Is it important to expose your children to classic films?
October 30, 2009 - 10:38 pm
If so, what is your ‘must see’ list?
I don’t know if it’s "important" compared to other things you might do with and for your children, but it’s VERY educational and can be a lot of fun! 
As for a list…
Arsenic And Old Lace
The Wizard Of Oz
The Best Years Of Our Lives
City Lights
for a more modern classic I like Little Big Man
October 31st, 2009 at 3:51 am
sometimes I like watching them. It takes my emotional pain away. sometimes I write poems about pain and how pointless life is when watching them. good luck, if thier is any left.
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October 31st, 2009 at 4:08 am
to kill a mocking bird. the quiet man. inherit the wind. witness for the prosecution. amadeus.
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October 31st, 2009 at 4:39 am
If you consider films that your child won’t see or that aren’t new to be classics then, yes. Number one on my list is "The princess bride".
Goonies
All Indiana Jones
Etc.
Yes I am a child of the 80’s
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October 31st, 2009 at 5:10 am
To Kill A Mockingbird is good for a high school kid who is also reading the book, most classics that are books, I would recommend, but would bore most children, but I would say Free Willy, The Goonies, Home Alone, Star Wars, just movies that are good and that they would actually be interested in… different for all kids.
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October 31st, 2009 at 5:24 am
it is a wonderful thing you can have them watch AMC
or you can go to a rental place & check their classic department
my children have like Alfred Hichcock and Bergman
if you start with films you might as well offer them music &arts
I have alsways take my children to the Opera
children love the 3 tenors
Have fun
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October 31st, 2009 at 5:56 am
I think so!
My kids really like some of the classics and they are mostly musicals.
Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz
Fiddler on the roof
Mary Poppins
West Side Story
Gone with the wind
King Kong (the original)
Bringing up Baby
It’s a wonderful life
Harvey
Arsenic and Old lace
Little women
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October 31st, 2009 at 6:08 am
all of the movies of Lonesome Dove it is a great movie
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October 31st, 2009 at 6:49 am
Classic films are fine, but I’d rather expose my kids to classic books. For example, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is an excellent movie, but the book has so much more depth.
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October 31st, 2009 at 7:37 am
It’s a great thing to do together.
Actors
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Cary Grant
Audrey Hepburn
Films
Gone with the wind
Musicals – Rogers and Hammerstein/Rogers and Hart
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:16 am
I don’t know if it’s "important" compared to other things you might do with and for your children, but it’s VERY educational and can be a lot of fun!
As for a list…
Arsenic And Old Lace
The Wizard Of Oz
The Best Years Of Our Lives
City Lights
for a more modern classic I like Little Big Man
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