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Isolation Recreation - The Old Films Thread

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,156
edited March 2020 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
Following on from the Escape From Alcatraz thread, what old films would you recommend?  I know it's arbitrary, but perhaps we can take the definition of @AddicksAddict anything pre 1980s

@Off_it has already given us the sublime Twelve Angry Men.  I'll add the original Taking of Pelham 123, the original Carrie and Henri-Geeorges Clouzot's black and white masterpiece Les Diaboliques.

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,946
    @LoOkOuT indeed - how very dare you!

    Actually, I was disappointed by the original Pelham 123 having watched the remake first. It just seemed like it was a load of blokes shouting loudly to see who could out/New Yawk the others best. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,156
    edited March 2020
    Oops, sorry!  Amended now.

    No, the original is a classic. You'll never beat Walter Matthau ribbing the Japanese subway guys and the look on his face at the end is worth watching the film on its own.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,099
    Metropolis (Fritz Lang original)
    Rear Window (Hitchcock)
    Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
    The General (Buster Keaton)



  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,099
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Clive of India
    On the Waterfront

    Anything from Ealing Studios ... there are some great box sets available 



  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    The original Carrie is fantastic, it makes my top 10 horror films. As does The Omen (1976), Rosemary's baby (1968) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and of course Haloween (1978).

    I personally think 95% of recent (post 2000) Hollywood horrors are MILES behind their predecessors.
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,318
    Kes (1970, Ken Loach) 

    The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Ealing Studios)

    Two of my favourite British films. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,946
    This is just going to turn into another list of films isn’t it? With people trying to outdo each other with obscure nominations.

    For that reason I will end it with The Long Good Friday. 

    Good day.
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    Watched Passport to Pimlico for about the fourth time again the other day.
    Loved it.
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,227
    Debbie Does Dallas
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,348
    Talking Pics TV has nothing but old films and TV all day.

    Some good, some rubbish.

    Danger UXB is on Mondays

    Over in the Horror Channel is Time Tunnel. Not seen it since I was a kid but loved it then.

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,348
    JohnfromNorfolk said:
    Watched Passport to Pimlico for about the fourth time again the other day.
    Loved it.
    One of the greatest films of all time.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,001
    French Connection 1 and 2
    Dirty Harry and Magnum Force, the three after that were a bit average
    Long Good Friday
    Get Carter
    Day of the Jackal
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,067
    Watched zulu yesterday afternoon.  :)

    My missus was totally pissed off.    

    She's hoping the football gets back on the TV as soon as possible and she can't stand football.  :)
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,802
    Flims to maybe avoid

    Outbreak (1995)
    28 Days Later (2002)
    28 Weeks Later (2007)
    Flu (2013)
    World War Z  (2013)
    The Crazies (2010)
    The Andomeda Strain (1971)
    Quarantine (2008)
    12 Monkeys (1995)
    Pandemic (2016)
    Doomsday (2008)
    Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

    and quite a few more!

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,099
    stonemuse said:
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Clive of India
    On the Waterfront

    Anything from Ealing Studios ... there are some great box sets available 



    This is the box set I have, it’s superb:

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    The Ladykillers
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    The Man in the White Suit
    The Magnet
    Passport to Pimlico
    The Titfield Thunderbolt
    Whisky Galore
    Champagne Charlie
    Dead of Night
    The Maggie
    Scott of the Antarctic
    Nicholas Nickleby
    Went The Day Well
    It Always Rains on Sunday
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,869
    I quite liked The Mouse that Roared but Passport to Pimlico is a far better film.

    If we're going really old, Jean Vigo's L'Atalante.  Black and white AND subtitles.  Serious cinephile points.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,099
    Not old but it includes lots of old film, and it’s one of my favourites ... Hugo, directed by Scorcese. 

    References to the start of cinema with one of the main characters being Georges Melies, includes Lumiere Bothers, Harold Lloyd, and much more. 
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,227
    The Criterion channel streaming service has loads of good old movies on but you'll need a vpn to access it as its only available in the states 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,156
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6us7DLaRk
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,969
    If you like a war film, The cruel sea kicks off at 2 on BBC 2

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  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,415
    CharltonKerry said:
    If you like a war film, The cruel sea kicks off at 2 on BBC 2
    If the film is half as good as the book - one of the best I have ever read - definitely worth watching.

    Unfortunately I've just been told I'm going to the garden centre! 😁 

  • FSLN1
    FSLN1 Posts: 263
    CharltonKerry said:
    If you like a war film, The cruel sea kicks off at 2 on BBC 2

    Also an Ealing Studio film although very much removed from their standard comedies.

    My grandfather went on one of the Russian convoys, the one that left after the doomed QP17 convoy, I remember some of the harrowing soiries and sense of sheer terror that the sailors went through. I've read the book it was based and while the film has some grim moments the book is a bit grimmer. It's also one of the few films about WWII that gets under the stiff upper lip way that British and Allied servicemen and women are usually portrayed.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    stonemuse said:
    stonemuse said:
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Clive of India
    On the Waterfront

    Anything from Ealing Studios ... there are some great box sets available 



    This is the box set I have, it’s superb:

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    The Ladykillers
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    The Man in the White Suit
    The Magnet
    Passport to Pimlico
    The Titfield Thunderbolt
    Whisky Galore
    Champagne Charlie
    Dead of Night
    The Maggie
    Scott of the Antarctic
    Nicholas Nickleby
    Went The Day Well
    It Always Rains on Sunday

    Like you love all the Ealing films, The Ladykillers my favourite, it should appeal to all the CL train lovers as well
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,238
    Emmanuel 
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,960
    If you haven't already seen it, take the opportunity to watch Orson Welles' 1949 masterpiece, The Third Man.
  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,960
    Stig said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6us7DLaRk
    Every episode of The Survivors ever made is available in full on YouTube. Highly recommended viewing during a period of sickness, especially for those with a well developed sense of irony!
  • FSLN1
    FSLN1 Posts: 263
    I will nominate the Maltese Falcon or the Big Sleep for lovers of hard bitten private eye fiction.
  • BrentfordAddick
    BrentfordAddick Posts: 1,467
    Most Billy Wilder films. 
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Powell & Pressburger, but especially I Know Where I’m Going, A Matter Of Life Death and Colonel Blimp.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,869
    Stig said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6us7DLaRk
    2:15 I recognise that quarry from Dr Who.

    Great first series, just like the TV Day of The Triffids.

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