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"2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick's classic."
"My Darling Clementine is one of director John Ford's best films focusing on Wyatt Earp as he helped restore law and order."
"Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of those perfect movies."
"House of the Wolfman, this Wolfman looks wonderful, especially in this classic black and white render. He's tough and the movement on all fours is great."
"It's classic. It's one of the best noirs ever."
"Stanley Kubrick's feature A Clockwork Orange stands the test of time for its scathing exploration of violence."
"RRR feels like the kind of Hollywood movie that hasn't existed in decades."
"Perhaps no name, and no character – his Little Tramp – have come to symbolize classic cinema more than that of Charlie Chaplin."
"His best-known work is the 1937 film The Good Earth..."
"Which of these is gonna go down more as a timeless classic? Look in your heart, what do you think it is? It's the first Blade Runner."
"Astaire starts the routine by looking cool as a cucumber as he masterfully taps around the stage with a cigarette in his mouth. Suddenly, he takes things up a notch by throwing a firecracker to the ground in time with the music."
"Timepiece films like this only get better with age."
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarves set the course for animated film for decades."
"2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the finest films ever created."
"We're off to see the wizard, The Wizard of Oz."
"Breakfast at Tiffany's starring the divine Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly is one of the most elegant movies ever released."
"It's classic, I love it, I think it's one of the best movies ever made."
"The most romantic scenes of all time are rarely sexing. Those are the most forgettable. The romantic scenes are the ones that are from the 1940s where people barely touch and the tension is just tremendous."
"Well that's too bad because I got more you like to keep it classy well you don't get any classier than the master of suspense himself Alfred Hitchcock."
"Close Encounters is considered a classic and a marvel in filmmaking."
"Patty Jenkins wanted this movie to feel very much in the vein of the first Superman movie."
"The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars feature since Empire to feel like a genuinely great classic in the making."
"This film is so generically made that it's a classic."
"Maureen O'Sullivan was such a huge inspiration to many, performing at different times with the likes of Lawrence Olivier, Greta Garbo, and William Powell."
"Batman 89: Still regarded as one of the greatest superhero movies of all time."
"They based the Defender Strange character on Errol Flynn, the actor who is most known for playing swashbucklers like Robin Hood."
"There's no question about it, Godfather one and two, you know mob movies, people love them."
"Beautiful and probably the og Janet Lee moment of psycho."
"Check out the Blu-ray of the restored hard-to-find Cinerama film 'Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm' from WB archives."
"Possessing all of the elements of a classic Disney film."
"The Wizard of Oz is timeless. It is as good today as it was the day that it was released in 1939."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Gone With the Wind
"I consider Dawn of the Dead one of the best films ever made."
"Honestly still today, I feel like this movie is a great watch."
"Shawshank is a top-five greatest film ever made." - John
"I think everybody should watch at least once Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
"We can all agree that the original trilogy of Star Wars is a masterpiece."
"The Outsiders, I'm going to give a 9, maybe a 10. I love this movie."
"It's a Wonderful Life... It's an amazing amazing movie... It's about forgiveness, it is about community, it's about the unseen contributions that we all make to the lives of the people around us."
"She caught the eye of director Alfred Hitchcock and starred in three of his most famous films: 'Dial M for Murder,' 'Rear Window,' and 'To Catch a Thief.'"
"But so many reasons why it's a great film, a beautiful and eloquent love letter to E.T. the Extraterrestrial."
"An icon of epic biblical films in the 1950s, Heston starred as Moses in 'The Ten Commandments' and the title character in 'Ben-Hur,' which won him an Academy Award."
"Dracula, the original Dracula, was always a film that Lugosi said in many interviews that you know, it's a film you take a date to."
"On the Waterfront from 1954 is one of the most classic movies ever made."
"Rear Window is an excellent movie, done over 60 years ago and done way way better."
"It looks like we're gonna be into another classic black and white film."
"I think that Universal's Wolf Man and Cheney Junior's interpretation of him is one of the all-time great tragic figures of horror."
