Recommendation help!

[EyesWideOpen]

Would you guys/gals mind giving me some film recommendations for the 12 categories listed?

Female Director:
Films from 1979:
Film Noir:
Western:
Horror:
African American Director:
Musicals:
Action:
Spanish Language:
Documentary:
Science Fiction:
Sports Films:
Native American Films:
Pre-1970's Asian Cinema:

I'm going to do a category for each month starting in November. I'm planning on watching 15 films each month. All will either be first time viewings or movies that I haven't seen since I was a kid.

I figured I'd ask here first since I'll probably get a more eclectic list then if I just search online for each category.

I have a few films in my head that I'll definitely be putting in (The Man with No Name trilogy for example) but otherwise I'm game for any suggestions.

Thanks.

(November 2011) Movie Musicals:
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich) A-
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli) B
A Star is Born (George Cukor) B
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L Mankiewicz) B+
The Music Man (Morton DaCosta) B
Funny Girl (William Wyler) A-
Cabaret (Bob Fosse) B+
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese) C+
The Wiz (Sidney Lumet) D+
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen) B+
Evita (Alan Parker) C
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier) A-
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin) B-
Hairspray (the remake) (Adam Shankman) B
Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman) C-

(December 2011) Female Directors:
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
Swept Away (Lina Wertmuller)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
Orlando (Sally Potter)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsey)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Things Behind the Sun (Allison Anders)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Father of My Children (Mia Hansen Love)

Alternate:
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)

(January 2012) Films from 1979:
Wise Blood (John Huston)
Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
Hair (Milos Forman)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer)
Being There (Hal Ashby)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush)
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)
Going in Style (Martin Brest)
The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
Mad Max (George Miller)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola)

(February 2012) African-American Directors:
Watermelon Man (Melvin van Peebles)
Shaft (Gordon Parks)
Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr)
Let's Do It Again (Sidney Poitier)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B Harris Jr)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers)
Higher Learning (John Singleton)
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin)
For Colored Girls (Tyler Perry)
Night Catches Us (Tanya Hamilton)

(March 2012) Spanish Language Films:
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
Solo con tu Pareja (Alfonso Cuaron)
Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau)
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (Manuel Gomez Pereira)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenabar)
Nine Queens (Fabian Bielinsky)
The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar)
Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo)
Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga)
The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia)

(April 2012) Science Fiction:
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M Wilcox)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Solaris (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
Westworld (Michael Crichton)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
Phase IV (Saul Bass)
A Boy and His Dog (LQ Jones)
Altered States (Ken Russell)
Aliens (James Cameron)
Visitor of a Museum (Konstantin Lopushansky)
Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)

(May 2012) Sports Films:
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
The Natural (Barry Levinson)
Streets of Gold (Joe Roth)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
The Hurricane (Norman Jewison)
The Foul King (Jee-Woon Kim)
Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
The Damned United (Tom Hooper)

(June 2012) Action:
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
Bullitt (Peter Yates)
The Driver (Walter Hill)
The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
Attack Force Z (Tim Burstall)
The Killer (John Woo)
The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
Election (Johnny To)
The Chaser (Hong-Jin Na)

(July 2012) Documentaries:
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
Dark Days (Marc Singer)
Amandla! (Lee Hirsch)
A Man Named Pearl (Scott Galloway & Brent Pierson)
Cropsey (Barbara Brancaccio & Joshua Zemen)
The Oath (Laura Poitras)
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger)

(August 2012) Native American Films:
Hombre (Martin Ritt)
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
Flap (Carol Reed)
A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein)
Powwow Highway (Jonathan Wacks)
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
Incident at Oglala (Michael Apted)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre)
Black Indians: An American Story (Chip Richie)
Skins (Chris Eyre)
The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)
The New World - Extended Cut (Terrence Malick)
Older Than America (Georgina Lightning)
The Only Good Indian (Kevin Wilmott)

(September 2012) Westerns:
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
The Assassination of Jesse James... (Andrew Dominik)


(October 2012) Horror:
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Deep Red (Dario Argento)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
The Brood (David Cronenberg)
The Changeling (Peter Medak)
The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben)
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Event Horizon (Paul WS Anderson)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Jee Woon Kim)
The Ordeal (Fabrice Du Welz)
Inside (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury)
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)

