What is your favourite classic film?

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  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Both great films @Adrian_Scope!
  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Online Community Member Posts: 6,283 Championing
    Hello @pollyanna1052   Love your film choice great film.

    Was on Talking Pictures the other month or so.

    Apparently he did the stage production as well. Rex Harrison.

    Written by Sir Noel Coward.

    Good Matinee film to watch as they all were in The Fifties.

    Colour was beginning to be used.

    All these formats. Technicolour, Deluxe, Visionarama, Vistavision.

    Reason I like them.. Not much good on a TV. Yet when I used to go to these film festivals. 

    Showing the classics all amazing and visual .  Feel the surround sound.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Please take care.

    @thespiceman

     


  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,862 Championing
    It'd have to be Die Hard for me...it's not Christmas until you've seen Gruber fall off of the Nakatomi Plaza. :D
  • M_Anthony
    M_Anthony Online Community Member Posts: 306 Empowering
    @Adrian_Scope

    Speaking of the Karate Kid, have you heard of or watched the Cobra Kai TV series? It is a really good TV show set with the original characters Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence. The First two episodes are free on YouTube.
  • Panda70
    Panda70 Online Community Member Posts: 22 Contributor
    My fave ever is any Barbra Streisand movie especially A Star is Born, my go to TV is anything paranormal or crypto zoological documemtrys, 
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    I found A Star is Born to be a really meaningful film @Panda70! Thank you for sharing. :)
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,758 Online Community Programme Lead
    Haven't seen it yet @M_Anthony. I'm struggling to find the time to watch anything at the moment, but I will add it to my list of recommendations, cheers!
  • Philippa1961
    Philippa1961 Online Community Member Posts: 19 Contributor
    Gone With the Wind is one of my favourite classic films.
  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Online Community Member Posts: 6,283 Championing
    Hello @Philippa1961 Great film choice. When  I was collecting used to go to Film Fairs in Manchester and London.

    There is a Gone With The Wind Society. Who have an interest in everything about the film.

    Fascinating and very interesting story behind the film.  

    Lots of myth,stories and problems around the whole production.

    Worth a look on line.

    Same with a lot of these Films from the Thirties and Forties.

    Have collector clubs.  Wizard of Oz is one as is Casablanca one I like.

    Got everything. Romance, suspense a great sound track by Max Steiner.

    Action, poignant words and lines.

    Always  watchable Bogie.

    Have a pleasant day.

    Take care.

    @thespiceman


  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Online Community Member Posts: 6,283 Championing
    edited November 2019
    Hello @Chloe_Scope   A list of films my favourites. All classics made in the Forties, Fifties.

    All black and white. Simple plots and full of suspense and the endings all twists and turns. Never saw that coming.

    One or two are ones that are comedies.  Included the stars worth watching looking out for.

    Harvey     James Stewart

    Sudden Fear      Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame.

    Sorry Wrong Number     Barbara Stanwyck , Burt Lancaster.

    Double Emdenity    Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck.

    Some Like It Hot    Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon.

    Key Largo and To Have and Have Not   Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

    The Stranger Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson.  Loretta Young.

    A Touch Of Evil  Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich.

    Wish you well.

    Please take care.

    @thespiceman .




     




  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Thanks for sharing @thespiceman!
  • WhileIBreathIHope
    WhileIBreathIHope Posts: 213 Empowering
    edited November 2019
    Mad Max where society breaks down.
    feeling a little less peeded off today.
    but expect moderation so Adrian is a difficult person to understand hey ho like peeling an onion I guess
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,758 Online Community Programme Lead
    Speaking of peeling onions, is Shrek old enough to be considered a classic movie?


  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    An absolute classic @Adrian_Scope!  :D
  • mrbuttons
    mrbuttons Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering
    edited November 2019
    not sure if it qualifies as a classic but, Throw Momma from the Train always makes me howl with laughter.
    my current favourite is Mel Gibsons film Apocalypto I've watched in about a dozen times in the last 6 months because it has sparked my obsession with pre- Columbian Meso-American history and  culture
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Good choices @mrbuttons!
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    I could really do with some film inspiration! What would you all recommend?
  • thespiceman
    thespiceman Online Community Member Posts: 6,283 Championing
    Hello @Chloe_Scope   Amazes me nothing but rubbish tat on film front or anything healing, inspirational, joyous and wonderful.

    To watch I remember the reasons I like Musicals the Fifties ones .

    From MGM and other studios were you could lose yourself.  Happy content toe tapping songs.

    What does the TV channels put on War Films weekend.

    I like for once to have and do look for the feel good films.

    Depressing we need up lifting and healing media people.

    Reason another one putting my Motown, Northern Soul funky music on.

    Helps every day because Radio has every half hour up dates more anxiety.

    Enough of me how are you more importantly.?

    Please if your interested the old films comedy ones suggested not laugh out loud but amusing and tickle your chuckle muscles.

    Talking Pictures do a lot of these, or maybe need to think creative.

    Kitchen tonight make a meal for yourself can help if you so wish.

    With ideas, recipes.  .

    Please take care keep safe and your in my prayers and thoughts.

    @thespiceman
  • JakeJones_98
    JakeJones_98 Online Community Member Posts: 8 Contributor
    edited March 2020
    @Chloe_Scope must admit I do love a noughties animation like the ones made by Aardman and Pixar. Instantly takes me back to my childhood  
  • April2018mom
    April2018mom Posts: 2,863 Championing
    Ghostbusters!

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