Thanks, MattyMac. I was too lazy to type them all.

Here's my actual list, I added none to yours, but deleted about thirty.


 A Hard Day's Night
 African Queen
 Alice in the Cities
 Alien
 All About Eve
 Amadeus
 American Friend, The
 American Grafitti
 Annie Hall
 Apartment, The
 Apocalypse Now
 Apu Trilogy, The
 Band of Outsiders
 Band Wagon, The
 Barton Fink
 Battle of Algiers
 Being John Malkovich
 Bicycle Thief, The
 Big Lebowski, The
 Black Orpheus
 Blade Runner
 Blow-Up
 Blue
 Blue Velvet
 Bob le Flambeur
 Bonnie and Clyde
 Boyz 'n the Hood
 Breathless
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 Carrie
 Casablanca
 Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
 Chinatown
 Cinema Paradiso
 Citizen Kane
 Clueless
 Coal Miner's Daughter
 Conformist, The
 Contempt
 Conversation, The
 Cool Hand Luke
 Crimes And Misdemeanors
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
 Deep End, The
 Dekalog
 Dersu Uzala
 Diner
 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
 D.O.A. (1950)
 Do The Right Thing
 Dog Day Afternoon
 Donnie Darko
 Double Indemnity
 Dr. Strangelove
 Down by Law
 Duck Soup
 Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
 8 ½
 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 Exorcist, The
 Fallen Idol, The
 Fight Club
 Fish Called Wanda, A
 Five Easy Pieces
 Force of Evil
 Godfather, The (I & II)
 Gone With the Wind
 Graduate, The
 Grand Illusion
 High and Low
 High Noon
 House of Sand and Fog
 It Happened One Night
 Jaws
 Jules and Jim
 King of Marvin Gardens, The
 Kramer Vs. Kramer
 La Jetée
 La Strada
 Lady Eve, The
 Last Tango in Paris
 L'Avventura
 Lawrence of Arabia
 Le Boucher
 Le Samouraï
 Letter from an Unknown Woman
 Like Water for Chocolate
 Man for All Seasons, A
 Mash
 Matrix, The
 Memento
 Midnight Cowboy
 Miller's Crossing
 Mother and the Wh*re, The
 Morocco
 Mulholland Drive
 Nashville
 Network
 Night Moves
 Ninotchka
 Notorious
 On the Waterfront
 Once Upon a Time in the West
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 Out of the Past
 Paths of Glory
 Patton
 Point Blank
 Producers, The
 Pulp Fiction
 Raging Bull
 Ran
 Rashomon
 Rear Window
 Red
 Red Balloon, The
 Repo Man
 Rules of the Game
 Safe
 Searchers, The
 Seven Samurai
 Seventh Seal, The
 Shanghai Express
 Shock Corridor
 Shoot the Piano Player
 Silence of the Lambs
 Some Like it Hot
 Stagecoach
 Star is Born, A (1937)
 Star Wars
 Stranger Than Paradise
 Sullivan's Travels
 Sunset Boulevard
 Talk to Her
 Thelma and Louise
 Third Man, The
 Tin Drum, The
 Tootsie
 Touch of Evil
 Traffic
 Trouble in Paradise
 2001 - A Space Odyssey
 Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
 Underworld U.S.A.
 Unforgiven
 Verdict, The
 Vertigo
 White
 Wild Strawberries
 Wizard of Oz, The
 Written on the Wind
 Woman in the Dunes
 You Can Count on Me

And while I'm at it, here's the rest.


Recommended TV

Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Sex and the City
Freaks and Geeks
All in the Family
MASH
Seinfeld
24
Arrested Development
Gilmore Girls
Good Times
The Wonder Years
The Shield
The Wire
The Office



So much I haven't seen...and no time at all, what with packing up this Ohio life to move to an apartment I don't even have in LA yet.

Oh, I know. Isn't the list daunting? Hundreds of hours of film to try and fit into minutes a day. How's the packing going? Do you have an ETA for when you'll finally arrive?

My going away party was this weekend, and I told myself packing would commence today, along with my furniture sale on Craigslist.

Instead I've been online and on the phone trying to find a house. For nine hours. With no luck.

It sucks.

I'm supposed to leave on the 29th, arrive around the fourth or fifth.


Riiiiiight.

How's it going for you?

9 hours worth of work and still nothing? Any leads? That's awful frustrating. I hear the libraries are nice. How long do you think it'd take before they noticed you walking around in slippers in the mornings?

Are you planning to bring a lot of furniture with you? Keep on chugging. I'm sure something will turn up. People come and go in that city like the wind.

As for me, I was able to get a job that (supposedly) provides somewhere to live in one of the off-campus, university-owned apartments. Unfortunately, I don't know much more than that. As to whether I'll have a roommate or which day specifically I'll be able to move in or even where I'm supposed to go on the first day of the job, I have no clue. Here's to hoping! I'm shooting to get there around the 17th though.

That's seriously quite a list. Thank you both very much.

It's interesting, though, to see certain films and not others. Some just seem out of place, while others are glaringly missing.

