During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like.


please suggest films you feel are worth, actually very worthy, of watching now?  Looking for very good and intelligent films.  As far as ones that simply pass the time, that will be for another day.  I may have the most interest in any classics I may have missed.....you know, films like 'Howdy Doody, Man or Myth"...and "Sex and the Single Dentist". 


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I like old movies, grew up on them as television reruns on the local NYC stations like WPIX in the fifties.

King Kong (the original)
Babes in Toyland, later reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, (with Laurel and Hardy. It’s got real boogie men in it and is a memorable film in a Wizard of Oz kind of way)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (with Humphrey Bogart)
Anything by WC Fields, particularly his later films
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
The Crawling Eye
Both the original Frankenstein and Dracula movies
Those old Fred Astaire flicks, and I don’t even like musicals



@skyscraper--Cool--Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  One of my fav film lines of all times...you all know what it is, certainly.

Good one!

Cheers!
These are not thin philosophical soup, and are also shockingly beautiful frame-by-frame:

  • Akira Kurasawa - RAN.
  • Terrence Malick - Thin Red Line.
Wings of Desire -Wim Wenders 1987

Diva -Jean-Jacques Beineix 1981

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs -Ethan & Joel Coen 2018




Real good one @r_f_sayles. Wings Of Desire is, amongst other things, one of the most beautiful looking films ever made, breathtakingly so.

The Black & White cinematography in the Coen Brothers The Man Who Wasn't There (starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, and Scarlett Johansson) is the best I've ever seen: deep, deep black, and shimmering, almost iridescently-silver white.