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How about the original Wizard of OZ with Judy Garland?
Also.. Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman was memorable to me.
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ThomasCaron Raver
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Dec 24, 2007 - 01:35 PM
Not so old movies.
Eyes Wide Shut
The Complete Twin Peaks
2046
Barry Lyndon
1900
Dead Ringers
The Age of Innocence
Jackie Brown
In The Mood For Love
3 Women
Days of Heaven
Eraserhead
Naked Lunch
The Thin Red Line
The New World
Brazil
The Whole Wide World
JFK
Desperate Living
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
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Dec 24, 2007 - 07:29 PM
Untouchables
Godfather
Ghost
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Dec 24, 2007 - 07:33 PM
Ehm, what about Casablanca ? Maltese Falcon... A few more Dollars ? A fistful Dollars ? The Good, the bad, the Ugly ?
judy73 Barker
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Dec 24, 2007 - 09:36 PM
Michael wrote:
How about the original Wizard of OZ with Judy Garland?
Also.. Little Big Man with Dustin Howas memorable to me.
1.Classic movie ,classic song.this is a timeless classic. has an other beautiful chinese name is 绿野仙踪
2. Dustin Hoffman is great Actor 。rain man,kramer vs kramer,....................................
judy73 Barker
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Dec 24, 2007 - 09:51 PM
hoho ~~~~~~~Do U remember this........
' I'm singing in the rain ，Just singing in the rain 。。。。。。“
YES !Gene Kelly -singing in the rain
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Dec 24, 2007 - 11:30 PM
Well, since we haven't defined old, and I have a few minutes before I go to sleep I am also going to recommend:
- Boondock Saints
Awesome movie.
And it falls into the category of "old" in that it's not "new".
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Dec 26, 2007 - 02:53 AM
I am tryin to list out the old movies not mentioned here..
Sunset Boulevard,
It's a wonderful life
Rashomon
Clockwork orange
Casablanca
recently i watched a movie called "Das Leben der Anderen" (2006) Awesome!
btw, check http://imdb.com/chart/top for top250 movies!
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Dec 26, 2007 - 05:50 AM
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Dec 26, 2007 - 08:33 AM
Stage Coach
Father Goose
all of the Marx Brothers movies
Cyrano Debergerac - old staring Jose Ferrer
Harvey
Sabrina - original Bogart and Audrey Hepburn
American In Paris
African Queen
Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man - and all its sequals
Hatari
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn
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Ghandi
Lawrence of Arabia
Mutiny on the Bounty (1950's version with Charles Lawton)
Treasure Island
Ben Hur
Clockwork Orange
Dances with Wolves
Fantasia
The Killing Fields
Das Boot (best submarine related movie ever)
Oliver Twist (the original version in B&W)
39 Steps
The Cruel Sea
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
American Graffiti (great 1960's music)
Ran
Seven Samurai
Kagemusha
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vivek123 Barker
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Dec 26, 2007 - 10:35 AM
Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America. Just watched it last night. Absolute masterpiece - De Niro most understated and underrated performance.
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Dec 26, 2007 - 11:13 AM
So many of the movies mentioned were actually even better books.
just a couple examples:
To kill a mockingbird
Clockwork Orange
two movies which *are* great movies, but you REALLY should read the book, too. As with any movie adaptation, they just can't fit all of the great details into the movie. And the greatness of the movie comes at least partially just from the book.
movies which were just made to be movies (original screenplays) belong in their own category.
a classic movie which should be watched (for the irony, but still):
Reefer Madness (a farcical 1930's propoganda movie about the horrible evils of marijuana)
How about this one mod5? One of my fav classic Christmas.. Its a Wonderful Life
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Dec 26, 2007 - 11:26 PM
A fish called Wanda
Platoon
Scarface
maneo Rocker
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Dec 27, 2007 - 04:20 AM
25 other "classics" not already included above:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Annie Hall
Being There
Blade Runner
Cabaret
Coming Home (1978)
Harold and Maude
High Noon
Ju Dou
Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts)
MASH
Raise the Red Lantern
Taxi Driver
The Asphalt Jungle
The Breakfast Club
The Day of the Jackal
The Deer Hunter
The Great Escape
The Last Picture Show
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Unforgiven (1992)
Yojimbo
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Dec 27, 2007 - 07:10 AM
beautiful_mind0905 wrote:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Only saw this one fairly recently.
A lot of Shanghainese girls told me this was their favorite movie. A lot of things made sense after I saw the movie.
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Dec 27, 2007 - 07:02 PM
“Moon river, wider than a mile。。。。。。”
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Dec 27, 2007 - 08:40 PM
Kiwi wrote:
beautiful_mind0905 wrote:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Only saw this one fairly recently.
A lot of Shanghainese girls told me this was their favorite movie. A lot of things made sense after I saw the movie.
What made sense?
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Dec 27, 2007 - 08:53 PM
Can't think of too many offhand that haven't already been mentioned. Though one of my fav classics - Tokyo Monogatari, aka Tokyo Story, by Ozu. Though made in the 50s, still relevant today.
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Dec 27, 2007 - 08:58 PM
Serpico
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Dec 27, 2007 - 09:36 PM
Kiwi wrote:
beautiful_mind0905 wrote:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Only saw this one fairly recently.
A lot of Shanghainese girls told me this was their favorite movie. A lot of things made sense after I saw the movie.
It does seem like a lot of office girls in Shanghai (whether from Shanghai or not) love Audrey Hepburn. Her image was a very popular screen saver (at least until Wentworth Miller came along).
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