Updated July 2007.
Many months ago I stumbled across the now fairly ubiquitous list of “102 Movies to see before you die”. I realized that every summer I have a fair amount of time with which to occupy myself absorbing key bits of culture but I typically lack the media. The bits behind many of them are in the pipe and waiting to be watched already (+) and I have already seen a few (*). Last summer I’d seen 23. Now I’ve got 50. Now that I’ve covered half the movies I think I can go back and reflect on the ones that stuck with me the best.
Crying Game was fantastic due to its emotional tension juxtaposed with the lively historical situation.
8 1/2 was bizarre and easy to get lost in but the imagery of the plot persist.
After I watched “Discrete Charm” I wanted more so I saw Brunel’s “Exterminating Angels” and liked it even more. Yay, mysterious force keeping rich people stuck in rooms for weeks.
I’m not yet really sure what to think of Fargo, the accents were cute but I didn’t get into it as much as Ebert.
Gone with the Wind was surprisingly good despite much criticism concerning the racial portrayals.
I couldn’t quite finish Psycho in the middle of the night, brr.
Rashomon and Seven Samurai were obviously groundbreaking and quite well done but I couldn’t get too worked up over either.
I saw Run Lola Run the other day and was piqued when one of the reviewers compared it with Breathless which I had just seen. There was definitely some correspondence.
Last night I saw Fargo which I might need to see again to really appreciate.
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* The 400 Blows
* 8 1/2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
+Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
* Apocalypse Now
* Bambi
+ The Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Red One
+ The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
* Blade Runner
*Blowup
+ Blue Velvet
*Bonnie and Clyde
* Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
+Carrie
* Casablanca
+ Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
* Chinatown
* Citizen Kane
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Crying Game
* The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Heaven
Dirty Harry
* The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
* Do the Right Thing
* La Dolce Vita
Double Indemnity
* Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
* E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
Easy Rider
* The Empire Strikes Back
* The Exorcist
* Fargo
* Fight Club
Frankenstein
The General
* The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
* Gone With the Wind
GoodFellas
* The Graduate
Halloween
A Hard Day’s Night
Intolerance
It’s a Gift
* It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
The Lady Eve
* Lawrence of Arabia
+ M
* Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
* The Maltese Falcon
* The Manchurian Candidate
* Metropolis
* Modern Times
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
* North by Northwest
+Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
*Once Upon a Time in the West
Out of the Past
*Persona
Pink Flamingos
*Psycho
* Pulp Fiction
*Rashomon
*Rear Window
*Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Repulsion
*The Rules of the Game
Scarface
The Scarlet Empress
Schindler’s List
* The Searchers
* The Seven Samurai
Singin’ in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
A Star Is Born
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
*The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
*Vertigo
West Side Story
The Wild Bunch
* The Wizard of Oz
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