bicycle Thieves - 4/10
>>67655250
Holy fuck you're a faggot
>>67648412
>Once Upon a Time in the West
>Must watch films 1900-1959
What?
>>67655549
I'm sorry I don't circle jerk over all the "classics" like every self proclaimed "film expert". Some of them are simply shit or aged like milk.
>>67655892
Yes, but that's not the case with any of the movies you listed.
Anything with Peter Lorre in it
>>67656003
his forehead ruins every scene
>>67655250
What kind of joyless ass hates Singin in the Rain and Wizard of Oz
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
On The Waterfront (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Rope (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Searchers (1956)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Rashomon (1950)
Touch of Evil (1958)
White Heat, D.O.A., Scarlet Street, any Marx Brother movie, and Sherlock Jr.
>>67656003
Yes. The best are 'Mad Love' and 'M'
>>67654264
Holy shit I'm not the only one who thinks like that!
The Archers are so underrated indeed!
>>67656857
It's true. The ballet scene in The Red Shoes makes Gene Kelly look like a chump, and I love Gene Kelly.
