Saturday, April 22, 2006

Movie meme(s)

When I first saw the 101-movies-you-must-see-to-be-a-decent-person meme, as designated by Roger Ebert, I was all, no way in hell am I doing this because I've seen too few of these movies.

But then B* came up with an alterna-meme from the IMDB top movie database (based on people's votes). This one makes me feel better about my movie-watching, although there are a few rankings with which I beg to differ (Sin City over M? No way.). So I'll do them both! Ones I've seen are in bold, partially watched in italics.

"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
"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

IMDB ---

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
5. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. Casablanca (1942)
8. Pulp Fiction (1994)
9. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. The Usual Suspects (1995)
16. Cidade de Deus (2002)
17. 12 Angry Men (1957)
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
20. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
21. Citizen Kane (1941)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. Memento (2000)
24. Goodfellas (1990)
25. C'era una volta il West (1968)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
27. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
28. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
29. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
30. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32. Fight Club (1999)
33. American Beauty (1999)
34. The Matrix (1999)
35. Vertigo (1958)
36. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. Apocalypse Now (1979)
39. Paths of Glory (1957)
40. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
41. Se7en (1995)
42. Untergang, Der (2004)
43. The Pianist (2002)
44. Leon (1994)
45. Chinatown (1974)
46. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
47. The Third Man (1949)
48. American History X (1998)
49. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
50. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
51. Boot, Das (1981)
52. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
53. L.A. Confidential (1997)
54. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
55. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
56. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
57. Alien (1979)
58. Sin City (2005)
59. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
60. M (1931)
61. Rashomon (1950)
62. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
63. Modern Times (1936)
64. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
65. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. Metropolis (1927)
68. The Shining (1980)
69. Raging Bull (1980)
70. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
71. All About Eve (1950)
72.Some Like It Hot (1959)
73. Double Indemnity (1944)
74. Vita e bella, La (1997)
75. Aliens (1986)
76. The Great Escape (1963)
77. Rebecca (1940)
78. Touch of Evil (1958)
79. Amadeus (1984)
80. The Incredibles (2004)
81. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
82. The Sting (1973)
83. On the Waterfront (1954)
84. Crash (2004)
85. Strangers on a Train (1951)
86. Jaws (1975)
87. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
88. City Lights (1931)
89. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
90. Batman Begins (2005)
91. The Apartment (1960)
92. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
93. Braveheart (1995)
94. Forrest Gump (1994)
95. Ran (1985)
96. Donnie Darko (2001)
97. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
98. Blade Runner (1982)
99. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
100. Finding Nemo (2003)

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