09.24.09
an extensive list of films I wish to see (as of 07/27/10)
- Akira Kurosawa
- Alfred Hitchcock
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Notorious (1946)
- Rope (1948)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Vertigo (1958)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Psycho (1960)
- Blaxploitation
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Pebbles, 1971)Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971)Super Fly (dir. Gordon Parks Jr., 1972)Coffy (dir. Jack Hill, 1973)-
Boss Nigger (dir. Jack Arnold, 1975)
Black Dynamite (dir. Scott Sanders, 2009)
- Bollywood
- Mother India (dir. Mehboob Khan, 1957)
- Embers (dir. Ramesh Sippy, 1975)
- Chinese Cinema
Raise the Red Lantern (dir. Yimou Zhang, 1991)-
In the Mood For Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong, 2000)
- David Lean
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- The Documentary
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Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2008) - Capitalism: A Love Story (dir. Michael Moore, 2009)
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- Federico Fellini
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Nights of Cabiria (1957) -
Amarcord (1973)
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- Film Noir
- The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941)
- The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, 1946)
- The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed, 1949)
- Sunset Blvd. (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)
- French Cinema
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All’s Well (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1972) Delicatessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991)-
The Science of Sleep (dir. Michel Gondry, 2006)
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- French New Wave
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The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut, 1959) -
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) -
Band of Outsiders (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
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- Ian Fleming’s “James Bond” Adaptations
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You Only Live Twice (dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1967) - Diamonds Are Forever (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1971)
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Moonraker (dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1979)
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- Italian Cinema
- Il Postino: The Postman (dir. Michael Radford, 1994)
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Life Is Beautiful (dir. Roberto Benigni, 1997)
- Korean Cinema
- The Isle (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2000)
- Real Fiction (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2000)
Address Unknown (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2001)- The President’s Last Bang (dir. Sang-soo Im, 2005)
- Chaser (dir. Hong-jin Na, 2008)
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird (dir. Ji-Woon Kim, 2008)
Mother (dir. Joon-ho Bong, 2009)Thirst (dir. Chan-wook Park, 2009)
- The Kung Fu Film
A Touch of Zen (dir. King Hu, 1969)The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1978)Drunken Master (dir. Woo-ping Yuen, 1978)Shaolin Challenges Ninja (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1979)Clan of the White Lotus (dir. Lieh Lo, 1980)The Prodigal Son (dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, 1982)Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1984)
- Martin Scorcese
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Cape Fear (1991)
- Casino (1995)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
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- Michael Caine
- Zulu (dir. Cy Endfield, 1964)
- Get Carter (dir. Mike Hodges, 1971)
- Sleuth (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)
- The Man Who Would Be King (dir. John Huston, 1975)
- Is Anybody There? (dir. John Crowley, 2008)
- Harry Brown (dir. Daniel Barber, 2009)
- Miscellaneous
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Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1957)Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, 1961)-
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan, 1962) - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman, 1975)
- Marathon Man (dir. John Schlesinger, 1976)
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Risky Business (dir. Paul Brickman, 1983) -
Footloose (dir. Herbert Ross, 1984) - Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone, 1984)
- Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone, 1986)
- She’s Gotta Have It (dir. Spike Lee, 1986)
- Top Gun (dir. Tony Scott, 1986)
- Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1988)- Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
- El Mariachi (dir. Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
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Quiz Show (dir. Robert Redford, 1994) Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross, 1998)- Rounders (dir. John Dahl, 1998)
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American Pie (dir. Paul Weitz, 1999) Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe, 2000)Ali G Indahouse (dir. Mark Mylod, 2002)-
Bend It Like Beckham (dir. Gurinder Chadha, 2002) - Hell Boy (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2004)
- Layer Cake (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2004)
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Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood, 2005) - A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater, 2006)
- Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster, 2006)
Across the Universe (dir. Julie Taymor, 2007)-
I’m Not There. (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007) - There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Taken (dir. Pierre Morel, 2008)-
Avatar (dir. James Cameron, 2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir. Wes Anderson, 2009)-
The Hangover (dir. Todd Phillips, 2009) Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze, 2009)
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- Patrick Swayze
- The Outsiders (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
- Red Dawn (dir. John Milius, 1984)
- Dirty Dancing (dir. Emile Ardolino, 1987)
- Road House (dir. Rowdy Herrington, 1989)
- Ghost (dir. Jerry Zucker, 1990)
- Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
- Paul Newman
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Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) - Slap Shot (dir. George Roy Hill, 1977)
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- Rob Reiner
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This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Stand By Me (1986)
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
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Misery (1990)
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- Robert Altman
- Brewster McCloud (1970)
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- The Slapstick
Our Hospitality (dir. John G. Blystone, 1923)The General (dir. Buster Keaton, 1927)The Cameraman (dir. Edward Sedgwick, 1928)City Lights (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1931)Modern Times (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1936)The Great Dictator (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1940)
- The Theater-to-Film Adaptation
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His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940) -
Henry V (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1989) -
Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1996)
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- Victor Fleming
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Western
- Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks, 1959)
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The Magnificent Seven (dir. John Sturges, 1960) - Blazing Saddles (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974)
- Woody Allen
- Manhattan (1979)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
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