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

July 8, 2007

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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!