I have seen the 1979 TV-movie remake with Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine, but no, I haven't seen the original yet. I'm working through them at a rate of about 2 per month. In the past couple of months, I've seen Kramer vs. Kramer, Terms of Endearment, The Apartment and Olivier's Hamlet, all of which I'd never seen. I also rewatched The Deer Hunter, recently, having not seen it in about twenty years.
Agreed. Actually, that was on one of the old movie channels just last month. The beginning was a little rough to get through, but if you can get through that, you'll be fine. *read the book in HS*
And it's a reasonable thing to accomplish, too. Most people have probably already seen a good deal of the ones that have been released in their teen/adult lives so it's mostly a matter of going backwards. In my case, I had already seen almost all of the Best Pictures from '81 forward and about 70-80% of the '70s films. With a modest goal of watching say, one per week, most people could knock out the list in a year or two.
What on earth were you doing on weekends as an adolescent? I saw so many of the older films then! Dude, you've never seen "Gone with the Wind"? What kind of American are you? It's just shocking. Some of these are going to be a huge treat (Rebecca, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, Ordinary People, West Side Story) some a grave disappointment (Crash, The English Patient, No Country for Old Men, most of the old ones). See these with welfy: Marty, How Green was my Valley (sigh), Gigi.
I had no taste for older films as a kid. I actually tried to watch Gone With the Wind as an adolescent but was bored to tears. I'm looking forward to Rebecca for sure, since that will coincide with one of my other goals, seeing all of Hitchcock's movies. I'm currently 40/62 on that list, mostly all pre-Shadow Of A Doubt films.
It's funny, I think I've seen The English Patient but I can't remember for sure or if I'm confusing it in my head with something else, so I didn't list it. Alternately, I've only "technically" see Chariots Of Fire. I was 11 and they showed it at school. And I remember absolutely nothing about the movie, so I'll probably rewatch it at some point. I'll probably also re-watch the Godfather movies, not only because they're great, but also because I've never seen the third one.
Why the sigh for How Green Was My Valley? A bone of contention over it beating Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon both that year? Or something else?
Sigh because it is a sappy delight! You and Welf will love it, I'm sure, and be a tiny bit embarassed. Why don't they have years like that anymore, anyway?
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It's funny, I think I've seen The English Patient but I can't remember for sure or if I'm confusing it in my head with something else, so I didn't list it. Alternately, I've only "technically" see Chariots Of Fire. I was 11 and they showed it at school. And I remember absolutely nothing about the movie, so I'll probably rewatch it at some point. I'll probably also re-watch the Godfather movies, not only because they're great, but also because I've never seen the third one.
Why the sigh for How Green Was My Valley? A bone of contention over it beating Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon both that year? Or something else?
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but i do enjoy conceptualizing the lion winter.
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