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labellementeuseSo, I'm doing this meme for my mother.
The top 250 from IMDb. Bold the ones you've seen.
1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, II
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Schindler's List
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
9.Casablanca
10. Shichinin no samurai
11. Star Wars
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
13. 12 Angry Men
14. Rear Window
15. Goodfellas
16. Cidade de Deus
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. C'era una volta il West
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
20. The Usual Suspects
21. Psycho
22. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
23. Citizen Kane
24. Fight Club
25. The Silence of the Lambs
26. North by Northwest
27. Memento
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
29. Sunset Blvd.
30. It's a Wonderful Life (Things I have learned from fan fiction, #12009: this novie is apparently as ubiquitous as The Sound of Music at Christmastime in America. But to the best of my knowledge, no-one plays it here.)
31. There will be Blood
32. The Matrix
33. Lawrence of Arabia
34. Se7en
35. Apocalypse Now
36. Taxi Driver
37. American Beauty
38. Leon
39. Vertigo
40. Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le
41. No Country for Old Men
42. American History X
43. The Departed
44. Paths of Glory
45. M
46. To Kill a Mockingbird - One of those movies that is as good a movie as the book is a book. The book is better: but books are always better.
47. The Third Man
48. Chinatown
49. Leben der Anderen, Das
50. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
51. A Clockwork Orange
52. Alien
53. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
54. Laberinto del fauno, El
55. The Shining
56. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
57. The Pianist
58. Double Indemnity
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
60. Forrest Gump
61. Saving Private Ryan
62. The Bridge on the River Kwai
63. L.A. Confidential
64. Boot, Das
65. Requiem for a Dream
66. Reservoir Dogs
67. Untergang, Der
68. Aliens
69. The Maltese Falcon
70. Raging Bull
71. Metropolis
72. Rashomon
73. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
74. Modern Times
75. Hotel Rwanda
76. Singin' in the Rain
77. Sin City
78. Rebecca
79. 2001: A Space Odyssey
80. Sjunde inseglet, Det
81. All About Eve
82. Some Like it Hot
83. City Lights
84. On the Waterfront
85. Vita e bella, La
86. Amadeus
87. The Great Escape
88. Touch of Evil
89. The Prestige
90. The Elephant Man
91. Jaws
92. Full Metal Jacket
93. The Sting
94. Nuovo cinema Paradiso
95. Once Upon a Time in America
96. The Manchurian Candidate (OK: they probably mean the original, not the remake. I'm bolding anyway.
97. Braveheart
98. The Apartment
99. Blade Runner
100. Strangers on a Train
101. The Great Dictator
102. Batman Begins
103. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
104. Salaire de la peor, Le
105. Ladri di biciclette
106. High Noon
107. Ran
108. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
109. The Big Sleep
110. The Wizard of Oz
111. Notorious
112. Back to the Future
113. Farbo
114. Oldboy
115. Unforgiven
116. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
117. Ratatouille
118. Donnie Darko
119. Mononoke-hime
120. Cool Hand Luke
121. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
122. Yojimbo
123. Per qualche dollaro in piu
124. Million Dollar Baby
125. The Green Mile
126. The Bourne Ultimatum (I've seen the first one, though.)
127. Notti di Cabiria, Le
128. Battaglia di Algeri, La
129. Gladiator
130. Annie Hall
131. Die Hard
132. Into the Wild
133. Ben-Hur
134. The Deer Hunter
135. The Sixth Sense I saw this movie when I was probably a bit too young for it, and put myself off horror almost for life: I could not freakin' stand this shit. In retrospect, it's probably a great movie, except for Haley Joel.
