How well do you know your classic films?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

This will be like the TV show thread.

Okay, here's the first one, thought to be lost, and rediscovered in, of all places, a closet in a Norwegian mental hospital

[CBHagman]

1. Well, "The Passion of Joan of Arc," of course.

TCM showed that a while back.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Uh-oh, with CBHagman here, I don't have a chance of stumping the crowd

But yes, that's it :-)

[barb162]

2. Joan of Arc?

But I can't identify the actress; she doesn't look like Seberg.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. That's because it's about 30 years before the Otto Preminger version

This is the Carl Dreyer version with French actress Renee Falconetti. The reason you don't recognize her is that she was a stage actress who made only this one film.

[barb162]

14. Ah!!!! Thank you.

I am an old film fan and I just don't recognize her.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Catch it if it shows up on TCM

It is like no silent movie you have ever seen. I started watching it just out of historical curiosity, and I ended up riveted.

[barb162]

24. I will. I have seen some great silent films on that channel. n/t

[Hand]

83. Other interesting cast member...

Antonin Artaud, father of the "Theater of Cruelty", in one of his few film roles. :toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Okay, here's another

Made over 70 years ago and still funny.

[Lautremont]

11. Surely to biscuits that's It Happened One Night.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Give that poster a blue ribbon!

:thumbsup:

[barb162]

17. That's such a terrific film!

I haven't seen it for a while. Do you like My Man Godfrey? It's one of my very favorites from the 30s along with so manyt others.

[lost-in-nj]

6. ....

lost

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Is that

Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre?

[lost-in-nj]

13. no

but another awesome movie


lost

[CBHagman]

9. I haven't seen that particular still, but it must be...

...Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.

[lost-in-nj]

16. yes

oh Kathy....


lost

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. And another

A classic Western from the 1930s, based on a novel by Edna Ferber

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. Cimarron starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. I thought nobody was going to get that one

:thumbsup:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. This film is an incredible 77 years old

but we're still making war.

[some guy]

21. All Quiet On The Western Front.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. Yes!

:thumbsup:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. One of my favorite comedies from the pre-WWII era

What a cast! Yes, that's Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart

[alarimer]

19. The Philadelphia Story

I will watch anything Cary Grant is in.

[Lautremont]

22. The Philedelphia Story

Great movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Two great minds thinking alike!

:thumbsup:

[lost-in-nj]

20. another one

no not GWTW



lost

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Sorry, I think your link is broken

:shrug:

[begin_within]

26. Here's some fairly obscure ones...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Wow, those ARE obscure

but the second-to-the-last one is The Loved One, with Liberace's hilarious performance as a funeral director, and I THINK the last one is Ship of Fools.

[begin_within]

32. Right on both!

I'll post the whole list of them later, if nobody gets them. All shown are outstanding films.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

39. Is the third to the last one The Americanization of Emily?

:shrug:

[begin_within]

43. Yep - a great film

[Capn Sunshine]

34. The one with the '64 Porsche in it was Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

and all-time classic of the genre
the genre being Russ Meyers sex kittens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdtmHhZd0I

[begin_within]

44. Good work

[NYCGirl]

36. There's "The Stunt Man", "Au Hasard Balthazar", "The Bicycle Thief",

"Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill"

[begin_within]

45. I'm impressed

[Lautremont]

37. You've got some Bicycle Thieves, some Faster Pussycat,

a dash of Ozu, a touch of Satyajit Ray ( I think), and something that might be The President's Analysit or a Matt Helm film.

[begin_within]

46. Right on the first 3, but

there's nothing by Satyajit Ray or Matt Helm.

[begin_within]

47. Here's what they are...

All are highly recommended; in fact I would choose "Tokyo Story" as the best film made so far.

Salt of the Earth (1954) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047443/
The Stunt Man (1980) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081568/
Tokyo Story (1953) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/
The Bicycle Thief (1948) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/
Diary of a Country Priest (1951) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042619/
El Norte (1983) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085482/
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059170/
Daughter from Danang (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303281/
I Am Cuba (1964) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/
The Americanization of Emily (1964) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057840/
The Loved One (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059410/
Ship of Fools (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059712/

[NYCGirl]

50. That's a remarkable list of films! NT

[some guy]

48. Has anyone ever got the 10th one?

I've seen that picture around here numerous times for obscure films, classic films, etc. but I've never seen a film title correctly named for it.

