100 Movies To See Before You Die
by The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff
Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die. To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.
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12 Angry Men (1957)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
The 400 Blows (1959)Directed By: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay
8 ½ (1963)
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee
The African Queen (1952)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Alien (1979)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
All About Eve (1950)
Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Annie Hall (1977)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Apocalypse Now (1979)Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall
The Battle of Algiers (1967)Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
The Bicycle Thief (1948)Directed By: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Blade Runner (1982)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Blow Up (1966)
Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Blue Velvet (1986)Directed By: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Directed By: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Breathless (1960)
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,
Bringing Up Baby (1938)Directed By: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Chinatown (1974)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed By: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Directed By: Ang Lee
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
Die Hard (1988)Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
Do the Right Thing (1989)Directed By: Spike Lee
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Duck Soup (1933)Directed By: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Directed By: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
The Exorcist (1973)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,
The French Connection (1971)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
The Godfather (1972)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Goldfinger (1964)Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Directed By: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Goodfellas (1990)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
The Graduate (1967)
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
Grand Illusion (1938)
Directed By: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Groundhog Day (1993)
Directed By: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
A Hard Day's Night (1964)Directed By: Richard Lester
Starring: The Beatles
In the Mood For Love (2001)
Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Jaws (1975)Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
King Kong (1933)
Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
The Lady Eve (1941)
Directed By: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)Directed By: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
M (1931)Directed By: Fritz Lang
Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke
M*A*S*H (1970)
Directed By: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
The Matrix (1999)
Directed By: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Modern Times (1936)
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson
Network (1976)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Nosferatu (1922)
Directed By: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,
On the Waterfront (1954)
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed By: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield
Paths of Glory (1958)Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver
Psycho (1960)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
Raging Bull (1980)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Directed By: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
Rashomon (1951)Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Rear Window (1954)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Directed By: Nicholas Ray
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Rocky (1976)
Directed By: John Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Roman Holiday (1953)
Directed By: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Saving Private Ryan (1998)Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
Schindler's List (1993)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
The Searchers (1956)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed By: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Directed By: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)Directed By: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
The Sound of Music (1965)
Directed By: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Star Wars (1977)
Directed By: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
The Third Man (1949)
Directed By: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Titanic (1997)Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Directed By: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Toy Story (1995)
Directed By: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
The Usual Suspects (1995)Directed By: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne
Vertigo (1958)Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Directed By: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin
Wings of Desire (1988)
Directed By: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed By: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
The World of Apu (1959)
Directed By: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,
Pretty pointless list. but at least i can say i've seen them all. so now i can die.
Quote from: squints on March 24, 2009, 03:56:05 PM
Pretty pointless list. but at least i can i've seen them all. so now i can die.
it's actually a good list. i haven't seen them all. there are maybe 15-20 i have not seen and it's a good reminder :)
for some reason i doubt anybody's dying thoughts will ever be "and i never even got to watch When Harry Met Sally.."
Yeah, I think it belongs in that "good" category they were referring to.
There are still a bunch of these I haven't seen. I think the list may be redundant, but fine for sure. AFI does them better.
I've seen 91 of them
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the list that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:55:45 PM
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the last that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
god.
the list is silly ... movies you need to see before you die are important films that will impact your character or has already impacted on society. Not Terminator 2.
But what if T2 impacted your life and changed your character? hehe....I heartedly agree though. Lists like these are useless...
Quote from: Neil on March 29, 2009, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:55:45 PM
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the last that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
god.
Haha, is that the best you can project as far as annoyance goes? If you see conceitedness on my part, call me out on it and be specific. Don't languish over posting just one word (which I could argue comes off as arrogant in itself).
Quote from: Pas Rap on March 29, 2009, 02:58:14 PM
the list is silly ... movies you need to see before you die are important films that will impact your character or has already impacted on society. Not Terminator 2.
I do think billing anything as being essential to do "before you die" is inherently ridiculous.
But in the words of PTA: "Terminator 2's a pretty awesome movie."
Quote from: gob on March 29, 2009, 05:15:21 PM
Quote from: Pas Rap on March 29, 2009, 02:58:14 PM
the list is silly ... movies you need to see before you die are important films that will impact your character or has already impacted on society. Not Terminator 2.
I do think billing anything as being essential to do "before you die" is inherently ridiculous.
But in the words of PTA: "Terminator 2's a pretty awesome movie."
my roommates and i watched terminator 2 today because it was absolutely essential viewing and he hadn't seen it. about half of what we said during the film was variations of "this is awesome"
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 03:48:46 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 29, 2009, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:55:45 PM
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the last that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
god.
