Classic

The genre formally known as "Nostalgia", we determine "Classics" to be all titles that now pre-date 1990(!), but don’t hold us to it…

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Badlands (1973): Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek; Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock-out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the '50s. Criterion Collection Blu-Ray includes a 2019 HD restoration overseen by Director Malick.
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie…; Spirited biopic of the careers of W.S. Gilbert, a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and…
Melody (1971): Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Tracy Hyde; An adorable yet forgotten youth movie that we discovered has a passionate cult following especially among those that were young and impressionable at the time of its release. Based on the first script by Alan Parker before he directed “Bugsy Malone” and reuniting the pin-up child actors Jack Wild and…
Family Way, The (1966): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…; This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills) who are forced to live in a crowded house with the husband's family (including Mills' real-life father, John Mills). Based on the Bill Naughton play…
Spring and Port Wine (1970): Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. James Mason, Diane Coupland, Susan George; James Mason and Diana Coupland play a stern father and a lenient mother who are trying to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton. Based on the play of the same name.
Up The Junction (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman…; A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed Battersea, where she gets a flat and a job in a factory before confronting the propsect of an illegal abortion. Based on the book by Nell Dunn, with a…
Lucky Jim (1957): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith…; A likeable British comedy adapted from the beloved novel by Kingsley Amis about the constant frustrations of a young history lecturer with his university colleagues.