"That's my stuff, that's my number one, right there, Django man, that's my stuff, fire movie, classic. That's a classic."
"Casablanca is home to so many quotables, a great setting, fantastic chemistry between leads, classic songs, and the epic Humphrey Bogart."
"When Alfred Hitchcock’s 'Psycho' debuted in 1960, its transgressive horror and shocking twists seared itself into the public consciousness."
"The film was aimed to be a love letter to those classics he grew up watching."
"This has got such the atmosphere of those 30s like Universal horror films, such a classic Vibe and I love it."
"With an all-time cast, James Stewart as Senator Ransom Stodder."
"Edgar Wright is an instant classic among his best work."
"If you have not seen The Best Years of Our Lives, I strongly encourage you to do so. It is well worth the three-hour investment in my opinion."
"Classic Universal monsters are always amazing."
"I hear this is like beautiful and emotional and just like very, very classic."
"I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
"I love the Gene Wilder one. I love it."
"The red balloon can do the same to you, check it out if you haven't seen it before."
"I feel like what the world needs a little bit more of is that dynamic... the kind of sparkling dynamics that were present in these crazy films like Bringing Up Baby."
"What a classic movie this is, and everybody loves this movie too."
"Sweet Smell of Success... when you talk about film noir being great, you think of that dialogue that is so snappy, so sharp, and stinging."
"The Big Sleep... it has the brilliant romance, the romantic tension between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart which is part of Hollywood history."
"The scene is one of the greatest of the classic '90s action movies."
"She is almost one-stop shopping for a classic film buff."
"It's giving 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'."
"This is from the first Terminator movie, the original Terminator one... just iconic goodness right there."
"Oh wow, is this actually just going to play a public domain movie? That is so cool."
"One of the most endearing and memorable productions of this past century is the Wizard of Oz."
"It's giving old Hollywood absolutely."
"Just one look at the piercing features of Kirk Douglas's face is enough to understand that he was an outstanding old school Hollywood movie star."
"Fifties Noir is to try and emulate that kind of cinematic black and white movie type film stock that you would have seen in the 1950s."
"There's so much inspiration to be pulled from classic films like this where it was all about elbow grease and Ingenuity."
"There was a lot of magic in that period of classic Hollywood narrative cinema, and how it conditioned much of what society is."
"Psycho is probably my favorite black and white 4K film transfer that I've seen."
"It's a way of life once romanticized in classic movies."
"This is the film we're gonna be talking about: the bright, garish colors of a gorgeously black-and-white film noir classic."
"The Little Rascals, an iconic series that captured the essence of childhood mischief and camaraderie, remains a beloved treasure in the landscape of classic American cinema."
"My one of my favorite actors was Gregory Peck, loved him in To Kill a Mockingbird."
"If you've ever seen the classic movie Cinderfella, you'll have seen the Golden Sahara II open its doors automatically and even drive via remote control."
"It's a Wonderful Life is the best movie."
"He performed the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now which was just one of the greatest soundtracks ever."
"I love the original Mary Poppins."
"It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart."
"We had it all, just like Bogey and Bacall."
"Who directed the classic film Dial M for Murder? Alfred Hitchcock."
"He also directed Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in the classic Holiday Inn, which introduced the world to Irving Berlin's timeless holiday song 'White Christmas.'"
"Old Hollywood is synonymous with class, sophistication, and images of matinee idols chastely stealing kisses on the silver screen."
"Parts one to four are very, very good; the first ones are classic."
"It's one of the best classics we've ever seen."
"You can't get much more classic than Psycho."
"It's a classic movie, you know, great piece of film history."
"I'm big, it's the pictures that got small."
"Crawl has really become a true classic."
"Citizen Kane is now considered one of the greatest films in the history of cinema."
"It's like one of the classic all-time Hollywood cinema movies ever."
"It's the Citizen Kane of Citizen Kanes."
"I was a big fan of Audrey Hepburn and Greta Garbo and all the glamour of this era."