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love the thread :). some of my favorites:

It Happened One Night
Made For Each Other
Brief Encounter
The Long, Long Trailer
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Children's Hour (love Shirley MacLaine)
The Birds
Tales From the Crypt (1972)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Welcome, Pilgrim, your search has ended!! Hope you enjoy your visits here, and reading the posts. :)

Ooops, you passed the mark with the 1972 flick tho, Maxxi. Please try to contain your choices up to 1970.

Love your choices. You already know how I feel about 'Brief Encounter'.:)

This one's for Lovely. A dual package for your love of music, musicals, and classic film - enjoy. :)

Bergman...what can I say...he was just a genius, The greatest director ever, a real artist.

Awww! Thank you!!! ((( Cinderella ))))

You know what occurred to me just now
while I was watching that clip?
The male actor was doing the "hands and steeple"
thing and as a kid growing up, I remember us
doing that very thing and I don't even know where
we learned it from! Apparently it came from this movie
and we mimicked what we saw other kids (or people)
doing? Cute clip to watch this morning!!!

*Thank you for leaving it here to watch!*
(f)

I love film noir, I have seen
Citizen Kane (1941) (rosebud) he hee
Maltese Falcon (1941) LOVE this movie
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
The Third Man (1949) Love this one too

Can anyone recommend any others? I understand the French were masterful with this genre but I am not really sure where to start.

I'm not going to recommend for foreign films in light of the fact American cinema has such rich history. In fact, maybe there should be a different thread for foreign films. here are some films:

Laura
Double Indemnity
To Have and to Have Not
Martha Ivers
The File on Thelma Jorden
The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Classics to start with:
Letter to Three Wives
The Letter
Gentleman's Agreement
Witness for the Prosecution
Anatomy of a Murder
12 Angry Men
The Desperate Hours
The Paradine Case
The Spiral Staircase
Rebecca
Suspicion
Saboteur
Notorious
The Uninvited

I'm sure someone will come along and add more.

Thank you so much for responding. Laura and Rebecca are in my Netflix line up.

Venus, welcome!!! Thank you for loving classic films. My cinema comrade, Jet and I, including Prof. Grafita who seems to be MIA lately, are the main posters on this thread, and quite knowledgeable on classic cinema. I hope with all my heart that you will be a frequent visitor. I carry the torch for the Olympian classic film lover - in spirit, if nothing else - and hope you will join us and share your favorite films, and why you love them.

To add to my formidable comrades list on film noir, I would certainly list 'Diabolique' with Simone Signoret. It's a facinating film. Never mind the remake - it's the original that counts. I think you will love it. P.S. Don't miss out on 'Sunset Boulevard' - Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond is a 'must-see'. Please feel free to ask questions, post clips, tell us about your most favorite films, but always with a reason why, ok? Happy viewing.

Ok, listen up folks...Wednesday, 10pm EST - 'Gilda' - the supreme Rita Hayworth movie, IMO.
Little know fact about Rita. Her real name was Rita Cansino.
She was Spanish, and had intensive lessons to lose her accent. She had very dark hair with a very prominent 'widows peak' which was removed via electrolisis, and then dyed red. Thus, she became America's hottest redhead of the 40's - few men could look at her without drooling. Here is a clip of her famous song from 'Gilda' - Put The Blame On Mame'

And here's to the ultimate 'femme fatale'...Marilyn!

One more Marilyn - After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It - sound familiar? lol

75 long-lost silent movies being returned to US



AP – WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A cache of 75 long-lost silent films uncovered in the New Zealand Film Archive vault, including the only known copy of a drama by legendary director John Ford, is being sent back to the United States to be restored.


Among the movies found in storage are a copy of Ford's "Upstream," the earliest surviving movie by comic actor and director Mabel Normand and a period drama starring 1920s screen icon Clara Bow. Only 15 percent of the silent films made by Ford, who won four Oscars, have survived. New Zealand Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Christopher Finlayson said the find is important as there are no prints of the films remaining in the U.S.

"These important films will be preserved and made available to both U.S. and New Zealand audiences to enjoy," he told The New Zealand Herald newspaper Tuesday.

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John Ford, 1942

Film Archive corporate services manager Steve Russell said the films were discovered when American preservationist Brian Meacham visited last year. Many of them remained in New Zealand because distributors at the time did not think the return shipping costs were worth the expense, he said.
"It's one of the rare cases where the tyranny of distance has worked in our and the films' favor," Russell said.

Finding "Upstream" was "a fabulous discovery, particularly for our American colleagues, but also for ourselves," he told The Associated Press.
Because they were printed on unstable and highly inflammable nitrate film stock, "there are very strict conditions when sending it by air," he added.
Returning the films will cost the U.S. National Film Preservation Foundation more than 750,000 New Zealand dollars ($500,000).

"We're having to ship in U.N.-approved steel barrels, a little bit at a time," said foundation director Annette Melville. "So far, we've got about one-third of the films, and preservation work has already begun on four titles."
"About a quarter of the films are in advanced nitrate decay, and the rest have good image quality, though they are badly shrunken," she added.
The late Ford's 1927 film "Upstream" was being copied onto safety stock in New Zealand to prevent further damage in transit.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hopes to screen the restored Ford movie in September, Melville said.
Copies of the films are to be made available in New Zealand through the Film Archive, and Russell said he expected a "premier" showing of "Upstream" would be arranged at some point.

Russell said that New Zealand Film Archive does not own the recovered movies, which acquired them from private donors and collectors who "have all agreed the original archive material should be returned to the U.S. for preservation work to be done."

Similar film repatriations have occurred with Australian and European archives, including the return to Germany of a nitrate print of the Fritz Lang silent masterpiece "Metropolis" to help in restoring a print of the late 1920s original, he said.

No comment on Marilyn.
Except...

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This is great news!! Hope TCM shows this soon.

Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up
 

LOVE Sunset Boulevard. One of my favorite moments in the film is actually from the scene that my title comes from when Mr DeMille is kind to her even though she is barking mad he shows her respect and kindness for what she once was.

I love how Gloria Swanson plays the scene when the lighting man turns the spot onto her and she seems to become more alive, more clear, so good.

would someone kindly let me know if and when these will be aired on the telly? I don't have a subscription ... I go to theater or buy the films ... there are hundreds ... but I do wish to see these, and will go to a friend's house to do so.