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Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on December 29, 2009, 02:21 AM:

I'm interested in what the other members areas of particular interest are. My passion is the silent era up to the end of the 40's - American film in particular.
This is not exclusive, just my particular preference.

How about you?

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on December 29, 2009, 02:37 AM:

mainly silents for sure,
but then I'll jump to 50's noir, westerns,
and horror/sci fi of any era...

While I do go see current movies I find that less of them are intriguing enough to me to run out and see em....I really do not like CGI, give me a guy in a suit or some optical in camera effects anyday. Likewise I often find myself looking for harder to find movies rather than watching traditional classics over and over again (with a handful of exceptions such as It Happened One Night)

Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on December 29, 2009, 03:25 AM:

Comedy, especially screwball or action comedies.

Animal House (1978) and the National Lampoon films are the best, but I also fancy L&H, A&C and the Stooges of course [Smile]

And action films, the classic ones, like the Connery/Moore-era 007s, the Lethal Weapon-series, Die Hard etc.

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on December 29, 2009, 09:56 AM:

Vintage horror and monster films are the films I collect the most. However I have got a few classic westerns and action films from the 30's,40's and 50's. And I also started to collect classic British comedies so I have a few of them as well. But the old monster films are still my favourites.

Paul.

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on December 29, 2009, 11:16 AM:

Fairly across the board in terms of what I watch:

Silents
Classic comedies (American and British)
Drama from any period (Noir/crime/melodrama)
Foreign cinema (China/Russia/Germany/Italy, many others.)
Horror and Sci/Fi
Documentaries.
A handful of Westerns.

I agree about the sad prevalence of digital effects; I just watched "Altered States" again and the 'organic' quality to the physical/optical effects work is wonderful.

Claus.

Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on December 29, 2009, 03:05 PM:

Disaster movies, Sifi movies, war movies especially ww2 themed.
Pat

Posted by Gian Luca Mario Loncrini (Member # 1417) on December 29, 2009, 04:39 PM:

Well, let's see...

1)

(and animation in general. I think animators have a great power in their hands. They do have the possibility to CREATE everything their mind suggest them. And this is really fascinating, to me);

2) Evergreen Classics (one example? REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Still dreaming about a good 8mm print in scope);

3) Musicals (will I find a copy of FOOTLOOSE, one day? [Roll Eyes]

)

4) 70's and 80's horrors (cannot see any 'violence' in them, but just a funny and harmless will to scare. Or, at least, to try to scare);

5) One western: Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. A perfect epic way to describe the end of a blockbusters era (spaghetti western). This is probably my favorite movie ever released.

Gian

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 30, 2009, 08:41 AM:

Science Fiction, Fantasy and animation, in that particular order.

Secondarily ... westerns, if well made, "Once Upon A Time in the West", for instance.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on December 30, 2009, 12:45 PM:

I was talking about eras rather than genres really. For instance, I have come across some movie fans who have no time for the silent era. I have come across yet others who prefer not to watch B&W movies, etc.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 30, 2009, 03:57 PM:

Sorry about that Micheal,

I have a large collection of Silents ... a quiet interlude in a noisy world, eh Micheal?

Besides that, I would be rather hard pressed to actually select a period of time.

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on December 30, 2009, 04:05 PM:

Yep It seems that us 40-somethings were the last generation to grow up with B/W TV, so watching old movies was par for the course, I find it really frustrating when I constantly hear of film students that have an avoidance of anything old. Even current music fans often get the concept of, "If you like that, why not see what influenced them?" ALTHOUGH, maybe they do cuz most of the current film directors are MTV music video and video game generation, so maybe that is where the influence ends.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on December 30, 2009, 04:50 PM:

The reason I asked in the first place I suppose is that I see so much emphasis on this forum on the big action stuff like TERMINATOR, STAR WARS, STAR TREK, BOND movies, along with newer stuff like CARS, TOY STORY, and the usual DISNEY fare.

I just wondered whether or not there was much interest in the whole history and heritage of cinema in general among collectors or if some just collected Super 8 for its own sake - not that there is anything wrong with that.