Haha, is that the best you can project as far as annoyance goes? If you see conceitedness on my part, call me out on it and be specific. Don't languish over posting just one word (which I could argue comes off as arrogant in itself).
oops, i forget what's at stake here...You're just not 17 any more...too old...wise in your years. Makes perfect sense to project that kind of miserable life everywhere.
it's obvious i don't have to elaborate, you do it for me.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:55:45 PM
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the list that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
Pretty much my feelings exactly.
I always laugh when people say you haven't seen Rocky? It's a classic. I know what it is. There are so many other things to watch that I could probably get more from.
Quote from: Neil on March 31, 2009, 09:47:02 AM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 03:48:46 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 29, 2009, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:55:45 PM
I've seen most of them, but the list is just a highlight reel of Hollywood's most famous. I always meet people who tell me to watch such and such film because I haven't seen it. To them (and most moviegoers) it's a classic, but I already know the film by reputation and my taste buds (not to say for the better) are beyond it. This list reminds me of that because the films on the last that I haven't seen are ones I don't care to at all. I'm not 17 anymore and eager to watch everything that has some clout of classic to it.
god.
Haha, is that the best you can project as far as annoyance goes? If you see conceitedness on my part, call me out on it and be specific. Don't languish over posting just one word (which I could argue comes off as arrogant in itself).
oops, i forget what's at stake here...You're just not 17 any more...too old...wise in your years. Makes perfect sense to project that kind of miserable life everywhere.
it's obvious i don't have to elaborate, you do it for me.
Did you even read my post? I specifically said I had moved beyond those movies, but it wasn't necessarily for the better. When I say I had moved beyond them, that's all I meant. I chastize the list as over Hollywood, but people's interest in movies change and these movies were relics of my interest when I was 17 and over eager. Point to any part where I specifically imply people are dumber for liking these movies or that I am smarter for not. You read too much into it considering you think I also have a miserable life when I'm usually happy to admit my shortcomings of arrogance.
Quote from: Stefen on March 31, 2009, 09:52:48 AM
I always laugh when people say you haven't seen Rocky? It's a classic. I know what it is. There are so many other things to watch that I could probably get more from.
Totally agree.
seriously, you should see Rocky though.
lulz. I've seen it. More or less.
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 10:12:11 AM
It seems as though most of you were so sure of things at an early age,when you grew up a little bit, you realized " Hey, what i thought at 17 was fucking ridiculous." However, your age now has somehow clouded your judgement into thinking that you know SOMETHING at this new profound age of 30 or however old you are. One day at 40 you'll probably laugh at how silly your ways were at 30. I realize that the whole "I'm not 17 anymore" is getting read into, but i believe what i said about age is true. Using "I'm not 17 anymore" as a figure of speech means nothing to me...literally, it tells me nothing, except for you think something specific about being around that age. Beat it.
It's not that simple. Everyone experiences moments when their youth catches up to them and they realize something they liked when they were younger and wrote off a little later strikes them again later as pretty meaningful. You try to hedge me into that tier solely, but it happens to everyone. But the major point is that I am really beyond most of those films. When I said my taste didn't necessarily advance for the better, I meant it. I just consider myself ideologically beyond those films. An analogy would be someone who likes history books, but his whole vantage point changes because he starts reading Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. The person who believes in those two guys could never look at regular history books the same way ever again. I can't look at standard Hollywood classics the same way ever again. Just the way it is.
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 10:12:11 AM
and, it wasn't my goal to "CALL YOU OUT" or whatever the fuck you expect. calm it.
I am pretty calm. You sound a little bothered, but I hit a pet peeve subject of yours with the age reference and you hit a pet peeve subject of mine with the glib snipe. I can't stand yours and you can't stand mine. I don't hate you or anything, but I did take you to task. Now your point is that I was wrong to put so much emphasis on the age thing without clarification. Fair enough. If I would have added that the age thing was a referral to a time when I had major ideological differences with myself then it wouldn't have come off as everyone who is 17 is just dumb.
There, you don't have to reply anymore. That's pretty much a peace offering.
