Me and two friends had “classic movie nights” for a couple of years before I moved away. We would watch something which is considered a classic and it had to have been released before 2000. We watched only those which none of us three have seen before and we would watch it like once every two months or so. Movies like:

  • M
  • Gone with the Wind
  • The Godfather
  • Taxi Driver
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Rear Window
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Chinatown
  • Le Grande Bouffe
  • L’Avventura
  • Tengoku to jigoku
  • etc.

It was a ton of fun and we talked about the movie before, what our expectations are and after just generally and each of us would give it a IMDB star rating.

Now sadly my friends live 9 time zones away, so we can’t really do that anymore. But I was thinking to try to convince my wife to do this classic movies night with me. Right now she is reluctant because English is her 4rth language and especially older movies are using language differently too, but one day she will give in :D.

Anyway, now that you know the rules, what movies do you think I still missed and should watch?

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Tampopo (dandelion). Japanese film from the 80s about food and god knows what else, but very funny.

      • Ilandar@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        In 2008, a former member of the Goto-gumi yakuza group told reporter Jake Adelstein: “We set it up to stage his murder as a suicide. We dragged him up to the rooftop and put a gun in his face. We gave him a choice: jump and you might live or stay and we’ll blow your face off. He jumped. He didn’t live.”

        In the first season of Tokyo Vice, which is loosely based on the life of Jake Adelstein, there’s a scene where this choice is offered to a yakuza member. I wonder if the writers took inspiration from your piece of trivia or whether it’s just a common way of covering up murders over there.

        • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          [Tadamasa Goto’s] claim to infamy was alledgedly ordering a hit on the esteemed Japanese film director Juzo Itami in May 1992. Itami had directed a film called Minbo no onna, which, unlike all previous yakuza films in Japan, portrayed the yakuza as money-grubbing, ill-mannered louts, not noble outlaws. Goto was not pleased with the film and especially disturbed by the implications that yakuza did not live up to their threats. On May 22, five members of his organization attacked Itami in the parking lot in front of his house, slashing his left cheek and his neck, inflicting serious injuries upon him. Itami became a vocal supporter of the new anti–organized crime laws the Japanese government put in place that year and a general pain in the ass to organized crime. He was a living symbol of what the yakuza really did, not what they pretended to do. He allegedly killed himself a few years later by jumping from a tall building.

          Tokyo Vice, chapter 21

          I’d imagine this is not uncommon of them though. It’s a tidy way to off somebody in a city with lots of places to do it.