Well that depends. What films do you own? Or do you have too many to post?
Kind of…I’d welcome any recommendations though
Fanny and Alexander Criterion Box Set
Taxi Driver 2 Disc Special Edition
John Cassavetes Five Films Criterion Box Set
2001: A Space Odyssey 2 Disc
…a few of my favorites.
Drew’s list is great…in addition, I would suggest:
Citizen Kane (who’s collection could be complete without it?!)
Ran (favorite Kurosawa film)
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Exterminating Angel (for dizzying surrealism!)
Minority Report (because it’s just that good)
Interesting Grafton. I have very fond memories of Minority Report, but I saw it so long ago and everyone says it is worse on the second viewing, that I fear to revisit it (despite me owning it). Should I?
Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Silence Of The Lambs
Vertigo
The Third Man
The 400 Blows
“To Be or Not To Be,” an Ernst Lubitsch comedy with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard – priceless. It has so many great lines…
Benny: Colonel, I can’t tell you how good it is to breathe the air of the Gestapo again.
or…
Prof. Siletsky: Shall we drink to a blitzkrieg?
Lombard: Mmm… I prefer a slow encirclement.
8 1/2
Rules of the Game
Wild Strawberries
Seven Samurai
Breathless
Irreversible
Goodbye, South, Goodbye
Late Spring
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
City Lights
Citizen Kane
8 1/2
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
Le Diable Probablement
Celine et Julie vont en bateua (Phantom Ladies Over Paris)
Made in USA
Performance
La Commune (de Paris 1971)
Les Amants Reguliers
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
The Bicycle Thieves
Days of Heaven
Mon Oncle Antoine
8 1/2 (because, as most people here must agree, it’s one film that everyone must see in his or her lifetime).
Day for Night
Raging Bull
Double Indemnity (in my mind, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece, although, in all honesty, I haven’t seen a Billy Wilder film I hadn’t loved)
Some Like it Hot (freaking hilarious!)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Maltese Falcon
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Rear Window
The Silence Trilogy (or, really, anything by Bergman)
Just some good movies.
Oh, and Drew, Minority Report is still dizzying to wrap your head aound the second time, and, I feel, everything works the same way it did as compared to the first time.
Savvy
The Michael Bay Box Set
Oh, yes! That’s on my birthday list, too! Of course, it takes out all those lame Michael Bay films, like The Rock, and The Island, and settles for the better ones, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys 2, Armageddon, etc. Oh, the joy to behold this masterpiece from the greatest filmmaker ever!
Ha. Ha.
Savvy
spike lee’s do the right thing
if you like camera-less animation: norman mclaren the master’s collection
“Celine et Julie vont en bateua (Phantom Ladies Over Paris)”
Is this available region-1 from anywhere? Hell, is it available anywhere from anywhere? Every time I’ve looked, nada.
M
Sunrise
Nanook of the North
Phantom of the Opera(1925)
Movies that you would likely to watch again and again, hopefully, even as you get older… :-)
8 1/2
Seventh Seal
Jules et Jim
Children of Paradise
Bleu
Maybe also The Mirror (Tarkovsky), L’Avventura, The Lady Eve, Life of Brian, Cleo from 5 to 7, My Life as a Dog, Wings of Desire & Last Year at Marienbad…
15 Films Necessary To Own….1 Silence by Shinoda 2 Histoires du Cinema Complete 7 Parts by Godard 3 Parsifal 2 Parts by Syberberg 4 El Sol Del Membrillo by Victor Erice 5 The Rules of the Game by Renoir 6 The Leopard by Visconti 7 Celine and Juliet Go Boating by Rivette 8 Santantango by Tarr 9 Man of Aran by Flaherty 10 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Paradjanov 11 Andrei Roublev by Tarkovsky 12 Red Palm by Jancso 13 The Sun Shines Bright by Ford 14 The Tales of the Taira Clan by Mizoguchi 15 L’Atalante by Vigo etc….
Ivan’s Childhood
Andrei Rublev
Solaris
Mirror
Stalker
Nostalghia
The Sacrifice…
Apocalypse Now!
The Complete Criterion Collection
The Godfather Box Set
Goodfellas
Their Will be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Sacrifice
Any Films with Peter Sellers
The Stanley Kubrick Box Set
Crash
Double Indemnity
Both Solaris’s
All Sergio Leone Films, because their just meant to be owned.
The Conversation
The Star Wars Original Trilogy, and If you see the new trilogy without seeing the original, you will burn in hell, my friend.
The Mad Max Trilogy, the third of the Holy Trilogies
Some Like it Hot
Bunny Lake is Missing, because its a great film that is rarely ever shown on T.V. or Theaters
The Andalusian Dog
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
All David Lynch Films, Come on how can’t love this guy, self-promotion, self-distribution, and completely in control of production.
Fires on a Plain
Nosferatu
All of Tarkovsky FIlms
All of Bergman’s Films
Cara
As usual, all I want for my birthday is movies. What are some classics and/or necessaries that everybody should own?