Well, send me some fucking links. I'm not beyond them. I couldn't consider that the right word...At first I though, wow, this guy is a fucking hipster to the nth degree. However, i will say i respect your boldness. I mean claiming you know this much is pretty bold. wouldn't you agree? I'm not being a dick here. I just couldn't believe this opinion existed, however there i go slipping into my youth. The Hegel in me knows that everything has a opposite, however that shit blows my mind out of my left ear, so i can't grasp it...and not to sound like a dick again, but it did not take Chomsky to make me realize "regular" history books were bullshit, and i grew up super sheltered, a town of 3500. I guess I'm just a skeptic, and i was skeptical that anyone would think they're beyond them, it just sounds so arrogant. but one of my best friends who passed away would always say honesty is not arrogance, it's awareness. So, i understand, given context you've provided, you're not trying to be that way, you just sincerely believe it. I hope this at least helps with the thought of me being bothered, or mad, or whatever.
pm me if need be
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 11:43:54 AM
Well, send me some fucking links.
I'm not sure what links I am suppose to send you?
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 11:43:54 AM
I'm not beyond them. I couldn't consider that the right word...
It's the right word for me. I'm just speaking for myself, but considering Die Hard is the reason why I got into movies, my reason for continuing to go see movies is just different. And I would say it has developed because I got smarter over the years so I use the word beyond, but that's just for me.
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 11:43:54 AM
However, i will say i respect your boldness. I mean claiming you know this much is pretty bold. wouldn't you agree?
I don't claim to know anything. I think you misinterpret my position. When I say I am beyond those movies, all it means is that the reason why I go to movies are best served in movies not typically made in Hollywood. My pursuits require different aesthetics and tastes. My reason to go to movies isn't better than yours. It's just different. Movies are based on the idea that it's the one art form that it pleases all people and brings them together. It can satisfy all taste buds, but there is still differences between those taste buds. Different expectations are satisfied by different cinemas, but all these films are made by the same equipment and technicians so they are linked together.
It's how you interpret films. I think Persona is better and more valuable than Vertigo, but essays by people much smarter than me have been written about Vertigo. They value Vertigo where I don't all that much. But because there is that difference in opinion does not mean I think I am smarter or better than those people that like Vertigo. Their reasons to why Vertigo fascinates them is not on my wavelength. Usually these critics are commentators on the cultural significace of Vertigo and Hitchcock's art. Of course Persona isn't highly regarded for that reason. There are other reasons and that sphere more occupies me.
Does that not mean I don't have any strands of arrogance? Of course not. But I believe if you find anything meaningful you should take it to heart and be serious about it. But as Detroit Tigers manager once said, "Take your job seriously, but not yourself." I think all of us try to be like that, but it's tough. But I try to be sincere and upfront with my viewpoints.
Quote from: Neil on April 01, 2009, 11:43:54 AM
but it did not take Chomsky to make me realize "regular" history books were bullshit, and i grew up super sheltered, a town of 3500.
My point about Chomsky isn't that he is better. His main breakthrough is the way he saw history. I know historians who are smarter and more thoughtful than him. Even conservative historians, but Chomsky had a way of seeing history. And I understand what sheltered towns mean. I grew up in a town of 13,000 but only surrounded by rural countryside. The closest city of signifance was (and still is) over 5 hours away. Don't feel bad about where you come from. Just develop in film watching to your heart's content. That's all that matters. I don't at all to you.
Modern Classics edition:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die-modern-classics.html
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 15, 2010, 12:29:48 PM
Modern Classics edition:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die-modern-classics.html
Jesus Christ. Imagine the unlucky fuck who dies before seeing There's Something About Mary.
Not too bad of a list in general. A bunch of stuff I haven't seen and will probalby check out.
I like that since they stick to the recent stuff they aren't shown to be complete fools and incults (is that an english word?)
illiterates is probably better.
even thou I like some of those films, the list is pretty boring and im glad they excluded kubrick and malick.
