What were the last movies you watched?

[Gowienczyk]

I love that you had Reefer Madness on that list.

It's a laugh riot.

[clashcityrocker10]

Anybody have reccomendations? and I mean specifically films from the classic period (1930-1959) that I have missed? Any classics I've overlooked or obscure pieces?

You may very well have seen some of these films since they're all pretty well-known, but I didn't see them in your rankings from 1930-1959, so I'll suggest them:

Grand Illusion
The Rules of the Game
Umberto D.
Bicycle Thieves
The Killing
The Seventh Seal
Touch of Evil
I vitelloni
I soliti ignoti
Roma città aperta
Paisà
Germania, anno zero
L'atalante

With the exception of The Killing and Touch of Evil, those are all foreign films (mostly Italian).

[Gowienczyk]

Yeah, I have Touch of Evil and The Killing both on my wishlist, however I have zero of those itallian films my period specific classics are rather weak in viewing and knowledge in all honesty. Definitely adding them to the log.

Also, you should get on AIM more often, lol.

[jibjqrkl]

don't know if you know or watched it, but metropolis has a new version that came out (no more than a year ago if i remember correctly) with about 25 minutes more footage

(couldn't really tell you if the extra footage is worth watching it again though, i only saw the extra long one)

edit: it was called "the complete Metropolis"

[McTenzington]

I'd say there's a pretty large backlog of non-American and silent films you haven't got around to. I didn't notice any Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, German Expressionism or Kammerspielfilm, pre-war Japanese cinema, Italian neorealism, Polish school, French Poetic Realism or New Wave and even going into the 60's there's a lot of classics missing (mostly non-American), but MAN was that a crowded time for cinema.

If anyone wants to throw some recommendations my way, I'd be more than happy. This isn't everything I've seen, just the stuff that pops up on the lists on the site or what comes to my mind:
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[LiveHomeVideo]

I'd say there's a pretty large backlog of non-American and silent films you haven't got around to. I didn't notice any Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, German Expressionism or Kammerspielfilm, pre-war Japanese cinema, Italian neorealism, Polish school, French Poetic Realism or New Wave and even going into the 60's there's a lot of classics missing (mostly non-American), but MAN was that a crowded time for cinema.

If anyone wants to throw some recommendations my way, I'd be more than happy. This isn't everything I've seen, just the stuff that pops up on the lists on the site or what comes to my mind:
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[Gowienczyk]

What is this in response to?

Looks like to me.

@MT:

Yeah, I've missed a lot of silent film-era material and I'm not going to lie. The only Keaton or Chaplin films I've seen are clips of them through documentaries about the history of film, history of comedy and the period they came from and yeah, I haven't seen a lot of foreign films (from any era) though I'm trying to break that mold.

[Lowlander2]

Taken

Up there with The Raid and M:I4. I thknk this movie's most unique aspect is that, unlike a lot of other action heroes, Liam Neeson doesn't **** around. If he wants you dead, you're dead. Completely to the point, and because of that, there aren't any dumb "I let the villain get away just because" moments. I only wish it was longer and it had just a little more action. Don't think it was quite full up as it could have been.

[SuperTigerMario]

Every year around here they show a Keaton film on the big screen. I've wanted to go but keep missing it.

[RosaFloydGuy]

It Might Get Loud was a great film. Three guitar gods in the same room. Sometimes, I found myself grinning like an idiot in some parts, just due to the awesomeness of Jimmy Page.