I caught the second half of “Film4’s 50 Films to See Before You Die” on Saturday Night.
Unlike the usual Top 50 type shows this was voted for by “a panel of film experts” rather than the general public – and hence it didn’t contain Titanic.
I shamelessly lifted the list below (and the idea for this entry) from Cowfish’s most excellent posting along the same lines.
He went to the trouble of marking which ones he had seen in bold and came up with (as he says) “a fairly respectable 28”.
I did the same and came up with a shockingly awful 9.
Fortunately, Film Four is now free (the show was essentialy a promo for said freeness).
So I can start to improve on that number right-away (Apocalypse Now is on this Friday night).
2001: A Space Odyssey (I always seem to miss this when it’s on)
A Bout de Souffle
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All About Eve
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Black Narcissus
Boyz N the Hood
Brazil
Breakfast Club, The
Cabaret
Chinatown
City of God
Come and See
Dawn of the Dead
Donnie Darko
Erin Brockovich
Fanny and Alexander
Fight Club
Heavenly Creatures
Hero
Ipcress File, The
King of Comedy, The
Ladykillers, The
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Lost in Translation
Manhattan
Manhunter
Mulholland Drive
Night at the Opera
North by Northwest
Pink Flamingos
Player, The
Princess Mononoke
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Scarface
Searchers, The
Secrets and Lies
Sexy Beast
Shawshank Redemption, The
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
This Sporting Life
Three Colours Blue
Touch of Evil
Trainspotting
Walkabout