What's your favorite movie classic edition

[raven007]

Everyone has a movie they likes since growing up and to this day it is considered their favorite movie. So this is Favorite movie classic edition. So what's your favorite classic movie? A classic movie is a movie from 1920 thru 1989.

[DoubleDownAgain]

Originally Posted by raven007

Everyone has a movie they likes since growing up and to this day it is considered their favorite movie. So this is Favorite movie classic edition. So what's your favorite classic movie? A classic movie is a movie from 1920 thru 1989.

I graduated High School in 89, you are making me feel old.

[charlieray1]

Originally Posted by DoubleDownAgain

I graduated High School in 89, you are making me feel old.

I graduated in '78. Get used to it!

As to the original question -- waaaay too many to pick one. I do love the Universal classic monsters of the 30's, especially Frankenstein (1931). Casablanca is a major favorite too.

[lobo81865]

The Mark of Zorro

Honorable mention: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

[Blu-Velvet]

As noted, it's virtually impossible to pick a single classic film on Blu-ray to choose from, since so many have been released over the past couple of years, even though there still really aren't that many compared to what's available on DVD.

The Buster Keaton classics from Kino rank near the top of all the Blu-ray releases of older films, along with the Universal monsters and Hitchcock sets, the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes set. Criterion's BBS set with FIVE EASY PIECES and THE LAST PICTURE SHOW also ranks way up there. Then there are WINGS, THE GOLD RUSH, THE PENALTY, THE NIBELUNGEN, THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE, THE JAZZ SINGER, and others from the 1920s, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, KING KONG, THE FOUR FEATHERS, STAGECOACH, and GONE WITH THE WIND, and many more from the 1930s, lots and lots from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, and a few major ones from the 80s.

[frogmort]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[gilapimp]

The Burbs

[metaridley]

I think at the very least, 80s is still too recent to label movies from that decade as "classic".

[Blu-Velvet]

Originally Posted by metaridley

I think at the very least, 80s is still too recent to label movies from that decade as "classic".

I tend to agree, but I still can't believe that the original RETURN OF THE JEDI, already the third of the Star Wars films, came out 30 years ago! Or that BLUE VELVET and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS are well over 25 years old now. They still seem pretty recent to me if I saw them in a theatre during their initial release. They're more likely to be "classics" if they came out before I was born or was too young to understand them at the time. Although before home video really exploded in the 80s, quite a few classics were actually reissued to theatres, so I got to see GONE WITH THE WIND, the original 1933 KING KONG, the 1959 BEN HUR, and a number of others treated just as though they were new releases or at least prestigeous "by popular demand" revivals at regular commercial theatres throughout the 1960s and 70s.

[Tenchi7]

I would say the classic period would be 1927/8(The beginning of the talkie) to about 1966/7 when the movie code was scrapped. The so called golden age.

189?-1927 Silent Age
1927-1967 Golden Age aka Classic
1967-1989 Silver Age
1990-present Modern Age

The modern age I would consider when movies do most of their business in the first 16 days which began with Batman.

The Silver Age is the period when a lot of great movies were made after the lifting of the censorship rules.

[BobbyMcGee]

Originally Posted by Tenchi7

I would say the classic period would be 1927/8(The beginning of the talkie) to about 1966/7 when the movie code was scrapped. The so called golden age.

189?-1927 Silent Age
1927-1967 Golden Age aka Classic
1967-1989 Silver Age
1990-present Modern Age

The modern age I would consider when movies do most of their business in the first 16 days which began with Batman.

The Silver Age is the period when a lot of great movies were made after the lifting of the censorship rules.

For the most part, I agree with this. I would consider "Classic" film to be American films made "code" and even "pre-code".

Hmm...with that said it is too hard to pick just one. Perhaps "The Apartment" or "Harvey" for purely sentimental reasons. OTOH I love film noir, musicals, and big production films made during this time period as well. Ugh, like I said it is too hard to pick only one.

Finally, I have not even taken into consideration foreign film made during this time period. Classic Japanese, French, German, and numerous other country's cinema.

[The Great Owl]

King Kong (1933) is the first film that comes to mind, because I've been obsessed with that flick since third grade or so.

A few others...
Dr. No
North by Northwest
Jaws
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Planet of the Apes

My all-time favorite movie is Le Samourai, but I only discovered it a few years ago, and did not grow up watching it.

I could go on and on...

[DoubleDownAgain]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Jaws

Under the criteria, this would be mine.

[Tenchi7]

Casablanca and Sunset Boulevard.

[Atreyu]

If it's one I grew up with I naturally would have to say The Wizard Of Oz. It was always an event for me and my sister. When I was really young we didn't have a color TV, but my grandmother, who only lived two blocks away did. So we always had to go over there when it was on. Such a wonderful memory.

[KINGDANGER]

When I was 9, I went to see some other movie, but instead got stuck going to Raiders which I assumed was a "stupid cowboy flick" by my quick glance at the poster. I was blown away to discover it was Han Solo in all kinds of action and adventure. I stayed in the theater for a second viewing immediately I loved it so much. Watching it on BD with my son really took me back to that day.

[Debbie Downer]

Easy question.

Ishtar

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Atreyu

If it's one I grew up with I naturally would have to say The Wizard Of Oz. It was always an event for me and my sister. When I was really young we didn't have a color TV, but my grandmother, who only lived two blocks away did. So we always had to go over there when it was on. Such a wonderful memory.

The Wizard of Oz is another great example. I'm 40 years old, and I remember the days when this movie would air on network TV once or twice a year, and that was the only way for most of us to see it.

[bluthx]

I know the go to answer for this question is Star Wars, which i did see in the
theater when i was seven and yes it was an awesome expereince but the movie that really grabbed my young moviegoing imagination was King Kong '76.

[*PREACHER*]

It's A Wonderful Life
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Casablanca



Sorry I had to have them both, because I still cannot decide my fav between the two, so I need them both!!!