(November 2012) Film Noir:
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
Detour (Edgar Ulmer)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
Gun Crazy (Joseph Lewis)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Lone Star (John Sayles)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)

(December 2012) Pre-1970's Asian Cinema
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Apu Trilogy (Counts as 3 Films) (Satyajit Ray)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
The Human Condition Trilogy (Counts as 3 Films) (Masaki Kobayashi)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)

[B-side]

Female Director: The Heartbreak Kid (May, 1972)
Films from 1979: Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog)
Film Noir: Detour (Ulmer, 1945)
Western: The Westerner (Wyler, 1940)
Horror: Body Snatchers (Ferrara, 1993)
African American Director: Watermelon Man (Peebles, 1970)
Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood
Musicals: Invitation to the Dance (Kelly, 1956)
Action: The Driver (Hill, 1978)
Spanish Language: Bad Education (Almodóvar, 2004)
Documentary: Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
Science Fiction: Deja Vu (Scott, 2006)

[elixir]

Female Director: Beau Travail (Denis, 1999), Vagabond (Varda, 1985)
Films from 1979: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz)
Film Noir: Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
Western: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
Horror: Possession (Zulwaski, 1981)
Musicals: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
Spanish Language: The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
Documentary: Harlan County USA (Kopple, 1976), Hoop Dreams (James, 1994)

Here are some.

[B-side]

Films from 1979: The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz)

I change my answer to this.:D

[Boner M]

African American Director: Waiting for Happiness (Sissako, 2002)
Errr...

[B-side]

Errr...

Oh, ha. Nice catch.

[Irish]

Female Director: Eve's Bayou
Films from 1979: Kramer vs Kramer
Film Noir: Rififi
Western: The Man from Laramie
Horror: Black Sunday
African American Director: Menace II Society
Akira Kurosawa: Ran
Musicals: Everybody Says I Love You
Spanish Language: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Documentary: Bill Cunningham, New York

Action and sci fi have flatlined lately. If you really want to see interesting, fun stuff, I can only point you to the early 1980s (The Big Red One, Attack Force Z, Escape from New York) or the stuff that has been coming out of Korea for the last half dozen years (The Chaser, etc).

[EyesWideOpen]

Great choices so far everyone. Almost every film I either haven't seen or it's been a while. Bad Education, Ran, and Rififi I've all seen in the last 8 years so I'll remove those. I've seen most of the major Almodovar's and loved all of them so I'm looking forward to checking out his older stuff.

Irish, just assume I haven't seen it when it comes to action films. All four of the one's you listed I've never viewed.

And a heads up you guys/gals can list more than one.

[Irish]

Irish, just assume I haven't seen it when it comes to action films. All four of the one's you listed I've never viewed.

The Big Red One and Attack Force Z are off the beaten path a bit. I don't know if I'd call them great action movies, but they're fun and entertaining and have some interesting elements. Likewise for the original, Italian made Inglorious Bastards (circa 1980), although I'd only recommend that one if you really get into seeing guys-on-a-mission war movies styled after The Dirty Dozen.

Earlier John Carpenter like Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York are pretty good bets from this era, too.

If you like "science fiction of ideas", then check out Altered States, written by Paddy Cheyefsky (sp?), the same guy who wrote Network. It's unusual because it throws out some pretty wacky concepts while centering a lot of the story around relationships. Cronenberg's The Fly has similar themes, although that's more heavily slanted toward horror.

Two really good ones I never hear anyone talking about out of Korea: The Chaser, which is sort of Old Boy meets Silence of the Lambs. It's about an ex-cop turned pimp who gets involved in a bloody mystery after some of his girls go missing. It's over the top and excessive in the way good Hong Kong movies were in the 1980s, and it'll knock you on your ass.

The other one is Lost Memories, which takes place in Korea during a parallel future where Japan never lost World War II and Korea is still a Japanese colony. It's sort of an action/sci fi South Korean take on Philip K Dick's Man in the High Castle.

Edit: One I forgot to mention. Stallone's 2008 Rambo. It's uglier, darker, and more violent than the other entries in the series and probably one of the better things Stallone has done. A good break from the more comic booky actioners that have come out in recent years.

