Classic black and white movies

[Trapezoid]

My parents have been watching a lot of old black and white movies on the Turner Classics channel lately. I've haven't really been very interested though, most of them are just about white upper class married couples.
My favorite b&w film is "Ed Wood". It certainly beats the pants of any of Ed Wood's actual films... it's a "classic" to me.

[Darth Mandarb]

The Maltese Falcon

It's only 15 bux (plus shipping).  The only snag is I'm not sure if they ship to Australia or not??

If they do it's definately worth it!

dm

[DGMacphee]

Maybe it's not as hard to find as I originally thought.

[AGA]

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[Pesty]

North By Northwest is also in color.

Aw, cookies. You're right. I kept wanting to put color movies on, like The Court Jester and The African Queen, and I completely forgot that North by Northwest is a color film too.

[Pumaman]

So um, would you guys castrate me and call me shallow if I said that I didn't watch b&w films because they're not in colour?  

[Ghormak]

* Ghormak stabs Pumaman in the shower

I love Psycho.

[Goldmund]

Night of the Iguana!!!!

My favourite film ever.
Maybe it's because of some personal reasons - if I believed in God, I would be a priest by now.


And I also liked Twelve Angry Men a lot.

[Quintaros]

Pestilence: Charade and Breakfast at Tiffany's are also in colour.

[Pesty]

Pestilence: Charade and Breakfast at Tiffany's are also in colour.

...Darn it all to heck!!

I guess this proves that I pay attention to more things that just what color the movie is in, which somehow makes me cooler than everyone else.

[DGMacphee]

Okay then, let me rephrase my original question...

What're your favourite pre-1960 films?

[Quintaros]

Why set any arbirtrary criteria?  Why not just ask what people's favourite films of all time are?

[Goldmund]

Because he's a friggin snobbish fascist TOTALITARIAN.

[Quintaros]

Oh... in that case I also like Vertigo.

[DragonRose]

Lets see... even with the pre-1960's, you're eliminating a lot of my favourites. Roman Holiday and Sabrina are the only two that come to mind. Yeah, I'm a sucker for Audrey Hepburn.  I haven't seen all of it, but I also enjoyed the original version of Phantom of the Opera.

[DGMacphee]

Okay, let me try and make this as clear as possible:

Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Vertigo: LIST IN THREAD

Matrix, Bad Boys 2, Caddy Shack, Die Hard: DON'T LIST

So, just list your damn favourite classic movies and don't give me any grief.  


Quint: As for why I asked people to list their favourite classic movies instead of all-time fav movies, read my very first post!

[Quintaros]

I read your post.  When the thread was about B&W films I could understand that because its a fairly concrete criteria and there is good reason to single out B&W vs. Colour because they each have unique strengths.  Pre-1960 vs. post-1960 just seems arbitrary.  But then I suppose the 1960 isn't a firm cutoff since you allow 61's Breakfast at Tiffany's.  So if 61's cool, I'm gonna offer 62's Lawrence of Arabia as another of my all time favourite Classic films.

[DGMacphee]

Quin: Whatever the case, whether 60s is an arbitray point or not, I think it's pretty obvious what I'm asking here.

I'm talking about stuff like classic "Old Hollywood" films, as opposed to "New Hollywood" films.

[Quintaros]

I don't mean to be a pain the ass.  I just think that films as recent as 1990 could be considered a classic.  Plus what's this "Old Hollywood", "New Hollywood"?  Since when do Classic films have to come out of Hollywood?

[remixor]

Quintaros, I think you're being a bit overly semantic here.  Personally, I think it's fairly clear what DGM is asking for and he doesn't really need a specific reason.  He's curious, and besides that he explained his motives at the beginning of the thread.