A List of Sidestream and Old School Films you Wish you'd Seen.

Ok so me and a friend got to discussing sidestream and older films and we launched ourselves into creating a comprehensive list, with the determinned goal of seeing as many of them as possible as soon as possible. I will now post the list on here and make it my goal to see as many as I can. What I propose is that those who are interested or think it is a good idea should also post their own lists of films they'd wish they had seen and then go about seeing them, themselves. You then up date your original list by editing what the original post to note the ones you've seen.

Of course one of the most important parts is having other users comment on the films in your list and reccomend/disagree with posts...

Ok so here is my list organised into directors, and then random movies at the end. I chose to organise it in directors, because I chose a lot of these movies based on the fact I had not yet seen enough films of each director.

Also I apologise for how long and straight down the list is and the fact that it will stretch the screen. If any mods can edit my post to make it easier, then go ahead.

Wernog Herzog:
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.

Billy Wilder:
The Apartment.
Sunset Blvd.
Stalag 17.
Double Indemnity.

Federico Fellini
La Dolce Vita
Roma
Strada, La

Orson Welles:
Touch of Evil.
The Magnificent Ambersons.

Fritz Lang:
M
Metropolis
The Big Heat

Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep
Rio Bravo.
Scarface.
Bringing Up Baby
His Girl Friday

John Huston
The Man Who Would Be King
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The African Queen.

Gus Van Sant:
Elephant

Alfonso Cuarón
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Ingmar Bergman
Smultronstället
The Seventh Seal

Yasujiro Ozu:
I Was Born But…
Banshun
Bakushû
Tokyo Story
Good Morning.
Ukigusa
An Autumn Afternoon

Charles Chaplin.
The Great Dictator
Modern Times
City Lights
The Immigrant
The Kid

Wong Kar Wai:
2046
In the Mood Love.
Happy Together.
Chung hing sam lam

Spike Lee.
Do the Right Thing.
Malcolm X.
25th Hour

Sidney Lumet:
Network.

Richard Linklater:
Waking Life

Kurosawa:
Ikiru


John Ford:
Stagecoach
The Grapes of Wrath

Sam Peckinpah
The Wild Bunch
Straw Dogs

David Cronenberg
Naked Lunch
The Fly
Videodrome

David Lynch
Lost Highway
Elephant Man
Eraser Head

Frank Capra
It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It’s a Wonderful Life
Mr Deeds Goes to Town

Michael Powel:
The Red Shoes
Peeping Tom
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death

Random:

Deliverence

Balthazar.

Solyaris

Three Colours.

Infernal Affairs

The Rules of the Game

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Last Man on Earth

Great list there Cicero. It is ok if it is long, it doesn't stretch things out.

I don't really have any at the moment, at my age and all the movie viewing I have done, I can't think of any off-hand..seriously....
But I envy you your first time viewing many many of the films on your list, there are very few I have not seen, several times. I think your biggest treat will be the Billy Wilder films...is the other Orson Welles film The Magnificient Ambersons ??? Touch of Evil is outstanding as well.

I thought of one...

I want to see The Man Who Laughs..1928, with Conrad Veidt.

is the other Orson Welles film The Magnificient Ambersons ???

Woops, yes it is, I'll edit that one...

I don't really have any at the moment, at my age and all the movie viewing I have done, I can't think of any off-hand..seriously....

Yes, that is a good point, I guess this whole thing is rather better suited to me as I am younger. Really the greatest problem is finding the films, I live in a reasonoably small city and to get Ozu films or even something like The Magnificent Ambersons will be hard.

I still haven't seen Requiem for a Dream.

I'd also like to see Election, with Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.

Cicero, I assume you've seen The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven?

Woops, yes it is, I'll edit that one...



Yes, that is a good point, I guess this whole thing is rather better suited to me as I am younger. Really the greatest problem is finding the films, I live in a reasonoably small city and to get Ozu films or even something like The Magnificent Ambersons will be hard.
Do you have a library system there that you can get films from ???

Cicero, I assume you've seen The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven?

Yeah I have, I guess it's going to be impossible for other people to recommend films, as the list only says what I haven't seen, not what I have.

By the way, I really enjoyed both Requiem for a Dream and Election. They are both worth searching for...especially Requiem.



PS...Ozma/mods could you edit the Magnificent Ambersons mistake for me? My computer only quits when I try to edit anything.

The Magnificent Ambersons may have been the first film I ever saw at the cinema (though, the lion king may have taken that title). It remains the only Welles film i've ever seen...

There's a whole load of films that I still want to see:
More of David Lean's stuff and Kurosawa

Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana
Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train
Stanley Kubrick's The Killing
Mike Leigh's All or nothing
John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle
Billy Wilder's:
The seven year itch
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment

and many more...

I want to see The Man Who Laughs..1928, with Conrad Veidt.

You and me both..

I'd also love to see 'London After Midnight'..the 'lost' Lon Chaney film..

