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Forgot to mention streaming Citizen Kane. Reminded me of the title of Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough.

Yesterday saw Diabolique, a French flick from 1956. Wowzer, no way I saw that end coming.
 
riverman said:
I didn't even touch on comedy....Jo Jo Dancer.(not a comedy but Pryor)....Planes Trains and Automobiles.....Dirty Rotten Scoundrels....the Blues Brothers....A Night at the Opera...Modern Times (Chaplin)...Indiana Jones...take your pick....they're all good ..Crocodile Dundee
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was great.
While there were a lot of great comedies I think the very best was I Was A Male War Bride was the best I ever saw.
 
Grumpy Old Men

Who in here plays the John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) characters? I'm not even gonna ask about Ariel Truax (Ann-Margaret). LOL

I say (and will always say) Cup and Yankee. Not in that particular order.

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Recently watched 'To Catch a Thief'. Solid Flick. My girlfriend is the real cinephile, so I'm just along for the ride most of the time.
 
the Western Edition:

The Big Country
The Professionals
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Valdez is Coming
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Great picks, you should add the Ox-Bow Incident to it.
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yeah, that was a good one too. From the 40's too, so earlier than the movies I listed

there were a couple of excellent modern westerns too:

Hud
Last Picture Show

and of course the TV series Lonesome Dove
 
K, Monday night we watched Capricorn One (oddly, Hal Holbrook died yesterday), last night we watched Duel. Tonight it's gonna be 12 Angry Men.
 
Tonight, 12 Angry Men. Tomorrow night, In Like Flint and Our Man Flint!
 
Researched 2001 A Space Odyssey this morning. I saw it in theater when it was new but could only remember bits.
 
The Big Country;
Real Men,
John Wick;
The Equalizer.
Anything with William Defoe, Carry Grant, Kirk Douglas, Viggo Mortensen, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Kathryin Hepburn, Peter Sellers, Harold Lloyd in it.
 
The Little Girl who Lived Down the Lane. Stellar performance by young Jodie Foster. I found myself cheering on her character and had to remind myself she was a pretty 13 year old serial killer.
 
Adventures of Babysitting
Boyz in the Hood
Public Enemies
American Gangster
Casino
 
12 Angry Men was excellent. Kinda funny seeing all those big-time actors (at the time) all in a room together. I enjoyed watching Henry Fonda stand firm in his convictions.
 
Minstrel said:
Ah yes, that very old film from the classic era of gangster movies. After movies had turned into talkies.
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To kids today it's an older movie.
 
I once dated a movie buff so saw a lot of flicks.

One was Bad News Bears, a lot of which was inside baseball jokes. My friend, not a baseball fan, was going "huh?" while I was all but rolling in the aisles.

We decided to pass on Rocky Horror Picture Show because it sounded too weird. Oops!

For pure silliness, hard to beat Silent Movie. Burt Reynolds crooning to himself in the shower was priceless.
 
crandc said:
We decided to pass on Rocky Horror Picture Show because it sounded too weird. Oops!
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Rocky Horror has been shown at this little theater in Portland every Saturday night at midnight since 1978. And when I had just turned 16 and got my drivers license going to see it was the first time my parents allowed me to have the car out past midnight.
 
ABM said:
12 Angry Men was excellent. Kinda funny seeing all those big-time actors (at the time) all in a room together. I enjoyed watching Henry Fonda stand firm in his convictions.
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EG Marshall was great in that movie.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
Rocky Horror has been shown at this little theater in Portland every Saturday night at midnight since 1978. And when I had just turned 16 and got my drivers license going to see it was the first time my parents allowed me to have the car out past midnight.
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"Sure, son, you go and enjoy the Rocky movie. Just be back by 10."
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Rocky Horror has been shown at this little theater in Portland every Saturday night at midnight since 1978. And when I had just turned 16 and got my drivers license going to see it was the first time my parents allowed me to have the car out past midnight.
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The Clinton theater if I remember right. I saw it there in about 1976 and still love it.
 
Chances Are
The Pickup Artist
Johnny Be Good
All The Right Moves
Far & Away
 
My personal favorite old movies are John Ford's The Long Gray Line and Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. John Ford is a classic old-movie director (Grapes of Wrath, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The Searchers), but The Long Gray Line is a seriously underrated one from him!
 
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