Movies that people would expect a "cinephile" to have seen that you haven't gotten around to for one reason or another. Some big ones I have yet to knock off my list:
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Classic musicals are a blind spot for me. I still haven't seen these:
Cabaret Camelot My Fair Lady Oliver! Singing in the Rain The King and I The Music Man Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Malcolm X
Once Upon a Time in America Those are the only two major ones I can think of that I haven’t seen. |
Re: What are movies everyone's expected to have seen that you haven't
I've yet to see ONE Kurosawa film. I've decided this is the year that changes!
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Originally Posted by mlaturno (Post 2174554)
Movies that people would expect a "cinephile" to have seen that you haven't gotten around to for one reason or another. Some big ones I have yet to knock off my list:
Originally Posted by Torgo (Post 2174560)
Classic musicals are a blind spot for me. I still haven't seen these:
Cabaret Camelot My Fair Lady Oliver! Singing in the Rain The King and I The Music Man Yankee Doodle Dandy I love old classic musicals, those are all good! The Music Man was my nomination in the 20th HoF.
Originally Posted by Allaby (Post 2174561)
Malcolm X
Once Upon a Time in America Those are the only two major ones I can think of that I haven’t seen.
Originally Posted by Captain Terror (Post 2174562)
I've yet to see ONE Kurosawa film. I've decided this is the year that changes!
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Originally Posted by Captain Terror (Post 2174562)
I've yet to see ONE Kurosawa film. I've decided this is the year that changes!
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Originally Posted by Torgo (Post 2174579)
I am excited for you. Anywhere is a good place to start since his movies are pretty much all good, but I think Rashomon is a good place to start. I think it's a good gateway Kurosawa movie because it shows off enough of his style for you to know what you're in for if you wish to continue, if that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Captain Terror (Post 2174562)
I've yet to see ONE Kurosawa film. I've decided this is the year that changes!
I also agree "Rashomon" is a great movie to start out with.. "Seven Samurai" would be another one. |
Citizen Kane.
I keep saving it for... something. Ditto, Lawrence Of Arabia. Oh and The Seven Samurai. I dunno if this one counts, but I never saw Saving Private Ryan. Just never had any interest and still don't. Oh and I walked out of Titanic, so I've never seen the ship sink or the thing with the wood-raft thing or whatever. |
Originally Posted by Captain Terror (Post 2174586)
My plan is to work by decade. Watch all of his 40s stuff, take a break, watch all the 50s stuff, and so on. Looking forward to it. Everything I've seen/read suggests that he's right up my alley.
And I say this because I found Kurosawa daunting for years and then I watched The Hidden Fortress and because it's such an adventure-type film, really like a 70s or even 80s Spielberg or Lucas movie in a lot of ways, it was super-easy to get into and that made watching other movies of his easier. Throne Of Blood would be a great place to start if you ask me. Not too long, easy viewing, Mifune, just an all-around good pic that's worthy of greatness but doesn't ask too much of the viewer. I liked Rashomon a lot but if I had started with it I think I would have had a harder time to keep going because of the era of filmmaking. Going back to it with at least one crowd-pleaser under my belt made it really easy to get into. |
Originally Posted by Torgo (Post 2174560)
Classic musicals are a blind spot for me. I still haven't seen these:
Cabaret Camelot My Fair Lady Oliver! Singing in the Rain The King and I The Music Man Yankee Doodle Dandy The Music Man is one of my favorite movies ever and if I knew I was dying this weekend it would absolutely be one of the movies I watched between now and then. It just makes me feel good. Between Robert Preston's charisma and Shirley Jones' voice, you just can't go wrong. I am also one of the few remaining fans of Camelot. And as sexist as My Fair Lady is, it's a helluva good movie. |
Re: What are movies everyone's expected to have seen that you haven't
I've yet to watch the first two Godfather films, though I plan to knock them out this year.
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Re: What are movies everyone's expected to have seen that you haven't
Cinephillic classics that I am embarrassed at having not seen:
Jules et Jim a bande apart Shame Cool Hand Luke Alphaville Shock corridor Kagemusha The Wild Pear Tree Bell de Jour The searchers The Sacrifice Loads of Eric Rohmer The films of Chantal Ackerman The films of lav diaz Angelopoulos' Trilogy of Light The films of Pasolini The apartment Alice in the Cities Through a glass darkly Network Loads of Sang-soo Hong Winter Sleep Loads of Hitchcock (the 39 steps, the wrong man, shadow of a doubt, to catch a thief) The last temptation of christ Lots of Iranian cinema from Kiarostami, Makmalbhaf and Jafar Panahi Loads of Japanese cinema (oharo, street of shame, yearning) Loads of Edward Yang And on and on and on Not sure if the average person is 'expected' to have seen these but they should be on the watchlist of a film enthusiast |
Re: What are movies everyone's expected to have seen that you haven't
Barry Lyndon is the one I'm always saying I'm going to watch but never do.
City Lights but I'm not much of a Chaplin fan. Birth of a Nation Not interested in it at all. It's a Wonderful Life I'll see this...eventually. And I need to see something from Fellini. I may have seen Satyricon but if I did I don't remember it. |
None of Andrei Tarkovsky movies. Kinda intrigued after seeing him being held so highly in the recently concluded list.
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Originally Posted by Wooley (Post 2174613)
If I may, I think it would help to watch one just easy crowd-pleaser first.
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Re: What are movies everyone's expected to have seen that you haven't
I think these are my main omissions...
*I've only seen Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Denis' High Life. |
Originally Posted by Thief (Post 2174789)
[*]Any Marx Brothers film
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Just a few that don't appeal to me
The Artist The Pianist Driving Miss Daisy Schindler's List La La Land Moonlight 12 Years A Slave Beautiful Boy Parasite Last Of The Mohicans My Left Foot Basically the majority of Oscar winners, Woody Allen's complete works and anything Mark Kermode or Paul Gambiacini endorsed. :D |
Originally Posted by Thief
I think these are my main omissions...
Originally Posted by Thief
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