lizatleeds's "The List (Part One)"

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Okay, so the first thing about this list is that there are twenty-six movies. Did anyone think that I was really going to be able to keep it to twenty-five? Each decade is represented from the 30s to the 90s. Only a handful of these films are post-Liz. Also, I tried to pick representatives from as many genres as possible. I am going to put these in chronological order, except when I think that you need to watch some movies in a particular order. I tried to pick classic movies, so you don’t have to "who?" every time in order to talk about them, but also movies I think you’ll like. I don’t know if you’ll actually watch any of these, but I hope you do because there is some good stuff here. And without further ado …

  1. 1.
    It Happened One Night

  2. 2.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Edmund Goulding

  3. 3.
    Top Hat
    by Lloyd French

  4. 5.
    To Have and Have Not
    by Howard Hawks

  5. 6.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  6. 8.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  7. 9.
    Roman Holiday (Special Collector's Edition)
    by William Wyler

  8. 10.
    Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  9. 11.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  10. 12.
    Witness For the Prosecution

  11. 13.
    The Big Country

  12. 14.
    Plan 9 From Outer Space
    by Edward D. Wood Jr.

  13. 15.
    Ed Wood (Special Edition)
    by Tim Burton

  14. 16.
    The Haunting
    by Robert Wise

  15. 17.

  16. 18.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  17. 19.
    What's Up, Doc?
    by Peter Bogdanovich

  18. 20.
    Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
    by Sidney Lumet

  19. 22.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

  20. 23.
    Tootsie - 25th Anniversary Edition
    by Sydney Pollack

  21. 24.
    Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
    by Giuseppe Tornatore

  22. 25.
    The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]
    by Bryan Singer

  23. 26.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

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Created by lizatleeds on Jun 13, 2008.
 

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