Powered by Tofu » ebert’s 102 movies list http://www.poweredbytofu.com Travel blog + foodie adventures + Portland living + listomania Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:00:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – A Star Is Born http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-star-is-born/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-star-is-born/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:25:00 +0000 poweredbytofu http://www.poweredbytofu.com/2007/10/23/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-star-is-born/ A Star Is BornI’m not prone to falling asleep during movies, but this one sure did the trick. Maybe it’s a musical thing, anyway, A Star Is Bornwas not my kind of movie. The plot seemed very tired (no pun intended). I was bored with the movie before I fell asleep, but I assumed it would get more interesting.

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-star-is-born/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Seven Samurai http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-seven-samurai/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-seven-samurai/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:50:56 +0000 poweredbytofu http://www.poweredbytofu.com/2007/10/06/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-seven-samurai/ Did they really say “sheeeeyit” in the 1600s? Yes, it was the subtitles, but it seems like they would have had a more clever word for expressing: “I can’t believe my misfortune.” Finally finished watching The Seven Samurai this afternoon. Overall, it was a good movie, but a little too long. Very epic. The hyper Samurai, who used to be a farmer, was just so over the top – he was kind of the Jar Jar Binks of Seven Samurai.

Seven Samurai – Criterion Collection – 3-Disc Remastered Edition

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-seven-samurai/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Manchurian Candidate http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-manchurian-candidate/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-manchurian-candidate/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:32:29 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=58 themanchuriancandidate.jpgWas it really as good as it seemed? Yes, Ebert, it was. I watched The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition) last night. Excellent! This movie is completely timeless.

And doesn’t Jude Law look like Laurence Harvey?

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-manchurian-candidate/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Bicycle Thief http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-bicycle-thief/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-bicycle-thief/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:53:09 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=57 This film definitely deserves to be on a “greatest films” list. When you think about the plot, it seems fairly simple and boring, but it’s so real. You can feel their pain of living in poverty and needing the bicycle to have a better future. And the cycle continues. Great movie, and the ending was very appropriate.

The Bicycle Thief

75 to go!

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-bicycle-thief/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:04:05 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=56 Huh? What a weird movie about nothing… I guess that was the point.

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie – Criterion Collection

76 to go.

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – A Streetcar Named Desire http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-streetcar-named-desire/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-streetcar-named-desire/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:36:40 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=38 This movie made me laugh. I know, I know, it’s a ground-breaking, revolutionary, Oscar-winning film. But as far as acting styles, it seemed rather forced, which says a lot for previous acting style if this film shook things up. I bet it was rather shocking at the time though. :)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Only 77 more to see!

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-a-streetcar-named-desire/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – A Hard Day’s Night http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-update/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-update/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:01:09 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=30 I watched “A Hard Day’s Night” this week, (from the Ebert 102 Movies You Must See List). It’s very striking how young they look in this movie. Anyway, it was adorable, who doesn’t love The Beatles! :)

]]> http://www.poweredbytofu.com/53-ebert%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98102-movies-you-must-see%e2%80%99-list-update/feed/ 0 #53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List http://www.poweredbytofu.com/52-and-53-top-100-grossing-films-eberts-102-movies-you-must-see-list/ http://www.poweredbytofu.com/52-and-53-top-100-grossing-films-eberts-102-movies-you-must-see-list/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:33:34 +0000 poweredbytofu http://poweredbytofu.com/?p=9 I’ve only seen 23 from the Ebert List, so 79 more for that list. :( I guess I need to see about 1 per week… for the next 2.74 years! :)

Movies I Haven’t Seen on Ebert’s “102 Movies You Must See” List:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick

8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini

A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick

A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Richard Lester

A Star Is Born (1954) George Cukor

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog

Alien (1979) Ridley Scott

All About Eve (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*

Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott

Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni

Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch

Breathless (1959 Jean-Luc Godard

Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks

Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) Marcel Carne

Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski

Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles

Days of Heaven (1978) Terence Malick

Dirty Harry (1971) Don Siegel

Do the Right Thing (1989 Spike Lee

Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder

Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick

Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey

E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg

Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper

Frankenstein (1931) James Whale

Halloween (1978) John Carpenter

Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith

It’s a Gift (1934) Norman Z. McLeod

La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini

M (1931) Fritz Lang

Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior (1981) George Miller

Metropolis (1926) Fritz Lang

Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin

Nashville (1975) Robert Altman

Night of the Living Dead (1968) George Romero

North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock

Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau

On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone

Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tournier

Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman

Pink Flamingos (1972) John Waters

Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock

Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa

Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock

Red River (1948) Howard Hawks

Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski

Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks

Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder

The 400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler

The Bicycle Thief (1949) Vittorio De Sica

The Big Red One (1980) Samuel Fuller

The Big Sleep (1946) Howard Hawks

The Crying Game (1992) Neil Jordan

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Robert Wise

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Luis Bunuel

The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin

The General (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges

The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer

The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton

The Rules of the Game (1939) Jean Renoir

The Scarlet Empress (1934) Josef von Sternberg

The Searchers (1956) John Ford

The Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa

The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston

The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam Peckinpah

Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu

Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles

Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch

Un Chien Andalou (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali

Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock

I think I’ll hold off on the Netflix account for a while and just get these at the library. Thanks Multnomah County library!

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