Great Movies.

My son, Christopher Althouse has made this List of the Great Movies. It's not my list, but I like a lot of these movies, and I think it's a good list:

1. Rashomon

2. 8 1/2

3. Intolerance

4. Persona

5. L’Avventura

6. The Cranes Are Flying

7. The Bicycle Thief

8. Cries & Whispers

9. Andrei Rublev

10. Seven Samurai

11. Battleship Potemkin

12. Contempt

13. I Am Cuba

14. Children of Paradise

15. L’Atalante

16. Juliet of the Spirits

17. Annie Hall

18. Wild Strawberries

19. Weekend

20. Picnic at Hanging Rock

21. Tokyo Story

22. Sunrise

23. Vertigo

24. Dr. Strangelove

25. The Passion of Joan of Arc

26. Jules and Jim

27. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

28. Imitation of Life

29. Nights of Cabiria

30. Rosemary’s Baby

31. The World of Apu

32. Ran

33. Some Like It Hot

34. Mulholland Dr.

35. Playtime

36. Breathless

37. Diabolique

38. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari

39. 2001: A Space Odyssey

40. Alexander Nevsky

41. My Life To Live

42. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

43. Wisconsin Death Trip

44. Chinatown

45. Repulsion

46. Kwaidan

47. Ugetsu Monogatari

48. Pather Panchali

49. Two English Girls

50. Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

Here are the next 56, in alphabetical order:

Aliens

Amarcord

Amores Perros

Aparajito

Belle de Jour

The Birds

The Birth of a Nation

Blowup

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride Wore Black

Casablanca

Citizen Kane

City Lights

Cleo From 5 to 7

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Dancer In the Dark

Das Boot

Fanny & Alexander

Fantasia

The 400 Blows

Frankenstein

Full Metal Jacket

The Godfather

The Gold Rush

Gone With the Wind

Grave of the Fireflies

The Great Dictator

Greed

Hannah and Her Sisters

Heavenly Creatures

Hiroshima mon amour

Horse Feathers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Ivan the Terrible Part I

Ivan the Terrible Part II

La Dolce Vita

Last Year in Marienbad

La Strada

Manhattan

Modern Times

Network

Night of the Living Dead

Nosferatu

Orphans of the Storm

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Psycho

Rear Window

Rebecca

The Searchers

The Seventh Seal

The Shining

Sleeper

Spirited Away

The Story of Adele H

Sunset Blvd

The Terminator

Throne of Blood

Titanic

The Wizard of Oz

Feel free to copy the lists--link to this blog and give Chris credit--and boldface the ones you've seen or resort the list with your top 50 or whatever. Note that documentaries have not been taken into account. I'd like to see his list of top 25 documentaries.



UPDATE: I went through Chris's lists, and here are the ones I haven't seen: (of the top fifty) Contempt, Sunrise, Imitation of Life, Playtime, Alexander Nevsky, My Life To Live, Two English Girls, Story of the Last Chrysanthemums; (of the next 56) Amarcord, Fanny & Alexander, Greed, Last Year in Marienbad, Orphans of the Storm.



DVDs that have been sitting around the house for ages that are on that list and I've been meaning to watch: Contempt, Alexander Nevsky, Two English Girls, Amarcord.



Additional films on the list that I would actually like to see: Sunrise, Playtime, My Life To Live, Story of the Last Chrysanthemums; Fanny & Alexander, Greed.



Films I will probably never see: Last Year in Marienbad, Orphans of the Storm.



Of the films on his list I've seen, these are the ones I especially like (but I can't put them in order): The Bicycle Thief, L’Atalante, Annie Hall, Vertigo, Dr. Strangelove, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Nights of Cabiria, Some Like It Hot, Breathless, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Aguirre the Wrath of God, City Lights, Cleo From 5 to 7, Grave of the Fireflies, Heavenly Creatures, Modern Times, Psycho, Spirited Away, The Story of Adele H, Sunset Blvd.



My favorite film that's not on the list: My Dinner With Andre.