Saturday, April 29, 2006

Movie Illiterate

A while ago, kottle.org posted a list of the 100 movies you should have seen to consider yourself movie literate (acc. to Jim Emerson):
"...they [are] the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They're the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat "movie-literate."

Here's the list and the ones I've seen have an *
* 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

That's only 38. Pathetic. Although there a few that I've seen in enough 30 minutes chunks that in theory I could count them including Godfather, Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. And then I've seen other films by the people that made these films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take it With You, City Lights, etc. But seriously I'm ashamed of myself. How can I have not seen Godfather 2, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Taxi Driver, On the Waterfront, etc, etc, etc. I'm almost too ashamed to post this.

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