101 Movies Meme
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ltmurnauThe 101 movies Roger Ebert thinks someone should watch to become pop-culturally literate - not the best, but the most culturally resonant, I suppose. Ones I've seen marked with an asterisk:
*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
Bambi (1942) Disney
*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 (fell asleep, though)
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 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (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
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
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
49 of 101, not bad I guess.
*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
Bambi (1942) Disney
*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 (fell asleep, though)
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 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (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
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
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
49 of 101, not bad I guess.