[Yxklyx]

Female Director: Cleo from 5 to 7, Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
Films from 1979: Quadrophenia, Manhattan
Film Noir: The Asphalt Jungle, Kiss Me Deadly
Western: Winchester '73, Dead Man
Horror: A Bucket of Blood, Rosemary's Baby
African American Director: Killer of Sheep, One False Move
Akira Kurosawa: The Hidden Fortress, Ikiru
Musicals: The Music Man, The Saddest Music in the World
Action: Hard Boiled, Southern Comfort
Spanish Language: Whisky, Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Documentary: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Sherman's March
Science Fiction: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Twelve Monkeys

[Stay Puft]

Just a few recs from the top of my head...

Female Director: Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2009)
African American Director: To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
Akira Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata (also a good answer for Action)
Action: Dirty Ho (hilarious "stealth" kung fu from the master, Lau Kar Leung)
Documentary: The Oath (Laura Poitras, 2010)
Science Fiction: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

[Dukefrukem]

My favorite for each catgory:

Films from 1979: Stalker
Film Noir: the Killing
Western: Once Upon a Time in the West
Horror: the Thing
African American Director: Boyz n the Hood
Akira Kurosawa: Rashômon
Musicals: Chicago
Action: T2
Spanish Language: Pan's Labyrinth
Documentary: Sicko
Science Fiction: Inception

[Lucky]

Female Director: Waitress (struggled with this category off the top of my head)
Films from 1979: Breaking Away
Film Noir: Double Indemnity
Western: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Horror: Poltergeist
African American Director: Training Day
Akira Kurosawa: I've only seen Rashomon...*slaps self*
Musicals: Moulin Rouge!
Action: Kill Bill Volume 1
Spanish Language: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Documentary: Dear Zachary
Science Fiction: Sunshine

[Spinal]

I've seen surprisingly few films from 1979, but here is my top ten:

1. Life of Brian
2. All That Jazz
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun
5. Woyzeck
6. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
7. Hair
8. The Jerk
9. Alien
10. Being There

[Spinal]

Top 10 from a vagina-wielding director:

1. Boys Don't Cry
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know
3. Orlando
4. Fat Girl
5. The Piano
6. Meshes of the Afternoon
7. Friday Night
8. The House is Black
9. Control Room
10. Holy Smoke

[Melville]

Female Director: Mikey and Nicky, Trouble Every Day
Films from 1979: Vengeance is Mine
Film Noir: The Set-Up, Kiss Me Deadly, Gun Crazy
Western: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Horror: Carnival of Souls, The Brood, The Wicker Man (original)
African American Director: Summer of Sam
Akira Kurosawa: Stray Dog
Musicals: Top Hat, Cabaret
Action: X-Men: First Class, Pusher II (more crime movie than action movie though)
Spanish Language: elixir took the only choice I could think of
Documentary: Titicut Follies
Science Fiction: Solaris (Tarkovsky)

[Russ]

Female Director: India Song (Marguerite Duras)
Films from 1979: The Wanderers, Wise Blood
Film Noir: b&w: Ride the Pink Horse, color: Trouble in Mind
Western: The Tall T, The Big Country
Horror: The Stepfather, The Ordeal
African American Director: The Super Cops (Gordon Parks)
Musicals: Shock Treatment, Happiness of the Katakuris
Action: The Stunt Man, Bullitt
Spanish Language: El Sur
Documentary: Crumb, Burden of Dreams
Science Fiction: A Boy and His Dog, Phase IV

[EyesWideOpen]

Some more great responses!

[Kurosawa Fan]

Female Director: Ratcatcher
Films from 1979: Rock N Roll High School
Film Noir: Le Samourai
Western: Destry Rides Again
Horror: The Tingler
African American Director: When the Levees Broke
Akira Kurosawa: Red Beard
Musicals: Dancer in the Dark
Action: The Great Escape
Spanish Language: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Documentary: No Direction Home
Science Fiction: The Thing From Another World

[EyesWideOpen]

Since you're the "Kurosawa Fan" any other less famous rec's for Kurosawa. I've seen the big ones.

[Irish]

Native American films? Is that movies about Natives, or by them?

I can only think of 3 of the former, 1 of the latter, and none of em are that good.

[EyesWideOpen]

Native American films? Is that movies about Natives, or by them?

I can only think of 3 of the former, 1 of the latter, and none of em are that good.

Either.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Since you're the "Kurosawa Fan" any other less famous rec's for Kurosawa. I've seen the big ones.

Absolutely. Replace that with Dersu Uzala.

