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Word of warning: I will block you if you call liking classic movies “elitist”. Thousands are literally free right now on youtube. This is literally our shared cultural history. To intentionally reject it is beyond foolish and arrogant.
And the concept of the “film school elite” thing is laughable. The majority of my peers in film school scoffed at anything made before 1994. I saw 80% of the classics I now love from either basic cable, youtube, or my local library in high school.
Any way, here’s a thread of stone cold banger classics you can watch RIGHT NOW for free on youtube:
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) one of the most beautiful and unnerving American films ever made.
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) one of the most beautiful and unnerving American films ever made.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s ANDREI RUBLEV
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s most absurd comedy (and my all time fave) THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece WILD STRAWBERRIES
Carl Th. Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
The original vampire film - from openly gay director F.W. Murnau - NOSFERATU
Orson Welles’ legendary production of MACBETH made after his exile from Hollywood
Hollywood’s first major female director - and open lesbian - Dorothy Arzner’s CRAIG’S WIFE (starring the formidable Rosalind Russell)
Speaking of Roz, here she is with Cary Grant in empirically one of the funniest movies ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s early british thriller that earned him his title THE 39 STEPS (there’s TONS of public domain Hitchcock out there!)
Frank Capra’s humanist, exceptionally left wing comic drama MEET JOHN DOE with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
Japan’s great filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa’s STRAY DOG
and Japan’s coolest filmmaker, Seijun Suzuki’s STORY OF A PROSTITUTE
WITHIN OUR GATES, an incredibly important film from Oscar Micheux, one of the very first black film directors, and who created more of what we know about the language of film than any of his contemporaries (cough, Griffith)
Hitchcock’s incredibly influential spy thriller/romance NOTORIOUS with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant
Ida Lupino’s film noir classic THE HITCH-HIKER
Miriam Hopkins in the sultry pre-code classic STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
That’s all just from ten minutes of quick surfing around youtube on my phone.
If you want some recs, tell me what kind of movies/shows you like and I’ll drop you a link to a classic that’s right up your alley.
If you want some recs, tell me what kind of movies/shows you like and I’ll drop you a link to a classic that’s right up your alley.
