3:02 p.m. - 2009-03-07
Some Movies
In no particular order:
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. The Big Sleep
5. Key Largo
6. Clash by Night
7. plus, anything else with Barbara Stanwyck
8. Metropolis
9. M
10. Breathless
11. Weekend
12. anything Godard made between 10 and 11
13. anything by Scorsese, up to and including Goodfellas; Alice Doesn't Live Here, New York, New York and The Color of Money optional
14. The Conversation
15. all three Godfathers; yes, yes the third one's crap but at least it's the shortest
16. Glengary Glen Ross
17. Night of the Hunter
18. Cape Fear
19. Last Night at Marienbad
20. Grand Illusion
21. The Rules of the Game
22. The French Connection
23. Midnight Cowboy
24. Bonnie and Clyde
25. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
26. The Bicycle Thief
27. anything by Orson Welles
28. the first Oceans Eleven
29. The Sweet Smell of Success
30. The Apartment
31. Stromboli
32. 8 1/2
33. Open City
34. Chinatown
35. Repulsion
36. Some Like it Hot
37. every Marx Brothers film with Zeppo, plus A Night at the Opera
38. Bringing up Baby
39. anything by Hitchcock
40. anything by Bunuel
41. anything with Pam Grier
42. Apocalypse Now
43. The Killing
44. Dr Strangelove; actually, anything by Kubrick but skip Barry Lyndon and the Tom Cruise one if you feel like it
45. Shaft
46. Superfly
47. The Day the Earth Stood Still
48. Forbidden Planet
49. The Jerk
50. Rashomon
51. The Seventh Seal
52. Wild Strawberries
53. West Side Story
54. The Last Picture Show
55. Lost Weekend
56. Rosemary's Baby
57. MASH
58. McCabe and Mrs Miller
59. Nashville
60. Short Cuts
61. The Manchurian Candidate
