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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:

âœ”	“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
âœ”	“Alien” (1979) Ridley Scott
âœ”	“All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
âœ”	“Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
âœ”	“Apocalypse Now” (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
âœ”	“Bambi” (1942) Disney
âœ”	“The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
-	“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler
-	“The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
âœ”	“The Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio De Sica
âœ”	“The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
âœ”	“Blade Runner” (1982) Ridley Scott
-	“Blowup” (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
âœ”	“Blue Velvet” (1986) David Lynch
âœ”	“Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
-	“Breathless” (1959) Jean-Luc Godard
âœ”	“Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
-	“Carrie” (1975) Brian DePalma
âœ”	“Casablanca” (1942) Michael Curtiz
-	“Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
-	“Children of Paradise” / â€œLes Enfants du Paradisâ€ (1945) Marcel Carne
âœ”	“Chinatown” (1974) Roman Polanski
âœ”	“Citizen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
âœ”	“A Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley Kubrick
âœ”	“The Crying Game” (1992) Neil Jordan
âœ”	“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise
-	“Days of Heaven” (1978) Terence Malick
âœ”	“Dirty Harry” (1971) Don Siegel
-	“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
âœ”	“Do the Right Thing” (1989) Spike Lee
-	“La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini
-	“Double Indemnity” (1944) Billy Wilder
âœ”	“Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stanley Kubrick
âœ”	“Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
âœ”	“E.T.â€”The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven Spielberg
âœ”	“Easy Rider” (1969) Dennis Hopper
âœ”	“The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Kershner
-	“The Exorcist” (1973) William Friedkin
âœ”	“Fargo” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
âœ”	“Fight Club” (1999) David Fincher
-	“Frankenstein” (1931) James Whale
-	“The General” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
âœ”	“The Godfather” and “The Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
âœ”	“Gone With the Wind” (1939) Victor Fleming
âœ”	“GoodFellas” (1990) Martin Scorsese
âœ”	“The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
-	“Halloween” (1978) John Carpenter
âœ”	“A Hard Dayâ€™s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
-	“Intolerance” (1916) D.W. Griffith
-	“Itâ€™s a Gift” (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
âœ”	“Itâ€™s a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank Capra
âœ”	“Jaws” (1975) Steven Spielberg
âœ”	“The Lady Eve” (1941) Preston Sturges
âœ”	“Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) David Lean
-	“M” (1931) Fritz Lang
âœ”	“Mad Max 2″ / â€œThe Road Warriorâ€ (1981) George Miller
âœ”	“The Maltese Falcon” (1941) John Huston
âœ”	“The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John Frankenheimer
âœ”	“Metropolis” (1926) Fritz Lang
âœ”	“Modern Times” (1936) Charles Chaplin
âœ”	“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
-	“Nashville” (1975) Robert Altman
-	“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
âœ”	“Night of the Living Dead” (1968) George Romero
âœ”	“North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
âœ”	“Nosferatu” (1922) F.W. Murnau
âœ”	“On the Waterfront” (1954) Elia Kazan
âœ”	“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
âœ”	“Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
âœ”	“Pulp Fiction” (1994) Quentin Tarantino
âœ”	“Rashomon” (1950) Akira Kurosawa
âœ”	“Rear Window” (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
âœ”	“Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray
-	“Red River” (1948) Howard Hawks
-	“Repulsion” (1965) Roman Polanski
-	“The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
âœ”	“Scarface” (1932) Howard Hawks
-	“The Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef von Sternberg
âœ”	“Schindlerâ€™s List” (1993) Steven Spielberg
-	“The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
âœ”	“The Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira Kurosawa
âœ”	“Singinâ€™ in the Rain” (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
âœ”	“Some Like It Hot” (1959) Billy Wilder
âœ”	“A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
-	“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
-	“Sunset Boulevard” (1950) Billy Wilder
âœ”	“Taxi Driver” (1976) Martin Scorsese
âœ”	“The Third Man” (1949) Carol Reed
-	“Tokyo Story” (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
-	“Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
âœ”	“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
âœ”	“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
bÂ	mÂ	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

Peter Cook

I know Laura will happily join you in your Matrix-cide behaviour, Luisa. That trilogy went bad so fast it made George Lucas look like a master.

On the subject of old movies, some of the older ones can be found at archive.org. Titles like Nosferatu, The General, and Battleship Potemkin.
Luisa

I'm at about 50, too, but probably a good deal higher since I often forget movies. I'm excited to see some movies from the 40's I haven't seen before. I'll have to try and find them. Old movies are my very favourite. Well Jeff, I guess we're not into the same kinds of movies at all.

Hey, Reid! I don't see The Matrix in that list. That's good. Very good. If one more person goes on about how good that movie was, I'll shoot them.
Jeff K

I'm about a 50 score on the movie list. Most of those old ones bore me. Anyway, I must say that it is good that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is in the book/movie area. Both book and movie are great, *but* the movie largely missed the point, hm so did Alice in Wonderland, and so did ...

Oh ya, as for the old movies, I watched Double Indemnity recently. A total bore. "To have and to Have not" was wildly better. The Bogart/Bacall chemistry was amazing.
Leslie

Hah. 83. Peter's somewhere in the 90s. Squirmy's score is pretty bad, but he *has* seen the entire 5 year run of Babylon 5.
aiabx

72. There's a few partials in there as well, but i didn't count them.

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