{"id":3784,"date":"2006-04-28T09:01:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/28\/meme-watch-these-movies\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:46:03","slug":"meme-watch-these-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/28\/meme-watch-these-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme: Watch These Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6607,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/06\\\/04\\\/movie-literate&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251119033157\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/06\\\/04\\\/movie-literate&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:25:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 06:56:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:07:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 06:58:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 04:31:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 11:22:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 11:22:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6608,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\\\/apps\\\/pbcs.dll\\\/article?AID=\\\/20060420\\\/EDITOR\\\/60419010&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Again with the Kottke-derived movie memes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/06\/04\/movie-literate\" title=\"kottke.org: Watch these movies, then we can talk\">Watch these movies<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Film critic Jim Emerson recently compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060420\/EDITOR\/60419010\" title=\"Sun Times: 102 Movies You Must See Before...\">a list of 102 movies that you should see<\/a> before you can consider yourself movie literate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    &#8230;they [are] the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They&#8217;re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat &#8220;movie-literate.&#8221;\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The list is after the jump&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n* &#10004; 2001: A Space Odyssey<br \/>\n* The 400 Blows<br \/>\n* 8 1\/2<br \/>\n* Aguirre, the Wrath of God<br \/>\n* &#10004; Alien<br \/>\n* All About Eve<br \/>\n* Annie Hall<br \/>\n* &#10004; Apocalypse Now<br \/>\n* &#10004; Bambi<br \/>\n* The Battleship Potemkin<br \/>\n* The Best Years of Our Lives<br \/>\n* The Big Red One<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Bicycle Thief<br \/>\n* The Big Sleep<br \/>\n* &#10004; Blade Runner<br \/>\n* Blowup<br \/>\n* &#10004; Blue Velvet<br \/>\n* Bonnie and Clyde<br \/>\n* Breathless<br \/>\n* Bringing Up Baby<br \/>\n* &#10004; Carrie<br \/>\n* &#10004; Casablanca<br \/>\n* Un Chien Andalou<br \/>\n* Children of Paradise \/ Les Enfants du Paradis<br \/>\n* &#10004; Chinatown<br \/>\n* &#10004; Citizen Kane<br \/>\n* &#10004; A Clockwork Orange<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Crying Game<br \/>\n* The Day the Earth Stood Still<br \/>\n* Days of Heaven<br \/>\n* Dirty Harry<br \/>\n* The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie<br \/>\n* &#10004; Do the Right Thing<br \/>\n* La Dolce Vita<br \/>\n* Double Indemnity<br \/>\n* &#10004; Dr. Strangelove<br \/>\n* Duck Soup<br \/>\n* &#10004; E.T. &#8212; The Extra-Terrestrial<br \/>\n* &#10004; Easy Rider<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Empire Strikes Back<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Exorcist<br \/>\n* &#10004; Fargo<br \/>\n* &#10004; Fight Club<br \/>\n* Frankenstein<br \/>\n* The General<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II<br \/>\n* &#10004; Gone With the Wind<br \/>\n* GoodFellas<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Graduate<br \/>\n* &#10004; Halloween<br \/>\n* &#10004; A Hard Day&#8217;s Night<br \/>\n* Intolerance<br \/>\n* It&#8217;s a Gift<br \/>\n* It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<br \/>\n* &#10004; Jaws<br \/>\n* The Lady Eve<br \/>\n* &#10004; Lawrence of Arabia<br \/>\n* M<br \/>\n* &#10004; Mad Max 2 \/ The Road Warrior<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Maltese Falcon<br \/>\n* The Manchurian Candidate<br \/>\n* &#10004; Metropolis<br \/>\n* Modern Times<br \/>\n* &#10004; Monty Python and the Holy Grail<br \/>\n* Nashville<br \/>\n* The Night of the Hunter<br \/>\n* &#10004; Night of the Living Dead<br \/>\n* &#10004; North by Northwest<br \/>\n* &#10004; Nosferatu<br \/>\n* On the Waterfront<br \/>\n* Once Upon a Time in the West<br \/>\n* Out of the Past<br \/>\n* Persona<br \/>\n* Pink Flamingos<br \/>\n* &#10004; Psycho<br \/>\n* &#10004; Pulp Fiction<br \/>\n* Rashomon<br \/>\n* &#10004; Rear Window<br \/>\n* &#10004; Rebel Without a Cause<br \/>\n* Red River<br \/>\n* Repulsion<br \/>\n* The Rules of the Game<br \/>\n* Scarface<br \/>\n* The Scarlet Empress<br \/>\n* &#10004; Schindler&#8217;s List<br \/>\n* The Searchers<br \/>\n* The Seven Samurai<br \/>\n* Singin&#8217; in the Rain<br \/>\n* &#10004; Some Like It Hot<br \/>\n* A Star Is Born<br \/>\n* A Streetcar Named Desire<br \/>\n* Sunset Boulevard<br \/>\n* &#10004; Taxi Driver<br \/>\n* The Third Man<br \/>\n* Tokyo Story<br \/>\n* Touch of Evil<br \/>\n* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<br \/>\n* Trouble in Paradise<br \/>\n* &#10004; Vertigo<br \/>\n* &#10004; West Side Story<br \/>\n* The Wild Bunch<br \/>\n* &#10004; The Wizard of Oz<\/p>\n<p>45\/102, or 44.1%. Hm. I need to work on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film critic Jim Emerson recently compiled a list of 102 movies that you should see before you can consider yourself movie literate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}