Friday, June 4, 2010

The Big Pretentious Movie Summer (Part Deux)

Here is the rest of the list.

1. Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
2. Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)
3. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
4. His Girl Friday - Howard Hawks (1940)
5. The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
6. City of God - Fernando Meirelles (2003)
7. It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
8. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)*
9. Toy Story - John Lasseter (1995) and Toy Story 2 - John Lasseter (1999 - Pending my feelings about the first one)
10. Monsters Inc. - Pete Docter (2001)*
11. Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton (2003)
12. The Incredibles - Brad Bird (2004)
13. Ratatouille - Brad Bird (2007)
14. LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson (1997)*
15. The Sting - George Roy Hill (1973)
16. Heat - Michael Mann (1995)*
17. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols (1966)
18. In Bruges - Martin McDonagh (2008)
19. Marty - Delbert Mann (1955)
20. Harvey - Henry Koster (1951)
21. The Way We Were - Sydney Pollack (1973)
22. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill (1969)
23. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Blake Edwards (1961)
24. The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich (1971)
25. The Godfather: Part II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
26. The Mission - Roland Joffé (1986)
27. Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg (1998)*
28. Traffic - Steven Soderbergh (2000)*
29. Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (1999)
30. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky (1969)
31. Harold & Maude - Hal Ashby (1971)
32. The Last Detail - Hal Ashby (1973)
32. Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969)
33. Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson (1970)
34. The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
35. American Graffiti - George Lucas (1973)
36. Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)*
37. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg (1977)
38. The Front - Walter Bernstein (1976)
39. Sex, Lies and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh (1989)
40. Blue - Kryzstof Kieślowski (1993)
41. White - Kryzstof Kieślowski (1994)
42. Red - Kryzstof Kieślowski (1994)
43. Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci (1972)
44. Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1991)
45. City of Lost Children - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1995)
46. Hedwig and the Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell (2001)*
47. Shortbus - John Cameron Mitchell (2006)
48. Out of Sight - Steven Soderbergh (1998)
49. Cool Hand Luke - Stuart Rosenberg (1967)
50. Wonder Boys - Curtis Hanson (2000)
51. American Splendor - Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
52. Munich - Steven Spielberg (2005)*
53. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel (2007)
54. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu (2007)
55. The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck (2006)
56. Run Lola Run - Tom Tykwer (1998)
57. Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro (2006)
58. Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean (1957)
59. Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)
60. Midnight Cowboy - John Schlessinger (1969)
61. Rocky - John G. Avildsen (1976)
62. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Miloš Forman (1975)
63. Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon (1998)
64. Dangerous Liaisons - Stephen Frears (1988)
65. A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassevetes (1974)
66. A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951)*

It's going to be a very good summer.

Peace, Love and Pretension

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