{"id":234322,"date":"2025-10-23T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234322\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:55:07","slug":"the-135-movies-you-must-see-to-understand-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234322\/","title":{"rendered":"The 135 Movies You Must See to Understand Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

If you wish to become a cinephile wor\u00adthy of the title, you must first pledge nev\u00ader to refuse to watch a film for any of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading rea\u00adsons. First, that it is in a dif\u00adfer\u00adent lan\u00adguage and sub\u00adti\u00adtled; sec\u00adond, that it is too old; third, that it is too slow; fourth, that it is too long; and fifth, that it has no \u201csto\u00adry.\u201d These cat\u00ade\u00adgories of refusal are what Lewis Bond, co-cre\u00adator of the YouTube chan\u00adnel The House of Tab\u00adu\u00adla<\/a>, calls \u201cthe five car\u00addi\u00adnal sins of cin\u00ade\u00adma,\u201d and no one who com\u00admits them can ever attain an under\u00adstand\u00ading of the art form, its nature, its his\u00adto\u00adry, and its poten\u00adtial. Once you\u2019ve made your vow, you\u2019ll be ready to watch through the 135 chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly ordered motion pic\u00adtures that con\u00adsti\u00adtute The House of Tab\u00adu\u00adla\u2019s \u201cUlti\u00admate Film Stud\u00adies Watch\u00adlist,\u201d ful\u00adly explained in the video above<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the movies first emerged in the nine\u00adteenth cen\u00adtu\u00adry, and plen\u00adty con\u00adtin\u00adue to be made here in the twen\u00adty-first, they stand unop\u00adposed as the defin\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adlar art form of the twen\u00adti\u00adeth. And it is from the span of that cen\u00adtu\u00adry that all the films on this list are drawn, from Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s\u2019 Le Voy\u00adage dans la Lune <\/a>and D. W. Grif\u00adfith\u2019s The Birth of a Nation to\u00a0all the way to Quentin Taran\u00adti\u00adno\u2019s Pulp Fic\u00adtion and the Wachowskis\u2019\u00a0The Matrix. <\/p>\n

What hap\u00adpened to cin\u00ade\u00adma between those peri\u00adods was, in a sense, a process of tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and artis\u00adtic evo\u00adlu\u00adtion, but as Bond\u2019s com\u00admen\u00adtary under\u00adscores, old\u00ader films aren\u2019t super\u00adseded by new\u00ader ones \u2014 or at least, old\u00ader films of val\u00adue aren\u2019t. Indeed, the ambi\u00adtion and cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty of these decades, or even cen\u00adtu\u00adry-old movies, puts many a cur\u00adrent release to shame.<\/p>\n

By no means is the list dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by obscu\u00adri\u00adties. Gone with the Wind, Fan\u00adta\u00adsia, Sin\u00adgin\u2019 in the Rain, Psy\u00adcho, Jaws, Alien: even the least cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly inclined among us have seen a few of these movies, or at least they feel like they have. Maybe they\u2019ve nev\u00ader got around to watch\u00ading Cit\u00adi\u00adzen Kane, but they\u2019ll have a sense that it belongs on any syl\u00adlabus meant to cul\u00adti\u00advate an under\u00adstand\u00ading of film as an art form. The pres\u00adence of Star Wars may come as more of a sur\u00adprise, but no less than Cit\u00adi\u00adzen Kane, it illus\u00adtrates the ben\u00ade\u00adfit of watch\u00ading your way through cin\u00ade\u00adma his\u00adto\u00adry: if you do, you\u2019ll expe\u00adri\u00adence just how much of a break they rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded with all that came before. Ordi\u00adnary movie\u00adgo\u00aders may feel like they\u2019ve seen it all before, but cinephiles \u2014 espe\u00adcial\u00adly those who\u2019ve made the jour\u00adney through The House of Tab\u00adu\u00adla\u2019s watch\u00adlist \u2014 know how vast an area of cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty remains unex\u00adplored.<\/p>\n

Relat\u00aded con\u00adtent:<\/p>\n

78 Great Direc\u00adtors Who Shaped the His\u00adto\u00adry of Cin\u00ade\u00adma: An Intro\u00adduc\u00adtion<\/a><\/p>\n

The 30 Great\u00adest Films Ever Made: A Video Essay<\/a><\/p>\n

Mar\u00adtin Scors\u00adese Cre\u00adates a List of 39 Essen\u00adtial For\u00adeign Films for a Young Film\u00admak\u00ader<\/a><\/p>\n

The Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of Cin\u00ade\u00adma: Watch Near\u00adly 140 Years of Film His\u00adto\u00adry Unfold in 80 Min\u00adutes<\/a><\/p>\n

Take a 16-Week Crash Course on the His\u00adto\u00adry of Movies: From the First Mov\u00ading Pic\u00adtures to the Rise of Mul\u00adti\u00adplex\u00ades & Net\u00adflix<\/a><\/p>\n

The 15 Great\u00adest Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries of All Time: Explore Films by Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog, Errol Mor\u00adris & More<\/a><\/p>\n

Based in Seoul, Col\u00adin<\/a>\u00a0M<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>\u00a0writes and broad\u00adcasts on cities, lan\u00adguage, and cul\u00adture. His projects include the Sub\u00adstack newslet\u00adter\u00a0Books on Cities<\/a>\u00a0and the book\u00a0The State\u00adless City: a Walk through 21st-Cen\u00adtu\u00adry Los Ange\u00adles.\u00a0Fol\u00adlow him on the social net\u00adwork for\u00admer\u00adly known as Twit\u00adter at\u00a0@colinm<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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