What are the Truly Classic Movies?

[sigh]

how about Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russell?

a truly classic, wonderfully funny movie...and she was brilliant



"Acting is standing up naked, and turning around very slowly"

 

[Natalie Nessus]

I am going to exert some control, so unlike me

Defintion

Clasic move: One that impacts beyond it's own generation and influences others to copy


Therefore I think 'Bladerunner, The Shinning, and It's a Wonderful Life' all fit.

After all, what is 'Groundhog Day' but a reworking of 'It's a Wonderful Life'?

This is the definition

 

[Rambling Rose]

The Women
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Amadeus
The Wizard of Oz
Cool Hand Luke
Rebel Without a Cause
Delicatessen
West Side Story
Lolita
Young Frankenstien
All About Eve
Microcosmos
The Lion in Winter
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Reservoir Dogs
The Last Emporer
Rear Window

that is an example of my 'holds up time after time - must own' list.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

The Women
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Amadeus
The Wizard of Oz
Cool Hand Luke
Rebel Without a Cause
Delicatessen
West Side Story
Lolita
Young Frankenstien
All About Eve
Microcosmos
The Lion in Winter
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Reservoir Dogs
The Last Emporer
Rear Window

that is an example of my 'holds up time after time - must own' list.

such an electic list, I am in awe

 

[Lost Cause]

My favorites run the gamut;

The Day The Earth Stood Still
How the West was Won
Easy Rider
Wizard of OZ
The little Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
Dirty Harry
Duck Soup
Monty Python's in search of the Holy Grail
War of the Worlds
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A new classic will be, "Saving Private Ryan".

 

[bfine]

Classic Movies

Casablanca
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
All the President's Men
Milhouse
In the Heat of the Night
Philadelphia
Dogma
Good Will Hunting
Finding Forrester

 

[Marxist]

Empire of the Sun--the best Speilberg movie ( the Color Purple is second)

Pulp Fiction--(does anyone have a list of references from other movies inside this movie? i've been wanting to make one but have been too lazy).

 

[Saturn Return]

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe?
Wuthering Heights
Picture Of Dorian Grey
Repo Man
Time Bandits
Altered States
Clockwork Orange

Okay..my list is getting too long in my head..

I’ll save some for others.
~smiles~

 

[teresafannin]

Broken Blossoms

Intolerance

Greed

The Birth of a Nation, these are silent movies that are amazing if you ever get to see a really good print.

The Women
The Wizard of Oz
The Maltese Falcon
To Have and Have Not
Wuthering Heights
The 8 Wives of Henry the VIII
The Lion in Winter
Becket
Psycho
Rear Window, I love AMC & TCM, can you tell


Bonnie & Clyde
Easy Rider
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
American Beauty
Saving Private Ryan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I am not such a fan of modern movies, but I think these will stand the test of time