good old movies

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Some like it hot
The Battleship Potemkin
12 Angry men
The Magnificent Ambersons
Suddenly
The Stranger
The hunchback of Notre Dame
The Big Heat
Went the day well
Rome Citta Aperta (Rome open city)
All quiet on the Western Front
Nosferatu
It's a wonderful life
Shenandoah
The odd couple
Casablanca
The African Queen
Victim
Touch of Evil
Cool Hand Luke



To name but a few

They're not all B&W

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Tiger bay is fucking ace Sunday afternoon fodder.

As is "It always rains on Sunday".

 

[Fedayn]

They're not all B&W

That is true, but they're all brilliant.

 

[Flashman]

Carnival of souls ( horror - woooo creepy - good stuff)

Fuck yeah ain't seen that since late night BBC 2 years and years ago, probably introduced by Alex Cox.

You've probably got enough to be going on with I'd just mention School for Scoundrels (1960) an absolute classic, and the St Trinian's films are good fun.

 

[Flashman]

Opened to terrible reviews at the time and Laughton never directed again

Boooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Maltese Falcon
Inherit the Wind

 

[scifisam]

I too have a prejudice against b&w films, and have sought to overcome it because I don't want to miss out on the great films out there that happen to not have colour.

To repeat a couple in order to boost them up your torrent list:

Night of the Hunter (absolutely amazing film)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Casablanca (a classic that's actually good)
Brief Encounter (so not what I expected).

Tiger bay is fucking ace Sunday afternoon fodder.

As is "It always rains on Sunday".

There's another great Hayley Mills film about an escaped prisoner who the kids decide is Jesus. Weird film. After a brief search, IMDB tells me it's Whistle Down the Wind.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Casablanca
Key Largo
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much (not the Doris Day one)
Wings (silent)
The Lodger
M - Eine Stadt Sucht Einen Mörder
The Third Man (seventhed, or whatever)
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Ladykillers
The Hill (well, it's B&W)
Animal Crackers/Duck Soup/A Day At The Races/A Night At The Opera/Monkey Business (gotta get into Marx Bros)
Lifeboat
The Night Of The Hunter
Passport To Pimlico
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Hobson's Choice
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
To Have And Have Not
The Asphalt Jungle
A Canterbury Tale
49th Parallel
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Stalag 17
THe Cockleshell Heroes
Kanał
Obchod Na Korze
The Fly
The Ox-Bow Incident
Земля (Zemlya)
Popiół I Diament
Shichinin No Samurai
Rashômon
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Tsubaki Sanjûrô
Kakushi-Toride No San-Akunin

and a token film in colour:

Bad Day At Black Rock

 

[DaveCinzano]

Tiger Bay

There's another great Hayley Mills film about an escaped prisoner who the kids decide is Jesus. Weird film. After a brief search, IMDB tells me it's Whistle Down the Wind.

Both are mighty fine. Scifasm escapes the execution list by virtue of taste.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Went The Day Well works well in a double bill with It Happened Here - both B&W Brit specfic flicks

 

[DaveCinzano]

Oh, and on a Cary Grant/screwball tip, His Girl Friday

 

[scifisam]

Both are mighty fine. Scifasm escapes the execution list by virtue of taste.

Execution list? What had I done to be on it?

Cary Grant films, in b&w, seem like they're in colour.

 

[Detroit City]

Cary Grant films, in b&w, seem like they're in colour.

judy, judy, judy

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Not old, but a classic black and white movie: Raging Bull.
The Defiant Ones
Psycho
The Big Sleep

 

[scifisam]

Not old, but a classic black and white movie: Raging Bull.
The Defiant Ones
Psycho
The Big Sleep

I haven't seen The Defiant Ones, but like the others, so would watch it if I weren't incapable of torrenting.

I'd forgotten that Psycho was b&w. That was a good choice on the part of Hitchcock, IMO.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I haven't seen The Defiant Ones, but like the others, so would watch it if I weren't incapable of torrenting.

I'd forgotten that Psycho was b&w. That was a good choice on the part of Hitchcock, IMO.

http://www.filmsite.org/defi.html

I haven't seen it for years, but it was, and maybe still is, a very powerful movie.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Psycho

Scott at CDM has produced a very interesting essay comparing the original with the Van Sant remake.

 

[scifisam]

http://www.filmsite.org/defi.html

I haven't seen it for years, but it was, and maybe still is, a very powerful movie.

The link is to an American site where it would cost too much for me to have it shipped over here, sadly.

I'll see if a certain friend of mine can torrent it for me; he seems to be able to get anything.

One day, we'll be able to pay a few quid and just download it legally (I would prefer to pay for it legally than get it freely). That day seems to be longer in coming than it should be, though, for all but a tiny proportion of films.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The link is to an American site where it would cost too much for me to have it shipped over here, sadly.

I'll see if a certain friend of mine can torrent it for me; he seems to be able to get anything.

One day, we'll be able to pay a few quid and just download it legally (I would prefer to pay for it legally than get it freely). That day seems to be longer in coming than it should be, though, for all but a tiny proportion of films.

