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[che_diwas]

Great movies.. everyone must watch them at least once...

" Every man for himself and god against all" (in eng: The enigma of Kasper Hauser)

"Signs of life"

"Night on earth"

"Coffee and cigarettes"

" Pi " directed by aron arfonsky

" Full metal jacket" (not classical though)

" The man who wasn't there " (billy bob thorton)

" Human all too human " (documentary)


please watch them and tell me what u think of them..

hastala victoria siempre..

[Jimmie Higgins]

Classic Hollywood movies to see:

"Sullivan's Travels" - About a liberal hollywood producer during the depression. He makes cheap fluff but wants to make the next "Grapes of Wrath" so he goes on the road to "find trouble". It's loosely based on the Odessy. If you liked O Brother Where Art Thou, see this movie and read the Odessy and you will be able to understand what the hell the Cohen Bros. were thinking when they made that.

"City Lights" - Best Chaplin movie - but if you want to see Chaplin accidentally lead a worker's uprising, then see "Modern Times".

"Bringing Up Baby" - Cary Grant and Kathryn Hepburn define their personas with this movie.

"Adam's Rib" battle of the sexes in the 40s. Shows how far the view of women in society fell by the 1950s. I mean you go from Heburn who's a bad-ass in RomComs to people like Dorris Day in the 50s and early 60s - fuck, the 50s must have sucked.

"Bride of Frankenstein" - hands down the best of the 30s Hollywood Horror movies - funny, moody, and slightly naughty... I wish John Waters would direct a remake.

[x359594]

Gravedigger, I second all your choices for classical Hollywood movies.

Recently I watched Fritz Lang's Manhunt, and it brought memories of Hollywood's WW II anti-fascist period.

In addition to Lang's excellent Manhunt (1941,) I recommend his Hangman Also Die (1943, with a screenplay co-written by Brecht and the later to be black listed John Wexley.)

Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) about a defense worker falsely accused of sabotage. The interesting detail here is that the Nazi fifth columnists are all bourgeois and the people who help the protagonist are other working people or otherwise marginalized (a blind man, a circus freak.)

Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) with a class division again in play and a communist hero.

And of course Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940.)

[RainbowLeftist]

A Soldiers Ballad (1952 I think). About a Soviet Soldier that gets sent home to the front, he meets a nice lady on the train and they hit it off.