Must see list...?

[Badluck Brody]

How about a list of the must see movies with that fedora lounge twist...

Modern and Classic?

Example:

Modern:
Road to Perdition
Miller's Crossing
Billy Bathgate
Indy trilogy


Classic:
Cassablanca
Asphalt Jungle

Whatta you think??!

Brody

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Modern:

Godfather trilogy
The Sting
Howards End
A Room with a View
Wings of the Dove
The English Patient
Radio Days
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Classic:

Golddiggers of 1933, 1935 and 1937
42nd Street
M
To Have and Have Not
Bringing up Baby

 

[Thomas Walden]

Yes! A Room with a View...One of my favorites.

Modern:

My Left Foot
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Shawshank Redemption
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Zentropa (also known as Europa)

Classic:

The Lady Vanishes
Citizen Kane
Das Boot

I could think of more...but I won't.

 

[Dismuke]

Here goes. If I forget any, I guess I can always come back and update the posting. All of these are in no particular order. Links go to the film's listing on the Internet Movie Database.

Modern
The Name Of The Rose
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
Swing Kids
Paper Moon
Making Mr. Right
Oscar
18 Again


Classic - Talkies

We The Living
Casablanca
Dancing Lady
Love Letters
Ninotchka
Stop. You're Killing Me! (Please let me know if anyone EVER comes across a copy of this for sale. I saw it years ago on a late night TV airing and I laughed so hard I was in pain. I would love to see it again and to find out if I would still find it as hilarious as I did then.)
The Fountainhead (The book is MUCH better, however)
This Land Is Mine

Plus a great many wonderful musical shorts from the very late 1920s and early 1930s.


Classic - Silent

The Student Prince In Old Heidleberg
Wings
Sigfried

 

[Feraud]

The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
His Girl Friday
L.A. Confidential
The Man Who Would Be King
Chinatown
The Asphalt Jungle

 

[HaraldTheSwede]

Classic:
The Big Sleep
Double Indemnity
Night and the City
Breathless
Johnny Guitar

 

[Absinthe_1900]

One classic that was recently restored and re-released: "Leave Her To Heaven". http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0037865/

Great Technicolor!

 

[Feraud]

A comedy, Grand Central Murder and a drama, High Sierra.

 

[ClintonHammond]

Dark City
Blade Runner
(it's amazing how 'noir' good cyberpunk is eh?)
Mulholland Falls

Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrles
Snatch (they may not be period, but they are certainly in the style of...)

Sin City for that matter... again, in the style of....

I can't believe it took this long to mention The Untouchables (But Name Of The Rose???)

 

[Lauren]

Modern:
Generally Tom Hanks movies I think will be considered "classics"
The Pianist
A Beautiful Mind
Dead Poets Society
Pride and Prejudice (A&E version)

classic:
The Thin Man
Now Voyager
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Rebecca (Hitchock's)
Bombshell
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wuthering Heights
Bringing Up Baby
The Lady Eve

 

[Badluck Brody]

Hey Clint.

I probably would/ could have listed it and quite a few more. But what fun would that have been.

I also agree that Tom Hanks will probably be considered the Jimmy Stewart (The everyman)of our time. It's a long way from Boosom Buddies that's for sure.

Still have never had a chance to see A Beautiful Mind though. Gotta get with it!!

Anyone remember the Deadend Kids AKA Bowrey Boys??

Classics:
G-men
Little Cesar (however Ricco's voice can get irritating)
Out of the past
Rear Window

Modern:
Ragtime
Last man standing
Raging Bull

Brody

 

[Feraud]

Once Upon a Time in America

I thought A Beautiful Mind was worth one viewing. I heard the screenwriters stretched the truth quite a bit in this one.

 

[ClintonHammond]

"stretched the truth quite a bit"

Find a movie where they haven't... It was drama, not biography... But it deserved every Ack. Award it won, and more in my book...

Oh oh oh! Add this one to my list!

Newsies!

 

[Badluck Brody]

How about...?

Well if you're throwing Newsies out there... How about the Christmas Story?

Great vintage images there....

Brody

 

[shamus]

I'm not going to list the obvious...

Modern:

The Long Goodbye


Classic:

Double Indemnity

 

[ClintonHammond]

"How about the Christmas Story?"

I can't BELIEVE I didn't get that one first! That's one of my all time favs!

LOL

 

[Vornholt]

I would add the Orson Wells film "Touch of Evil" to that list. Very noirish, especially Wells' dirty cop. Much better than Citizen Kane, in my opinion.

 

[Feraud]

I would add the Orson Wells film "Touch of Evil" to that list. Very noirish, especially Wells' dirty cop. Much better than Citizen Kane, in my opinion.

I agree Touch of Evil is better than Kane. T.O.E. is a better 'Noir' story imho. I give Charlton Heston and the filmmakers credit for not creating the Ramon Vargas character as a stereotype. The exceptio is the 'tan' they put on Heston.[huh] Not bad for a movie from 1958!

 

[Quigley Brown]

Kurosawa's 'Stay Dog'.....Japanese film noir.
Dassin's 'Rififi'....French film noir.
Gilliam's 'Brazil'
'Insomnia'...Swedish film noir
'The Man Who Fell to Earth'...difficult to get through the first time, though.
'Pickup on South Street'...classic American film noir.

 

[Feraud]

oh, add Memento to my list.
One of my all time favorites!