The Not Quite Official BOF Must Watch Movies Before You Die. (and competition inside)

[DAR]

That was kind of my feeling

[Alpha]

nvm

Edited February 2, 2015 by Alpha

[chasmmi]

I'm tempted to stay away from my favorites and obvious choices (for the most part), because I think others will nominate them.

 

But if we all do that then Galaxy Quest makes the list and Shawshank misses

[Phil in the Blank]

I'm tempted to stay away from my favorites and obvious choices (for the most part), because I think others will nominate them.

 

Remember movies with multiple votes make it easier for those movies to make it into the list. So its not really a wasted vote even if others do nominate them as well.

[Plain Old Tele]

But if we all do that then Galaxy Quest makes the list and Shawshank misses

Oh, SHAWSHANK won't be on my list regardless.

[chasmmi]

Oh, SHAWSHANK won't be on my list regardless.

 

Sorry, was trying to think of a go to film that everybody rates. Forgot who I was quoting

[JohnnY]

hm, here it is

 

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

Rope (1948)

All About Eve (1950)

Rashomon (1950)

Rear Window (1954)

Les Diaboliques (1955)

Vertigo (1958)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Psycho (1960)

The Apartment (1960)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

House (1977)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

The Terminator (1984)

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Fargo (1996)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Spirited Away (2001)

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

The Illusionist (2010)

The Social Network (2010)

A Separation (2011)

The Tree of Life (2011)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

[ShouldIBeHere]

Battleship Potemkin (S.M. Eisenstein, 1925)

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (P. Jackson, 2001)

The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (P. Jackson, 2002)

Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (G. Lucas, 1980)

2001: A Space Odyssey (S. Kubrick, 1968)

The Last Temptation of Christ (M. Scorsese, 1988)

The Matrix (Wachowski, 1999)

Der Untergang - Downfall (O. Hirschbiegel, 2004)

The Lion King (R. Allers & R. Minkoff, 1994)

Fantasia (W. Disney as Producer, 1940)

Titanic (J. Cameron, 1997)

Schindler's List (S. Spielberg, 1993)

Forrest Gump (R. Zemeckis, 1994)

Halloween (J. Carpenter, 1978)

Inception (C. Nolan, 2010)

The Silence of the Lambs (J. Demme, 1991)

Jaws (S. Spielberg, 1975)

Saving Private Ryan (S. Spielberg, 1998)

The Great Dictator (C. Chaplin, 1940)

Die Blechtrommel - The Tin Trum (V. Schlöndorff, 1979)

Die Brücke - The Bridge (B. Wicki, 1959)

Das Leben der Anderen - The Life of Others (F. von Donnersmarck, 2006)

Boyhood (R. Linklater, 2014)

Psycho (A. Hitchcock, 1960)

A Clockwork Orange (S. Kubrick, 1971)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (M. Forman, 1975)

Edited February 2, 2015 by ShouldIBeHere

[terrestrial]

Die Brücke - The Bridge (B. Wicki, 1959)

 

At first I thought you mean The Last Bridge - 1954, not by the same director, but Wickie was one of the actors in that movie (slightly confusing to me in the first moment, as it's soooo long ago since I've seen those movies)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047172

 

Also an interesting film, some parts still stuck with me since I saw it in the '60

 

 

But you picked this one (to help the OP to find it, it didn't show up at IMDb.com per search - at least not for me):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/

[ShouldIBeHere]

At first I thought you mean The Last Bridge - 1954, not by the same director, but Wickie was one of the actors in that movie (slightly confusing to me in the first moment, as it's soooo long ago since I've seen those movies)

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047172

 

Also an interesting film, some parts still stuck with me since I saw it in the '60

 

 

But you picked this one (to help the OP to find it, it didn't show up at IMDb.com per search - at least not for me):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052654/

 

 

 

Now that you say it, I actually merged the two movies in my memory.

 

But the one I put on here is the one I would pick for this particular list.

 

Thanks for the help!

[terrestrial]

Now that you say it, I actually merged the two movies in my memory.

 

 

That happens to me also, especially Blade Runner = I am not even sure about the 'real' version anymore without having seen it recently = I merge all of the versions to the one I prefer (as in that one never got released)

[Avatree]

But if we all do that then Galaxy Quest makes the list and Shawshank misses

Damn, I forgot about Galaxy Quest, I should have put that on my list  oh well, hopefully I'll be able to get it in through round 2/3.

[Kalo]

okay off the top of my head. (may tweak) 

 

1.The Empire Strikes Back

2.Star Wars

3.Return of the Jedi

4.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

5.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

6.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

7.Beauty and the Beast

8.The Lion King

9.The Shawshank Redemption 

11.Back to the Future

12.The Godfather

13.Inception

14.Interstellar

15.Boyhood

16.Metropolis (1927)

17.Her

18.Titanic

19.Avatar

20.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

21.It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

22.The Sound of Music (1965)
23.Remember The Titans (2000)

24.Spider-Man (2002)

25.Star Trek (2009)

Edited February 3, 2015 by Kalo

[Jake Gittes]

Has this stalled?

[Plain Old Tele]

Here's mine (sadly, mostly American or English-language centric):

 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)

The General (Keaton, 1926) 

Metropolis (Lang, 1927)

 

Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)

It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)

Gone with the Wind (Fleming/Cukor/Wood, 1939)

 

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)

Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

The Third Man (Reed, 1948)

 

Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)

Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)

Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)

 

Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)

The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)

Network (Lumet, 1976)

Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)

Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)

Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)

 

Airplane! (Abrahams/Zucker, 1980)

Das Boot (Petersen, 1981)

Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)

 

The Legend of Drunken Master (Lau, 1994)

[TalismanRing]

So hard

 

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The General (1926)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Pinocchio (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Notorious (1946)
The Red Shoes (1948)

Rashomon (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
Wild Strawberries (1958)

The Apartment (1960)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Music Man (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Network (1976)