[EyesWideOpen]

I think I've got my female category locked down. I'm only going with one film from each director.

Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May) or The Heartbreak Kid
Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Vagabond (Agnes Varda) or Cleo From 5 to 7
Swept Away (Lina Wertmuller)
Father of My Children (Mia Hansen Love)
Orlando (Sally Potter)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsey)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
Things Behind the Sun (Allison Anders)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)

If you could only pick 1 which May or Varda film?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Sports movie: Baseball by Ken Burns

Too hefty an undertaking? It's worth it.

[Winston*]

Sports Movie or Musical: Lagaan

Science Fiction: Metropolis (2001)

Film Noir: The Long Goodbye

Horror: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Documentary: Dark Days

Female Director: Titus (if you need any more)

Western: The Proposition

Spanish Language: El Topo

Action: The Wages of Fear

Film from 1979: Scum

[Qrazy]

Female Director: The Ascent
Films from 1979: Camera Buff
Film Noir: Sweet Smell of Success (noir enough)
Western: Man of the West
Horror: Peeping Tom
African American Director: Do the Right Thing (still the best - watch or rewatch it)
Akira Kurosawa: Dodes'ka-den
Musicals: The Young Girls of Rochefort
Action: Election 1 and 2 (To)
Spanish Language: Viridiana
Documentary: Amandla!
Science Fiction: Visitor of a Museum

[Qrazy]

If you could only pick 1 which May or Varda film?

Mikey and Cleo.

[EyesWideOpen]

Winston: I've seen Titus, The Proposition, El Topo and Metropolis but thanks for the rest.

Qrazy: I haven't seen anything on your list but Do the Right Thing. Lee is one of my favorite directors so I've seen 99% of his work and Do the Right Thing multiple times. Trying to go with directors I'm less familiar with for that category.

And to add a wrinkle into my sports movie rec's. I don't like sports.

[Qrazy]

Winston: I've seen Titus, The Proposition, El Topo and Metropolis but thanks for the rest.

Qrazy: I haven't seen anything on your list but Do the Right Thing. Lee is one of my favorite directors so I've seen 99% of his work and Do the Right Thing multiple times. Trying to go with directors I'm less familiar with for that category.

And to add a wrinkle into my sports movie rec's. I don't like sports.

I think you should expand that list to just African and/or African American film directors.

If you do African films as well I recommend: Yaaba

If you stick with African American then: Shaft (Gordon Parks)

[EyesWideOpen]

I think you should expand that list to just African and/or African American film directors.

If you do African films as well I recommend: Yaaba

If you stick with African American then: Shaft (Gordon Parks)

For this project I want to just stick with African American directors but African films is a good category for next year.

I could always just watch 15 Tyler Perry movies.

[EyesWideOpen]

I updated my first post with my "final" lists for Female Directors and Films from 1979. If anyone has a film they think should replace one of the films on my list let me know and I'll consider it.

[Qrazy]

For this project I want to just stick with African American directors but African films is a good category for next year.

I could always just watch 15 Tyler Perry movies.

This is exactly why you should change it :P :)

[Qrazy]

I updated my first post with my "final" lists for Female Directors and Films from 1979. If anyone has a film they think should replace one of the films on my list let me know and I'll consider it.

The Ascent should replace one of these...

Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsey)

[Winston*]

This guy has made a good list of notable films by black directors. (http://mubi.com/lists/notable-films-by-black-directors) Seems like you could find 15 worth watching in there, though he includes non-American directors. Devil in a Blue Dress is pretty good.

[Li Lili]

Female Director: Ning Ying (I love Beijing, On the Beat)
Films from 1979: Raining in The Mountain (King Hu)
Film Noir: Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
Western: The Good, The Bad, The Weird by Kim Ji-woon :D, Tears of the Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng (Thai western) :D
Horror: Gozu by Takashi Miike, although mixed genres
African American Director: Do the Right Thing
Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon
Musicals: The Hole by Tsai Ming Liang or The Wild Wild Rose with Grace Chan (Ge Lan, famous Chinese singer and actress in the 60s)
Action: Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee), Swordsman 2, Once upon a Time in China, Fong Sai Yuk (Jet Li's films) so many...
Spanish Language: La Libertad by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)
Documentary: Tie Xi Qu : West of the Tracks by Wang Bing
Science Fiction: Save the Green Planet ! (Korean science fiction, one of the funniest science fiction films!!!)
Sports Films: The Foul King by Kim Ji-woon

[EyesWideOpen]

This guy has made a good list of notable films by black directors. (http://mubi.com/lists/notable-films-by-black-directors) Seems like you could find 15 worth watching in there, though he includes non-American directors. Devil in a Blue Dress is pretty good.

