102 YA GOTTA DO

For xmas Lulu sent me a cool book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. I flick through it before I go to sleep most nights, marking off the ones I've seen. Man, have I got a lot of movie watching to do :o(

Then I saw this over at kottke and this list is more to my liking. It's the 102 movies you should see before you can call yourself movie literate. Or as the compiler Jim Emerson puts it...

...they [are] the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They're the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat "movie-literate."

So I've managed to knock off 63 of the 102, although I admit I didn't watch Nosferatu in its entirety! I mean sheesh!!

So here's the list (those I've seen are in bold)

2001: A Space Odyssey * The400Blows * 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 * TheBigSleep * 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 *

See how you go!!

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Ranx said…
2001: A Space Odyssey * The400Blows * 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 * TheBigSleep * 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 *

40! (I think) Way more than I expected, I don't watch many movies normally, but I guess at my age that's only one a year since I was 2!
stu said…
I actually dont watch all that many myself, which is why I like this list,it has a heap of the ones I have watched :o)