If it’s not already clear based on Cairo Station’s presence on this list, Youssef Chahine is a pretty big deal in 1950s and 1960s world cinema. He packs a great deal of thought into an hour and 10 minutes of running time, and makes every beat count. Chahine documents Egyptian life after the 1952 fall of the Egyptian monarchy, with a focus on working class struggles and the relationship between sexual repression and sexual violence. So it goes, but it’s still a great movie, and that’s all that matters. The Academy accepted it as the Egyptian entry for 1959, but it didn’t make it through the nomination process.
Youssef Chahine’s neorealist- noir bromide holds the distinction of being the first Arabic film submitted for consideration in the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category. It probably also has something to do with the fact that it features Bing Crosby singing the Irving Berlin hit “White Christmas,” which, according to Guinness, is still the best-selling single worldwide more than 60 years later. It’s the film version of a Starbucks peppermint mocha, and yet it remains a holiday classic because of the execution, the star power, and, yes, the sentiment. Nothing compares to White Christmas, though.
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Just make sure you watch them all before Netflix makes like an Etch A Sketch and shakes these films out of their lineup.Įvery year, people argue about whether or not Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie of all time, or wax nostalgic about the time they shot themself with a BB gun after watching A Christmas Story for the millionth time. But the library is so vast that, if only by accident, a handful of bona fide masterworks made in decades long past remains available for your viewing pleasure. Let’s not downplay the reality here: Netflix’s library is sorely lacking in classics, whether American or international. “Old” and “classic” being relative terms, and Netflix being a revolving door for any movie the streaming service can’t claim as an “original,” a line can be drawn that divides everything made after 1990 or so from everything made before.
For them, “classic” refers to films made before their time: The oldies but goodies from the 1970s, 60s, and 50s. This will inevitably make more than a few folks who grew up in these movies’ eras wither on the spot. Each of these films enjoy a spot in film’s pantheon, and qualify as modern classics.
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