I'm a big fan of early Exploitation and Blaxploitation films. I also love lots of cult films like Carnival of Souls , Johnny Got His Gun , Faster Pussy Cat / BVD , Seconds , The Warriors , Bucket of Blood , Man Bites Dog , The Loved One , Marat Sade , Gates of Heaven , Werner Herzog Eats his Shoe ,...

I think of classic movies as being a time period, ending around 1967. Anything made after that time seems to me to be modern.

I am looking for - THE BAD SISTER (1931) BLACK LEGION (1936) MEN ARE SUCH FOOLS (1938) ISLE OF FURY (1936) . I have Black Legion , but unfortunately on VHS. I've been having problems trying to transfer my VHS stuff to DVD - I have a feeling my VCR may be ill. And I can only burn PAL DVDs. So I'm pr...

PRINCESSE TAM TAM is a 1935 French musical show-casing the talents of the one and only Josephine Baker. The plot is fairly slight – it’s a kind of Pygmalion story, in which a couple of French literary types take a Bedouin girl and “civilise” her and then pass her off as a princess. Josephine Baker s...

I thought she was superb in Private Lives.

I just can't get into Scorcese. Taxi Driver was interesting. But mostly he just makes movies that I can't get interested in watching. Too much of the tough guy thing!

ISLE OF THE DEAD, which I have not seen in years is the one Lewton Horror that I do not care for. :wink: I loved Isle of the Dead . So wonderfully ambiguous and understated. The Lewyon movies were so good at dealing not so much with the supernatural, but with the effects of belief in the supernatur...

Do you have a favourite British film noir? My pick would be Brighton Rock, based on Graham Greene's novel (and you can't get much noirer than Graham Greene). Stnning performance by Richard Attenborough (a very underrated actor).

One of the big pre-code stars was Norma Shearer. What do you think of her as an actress? Do you have a favourite Norma Shearer pre-code movie?

jondaris wrote:Elmer Gantry is an amazing movie. Shirley Jones is good in that too, which was a surprise to someone who grew up thinking of her as Mrs. Partridge.

I was surprised and impressed by Shirley Jones as well. Mrs Partridge as a hooker. Who'd have thought it?

Garbomaniac wrote:Well, of course, I have to comment. Susan Lenox is one of my favorites, as well.

I'm glad someone else likes it! I think it's such an underrated movie. And Gable and Garbo work surprisingly well together.

jondaris wrote:I love Village, but 2001 is my least favorite of Kubrick's movies. I thought it was quite good when I saw it for the first time in the 1970's, but I was ... err... impaired at the time.

I saw it in an....impaired state back then as well. Being impaired does add to one's enjoyment of it.

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Made all that much more memorable by John Alton's stunning cinematography!!

I'll watch ANY movie with cinematography by John Alton!

jondaris wrote: I *hate* the designation "foreign film."

I dislike it also. Very arrogant. For some of us, American films are foreign films!

But how about a forum for European films? And maybe one for British films? I do love British movies.

pktrekgirl wrote:No bashing of Written On The Wind will be allowed, however.

There are people who don't love Written on the Wind? What's wrong with them?