Save Austen! - On Hold

This is Austen…

And he needs our help guys. He loves film, but can’t seem to stop watching Disney. He’s an aspiring screenwriter with a bit of a fixation. I’m telling you, he watches them on repeat. We talked about making a list of 100 movies he needs to see and probably hasn’t. I started him off with the list below, but give me ideas and I’ll see if it’ll work. As a theme, I’m trying to show him the darker side of film, with some sort of educational spin. I/HE NEED YOUR HELP

1 - 10: Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, C.R.A.Z.Y, Mulholland Drive, The Player, Spellbound, Dead Man, Best in Show, North By Northwest, Bottle Rocket,

11-20: Godfather Part I, Godfather Part II, American Psycho, Golddiggers of 1935, Ninotchka, Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects, Scerpico, Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver,

21-30: Raging Bull, Clockwork Orange, Death at a Funeral, The Big Lebowski, Chinatown, O’ Brother Where Art Thou?, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Goodbye Lenin, Vanilla Sky, Magnolia,

31-40: Thomas Crown Affair (original), Swimming Pool, From Russia With Love, Trainspotting, Belle de Jour, Half Nelson, Chocolat, French Connection, City of Lost Children, Monty Python’s Holy Grail,

41-50: Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Apocalypse Now, Ronin, Platoon, Some Like it Hot, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, The Bicycle Thief, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein,

51-60: The Producers (original), My Left Foot, Clerks, Blade Runner, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Blow, The 400 Blows, Annie Hall, Gone With the Wind, Science of Sleep,

61-70: Wristcutters: A Love Story, Sunshine, Trading Places, Stripes, Run Lola Run, The Shining, The Grand Illusion, Coming to America, Birth of a Nation (Griffith), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,

71-80: Casablanca, Metropolis, Maltese Falcon, City of God, Citizen Kane, Primary, Rudy, Ran, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,

81-90: Blue Velvet, Requiem for a Dream, Oldboy, Infernal Affairs, Vertigo, I Heart Huckabees, Seven Samurai, The Apostle, 12 Angry Men, Titus (Taymor directing),

91-100! Deer Hunter, My Dinner with Andre, Othello (Orson Welles version), Vanya on 42nd Street, 8 1/2, La Dulce Vita, Leaving Las Vegas, Destiny, Wild Strawberries, Scarface.

This is the education of our dear friend Austen… drop a comment

Austen’s Progress…

He has watched 1 out of 100. He’s going to wait until he graduates and moves to LA to become a screenwriter…tsk tsk.