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Films for the lockdown

Postby martinkil » Sun May 03, 2020 11:27 am

With time on our hands I've been re-watching some old films and I thought I would put up a few suggestions for some classics some of our younger members may not have encountered. I'll add a few more as they come to mind. Feel free to add your own.


1968 – The Lion In Winter - ( based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Goldman)
Superb film with Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Anthony Hopkins as Richard the Lionheart, Timothy Dalton as King Philip II of France.

Hepburn is amazing (won the best actress oscar) and her interplay with O'Toole are a joy to watch.

1963 – The Haunting
This is what suspenseful horror films should look like. Special effects are minimal since the dialogue and atmospheric camerawork leaves it up to our imagination to fill in the blanks - filmed in black and white.

1941 - The Maltese Falcon
The year before Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart played the private investigator Sam Spade in this film noir set on San Francisco and was the directorial debut of John Huston.

1964 - The Night of the Iguana
Another John Huston classic from a play by Tennessee Williams, this time with Richard Burton in the title roll as the Episcopal priest the Reverend Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon who after being ostracized by his congregation for having an inappropriate relationship with a "very young Sunday school teacher." is now a tour guide for the bottom-of-the-barrel Texas company "Blake's Tours".

1997 - L.A. Confidential
Hardly an old film from my perspective but is a modern take on the “film noir” crime genre. Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger and many excellent character actors makes this a modern classic.

martinkil
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Re: Films for the lockdown

Postby martinkil » Sat May 08, 2021 11:27 am

A great source of classic film is the Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/movies
Many films pre-1966 are in the public domain and hence why these films are available for free

From the last list we have:

https://archive.org/download/video_20191205/video.mp4 (1963 – The Haunting)

https://archive.org/details/the-maltese-falcon-1941- (1941 - The Maltese Falcon)


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