If you follow my Twitter feed you will notice that i'm working my way through the 'classics' one week at a time.
I thought it would be a good idea to list the most common known films for the world to see. That way if there are any absolute must-see films on the list (probably all), someone will point them out to me and I can then prioritise them properly for my viewing pleasure.Unfortunately there have been so many great films made before I was even born, this has now given me the uphill task of trying to get through every single one of them.Over the past few months I have already started nailing some absolute gems so i'm definitely getting somewhere, albeit at a snail pace. The gems so far include; The Long Goodbye, All The President's Men, The King of Comedy, The Conversation, Rear Window etc.I have tried to list the supposed classics that passed me by as best I can below. As you make your way through the list please take into account the fact that I have only just turned 25, and therefore still have (hopefully) a long time ahead of me to play catch up. I have tried to be as honest as I could possibly be, this means listing such films as Mary Poppins. I have seen various parts of that film but never all in one sitting, therefore it had to be listed.
If you have a spare 5 minutes, please go through the list and let me know your personal top 5 titles that need to be seen straight away. I will exclude a certain trilogy from these top 5 lists as I don't need reminding that they MUST be seen. You will know what I mean when you see them.
Email your lists to dale@dalelloyd.comPlease go easy on me and remember... some of the titles below may cause sudden bewilderment.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Bout De Souffle (Breathless)
A Fistful of Dollars
A Streetcar Named Desire
All About Eve
Amadeus
Anatomy of A Murder
Apollo 13
Barry Lyndon
Ben-Hur
Bicycle Thieves
Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Bonnie and Clyde
Brazil
Brief Encounter
Bringing Up Baby
Bugsy Malone
Bullitt
Cabaret
Casino Royale
Charade
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
City Lights
Clash of the Titans
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dial M For Murder
Doctor Zhivago
Double Indemnity
Downfall
Driving Miss Daisy
Empire of The Sun
Enter The Dragon
Eraserhead
Escape From Alcatraz
For A Few Dollars More
Gandhi
Get Carter
Gone With The Wind
Hotel Rwanda
In The Heat Of The Night
Inferno
Jacob's Ladder
Kind Hearts and Coronets
La Strada
Lawrence of Arabia
Les Diaboliques
Love and Death
M
Mary Poppins
Metropolis
My Left Foot
My Neighbour Totoro
Network
Notorious
On The Waterfront
Once Upon A Time In The West
Paths of Glory
Patton
Ran
Rashomon
Rebecca
Rebel Without A Cause
Red Dawn
Rio Bravo
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
Serpico
Seven Samurai
Shadow of A Doubt
Singin' In The Rain
Sleuth
Some Like It Hot
Soylent Green
Spirited Away
Strangers on A Train
Sunset Boulevard
Talk Radio
Tenebre
The 39 Steps
The 400 Blows
The African Queen
The Big Sleep
The Bridge on The River Kwai
The Color Purple
The Dirty Dozen
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
The Elephant Man
The French Connection
The Godfather: Part 1
The Godfather: Part 2
The Godfather: Part 3
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
The Killing
The Last Samurai
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
The Right Stuff
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Searchers
The Seventh Seal
The Sound of Music
The Sting
The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3,
The Thin Red Line
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Wicker Man
The Wild Bunch
To Kill A Mockingbird
Touch Of Evil
Vertigo
Yojimbo
Zulu
