{"id":21486,"date":"2019-01-07T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21486"},"modified":"2019-01-06T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:15:10","slug":"martin-scorseses-131-essential-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21486","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese&#8217;s 131 Essential Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z010719scorsese_essential.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martin Scorsese is as much a film lover as a film director.\u00a0 Colin Ainsworth at <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\">Mental Floss<\/a> has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/567952\/martin-scorsese-favorite-movies-list\">131 Essential Movies According to Martin Scorsese<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of the 131 films on Scorsese&#8217;s list, I&#8217;ve seen the following 35:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1.\u00a0<em>Nosferatu<\/em>\u00a0(1922)<br \/>2.\u00a0<em>Dr. Mabuse the Gambler\u00a0<\/em>(1922)\u00a0<br \/>3.\u00a0<em>Metropolis<\/em>\u00a0(1927)<br \/>4.\u00a0<em>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington<\/em>\u00a0(1939)<br \/>5.\u00a0<em>Stagecoach<\/em>\u00a0(1939)<br \/>6.<em>\u00a0Citizen Kane<\/em>\u00a0(1941)<br \/>7.\u00a0<em>Cat People<\/em>\u00a0(1942)<br \/>8.\u00a0<em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em>\u00a0(1944)<br \/>9.\u00a0<em>Gilda<\/em>\u00a0(1946)<br \/>10.\u00a0<em>Beauty &amp; The Beast<\/em>\u00a0(1946)<br \/>11.\u00a0<em>The Lady From Shanghai\u00a0<\/em>(1947)<br \/>12.\u00a0<em>T-Men<\/em>\u00a0(1947)<br \/>13.\u00a0<em>Raw Deal<\/em>\u00a0(1948)<br \/>14.\u00a0<em>The Third Man<\/em>\u00a0(1949)<br \/>15.\u00a0<em>Gun Crazy<\/em>\u00a0(1950)<br \/>16.\u00a0<em>Night and the City<\/em>\u00a0(1950)<br \/>17.\u00a0<em>The Bad and the Beautiful\u00a0<\/em>(1952)<br \/>18.\u00a0<em>House of Wax<\/em>\u00a0(1953)<br \/>19.\u00a0<em>Pickup on South Street\u00a0<\/em>(1953)<br \/>20.\u00a0<em>Dial M for Murder<\/em>\u00a0(1954)<br \/>21.\u00a0<em>Kiss Me Deadly<\/em>\u00a0(1955)<br \/>22.<em>\u00a0The Searchers\u00a0<\/em>(1956)<br \/>23.\u00a0<em>Touch of Evil<\/em>\u00a0(1958)<br \/>24.\u00a0<em>Vertigo<\/em>\u00a0(1958)<br \/>25.\u00a0<em>The Hustler<\/em>\u00a0(1961)<br \/>26.<em>\u00a0Cape Fear\u00a0<\/em>(1962)<br \/>27.<em>\u00a0Jason and the Argonauts\u00a0<\/em>(1963)<br \/>28.<em>\u00a02001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0(1968)<br \/>29.\u00a0<em>Midnight Cowboy<\/em>\u00a0(1969)<br \/>30.\u00a0<em>Klute<\/em>\u00a0(1971)<br \/>31.\u00a0<em>The Godfather<\/em>\u00a0(1972)<br \/>32.\u00a0<em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>\u00a0(1979)<br \/>33.\u00a0<em>Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>\u00a0(1980)<br \/>34.\u00a0<em>Do the Right Thing<\/em>\u00a0(1989)<br \/>35.<em>\u00a0The Player\u00a0<\/em>(1992)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obviously, everyone&#8217;s mileage will vary but I found it interesting that there are as many films that I loved on the list (<em>Stagecoach, The Searchers, Godfather<\/em>) as there are films I felt were over-rated (<em>2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, Klute<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Scorsese is as much a film lover as a film director.\u00a0 Colin Ainsworth at Mental Floss has compiled 131<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21487,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions\/21487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}