wow, good list
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2001: A Space Odyssey Blade Runner West World Western: Rio Bravo The Outlaw Josey Wales High Plains Drifter Drama: Casablanca Amadeus Close Encounters of the Third Kind (you could categorize this as Sci Fi as well) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Comedy: The Jerk Annie Hall (some people don't find Woody Allen funny but I love his movies Tootsie War Movies: The Deerhunter Patton Glory The Bridge on the River Kwai Film Noir/Thriller: The Maltese Falcon Touch of Evil Chinatown [/ QUOTE ] It might be cliche, but a list like this is never complete without Citizen Kane. |
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Try some of Hitchcock's stuff. Most of it is very fun just on a surface level, and you'll be in the hands of a master.
For a real fun quick start, try: Psycho Rear Window North by Northwest The 39 Steps For more evocative stuff: Shadow of a Doubt Suspicion The Wrong Man For something slower but really evocative: Vertigo Other good ones: Notorious Strangers on a Train Ones some people find kinda "iffy": Marnie The Birds Chick Flick with still some fun parts: Rebecca the second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much Hmmm, some non-Hitchock classics: Lawrence of Arabia The Bridge Over the River Kwai The Great Escape Cool Hand Luke(I think this film will get much more highly rated over time -- extremely good and fun) Stagecoach The Best Years of Our Lives The Gold Rush The Third Man The Big Heat The Maltese Falcon Casablanca Treasure of the Sierra Madre] Rebel Without a Cause Rosemary's Baby Nothing complete about that list at all, but it would take a pretty ornery fella to find fault with those. It's a solid start for films from this side of the pond. There are plenty of non-American great films too, but I don't want to provoke a riot. |
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The Graduate
Dog Day Afternoon Taxi Driver |
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The Quiet Man
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I'm guessing you've seen Godfather I & II, but if not add those. Apocolypse Now, Python's Search for the Holy Grail, plus all the ones mentioned above.
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singing in the rain
swing time casablanca the big sleep used cars |
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It's only barely out of your time frame but you should add Cinema Paradiso to your queue and bump it to the top. Note: I can only vouch for the original version. I haven't seen the director's cut. Both are included on the DVD. If you don't love this movie you have no soul.
Also: Full Metal Jacket Raising Arizona The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
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The Quiet Man [/ QUOTE ] I watch it every time it's on...drives the wife crazy. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Scanned the thread - didn't see this one: Stalag 17 - basis for Hogan's Heroes, but S17 is a drama...the William Holden character in there is so cool..
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Should have mentioned High Noon, The Searchers, and My Darling Clementine.
And Kiss Me Deadly wouldn't be bad if you want to see where Quentin Tarantino got one of his ideas from. And McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Ordinary People. An Unmarried Woman. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein The Invisible Man The Island of Lost Souls The Wolfman Straight Time Serpico Little Big Man The Night of the Hunter Jungle Book Gunga Din The Man Who Would Be King War of the Worlds The Last Detail Five Easy Pieces Midnight Cowboy The Hustler The Conversation The Killing Last Tango in Paris The Wild Bunch |
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