While killing time between classes, I found a link to a RogerEbert.com piece entitled "102 Movies You Must See Before...," and to my surprise, I've only seen 36 of them. I'm not sure if this is a good number or not, but I feel I should see more...because there are some serious ommissions on my list.
I only picked the movies that I am 100% sure I've seen all the way through and could discuss with any degree of accuracy. I'm proposing a survey...how many of these have you seen? Figure it out and post your results in the comment section. Here's my list:
- "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick
- "Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
- "Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
- Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
- "Bambi" (1942) Disney
- "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
- "The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
- "Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
- "Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
- "Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
- "Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski
- "Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
- "Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
- "Do the Right Thing" (1989 Spike Lee
- "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
- "Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey
- "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
- "Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
- "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
- "The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
- "Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
- "Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
- "Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale
- "GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
- "The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
- "Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
- "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean
- "Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
- "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
- "Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang
- "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry
Gilliam - "On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
- "Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
- "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
- "Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
- "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming
3 comments:
I cut and pasted the list, then deleted all the ones I havnt seen.
-"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick
-"Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
-"Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
-"Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
-"The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
-"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
-"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
-"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks
-"Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
-"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
-"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
-"Breathless" (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
-"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
-"Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
-"Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
-"Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski
-"Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
-"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick
-"The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan
-"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise
-"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
-"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
-"Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder
-"Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
-"E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
-"Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
-"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
-"The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
-"Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
-"Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
-"Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale
-"The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
-"Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
-"GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
-"The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
-"Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
-"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
-"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
-"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
-"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean
-"M" (1931) Fritz Lang
-"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
-"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
-"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
-"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
-"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
-"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
-"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone
-"Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier
-"Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
-"Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
-"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
-"Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks
-"Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg
-"The Searchers" (1956) John Ford
-"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
-"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
-"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
-"Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
-"The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed
-"Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
-"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston
-"Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
-"West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
-"The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah
-"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming
Which makes.... 66, if I counted correctly. Pretty good list, heavy on the Film Noir (which suits me just fine). My two biggest quibbles with Roger Erbert (who I always thought was a big fat idiot)are:
Why The Holy Grail and not The Life of Brian? Seriously, both deserve a place, but if yu are going to just pick one of them, pick the best film about religion ever made.
Why The Rules of the Game and not Grand Illusion? How can you miss out the war film Goebbels called "Filmic Public Enemy Number One"?
But I know these things are all subjectve and all that stuff, and its Eberts list, not mine. Pretty good overall tho, and some of my favorite films were included, so a good effort.
-eoin
Only 20 for me. And I didn't see any Kevin Bacon movies on the list. Seen pretty much all of those.
couple things - I used the DuBose rules/Eoin cut-paste method and landed at 46. I'm sure I've seen others but the memory is sketchy (ie 2001, Casablanca, 3rd Man....). 2nd, to my read, it's not Ebert's list - it's Jim Emerson's. What could/would be fun is our collective lists of have-to-sees. Might have to blow an hour and create my own.
"The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut
"Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
"Bambi" (1942) Disney
"The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica
"Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
"Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick
"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
"Do the Right Thing" (1989 Spike Lee
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
"E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
"The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
"Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
"Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
"The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
"Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
"GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
"The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
"Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
"On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
"Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
"Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray
"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan
"Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
"Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
"Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
"West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
"The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming
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