Gwendolyn Piper Steeves:
Notes from Brian
100 Movies That Everyone Should See (a list of not the best films ever made but those that influenced the way I watch movies, and I think influenced many other people as well, with a heavy '80s bent because, well, that's when I grew up):
12 Angry Men
2001: A Space Odyssey
The African Queen
Airplane!
Alien
and
Aliens
All About Eve
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Arsenic and Old Lace
Back to the Future
The Bicycle Thief
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
The Blues Brothers
The Breakfast Club
Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Caddyshack
Casablanca
Charade
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
Finding Nemo
Friday the 13
th
Ghostbusters
The Godfather
and
The Godfather Part II
Goldfinger
Gone with the Wind
GoodFellas
The Graduate
Grease
The Indiana Jones Trilogy (
Raiders
,
Temple of Doom
,
Last Crusade
)
The Iron Giant
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
The Killer
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (
Fellowship
,
Two Towers
,
King
)
The Love Bug
The Manchurian Candidate
The Matrix
Midnight Cowboy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moulin Rouge!
The Muppet Movie
My Fair Lady
National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Living Dead
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Pink Panther (or A Shot in the Dark)
Platoon
The Princess Bride
The Producers
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Say Anything
Schindler's List
The Searchers
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin' in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Spirited Away
The Star Wars Trilogy (
A New Hope
,
Empire Strikes Back
,
Return of the Jedi
)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Superman
Taxi Driver
The Terminator
There's Something About Mary
The Three Colors Trilogy (
Bleu
,
Blanc
,
Rouge
)
Titanic
Tommy Boy
Touch of Evil
Toy Story
and
Toy Story 2
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz
