102 Movies You Must See Before...

Via Kottke. One hundred and two "essential" movies, and whether or not I've seen them. Here is the complete list with my 53 views in bold. It is time to renew my Netflix subscription. "Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith "Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein "Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang "The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali "Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale "M" (1931) Fritz Lang "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch "Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks "Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey "It's a Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg "Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks "The Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming "Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming "The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston "Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles "Bambi" (1942) Disney "Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz "Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder "Children of Paradise" / "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler "The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks "Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston "Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks "The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed "The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica "Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder "All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly "Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu "The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa "A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor "On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan "Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton "The Searchers" (1956) John Ford "Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles "Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock "Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder "North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock "The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut "Breathless" (1959) Jean-Luc Godard "La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini "Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock "West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer "8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester "Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski "Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman "Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn "The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero "The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah "Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick "Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel "Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog "The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola "The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin "Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam "Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman "Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma "Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg "Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese "Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen "Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick "Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter "Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott "Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner "The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller "Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg "Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott "Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch "Do the Right Thing" (1989) Spike Lee "GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese "The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan "Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg "Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino "Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen "Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher Technorati Tags: Movies, Classic, Atlanta,