Movie literate

Jim Emerson has a list (his list) of 102 movies a serious/semi-serious film junkie should see.

I remember I tried to represent key examples of all important genres, movie stars, directors, historical movements, and so on -- like an overview of the 20th century in 101 movies. Yes, there are many more I'd like to add, but remember, this is only a primer. How many have you seen? (Hot titles [at the above referenced page] should link to Roger Ebert's reviews.)

I've marked the ones I've seen with a “*”, and movies I've seen recently with a “**”. Movies that are one my Netflix queue already are marked with N (I may or may not have already seen these). Movies I haven't seen have URLs linking to Amazon ('cause it's the easiest to create with my blogging software)

Oh, and while I've watched a gazillion of these movies, this list would not be representative of my list of 100-movies-you-should-see.

1. *2001: A Space Odyssey
2. * The 400 Blows
3. *8 1/2
4. **Aguirre, the Wrath of God
5. * Alien
6. *All About Eve
7. * Annie Hall
8. * Apocalypse Now
9. * Bambi
10. *The Battleship Potemkin
11. The Best Years of Our Lives
12. The Big Red One
13. *The Bicycle Thief
14. *The Big Sleep
15. * Blade Runner
16. N Blowup (saw this so long ago, I want to watch it again)
17. * Blue Velvet
18. *Bonnie and Clyde
19. *Breathless
20. **Bringing Up Baby
21. Carrie
22. * Casablanca
23. *Un Chien Andalou
24. *Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
25. * Chinatown
26. * Citizen Kane
27. * A Clockwork Orange
28. The Crying Game
29. *The Day the Earth Stood Still
30. Days of Heaven
31. * Dirty Harry
32. **The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
33. * Do the Right Thing
34. *La Dolce Vita
35. *Double Indemnity
36. * Dr. Strangelove
37. * Duck Soup
38. * E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial
39. **Easy Rider
40. * The Empire Strikes Back
41. *The Exorcist
42. * Fargo
43. * Fight Club
44. *Frankenstein
45. *The General
46. * The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
47. * Gone With the Wind
48. * GoodFellas
49. * The Graduate
50. Halloween
51. * A Hard Day's Night
52. *Intolerance (but it's been so long I forget most of this one)
53. It's a Gift
54. * It's a Wonderful Life
55. N Jaws
56. ** The Lady Eve
57. * Lawrence of Arabia
58. * M
59. * Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
60. * The Maltese Falcon
61. ** The Manchurian Candidate
62. * Metropolis
63. * Modern Times
64. * Monty Python and the Holy Grail
65. * Nashville
66. **The Night of the Hunter (saw this last week, review forthcoming)
67. * Night of the Living Dead
68. * North by Northwest
69. * Nosferatu
70. * On the Waterfront
71. N Once Upon a Time in the West
72. N Out of the Past
73. * Persona
74. * Pink Flamingos
75. * Psycho
76. * Pulp Fiction
77. * Rashomon
78. * Rear Window
79. * Rebel Without a Cause
80. * Red River
81. * Repulsion
82. * The Rules of the Game
83. * Scarface
84. The Scarlet Empress
85. N Schindler's List
86. The Searchers? never even heard of this
87. * The Seven Samurai
88. *Singin' in the Rain
89. *Some Like It Hot
90. *A Star Is Born
91. *A Streetcar Named Desire
92. *Sunset Boulevard
93. * Taxi Driver
94. *The Third Man
95. NTokyo Story
96. * Touch of Evil
97. * The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
98. * Trouble in Paradise
99. *Vertigo
100. * West Side Story
101. *The Wild Bunch
102. * The Wizard of Oz

So that's ten films I haven't seen (including Carrie and Halloween), plus an additional four on my Netflix movies-to-be-seen-soon list. Umm, I think I watch too many movies. You may now resume your norml life.

Via Kottke, of course.

Tags: Film, /narcipost, /Netflix