My friend Cyran (who is also doing 101/1001) recently mentioned that I hadn't actually made a list of classic films for Thing 71; I started off with some in mind - My Neighbour Totoro was one of them - but since then I've kind of meandered with it. I knew of some films that I wanted to watch or had provisionally pencilled in as a potential, but I hadn't really done anything about it. I'm not suggesting that the following list of films is in anyway definitive - and Cyran and others may disagree with my idea of "classic" - but these are some films that have sprung to mind recently while I have been running the idea around in my head of what I had in mind.
The Seven Samurai
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Vertigo
Yojimbo
The Godfather, Part II
The Godfather, Part III
Forbidden Planet
Blood Simple
Godzilla (the original)
Metropolis
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
North By Northwest
Gone With The Wind (?)
The Big Sleep
Sleeper
Near Dark
Withnail And I (?)
The Sound of Music
The Conversation
So, what do you think? Do you agree with what I have listed? Anything essential that I am missing? Bear in mind, these are classic films that I feel I really ought to have seen but haven't. You're not psychic (probably), so you don't know what I have or haven't seen - so tell me, what is a classic film that you would recommend?
Sunday 8 March 2009
Classic Films
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I seem to remember you telling me you'd never seen Breakfast at Tiffany's? If you haven't, put that one up there too.
OK, that goes on the list; got your Facebook message just now, will reply after lunch!
The Birth of a Nation
All Quiet on the Western Front
Doctor Strangelove
Annie Hall
The General
The Graduate
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Bonnie and Clyde
High Noon
The Seventh Seal
Cries and Whispers (my personal favorite)
The Maltese Falcon
On the Waterfront
Schindler's List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
West Side Story
2001
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