A Meme! A Way to Ease Back In To Blogging! Procrastination!
Oh, goody!
bold = seen it
underlined = own the DVD
italicized = seen parts of it
"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 hate.this.movie
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller Fell asleep part-way through
"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks if ever there was an accurate title!
"Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott have somewhere on VHS
"Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn depressing
"Breathless" (1959) Jean-Luc Godard
"Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks
"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma not as good as the book - which wasn't so hot either
"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 depressing - too bad it's so violent - good lesson on geographical determinism
"Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick even more depressing if you work in a middle school
"The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise
depressing that we would have almost certainly behaved this way
"Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick
"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel husband is a fan of Clint's - I'm not
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
"Do the Right Thing" (1989) Spike Lee the debut of Mr. Didactic
"La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini quite the movie to
sneak a peak at when I was a kid - and not worth the risk
"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 went to see it to see if we should bring daughter - hated it
"Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner best of the "first" three
"The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin *sigh*
"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 Husband owns the whole set on DVD - but STILL watched them on network TV complete with commercials ALL DAY yesterday - ech!
"Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
"GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
"The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols depressing
"Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
"Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith saw in class in college, along with Birth of a Nation - this guy was a racist, fascist, disgusting cretin (and those are his good points)
"It's A Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra husband loves this
"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg rooted for the fish
"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 husband loved this too, so I wound up sitting through it on TV - I do NOT go to Mel Gibson flicks
"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 just realized we don't own the DVD - put on wish list!
"Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman except for MASH, do not
understand this guy's appeal
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero ick
"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock excellent
"Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau film festival in college
"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 went to an entire Ingmar Bergman festival in college - required for a class - actually liked them, but that was a really long week - really liked The Dove (parody of Bergman)
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
"Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock eeek eeeek eeeek
"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 Steeellllaaa
"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
Where are my favorite flicks??? GIven that I'm an really unsophisticated viewer (and seldom go to the movies - watch on TV), there are some that imho should be on any list
"The Fellowship of the Ring" - Jackson
"The Two Towers" Jackson
"The Return of the King" - Jackson
"The King of Hearts" - de Broca 1966-ish
"Man Who Would Be King"
"The Lion in Winter" (the Hepburn one)
All the Harry Potter movies so they're not great films, but they're interesting and fun
etc.
So there! :P
