Recommend movie DVDs, please.

I still do the Netflix DVD thing, as well as streaming, and my queue is getting a bit thin and reedy. I'm finishing up a self-curated Warren Oates Home Film Festival and need some recommendations. Thanks.

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

I still do the Netflix DVD thing, as well as streaming, and my queue is getting a bit thin and reedy. I'm finishing up a self-curated Warren Oates Home Film Festival and need some recommendations. Thanks.

Name some favorite movies so we get a sense of you taste.

Morganna said:

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

I still do the Netflix DVD thing, as well as streaming, and my queue is getting a bit thin and reedy. I'm finishing up a self-curated Warren Oates Home Film Festival and need some recommendations. Thanks.

Name some favorite movies so we get a sense of you taste.

Where to begin? Comedies. Classics. Gangsters. Scorsese. Political thrillers. Good war films, esp. Viet Nam. Music documentaries. The eclectic and the weird. Not really into musical theater movies. 

(No Woody Allen. No comic book or Marvel movies, nor anything with Robt Downey, Jr.)

Sorry, that's not very helpful.

Mr_T, aren't you the one who is always looking for obscure music CDs? I'm about to start a purge. If this is you, PM me your email address and I'll let you know when I have a stack to part with.

OK As I had always wanted to start a thread about movies, even a variation of the Word Association game we love, but the Film Addition, here goes. Some real Classics, some a bit off the Classic List. More to come.

On The Waterfront worth owning. (All time favorite Brando)

After Hours (Scorsese)

Sleepers (Scorsese)

The Long Hot Summer ( vintage Paul Newman)

Little Murders (Alan Arkin)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (classic Alan Arkin)

Catch 22 (Alan Arkin and a HUGE cast of amazing actors)

All About Eve ( classic Bette Davis) (I can recite most of the lines)

Deer Hunter ( Best Christopher Walken)

Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) (A little out of season so save it for the winter, I know every line)

The entire West Wing collection

Thanks!  I've seen (and loved) some of those but not all. Isn't Sleepers a Woody Allen film? 

I'll add these to my queue. Keep 'em comin'.

Morganna said:

OK As I had always wanted to start a thread about movies, even a variation of the Word Association game we love, but the Film Addition, here goes. Some real Classics, some a bit off the Classic List. More to come.


On The Waterfront worth owning. (All time favorite Brando)

After Hours (Scorsese)

Sleepers (Scorsese)

The Long Hot Summer ( vintage Paul Newman)

Little Murders (Alan Arkin)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (classic Alan Arkin)

Catch 22 (Alan Arkin and a HUGE cast of amazing actors)

All About Eve ( classic Bette Davis) (I can recite most of the lines)

Deer Hunter ( Best Christopher Walken)

Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) (A little out of season so save it for the winter, I know every line)

The entire West Wing collection

Sleeper is Woody Allen. Sleepers is an entirely different movie.

Over the past few years, I've enjoyed watching some foreign work from mid-century to more recently: Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy, Music Room, others), Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story, others), Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer (the six "moral tales" films), Jacques Rivette (Paris Belongs to Us), Claude Chabrol, Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry). Also a lot of known directors such as Truffaut, Godard, Bergman, Louis Malle, Roman Polanski and others have a broader portfolio than their best known works, and a lot of that other stuff is worth exploring. Look them up on Amazon and list what you haven't seen.

Also sometimes fun to revisit a lot of the 70s stuff - Coppola, Lumet, Hal Ashby, Paul Mazursky. And yes, I realize everyone I've mentioned is a dude, not sure why that is.

More recently, Anomalisa and 45 Years look interesting.

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Thanks!  I've seen (and loved) some of those but not all. Isn't Sleepers a Woody Allen film? 

I'll add these to my queue. Keep 'em comin'.

Morganna said:

OK As I had always wanted to start a thread about movies, even a variation of the Word Association game we love, but the Film Addition, here goes. Some real Classics, some a bit off the Classic List. More to come.


On The Waterfront worth owning. (All time favorite Brando)

After Hours (Scorsese)

Sleepers (Scorsese)

The Long Hot Summer ( vintage Paul Newman)

Little Murders (Alan Arkin)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (classic Alan Arkin)

Catch 22 (Alan Arkin and a HUGE cast of amazing actors)

All About Eve ( classic Bette Davis) (I can recite most of the lines)

Deer Hunter ( Best Christopher Walken)

Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) (A little out of season so save it for the winter, I know every line)

The entire West Wing collection

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sleepers+1996&view=detail&mid=8732C021E593FF25E1AF8732C021E593FF25E1AF&FORM=VIRE0&mmscn=tpvh&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dsleepers%2b1996%26form%3dPRHPCS%26pc%3dHPDTDFJS%26mkt%3den-us%26httpsmsn%3d1%26refig%3d8fb0b7f2180b481aba0d5c38f75acd48%26filters%3dufn%253A%2522sleepers%2b1996%2522%2bsid%253A%2522acd07565-8df7-cd5e-4e4b-90843b54101c%2522%26qs%3dMB%26pq%3dslleepers%26sc%3d8-9%26sp%3d1%26cvid%3d8fb0b7f2180b481aba0d5c38f75acd48

I have a feeling you will love Little Murders written by famous Village Voice cartoonist Jules Feiffer. And you have to love the background music Skating in Central Park by The Modern Jazz Quarter.

https://youtu.be/KLjaqIou8i8

Off the Top...

