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#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Seven Samurai

poweredbytofu — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:50:56 +0000

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

#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Manchurian Candidate

poweredbytofu — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:32:29 +0000

Was 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?

#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Bicycle Thief

poweredbytofu — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:53:09 +0000

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!

#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

poweredbytofu — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:04:05 +0000

Huh? What a weird movie about nothing… I guess that was the point.

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie – Criterion Collection

76 to go.

#52: Watch the Top 100 Grossing Films – The Sting

poweredbytofu — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:56:34 +0000

The Sting was really fun. No wonder it was one of the Top 100! A young Robert Redford makes a great con man. What made me laugh during this movie was how easy it was to con people before technology, Internet, cell phones etc. The availability of open/free information just evens the playing field of knowledge. (Reminds me of the real estate agent chapter of Freakonomics). Anyway, this movie was definitely fun to watch. Oh, side note that I’m very curious about: What year did the “N word” move from general description to taboo? They used it at least twice in this film, it was very odd. It’s amazing how films essentially take a snap-shot of culture/attitudes of how it was at a specific time – without even specifically trying to.

#52: Watch the Top 100 Grossing Films – Ghostbusters & Pinocchio

poweredbytofu — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:08:55 +0000

I realized that I have seen 2 movies off the Top 100 Grossing Films list that I didn’t cross off the first time:

42 Ghostbusters 1984
36 Pinocchio 1940

So I’m crossing these off today, and it’s totally not cheating! :)

#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List – A Hard Day’s Night

poweredbytofu — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:01:09 +0000

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! :)

#52: Watch the Top 100 Grossing Films – The Chronicles of Narnia

poweredbytofu — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:09:52 +0000

I finally finished The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Widescreen Edition) DVD. I had paused it for several day… but finally got back to finishing it up yesterday. I’d skip this movie, but I can see why children love it, who doesn’t love a talking lion? :) Really not sure why this was one of the top grossing films though. Oh well…. only 30 more to go!

#52: Watch the Top 100 Grossing Films – Doctor Zhivago

poweredbytofu — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0000

I watched #08, Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition), last night. I thought it was going to be pretty cheesy, and it was, but something about it was just really good. It was sad, and predictable, and very 1965, but it makes you think about people and history, and how life is predictable and complicated and predictably complicated.

Only 31 more to go!

#53: Ebert’s ‘102 Movies You Must See’ List

poweredbytofu — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:33:34 +0000

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!