Not seen that, should I have ?

[Mandon Knight]

Which films, which are considered 'culturally' and 'aesthetically' classics, have you not seen, but are 'expected' to have seen as one is expected as a 'cinema fan' or film buff.

Mine ? Never seen Chinatown, that's for example....

Go.....

 

[Gothamsknight]

Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz (not all the way through), Gone With The Wind.

 

[P Supreme]

Gone with the Wind, Schindler List
The Shining

 

[Drizzle]

Since the pandemic started I’ve actually made it a point to watch some “cinema classics” that I hadn’t seen before, including Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sound of Music, Chinatown, 2001 and the Man with No Name/Dollars Trilogy, to name a few.

There are still quite a few I haven’t seen yet, like:

Classic Brando movies like Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront

Singin’ in the Rain

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Ben-Hur

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Network

Literally any Woody Allen film (I’d have to separate the art from the artist for that one)

And basically every Hitchcock film except The Birds and Strangers on a Train. I’ve seen most of Psycho but not in full.

 

[-Arya-]

A blind spot for me had been Orson Welles and I watched most of his stuff recently. Citizen Kane, The Stranger, Lady from Shanghai, and Touch of Evil. All really good

 

[Dr.]

BFI’s top 10 movies of all-time is a serviceable list and starting point.

1. Vertigo
2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. The Rules of the Game
5. Sunrise
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Searchers
8. Man With a Movie Camera
9. Passion of Joan of Arc
10. 8½

Until recently, I was missing Sunrise and 8½. But I finally caught both on (I think) the Turner Classics channel. So list complete. Now I have to work on 11-20...