The Godfather for mafia/crime films.
A Bay of Blood for slasher films. Some slasher films...
- The Gold Rush (comedy)
- The Jazz Singer (sound on film)
- The Robe (widescreen)
- Ben Hur (film scores)
- Natural Born Killers (modern-day film editing)
- Rashomon (non-linear storytelling)
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (spoofs)
- Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (animation)
- Eyes Without A Face and M (serial killers)
- I Am Curious (nudity/breaking of taboos)
- Horror Of Dracula and Peeping Tom (British horror)
- Deep Throat (porn chic)
- High Noon and The Searchers (revisionist Western)
and a very obscure one (I don't think it's on DVD yet)
- 84 Charlie Mo Pic (found footage)
edited 15th Feb '12 12:08:06 PM by Buscemi
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Any film that I quote or reference I have to watch (especially if it's an older film). It hasn't steered me wrong yet.
edited 15th Feb '12 2:57:02 PM by Gvzbgul
- 81/2, Living in Oblivion and American Movie (filmmaking process).
edited 16th Feb '12 9:07:15 AM by HerrKman
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.Living In Oblivion was amusing.
- Children Of Men for dystopian films and science fiction.
- Fahrenheit 451, The Terminator, Blade Runner and Nineteen Eighty Four did dystopia better than the overrated Children of Men.
edited 17th Feb '12 2:41:48 PM by Buscemi
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Buscemi, please go kill yourself
"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."I second Children Of Men, sorry
Fahrenheit 451 the book was far better than Fahrenheit 451 the movie.
edited 17th Feb '12 11:49:42 PM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.- Each and every Ingmar Bergman movie (for thoughtfulness, which isn't exactly a genre, but I don't know how to define it off the top of my head)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (okay, just joking)
- Citizen Kane (?)
- Doctor Strangelove (?)
Schindler's List. To hammer home the sheer banality of man's inhumanity to man.
Empire of the Sun. To show that it is possible to survive in a world gone completely insane.
Restless Natives. To have a thoroughly good belly-laugh at the antics of the cutest highwaymen ever.
West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and The Sound Of Music for musicals.
edited 21st Feb '12 5:20:46 PM by Premonition45
The Sound Of Music for musicals
A New Hope or 2001ASpaceOdyssey or Dr Strangelove for Sci-fi
Lord Of The Rings for Fantasy
The Producers for Comedy
Psycho for Thrillers
The Thief And The Cobbler Recobbled or Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs for 2D Animation
Toy Story for CG animation
Avatar for 3D
Schindlers List for biopics
The Godfather for film-noir
Superman for Comic-Book movies
The Ten Commandments for religious epics
Boyz N The Hood for drama. That's pretty much the only one I can think of that hasn't been said.
edited 21st Feb '12 9:36:22 PM by wuggles
Gandhi for biopics.
How is The Godfather film noir? Something like Maltese Falcon or Chinatown for modern film noir would fit much better.
- Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer for serial killer flicks
- Fantasia for stoner flicks
- i'm sure there's more.
Fantasia? I'd opt for Yellow Submarine instead. Maybe both would work.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Ring for Asian horror.
Zatoichi for samurai films
Akira for anime.
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels for British gangster films.
The Italian Job or Oceans Eleven for heist films (personally I prefer the modern equivalent, Ronin, but that wasn't genre-defining in the same way as the others)
Lethal Weapon for buddy-cop films.
edited 24th Feb '12 4:25:58 PM by CaissasDeathAngel
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Revenge Of The Sith for comedy
Kill Bill for splatter
Hoodwinked for CGI animation
Ninja Terminator for action drama
HA HA HA—No On that misguided note,with a far better example,...The Room for Comedy,maybe Plan 9 From Outer Space to while we're at it
Toy Story 3 for CGI animation
Okay okay The Godfather for gangster films.
Inception for Mind Screw s
Braveheart for Dan Browned
edited 25th Feb '12 7:54:22 PM by terlwyth
Did they actually claim that Brave Heart was supposed to be accurate though? I thought that was deliberate Artistic Licence for dramatic purposes.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.Most movies in the National Film Registry, of course.
edited 26th Feb '12 11:36:16 AM by EgregiousEric
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What are the movies that a cineast really has to see, in order to understand the medium? The ones that define genres, transcend genres, define the art itself?
Maybe we can also add the reason why we deem them so-worthy. And is it possibly worth some kind of wiki entry? It would be great to have a lasting list! I found one for Cult Classics, but nothing for just-classic media.
I'm asking because I want to have a to-watch list for myself.
Here are a few for starters, just off the top of my head: