Fifty Films To See Before You Die
1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Apartment
3. City Of God
4. Chinatown
5. Sexy Beast
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. North By Northwest
8. Breathless
9. Donnie Darko
10. Manhattan
11. Alien
12. Lost In Translation
13. The Shawshank Redemption
14. Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India
15. Pulp Fiction
16. Touch Of Evil
17. Walkabout
18. Black Narcissus
19. Boyz 'n The Hood
20. The Player
21. Come & See
22. Heavenly Creatures
23. A Night At The Opera
24. Erin Brockovich
25. Trainspotting
26. The Breakfast Club
27. Hero
28. Fanny & Alexander
29. Pink Flamingos
30. All About Eve
31. Scarface
32. Terminator II
33. Three Colours: Blue
34. The Royal Tenenbaums
35. The Ladykillers
36. Fight Club
37. The Searchers
38. Mulholland Dr.
39. The Ipcress File
40. The King of Comedy
41. Manhunter
42. Dawn Of The Dead
43. Princess Mononoke
44. Raising Arizona
45. Cabaret
46. This Sporting Life
47. Brazil
48. Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
49. Secrets & Lies
50. Badlands
Apocalypse Now is a pretty good choice as #1, but many, many films are too recent to be included in such high positions (City Of God, Sexy Beast, Donnie Darko, Lost In Translation...). Maybe they should rename it 'fifty best cult films'.
Like the recent list by Andrew Collins, The Godfather and Citizen Kane are inexplicably omitted. Scarface is the remake rather than the original.
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5 Comments:
I find it unbelievable that they missed "Das Boot" and "Platoon". Outrageous.
Close encounters of the third kind? I thought it was fantastic. They also missed Fistful of dollars and the seven samurai.
The list is called: 50 Films to See Before You Die, not the 50 Greatest Films of All Time, Subtle difference. There is usually a performance (Sexy Beast), technological breakthrough (Terminator 2) or some fantastic cinemetography (Black Narcissus) in a film that may be overlooked because the film itself isn't considered an all-time great. Had you seen the program on Saturday July 22 (and clearly you haven't) you would have understood.
I note the title, but not the difference. If it's a list of 50 films to see before you die they should be the 50 greatest films. True, I didn't see the programme, because I live in Thailand not the UK. However, I can recognise the strengths of each film without watching the programme.
The 50 films on the list are all great, and it's especially nice that they included 2001, Apocalypse Now, and Pink Flamingos, but a list of 50 is not enough because there are too many important omissions (see above).
Jesus, did they have to give away the ending to practically all of them? Even Fight Club? If the point of this programme was to inform film lovers about movies they might not have seen and should, showing the final scene of practically each one isn't going to endear you to anyone. Also, James bloody King? I thought they'd rounded up industry EXPERTS. Was Mark Kermode busy that day? Gah.
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