136. It Happened One Night
137. The General
138. Platoon
139. Kind Hearts and Coronets
140. Life of Brian
141. The Killing
142. Smutronstallet
143. Amores perros
144. Diaboliques, Les
145. Finding Nemo
146. The Incredibles
147. V for Vendetta
148. The Wild Bunch
149. Children of Men - I really wanted to see this one when it was on.
150. Brief Encounter
151. Heat
152. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
153. Juno
154 The Princess Bride
155. 8 1/2
156. The Graduate
157. Judgment at Nuremberg
158. Letters from Iwo Jima
159. The Night of the Hunter
160. The Big Lebowski
161. Crash
162. Dog Day Afternoon
163. Stand by Me
164. Gandhi
165. Shadow of a Doubt
166. The Adventures of Robin Hood
167. Snatch
168. Harvey
169. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
170. Witness for the Prosecution
171. The African Queen
172. The Thing
173. Trainspotting
174. Gone with the Wind
175. The Grapes of Wrath
176. Belle et la bete, La
177. Wo hu cang long
178. The Gold Rush
179. Little Miss Sunshine
180. Groundhog Day
181. American Gangster
182. The Conversation
183. Scarface
184. Patton
185. Duck Soup
186. Nosferatu, eine Symphone des Grauens
187. The Best Years of Our Lives
188. Toy Story
189. Twelve Monkeys
190. Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das
191. The Terminator
192. Umberto D
193. The Day the Earth Stood Still
194. Sleuth
195. Stalker
196. The Hustler
197. Glory
198. Ed Wood
199. King Kong - Once more, they probably don't mean the PJ remake, but eh.
200. Grindhouse
201. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
202. Hotaru no haka
203. The Exorcist
204 The Lion King
205. Bride of Frankenstein
206. The Ox-Bow Incident
207. All Quiet on the Western Front
208. Spartacus
209. The Lost Weekend
210. Magnolia
211. Stalag 17
212. The Lady Vanishes
213. Lola rennt
214. In the Heat of the Night
215. The Philadelphia Story
216. Out of the Past
217. Frankenstein
218. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
219. Big Fish
220. Du rififi chez les hommes
221. Anatomy of a Murder
222. Casino
223. Rosemary's Baby - We watched a bunch of clips of this in English last week. The Exorcist, too. Hoooly crap: I may not be totally made out for this class.
224. Toy Story 2
225. 3:10 to Yuma
226. A Christmas Story
227. Bonnie and Clyde
228. Mystic River
229. Ikiru
230. Hot Fuzz
231. Mou gaan dou
232. Manhatten
233. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
234. Young Frankenstein
235. A Streetcar Named Desire
236. Dial M for Murder
237. Rope
238. Roman Holiday
239. Quatre cents coups, Les
240. Once
241. The Searchers
242. In Cold Blood
243. Ying xiong
244. His Girl Friday
245. Haine, La
246. Shaun of the Dead
247. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
248. Samourai, Le
249. Harold and Maude
250. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
OK, why did I do that meme for my mother? She's not ever going to read it. Here's the thing: I was homeschooled by my mother (and actually, one year, by my father) until I turned 11/went into Form 1/Year 7/First year of middle school. During this time, and after it, my mother embarked on an aggressive campaign of forced enculturation.
Now, this sounds ghastly, right, but mostly we loved it, or it didn't register as unusual to us. We went around galleries and parks and sculptures constantly, we read Robert Frost and Hone Tuwhare when we were 6, we weren't allowed to watch television, and - finally, relevance - we watched a lot of classic movies at film festivals and so on. I mean, a lot. As I got older I started to whine about this, and I still feel that Walkabout is a very difficult movie that I never got a good hand on. However, we also saw some truly fantastic stuff - like Ben Hur, Emma, Doctor Strangelove, Bridge Over the River Kwai, and so on and so forth. I didn't always love them straight off but I learned a hell of a lot. My subsequent enjoyment of movies like Memento and the fact that I chose to go to Hotel Rwanda are direct results of my exposure to these films. I'm no longer a great movie-goer, and when I do go I often see rubbish, or genre films (which are not rubbish, but which rarely present anything new to me). So looking at this list, a lot of what I bolded is stuff that my mother took me to see, or stuff that I saw because I'd seen the films my mother took me to see and... I bitched about it a lot when I was a teenager but, Mum, I'm really really glad you did it now. Thanks and I'm sorry!
Also, it was cool to see a bunch of foreign-language films on there. I love it when I'm reminded the Internet is actually not all in English. Also-also, I've been reading the flist but not commenting at all: I'm sorry, you all are still shiny to me, honest!
The top 250 from IMDb. Bold the ones you've seen.
