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New Old Meme: Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies
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therobbergirl, recently shared a meme listing a bunch of movies ("Mark the ones you've seen"; you know how these things go); we agreed that the list seemed pretty random. Here, by contrast is a more arbitrary list: Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies (last updated in 2005).
There are 334 movies on this list, and, since it's Ebert, the list presumably includes films you can't stand and excludes films you thought were the bestest thing ever; one of my favorites, The Princess Bride, for example, didn't make it. Bold the ones you've seen and post your numbers: I've seen 104 of these.
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
Amarcord (1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Atlantic City (1980)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
"Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987)"
Babel (2006)
Baraka (1992)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Beat the Devil (1954)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Being There (1979)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Blow-Up (1966)
Bob le Flambeur (1955)
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Bride of Frankenstein ()
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Cabiria (1914)
Cache (2005)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Chinatown (1974)
Chop Shop (2008)
Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons (1953-1957)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Come and See (1985)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Crumb (1994)
Dark City (2005)
Day for Night (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Detour (1945)
Diva (2008)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Don't Look Now (1974)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Easy Rider (1969)
El Norte (1983)
El Topo (1970)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Exotica (1994)
Fanny and Alexander (1983)
Fargo (1996)
Faust (1926)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
GoodFellas (1991)
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Great Expectations (1946)
Greed (1925)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
House of Games (1987)
Howards End (1992)
Ikiru (1952)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
JFK (1991)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Jules and Jim (1961)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
L'Atalante (1934)
Late Spring (1972)
Laura (1944)
L'Avventura (1960)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Le Boucher / The Butcher (2003)
Le Samourai (1967)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Leolo (1993)
"Leon Morin, Priest (1961)"
Lost in Translation (2003)
M (1931)
Magnolia (1999)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Manhattan (1979)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Mephisto (1981)
Metropolis (1926)
Metropolis [2010 Restoration] (1927)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980)
Moolaade (2007)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Neighbor Totoro (1993)
Mystery Train (1989)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
Network (1976)
Night Moves (1975)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
Notorious (1946)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Ordet (1955)
Orpheus (1949)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pandora's Box (1928)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
"Paris, Texas (1984)"
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Persona (1966)
Pickpocket (1959)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Pinocchio (1940)
Pixote (1981)
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)"
Playtime (1967)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1990)
Ran (1985)
Rashomon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Red Beard (1965)
Red River (1948)
Richard III (1996)
Rififi (1954)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Ripley's Game (2002)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Safety Last (1923)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Say Anything (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List (1993)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Shane (1953)
Shoah (1985)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Solaris (1972)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Souls For Sale (1923)
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)"
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) (1977)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stroszek (1977)
Sunrise (1928)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Superman (1978)
Swing Time (1936)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tender Mercies (1983)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Apartment (1960)
The Apu Trilogy (1959)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Bicycle Thief / Bicycle Thieves (1949)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Red One (1980)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Blue Kite (1993)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Circus (1928)
The Color Purple (1985)
The Conversation (1974)
The Dead (1987)
The Decalogue (1988)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
The Films of Buster Keaton (1923 - 1928)
The Firemen's Ball (1968)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
"The Godfather, Part II (1974)"
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)"
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Grey Zone (2001)
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
The Hustler (1961)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Leopard (1963)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The Music Room (1958)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Only Son (1936)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Producers (1968)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Right Stuff (1983)
The River (Le Fleuve) (1951)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Searchers (1956)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence (1963)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Terrorist (2000)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Third Man (1949)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Up Documentaries (1985)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
"Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (1993-1994)"
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ugetsu (1953)
Umberto D (1952)
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
Unforgiven (1992)
Vengeance Is Mine (2008)
Vertigo (1958)
Victim (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
Vivre sa Vie / My Life to Live (1963)
Waking Life (2001)
Walkabout (1971)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
West Side Story (1961)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Wings of Desire (1988)
Winter Light (1962)
Withnail & I (1987)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Woodstock (1970)
WR -- Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Yojimbo (1961)
therobbergirl, recently shared a meme listing a bunch of movies ("Mark the ones you've seen"; you know how these things go); we agreed that the list seemed pretty random. Here, by contrast is a more arbitrary list: Roger Ebert's List of Great Movies (last updated in 2005).There are 334 movies on this list, and, since it's Ebert, the list presumably includes films you can't stand and excludes films you thought were the bestest thing ever; one of my favorites, The Princess Bride, for example, didn't make it. Bold the ones you've seen and post your numbers: I've seen 104 of these.
