Tuesday
24Mar2009
Yahoo's 100 Movies To See Before You Die
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 12:48AM
Yahoo! Movies has put together a list that its writers and editors
claim reflect the 100 most essential movies. It's a pretty solid list, and while there are always things you can
debate with these lists, especially something as exclusive as this one, I have to say there are really only
five or six that I wouldn't think would make other lists using the same criteria. That list might balloon to a full 10 if I'm in an especially argumentative mood one day.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 ½
A Hard Day’s Night
The African Queen
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duck Soup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
In the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally…
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 ½
A Hard Day’s Night
The African Queen
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duck Soup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
In the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally…
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
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Reader Comments (12)
Booo! No Fight Club!
Titanic? BOOOOOOO!!!
Double Boo no Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine for the spotless mind would also be in my version.
I am happy an anime made the list.
I'm glad to see "The World of Apu" on there. That series of films by Ray are really unknown to a lot of people.
I've seen 56 of these. is that good or bad?
I believe it means you're not long for this world. I've only got 17 more to go, so somebody better call dibs on all my shit - I'm about to die.
Bah, I have 18 to go... wait that means you are closer to death than me, sweet. A pretty good list all and all, a few surprise ons and a few surprise offs but not bad.
It seems like they were going over the checklist... for example Vietnam films, I'd rather see Full Metal Jacket or Deer Hunter over Apocalypse Now.
Also there are no real docs (A Hard Days Night? c'mon) Hearts and Minds being probably the best of all Vietnam films. (I also would have loved to have seen Fog of War make the list.)
And I second the eternal sunshine vote, fight club not so much, it being not even in Fincher's top 2 (for me anyway). No Unforgiven is probably the most disappointing oversight...
Cool list. I've already seen 51 of 'em, guess I better get to watching some more movies! Oh yeah, Titanic!? Boo, indeed.
dibs
I've seen 89 of them, which is more than I was expecting. Pretty good list, all considered. It seems odd that A Clockwork Orange isn't on there; and I'd have Manhattan ahead of Annie Hall, but that's just me.
How is a Wes Anderson filck not on there? he may be a bit modern but still should make the cut over Reiner.
Forrest Gump anyone???