I'll definately be using this list, though, and adding a few extras.

Yeah, you know, I thought the same thing. However, it isn't like this is supposed to be a "best of" list. Rather, it's more of a list of text books - things to be referenced. I had to remind myself of that a few times.

Matty, I'm not taking any furniture...just my clothes, shoes, books, films, music, and memories.

I think I got a place, though, in Echo Park. I applied, it's just a matter of if they think my credit's good enough...which they should.

I'm leaving next Sunday, driving thru St. Louis, Denver, Santa Fe, and Phoenix...it's gonna be the road trip of my life.

Well make sure to drive safe. If you plan on stopping in Phoenix and need the name of a good restaurant before tackling the last leg, I can definitely pick out some places for you

OK, so, a little update. I haven't been able to watch as many films as I should have in the last few weeks, in part due to orientation at USC (yeah!). Still, I've managed to see a few:

Heat - Wow. Michael Mann really is good. I'd put this up there with any "best of" crime movies.

Mean Creak - A great, devastating indie film. I love the movie's depiction of how fear and shock can be so numbing after or in a crisis.

Amelie - I didn't believe most people when I heard them rave about this film - now I do.

American Beauty - My feelings are mixed for this film - it's heartwrenching, but slightly...antitopical? Of course, it's always a pleasure to see Kevin Spacey work his magic. This will probably be (another) film that I'll grow to love more and more over time (I see the merit in it, but need to absorb it).


On deck:

American History X
Pulp Fiction
City of God
Downfall

City of God = Absolutely Incredible

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Originally posted by Cinematical:
City of God = Absolutely Incredible

And for the most part its un-sensationalized...what is depicted in the movie is generally what happens in real life. At least thats what the Brazilians that I know have said.
That piece of info changed my perspective just a bit.

I love the little "twist" at the end. The whole film is just so cleverly made and well structured.

Pulp Fiction = Also Awesome.

Man, why have I gone so long without seeing these darn movies!

Next up:

Taxi Driver
La Femme Nikita
Vertigo

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Downfall

An incredible film. It's kinda surreal to watch the Nazis' (and Der Fuhrer's) once almighty world collapse around them, yet they still try to maintain some sick sense of preservation, all while sinking into a pit of orgy, death and despair. Definitely not something you see in most WWII movies.

Hope you do get the chance to see this in your marathon viewings...it's one of the best WWII movies I've ever seen.

I saw Downfall the other day, and thought it was great. Hitler's portrayal was especially engrossing and powerful - how he was a monster sinking into madness, and yet was still a man. Indeed, I believe the film's major flaw was trying to push it's story too far beyond Hitler and his immediate surroundings. While I understand it was about the "Downfall" of the Nazi regime, I believe it should have enforced that the true point of the film was the "Downfall" of Hitler. Even with this, it is still a film that everyone should see.

thanks for the list mattymac and jayimess

If any others out there from other schools have a film viewng list, would u mind posting it also?
thanks

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Originally posted by Cinematical:
I saw Downfall the other day, and thought it was great. Hitler's portrayal was especially engrossing and powerful - how he was a monster sinking into madness, and yet was still a man. Indeed, I believe the film's major flaw was trying to push it's story too far beyond Hitler and his immediate surroundings. While I understand it was about the "Downfall" of the Nazi regime, I believe it should have enforced that the true point of the film was the "Downfall" of Hitler. Even with this, it is still a film that everyone should see.

When I viewed it, I didn't think it went too far beyond his surroundings; the downfall of Hitler would be impossible to excise from the fall of Germany, the fall of Berlin, and the fall of the Nazi Party. You almost have to show all of that in order to keep Hitler's final moments in context of what was going on. Commanding armies that weren't there, practically ordering those armies that were there to commit suicide, succumbing to his injuries (the twitching and shaking)...

But, I completely agree on the portrayal of Hitler. Too often we only see him as some larger than life monster, but fail to realize that he was just one charasmatic guy who came along at the right moment in a country's history.

I really need to watch it again (and some of the movies on these lists). I haven't watched it in a year or so.

I agree that it was necessary for Downfall to also portray the Nazi party's disintigration, including the betrayal of Himmler and the suicide of Goebbels (spelling?). Where I felt it strayed was with the sideplots that had nothing to do with the party's downfall - such as the boy (heartbreaking as it may be), or Himmler's aide (and the implied relationship with Eva Braun).

Again, it is still and incredible portrayal of an incredible (in the negative sense) series of events.

I also just watched Taxi Driver. While I saw some narrative and pacing flaws, they were more than made up for by the disturbingly real portrayal of Trevor. It's a little rattling, mainly because the character, in all his insanity, is still relatable.

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..where I felt it strayed was with the sideplots that had nothing to do with the party's downfall - such as the boy (heartbreaking as it may be), or Himmler's aide (and the implied relationship with Eva Braun).

Ah, okay. I can see that. Wasn't thinking too much about the boy as an example. I did think it helped to show how Hitler's own fall was dragging Germany with it, but yeah, it was just a little extra fluff.