I know. I want to make some cds for the holidays this summer, but I don't want jackbooted feet breaking down my door mid-torrent.

 

[gentlegreen]

We've already had "Inherit The Wind" and "12 Angry Men" , so ...

"To Kill a Mockingbird", (Gregory Peck)

Most of my Favourites are French - I'm currently trying to find cheap French copies of Pagnol's "La Gloire de Mon Pere" and "Le Chateau de Ma Mere" .

"Jean de Florette" and "Manon Des Sources" are brilliant, but I doubt I could ever watch them a second time without someone there to hold my hand.

I used to be rather fond of Jacques Tati - "Mon Oncle", "Jour de Fete" ..

 

[scifisam]

I know. I want to make some cds for the holidays this summer, but I don't want jackbooted feet breaking down my door mid-torrent.

I'm not worried about the law. I don't torrent because I don't seem to be able to. I think this is probably because my internet connection is a bit shit.

The reason I'd rather pay for such artistic endeavours - music and film especially - is in the hope that a small percentage of that money will go back to the people who made the film. I dislike the vision I have of the future where films and music become so unprofitable that only rich people can afford to take the time out to make them, or where we depend on films made on people's spare time. I'd rather ten really good films per year than a million substandard youtube home videos.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Incredible Shrinking Man is a stunning film. Incredible effects for the time too.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'm not worried about the law. I don't torrent because I don't seem to be able to. I think this is probably because my internet connection is a bit shit.

The reason I'd rather pay for such artistic endeavours - music and film especially - is in the hope that a small percentage of that money will go back to the people who made the film. I dislike the vision I have of the future where films and music become so unprofitable that only rich people can afford to take the time out to make them, or where we depend on films made on people's spare time. I'd rather ten really good films per year than a million substandard youtube home videos.

But most torrenters are film obsessives who then pay to see it at the cinema five times, then buy it on DVD, etc.

(IMO)

Also, a lot of 'obscure' bands have got exposure through sites like oink and soulseek and actually say they are glad of it. People then go and buy the records.

Personally I would much rather own the real CD than a bunch of MP3s. Sadly in China there is no option.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm not worried about the law. I don't torrent because I don't seem to be able to. I think this is probably because my internet connection is a bit shit.

The reason I'd rather pay for such artistic endeavours - music and film especially - is in the hope that a small percentage of that money will go back to the people who made the film. I dislike the vision I have of the future where films and music become so unprofitable that only rich people can afford to take the time out to make them, or where we depend on films made on people's spare time. I'd rather ten really good films per year than a million substandard youtube home videos.

I think what's happening, is a metamorphosis, whereby the way we get music, and the way musicians get paid for it, changes.

I think that the lives of record companies is shortlived. I think that there will soon be a way to compensate musicians for their product, directly, via the internet.

 

[scifisam]

I think what's happening, is a metamorphosis, whereby the way we get music, and the way musicians get paid for it, changes.

I think that the lives of record companies is shortlived. I think that there will soon be a way to compensate musicians for their product, directly, via the internet.

Hopefully (and writers and film-makers too), like I mentioned in the form of payable torrents.

Even though I started this tangent, though, I think it should be a new topic. I just can't think of the title.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I think what's happening, is a metamorphosis, whereby the way we get music, and the way musicians get paid for it, changes.

I think that the lives of record companies is shortlived. I think that there will soon be a way to compensate musicians for their product, directly, via the internet.

It's already happening, with people like NIN and Radiohead putting their albums up for 'bidding'.

One NIN fan paid 500 quid for their latest opus!

 

[Virginia Plain]

Holiday Camp (featuring The Huggets)
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Sunset Boulevard
Midnight Cowboy
The Misfits
A Kind Of Loving
The Music Box (Laurel & Hardy)
A Christmas Carol
Harvey
The Lost Weekend
Mrs Skeffington
Blackboard Jungle
Snake Pit

And many, many more.....

 

[gentlegreen]

To Add to "Goodbye Mr. Chips", other films that bring a wistful tear to my eye include :-

two more James Stewarts :-

"The Shop On the Corner".
"the Glenn Miller Story."

"Random Harvest" - Ronald Colman, Greer Garson,

What I like about the classic romantic weepies are that the leading parts are often played by chaps of my vintage.

 

[Virginia Plain]

To Add to "Goodbye Mr. Chips", other films that bring a wistful tear to my eye include :-

two more James Stewarts :-

"The Shop On the Corner".
"the Glenn Miller Story."

"Random Harvest" - Ronald Colman, Greer Garson,

What I like about the classic romantic weepies are that the leading parts are often played by chaps of my vintage.

I agree with all your choices. I have a never-ending list in this genre. My list of favourite contemporary films would be much shorter, I think. Even as a teenager, I loved all the vintage movies such as Dark Victory, Funny Face, Ziegfield Follies et al...

An Affair To Remember is as corny as hell but gets me every time....

 

[brianx]

My favourite old film was on C4 the other week. The Enforcer with Humphrey Bogard is trying to get Murder Inc. There is a charcter called Rico which it is alleged that the FBI used as there prototype for a RICO conviction which as we all know is an acronym for Rackateer Influenced and Corrupt Organisation.