Current Tv's "50 documentaries to see before you die"
1. Hoop Dreams ( Steve James )
2. The Thin Blue Line ( Errol Morris )
3. Roger & Me ( Michael Moore )
4. Waltz With Bashir ( Ari Folman )
5. Super Size Me ( Morgan Spurlock )
6. The War Room ( D.A Pennebaker )
7. The Celluloid Closet ( Rob Epstein )
8. An Inconvenient Truth ( Davis Guggenheim )
9. Trouble the Water ( Tia Lessin )
10. Grizzly Man ( Werner Herzog )
11. Paris is Burning ( Jenni Livingston )
12. Bowling for Columbine ( Michael Moore )
13. The Fog of War ( Errol Morris )
14. Dark Days ( Marc Singer )
15. Crumb ( Terry Zwigoff )
16. Bus 174 ( Felipe Lacerda )
17. Street Fight ( Marshall Curry )
18. Food, Inc. ( Robert Kenner )
19. Touching the Void ( Kevin Macdonald )
20. Capturing the Friedmans ( Andrew Jarecki )
21. Exit Through the Gift Shop ( Banksy )
22. Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing ( Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck )
23. The Eyes of Tammy Faye ( Randy Barbato )
24. Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills ( Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger )
25. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room ( Alex Gibney )
26. Murderball ( Dana Adam Shapiro )
27. Tarnation ( Jonathan Caouette )
28. Gasland ( Josh Fox )
29. Man on Wire ( James Marsh )
30. Fahrenheit 9/11 ( Michael Moore )
31. Jesus Camp ( Heidi Ewing )
32. Dogtown and Z-Boys ( Stacy Peralta )
33. Tongues Untied ( Marlon Riggs )
34. Brother's Keeper ( Bruce Sinofsky )
35. Paragraph 175 ( Rob Epstein )
36. Taxi To the Dark Side ( Alex Gibney )
37. Inside Job ( Charles Ferguson )
38. March of the Penguins ( Luc Jacquet )
39. Biggie & Tupac ( Nick Broomfield )
40. When We Were Kings ( Leon Gast )
41. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters ( Seth Gordon )
42. Catfish ( Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost )
43. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts ( Spike Lee )
44. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country ( Anders Østergaard )
45. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II-The Metal Years ( Penelope Spheeris )
46. Little Dieter Needs to Fly ( Werner Herzog )
47. One Day in September ( Kevin Macdonald )
48. The Kid Stays in the Picture ( Nanette Burstein )
49. Madonna - Truth or Dare ( Alek Keshishian )
50. Spellbound ( Jeffrey Blitz )
I've seen 28 of them, the best find so far has been "Paradise Lost," no question. If these are any good, I'd like to see more of them. What can people recommend, including stuff that's not on the list? My favorite that is on it is "The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years." I would personally add "Koyaanisqatsi," if it's not a documentary, then what is it? I'm gonna go watch "The Thin Blue Line" now.
probably the best list I've seen - not that I agree with it (no maysles brothers really?) - but I think when you're making a list of 50 compelling documentaries, you'll find great things no matter what.
No "Salesman", no "Titticut Follies". INVALIDATED.
EDIT: And no "Night and Fog". UNCONSCIONABLE.
Quote from: pete on September 03, 2011, 02:39:53 AM
(no maysles brothers really?)
I was just going to address that, how could they leave out the kings of documentary film? Pathetic.
Well, apparently this list only covers the past 25 years. So that explains that.
Quote from: Reelist on September 03, 2011, 03:05:11 AM
Well, apparently this list only covers the past 25 years. So that explains that.
NEVER MIND, THEN.
well i really loved "When the Levees Broke" and that was forty something...but i thought that 'super size me' was kind of a joke. so am i wrong or are they wrong? anyone want to defend that movie? is it really better than 'crumb', 'capturing the friedmans', 'fahrenheit 9/11' and 'when we were kings'?
and to be fair, i watched five minutes of 'super size me'...i saw the part where he ate at mcdonalds. what did i miss? the half hour he spent on the can?
Quote from: classical gas on September 04, 2011, 07:58:57 AM
so am i wrong or are they wrong? anyone want to defend that movie? is it really better than 'crumb', 'capturing the friedmans', 'fahrenheit 9/11' and 'when we were kings'?
Don't worry about their ranking, its stupid and totally random.
Never watch super size me.
Quote from: classical gas on September 04, 2011, 07:58:57 AM
i thought that 'super size me' was kind of a joke. so am i wrong or are they wrong?
The show was hosted by Morgan Spurlock, so it's kind of biased.
Reelist's top ten documentaries you should probably see at some point before you stop living
1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Salesman
3. American Movie
4. Conversations with Cassavettes (not what the title suggests at all, a film about alternative bands)
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Full tilt boogie
7. Making 'The Shining'
8. That Moment
9. Overnight
10.Grey Gardens
I might've left stuff out
Gates of Heaven, American Movie, Salesman, and The Store are a few of my favorites.
Quote from: Reelist on September 10, 2011, 06:01:31 PM
Reelist's top ten documentaries you should probably see at some point before you stop living
I only have three more to see before I can end it all.
I'd throw in Harlan County, USA. That's always been one of my favs.
Quote from: Ravi on September 11, 2011, 09:46:43 PM
I only have three more to see before I can end it all.
lol.
thx for the adds, guys. My list is by no means definitive, and I've been looking for good docs to see.
I would add The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War which are both by Errol Morris and both incredible...and definitely the entire Up series that has tracked the lives of a group of English kids from various backgrounds every 7 years since they were 7...in the last installment they were 49! it's unbelievable! a must see. has anyone here seen it?