Five Boss Old Films through the Decades.30's/70's

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Went to see my cousins last week and one of the young lads asked me a question:

"What are your favourite top 5 films?"

I thought on it and said that I would name 5 films that he might never have seen from the 30's to the 70's, trying to steer clear of anything too obvious.
(He's 14)

So lads, what are your best 5 films?

I went with:

Brief Encounter (1945)
African Queen (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) My sides were aching the first time I ever watched this!
Yellow Submarine(1968)
Silent Running (1972) One for the sci-fi purists.
 

Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Moby Dick
Kagemusha
Mad Max 2

EDIT haha fkd that up didn't I ???

hang on, I'll have a think and try again
 
Angels With Dirty Faces (Cagney)
Harvey (James Stewart)
Way Out West (Laurel & Hardy)
Maltese Falcon (Bogart)
Arsenic and Old Lace
 
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Great Escape (1963)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
 

I don't really like old films that much but I'll have a go:

Pyscho (1960)
The Italian Job (1969)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Turns out 1977 was quite an incredible year for films!
 
Sunset Blvd - '53(ahead of its time and timeless at the same time)
Dog Day Afternoon - 70' s(Pacino before he started overacting)
Godfather II - early 70's (epic)
Dinner for Eight - '33 (acting not great but an interesting time capsule into Depression era high society life)
8 1/2 - dreamlike struggle of a director trying to finish a film (my favorite movie of all time).
 

The Great Dictator (Chaplin) 1940

Double Indemnity (Wilder.B) 1944

Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica) 1948 Also known as The Bicycle Thief.

Chinatown (Polanski) 1974

Jaws (Spielberg) 1975

As a student of film I could go on and on for hours about this. I love Noir and Neo-Noir, French New Wave, Italian Neo Classical.

If he's really into a film education look no further than this:

http://http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film

It'd be remiss of me to not give honourable mentions to the likes of Kubrick, Herzog or Bergman but that article above should give him a great mine of information to sift through, not to mention the fact that Scorcese's films in their own right are some of the greatest ever created.
 
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BigBlueConk said:
Went to see my cousins last week and one of the young lads asked me a question:

"What are your favourite top 5 films?"

I thought on it and said that I would name 5 films that he might never have seen from the 30's to the 70's, trying to steer clear of anything too obvious.
(He's 14)

So lads, what are your best 5 films?

I went with:

Brief Encounter (1945)
African Queen (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) My sides were aching the first time I ever watched this!
Yellow Submarine(1968)
Silent Running (1972) One for the sci-fi purists.
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Why limit it to 5, I started to make out my 5 and got to high double figures in no time, well this has got to go in and this and that, you can't not have so and so etc.
How about this for a long term present ( if the funds allow )
buy him the book 1000 films to see before you die and let him work his way through ( downloading may be the way to go??)
All the usual suspects will be in it and I'm sure you can add others that the so called experts don't rate
 

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