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I saw this at an old "movie house" in 1971, when I was 17, and I'm 71 now. I've never forgotten it. A film from the same era was "Bang the Drum Slowly." And to a certain extent, "The Last Detail.". There is a quietness at the core of all of them. And each one contains at least one Academy Award-nominated acting performance.

Top five film for me

Interesting review. I have a major issue with how Haneke ends his films. This, Hidden and Funny Games all have endings that frustrate me hugely. I appreciate his talent, i just personally hate his films.

World of yesterday by Stefan Zweig 👍

I think your brain is hollow

Just finished watching Underground for the first time and enjoyed your insights, here, thanks! Amongst the chaos and explosive behaviour at the wedding, I noticed that the model church Ivan gives Jelena and Jovic was built out of matches. On receiving the flammable gift, Jelena rings the bell inside the church. This seemed connected to the scene decades later when Ivan confronts his brother in front of a church filled with holes, braced and held together by planks of wood, with fire and explosions all around (and I think some fire inside). The bell rings inside the church and we discover Ivan has hanged himself on the bell rope. Both scenes involve infighting, division, destruction, deception, wanting to escape, wanting to bring an end to things. Life in the cellar is sustained by faith, but since it is built on a lie, the fuse is lit - and it literally explodes later. Something about building your own faith and fate. Interpret as you will.

How would you compare Pasolini’s ideas of the future of Africa with those of Akomfrah?

As someone who lives in Chicago, it’s very interesting living in a place where nationwide there is a certain perspective of the city I love the city, and all of my friend who come to visit for the first time love it too

Excellent video thank you!

Excellent review! Thank you!

Your voice is so soothing I’ve been binging these videos to relax!

The Sorrow and the Pity remains one of my favourite films. It is well worth watching.

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PBS Frontline documentaries (before 2010, because they became very PC around then) are great. Very insightful, they are mostly pertinent to contemporary society and culture. I wish I had access to all of them, the Internet Archive has quite a few available but many aren’t there. Also there is a good documentary made by John Huston called ‘Let There Be Light’ about World War II soldiers experiencing “shell shock” aka PTSD, made in 1946 the US government suppressed it until the 1980s.

You should write a script and be more comprehensible because your takes are really interesting, but you use way too long to explain.

THE WAY WE WERE is a classic? Really? Well, then, I must have been wasting my time with Murnau, Keaton, Dreyer, von Sternberg, Ford, Ophuls, Huston, Renoir, Powell and Pressburger, Welles, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Clouzot, Lean, Bergman, Wilder, Lubitsch, Antonioni, Tati, Tarkovsky, Resnais....

Great review! As a Serbian, I have to say that it’s a film that’s very true to life for everyone in Serbia! The things and characters that seem over the top or exaggerated r more like every day people and occurrences u come across haha, so the characters I would say majorly define what the society in Serbia is like! The portrayals of masculinity and femininity in Underground r also extremely accurate to the Balkan region, I’ve witnessed much of it :)

Without a clip, I can't even picture "The Way We Were". I don't think I've even ever heard of it. Other movies I can't get through: Citizen Kane, and The Best Years of Our Lives.

I like your taste in HU movies

haven't watched the entire video but I agree with your main point after watching the movie last night - it's a good movie

I was surprised how much I enjoyed 'The Way We Were', it's schmaltzy and more a series of nice scenes than a strong story, but I liked it. Streisand and Redford are a good example of irresistible force / immovable object in their acting styles.

What was the resolution that you arrived at when the final scene happens and specifically when Kidman utters the famous four letter comand at the end? Most reviews I've read of EWS at its release either pan, are overwhelmed by it or can't comprehend what the central narrative is. I've even seen RUclips/letterboxd comments that suspect Bill and Alice's child is abducted in the final scene.

Shows my age but for me, when I see a title like 'classic Hollywood' I think of the 30s and 40s.

Have you seen The Rain People? FFC's film before the Godfather.

I haven't seen this film yet, but you should read the Cave Allegory again. I spent a number of years seriously studying Plato and I picked up on any number of Platonic themes just in your description of the plot. Even the question of the main character's motivations reflects Plato's theory of the "tripartite soul." The Cave Allegory is in fact just one part of a much longer discussion of the tripartite soul in Republic. Basically, it's a theory about how underlying pathological desires (like the desire for money or professional success) limit and determine what our faculty of reason can see or accept about the truth of something. It's a theory of the psychology of learning, but one which connects it to its broader ethical and political implications. It's also a theory of social conformity. I really enjoyed this. It was a seriously thoughtful discussion. I'm definitely going to give this movie a spin now. You earned a sub without a doubt.

Ironically, I couldn’t finish this video. Hahaha.

One movie I couldn't get through is "The Sixth Sense". I just don't understand Bruce Willis' character. Other than with the kid, he doesn't seem to interact much with the people in his life. It just really doesn't make any sense to me.

A film isn't famous just because it old

no. but modern movies are definitely a scam, for the most part.

How are we defining "classic " movies. For me its pre 60s movies, but im sure for many younger people its anything made before 1990

I find I have trouble with contemporary movies. I found Oppenheimer so overhyped and empty.

unpopular opinion. Pulp fiction was garbage

The Big Blue is a freediving movie. If it was a scuba diving movie, the whole premise of the movie would be totally different. WTF?

