Film Literacy

A fellow named Jim Emerson has come up with a list of 102 movies that one must have seen in order to be considered literate in cinema. Since increasing my film literacy (as it were) has been one of my goals this year, I was quite curious to see how many of the films I’ve seen (indicated by stars):

2001: A Space Odyssey | The 400 Blows | 8 1/2 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Alien | ★All About Eve | ★Annie Hall | Apocalypse Now | ★Bambi | The Battleship Potemkin | The Best Years of Our Lives | The Big Red One | The Bicycle Thief | The Big Sleep | ★Blade Runner | Blowup | Blue Velvet | ★Bonnie and Clyde | Breathless | Bringing Up Baby | Carrie | ★Casablanca | Un Chien Andalou | Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis | Chinatown | ★Citizen Kane | A Clockwork Orange | The Crying Game | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Days of Heaven | Dirty Harry | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Do the Right Thing | La Dolce Vita | Double Indemnity | ★Dr. Strangelove | Duck Soup | E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial | Easy Rider | ★The Empire Strikes Back | The Exorcist | Fargo | ★Fight Club | Frankenstein | The General | ★The Godfather | ★The Godfather, Part II | Gone With the Wind | ★GoodFellas | The Graduate | Halloween | ★A Hard Day’s Night | Intolerance | It’s a Gift | ★It’s a Wonderful Life | Jaws | The Lady Eve | Lawrence of Arabia | M | Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior | The Maltese Falcon | The Manchurian Candidate | ★Metropolis | Modern Times | ★Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Nashville | The Night of the Hunter | Night of the Living Dead | North by Northwest | Nosferatu | On the Waterfront | Once Upon a Time in the West | Out of the Past | Persona | Pink Flamingos | Psycho | ★Pulp Fiction | Rashomon | Rear Window | Rebel Without a Cause | Red River | Repulsion | The Rules of the Game | Scarface | The Scarlet Empress | ★Schindler’s List | The Searchers | The Seven Samurai | ★Singin’ in the Rain | ★Some Like It Hot | A Star Is Born | ★A Streetcar Named Desire | Sunset Boulevard | ★Taxi Driver | The Third Man | Tokyo Story | Touch of Evil | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Trouble in Paradise | Vertigo | ★West Side Story | The Wild Bunch | ★The Wizard of Oz

Less than a quarter of the list…. Does it help that I have three of the other films in my possession right now, just waiting for a night when I have time enough to watch them?