1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, II
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Schindler's List
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
9.Casablanca
10. Shichinin no samurai
11. Star Wars
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
13. 12 Angry Men
14. Rear Window
15. Goodfellas
16. Cidade de Deus
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. C'era una volta il West
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
20. The Usual Suspects
21. Psycho
22. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
23. Citizen Kane
24. Fight Club
25. The Silence of the Lambs
26. North by Northwest
27. Memento
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
29. Sunset Blvd.
30. It's a Wonderful Life (Things I have learned from fan fiction, #12009: this novie is apparently as ubiquitous as The Sound of Music at Christmastime in America. But to the best of my knowledge, no-one plays it here.)
31. There will be Blood
32. The Matrix
33. Lawrence of Arabia
34. Se7en
35. Apocalypse Now
36. Taxi Driver
37. American Beauty
38. Leon
39. Vertigo
40. Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le
41. No Country for Old Men
42. American History X
43. The Departed
44. Paths of Glory
45. M
46. To Kill a Mockingbird - One of those movies that is as good a movie as the book is a book. The book is better: but books are always better.
47. The Third Man
48. Chinatown
49. Leben der Anderen, Das
50. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
51. A Clockwork Orange
52. Alien
53. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
54. Laberinto del fauno, El
55. The Shining
56. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
57. The Pianist
58. Double Indemnity
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
60. Forrest Gump
61. Saving Private Ryan
62. The Bridge on the River Kwai
63. L.A. Confidential
64. Boot, Das
65. Requiem for a Dream
66. Reservoir Dogs
67. Untergang, Der
68. Aliens
69. The Maltese Falcon
70. Raging Bull
71. Metropolis
72. Rashomon
73. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
74. Modern Times
75. Hotel Rwanda
76. Singin' in the Rain
77. Sin City
78. Rebecca
79. 2001: A Space Odyssey
80. Sjunde inseglet, Det
81. All About Eve
82. Some Like it Hot
83. City Lights
84. On the Waterfront
85. Vita e bella, La
86. Amadeus
87. The Great Escape
88. Touch of Evil
89. The Prestige
90. The Elephant Man
91. Jaws
92. Full Metal Jacket
93. The Sting
94. Nuovo cinema Paradiso
95. Once Upon a Time in America
96. The Manchurian Candidate (OK: they probably mean the original, not the remake. I'm bolding anyway.
97. Braveheart
98. The Apartment
99. Blade Runner
100. Strangers on a Train
101. The Great Dictator
102. Batman Begins
103. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
104. Salaire de la peor, Le
105. Ladri di biciclette
106. High Noon
107. Ran
108. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
109. The Big Sleep
110. The Wizard of Oz
111. Notorious
112. Back to the Future
113. Farbo
114. Oldboy
115. Unforgiven
116. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
117. Ratatouille
118. Donnie Darko
119. Mononoke-hime
120. Cool Hand Luke
121. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
122. Yojimbo
123. Per qualche dollaro in piu
124. Million Dollar Baby
125. The Green Mile
126. The Bourne Ultimatum (I've seen the first one, though.)
127. Notti di Cabiria, Le
128. Battaglia di Algeri, La
129. Gladiator
130. Annie Hall
131. Die Hard
132. Into the Wild
133. Ben-Hur
134. The Deer Hunter
135. The Sixth Sense I saw this movie when I was probably a bit too young for it, and put myself off horror almost for life: I could not freakin' stand this shit. In retrospect, it's probably a great movie, except for Haley Joel.
