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DVDs weren't out yet, so please ignore my box set
The hundred movies meme was even harder to assemble because I spent far more of my childhood and adolescence immersed in books than in movies and therefore many of the films on this list were not so much formative as illuminating once I finally started paying attention to cinema as an art form, and/or they wired themselves instantly into my brain and are quoted regularly to this day. A list of favorites might overlap significantly but not identically, I imagine tilting more heavily toward sff and noir. I feel it may be a much more mainstream list than my formative books, although still full of meaningful absences. (I sacrificed a number of classics as well as movies whose circumstances were potentially more important than their content, but just glitched on The Medium (1951) and Katerina Izmailova (1966), both of which I even own.) I find it very difficult to try to winnow accurately. I may just not be designed for this format of meme.
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Nice! I had the fortune of seeing it in theaters when it came out and then the fun of teaching it for a class in grad school. It is in fact one of my favorite movies as well as a movie it is important for me to have seen.
And it mightily tickles the testosterone in me to see The Hidden on the list. That's such a great kickass but decidedly not dumb movie. The Terminator probably made more of an impression on me, but The Hidden competes well against it. Plus it has Danny Trejo in a very early role, for about 5 seconds before he, as they say, exits, permanently.
I watched it on recommendation from
In Sept/Oct 2019 I read 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 13th (?) edition. The most recent movie in it was The Lighthouse (2019). Since each edition has a slightly different set of movies, I obtained a copy of the list of every movie that had appeared in all the editions up to then -- 1235 movies. And started checking them off and seeking them out. When I started I was at 504/1235. I'm up to 670/1235. Many of the ones I've not gotten to are foreign films that can be harder to find. There are some movies on the list, like Audition and Irreversible, that I'm not sure I'll ever want to see. But it gives me something to look forward to every time I scan the upcoming schedules for TCM, HBO, etc.
That sounds like fun. I have never actually tried to check out how many of the movies of a given edition I have seen in my current state of not yet dead. Any favorites from pursuing their list?
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1. I was surprised by how much I liked 8 1/2 and Amarcord after earlier mildly enjoying La Strada and Nights of Cabiria; did not like Juliet of the Spirits. In general, European films like those and Shoot the Piano Player and Day for Night have been very pleasant discoveries. 2) I was shocked at how good I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang was! 3) I didn't expect to like Charlie Chaplin as much as I did; City Lights is absolutely essential. 4) A lot of the films from the 2000s on the list shouldn't be there, IMHO; a lot of those entries are either pretty lightweight or just not very distinctive.
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I am not sure I have ever seen it! But it is a pre-Code, and I will give almost any one of those a chance. It has served me well more often than not. Thanks for the more than generically famous rec!