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New movies are rubbish right? Formulaic toss dreamed up by marketing departments. I reckon I like about two a year, tops.


So I want to know about classics that I haven't had the pleasure of yet and I don't mean Star Wars.


This is what I've been doing this morning.


Grosse Pointe Blank: Great cast, script, funny violence and a super soundtrack. Perfick


 

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Just thought of another, which I stumbled upon late one night channel hopping. "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring". A South Korean movie about a Buddhist monk living on a houseboat and a young boy sent to him to teach. A slow, meandering story, that is absolutely beautifully filmed.


Plus, since I've gone all foreign film... "Spirited Away". A Japanese animated movie by the famed Miyazaki. Try and find the Japanese subtitled version - the dubbed version has some horribly grating voices.

Here are some of my favorites:


Very classic: Some Like it Hot; 12 Angry Men, North by Northwest


Modern Classics: The Princess Bride, Hoop Dreams, Sideways, Rushmore, LA Confidential, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset (though you should watch the entire trilogy), Fight Club, The Prestige, the Fog of War, The Big Lebowski, 12 Monkeys


Recent good films with unusual plots: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Her, Boyhood, Whiplash, Up


Foreign: The Lives of Others, City of God, Waltz with Bashir

I like the ones other people have mentioned too (that I've seen).


I haven't seen True Romance so I'll add it to my list


Otta Wrote:

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> LondonMix you have good taste in movies.

>

> Fans of Spinal Tap should try A mighty wind.

A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cukcoo's Nest, Withnail & I, If, Spinal Tap, Performance, Mona Lisa, The Long Good Friday. But you knew that didn't you. Just stating the obvious. Mostly British too. It's a terrible shame we don't put more money into out film industry because we make amazing films.

Talking of Albert Finney - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. Classic 60 kitchen sink drama. Also, Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry's self destructive tale a of British diplomat on the piss in Mexico.


The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar, more great British drama with Tom Courtenay.

are you a romantic? do you enjoy having your emotions manipulated?

do you enjoy violent/sadistic, cruel, frightening/gory films?

how about historical?

comedies?

biographical movies?

war films?

really really old, ie black and white

film noir?

foreign films?

French

Czech

Russian

Japanese

Chinese

Korean

Australian?

Swedish/Danish existential films

American gangster

South American countries, the only one I can think of off hand is Black Orfeo

Psycho

Films of books

Films of famous, classic books

animal films


give us a time scale please if you can, i.e. a cut off year


and continued feedback

aerie Wrote:

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> are you a romantic? do you enjoy having your

> emotions manipulated?

> do you enjoy violent/sadistic, cruel,

> frightening/gory films?

> how about historical?

> comedies?

> biographical movies?

> war films?

> really really old, ie black and white

> film noir?

> foreign films?

> French

> Czech

> Russian

> Japanese

> Chinese

> Korean

> Australian?

> Swedish/Danish existential films

> American gangster

> South American countries, the only one I can think

> of off hand is Black Orfeo

> Psycho

> Films of books

> Films of famous, classic books

> animal films

>

> give us a time scale please if you can, i.e. a cut

> off year

>

> and continued feedback



He gave an example of Grosse Pointe Blank, and said this sort of thing. So 90s is fine. Noy blockbusters, bit of dark humour, that kind of thing.


TRUE ROMANCE for example ;-)

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