That is actually the exact list I've been using. The only problem is that the majority of the films on that list aren't on dvd. I managed to get 15 movies though of ones I can get through netflix.

And I've seen Devil in a Blue Dress. Very good.

[EyesWideOpen]

Updated my first post with "final" African-American list also.

[EyesWideOpen]

The Ascent should replace one of these...

Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsey)

I actually really want to see those three. I'll keep The Ascent as a replacement if something comes up with one of the others.

[EyesWideOpen]

Li Lili, the problem with your list is that the only movies on your list I can actually obtain I've seen (both your Westerns, I've seen probably 80% of Miike films, Rashomon, Enter the Dragon, Save the Green Planet).

Tokyo Drifter is a great choice those. I'm definitely adding that.

[Yxklyx]

This guy has made a good list of notable films by black directors. (http://mubi.com/lists/notable-films-by-black-directors) Seems like you could find 15 worth watching in there, though he includes non-American directors. Devil in a Blue Dress is pretty good.

Yeah, that's what I referred to and even though it's not on that list I would never have guessed that From Hell was made by a couple of African American directors.

[Russ]

I don't like sports.
Try Fear Strikes Out - Pre-Psycho Anthony Perkins stars as Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall, whose promising career self-destructs due to his losing bout with mental illness.

Native American Films: Little Big Man

[EyesWideOpen]

Try Fear Strikes Out - Pre-Psycho Anthony Perkins stars as Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall, whose promising career self-destructs due to his losing bout with mental illness.

Native American Films: Little Big Man

Thanks for both. Fear Strikes Out looks intriguing.

[EyesWideOpen]

And a heads up to the people who posted Herzog's Nosferatu in the 1979 category. I'm still keeping it but I moved it to horror.

[EyesWideOpen]

Finished musicals and updated in first post.

[Qrazy]

Sports - Rocco and His Brothers (has a fair amount of boxing, close enough)
Native American - Hombre (side rec: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here)

[Russ]

Ooh, another one for the Sports category:

Streets of Gold - Yeah, on the surface it's a somewhat pedestrian boxing tale, but you won't be watching it for the surface sheen, you'll be watching it for Klaus Maria Brandauer's phenomenal peformance as a Russian boxing pro who defected to the US on the basis of his Jewish heritage; the discrimation led to his becoming an olympic boxing coach for the other side. Watch this worthwhile movie which is admittedly average in all areas except for Brandauer. Trust me, he is definitely worth the price of admission.

[EyesWideOpen]

Russ & Qrazy, thanks!

Updated Spanish Language Films.

[EyesWideOpen]

Updated Westerns.

[Yxklyx]

Sports: The Set-Up (1949), Breaking Away ;)
Native American: Last Of The Mohicans (1992), The New World, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (?)

[Irish]

Sports: The Set-Up (1949)

Seconded. Great pick, great movie.

[EyesWideOpen]

Thanks Yxklyx. I moved The Set-Up from noir to sports.

Just updated my first post with my horror and noir choices.

[EyesWideOpen]

Just a heads up quite a few titles you guys recommended are out of print so I went ahead and saved those titles in case I can get ahold of them later so don't get mad if you don't see something you suggested listed. At least for now it'll be alot easier to put in films that I have easy access to.

[Grouchy]

I know I'm late, but:

Female Director: Wendy and Lucy
Films from 1979: The Warriors
Film Noir: Rififi
Western: Vera Cruz
Horror: Who Can Kill A Child?
African American Director: Do the Right Thing
Akira Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala
Musicals: The Meaning of Life
Action: The Killer
Spanish Language: El Espinazo del Diablo
Documentary: Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Science Fiction: Twelve Monkeys
Sports Films: Raging Bull
Native American Films: ?

[Li Lili]

Li Lili, the problem with your list is that the only movies on your list I can actually obtain I've seen (both your Westerns, I've seen probably 80% of Miike films, Rashomon, Enter the Dragon, Save the Green Planet).

Tokyo Drifter is a great choice those. I'm definitely adding that.
No.
The problem is whether or not you want to find them.
All of them, I have got them.....

