When in doubt, go to the movies
I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show yesterday for the first time. It's been on my list of Movies To Watch for quite a while - it seems to have really informed the slightly off-beat culture of the last thirty years or so, and it was starting to bug me that I didn't get the references.
It was surprisingly good, and very odd.
While I'm still unemployed (and have a bit of time on my hands) I'm compiling a list of Films to Watch.
It's not very long, because I'm crap at remembering film names. There's The Godfather, for obvious reasons, and The Appartment because everyone seems to be recommending it this week. Presumably it's the 46th anniversary or something. There's also the Terminator series because #2 comes highly recommended, and Sixteen Candles to round of the Pretty in Pink/Breakfast Club set.
Film4 did a programme entitled "50 Films to See Before You Die". The Sunday Mail reported the list of films:
1 Apocalypse Now 2 The Apartment 3 City of God 4 Chinatown 5 Sexy Beast 6 2001: A Space Odyssey 7 North by Northwest 8 A Bout de Souffle 9 Donnie Darko 10 Manhattan 11 Alien 12 Lost in Translation 13 The Shawshank Redemption 14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India 15 Pulp Fiction 16 Touch of Evil 17 Walkabout 18 Black Narcissus 19 Boyzn the Hood 20 The Player 21 Come and See 22 Heavenly Creatures 23 A Night at the Opera 2 4 Erin Brockovich 25 Trainspotting 26 The Breakfast Club 27 Hero 28 Fanny and Alexander 29 Pink Flamingos 30 All About Eve 31 Scarface 32 Terminator 2 33 Three Colours: Blue 34 The Royal Tenen-baums 35 The Ladykillers 36 Fight Club 37 The Searchers 38 Mulholland Drive 39 The Ipcress File 40 The King of Comedy 41 Manhunter 42 Dawn of the Dead 43 Princess Mononoke 44 Raising Arizona 45 Cabaret 46 This Sporting Life 47 Brazil 48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 49 Secrets and Lies 50 Badlands.
I've seen about 10. It reminded me to add Princess Mononoke and Raising Arizona to the list, but none of the rest really grab me, perhaps because I don't know much about them. Any suggestions? Could you recommend me films that rock your world and/or are what you consider an essential part of film making history, and help me compile my own list of 50 films to see before I die? If I'm really organized, I might actually blog about them afterwards...
It was surprisingly good, and very odd.
While I'm still unemployed (and have a bit of time on my hands) I'm compiling a list of Films to Watch.
It's not very long, because I'm crap at remembering film names. There's The Godfather, for obvious reasons, and The Appartment because everyone seems to be recommending it this week. Presumably it's the 46th anniversary or something. There's also the Terminator series because #2 comes highly recommended, and Sixteen Candles to round of the Pretty in Pink/Breakfast Club set.
Film4 did a programme entitled "50 Films to See Before You Die". The Sunday Mail reported the list of films:
1 Apocalypse Now 2 The Apartment 3 City of God 4 Chinatown 5 Sexy Beast 6 2001: A Space Odyssey 7 North by Northwest 8 A Bout de Souffle 9 Donnie Darko 10 Manhattan 11 Alien 12 Lost in Translation 13 The Shawshank Redemption 14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India 15 Pulp Fiction 16 Touch of Evil 17 Walkabout 18 Black Narcissus 19 Boyzn the Hood 20 The Player 21 Come and See 22 Heavenly Creatures 23 A Night at the Opera 2 4 Erin Brockovich 25 Trainspotting 26 The Breakfast Club 27 Hero 28 Fanny and Alexander 29 Pink Flamingos 30 All About Eve 31 Scarface 32 Terminator 2 33 Three Colours: Blue 34 The Royal Tenen-baums 35 The Ladykillers 36 Fight Club 37 The Searchers 38 Mulholland Drive 39 The Ipcress File 40 The King of Comedy 41 Manhunter 42 Dawn of the Dead 43 Princess Mononoke 44 Raising Arizona 45 Cabaret 46 This Sporting Life 47 Brazil 48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 49 Secrets and Lies 50 Badlands.
I've seen about 10. It reminded me to add Princess Mononoke and Raising Arizona to the list, but none of the rest really grab me, perhaps because I don't know much about them. Any suggestions? Could you recommend me films that rock your world and/or are what you consider an essential part of film making history, and help me compile my own list of 50 films to see before I die? If I'm really organized, I might actually blog about them afterwards...