The second I saw Jabba the Hut, I was out of there. Haven't seen one of those stupid movies since.

It was Robert Redford in the way we were not Paul Newman. So you lost a lot of credibility right there in the first few lines.

The way we were is with Robert Redford not Paul Newman. Maybe you should watch it all the way through. Your list of films that you could not get into shows that you have a very short attention span. Perhaps you should cover a different topic(s) for you channel like video games or comic books. Sorry I can't subscribe to your channel.

I admire your honesty, but not your diplomacy. Perhaps you should define, as one of your commenters suggested, the word "classic"... At the end of the day every movie tells a story and that's a very individualistic thing. It could be based on your personality, an experience in your life, thoughts that you are considering, whatever... But it also may be a matter of timing. So before you discourage a large audience of people from experiencing something that others have considered a classic, then at least show respect to those people. A fair critique of any film should include more disclosure on your part of who you are. I don't walk up to Trump supporters and piss on their cereal. But if I were to engage with one of them I'd start by confessing first that "I don't get it": that's honest... then work from there.. I'm sorry so many people are ripping you a new one over your video. I suppose they were expecting what I thought, based on the title... Classic movies that you couldn't finish... But now get. Oh well... not yet, I guess. Best of luck.

Omg so funny. Yes On Golden Pond was an ok movie 🍿🎥. And dude it was Redford in The Way We Were, not Newman. And the film is epic.😮

“Classic” as in Casablanca or Wizard of Oz? None of the movies you list are anywhere near that status. Flowers of St Francis is more like “interesting” than classic.

Chapters, I need chapters. In my opinion many of these aren't considered classics. Big names like Barbra Streisand doesn't make it a classic. Streisand can only play her self and Hollywood tried for 30 years to make her a thing in Hollywood. Great voice tho. My classic movie that I couldn't finish - it's a proper classic btw: It's a Wonderful Life. Yes, the big James Stewart movie that also has a very high IMDB score. The movie everybody loves, I couldn't finish it. Serpico - Pacino's wardrobe got bigger from scene to scene. I'm still 2/3 in, waiting for that one rainy day to finish it. Metropolis (1927) - I only have 1 hour and 32 minutes left on this one 🤣 Fitzcarraldo - Herzog Herzog Herzog: KaBlam, you've been sucked into a black void. Babes in Toyland - They forgot to make it funny.

I just rewatched On Golden pond recently. What a great movie. You're weird if you can't finish it.

If you are going to watch 80% of a film, just finish it. I like movies, I watch a lot of them. You went to see ready To Wear and watched 2 minutes and left ?? You gotta have more patience bro. I haven't seen that film, but like a lot of his work, he's an artist, The Player was great, have you seen that ? You hate every movie from the '80's ? All of them ? Not familiar with your channel, so I just went and looked at all the videos that you have up. You think Showgirls is a good movie ??? Is such a laughable piece of poor filmmaking, the dialogue is such a joke along with the acting and the story. It's a so-bad-it's-good film. I don't think critiquing films is something that is for you, but good luck.

Metropolis

You hate every 1980s American film? Broadcast News? Bull Durham? The Color of Money? Crimes and Misdemeanors? Deathtrap? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? The Fabulous Baker Boys? Funny Farm? Hannah and Her Sisters? House of Games? Moonstruck? No Way Out? Risky Business? Roxanne? Say Anything? Tin Men? Tootsie? That's a lot of great films that you're dismissing.

"The Way We Were" starred Robert Redford , not Paul Newman. Get your facts right before critisizing.

Watch the director's cut of "Apocalypse Now" --- a tad bit longer (God help us!) but the French plantation segment adds much for perspective & the Playboy bunnies arriving by helicopter w/ ensuing firefight's delightful --- satirical hubris at it's bizarre finest.

Always nice to see someone not from Poland reviewing polish films

Jeeeze, take a breath now and then. You are like one long run-on sentence. Pause, "On Golden Pond." Pause. Go.

Ishtar?

As a Philadelphian, it kind of pains me to say this but Rocky is awful. How the Rocky universe grew to the magnanimous cultural phenomenon it is, is mystifying when you consider the original source. I'm convinced that Rocky is something everyone knows but nobody has actually sat through. I've tried. It's so bad. I remember going to a screening behind the Art Museum in Philadelphia. I was going because I lived in Fairmount and it was something to do. The amount of people who left early or were visibly bored out of their minds at what was playing on the screen was kind of funny. I think everyone was just waiting for him to run up the Art Museum Stairs so they could go home. I'm 49 years old, so the Rocky films were essentially something I was born into. It's almost like the Catholicism I was raised with. It was just something you accepted until one day you were like "wait, what do I believe?" The first Rocky movie I remember seeing was Rocky 3. The marketing genius of Stallone to put Mr. T and Hulk Hogan in the movie was like getting a plastic toy in a Happy Meal. For a kid in the 80's this was Nirvana. Then Follow it up with a ridiculously over the top anti Soviet Union movie in the Reagan 80's and I was all in. I don't remember the first time I actually watched Rocky, but it was painful. How that garbage won best picture is almost as mystifying as Stallone getting nominated for best screenplay. I'm interested in someone convincing me its actually a good movie. I just don't get it.