Rented out Shoah today, so, with resolve, coffee, and another three weeks of vacation, I'll be down to seven. I'm going to knock them off my list one by one, like Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 August 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen about half of them, though I saw a lot of them a long time ago (i.e. in lolcollege) and don't remember much about them.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler*** sled ***Spoiler***
― clemenza, Friday, 3 August 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler***Russian People Doing Things***Spoiler***
That's another out the way.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'll resist the temptation to go through the whole list, but you can have some fun with this.
***Spoiler*** ambiguous and enigmatic ***Spoiler***
That covers quite a few.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler*** barn > cows > mud > barn ***Spoiler***
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler*** Jeanne drops a spoon on the kitchen floor. ***Spoiler***
― Eric H., Friday, 3 August 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Damn it, I was going to watch that this weekend!
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler***Italian Chick Doesn't Get Back On Boat***Spoiler***
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 August 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
***Spoiler*** Singin' in the rain ***Spoiler***
― Eric H., Friday, 3 August 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 3 August 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
***spoiler***buster keaton looks sad***spoiler***
Surprised I've seen nearly all of them apart from:
Sunrise: A Song of Two HumansAu hasard BalthazarLe MéprisShoahThe GeneralSome Like It HotPlay TimeClose-UpHistoire(s) du cinémaCity Lights
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
'city lights' is probably gone from the top 10 forever, which is a total bummer for me.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 3 August 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
I saw Rules of the Game a couple years ago. Good movie, but it didn't wow me or anything.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4AeXMEIeNI
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 3 August 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Seven months later, I'm inching forward--I've now seen Shoah, Satantango, and Playtime, with Mirror, Metropolis, Journey to Italy, Gertrud, and Close-Up still to go. I've still got another nine-plus years before the list changes.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 February 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I need to get back to this. I'm up to 41.1. (Didn't make it very far into Histoires du Cinema).
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 18 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Okay--I'm dropping myself to 42.7 to account for parts of Potemkim, Contempt, and a few others where I nodded off for a time.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Contempt, i can't blame you
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 February 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Potemkin is, like 69 minutes long cranked at 24fps, isn't it?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 18 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
Potemkin is so good.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 18 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've drifted off during eight-minute experimental films, and stayed alert for Berlin Alexanderplatz. It's often more to do with circumstances than the film with me.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 February 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'm an insomniac so falling asleep during a movie is not gonna happen.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 18 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Oh now I haven't seen 27 of these (it was 30 initially!)
― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't seen 18 -- highest one i'm still missing is 'tokyo story,' shamefully enough. i have a feeling i'm never gonna be in the mood for 'satantango.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 06:17 (eleven years ago) link
last time i hadn't seen 36 now i have seen 34 (16 to go)
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
i have seen five of the films on the list, and enjoyed one (taxi driver)
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 07:18 (eleven years ago) link
15. Late Spring19. Mirror29= Shoah (watched around 2 hours then gave up)35= Sátántangó41. Journey to Italy42= Pather Panchali42= Gertrud42= Close-Up48= Histoire(s) du cinéma
― abanana, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
I have 14 to go (though, to be honest, I'm never going to watch Histoires):
The SearchersMan with a Movie CameraBattleship PotemkinContemptShoahBicycle ThievesSátántangóJourney to Italy Pather PanchaliGertrudPierrot le fouThe Battle of AlgiersHistoire(s) du cinémaCity Lights
― Cherish, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
i have a feeling i'm never gonna be in the mood for 'satantango.'
Feel the same way about Seven Samurai, which is I'm positive always going to be the highest ranking movie I've never seen in its entirety.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen 25 of these. Three of them I've started watching but turned off before the halfway point for one reason or another.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
Have a feeling the last one I'll ever see is Voyage to Italy.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda surprised with myself. Only ones I haven't seen are:
ShoahSatantangoJourney to ItalyHistoire(s) du cinéma*
*I actually own this, but still haven't seen the last two episodes or so. LOVE what I've seen, but it takes a certain mood.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Random thoughts (do not read if you hate me)
* Haven't seen 31 of these films--would have seen more if I hadn't blown off seasons of Italian neorealism or Japanese actresses at the National Gallery.* I have knee-jerk reactions against Iranian films, and Westerns. Can anyone recommend "gateway" films for these genres?
― The Devils of Loudoun County (j.lu), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
A Moment of InnocenceRed River / My Darling Clementine
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
A Moment of Innocence seems hardly a "gateway" film.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Gateway western is Assault on Precinct 13.
One of Mann's westerns with Jimmy Stewart, maybe.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
If those don't work, Paint Your Wagon.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Among Iranian films, what's more broadly appealing? The White Balloon?
Damn, you are really pushing the Hawks baiting, honeybunch. (But I am envisioning you and Madonna in a remake of Destry Rides Again.)
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Close-Up is a very moving film. Other than that, Life and Nothing More or This is Not a Film, perhaps? The House is Black is only fifteen minutes long.
I need to see nine of these. Histoire(s) was kinda great, the section on neo-realism was oddly moving.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen half of the 50. A large number of them require one to deliberately seek them out, so anyone not dedicated to classic-film viewing is going to miss out on many of them. Of course, that is why these lists are made - to prod you into seeing the ones you've missed.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'd choose Red River too as the best intro into westerns. Whether you applaud it or not, the western starts to get more and more self-conscious from The Gunfighter/High Noon/Shane onward, into The Searchers and beyond, and I wouldn't start there. Red River's great in a very classical, unselfconscious way.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
Clementine 2 years earlier tho.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
No excuse, haven't seen it. Don't chastise me, Sidney.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
'liberty valance' is my favorite ford western by a long way, but it's sort of a 'last hurrah' for ford westerns you might get more out of it if you try a few of the older ones first. i remember 'fort apache' being pretty great. i have fond memories of 'she wore a yellow ribbon,' which seemed to be on AMC every week when i was a teenager.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
SO you might get more out of it, i meant to write.
seven samurai is top 5 for me, the searchers made me barf, but WHO GIVES A SHIT this list is almost as tedious as seeing the same film jerkwads do their pantomine for the 80 billionth time on ile. its like if ilm was marcello carlin (morbs) the lex (eric h) and mark g (clemenza) talking about mojo lists for all eternity then commencing to jo to christgau or whoever the choon equivalent of pauline kael is. if i never see another 'discussion' about her fifty year old 'opinions' on here i will die happy. take it to blogspot already!!
― administrator galina (Matt P), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
so glad you could stop by and play our game
― Aimless, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
That is one nutty hospital.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:38 (eleven years ago) link