And oh, sorry, I'm not psychic.

[Qrazy]

No.
The problem is whether or not you want to find them.
All of them, I have got them.....

And oh, sorry, I'm not psychic.

http://funnypicturesofcats.files.word press.com/2011/02/angry-cat.gif

[EyesWideOpen]

No.
The problem is whether or not you want to find them.
All of them, I have got them.....

And oh, sorry, I'm not psychic.

Sorry if my post came off negative I didn't mean to be. Thanks for your recommendations and like I said in another post any film I can't easily get a hold of I'm writing down for future use.

I realize I can "find" any film but asking people for recommendations I'm gonna go first with the films I don't have to jump through hurdles to watch. I'm not a film downloader and I hate watching films on my computer so I'd prefer to get stuff that I can obtain on dvd and watch in comfort.

[Russ]

Sorry if my post came off negative I didn't mean to be. Thanks for your recommendations and like I said in another post any film I can't easily get a hold of I'm writing down for future use.

I realize I can "find" any film but asking people for recommendations I'm gonna go first with the films I don't have to jump through hurdles to watch. I'm not a film downloader and I hate watching films on my computer so I'd prefer to get stuff that I can obtain on dvd and watch in comfort.
I realized that when you started posting your finished lists. That's fine, and I'm glad you're annotating the ones that aren't easily available on DVD, 'cause there are tons of incredible films that wouldn't be available to you otherwise. I just hope you persevere and someday see all of these recommendations (who knows what will be made commercially available to consumers in the future?).

[EyesWideOpen]

I realized that when you started posting your finished lists. That's fine, and I'm glad you're annotating the ones that aren't easily available on DVD, 'cause there are tons of incredible films that wouldn't be available to you otherwise. I just hope you persevere and someday see all of these recommendations (who knows what will be made commercially available to consumers in the future?).

Exactly. And to clarify about half of the films people recommended I've already seen. There's not really a way for that not to happen without me telling you all every movie I've seen. But otherwise I tried to use about half recommendations from here and half movies I had really wanted to see for my lists. The main exception was Westerns which I haven't really seen very many of the "classics" so there were a lot I wanted to watch first but I definitely appreciate and am cataloging the recommended ones.

My computer is in my computer room and it's not an optimal place to watch movies. I watched I'm a Cyborg and That's OK and Barking Dogs Never Bite (before they got region 1 releases) on my computer and I couldn't stand it. If I ever get something set up where I can connect it to my tv then it'd be different.

[Winston*]

My computer is in my computer room and it's not an optimal place to watch movies. I watched I'm a Cyborg and That's OK and Barking Dogs Never Bite (before they got region 1 releases) on my computer and I couldn't stand it. If I ever get something set up where I can connect it to my tv then it'd be different.

Can't you just put it on a flash and play it through your Xbox or PS3?

[EyesWideOpen]

Can't you just put it on a flash and play it through your Xbox or PS3?

Not sure. I'm not very knowledgeable about that stuff.

[Winston*]

Not sure. I'm not very knowledgeable about that stuff.

Okay, well you can. It's super straightforward.

[EyesWideOpen]

Okay, well you can. It's super straightforward.

Good to know. I'll check in to it. I've never even owned or used a flash drive. :P

[Qrazy]

Good to know. I'll check in to it. I've never even owned or used a flash drive. :P

Ehh...

http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/belkin/usb-key.jpg

[Stay Puft]

You don't even need a flash drive, you can stream media straight from the computer to the game console.

[EyesWideOpen]

Ehh...

http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/belkin/usb-key.jpg

I know what they look like! I've just never used one. My wife who is 10 times more computer savvy then me (she has her masters in educational technology) has a bunch.

[EyesWideOpen]

Ok, so let's say I have a movie on utorrent. How do I now stream that to my ps3 or 360?

[Qrazy]

Ok, so let's say I have a movie on utorrent. How do I now stream that to my ps3 or 360?

You need to download the film in full. Once downloaded off any torrent site and client you put the film on a USB key. Insert USB key into PS3 or 360 and move the file.

