The end result is that if you watch, say, Rashomon, Breathless, Battleship Potemkin or even Strangelove without understanding their historical significance, you will be extremely underwhelmed since most of their innovations are now commonplace.Īlso, there’s something of a film school bias in the list, and I’d question the usefulness of this whole approach for anyone who isn’t a film prof or critic. Looks like he chose a lot of films that were hugely influential and were subsequently widely copied. A list like this, presented as “you need to see all these in order to talk about film properly”, is pretty useless without some kind of context for the films. It’s prescient, still relevant, and just darn funny. There’s something of a resemblance to the xenophobic, paranoid madman starting World War III.Īnd the American soldier’s response to the RAF officer when he suggests he shoot the drinks machine to get change: “if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone… You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.” Ripper, and is just realising he’s mental, look at that shot of Jack, slightly from below, and look at his eyes glinting. When Peter Sellers as the English RAF officer is talking to Jack D. Strangelove… I’m simply too young to get it.”Ĭome now. How much do we need to have Wolfgang: “Dr. But a fair bit of the film was missing from it, as I believe there are no complete prints in existence. Now, I wonder when one can claim to have seen Metropolis. Some Like It Hot is my grandma’s favourite movie. There are some hardcore movie fans reading this…anyone seen them all? As for what’s missing from the list, I’m not even going to go there given my poor showing. And I think I’ve seen Bambi (when I was a kid), but I marked it as seen even though I’m not completely sure. My pre-1970 movie knowledge is just plain pathetic, but I’ve seen all six movies on the list made since 1990 (and 5 out of 7 of the 80s movies). I’ve reproduced Emerson’s list here and marked with an asterisk those that I’ve seen.Ĭhildren of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis They’re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.” …they the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. Film critic Jim Emerson recently compiled a list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate:
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