102 movies
Check Kottke: he has a list of 102 movies that you have to watch.
Of course, I love all things passive, and the list is impressive. Have I watched all these movies? Let’s see
- * 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The 400 Blows
- * 8 1/2
- * Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- * Alien
- All About Eve
- Annie Hall
- * Apocalypse Now
- * Bambi
- * The Battleship Potemkin
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Big Red One
- * The Bicycle Thief
- The Big Sleep
- * Blade Runner
- Blowup
- * Blue Velvet
- * Bonnie and Clyde
- * Breathless
- Bringing Up Baby
- * Carrie
- Casablanca
- Un Chien Andalou
- * Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
- * Chinatown
- * Citizen Kane
- * A Clockwork Orange
- * The Crying Game
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Days of Heaven
- * Dirty Harry
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Do the Right Thing
- * La Dolce Vita
- Double Indemnity
- Dr. Strangelove
- Duck Soup
- * E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial
- Easy Rider
- * The Empire Strikes Back
- * The Exorcist
- Fargo
- * Fight Club
- * Frankenstein
- The General
- * The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
- Gone With the Wind
- GoodFellas
- * The Graduate
- * Halloween
- A Hard Day's Night
- Intolerance
- It's a Gift
- It's a Wonderful Life
- * Jaws
- The Lady Eve
- * Lawrence of Arabia
- M
- * Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Manchurian Candidate
- * Metropolis
- Modern Times
- * Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Nashville
- The Night of the Hunter
- * Night of the Living Dead
- North by Northwest
- Nosferatu
- On the Waterfront
- * Once Upon a Time in the West
- Out of the Past
- Persona
- Pink Flamingos
- * Psycho
- * Pulp Fiction
- * Rashomon
- Rear Window
- * Rebel Without a Cause
- Red River
- Repulsion
- The Rules of the Game
- * Scarface
- The Scarlet Empress
- Schindler's List
- The Searchers
- * The Seven Samurai
- * Singin' in the Rain
- * Some Like It Hot
- * A Star Is Born
- * A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sunset Boulevard
- * Taxi Driver
- The Third Man
- Tokyo Story
- Touch of Evil
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Trouble in Paradise
- Vertigo
- West Side Story
- The Wild Bunch
- The Wizard of Oz
46 out of a 102. Not bad, considering that this list is heavily biased towards local productions. What about Dreams, by Kurosawa? Or Chunking Express, by Wong Kar-Wai? Or Amores Perros, by Alejandro Gonzalez?
Hey, what about 102 Dalmatians?