Scorcese: 85 films list… or is it?
We’ve been down this road before. First with Steven Spielberg’s supposed ‘curriculum’ of must-see movies. That turned out to be fake.
Then there was the Spike Lee list. That turned out to be real.
Now there is this from Fast Company: Martin Scorcese’s Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film. Here is that list:
- Ace in the Hole
- All that Heaven Allows
- America, America
- An American in Paris
- Apocalypse Now
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Bad and the Beautiful
- The Band Wagon
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Cape Fear
- Cat People
- Caught
- Citizen Kane
- The Conversation
- Dial M for Murder
- Do the Right Thing
- Duel in the Sun
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Europa ’51
- Faces
- The Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Flowers of St. Francis
- Force of Evil
- Forty Guns
- Germany Year Zero
- Gilda
- The Godfather
- Gun Crazy
- Health
- Heaven’s Gate
- House of Wax
- How Green Was My Valley
- The Hustler
- I Walk Alone
- The Infernal Cakewalk
- It Happened One Nght
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Journey to Italy
- Julius Caesar
- Kansas City
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Klute
- La Terra Trema
- The Lady From Shanghai
- The Leopard
- Macbeth
- The Magic Box
- M*A*S*H
- A Matter of Life and Death
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- The Messiah
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mishima
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Nashville
- Night and the City
- One, Two, Three
- Othello
- Paisa
- Peeping Tom
- Pickup on South Street
- The Player
- The Power and the Glory
- Stagecoach
- Raw Deal
- The Red Shoes
- The Rise of Louis XIV
- The Roaring Twenties
- Rocco and his Brothers
- Rome, Open City
- Secrets of the Soul
- Senso
- Shadows
- Shock Corridor
- Some Came Running
- Stromboli
- Sullivan’s Travels
- Sweet Smell of Success
- Tales of Hoffman
- The Third Man
- T-Men
- Touch of Evil
- The Trial
- Two Weeks in Another Town
Hmm. No Kurosawa? No French ‘new wave’?
In fact, this article by Brendan Connelly at BleedingCool points out this isn’t a definitive list at all, but rather 85 films Scorcese mentioned in a 4 hour conversation that led to the overhyped titled article from Fast Company.
Not to minimize the value of the list, nor the fact that Scorcese could toss off such a collection of films off the top of his head.
Which of the above films have you not seen?
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