[begin_within]

49. It's "Soy Cuba" aka "I Am Cuba," hands-down the greatest achievement in cinematography

in the history of cinema. Nothing before or since has achieved what that film did - and it's even more impressive considering the relatively primitive equipment available in 1964. I was completely spellbound by that film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/

[Jade Fox]

84. First two: Salt of the Earth; Stunt Man

[begin_within]

86. Excellent work

[sarge43]

103. The last one - Ship of Fools

Oskar Werner and Simone Signoret

[begin_within]

107. Brilliant acting on the part of both. The most believable and

realistic love story I've ever seen.

[sarge43]

108. Yes

and very poignant. I was reaching for the hankie.

[some guy]

28. A classic from the master of suspense

Mr Hitchcock...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. The Lady Vanishes?

:shrug:

[some guy]

31. Yes.

Very good! :applause:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

72. Who's the handsome young fella at the window with the bow tie? N/T

Just wondered.

[TN al]

89. Isn't that Michael Redgrave?

[some guy]

35. edit

the picture isn't showing up, so never mind.

[NYCGirl]

38. Yep, "Laura" NT

[some guy]

41. wow

you're really good.

sorry I took the link out. I don't know why the picture didn't paste in directly.

[NYCGirl]

42. Thanks. That's OK. Film noir is my specialty.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

51. One of my faves...

[NYCGirl]

52. Harvey! (without the exclamation mark).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

63. Yup!

With the exclamation mark. :toast:

[yellowdogintexas]

53. Harvey, of course nt

[yellowdogintexas]

54. OK here is another one:

[EFerrari]

58. Is this "Bringing Up Baby"?

God, this man was funny. Look at that mug. :)

[FloridaJudy]

61. Arsenic and Old Lace

Still one of the funniest plays ever written.

"I'm the son of a sea cook!"


edited to add: "Oh no, Chonny, Not the Melbourne Method! It's so slow and lingering!"

[yellowdogintexas]

62. We Have a Winner! yep the one and only...Mortimer, son of a sea cook

absolutely hilarious! I love love that movie. The stage play is wonderful and the movie is very true to it. I saw it on stage with the two guys from "Greater Tuna".

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. "Chaaaaaaaaaarge!!"

"That's bully! Just bully!"

I love that movie. And the play.

[yellowdogintexas]

92. oh it is wonderful. Did Reprehensor join you for Thanksgiving?

I just got home from a huge family dinner, both in quantity of food and number of persons attending. I think we had 29 altogether for dinner, turkey and all sorts of goodies. It was wonderful fun!

It even turned cold down here!

[fudge stripe cookays]

93. No.

:cry:

But he IS coming up for Christmas, thank goodness. I got a takeout turkey dinner from a nearby restaurant and painted the bathroom of my rented house. So it wasn't a completely lost day.

:hi: yd!

[yellowdogintexas]

94. mr YD is in Wyoming, working the slowest gas well in the history of the world

Extended another 5 days, now he isn't going to be here for our daughter's birthday, next Thursday. I am hoping for a break for him to get home for Christmas.

Sorry he did not get to be there for Thanksgiving though! But it isn't that long to Christmas!

But you were productive! I cooked and took food to the nephew's house ...we had 29 if you count the very small children, of which there were 4. I was the oldest one there!

O8) :toast: :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

96. I had to keep myself busy...

it snowed last night!

It was fun watching Fargo's reactions, since he's only seen minute amounts of it. I opened the door last night to 1 or 2 inches, and he looked up at me like :wtf: ?

He was pawing around in it, trying to find some dirt, then he'd put his snout in and get a noseful. Best laugh of the night.

[Lautremont]

55. How about these ones:

[NYCGirl]

56. The middle one is the famous "Robot Monster", but I don't know the others. NT

[Lautremont]

59. Well, the other two may only be classics to selected audiences.

The first is "The Heart of the World," and the last one is "Pin." Needless to say, you were correct about "Robot Monster."

[NYCGirl]

60. I googled "Heart of the World", and now the shot makes sense. Guy Madden's

style is pretty unmistakable. "Pin" sounds very interesting.

[EFerrari]

57. You guys are really good, lol! I only knew about five of these films.

And I swear that Wuthering Heights still wasn't in the film!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. Ok...Try this one:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

67. Carmen Jones?

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. WooHoo! You got it!

:toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. Here are some European films

Hint: The man was also well-known as a singer in France.


Hint: This is a silent film, partly parodied by Woody Allen


Hint: This one was considered scandalous in its day.


Hint: This director is not usually thought of as a maker of comedies, but this film is very funny.


