TOP 200 FILMS

This list includes my favorites, a good representation of great directors, genres and styles, historically important films and titles that anyone seriously interested in movies should see at least once. It is not meant to be perfect, just personal.

2001: A Space Odyssey
39 Steps, The
8 ½
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
Akira
Alexander Nevsky
Alien
Alphaville
American in Paris, An
Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Asphalt Jungle, The
Augirre: the Wrath of God
Bad and the Beautiful, The
Bad Day at Black Rock
Battleship Potemkin
Beauty and the Beast (’46)
Bicycle Thief, The
Birth of a Nation, The
Black Cat, The (Karloff/Lugosi)
Blade Runner
Blow-Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, The (‘20)
Casablanca
Cat People (’42)
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Clockwork Orange
Conformist, The
Conversation, The
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crowd, The
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Detour (’45)
Diary of a Country Priest
Die Hard
Die Nibelungen
Dirty Harry
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula (’31)
Duck Soup
Duel
Easy Rider
Eraserhead
Exorcist, The
Eyes Without a Face
Fall of the House of Usher, The (Corman)
Fantasia
Fargo
Flash Gordon (serial)
Fleischer Studios – animation
Footlight Parade
Forbidden Planet
Freaks
French Connection
General, The (’27)
George Meilies – films
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
Godfather, The
Gojira
Gold Rush, The
Goldfinger
Gone With the Wind
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The
Graduate, The
Grand Illusion, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Greed
Gun Crazy (’50)
High Noon
High Sierra
His Girl Friday
Hitch-Hiker, The
Hud
Hustler, The
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Ikuru
In the Heat of the Night
Intolerance
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (’56)
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jason and the Argonauts
Jaws
Jules and Jim
King Kong (’33)
Kiss Me Deadly
L’Aventura
La Dolce Vita
La Strada
Last Laugh, The
Last Year at Marienbad
Laura
Lawrence of Arabia
Lord of the Rings, The (Jackson)
Lost Horizon
Luis Bunuel – early films
Lumiere Brothers – films
M (’31)
Maltese Falcon, The
Manchurian Candidate, The
Manhattan
Metropolis (’27)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
My Man Godfrey
Network
Night of the Living Dead
North by Northwest
Nosferatu (‘22)
Nothing But a Man
Notorious
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Onibaba
Out of the Past
Passion of Joan of Arc, The
Peeping Tom
Persona
Phantom of the Opera (’25)
Place in the Sun, A
Playtime
Psycho
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ran
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Red Shoes, The
Repulsion
Road Warrior, The
Rome: Open City
Rules of the Game, The
Sacrifice, The
Salt of the Earth
Scarface (‘32)
Searchers, The
Set-Up, The
Seven Samurai, The
Seventh Seal, The
Shadows
Shock Corridor
Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
Singin’ In the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
Sons of the Desert
Spirited Away
Stagecoach
Stalker
Star Wars
Straw Dogs
Sullivan’s Travels
Sunrise
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
Terminator, The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Thief of Bagdad (’24)
Thief of Bagdad (’40)
Third Man, The
Throne of Blood
To Be or Not To Be (’42)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Top Hat
Touch of Evil
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
Triumph of the Will, The
Ugetsu
Unforgiven
Vampyr
Vertigo
Videodrome
Wages of Fear, The
Warner Bros. cartoons – Chuck Jones
West Side Story
White Heat
Wild Bunch, The
Wild Strawberries
Wind, The
Winsor McKay – films
Wizard of Oz, The
Wolf Man, The
Woman Under the Influence, A
Yojimbo

Horror Genre and Class Movie

I love that we watched the horror genre and the old movie of Frankenstein and his bride was a classic film that involved everything a typical horror movie should involve. I think it was an excellent choice for the class to watch, thank you Professor Hammond.

Scary Movies

These are some that I like:

Scream
A Haunting in Connecticut
The Secret Window
The Amityville Horror (the 2005 version, I haven't seen the 1979 version)
The Skeleton Key
Signs
The Sixth Sense
What Lies Beneath

"Prelude" by Levi Beamish

I recently found this video on YouTube, and thought it would be good to share. It's not a professional video, it was just made by a guy in New Zealand, but it's really good. Since we were talking about editing a few weeks ago, I thought it would be appropriate since the editing is great, and it's got a lot of really excellent visuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6JNPM841A

Analysis of Image

For the analysis of an image paper I used the famous picture from the film "The Shining"

Below is the image I used for my paper and a video I found humorous regarding how one can misinterpret the meaning behind an image. In this case: the overall plot of the shining was turned around to seem happy rather than frightening.

YOUTUBE VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os6raCCmAFk

ENJOY.

31 Nights of Horror.

Although October is more than halfway over, I have created a challenge for myself at the beginning of the month to watch one horror movie per day for all 31 days of october to celebrate the coming of Halloween. It's been challenging to set aside time during the week with homework and class and such, but i've managed to successfully stick to the challenge. In addition, I've been further challenged to watch films that I have not yet seen before. Here's the list so far (I've doubled up on some days.)

OCT 1: A Nightmare on Elm Street (the original)

OCT 2: The Evil Dead

OCT 3: Bram Stoker's Dracula

OCT 4: An American Werewolf in London

OCT 5: (Clive Barker's) Lord of Illusions

OCT 6: The Wolfman (2010)

OCT 7: Bloodsucking Freaks

OCT 8: Suspiria

OCT 9: Black Xmas

OCT 10: Cabin Fever

OCT 11: Dead Snow

OCT 12: Fright Night

OCT 13: Pet Semetary

OCT 14: 100 Tears/Let the Right One In

OCT 15: Last House on the Left/The Sentinel

OCT 16: Hellraiser

OCT 17: The Shining

OCT 18: Slither

OCT 19: Prom Night

OCT 20: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

OCT 21: The People Under the Stairs

I'M TAKING REQUESTS SO COMMENT YOUR THOUGHTS AND WHAT NOT! :)

Horror?

I don't see the point in purposefully scaring yourself. If we are going to watch a horror film, I think we should focus on the elements of horror, and not just watching a horror movie because its "scary."