Cultural literacy: seen these movies? (via Kottke)
Jumping on a meme here, via Jason Kottke:
Film critic Jim Emerson recently compiled a list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate. How well do you score?
Here’s my list: 54 out of 102. I guess I’m only semi-literate then. I have a membership at Boite Noire, I have no excuse.
Items in italics are ones I have yet to see. So now I have 48 excuses for movie dates.
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
Blow-Up
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
April 26, 2006 1:52 PM
Comments
I love lists, and I love this one, thanks for posting it and pointing it out. I have seen all of them except for 4. I am so jealous you have all those cool movies left to see! I’ve seen many of these several times and own a lot on dvd. (well, I am a film nut, and make short films so ya know) I have not seen, Bambi, Children of Paradise. Scarlet Empress and Tokyo Story. so I have some “homework”. I never saw Bambi because my mum wouldn’t let us she thought it would screw us up. She managed to do that instead, heh heh. I’ve kind of avoided it but maybe its time to rebel against my parents and see Bambi. It’s possible I’ve seen Scarlet Empress but am not clicking with the title, something is familiar in its name.
Love this list, thanks again, fun!
Candy
wrote Candy Minx on April 28, 2006 7:57 AM
I wasn’t familiar with it either. It’s a Marlene Dietrich pic about the Russian aristocracy, made in 1934.
wrote AJ Kandy on April 28, 2006 9:55 AM
Ooooo. I like this meme. Not that I’m gonna score any better, but I’d like to play anyhow. Next week. I’m curious to see how many of the movies I haven’t seen are at my south shore Videotron.
wrote Frank on April 26, 2006 4:01 PM