... and the movie meme

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From oursin again, these are the films that Roger Ebert apparently claims are the ones every true film buff should have seen. I've bolded those I've seen, italicized those I haven't but want to, and crossed out those I have no interest in. The rest I have no opinion either way.

Um, I guess I'm a film buff, or something like one, because I've seen more of these than not...



"2001: A Space Odyssey"(1968) Stanley Kubrick
"The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut
"8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog
"Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
"All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
"Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
"Bambi" (1942) Disney
"The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
"The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica
"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks
"Blade Runner"(1982) Ridley Scott
"Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
"Breathless" (1959) Jean-Luc Godard (saw Richard Gere version *grin*)
"Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks
"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
"Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
"Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
"Children of Paradise" / "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne
"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
"Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick
"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
"Do the Right Thing" (1989) Spike Lee
"La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini
"Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder
"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
"The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
"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
"Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith
"It's a Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
"The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges
"Lawrence of Arabia"(1962) David Lean
"M" (1931) Fritz Lang
"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller: half-watched it while it was on telly
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
"Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang
"Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
"Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
"Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau
"On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone
"Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier
"Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
"Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
"Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa
"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray
"Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks
"Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski
"The Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir
"Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks
"The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg
"Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg
"The Searchers" (1956) John Ford
"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
"Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
"A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
"Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
"The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed
"Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
"Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston
"Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
"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

Comments

[lilyfriend.livejournal.com]

So many films from before I was born. How am I going to watch them all!? Have seen a bunch, but not that many really. As for the ones you haven't seen:

I liked Duck Soup.. bit quirky.. but that's the Marx Brothers for you. Wasn't all that impressed with the ending, but it was funny.

And I liked Fight Club. It was.. different, but good.

Paul speaks highly of Rashomon, though I haven't seen it. He's got a book planned out based on it.

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Yeah, I've been meaning to see Rashomon, too - isn't that the one with multiple viewpoints? Huh - _that's_ got a lot to answer for!! As for Fight Club - I know it has its merits; I just don't really like Brad Pitt and the subject matter (except for the po mo qualities of it, that I'm aware of - I know the "secret") doesn't appeal. You'll notice that I've ignored or crossed out quite a lot of old comedies - not a big fan of slapstick, actually, though I do like the snappy dialogue ones like Tracy and Hepburn where everyone talks super fast (like the Gilmore Girls on speed).

[lilyfriend.livejournal.com]

Yea, Rashomon has multiple viewpoints. I've seen various summaries explain it differently, and Paul only repeats the plot points that are going to be relevant to his book, so I'm not entirely sure how it all breaks down, but I'd rather just watch it myself anyway. It's based on a couple different short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, or so Paul explains. Oddly enough, it more closely resembles "In a Grove" than his "Rashomon" story, so I might read those first. He really liked them. *shrugs*

I don't particularly like Brad Pitt either. I do, however, love Edward Norton. He's been in a couple films I've enjoyed, but mostly, I think I fell in love with him because of his performance in Primal Fear. I *adore* William Diehl's novels, and his representation of Aaron Stampler was probably about as good as a film could pull off. The twisty line at the end of the film was, of course, better delivered in the book, but I was happy enough.

Slapstick always makes me think of Leslie Nielson or Don Adams. When I was younger, I loved the Naked Gun movies, and Get Smart was the best. They don't make me laugh as much these days, but sometimes the physical comedy, if done right, can be priceless. Duck Soup certainly was an odd one. I don't think I ever fully understood the plot, though I did come into it a few minutes late.. maybe I missed something crucial (but I don't think so). lol. But Groucho often makes me laugh. I saw him once as a panelist on the old, "What's My Line?" tv show, and he was hilarious. Have loved him ever since.

Aha! Did you read my week 13 journal on Gilmore Girls? I actually turned that one in early! I love that show. :)

A Number...

[lilyfriend.livejournal.com]

Do you know much about Caryl Churchill's "A Number"? It's playing at the Belfry. We've been looking for something to do Friday night. Might be a good option!

Re: A Number...

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Only that it's about cloning, and I've read fairly good reviews. Should be interesting!

And yes, I remembered you mentioning the Gilmore Girls... I like that show too.

I like Edward Norton, too. Did you see that one (a brain fart is preventing me from remembering the title, something with X in it) where he plays a neo-nazi? Not enough to make me want to see Fight Club, though :)