therealfuster Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 one used to have those summer reading lists, with recommended choices to read? Well, my best friend's brother who kindly told me about the TCM website and forums, asked for a list of worthy films he should look for to assimilate this summer on TCM or elsewhere. He wants to jumpstart his newfounded movie education, and this list seemed apropos of classics, for watching or rewatching. I told him he has to submit reviews like the old book reports, so they may be showing up with spoilers, if he really gets into it. Feel free to submit a review, or add some film suggestions that any film fan would want to see this summer, during those lazy months of June, July and August. Though a few of these titles are obscure, luckily only TCM as a cable channel, actually shows world cinema filmfare and not just exclusively American films, so Bravo to TCM as they can often be found there! Which of these would you consider viewing this summer, if you've not seen them before but have always wanted to?: L'Age D'Or All About Eve All That Heaven Allows American Graffiti An American in Paris Aguirre: The Wrath of God L'Atalante Au Hazard Balthazar L'Avventura Badlands The Band Wagon Barry Lyndon Battle of Algiers The Battleship Potemkin Beauty and the Beast Beyond the Valley of the Dolls The Bicycle Thief The Big Sleep Black Narcissus Black Orpheus Black Sunday Blade Runner Blow-Up Blue Velvet Bob Le Flambeur Bonnie and Clyde Breathless Bride of Frankenstein Brief Encounter Bringing Up Baby Broken Blossoms The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Cameraman Casablanca Casque D'Or Un Chien Andalou Chinatown Citizen Kane City Lights Cleo from 5 to 7 A Clockwork Orange Contempt Color of Pomegranates Conqueror Worm Le Corbeau The Crowd Darling Day of Wrath The Day the Earth Stood Still Days of Heaven Dead Ringers Death in Venice Diary of a Country Priest Double Suicide Dracula's Daughter Dr. Strangelove Dog Star Man La Dolce Vita Duck Soup The Earrings of Madame De L'Eclisse Les Enfants du Paradis Ecstasy of the Angels 8 1/2 Eyes Without a Face Fando and Lis Forbidden Games The 400 Blows Freaks The General Gertrud The Gold Rush Le Grande Illusion The Great Dictator Greed Gun Crazy Hiroshima Mon Amour His Girl Friday House of Games How Green Was My Valley In a Lonely Place In the Realm of the Senses Intolerance Invaders from Mars It's A Gift It's A Wonderful Life Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II Johnny Guitar Jules and Jim Juliet of the Spirits Kind Hearts and Coronets King Kong Knife in the Water Kwaidan The Lady Eve The Lady Vanishes The Last Laugh Last Year at Marienbad Last Tango in Paris Lawrence of Arabia Life of Brian M The Magnificent Ambersons The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Man With a Movie Camera A Matter of Life and Death McCabe and Mrs. Miller Meet Me in St. Louis Metropolis Mill of the Stone Women The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Modern Times Moonfleet Monsieur Verdoux Monsieur Klein The Most Dangerous Game The Mummy Nanook of the North Napoleon The Navigator A Night at the Opera Nightmare Alley The Night of the Hunter Nights of Cabiria North by Northwest Nosferatu Notorious Los Olvidados Onibaba Orphic Trilogy Ordet Othello Out of the Past The Palm Beach Story Pandora and the Flying Dutchman The Passion of Joan of Arc Pather Panchali Peeping Tom Performance Persona Picnic at Hanging Rock Psycho Purple Noon Quartermass and the Pit Que Viva Mexico Raging Bull Ran Rashomon Rebel Without a Cause Red Desert Red River The Red Shoes Repulsion Roman Holiday Rose Hobart The Rules of the Game Saragossa Manuscript The Scarlet Empress Scorpio Rising The Searchers The Servant Seven Chances The Seven Samurai The Seventh Seal Shadow of a Doubt Sherlock Jr. Singing in the Rain Solaris Some Like It Hot Spirits of the Dead Stagecoach A Star is Born Steamboat Bill Jr. La Strada Strangers on a Train Strangler of the Swamp Sunrise Sunset Boulevard Suspiria Tabu Taxi Driver The Tenant The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Third Man 3 Women The Tin Drum Top Hat Touch of Evil Triumph of the Will 2001: A Space Odyssey Ugetsu Monogatari The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Vampyr The Vanishing Vertigo Videodrome Way Down East The Wicker Man The Wild Bunch Wild at Heart Wings of Desire Wild Strawberries The Wizard of Oz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Although it's not listed "The Grapes of Wrath" is a must see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealfuster Posted May 25, 2005 Author Share Posted May 25, 2005 and thanks for adding it! Jane Darwell and Fonda really looked like Oakies in that authentic reconstruction of the novel, to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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