Wolf of Wall Street, Moneyball, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, Million Dollar Baby, This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show...

apple44 said:

Over the past few years, I've enjoyed watching some foreign work from mid-century to more recently: Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy, Music Room, others), Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story, others), Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer (the six "moral tales" films), Jacques Rivette (Paris Belongs to Us), Claude Chabrol, Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry). Also a lot of known directors such as Truffaut, Godard, Bergman, Louis Malle, Roman Polanski and others have a broader portfolio than their best known works, and a lot of that other stuff is worth exploring. Look them up on Amazon and list what you haven't seen.
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Also sometimes fun to revisit a lot of the 70s stuff - Coppola, Lumet, Hal Ashby, Paul Mazursky. And yes, I realize everyone I've mentioned is a dude, not sure why that is.

More recently, Anomalisa and 45 Years look interesting.

Nice list but you left out a favorite of mine:

Anything Fellini but for a visual feast Juliet of the Spirits. I believe his first venture into color cinematography.

Another visual spectacle best served with sake: Kwaidan by Masaki Koboyahsi very lush  series of romantic ghost stories Japanese style.

And if we are going for a trio of foreign and a good laugh try Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Aldomovar.

Some films I saw recently and enjoyed:

Searching for Sugar Man

Concussion

Spotlight

Martian

Great stuff. Thanks.

Blue Velvet

Goodfellas -- I can watch it 100 times

Ooo, for both music and visual charm Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, have you seen it? I have the original vinyl soundtrack. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Jaoa Gilberto. Set in the favelas in Rio during Carnival. Worth watching in the original Portuguese with subtitles. (My favorite foreign language.)

The Bad and the Beautiful

Becket

My Favorite Year

What’s New Pussycat (written by Woody Allen – sorry!)

Two for the Road

The Big Clock

The Night of the Hunter

Village of the Damned (original)

How to Steal A Million

Harper

Yes Becket is a good one, and it reminded me of another favorite English historical film, Lion in Winter with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.

and Anne of a Thousand Days, Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.

The Steel Helmet by Samuel Fuller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqcwo9qMuzM

Martin Scorsese lifted a shot from this for Raging Bull. 

The Lion In Winter (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cVwBjwRGgg

Very play-like in its production but my favorite movie of all time. 

If you like movies about the movie making process then I highly recommend 

Visions of Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZV8-Oc6xdE

Cool Hand Luke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q111bDVYNXk

The Long Voyage Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpH75z43Cvo

The Wind and the Lion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s587_qG8eg

So maybe my movie taste runs a bit old .... and a bit Connery

The Man Who Would be King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNb6SxXcD7g

If you hate these I'll stop

Lifeboat

Wait Until Dark

Blackboard Jungle

The Last Voyage

Ransom (Glenn Ford)

Shane

The Bedford Incident

Abandon Ship

High Noon

The Informer

Morganna said:

Ooo, for both music and visual charm Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, have you seen it? I have the original vinyl soundtrack. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Jaoa Gilberto. Set in the favelas in Rio during Carnival. Worth watching in the original Portuguese with subtitles. (My favorite foreign language.)

The opening sequence is incredible; carnival bursts into your room.  Throughout the entire film you can hear the percussion/music in the background.  It's never intrusive; just enough to set the mood. This heartbreaking, mystical and exotic love story is one of my all-time favorites.

The Last Wave (1977); directed by Peter Weir.  Richard Chamberlain stars as an Australian lawyer who defends a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own.  This is another favorite of mine.  It's heavy with atmosphere and never fails to make me jump out of my skin.  As the film progresses the Chamberlain character, lawyer David Burton, begins to realize the impact of his clients upon him psychologically (hallucinations?), through his dreams and portents which sometimes appear coincidental.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJ1c-6FFX4

Bagdad Cafe (1988) German.  Keep an open mind.

You might recognize the theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLpLWcX2cg

A Man for All Seasons

Lilies of the Field

The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

DottyParker said:

Morganna said:

Ooo, for both music and visual charm Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, have you seen it? I have the original vinyl soundtrack. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Jaoa Gilberto. Set in the favelas in Rio during Carnival. Worth watching in the original Portuguese with subtitles. (My favorite foreign language.)

The opening sequence is incredible; carnival bursts into your room.  Throughout the entire film you can hear the percussion/music in the background.  It's never intrusive; just enough to set the mood. This heartbreaking, mystical and exotic love story is one of my all-time favorites.

Yes and in a few minutes that carnival sound should samba into our homes via the opening of the Rio Olympics!