136. It Happened One Night
137. The General
138. Platoon
139. Kind Hearts and Coronets
140. Life of Brian
141. The Killing
142. Smutronstallet
143. Amores perros
144. Diaboliques, Les
145. Finding Nemo
146. The Incredibles
147. V for Vendetta
148. The Wild Bunch
149. Children of Men - I really wanted to see this one when it was on.
150. Brief Encounter
151. Heat
152. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
153. Juno
154 The Princess Bride
155. 8 1/2
156. The Graduate
157. Judgment at Nuremberg
158. Letters from Iwo Jima
159. The Night of the Hunter
160. The Big Lebowski
161. Crash
162. Dog Day Afternoon
163. Stand by Me
164. Gandhi
165. Shadow of a Doubt
166. The Adventures of Robin Hood
167. Snatch
168. Harvey
169. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
170. Witness for the Prosecution
171. The African Queen
172. The Thing
173. Trainspotting
174. Gone with the Wind
175. The Grapes of Wrath
176. Belle et la bete, La
177. Wo hu cang long
178. The Gold Rush
179. Little Miss Sunshine
180. Groundhog Day
181. American Gangster
182. The Conversation
183. Scarface
184. Patton
185. Duck Soup
186. Nosferatu, eine Symphone des Grauens
187. The Best Years of Our Lives
188. Toy Story
189. Twelve Monkeys
190. Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das
191. The Terminator
192. Umberto D
193. The Day the Earth Stood Still
194. Sleuth
195. Stalker
196. The Hustler
197. Glory
198. Ed Wood
199. King Kong - Once more, they probably don't mean the PJ remake, but eh.
200. Grindhouse
201. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
202. Hotaru no haka
203. The Exorcist
204 The Lion King
205. Bride of Frankenstein
206. The Ox-Bow Incident
207. All Quiet on the Western Front
208. Spartacus
209. The Lost Weekend
210. Magnolia
211. Stalag 17
212. The Lady Vanishes
213. Lola rennt
214. In the Heat of the Night
215. The Philadelphia Story
216. Out of the Past
217. Frankenstein
218. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
219. Big Fish
220. Du rififi chez les hommes
221. Anatomy of a Murder
222. Casino
223. Rosemary's Baby - We watched a bunch of clips of this in English last week. The Exorcist, too. Hoooly crap: I may not be totally made out for this class.
224. Toy Story 2
225. 3:10 to Yuma
226. A Christmas Story
227. Bonnie and Clyde
228. Mystic River
229. Ikiru
230. Hot Fuzz
231. Mou gaan dou
232. Manhatten
233. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
234. Young Frankenstein
235. A Streetcar Named Desire
236. Dial M for Murder
237. Rope
238. Roman Holiday
239. Quatre cents coups, Les
240. Once
241. The Searchers
242. In Cold Blood
243. Ying xiong
244. His Girl Friday
245. Haine, La
246. Shaun of the Dead
247. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
248. Samourai, Le
249. Harold and Maude
250. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
OK, why did I do that meme for my mother? She's not ever going to read it. Here's the thing: I was homeschooled by my mother (and actually, one year, by my father) until I turned 11/went into Form 1/Year 7/First year of middle school. During this time, and after it, my mother embarked on an aggressive campaign of forced enculturation.
Now, this sounds ghastly, right, but mostly we loved it, or it didn't register as unusual to us. We went around galleries and parks and sculptures constantly, we read Robert Frost and Hone Tuwhare when we were 6, we weren't allowed to watch television, and - finally, relevance - we watched a lot of classic movies at film festivals and so on. I mean, a lot. As I got older I started to whine about this, and I still feel that Walkabout is a very difficult movie that I never got a good hand on. However, we also saw some truly fantastic stuff - like Ben Hur, Emma, Doctor Strangelove, Bridge Over the River Kwai, and so on and so forth. I didn't always love them straight off but I learned a hell of a lot. My subsequent enjoyment of movies like Memento and the fact that I chose to go to Hotel Rwanda are direct results of my exposure to these films. I'm no longer a great movie-goer, and when I do go I often see rubbish, or genre films (which are not rubbish, but which rarely present anything new to me). So looking at this list, a lot of what I bolded is stuff that my mother took me to see, or stuff that I saw because I'd seen the films my mother took me to see and... I bitched about it a lot when I was a teenager but, Mum, I'm really really glad you did it now. Thanks and I'm sorry!
Also, it was cool to see a bunch of foreign-language films on there. I love it when I'm reminded the Internet is actually not all in English. Also-also, I've been reading the flist but not commenting at all: I'm sorry, you all are still shiny to me, honest!
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Date: 2008-03-09 09:14 am (UTC)It's kind of funny actually; I can read just about anything, because I made it through the novel The Shining just fine (and it's an awesome book), but then I had to stop watching the movie after the first ten minutes.
Also, Alien/Aliens. you should watch them.
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Date: 2008-03-09 11:20 pm (UTC)