Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion!desire.wright.edu!erobinette From: erobinette@desire.wright.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: The 60 Essential Films? Message-ID: <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu> Date: 5 May 93 16:35:17 EST Organization: Wright State University Lines: 71 It has been two years since Entertainment Weekly printed a list of 60 films every film buff should see (actually, it was May 10, 1991). I've been thinking the list should be expanded to 100. What should be the other 40? For reference , here are the 60 films EW selected: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) All About Eve (1950) Annie Hall (1977) Behind the Green Door (1972) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Blue Velvet (1986) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Breathless (1959) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Casablanca (1942) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Dirty Harry (1971) Do the Right Thing (1989) Double Indemnity (1944) Easy Rider (1969) The 400 Blows (1959) Frankenstein (1931) The General (1927) The Godfather (1972) Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954) Goldfinger (1964) The Gold Rush (1925) Gone with the Wind (1939) The Graduate (1967) A Hard Day's Night (1964) High Noon (1952) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Jaws (1975) King Kong (1933) La Dolce Vita (1960) Last Tango in Paris (1972) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Mary Poppins (1964) Mildred Pierce (1945) Nashville (1975) A Night at the Opera (1935) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Notorious (1946) Pink Flamingos (1973) Pinocchio (1940) Psycho (1960) The Public Enemy (1931) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Rocky (1976) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) The Seven Samarai (1954) The Seventh Seal (1956) Singin' In the Rain (1952) Stagecoach (1939) Star Wars (1977) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Taxi Driver (1976) Top Hat (1935) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Viva Las Vegas (1964) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Please Note: These are not the 60 best films of all time, but the 60 that all film buffs should see. What did they miss? Eric Robinette erobinette@desire.wright.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil!jxxl From: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) Subject: Re: The 60 Essential Films? Message-ID: Sender: news@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil Organization: AAAA References: <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu> Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 23:21:56 GMT Lines: 30 erobinette@desire.wright.edu writes: > Please Note: These are not the 60 best films of all time, but the 60 that all > film buffs should see. What did they miss? Rear Window Apocalypse Now The Stunt Man The Big Sleep Forbidden Planet North by Northwest Where Eagles Dare The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence The Onion Field GoodFellas The Treasure of the Sierra Madre March of the Wooden Soldiers Superfly Winchester '73 Shadow of a Doubt Raiders of the Lost Ark Great Expectations Angels With Dirty Faces Chinatown The Deer Hunter Cabaret Rebecca All the President's Men Amadeus The Man Who Would Be King Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu!bole From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: Re: The 60 Essential Films? Message-ID: <1993May6.105711.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: 6 May 93 14:57:11 GMT References: <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu In article <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu>, erobinette@desire.wright.edu writes: > It has been two years since Entertainment Weekly printed a list of 60 films > every film buff should see (actually, it was May 10, 1991). I've been > thinking the list should be expanded to 100. What should be the other 40? I think they should have more "uncovered gems" or films that your average film-goer hasn't seen but needs to. Ie: the smaller films that seperate the film buff from the film watcher. For a few examples: Blade Runner The Duellists Impromptu The Man Who Would Be King Mountains of the Moon But the BIG one I can't believe they left off was: Raiders of the Lost Ark!!!!! *yeesh* Greg Bole "The young lady with the Uzi, is she single?" bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu River Phoenix as Carl in _Sneakers_ Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion!desire.wright.edu!erobinette From: erobinette@desire.wright.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: Essential films cont'd Message-ID: <1993May5.165435.9239@desire.wright.edu> Date: 5 May 93 16:54:35 EST Organization: Wright State University Lines: 102 If you've read the first post, you know I'm trying to expand Entertainment Weekly's list of 60 essential films to 100. Here's a list of 80-90 possible choices for those 40: Airplane! (1980) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Best Years Of our Lives (1946) The Bicycle Thief (1949) Day For Night (1973) The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) Dr. Strangelove (1964) 8 1/2 (1963) E. T. (1982) Fantasia (1940) 48HRS. (1982) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Greed (1925) Halloween (1978) If... (1968) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) It Happened One Night (1934) L'Avventura (1960) M (1931) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Nanook of the North (1922) Night of the Hunter (1955) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) Platoon (1986) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) The Producers (1968) Risky Business (1983) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Saturday Night Fever (1977) The Searchers (1956) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Sound of Music (1965) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Swing Time (1936) The Terminator (1984) The Third Man (1949) The Wild Bunch (1969) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Woodstock (1970) Ben Hur (1959) Blade Runner (1982) Burden of Dreams (1982) The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (1989) The Discreet Charm of the Bougeoisie (1972) Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1978) The Exorcist (1973) Fanny and Alexander (1983) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Flashdance (1983) Floating Weeds (1959) The French Connection (1971) Gallipoli (1981) The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1967) Henry V (1945) Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) In the Realm of the Senses (1976) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) The Jazz Singer (1927) Laura (1944) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Mad Max (1979) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Marty (1955) MASH (1970) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Moonlighting (1982) My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Nutty Professor (1963) Olympia (1936) On The Waterfront (1954) Pather Panchali (1955) Pixote (1981) Potemkin (1925) Ran (1985) Rashomon (1950) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Triumph of the Will (1935) Tommy (1975) The Wages of Fear (1952) Weekend (1967) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) Wings of Desire (1988) Z (1969) Which of these films are important? Which are not? Which films should be on this list that are missing? I'm awaiting your response. Eric Robinette erobinette@desire.wright.edu Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!usenet From: harrell@next04cville.wam.umd.edu (Phillip Alexander Harrell) Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: Re: Essential films cont'd Date: 6 May 1993 03:43:31 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1sa1h3$nlb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <1993May5.165435.9239@desire.wright.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: next04cville.wam.umd.edu In article <1993May5.165435.9239@desire.wright.edu> erobinette@desire.wright.edu writes: > If you've read the first post, you know I'm trying to expand Entertainment > Weekly's list of 60 essential films to 100. Here's a list of 80-90 possible > choices for those 40: [long list deleted] > Which of these films are important? Which are not? Which films should be on > this list that are missing? I'm awaiting your response. > > Eric Robinette > erobinette@desire.wright.edu > I know that a flood of movies will be hitting me about a minute after I finish writing this, but the one film that is unexplainably missing from these lists is "Raging Bull"!!! Only the best film of the 1980's! Plus, I would go so far as to add "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" and "The River's Edge", but that's just me. Al