Hint: From the same region as the film above, but much darker, made while the filmmaker's home country was under Nazi occupation.


Hint: This film was also made while the filmmaker's country was under Nazi occupation.



Hint: This film was banned in the U.S. for many years because of its lesbian overtones.


Hint: Although this movie was made in Europe in a European language, the director was a blacklisted American.

[Poiuyt]

70. #2 is Battleship Potemkin

[Lydia Leftcoast]

81. Yes, by one of the pioneers of world cinema, Sergei Eisenstein

:thumbsup:

[MarianJack]

71. OK,...

2 Potemkin (or Battleship Potemkin)

4 Smiles of a Summer Night (inspiration for one of my favorite musicals, "A Little Hight Music")

6 Children of Paradise

7 The Children's Hour

[Lydia Leftcoast]

79. Right on 2, 4, and 6, but the 7th one is from a different time and place

than The Children's Hour

[bikebloke]

74. Last one - Les Chez Hommes Rififi

That is a great heist film.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

80. Yep, and I was surprised to learn that the director Jules Dassin

was not Zhewl Da-SAN (French) but Joolz Dasson (American). I'd seen his name on films and had always assumed that he was French. Oh well, at least he had a name that could LOOK French when he moved to France after being blacklisted here.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

82. Answers to Eureopan films:

1. Shoot the Piano Player by François Truffaut: The man is Charles Aznavour, who was a popular singer-song writer. It's a tragicomedy about a former concert pianist who loses it after a series of misfortunes and ends up playing in a seedy bar. I tried to find a more typical shot, but none of those images worked when I previewed them.

2. Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein: Eisenstein pioneered the film technique known as "montage," creating an overall impression of a scene with a series of short takes of various parts of it. This is a shot from the Odessa Steps scene, depicting the Czar's army attacking some protesters on the steps leading to Odessa harbor. It was parodied in Woody Allen's Bananas.

3. La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini: The driver of the car is Marcello Mastroianni, who was considered quite the eye candy by the women of the early 1960s. Mastroianni's character despairs of finding meaning in his life after a friend who seems to have it all kills himself and his children.

4. Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman: Bergman wasn't always grim. This delightful bedroom farce became the musical A Little Night Music.

5. Day of Wrath by Carl Dreyer: This grim movie is about witchcraft hysteria in 17th-century Denmark and shows how people used accusations of witchcraft to settle personal scores. Some critics think that Dreyer made this film as a "safe" historical analogy to the German occupation.

6. Children of Paradise by Marcel Carné: This atmospheric story of the mime Baptiste and the actress Garance, who love each other but end up married to others, is long but absorbing. It, too, was filmed under German occupation, and one story has it that after a banquet scene, the extras mobbed the table and ate all the food.

7. Mädchen in Uniform by Leontine Sagan: The director, who was Jewish, had to flee Nazi Germany before the premier of this film, which is about a young girl, depressed after her father and stepmother send her to a harsh boarding school, falls in love with one of her teachers.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

66. And here are some Asian films, some of them even Japanese!

Hint: This one was based on an American crime novel.


Hint: This is one of the more impressive directorial debuts in world cinema, and it ISN'T a musical.


Hint: This disturbing movie is from a country whose film industry has only recently made a splash on the world scene.


Hint: The child in the picture is known only as "Gou-Ah" ("Doggie")


Hint: A slapstick comedy that hasn't gotten the recognition that it deserves


Hint: Recently remade in the U.S.


Hint: Although this director made lots of comedies, this was his most successful film overseas--and the least successful in his homeland.

[some guy]

69. 6th one

second-to-last looks like the film that was remade as "Shall We Dance"(?) - I forget the title, but the Richard Gere/Jennifer Lopez film.

I don't know any of the others.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

78. Believe it or not, the original Japanese title was Shall We Dansu!

:-)

[MilesColtrane]

73. #3 is "Oldboy"

Don't know the others.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

77. Yes, what a highly original and yet disturbing film

:scared:

[CBHagman]

75. The second-to-last is "Shall We Dance?"

What a great film! I haven't seen the American remake, but DUers definitely should rent the Japanese film itself (At this writing, I don't think it's available for purchase on DVD). :cry: An utterly charming film, and the kind that transcends nationality. I saw it with an American friend who taught dance, and he said it was completely true to his experiences.