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
Amarcord (1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Atlantic City (1980)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
"Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987)"
Babel (2006)
Baraka (1992)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Beat the Devil (1954)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Being There (1979)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Blow-Up (1966)
Bob le Flambeur (1955)
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Bride of Frankenstein ()
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Cabiria (1914)
Cache (2005)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Chinatown (1974)
Chop Shop (2008)
Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons (1953-1957)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Come and See (1985)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Crumb (1994)
Dark City (2005)
Day for Night (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Detour (1945)
Diva (2008)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Don't Look Now (1974)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Easy Rider (1969)
El Norte (1983)
El Topo (1970)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Exotica (1994)
Fanny and Alexander (1983)
Fargo (1996)
Faust (1926)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
GoodFellas (1991)
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Great Expectations (1946)
Greed (1925)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
House of Games (1987)
Howards End (1992)
Ikiru (1952)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
JFK (1991)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Jules and Jim (1961)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
L'Atalante (1934)
Late Spring (1972)
Laura (1944)
L'Avventura (1960)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Le Boucher / The Butcher (2003)
Le Samourai (1967)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Leolo (1993)
"Leon Morin, Priest (1961)"
Lost in Translation (2003)
M (1931)
Magnolia (1999)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Manhattan (1979)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Mephisto (1981)
Metropolis (1926)
Metropolis [2010 Restoration] (1927)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980)
Moolaade (2007)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Neighbor Totoro (1993)
Mystery Train (1989)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
Network (1976)
Night Moves (1975)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
Notorious (1946)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Ordet (1955)
Orpheus (1949)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pandora's Box (1928)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
"Paris, Texas (1984)"
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Persona (1966)
Pickpocket (1959)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Pinocchio (1940)
Pixote (1981)
"Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)"
Playtime (1967)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1990)
Ran (1985)
Rashomon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Red Beard (1965)
Red River (1948)
Richard III (1996)
Rififi (1954)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Ripley's Game (2002)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Safety Last (1923)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Say Anything (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List (1993)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Shane (1953)
Shoah (1985)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Solaris (1972)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Souls For Sale (1923)
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)"
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) (1977)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stroszek (1977)
Sunrise (1928)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Superman (1978)
Swing Time (1936)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Tender Mercies (1983)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Apartment (1960)
The Apu Trilogy (1959)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Bicycle Thief / Bicycle Thieves (1949)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Red One (1980)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Blue Kite (1993)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Circus (1928)
The Color Purple (1985)
The Conversation (1974)
The Dead (1987)
The Decalogue (1988)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
The Films of Buster Keaton (1923 - 1928)
The Firemen's Ball (1968)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
"The Godfather, Part II (1974)"
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)"
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Grey Zone (2001)
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
The Hustler (1961)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Leopard (1963)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The Music Room (1958)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Only Son (1936)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Producers (1968)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Right Stuff (1983)
The River (Le Fleuve) (1951)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Searchers (1956)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence (1963)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Terrorist (2000)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Third Man (1949)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Up Documentaries (1985)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
"Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (1993-1994)"
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Top Hat (1935)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Ugetsu (1953)
Umberto D (1952)
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
Unforgiven (1992)
Vengeance Is Mine (2008)
Vertigo (1958)
Victim (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
Vivre sa Vie / My Life to Live (1963)
Waking Life (2001)
Walkabout (1971)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
West Side Story (1961)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Wings of Desire (1988)
Winter Light (1962)
Withnail & I (1987)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Woodstock (1970)
WR -- Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Yojimbo (1961)