[EyesWideOpen]

My Science Fiction List:
Altered States (Ken Russell)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
Solaris (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
A Boy and His Dog (LQ Jones)
Phase IV (Saul Bass)
The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Visitor of a Museum (Konstantin Lopushansky)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M Wilcox)
Aliens (James Cameron)
Westworld (Michael Crichton)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot)

[EyesWideOpen]

Action List:
The Driver (Walter Hill)
The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
Attack Force Z (Tim Burstall)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
The Chaser (Hong-Jin Na)
The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
Bullitt (Peter Yates)
The Great Escape (John Sturges)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Election (Johnny To)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
The Killer (John Woo)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)

[EyesWideOpen]

Sports Films:
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
The Foul King (Jee-Woon Kim)
Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
Streets of Gold (Joe Roth)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
The Natural (Barry Levinson)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
The Hurricane (Norman Jewison)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
The Damned United (Tom Hooper)

[EyesWideOpen]

This one was nowhere near as hard as I thought it would be.

Native American Films:
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre)
The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)
The New World - Extended Cut (Terrence Malick)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
Incident at Oglala (Michael Apted)
Skins (Chris Eyre)
Powwow Highway (Jonathan Wacks)
Black Indians: An American Story (Chip Richie)
Older Than America (Georgina Lightning)
The Only Good Indian (Kevin Wilmott)
Flap (Carol Reed)
A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein)
Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
Windtalkers (John Woo)

[Irish]

Are these all first time views?

[Qrazy]

Windtalkers (John Woo)

I really, really suggest you replace Hombre with this piece of garbage.

[EyesWideOpen]

I really, really suggest you replace Hombre with this piece of garbage.

I am. I put the last two in as a joke.

[EyesWideOpen]

Are these all first time views?

Either first time views or movies I haven't seen in a really long time.

[Irish]

Either first time views or movies I haven't seen in a really long time.

Nice! I'm a little bit jealous. There are some really great movies on the list.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm going to drop the Kurosawa category and go for a broader Pre-1970's Asian Cinema category. Any recommendations for that?

[Winston*]

I'm going to drop the Kurosawa category and go for a broader Pre-1970's Asian Cinema category. Any recommendations for that?

The Human Condition! (Counts as 3)
Also Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp.

[Irish]

I'm going to drop the Kurosawa category and go for a broader Pre-1970's Asian Cinema category. Any recommendations for that?

Ozu's Tokyo Story.

[EyesWideOpen]

Winston & Irish, thanks! Haven't seen any of those but I've been meaning too.

Finished my documentaries so all I have left is the Pre-1970's Asian Cinema category.

Documentaries:
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple)
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
The Oath (Laura Poitras)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
Cropsey (Barbara Brancaccio & Joshua Zemen)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger)
A Man Named Pearl (Scott Galloway & Brent Pierson)
Dark Days (Marc Singer)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
Amandla! (Lee Hirsch)

[EyesWideOpen]

Last category done:
(December 2012) Pre-1970's Asian Cinema
The Human Condition Trilogy (Counts as 3 Films) (Masaki Kobayashi)
The Apu Trilogy (Counts as 3 Films) (Satyajit Ray)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

[EyesWideOpen]

I put everything in the order I'm gonna watch them in. In each category I generally went by release date.

[Winston*]

If you make it to the end of this 14 month homework assignment you've set yourself, I will be insanely impressed.

[Qrazy]

If you make it to the end of this 14 month homework assignment you've set yourself, I will be insanely impressed.

Seriously. I have not finished any of the lists I started. 1001 movies list. Criterion. I'm getting gradually closer though.

[Winston*]

"Sorry I'd like to make it to your wedding, but I'm behind on Spanish language month and I've got these Pedro Almodovar films I really need to watch"

[EyesWideOpen]

If you make it to the end of this 14 month homework assignment you've set yourself, I will be insanely impressed.

Hey I didn't give up on my Wu-Tang thread, I'm still going strong.

I just upped my netflix account to three out and got my first two films already ready.

[EyesWideOpen]

"Sorry I'd like to make it to your wedding, but I'm behind on Spanish language month and I've got these Pedro Almodovar films I really need to watch"

:lol:

My wife has accepted my anti-social personality so I don't get dragged to stuff like that.

[EyesWideOpen]

Woo hoo! I finished my first month. I was a little worried because half these films were almost three hours long but I managed to make it through all 15 along with the 7 or so other random films I watched this month.

[Qrazy]

Can I make a suggestion in favor of your sanity? Watch one film from each of the categories for any given month rather than tackle an entire category per month.