102 must-see movies

Posted by rae in entertainment, friends
at 9:02 am on Friday, 28 April 2006

Stealing a meme from Harald, here is my version of the list:

✔  “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
✔ “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” and “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
✔ “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
✔ “Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
✔ “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

So I have 63/202 (or maybe 64, if Godfather parts 1 & 2 count as two separate movies; ya, I’m too lazy to count them all..)

So what’s the word Andy? Have you seen at least 75 of them?

And I expect Craig has seen more than I have.

Update: Harald posted another list, this one is the top 50 book-to-movie adaptations, which he got from Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed by Mark Brown of the Guardian.

I’m such a meme follower. Here’s my list. A ‘b’ in front means I’ve read the book, and an ‘m’ means I’ve seen the movie.

b m 1984
- m Alice in Wonderland
- - American Psycho
- m Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- - Brighton Rock
b  m  Catch 22
b m Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
- m A Clockwork Orange
- - Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
b - The Day of the Triffids
- - Devil in a Blue Dress
- m Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
- m Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
b m Doctor Zhivago
- - Empire of the Sun
- m The English Patient
- m Fight Club
- m The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- m Get Shorty
- m The Godfather
- m Goldfinger
- m Goodfellas
b m Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
- - The Hound of the Baskervilles
b m Jaws
- m The Jungle Book
- - A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
- - LA Confidential
- m Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- m Lolita
b m Lord of the Flies
- m The Maltese Falcon
b m Oliver Twist
- m One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- - Orlando
- m The Outsiders
b m Pride and Prejudice
- - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
b - The Railway Children
- m Rebecca
- m The Remains of the Day
- m Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
b m Sin City
- m The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- - The Talented Mr Ripley
- - Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b m To Kill a Mockingbird
- m Trainspotting
- - The Vanishing
b m Watership Down

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T’nir is back!

Posted by rae in family, friends, web site
at 1:45 am on Saturday, 15 April 2006

All it took was transferring the domain from lowcostdomains.ca to dreamhost.com!

Even so, DreamHost has this hiccup where the main domain (in this case tnir.org) has to point to DreamHost itself. I set up the DNS such that *.tnir.org (literally) points to “tnir”, my Linux box, so rae.tnir.org, barker.tnir.org et al all work.

Actually there was a second hiccup where I tried to send mail to tnir by entering “mail.tnir.org”. DreamHost reserves a few subdomains along with the main one by pointing them at DreamHost at well: www.tnir.org, ftp.tnir.org and mail.tnir.org[!].

So, fine, I changed the mail domain to “smtp.tnir.org” and, as far as I could tell it was working late last night. I worry that DreamHost’s scripts actually look at the mail MX record and reserve whatever subdomain name you use to point at DreamHost. However, it’s been over 24 hours and it still *seems* to be working . We shall see.

I’m at Hrach’s typing this on his laptop while Vartan, John and Michael finish off a game of Twilight Imperium. They just finished, so I’m going to wrap this up. I’ll probably add links later.

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tnir update 2

Posted by rae in Reid, family, web site
at 11:38 am on Monday, 10 April 2006

Well, moderate progress:

% host tnir.org
tnir.org has address 216.235.2.222
% host 216.235.2.222
222.2.235.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer park.domains.egate.net.
egate.net is owned/part of lowcostdomains.ca, so at least it’s not under the control of that revenuedirect.com place.

I thought this meant I could use their web-based DNS setup to re-set it, but I’ve tried twice since this change happened on Saturday with no luck.

I’ve chatted with Harald about doing my own DNS. Should I wait for this to fix itself first, or will I be able to wrest control of my DNS away from lowcostdomains.ca completely? Since they call their DNS stuff a “courtesy service”, they imply that you really should be doing it yourself, so I would hope that the web front-end for changing your DNS host is more robust than that for changing your lowcostdomains-hosted DNS setup.

Maybe.

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tnir update

Posted by rae in Reid, web site
at 12:38 pm on Thursday, 6 April 2006

Just now got this email:

From: helpdesk@lowcostdomains.ca
Subject: [eTicket #40339] tnir.org - lowcostdomains.ca DNS problems?
Date: Thu April 6, 2006 12:24:50 EDT (CA)
To: reidellis@gmail.com
Reply-To: helpdesk@lowcostdomains.ca

Dear Reid,

Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing difficulties with our courtesy domain forwarding services. At this time we are still investigating the problem and unfortunately have no estimate on the time until repair. We appreciate your understanding in this situation.

Regards,
Janet

One would have liked a promise of another update at a specified time, rather than this vaguest of assurances.

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tnir.org domain problems

Posted by rae in General
at 2:17 am on Thursday, 6 April 2006

I’m not sure how, but tnir’s DNS entry got zapped tonight. According to “host tnir.org”:

tnir.org is an alias for wc.traffic.puredns.com.
wc.traffic.puredns.com is an alias for wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net.
wc.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net has address 69.25.47.165
I’ve checked, and I have tnir.org registered at lowcostdomains.ca through Dec 2 2006. The whois entry is still correct, and says, in part:
Domain ID:D14408804-LROR
Domain Name:TNIR.ORG
Created On:02-Dec-1999 06:06:24 UTC
Last Updated On:06-Apr-2006 05:47:48 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Dec-2006 06:06:23 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:tumD0AI0A6wVRHMa
Registrant Name:Reid Ellis
Registrant Street1:45 Bournville Drive
I’ve used lowcostdomains’ web interface to reset the DNS back to normal, but I worry that the MX records are gone. :-/ We shall see (hopefully).

Until this all blows over, the old-style tnir.mef.org domain name can be used for some things. http://tnir.mef.org points at what used to be rae.tnir.org, and mail to rae@tnir.mef.org should also work.

Unfortunately, I don’t have “wildcard” DNS set up for perrella.org or luisa.org (two domains that still point correctly to tnir), so I can’t quickly or easily set up alternate domains for David’s blog or Tech Tok. :-/

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