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‘If I should die,’ said I to myself, ‘I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.’ - John Keats

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26. grad student, studying screenwriting. watcher of movies. taco lover extraordinaire. drinker of coffee. listener of music. I am obsessed with classic films, double features at the Castro Theatre, contribute to YAM Magazine and run this site: http://cinema-fanatic.com/

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neverknewandneverwill Asks:

okay my friend and i need good tearjerkers. what do you think we should watch, we are gonna watch Casablanca but we don't know what else..!helllp!

oldfilmsflicker Said:

NOW, VOYAGER Camille Random Harvest The Pride of the Yankees BRIGHT STAR

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whyhaldirtho-deactivated2013022 Asks:

hmmm can you recommend some dystopian and also general sci-fi movies

oldfilmsflicker Said:

http://oldfilmsflicker.tumblr.com/post/28640455403/post-apocalyptic-dystopic-films

more sci-fi:

Moon
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Starman
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars (basically all)
Star Trek (all movies)
Tron (original)
The Fifth Element
Starship Troopers
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Minority Report
Gattaca
Videordrome
The Fountain
Repo Man
Fahrenheit 451
Independence Day
Galaxy Quest
Stargate
Forbidden Planet
Total Recall (original)
The Abyss
The Invisible Man (33)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (56 and 78)
District 9
The Matrix (really just the first one)

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theplanetforce Asks:

I've finally decided to give westerns a chance. Are there any that you would recommend?

oldfilmsflicker Said:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in The West
A Fistful od Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Hang ‘Em High
The Magnificent Seven
Two Mules For Sister Sara
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High Noon
The Searchers
Stagecoach
Fort Apache
Red River
The Tin Star
Warlock
Dodge City
Rio Bravo
Johnny Guitar
The Professionals
How The West Was Won
The Wild Bunch
3 Godfathers
Three Bad Men
In Old Arizona
Dead Man
Vera Cruz
Lust For Gold
Destry Rides Again
Westward the Women
Yellow Sky
Joe Kidd
Fort Massacre
The Iron Horse
Cattle Drive
The Ox-Bow Incident
Duel In The Sun
My Darling Clementine
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Shane
3:10 To Yuma (both versions)
Ride Lonesome
High Plains Drifter
Tombstone
True Grit (both versions)

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claironner Asks:

Which are your favorite Bogart movies? Same in regards to Paul Newman, Gary Cooper, and Clark Gable? Movies you'd suggest that fall into the time period round the thirties and forties, and the sixties? I know it's sort of a wide range question, I'm just looking to catch up on classics I haven't seen, and movies really worth a look.

oldfilmsflicker Said:

I just answered something similar with ten must-see films a piece for Bogart, Newman, Gable and Cary Grant here: http://oldfilmsflicker.tumblr.com/post/35451495959/hey-can-you-please-recommend-10-best-movies-for-each-of

for Cooper, I’d say:

Wings
City Streets
Design For Living
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Beau Geste
Meet John Doe
Sergeant York
Ball of Fire
The Pride of the Yankees
High Noon

more good suggestions can be found here: http://oldfilmsflicker.tumblr.com/tagged/lists

also any of my Beginner’s Guides for YAM: http://www.yam-mag.com/author/oldfilmsflicker/

you might also search the tags on my Cinema-Fanatic.com site by year and see what I’ve posted on their that might seem like something you’d enjoy.

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godsdear Asks:

Hey can you please recommend 10 best movies for each of Cary Grant, James Stewart, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, and Humphrey Bogart. I really like your movie taste.

oldfilmsflicker Said:

oh god this is Sophie’s choice right here. narrowing these guys’ filmographies to ten each is evil.

Cary:

Topper
The Awful Truth
Bringing Up Baby
Holiday
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Bishop’s Wife
An Affair to Remember
North By Northwest

Jimmy:

Vivacious Lady
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Destry Rides Again
The Shop Around the Corner
The Philadelphia Story
It’s A Wonderful Life
Harvey
Rear Window
Bell Book and Candle
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Clark Gable

A Free Soul
Night Nurse
Red Dust
No Man of Her Own
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
Wife Vs. Secretary
San Francisco
Gone With The Wind
The Misfits

Paul Newman (I cheated):

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Hustler
Sweet Bird of Youth
Hud
What A Way to Go!
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
The Towering Inferno
The Verdict
Road To Perdition

Gregory Peck:

Spellbound
Duel in the Sun
Yellow Sky
Roman Holiday
Moby Dick
The Guns of Navarone
Cape Fear
How the West Was Won
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Omen

Bogart (I cheated again):

Three on a Match
The Petrified Forest
The Roaring Twenties
High Sierra
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not/The Big Sleep/Dark Passage/Key Largo
In A Lonely Place
The African Queen
Sabrina

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thisyearsrebel-deactivated20130 Asks:

Can you recommend any films that are similar to Blue Velvet? I'd say I'm pretty solid in the ways of the Lynch, so I'm familiar with his canon of work. It's just I've never really come across anything that I find to be as perfect as Blue Velvet. It's like an equilibrium between Eraserhead and Twin Peaks. I'm asking you because you seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of film and what IMDB lists as similar (for any film) makes me scratch my head.

oldfilmsflicker Said:

I’m not really sure how to answer this so I’m just going to throw some things out there: