Film Buff in Training, Can Someone Give Me Suggestions? Please read this message before answering: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/edit/147200927
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The link you posted doesn't link to anything, so maybe you can elaborate in a subsequent post. If you're asking where to start with films to see... it's best to start at the begining... "Le voyage dans la lune" (1902) - a French film famous for being the first to tell a complex story. "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) - The first use of multiple storylines edited together to create a narrative flow. "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) - The first "full length" motion picture. There are controversies over the content with some claiming it to be extremely racist. "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (1920) - The first use of dreamscapes and non-real settings to create distinct emotions in the viewer. "The Gold Rush" (1925) - Charlie Chalin proves that words are not necessay for good comedy. "Metropolis" (1927) - Very creative use of special effects still in use today. The apex of German silent cinema. NOTE: When obtaining copies of silent films please ensure they have been properly remastered. The original films were "cranked" at 16 fps (frames per second) while modern films are shot at 24 fps. If a silent film is shown without proper "pull down" (compensation for the different frame rates) all the movement in it is frantic and too fast. For DVD versions of these films, a specialty house is the best source. I find the Kino is very good and their transfers are impeccable. http://www.kino.com/ Hope this helps. BTW... if this is what you were looking for, I would be happy to carry on my recommends into the sound era and color era if you like.
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If the link still doesn't work, I'll just post the list: Citizen Kane 5/5 The Manchurian Candidate 4/5 Lawrence of Arabia 5/5 2001: A Space Odyssey 5/5 A Clockwork Orange 3/5 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5/5 Barry Lyndon 3.5/5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 5/5 Apocalypse Now 5/5 No Country for Old Men 5/5 The Shawshank Redemption 3/5 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 5/5 Das Boot 3.5/5 Jaws 4/5 The Godfather 5/5 Gandhi 4/5 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5/5 The Silence of the Lambs 5/5 Amadeus 5/5 Monty Python’s Life of Brian 4/5 In the Heat of the Night 3/5 The Pawnbroker 4/5 Forrest Gump 2/5 Rain Man 2/5 Casablanca 5/5 King Kong 3/5 The Last Emperor 3/5 The Ten Commandments 2/5 Annie Hall 5/5 The Best Years of Our Lives 2.5/5 I wasn’t impressed with this one, but I want to watch more Wyler though. Reds 3/5 Chinatown 5/5 Pulp Fiction 5/5 A Streetcar Named Desire 5/5 Midnight Cowboy 3/5 Fargo 5/5 Blade Runner 5/5 The Producers 3/5 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 5/5 Seven Samurai 5/5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5/5 Bonnie and Clyde 4/5 Kill Bill Vol. 1 2/5 Kill Bill Vol. 2 2.5/5 Clerks 2.5/5 Blue Velvet 5/5 The Godfather: Part II 5/5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 5/5 The Big Lebowski 5/5 The Usual Suspects 2/5 Mulholland Dr. 5/5 In between Mulholland Dr. and Sunset Boulevard it's mostly just fluff and filler. Sunset Boulevard 5/5 Solaris 5/5 Taste of Cherry 5/5 Rashomon 5/5 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 5/5 The Bicycle Thief 5/5 La Dolce Vita 5/5 The 400 Blows 4/5 The Seventh Seal 5/5 Nashville 5/5 Eraserhead 3/5 Five Easy Pieces 5/5 Do the Right Thing 4/5 Hitchcock’s Voyeurism Trilogy 5/5 Rear Window Vertigo Psycho Kieslowski’s Three Colors Trilogy 4.5/5 Three Colors: Blue Three Colors: White Three Colors: Red Essential Scorsese Taxi Driver 5/5 Raging Bull 5/5 Goodfellas 5/5 Chungking Express 4/5 Metropolis 5/5 Wild Strawberries 5/5 The Conversation 5/5 The Crowd 4/5 The Rules of the Game 5/5 8 ½ 5/5 Tokyo Story 5/5 A Woman Under the Influence 5/5 Dead Ringers 5/5 The Thin Red Line Breathless 4/5 Stranger Than Paradise 4/5 The Piano 5/5 Safe 4/5 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5/5 Woman in the Dunes 5/5 The Conformist 4/5 Viridiana 4/5 S. Ray’s Apu Trilogy 5/5 Pather Panchali Aparajito The World of Apu L’Avventura 5/5 Persona 5/5 The Third Man 5/5 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 5/5 Sansho the Bailiff 5/5 The Earrings of Madame de... 5/5 What I Want to Watch Andrei Rublev L’Atalante All About Eve Talk to Her The General Written on the Wind Au Hasard Balthazar Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast Talk to Her Erich von Stroheim's Greed Here's where I've left off, all the Insert Movie Here is was just a way to edit in the original IMDb message. I've also incorporated a few suggestions from the list you sent me as well. Trying to get a smorgashboard of classics. If you can see, I love variety in my movies so just a list of different genres, directors, countries, etc... Thanks :) Last Year at Marienbad The Blue Angel or Pandora's Box, which fits better here? Duck Soup The Searchers The Battleship Potemkin The Night of the Hunter Ordet Insert Movie Here The Man With a Movie Camera It Happened One Night The Gold Rush Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Orson Welles: Touch of Evil Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Jean-Luc Godard: Contempt Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Jean Renoir: Grand Illusion The Lady Eve Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Billy Wilder: Some Like It Hot Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Fritz Lang: M Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Red River, or another Hawks, not sure which one to start with. Maybe Rio Bravo? Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here The Wages of Fear Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Fourth Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Wong Kar-wai: In the Mood For Love Playtime Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu Monogatari Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Luis Bunuel: The Exterminating Angel The Gospel According to St. Matthew The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Max Ophuls: Letter From an Unknown Woman Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr. Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Second Charlie Chaplin: Not Sure, Which Fits Here Best? Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here Insert Movie Here
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