Kottke points us to this list of 102 movies every movie buff should see.
I’m not sure I buy the list, but I was curious how I stacked up:
(Films I’ve seens are marked with *. Favorites - those which I have seen multiple times or own - are marked with **. The ones I think I’ve seen or that I’ve only seens bits of are flagged with ~.)
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 1/2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
* Alien
~ All About Eve
* Annie Hall
** Apocalypse Now
* Bambi
The Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years of Our Lives
~ The Big Red One
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
** Blade Runner
Blowup
* Blue Velvet
* Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
* Carrie
* Casablanca
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
* Chinatown
* Citizen Kane
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Crying Game
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Heaven
* Dirty Harry
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
* Do the Right Thing
~ La Dolce Vita
Double Indemnity
* Dr. Strangelove
* Duck Soup
* E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
* Easy Rider
* The Empire Strikes Back
The Exorcist
** Fargo
** Fight Club
Frankenstein
The General
* The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
* Gone With the Wind
* GoodFellas
~ The Graduate
~ Halloween
~ A Hard Day’s Night
Intolerance
It’s a Gift
* It’s a Wonderful Life
* Jaws
The Lady Eve
~ Lawrence of Arabia
M
* Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
* The Maltese Falcon
* The Manchurian Candidate
Metropolis
* Modern Times
** Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
The Night of the Hunter
* Night of the Living Dead
** North by Northwest
Nosferatu
~ On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
Out of the Past
Persona
* Pink Flamingos
* Psycho
** Pulp Fiction
* Rashomon
* Rear Window
** Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Repulsion
The Rules of the Game
** Scarface
The Scarlet Empress
* Schindler’s List
The Searchers
** The Seven Samurai
* Singin’ in the Rain
~ Some Like It Hot
A Star Is Born
** A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
~ Taxi Driver
The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
~ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
** Vertigo
* West Side Story
~ The Wild Bunch
* The Wizard of Oz
So, 49 go into my “seen it” list and 12 more have at least passed before my eyes at some point.
you should make a list of your favorite lists. after you re org your cds by genre and then alphabetical.
2001 is a shitty movie. I know I’m supposed to love it, but it is really a pool of 3-day old diarrhea sans corn.
nah, it is good.
it is good like fat marlon brando was still good
List of lists? It’s been done. (But of course, I’m a fan.)
shut up about lists. fat marlon brando is the best thing i have come up with in a long time.
No, I disagree. Fat Marlon Brando is about average for you. If you think that’s your A game, you’re slipping.