JefCostello
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John Wayne in Rio Bravo and El Dorado.
Also remade by Howard Hawks, who directed the original, probably making it the most pointless remake in film history, since the films were only 8 years apart, had the same leading man and director, and there's no reason to remake a perfect Western like Rio Bravo. Don't know what Hawks or Wayne were thinking.
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Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard would probably be the best comeback performance.
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I love Doris, and I'm always surprised as to how many of her films I haven't seen, because I feel like I've seen so much.
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Love this movie and think it's unfairly forgotten and wasn't critically succesful. Wood and McQueen give maybe their best performance ever.
Also, it's hard to act alongside McQueen with his star presence, but Natalie was awesome in that film.
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The end of Some Came Running.
Also, the carnival scenes in Strangers on a Train.
The carnival scenes in The Jerk are great too.
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If you watched enough foreign films, you should be able to get over the whole notion of not wanting to read subtitles.
The only time it's a problem for me is when I'm watching Bardot movies, and don't want to take my eyes off her.
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Those two and Newman was who I was thinking of. I think both Brando and Dean are fantastic, and I wasn't meaning to disparage them. I just think Clift should be considered up there with those guys.
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Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West"
Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (although the movie was so sugar coated, but still...)
Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity"
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I feel like Jean Peters is overlooked a lot.
Also, Montgomery Clift doesn't get enough credit, whereas other brooding stars of his time are more remembered by the non classic film fans.
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Sophia Loren.
When I think of summer and heat, she comes to mind.
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Music is sadly not that important to today's cinema. Neither are other things which make a great movie.
Composers of the quality like Morriccone, Delerue, Hermmann, North, Steiner, Rota, Mancini, Tiomkin, Waxman and countless others are completely absent from today's films.
They don't make them like that anymore, and there are many films which are greatly elevated by great scores, to the point where the film wouldn't be very special without the music.
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Radio Days is a very underrated movie. I watched it several months ago without having seen it before, and wondered why it isn't considered one of Woody Allen's best films.
Also, Fanny and Alexander by Bergman is one of the best films of the 80's, but virtually unknown in the US.
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I'm only 27, and my only knowledge of older films used to be certain 70's and 60's films with Clint Eastwood in them. When I was 22, I realized that if I die tomorrow, there are many great and highly considered films which I'd never seen. I remember watching several AFI shows and learning more about those films and then wanting to watch them.
Then I started watching some older films and started to like some stars, and then I wanted to watch more of those certain stars' films and so on. Kind of like a tree branching out into liking more and more film stars.
By the time I hit 25 or so, I'd seen enough old Hollywood films, that I started branching out into foreign films more and more and was opened to a whole new world again.
Now I'm still branching out, but there are very few old Hollywood films that are highly regarded, which I've never seen.
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It's not as common in Hollywood as it is in foreign films, where unprofessional actors were often used.
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I used to think Joan Fontaine and Myrna Loy looked somewhat similar when their hairstyles were the same length. Don't think that so much anymore.
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Once Upon A Time in America might be the most underrated movie ever, and is the best film made since it came out.
Haven't seen Amadeus in a long time, but that movie came off like an overrated film that didn't deserve the Oscar. Leone's movie is like some beautiful opera. Like many of his films actually.
Edited by: JefCostello on Jul 14, 2010 9:07 PM
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Leave Her to Heaven has been called a Film Noir in color.
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If I remember correctly, 8 1/2 has the same problem when it's shown on TCM.
The white subtitles with poor shading look bad on a black and white film.
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Singin' In the Rain.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg would be a close 2nd.
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Marilyn Monroe - James Dean
Brigitte Bardot - Sophia Loren (oooh la la.....)
Elizabeth Taylor - Audrey Hepburn
Paul Newman - Audrey Hepburn
Cary Grant - Elizabeth Taylor
Cary Grant - Clark Gable
Cary Grant - Rock Hudson
Just some of the ones I'd love to see. There's a lot more.
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Are you talking about the one with Delon and Ann Margret?
I really enjoyed that film and thought those two stars looked hot together. They should release it on DVD.
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John Wayne in "The Conqueror"
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I love Garbo, but the Anna Karenina movies are a joke, both hers and Vivien Leigh's, because it's possibly the worst misuse of a great novel in film history.
The character of Levin (as someone alluded to earlier) was one of the two main protagonists in the novel, along with Karenina, yet he's largely written out of both films. The funny thing is that Levin was an autobiographical character for Tolstoy himself.
Instead, they just wanted to show a movie where a woman has a fling with a lover, to amuse American audiences.
Basically, both films were a joke. I haven't seen the Russian version yet, so I'll hold of my judgment on that.
And don't even get me started on The Brothers Karamazov film!!!
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Mine is Alain Delon's character in Le Samourai.
I guess it's just me supporting Melville (one of my favorite directors) and Delon (my second favorite actor), in what I think is one of the coolest characters in film history and certainly one of the greatest exhibitions of style ever put on the screen.
I was going to pick Sidney Falco (my favorite character ever in films), but it was taken apparently.
?Black Orpheus? for dyslexics...
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I hate to sound like a smartass, but disliking foreign films is the same outlook that many ignorant people have towards classic Hollywood films in general. Especially younger people who think that classic movies, especially black and white films are somehow far inferior to today's cinema, just because that's what they're used to watching and because the explosions are bigger now.
A fan of classic films should be more open to foreign movies as well.