A Strange Little Movie List
I took this from Eden. It's meant as a sort of companion piece to the book meme of yesterday.
Here are 100 films spanning nearly 100 years. Mark them as PARTLY (if you’ve seen parts but not enough to say “yeah, I’ve seen that”), SEEN (feel free to add +/- for liked/didn’t like it), FAVE (would watch it repeatedly) or QUEUED (if you would like to or intend to see it, via Netflix for example). I added CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS for those movies everyone knows, whether they've seen them or not.
1. Broken Blossoms
2. Metropolis SEEN
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Un Chien Andalou
5. Nosferatu SEEN
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. Pandora’s Box
8. Modern Times
9. It Happened One Night FAVE (lOVE THIS)
10. Gone With the Wind FAVE
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood SEEN
12. Wuthering Heights
13. Freaks
14. Casablanca FAVE
15. Citizen Kane (EMBEDDED IN CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES THAT EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, YOU KNOW IT.)
16. Rebecca
17. Kind Hearts & Coronets
18. The Philadelphia Story FAVE
19. Double Indemnity
20. The Heiress
21. The Magnificent Ambersons SEEN
22. Arsenic & Old Lace SEEN
23. Rear Window SEEN
24. 12 Angry Men SEEN
25. Sunset Boulevard
26. Touch of Evil
27. Singin’ In The Rain FAVE
28. Some Like It Hot SEEN
29. On The Waterfront CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
30. The Night of the Hunter
31. The African Queen SEEN
32. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
33. Psycho CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
34. Lawrence of Arabia PARTLY
35. To Kill A Mockingbird SEEN
36. Mary Poppins FAVE
37. The Manchurian Candidate SEEN
38. Judgment at Nuremberg
39. 8 1/2
40. The Graduate PARTLY--CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
41. A Man For All Seasons
42. The Hustler SEEN
43. The Innocents
44. The Godfather PARTLY--CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
45. Five Easy Pieces
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest SEEN
47. Taxi Driver
48. Monty Python & The Holy Grail FAVE
49. Alien SEEN
50. A Clockwork Orange
51. The Sting SEEN
52. Jaws CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
53. Annie Hall
54. Patton SEEN
55. The Exorcist NEVER SEEN THIS, ALTHOUGH THE BASICS ARE PRETTY MUCH PART OF THE CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS. FUNNY STORY: when naming my second daughter, I was looking for something non-supernatural (the wealth of "teenage witch comments making me want to strangle someone, anyone). I thought I'd hit on it with "Regan." Until the day someone said, "oh, like in the Exorcist?"
56. Harold & Maude
57. Young Frankenstein
58. Network SEEN
59. All The President’s Men
60. The Last Picture Show SEEN
61. Barry Lyndon
62. The French Connection PARTLY
63. Rocky SEEN
64. M*A*S*H* SEEN
65. Halloween
66. Das Boot PARTLY
67. Amadeus SEEN
68. The Elephant Man SEEN
69. Blade Runner FAVE
70. The Princess Bride FAVE
71. Platoon
72. Body Heat SEEN
73. Die Hard FAVE
74. Scarface
75. Brazil
76. Henry V
77. This Is Spinal Tap SEEN
78. Say Anything SEEN
79. The Last Emperor
80. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off FAVE
81. Pulp Fiction SEEN
82. The Usual Suspects FAVE
83. The Age of Innocence FAVE
84. Goodfellas SEEN
85. Groundhog Day SEEN
86. Leaving Las Vegas
87. Fight Club FAVE
88. American Beauty FAVE
89. Trainspotting
90. The Nightmare Before Christmas FAVE
91. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
92. The Pianist
93. A Beautiful Mind SEEN
94. Million Dollar BabyQUEUED
95. Kill Bill SEEN
96. Children of Men QUEUED
97. United 93
98. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory FAVE
99. Little Miss Sunshine QUEUED
100. Casino Royale QUEUED
Comments
You need to see: Freaks, Sunset Blvd, Strangelove (are you sure you didn't just skip this?), Annie Hall and Young Frankenstein. Three comdies (one dark), a noir drama and the penultimate horror cult classic. Annie Hall = should see first of those. Talk about a cultural touchstone ;)
If it's not Paul Newman, Robert Redford, or Elizabeth Taylor, my '60s movie viewing is somewhat limited. Oh, and why the hell isn't Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the list, dammit?
I really, really, really hate Woody Allen. Really. Almost as much as Oliver Stone. Although I did like Purple Rose of Cairo.
I might just have to do this one...and Eden is right. Although I'd vote for Dr. Strangelove first. And isn't Taxi Driver a Cultural Consciousness one?
Okay, so my addendum would be that Un chien andalou should be labeled "cultural consciousness" due to The Pixies, as should Freaks, thanks to Marilyn Manson's references to it. I love intertextuality! Furthermore, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Psycho, and Harold and Maude are all marked "delicious" in my book. Oh, and 8 1/2 is by Fellini, it's pretty good largely due to its mises en abyme.
Movies make me joyful, and I know my tastes are unorthodox, but (in my humble, admittedly overeducated, overthought, and overwrought opinion) that list should be cranked all around.
I was surprised that United 93 made the list. I have never seen it, and I would like to, but I personally loved World Trade Center and would think that it would place higher on the list than United 93. No matter where it places though, I say that it is a must see movie. Just be sure to have a box of tissues.
The books, I have a shot at. I'll never catch up all the movies though!
I've seen 10,11,15, 19, 23, 31, 33, 36, 40, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, , 64, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 80-85 (hated Age of Innocence--it never ended), 88 and 93
My faves are - Arsenic and Old Lace (hilarious, Some Like It Hot (double hilarious).
I've watched the Princess Bride over and over.
The Exorcist I just found hilarious, but it's not a comedy. Linda Blair Spewing pea soup is hysterical.
All the President's Men is probably my all-time favorite movie.
Say Anything-well anyone who went to high school in the 80s gets it.
Two that were left out IMO--
The Sound of Music and
The Breakfast Club (another 80s classic)
And Kimberly--I agree about both Woody Allen (I never got him and his neurotic characters) and Oliver Stone.
As for the Pianist--I refuse to watch anyting Roman Polansky directed just on principle.
The Passion of Joan of Arc is a great old film everyone should see.
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