This is far from being a criticism, by the way - it's just something that crossed my mind. I notice that there appears to be more awareness of film history and culture amongst 16mm collectors.

Does anyone else see this?

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on December 30, 2009, 04:53 PM:

Ranging from the teens and up to the 1970's.

Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on December 30, 2009, 05:45 PM:

Michael, I am very interested in film history. I own several old films, albeit mostly on DVD, and I enjoy watching how the films evolved.

I also have "The Great Train Robbery" from 1903 on 8mm, a true masterpiece of it's age! [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 30, 2009, 05:58 PM:

I should mention I do have a love for 30's humor, features and shorts. There was a cvertain quality to those films that remains timeless.

Especially when seeing films that were shot on location. Silents are really fun to watch in this regard. I find it fascinating watching "The Great Train Robbery" (1902) and realizing that much of what made the old west, thee old west, was still alive and kicking. I'm seeing, (in that film) a part of the country that was as it was back then, living once again on actual film. Its mesmerizing!

The same follows for those early silents in Hollywood, when you see streets and otherwise.

A really good example of this, by the way, is the Porky Pig cartoon, "I Ought to be in Pictures", which was a live action/animation film, in black and white. There is a long drawn out shot of Porky driving in his "toon car" down a street in L.A. I love freeze framing that whole scene and seeing Gas stations (and the signs for gas!) and trolley cars and the like all over the place. It's magical.

Even more interesting to me, personally, are the transitional films, silent to sound. The awkwardness of them all, but a whole era completely ending. Its sad in some way. Especially when you consider how many careers just abruptly ended, SNAP!
just like that and they were museum pieces!

Sorry about getting a little off track.

Posted by Oemer Yalinkilic (Member # 86) on December 30, 2009, 06:09 PM:

I´m interested in many kind of movies. But I collect different movies in different gauge.
35mm: Technicolor prints of classic movies like Marilyn Monroe, Hitchcock etc. specialy MGM Musicals from the 40´s/50´s like Singin in the rain etc.; Vista Vision prints; and Science Fiction / Horror movies from the 50´s to early 70´s.
Also everything I can get from Cyd Charisse.
I take also trailer and poster/lobby cards etc. for the 35mm prints I have.

16mm: I keep two of my favorite movies I don´t find yet on 35mm (Batman (1966)LPP and When Worlds collide IB); Castle Horror/SF and Batman (1966) TV Shows.

Super 8: Castle Horror/SF, favorite movies and Trailer from the 80´s to recent movies.
I also buy and sell cut downs from Marketing, Piccolo, UFA because I dreamed in the 70´s to own many of this titles and as a child in the 70´s I watched only the catalogs.

Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 30, 2009, 06:46 PM:

My interest is in B&W films. I love the clear and crisp image. And, I tend to like films from the 1930's thru the 1970's the most.

I do have a soft spot for ....Godzilla!

Bill

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on December 30, 2009, 10:07 PM:

Christian and all,

If you do not have The Great Train Robbery in your collection,
look for the Super 8mm Blackhawk Films release with the hand color tints
and soundtrack. It is very worth while and best projected at 18 fps.

I wish that I had the time to view all of these titles.
If the local public library has these volumes, it would be
fantastic.

Buster Keaton's The General has been released on Blue Ray.

KINO

The Movies Begin DVD Boxed Set

Edison, The Invention of the Movies

The General

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on December 31, 2009, 02:48 AM:

KINO are an excellent resource.
Also check out:

http://www.silentera.com/

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on December 31, 2009, 08:44 AM:

Michael 'O,

Thanks for the link.

Here is a site that offers early comedy DVD's, and has a dedicated staff to film actress Thelma Todd.

Looser Than Loose

Posted by Thomas Murin, Jr. (Member # 1745) on January 01, 2010, 10:21 AM:

I'll pretty much watch anything from any era. That said, the 1970's through the 1980's are my main areas of interests as those were my formative years, as they say.

Overall, my collection comprises a large amount of films from silents to the present. I'm just a guy that really loves movies!

As for generes: sci-fi, horror and action are were my main interests lie.

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