"I've never seen Star Wars" - unwatched classic films...

[Tevot]

Oh perhaps I got it wrong....thought it was about a lone Samirai that played 2 sets of warlords off against one another.....

Hello there No.8

I think you have Yojimbo in mind. Yet another Kurosawa film to be remade in the West. Apparently Yojimbo inspired A Fistful of Dollars.

Yojimbo, I think, can be accessed on Youtube along with his other classics - Seven Samurai (the very ending is stunning imho) and Throne of Blood ( there's a superbly eerie scene when Toshiro Mifune encounters the witch in the forest)

I'd highly recommend Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood to anyone who hasn't seen either film - and has a few hours to spare

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[doversoul1]

Apparently, A Fistful of Dollars was an ‘unofficial’ remake of Yojinbo. Toho production took the Italian producer to court and won.The Magnificent Seven was said to be inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurais and seemed to have had no such problem.

In my youth, I shunned all those Japanese films by Muzoguchi, Kurosawa and others. Samurais looked so embarrassingly serious and why did I want to see what I could see every day? Plein soleil or Stagecoach were so much more interesting …. Ignorant but happy days.

[Tevot]

Apparently, A Fistful of Dollars was an ‘unofficial’ remake of Yojinbo. Toho production took the Italian producer to court and won.The Magnificent Seven was said to be inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurais and seemed to have had no such problem.

In my youth, I shunned all those Japanese films by Muzoguchi, Kurosawa and others. Samurais looked so embarrassingly serious and why did I want to see what I could see every day? Plein soleil or Stagecoach were so much more interesting …. Ignorant but happy days.

Hardly ignorant Doversoul Indeed you've given me a pointer to Plein Soleil.

Many thanks

Tevot

[Bryn]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I have no intention of changing that situation, either.

[Roslynmuse]

The Sound of Music.

Ditto comment to Bryn's re CCBB

[johncorrigan]

The Greatest Showman...no thank you!

[french frank]

All the foregoing.

I think the last film I watched was The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (a DVD, not when the film first came out). It was quite interesting but I gave it to my brother when I had no DVD player. I wouldn't mind having it back now.

[Serial_Apologist]

Anything with Sylvester Stallone in it.

[johncorrigan]

Anything with Sylvester Stallone in it.

Mrs C is like that regarding Nicole Kidman, S_A...for my brother it's Owen Wilson (I reckon he's missed some very good films on the back of that, but there's no telling him, and I say 'Fair enough! We all need our own Michael McIntyres')

[LHC]

Anything with Sylvester Stallone in it.

He was good in the film Copland, and the first Rambo film, First Blood, presents an interesting critique of the US involvement in Vietnam (before the character became a right wing icon), but I would agree that the rest of his output is to be avoided if at all possible.

[Leinster Lass]

Does 'Forrest Gump' rate as a classic film? I'm a great Tom Hanks fan - watched Cast Away earlier this evening - but I wonder how 'FG' compares with 'Zelig' with which I believe it has certain similarities.

[Belgrove]

The Wizard of Oz and Its A Wonderful Life. I’m happy to continue in ignorance of them.

[Pulcinella]

Watched the whole of Casablanca for the first time last night; worthwhile, even though I knew how it ended.

[Dave2002]

I'm afraid you have brilliantly knocked all three of my stumps out with that unerring delivery, bb!!

That's still on my todo list.

I'd quite like to see Dinner for One - which has the merit of brevity - but I've still not got round to that.

OTOH I did see Last Year at Marienbad many years ago, and also Leni Riefenstahl's film of the Olympics - which is really good IIRC, though perhaps didn't have the intended effect on some of us when we watched it.

[Leinster Lass]

That's still on my todo list.

I'd quite like to see Dinner for One - which has the merit of brevity - but I've still not got round to that.

OTOH I did see Last Year at Marienbad many years ago, and also Leni Riefenstahl's film of the Olympics - which is really good IIRC, though perhaps didn't have the intended effect on some of us when we watched it.

Dinner For One is widely available on YouTube.