I’ve got a beautiful friend who isn’t feeling great this weekend and wanted some movie recommendations. It gave me a fun 60 second exercise, try it:

Log into your Netflix > Movies You’ll Love > Movies You’ve Rated > Sort by Star Rating

Quickly whip through your 5 Star movies picking out old stuff that you think other people would like and may not have seen. Technology is great sometimes. Here’s how my list turned out:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick - Fantastic. Psychedelic. Incredible for when it was made, incredible still.
• Blow Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni, Vanessa Redgrave - Antonioni is a neat director. Everything is slow and deliberate. Swinging 60’s photographer at the top of his game and Vanessa Redgrave is young, beautiful, and topless.
• Bullitt (1968) Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset - Totally fucking cool. See it. 2nd Best Car Chase scene ever.
• Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson - “Forget about it Jake… it’s Chinatown.”
• Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers - Funny and mean. Sellers kills it. Still poignant.
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Mike Hammer - Holy shit. If you can find this… buy it. Rent it. Watch it. The only way I’ve ever found it is on Netflix Streaming. It’s fucking crazy and good. 2/3rds of the way in - it will blow your mind.
• Network (1976) Sidney Lumet - “I’m mad as hell… and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
• Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly - Hitchcock’s very best. Grace Kelly is heart breakingly beautiful. If you haven’t watched a lot of Hitchcock, this is the one to watch.
• Rumblefish (1983) Francis Ford Copola, Mikey Rourke, Diane Lane - Mercy. Diane Lane is about 18-and-a-day old in this… and crazy hot. Hotter than you can imagine. Black and white, 50’s romantic with a new-wave flair. Mickey Rourke’s character is known only as “Motorcycle Boy”.
• To Have and Have Not (1944) Written by Hemmingway, Screenplay by Faulkner, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall -  Seriously this movie is the shit. Hemmingway? Faulkner? Not only is this the movie where Humphrey Bogart fell in love with 20 year old Lauren Bacall, it’s also the movie with the great line: “You do know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together… and blow.”
• What’s Up Tiger Lily? (1966) Woody Allen - Woody Allen bought the rights to some crappy Asian spy movie and overdubbed the whole thing with American comedians. He turns it into a movie about karate gangs fighting over “a great egg salad recipe”. Hilarious.

This isn’t everything… but about all the time I wanted to put into it.

I’ll update this list here: http://sillyfresh.net/OldMovies