Sunday, August 22, 2010

Curtain Call!

This weekend I became stumped while trying to decide what movie I wanted to watch. Family Guy had lost its appeal (it's truly a great show, but I think that I recently had a nightmare where I was Lois and my boyfriend was Quagmire). So lazily, I typed in "100 movies to see before you die" into the Google search box. A link popped up for a yahoo page, and I clicked it. I began scrolling. Some titles I recognized such as "Duck Soup" by the Marx Brothers, but sadly I had never seen it. Some I had never even heard of like "The 400 Blows" by: Francois Truffaut, and I began to feel slightly ashamed of myself. I became inclined to bury my head in the sand when I realized that The Matrix was on this list. Yes, I have never seen The Matrix. Of course, there were a few that I had seen (only 15 out of the 100 that I must see). I believe that it is fair to say that my education in classic cinema incomplete and sadly in need of some intense study. Today is the day that I put my foot down and never again shall I complain that there is nothing to watch. I shall complete this list by the end of this school year. I shall watch the ones that I have already seen over again, and hopefully some people will join me. I will not go in alphabetical order, but I shall complete the list (I do not want to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" in April). These artists of cinema have given us masterpieces to watch and absorb, but many of us just tune into Jerry Springer and think "whatever".

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html

  • 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

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  • 8 ½ (1963)

    Directed By: Federico Fellini

    Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

A

  • 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

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B

  • The Battle of Algiers (1967)

    Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo

    Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

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  • The Bicycle Thief (1948)

    Directed By: Vittorio De Sica

    Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

    Directed By: George Roy Hill

    Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

C

  • 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

D

  • Die Hard (1988)

    Directed By: John McTiernan

    Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

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  • Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Directed By: Spike Lee

    Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

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  • 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

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E

  • 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,

F
G

  • 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

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  • 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

H

  • A Hard Day's Night (1964)

    Directed By: Richard Lester

    Starring: The Beatles

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I
J

  • Jaws (1975)

    Directed By: Steven Spielberg

    Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

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K

  • King Kong (1933)

    Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack

    Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

L

  • 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

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M

  • M (1931)

    Directed By: Fritz Lang

    Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

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  • 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

N

  • National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

    Directed By: John Landis

    Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson

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  • 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,

O
P

  • Paths of Glory (1958)

    Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

    Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

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  • 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

R

  • 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

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  • 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

S

  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    Directed By: Steven Spielberg

    Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

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  • 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

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  • 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

T

  • 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

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  • 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

U

  • The Usual Suspects (1995)

    Directed By: Bryan Singer

    Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

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V

  • Vertigo (1958)

    Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

    Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak

    RolloverWhy You Should See It

W

  • 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

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  • The World of Apu (1959)

    Directed By: Satyajit Ray

    Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,

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