Is the last one Tampopo?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

76. Yes!

And the Japanese original of Shall We Dance is one of the most accessible Japanese films. It got great word-of-mouth buzz among older people of my acquaintance, because in many ways it's like the classic films of their youth: elegant, funny without being crude or malicious, non-violent, and subtly sexy without being blatant. As a bonus, it's an accurate portrayal of how Japanese "salarymen" live.

You're correct. The last one is Tampopo.

[CBHagman]

95. One more thing about "Shall We Dance?" (Japanese version)

Shall We Dance? is a movie with a big heart. You'll laugh at the characters, yes, but only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't empathize with them, all of them.

And among other things, Shall We Dance? is about the human need for a creative outlet, for relief from life of "quiet desperation" most of us lead. Few movies capture that experience so beautifully.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

97. Yes, and Koji Yakusho's character also comes to appreciate his own family

as a result.

[alarimer]

87. I accidentally got that one from Netflix

I put it on my queue without realizing it was not the America version. But I liked it better.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

85. Answers to Asian films

1. High and Low by Akira Kurosawa: Kurosawa didn't always direct samurai dramas. This film, based on Ed McBain's King's Ransom and set in (then) contemporary Tokyo, concerns a company president who is faced with a dilemma when someone kidnaps his chauffeur's son, mistaking him for the company owner's son.

2. Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray: Although this was Ray's first film, it shows a stunning mastery of black and white photography. On the surface, not much happens, just a portrayal of village life in Bengal, but this is the first of Ray's Apu Trilogy.

3. Old Boy by Chan-wook Park: In this highly original but extremely disturbing Korean film, a man is kidnapped and imprisoned in an apartment for unknown reasons. When he is finally released 15 years later, also without explanation, he is determined to find out why he was imprisoned and to take his revenge.

4. King of Masks by Tian-Ming Wu: In 1930s China, an elderly street performer with no son to carry on his art buys what he think is a slave boy to be his artistic heir. He dotes on the child and goes around town showing off his "new grandson." Only the "boy" turns out to be a girl in disguise...

5. Peking Opera Blues by Tsui Hark: There's supposed to be a plot here involving some stolen jewels, but it's all an excuse for slapstick comedy. The humor comes from two sources: slapstick routines that you've never seen before and the poorly translated subtitles.

6. Shall We Dance by Masayuki Suo: One of the most popular Japanese films ever released in the U.S., this is about a bored company employee whose crush on an unknown woman leads him into the world of ballroom dancing. This is not only a charming film but an accurate portrayal of the life of a typical middle-class Japanese.

7. Tampopo by Juzo Itami: Of all of Itami's comedies, this is the most accessible to Westerners. While there's a basic plot about a truck driver who helps a widow develop the perfect noodle soup, the plot is an excuse for a series of humorous vignettes about food.

[ashling]

88. Really well ... if by "classic films" you mean

films that I really like and woould watch over and over if I had the chance.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

90. Give us some examples, then!

:-)

[ashling]

100. Grapes of Wrath

Young Mr. Lincoln w/ H. Fonda
Drums along the Mohawk "
Robin Hood w/ Errol Flynn
Captain Blood "
Bringing Up Baby , Grant & Hepburn
Arsenic & Old Lace, Grant
North by Northwest "
Charade "& Audrey Hepburn

for starters

[CBHagman]

98. Okay, movie fans, here's one of my favorites.

Can you NAME THAT MOVIE?

And please, no salacious comments about where the leading lady's foot is. :evilgrin: Production Code? What Production Code?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

99. Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck...

Is is Ball of Fire?

I haven't seen it, just heard of it. :-(

[CBHagman]

101. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

Yes, yes, it is Ball of Fire. But anyone in the U.S. with access to a DVD player and/or Turner Classic Movies can see it. The DVD was released this year, and TCM runs it every so often.

Did you recognize any of the character actors flocked around Cooper and Stanwyck?

For the curious, the IMDB entry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/

And the Turner Classic Movies article:

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=114205&rss=mrqe

[sarge43]

102. One of my faves

[CBHagman]

104. Oh, I love "The Lady Eve."

Another great comic performance by Barbara Stanwyck, as in Ball of Fire, but this time the shy guy who catches her eye is Henry Fonda. Not to be missed.

[sarge43]

105. I love the way Sturges so slyly got around the Code.

That was one hot scene. You just know Fonda had to take a cold shower after that scene was in the can.

[Enrique]

106. here's a good movie, despite the fellow pictured here

[CBHagman]

109. Is that "Kings Row"?

I haven't seen it; I just know that it's supposedly the best movie Ronald Reagan ever made.