What movie changed your life in college? The Dude was an inspiration of chill vibes in The Big Lebowski when I saw it my freshman year. We crowded on the floor, beds and small stuffed chair in our friend's dorm room, huddled around a TV/VCR combo. It was a moment of clarity when it came to what was effortlessly cool. Somehow, he was the James Dean for my group.
The list of movies I wanted to see started growing, I found out about French New Wave and Dogma and the good Film Noir and Humphrey Bogarts. I watched Bad Lieutenant and Dancer in the Dark, The Big Sleep and Night of the Hunter. The more I learned about these classics of cinema, the more I learned what I liked. And the more I read about great films, the longer my list of movies I needed to see grew. And it grows and grows.
The Films I Still Need to See
French New Wave
- The 400 Blows
- 8 1/2
- Alien
- Battleship Potemkin
- The Best Years of our Lives
- The Big Red One
- Bicycle Thieves
- Blade Runner
- Blow-Up
- Blue Velvet
- Breathless
- Un Chien Andalou
- Children of Paradise
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Do The Right Thing
- La Dolce Vita
- Duck Soup
- The Exorcist
- Carrie
- The General
- Godfather 1 & 2
- A Hard Days Night
- Intolerance (Griffith)
- It's a Gift
- The Lady Eve
- M
- The Road Warrior
- Nashville
- The Night of the Hunter
- North by Northwest
Film Noir
- On the Waterfront
- Out of the Past
- Persona
- Rashomon
- Repulsion
- The Rules of the Game (1939)
- The Scarlet Empress
- Seven Samurai
- A Star Is Born (1976)
- The Third Man
- Tokyo Story
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Trouble in Paradise
- The Wild Bunch
- Locke
- The Exterminating Angel
- Cube
- Tape
- Carnage
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