Movies you need to see to be considered a movie buff

[The Batman]

To be better intuned to cinematic pop culture, which movies do you think need be seen?

 

[Tempest19]

Requiem for a Dream.


I just saw that this year actually, still haunting.

 

[The Kid]

All classic spielberg, disney, lucas, and burton stuff. Watch their classics and you're good.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I grew up in the 80's so I'm pretty in tune with anything from that time, any stuff from the 70's (1977 actually) and before is moot to me.

 

[TwilightPro101]

A HUGE list of titles dating from the start of cinema on.

 

[Catman]

To be better intuned to cinematic pop culture, which movies do you think need be seen?

um...

Gone with the Wind
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
On the Waterfront
The Graduate
Easy Rider
The Godfather I & II
Jaws
Taxi Driver
Star Wars
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
LOTR Trilogy
and many more

 

[ShaneHelms]

A Clockwork Orange

 

[Catman]

A Clockwork Orange

You pretty much have to watch every Kubrick film in order to be considered a film buff!

 

[Movies205]

Most films not talked about on this forum, E.G. Anything before the 1980s

 

[The Kid]

What about James Cameron's films. Those are required viewing moreso than some cheap 30s movie.

 

[Catman]

What about James Cameron's films.

Terminator 1 & 2.

 

[The Kid]

Titanic for boobs at least.

and even though only the first planet of the apes is really good, I'd watch all those old school ape movies too. Good social commentary.

 

[Spider-Bat]

Scarcrow, and Midnight Cowboy.

 

[the reel chris]

God, there's all the Hollywood classics, but someone more knowledgable would probably throw in impossible-to-find titles from semi-obscure foreign directors...

American Film Institute's list of 100 bests

NY Times 1000 Best Movies

Time Mag's 100 All-Time Best

I don't think these lists include Showgirls, though. Nobody's perfect.

edit: I think my favorite list is from CHUD.com, ESSENTIAL CHUD. Because there's no easily found index system, I've linked to the last day(?), scroll to the bottom.

 

[Catman]

NY Times 1000 Best Movies

I love how they have Beetlejuice on the list.

 

[danoyse]

It's a Wonderful Life

 

[Downhere]

Any film by Uwe Boll...just kidding.


But seriously, everyone has mentioned a great deal of the classics so that should keep one busy for a while.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

You have to frequently watch European cinema as well as the usual turn out of films.

You also have to have a DVD collection that extends to well over 300 dvds lol.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

Most movie buffs are snobs, you don't have to watch arty films to be a movie buff.

 

[Halcohol]

The Big Lebowski

 

[The Riddler]

memento.

rainman.

 

[Sugarculted]

Haven't seen Memento, keep meaning to.
I love Rain Man though

 

[Movies205]

What about James Cameron's films. Those are required viewing moreso than some cheap 30s movie.

Actuallly I'd say most 30s classics are more important than James Cameron films, why? Because the older it is, the more likely it's had an influence on more films.

 

[Movies205]

I like reiterate my post which is anything not talked about on these boards, just look at these posts the only worthwhile ones were Catman and the Reel Chris, however Reel Chris' ignorance toward foreign films is saddening...

Anyway to list movies would be incredibly ridiculous for the simple reason that film is made up of thousands of movies, Hollywood alone produces 500 films a year... So it'd be more benefiticial to list some key film directors....

Just to name a few:

(In parenthesis are my favorite films by them)

Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon)
Terry Gilliam (Brazil)
David Croenburg (Videodrome)
Billy Wilder (The Apartment & Double Ideminity)
John Ford (Stagecoach)
Federico Fellini (La Dolche Vita)
Ingmar Bergman (Persona)
Howard Hawks (Big Sleep)
Fritz Lang (M)
Sydney Lumet (Network & 12 Angry Men)
Mervyn LeRoy (I'm A Fugitive From a Chain Gang)
John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Canidate)
Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
Alfred Hitchcock (Rope)

 

[Compi716]

Billy Wilder movies, Hitchcock movies, Kubrick movies, etc.