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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by vimy on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:59AM (#27290565)
Any recommendations?
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by hardwaregeek on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:12AM (#27291554)
The Naked City by Jules Dassin is a really good police procedural. If you like stuff like Law & Order, this is the progenitor.

The Third Man is classic, classic noir. Between the on location shooting in Vienna, fantastic performances by Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, and really distinctive cinematography, it's just stunning.

A Man Escaped. To quote Godard, "He is the French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music". If you like simple, but beautiful films, watch Bresson. A Man Escaped makes all other prison break films, with their endless plot twists and convolutions, seem utterly pointless. Instead Bresson focuses on the character, the drama and the methodical process of breaking out.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:21AM (#27290814)
The intruder with William Shatner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4dQ2QzBhE

The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small Southern town of Caxton in order to incite white townspeople to racial violence against black townspeople and court-ordered school integration.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by godfreyantonell on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:27PM (#27293454)
Shatner doesn't get his due. That guy's got chops.
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by lttlrck on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:35AM (#27290981)
Gregory Peck made a lot of great movies. Charade and North by Northwest are both very good.
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:44AM (#27291107)
I'm surprised how well NbNW holds up.
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by brink on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:10AM (#27290697)
Some Like it Hot is hilarious.
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:32AM (#27290947)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by snewman on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:40AM (#27291062)
A thousand times this. Best screwball comedy ever.

Also You Can't Take It With You. Now you've seen one Cary Grant and one Jimmy Stewart. To finish up you can get both of them with Catherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by NegativeLatency on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:14AM (#27291576)
Dr Strangelove, All About Eve, Singing in the Rain
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by zem on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:16PM (#27297815)
'desk set' holds up remarkably well. some great performances and dialogue.
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by Shermanium on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:05PM (#27294709)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE AWFUL TRUTH, the SHERLOCK HOLMES series with Basil Rathbone
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by andrew_ on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#27290901)
Anything Marx Brothers is hilarious
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by dangerbird2 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:00AM (#27291364)
Word of warning that Day at the Races has a "minstrel show" scene that's pretty offensive even by 30s standards. Other than that, the Marx Brothers are easily the greatest comedy troupe in American history, and their films are still some of the funniest ever made
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by gverrilla on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:52AM (#27292112)
The best comedy I know!
Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by germinalphrase on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:22PM (#27292467)
Casablanca

Dead of Night

Modern times

The third man