I often go in and out of interests depending on what kind of mood I am in, and my latest interest is old movies. I am covering the basics right now(Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, original Scarface), and am finding them quite to my liking. Is anyone else interested in this kind of thing?
Very much so, I don't know why, but old films are much more real to me than modern films.
With most modern films I feel like I am viewing from the outside, but with old films I get that feeling less so.
I have found myself watching some things just to get references. Watched Rocky III today, one of the worst films I have ever seen. Sylvester Stallone saying that nothing matters if you don't think it's real nearly made my head explode. Mr. T was in it, which was so incredibly odd as to be almost unbearable. I also like the James Bond films, strangely enough. They're oddly addictive.
Ah, that's not an old film to me, but I guess it is to you.
To me an old film is 1930s.
Ah, that's not an old film to me, but I guess it is to you.
To me an old film is 1930s.
Right now I'm just getting a background so that I understand more Simpsons references. I'm getting into more obscure things now(found a DW Griffith WWI propaganda film the other day).
I have this wonderful class called Film Studies where we watch old movies and the teacher pauses every minute or so to talk about some the compositional elements in the movie- chiaroscuro, mis en scene- and since we got into Film Noir he's been pointing out things that are staples of that genre- fedoras, trench coats, venetian blinds- and it's great fun.
Have you seen Casablanca? That's a great one. Sunset Boulevarde is great, too.
My favourites are 'kitchen sink' films of the 60's in the UK.
I am making a site about them soon.
A taste of honey
This sporting life
Billy Liar
Loneliness of the long distance runner
A kind of loving
Saturday night and sunday morning
What's a "kitchen sink" film? :?:
I have this wonderful class called Film Studies where we watch old movies and the teacher pauses every minute or so to talk about some the compositional elements in the movie- chiaroscuro, mis en scene- and since we got into Film Noir he's been pointing out things that are staples of that genre- fedoras, trench coats, venetian blinds- and it's great fun.
Have you seen Casablanca? That's a great one. Sunset Boulevarde is great, too.
I have not seen Casablanca yet. I've seen one of the precursors to Film Noir, Scarface, and consider it among my favourites. Out of curiousity, am I the only person who hated The Bridge on the River Kwai? I couldn't even get through it there were so many plot flaws.
They have gritty realism, were usually based in the north of england, the actors had real accents, and faced grim scenarios in their lives.
Doesn't sound much fun, but they are wonderful and have 'black comedy' effects.
The continued slightly into the 1970's (though in colour) with films like Kes, and Our day out.
Before kitchen sink films, British films had queenly english accents, were somewhat whitewashed and glossy, and didn't discuss sex and contraception issues.
Thank you for the explanation. I'd never heard the term before.
Odd Man Out is a great old film, starring james mason as an IRA guy on the run from the police after a botched robbery... has a really intelligent script and robert newton hamming it up as ever as a mad painter intent on capturing the face of truth before the end! great cinematography and the thing about old films in general is the quality of the dialogue... like the old film noir stuff with mitchum, bogart... modern films too often lose themselves in the production values... much as ive a weakness for the odd blockbuster too!
I love films and film making, am a writer myself, has long been my special interest.. and the means i hope to realise my own potential as I believe very strongly that we all have that and that asperger's is not a disorder at all, but nature's way of addressing the balance in the world...
any one wants to talk about films or suggest any nuggets then please...
My favorite vintage film is "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963)
Here is some random dialogue:
Ray: "Irwin...we're gonna have to kill him..."
Lennie Pike to Mrs. Marcus: "......YOU?????!!!!"
Lennie Pike: "It's the BIG 'W', I tell you...THE BIG 'W'!!!!"
Lennie Pike :"This is a bike for a LITTLE GIRL!"
Benjy Benjamin: "HEEEEEEELLLLP!!!"
If you've never seen this film, PLEASE allow yourself some laughter....Some travellers come across a man who tells them the location of 350G's, and they set off to find it....
I love the old classics. (And by old I mean the 40's.. especially Jimmy Stewart). But I have to say, if there's a movie with Sylvester Stallone, I will absolutely watch it. I have a weird liking for him apparently..
Rocky III sucked, by the way. Ivan Drago is way cooler. : p
Night of the Hunter. I find it more disturbing and haunting than any modern "slasher" horror.
The scene of the woman in the car at the bottom of the lake has always stuck in my head.