1930: Movies Sorted By Tier
Submitted by stooky on Sun, 07/18/2004 - 02:24
Tags:
Great
- All Quiet On The Western Front
Very Good
- Animal Crackers
- The Blue Angel
- Little Caesar
- Morocco
Good
- The Royal Family Of Broadway
Guilty Pleasures
Average
- Hell’s Angels
Dreck
The Big Stink
Unfortunately Haven’t Seen
- Anna Christie
- The Blood Of A Poet
- L’Age D’Or
- The Texan
- Under The Roofs Of Paris
- Way Out West
Cloned From:
Stooky, where and how do you find all these 30s and 40s flicks that aren't available on DVD?
The secret movie-philes seldom pass on to each other. Satellite TV believe it or not. I've seen many a great early film on 4 great channels. Vision (which runs the entire film uninterupted by commercials, in the original format), PBS (Which runs early classics way early in the morning, about 2 or 3 AM) and Bravo (which runs them with an intermission) and Knowledge (which runs them as part of a series for Athebasca College of Film. It takes time and you may have to wait for a specific film, but with enough attention you'll be rewarded. If I'd have known 10 years ago I'd have filled up every year by now.
Hope that helps. And don't worry about quality, with the new digital satellite and a high-def TV it's just like watching a DVD, they even air them with stereo sound often times.
Tallyho
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Ah, okay. I've been catching most of my older ones via Netflix or Turner Classic Movies channel. The only one you mentioned that I have is PBS; I'll have to check that out. TCM rarely plays movies from before the 1930s, unfortunately.
And why would cinephiles seldom pass on this 'secret' to others?
Actually, there are no other cinephiles in my area, so I guess I'm just trying to sound important. :?D
Did it work?
Turner Classics Movies <---stook drools while reading words
Tallyhoo
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For some reason I don't seem to have PBS (or, I'm blind). But yeah, Turner Classic Movies kicks ass. No commercials, brief commentary on the historical setting of each film and its participants, the occasional short thrown in - it's all good! I just wish they played fewer films from the 60s and 70s and more from the 10s and 20s.
Well there's always...ug...VHS. <---ewww I typed it
Magnetic tape should be recycled and used as toilet paper. Then I could literally show my contempt by wiping my ass on it.
Tallyho
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hear! hear! In any case, the entirety of my video store's pre-1970 collection is about 40 titles.
Do you want my leftover VHS titles I bought real cheap to watch that come before 1970. (run-on sentence. yeehaw) I can send them to listology and you could pay Jim to send them to you or something like that.
Have to ask J about that but he could watch them too. We'd have a web of older films floating around, wouldn't that be weird. Anyway if you wanna and J wanna, I'm willing. Oh the confusion.
Anyway, I'll list the titles and you can pick em if all works out.
Anywho
Tallyho
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Tempting, but as much as I'd like to see some of the movies (I'm sure), I don't feel like I have time to be the middleman at the moment.
Thanks for responding J.
BTW what's happnin'?
You've been kinda quiet lately.
Was the mail pile really that big?
Tallyho
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It always takes a surprising amount of time for life to return to normal after vacation. And the kids go to bed later when the days are longer, which shortens my movie/Internet time in the evenings. And I've been busy at work. AND, I've had some computer problems, which has slowed down my newsreader, so I haven't had as much fodder for the home page. It all adds up to create the ebb-and-flow of my online life. Enjoy it while it lasts. ;-)
By newsreader, you're referring to RSS feeds?
If that's so, I'd be very interested to see the list of feeds to which you subscribe! :-)
Here ya go.
thx
No, no, too much work and I've already got way too many titles on Netflix and TCM to watch anyway. But thanks for the offer!
gotcha.
Tallyho
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I'm surprised that you liked Morocco. I found it dry, bland, and soul-less.
Sister had the same reaction, it's certainly not a nice film. I thought it was an interesting film about an ego-maniacal soldier who drags the woman who loves him through the mud. Gary Cooper was never as nasty as in this film and Marlena was never as swishily resigned to her fate. And the chemistry between the leads is great. The last shot of her walking into the desert is amazing. Why the characters do what they do seems a mystery most people just don't care about. Kind of unflinching and stand-offish in a way that repulses or bores.
T'ho
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Yeah, the repulsive and boring part was the thing I most didn't like :-)
There must be a way to tell that story without putting me to sleep. And, I still feel it was 'bland.' Not that there weren't 'spicy' thing happening in the story, but the movie sucked all the spiciness out of what was happening, for no reason I can think of... if that makes sense.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, well let me turn to Video Hound was panted a 3 1/2 bones upon this sucker. Review reads as follows:
"A foreign legion soldier falls for a world-weary chanteause along the desert sands. Cooper has never been more earnest, and Dietrich has never been more blase and exotic. In her american film debut, Diertrich sings "What Am I Bid?" A must for anyone drawn to improbable, gloriously well-done kitsch."
Kitsch is explained in the dictionary as: Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste. I would say that explains the film to a T. A perfect one word answer to what Morocco is "Kitsch" (which is probably why he used it). Trashy, angry, almost completely devoid of anything but unctuous (Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness) cheese. A type of blue I would presume.
There are three main types of cheese: Wan (Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness) cheese-The English Patient; Hyper cheese Rush Hour; And the above listed cheese. To abide such a tangy cheese as this you must be a latent sado-masichist who enjoys being tortured by irritating, even soul-depleting romance. I am one of those, in fact I can abide most cheese.
That's a long cheese analogy. :?)
Hope that helps.
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