{"id":8744,"date":"2006-04-26T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/26\/yet-another-list-of-must-see-movies.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:25:14","slug":"yet_another_lis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/26\/yet_another_lis.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another list of must-see movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film critic Jim Emerson’s list<\/a> of …<\/p>\n

… 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve marked the ones I’ve seen with asterisks.<\/p>\n

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
\nThe 400 Blows
\n8 1\/2
\nAguirre, the Wrath of God
\n* Alien
\n* All About Eve
\nAnnie Hall
\n* Apocalypse Now
\n* Bambi
\nThe Battleship Potemkin
\nThe Best Years of Our Lives
\nThe Big Red One
\nThe Bicycle Thief
\n* The Big Sleep
\n* Blade Runner
\nBlowup
\nBlue Velvet
\n* Bonnie and Clyde
\nBreathless
\nBringing Up Baby
\nCarrie
\n* Casablanca
\nUn Chien Andalou
\nChildren of Paradise \/ Les Enfants du Paradis
\n* Chinatown
\n* Citizen Kane
\n* A Clockwork Orange
\n* The Crying Game
\n* The Day the Earth Stood Still
\nDays of Heaven
\n* Dirty Harry
\nThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
\nDo the Right Thing
\nLa Dolce Vita
\nDouble Indemnity
\n* Dr. Strangelove
\n* Duck Soup
\n* E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
\nEasy Rider
\n* The Empire Strikes Back
\n* The Exorcist
\nFargo
\n* Fight Club
\n* Frankenstein
\nThe General
\nThe Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
\n* Gone With the Wind
\nGoodFellas
\n* The Graduate
\n* Halloween
\n* A Hard Day’s Night
\nIntolerance
\nIt’s a Gift
\n* It’s a Wonderful Life
\n* Jaws
\nThe Lady Eve
\n* Lawrence of Arabia
\nM
\n* Mad Max 2 \/ The Road Warrior
\n* The Maltese Falcon
\n* The Manchurian Candidate
\n* Metropolis
\nModern Times
\n* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
\nNashville
\nThe Night of the Hunter
\n* Night of the Living Dead
\n* North by Northwest
\nNosferatu
\nOn the Waterfront
\nOnce Upon a Time in the West
\nOut of the Past
\nPersona
\nPink Flamingos
\n* Psycho
\n* Pulp Fiction
\nRashomon
\n* Rear Window
\nRebel Without a Cause
\nRed River
\nRepulsion
\nThe Rules of the Game
\nScarface
\nThe Scarlet Empress
\nSchindler’s List
\nThe Searchers
\n* The Seven Samurai
\n* Singin’ in the Rain
\nSome Like It Hot
\n* A Star Is Born
\nA Streetcar Named Desire
\n* Sunset Boulevard
\nTaxi Driver
\nThe Third Man
\nTokyo Story
\nTouch of Evil
\n* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
\nTrouble in Paradise
\n* Vertigo
\nWest Side Story
\nThe Wild Bunch
\n* The Wizard of Oz<\/p>\n

Which I think is 47 of 102. So I’m … half-literate.<\/p>\n

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