Movie Hodge Podge

My personal movie list, found in an early post, rarely changes by too much any more. Indeed, from the blog post version only two films have shifted (F for Fake overtook The Dark Crystal and The Tree of Wooden Clogs booted The Nightmare Before Christmas). But there are other lists out there, besides mine, so I wanted to see how they stack up, and how I stack up, in general.

List One: Time Magazine's Top 100. First, those which I share:

Sherlock Jr.
Man with a Movie Camera
Sunrise
Last Command
Ninotchka
Camille
Olympia
Dodsworth
Godfather Pt I and II
Star Wars
Mouchette
Umberto D.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Smiles of a Summer Night
Persona
Mon Oncle D’Amerique
Day for Night
Blade Runner
Brazil
Barry Lyndon
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Chinatown
A Touch of Zen
Kandahar – Battle for Algiers
Farewell My Concubine
Chungking Express
Yojimbo
Ikiru
Talk to Her
City of God
400 Blows
8 ½
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Wings of Desire
Ulysses’ Gaze
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Notorious
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Apu Trilogy
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
White Heat
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Sweet Smell of Success
King Kong
His Girl Friday
Ugetsu
Children of Paradise
A Hard Day’s Night
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate

Some of mine are rather similar though. Consider the following replacements, with my pick as the latter:

City Lights – Modern Times
It’s a Gift – Duck Soup
Pinocchio – Fantasia
Finding Nemo – The Incredibles
Metropolis – M (Better Lang)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God – Apocalypse Now
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Jurassic Park
Singin’ in the Rain – An American in Paris
Out of the Past – The Third Man
Miller’s Crossing – The Big Lebowski (Better Cohen Bros.)
The Shop Around the Corner – Vertigo (Better Jimmy Stewart)
The Crowd – Passion of Joan of Arc
Meet Me in St. Louis – The Wizard of Oz

Others... not so much. Especially in ()s.

Baby Face – Jules and Jim
Lord of the Rings – Twice Upon a Time
The Awful Truth – A Fish Called Wanda
The Lady Eve – The Princess Bride
The Searchers – The Seven Samurai
Bande a Part – Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Singing Detective – Triplets of Belleville
Berlin Alexanderplatz – (2001: A Space Odyssey?)
Dekalog – (Clerks?)
Schindler’s List – Bridge on the River Kwai
Bonnie and Clyde – The Fifth Element
Drunken Master II – (The Rocky Horror Picture Show?)
Swing Time – Fiddler on the Roof
Raging Bull – (Grand Hotel?)
Some Like It Hot – Blazing Saddles
Double Indemnity – Network
The Detour – Groundhog Day
In a Lonely Place – The Truman Show
It’s a Wonderful Life – The Shawshank Redemption
The Crime of Monsieur Lange – Grand Illusion
Nayakan – (Paprika?)
Pyaasa – Cinema Paradiso
The Fly – (Solaris?)
Charade – F for Fake
The Bride of Frankenstein – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Closely Watched Trains – Mirrormask
Kind Hearts and Coronets – Snatch
Leolo – To Kill a Mockingbird
On the Waterfront – (12 Angry Men?)
A Streetcar Named Desire – (La Dolce Vita?)
Tokyo Story – Tree of Wooden Clogs
Unforgiven – Zatoichi

Plus my list has 101, so: Koyaanisqatsi

Then you have the Criterion Collection. Out of the current 495: 83 I've seen. Of those 550 to ever be on the list: 92.

Current List that I've seen (bold if on my list):

Seven Samurai
The Lady Vanishes
400 Blows
Beauty and the Beast
A Night to Remember
Walkabout
The Seventh Seal
High and Low
M
Great Expectations
Time Bandits
Taste of Cherry
Black Orpheus
Brazil
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
The 39 Steps
Charade
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Rushmore
Chasing Amy
Do the Right Thing
L’avventura
The Lady Eve
Spartacus
The Rock
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Mon Oncle
My Man Godfrey
Sullivan’s Travels
Closely Watched Trains
Rashomon
Wild Strawberries
8 ½
Children of Paradise
In the Mood for Love
Juliet of the Spirits
Hearts and Minds
The Royal Tenenbaums
Solaris
Bande a Part
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Night and Fog
Umberto D.
Rules of the Game
Tokyo Story
La Strada
Ikiru
Smiles of a Summer Night
Videodrome
Battle of Algiers
Jules and Jim
Ashes and Diamonds
F for Fake
Heaven Can Wait
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Harakiri
Ugetsu
Seduced and Abandoned
Mouchette
Bicycle Thieves
Green for Danger
La Jetee / Sans Soleil
Breathless
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Last Emperor
The Thief of Bagdad
The Earrings of Madame de…
Chungking Express
El Norte
Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wings of Desire
Rome, Open City
Stagecoach
The Last Command
Paths of Glory
The Night of the Hunter
Modern Times
Broadcast News
The Sweet Smell of Success

Now defunct selections (again with mine in bold):

Grand Illusion
This Is Spinal Tap
Silence of the Lambs
Nights of Cabiria
The Third Man
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Notorious
Ran
Forbidden Games
Kind Hearts and Coronets

But there are still more lists. One of interest I've seen recently was the Moving Arts Film Journal Top 100. Of the list there are some 22 I have yet to see:

Andrei Rublev
L’Atalante
Birth of a Nation
Curse of the Cat People
Brief Encounter
Bashu, The Little Stranger
Badlands
The Asphalt Jungle
Touch of Evil
The Apartment
Pierrot Le Fou
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Leopard
Yi Yi
Mulholland Dr.
Synecdoche, New York
Days of Heaven
The Wind Will Carry Us
Rio Bravo
There Will Be Blood
Japon

Those I have seen are below, bold if they are, again, on my list:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
The Rules of the Game
Casablanca
Vertigo
La Dolce Vita
Seven Samurai
The Godfather pt. II
The Third Man
The Wizard of Oz
Dr. Strangelove
Goodfellas
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
8 ½
Singin' in the Rain
Raging Bull
Lawrence of Arabia
Solaris
The Night of the Hunter
On the Waterfront
Intolerance
Apocalypse Now
Battleship Potemkin
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
Rashomon
The Searchers
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Yojimbo
Nights of Cabiria
Annie Hall
Tokyo Story
M
Rear Window
Barry Lyndon
Ikiru
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
City Lights
A Streetcar Named Desire
Pather Panchali (of the Apu Trilogy)
The 400 Blows
The Passion of Joan of Arc
King Kong
Sunrise
L'avventura
The Empire Strikes Back
The General
The Seventh Seal
Talk to Her
Do the Right Thing
Pulp Fiction
Ugetsu
Manhattan
Star Wars
F for Fake
Blue Velvet
Modern Times
Sweet Smell of Success
Grand Illusion
Out of the Past
Wild Strawberries
Psycho
Nayakan
Wings of Desire
The Big Sleep
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ulysses' Gaze
Notorious
Nashville
The Maltese Falcon
The Bicycle Thief
A Touch of Zen
Fargo
Breathless
Children of Paradise
Jaws

So from these lists we can determine that the films you absolutely, positively must see (in my opinion I guess) are:

Notorious
The Sweet Smell of Success
Wings of Desire
Ugetsu
Ikiru
8 ½
Children of Paradise
Yojimbo
The 400 Blows

There you go. Nine movies everyone likes. Definitely not my top 9, but, after all, this is all quite subjective. (Except for the fact that most movies presented are on at least two lists, suggesting objective standards of greatness. And everyone else likes Tokyo Story but me, if you want a 10th.)