I wish I still had so many great movies to look forward, Cicero. I can only think of a few:


8 1/2 (Fedrico Fellini)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Scarlett Street & House by the River (Fritz Lang)

I just recently saw Fellini's Roma for the first time. It's an unusual one, even by Fellini standards.

I wish I still had so many great movies to look forward, Cicero. I can only think of a few:


8 1/2 (Fedrico Fellini)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Scarlett Street & House by the River (Fritz Lang)

I just recently saw Fellini's Roma for the first time. It's an unusual one, even by Fellini standards.
That is exactly how I feel as well...I am almost jealous, I can still remember the first time I saw many of the great films, too numerous to mention, there is certainly a treasure trove of movies to be seen...

It is hard to beat Fellini in the "strange film" department...

If anybody ever gets a chance, and nobody has put this on their wish list Ugetsu is such an excellent excellent movie.

Ugetsu (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/)

After seeing A Woman Under The Influence and The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, my current mission is to see all of John Cassavettes' films. Also, I'd love to see more Buster Keaton. That's just my current obsessions though; I've only seen 11 of the films on cicero's list, plus I've never seen anything by Sidney Lumet, Federico Fellini, Harold Lloyd, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Michelangelo Antonioni, Terrence Malick, Elia Kazan, and hundreds more.

Now that I write it out like that, I feel sort of guilty for being at the computer rather than running down to the local DVD rental shop to improve myself :o

You have some wonderful surprises in store for you... :)

Alright people this woman is on a mission too.

We are trying to reve up this section of the forum. Good God there is an enormous amount of great films, I am sure we could go on listing them for ages.

Any of the ones we have already mentioned, I can't even imagine the excitement of seeing these films for the very first time.

Nobody mentioned The Third Man only because those of us who have posted thus far have seen it already.

I'm glad you dragged this back, because since posting it I have seen six of the movies on that list. This feels like progress.

I'm glad you dragged this back, because since posting it I have seen six of the movies on that list. This feels like progress.Oh fantastic. Keep going, what did you see??

I still have not seen The Man Who Laughs but it is out on DVD, Kino Video, they do a great job with old films. But now I am going to buy it.

The Man Who Laughs (http://www.imagesjournal.com/2003/reviews/manwholaughs/text.htm)

This is turning into a seriously frustrating day for yours truly!

Not only have I been reminded on another thread of how badly I want to see

The Island Of Lost Souls
Alice In Wonderland (1933)
and
The Last Man On Earth,

but now I come upon this one and remember I've always wanted to watch
London After Midnight
and
The Man Who Laughs (especially since seeing those clips from it in The Black Dahlia a couple of weeks ago.)

Oh, the deprivation!

This is turning into a seriously frustrating day for yours truly!

Not only have I been reminded on another thread of how badly I want to see

The Island Of Lost Souls
Alice In Wonderland (1933)
and
The Last Man On Earth,

but now I come upon this one and remember I've always wanted to watch
London After Midnight
and
The Man Who Laughs (especially since seeing those clips from it in The Black Dahlia a couple of weeks ago.)

Oh, the deprivation!London After Midnight is sadly a lost film isn't it. Nobody is going to be seeing that, usless a print is discovered somewhere, someday.

Alice in Wonderland is still not on DVD or VHS, only some shoddy bootleg copies crop up on E-bay all the time. Don't buy one of those.

I have only seen The Island of Lost Souls on TV before, and not that long ago.

London After Midnight is sadly a lost film isn't it. Nobody is going to be seeing that, usless a print is discovered somewhere, someday.

Alice in Wonderland is still not on DVD or VHS, only some shoddy bootleg copies crop up on E-bay all the time. Don't buy one of those.

I have only seen The Island of Lost Souls on TV before, and not that long ago.

And The Man Who Laughs doesn't seem to be available on Region 2. Heigh ho.

"Of all sad words of tongue and pen
The saddest are these: it might have been."

. . . though not as sad as to spend all your life writing poetry and only be remembered for one couplet and it doesn't rhyme.

And The Man Who Laughs doesn't seem to be available on Region 2. Heigh ho.

"Of all sad words of tongue and pen
The saddest are these: it might have been."

. . . though not as sad as to spend all your life writing poetry and only be remembered for one couplet and it doesn't rhyme.
Yeah what the hell. :confused:

That is really the sh!ts we can't even share DVD's because they won't play on each others DVD players.

Just remembered another on my "How have I lived for half a century and never seen . . ." list. I Bury The Living.

Oh fantastic. Keep going, what did you see??

The movies I've crossed of this list:

Metropolis
The Seventh Seal
Network
The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
La Dolce Vita

I actually really enjoyed every one of these movies.

The movies I've crossed of this list:

Metropolis
The Seventh Seal
Network
The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
La Dolce Vita

I actually really enjoyed every one of these movies.Oh a good list. And two of my all time favortites, especially Metropolis, it should be on the top and The Seventh Seal another masterpiece, Bergman's best, well my favortie of his work anyway.

We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god.