My 27yo has seen at least half of those. Marty destroyed him. I’ve never seen it!
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In a good way, I hope?!
Repulsion. Stayed with me for days.
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I think he was so sad that people were so mean to Ernest Borgnine that he wouldn’t let himself believe it would eventually end well. I haven’t seen the movie, but he called me during it and made me watch the scene where his mom tries to get him to go out. Made me cry. We are both such empaths it’s pathetic.
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It’s a wonderfully sweet movie. I won’t spoil it for you, but Ernest Borgnine won the Academy Award for Best Actor for this “little movie” that made it very big.
It’s been a LONG time since I saw it, but it still touches me today. I give it two thumbs up!
While a vastly different kind of movie, Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” is another great one (it’s on my list). I saw this for the first time just a few years ago, and it evokes the same themes.
And while I know this OP is for movies, the fourth season of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone has an hour-long episode starring Robert Duvall in “Miniature.” It’s hard to come by these days, but it is a beautiful tv episode, wonderfully acted by Duvall and cast, with similar themes.
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Oh, I know how it ends as he told me. When I told ds that that sounded promising, he was all “Sure, it SEEMS that way!” lol He’s also seen The Apartment and got us to watch it. He’s a fan of popular culture and its roots so he spends plenty of time on classic movies and books to give him a greater grounding in today’s culture. And music, too, but he def got that from us. We raised our kids on all kinds of music.
I don’t know whether he’s seen Inherit the Wind. That would be a good one for him.
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Funnily enough, it was DD that introduced me to this movie, basically about the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. I had the REAL fortune of being able to attend a re-enactment of the trial in the actual courtroom where the Scopes Trial took place. I would have loved to have taken my family there, but the pandemic shut it down.
Not all of these will resonate with everyone in the same way, but there’s a lot to be said for these classics. My problem is I don’t spend enough time with “new” movies/music!
This thread is wonderful. I could spend all day here, but yard work (leaf raking) and real work (ughh) require me to log off now.
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Speaking of “The Apartment”, someone should organize (as I’m sure they have somewhere) a Fred MacMurray marathon of everything he did before he landed on “My Three Sons”. You will be shocked by how many b&w blockbusters he was associated with in his professional career.
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Stranger Than Paradise
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Speaking of Fred MacMurray–“Double Indemnity” is a great movie he did with Barbara Stanwyk.
I also like “Gaslight” and surprisingly, the science fiction movie “Them!” about mutant ants.
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Speaking of Fred MacMurray and black and white, I liked the B&W episodes of My Three Sons with William Frawley more than the color episodes with William Demarest. Or maybe it’s because the show moved from ABC to CBS. Unfortunately, the old episodes are hard to find.
Interestingly, the show was filmed nonsequentially. All Fred’s scenes each season were filmed in a 3 month block and all scenes without him were filmed in the other 6 months of the production schedule.
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Purple Rose of Cairo
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Fred MacMurray was an actor clearly capable of playing wonderful figures, as well as total slimeballs. That’s not easy to do.
I have never watched the B&W episodes, but did watch the color ones in syndication. I guess I really can’t compare the two. But if I did, and saw William Frawley with another family, I wonder if I would have felt that Fred had left Ethel!
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Anyone here watched “The Passion of Joan of Arc”, a 1928 silent film? It’s on some lists of the best films ever made. It is occasionally shown with the “Voices of Light” soundtrack performed live with orchestra and choir. A stark and haunting movie.
Not least-known, but every June I watch “The Longest Day”. For a film made in 1962, it was different in that the Germans spoke German, the French spoke French, with subtitles.
Yet, I still cringe at the hokey acting by John Wayne (“you’ve got a compound fracture sir! THEN JUST WRAP IT TIGHTER!!!”)
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Also contains the most recognizable depiction of Dwight Eisenhower of any biopic, IMO.
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Stalag 17. It’s a ‘whodunit’ set in a German POW camp.
Goodbye Mr. Chips is my favorite, 1939 version.
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“Hold that Ghost” with Abbott and Costello
The “Ma and Pa Kettle” movies.
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Correct me, if I’m wrong, but would “The Egg and I” be considered part of the Ma and Pa Kettle series?