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In Reply to: RE: 100 films you should see before you die, a list on Yahoo posted by Mike K on April 11, 2009 at 19:13:40
...it gets us talking about great films. My list would be very different from yours, and so on.Many of the movies on the Yahoo list are "iconic" films, rather than "great" films - talked about movies, watershed movies, hugely popular movies, but not necessarily the greatest achievements in cinema.
OTOH, there actually are many artistically great movies on the list - 400 Blows, Nosferatu, Rashomon, The Third Man, Apu Trilogy, Citizen kane, Wild Strawberries, Raging Bull, Modern Times, The Lady Eve, Breathless, The Maltese Falcon, M, The Searchers, 2001, Bicycle Thief, Battle of Algiers etc. Even Raise The Red Lantern and In The Mood For Love made it. I was surprised (but pleased) to see Blue Velvet. You can argue about whether Grand Illusion or Rules Of The Game is Renoir's greater achievement (ROTG for me).
But no Keaton. No Archers. No Sunrise or Passion of Joan of Arc. Or Metropolis. Or Tokyo Story. Or Napoleon, or Pandora's Box. Is Blow Up Antonioni's best film? No Coen brothers???!! Nor Fred and Ginger??!!!!
Why include these: Goldfinger??? Die Hard??? Enter The Dragon??? The Matrix? I wouldn't have put The Good, The Bad And The Ugly in either - I would've maybe used Once Upon A Time In America. And personally, I don't think Butsh and Sundance has aged all that well. So The Wild Bunch certainly could've been in.
WAY too many Spielberg movies.
But that's the thing about these lists. They're as notable for what they exclude as what they include.
Maybe some day I'll make my own list.
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