I have that saved up to watch, riiiiiiiight at the bottom of the Saved list. Need to start tackling it from the bottom up. Love Jimmy Stewart.
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Casablanca forever. All time #1
A shout also for Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not To Be filmed around the same time. Possibly the first film to really challenge the boundaries of dark humour?
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Somewhat inspired by this thread we decided to check out the quarterly silent film shown with live organ accompaniment here in Seattle. We weren’t disappointed— it was Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last” and the live improvised score was sublime. There was a Q&A with the organist after who described how the scores would be improvised and his own creative process. If your city does something similar, it’s well worth checking out!
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Thoroughly Modern Millie is an absolute romp. Carol Channing is bonkers.
Young Frankenstein is too.
The Big Bus. Not quite Airplane levels of hilarity, but still worth a watch.
The 400 Blows. Classic Truffaut coming of age.
A Woman Under The Influence. Gena Rowlands is off the charts good.
The Swimmer - Burt Lancaster - Utterly strange, but beguiling.
12 Angry Men
Harold and Maude - I LOVE THIS FILM!
Don’t Look Now
A Taste of Honey
Parallax View
Loving this thread.
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Surprised no one has mentioned Some Like it Hot, all time classic in our house!
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I did. One of my faves too. The genius is how it flogs every gag to death and still has you howling. The script is unbelievably good
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Used to really like the basil rathbone sherlock holmes films too. Regular fixture on BBC2 after school
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Classic!
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My gf runs a femme forward film collective called Women Under The Influence named after that film.
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Ah brill. I’m now following.
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Damn right.
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Criterion Channel is my main supply: Lawrence of Arabia, The Killers, The Last Detail, The Long Goodbye just recently.
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I think that whole after school bbc2 period shaped me
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ok film id time.
this is an extreme long shot because deets in my head are very hazy but there was a really clever film I watched once and am curious to see again but can’t remember what or who was in it
am guessing early 50s b/w (US) about a guy who works in an office and the film ends exactly where it starts. a woman is infatuated (i think she’s the secretary) but as he gets really successful/cocky he chases someone else a lot more glamorous, then as he crashes realises the first woman was the right one but by then she’s moved on. a sort of morality tale with a load of twists along the way.
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Any idea who the actors might have been? What sort of genre? Comedy?
Did think it might be tyrone power or someone like that but no joy. not a comedy as such, more suspense I think. Useless I know haha
yes, BBC2 had everything, though I guess Charlie Chan is off limits these days?
the kings of that slot were Laurel & Hardy imo. Made a point of visiting those steps they took the piano up when we were in Silverlake (LA) a few years back. They’re still there intact!
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Films like this one and Dog Day Afternoon.
The descrepit, dirty and broken state of 1970’s New York oozes from the screen.
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Laurel & Hardy, Harold Lloyd, the Three Stooges, those Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies, the occasional Godzilla film, and then eventually exotic fare like The Water Margin and of course, MONKEY
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Yes! I was really disappointed the first time I went to Manhattan in the 90’s. It sounded like the TV and Films I grew up with, but it didn’t look like them 
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