The Joy Luck Blows of Annie Rashômon, or...

...How the Crooklyn Daughters of Another Planet Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Sensibility About the Rear Window Thief of the Citizen Children of the Seventh Metropolis

My cousinnephew (our family term for a cousin who's more like a nephew) is applying to a film school. He's got to write an essay about one of 15 films from a list provided by the school. Over the Christmas break we're going to watch them all, in chronological order.

• Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang: 147 minutes, 8.5 IMDB, 98.6% RT – Read our review
• Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles: 119 minutes, 8.6 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• The Bicycle Thief (1948) by Vittorio De Sica: 80 minutes, 8.3 IMDB, 97% RT – Read our review
• Rashômon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa: 88 minutes, 8.5 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock: 112 minutes, 8.8 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• Seventh Seal (1957) by Ingmar Bergman: 96 minutes, 8.4 IMDB, 95% RT – Read our review
• 400 Blows (1959) by François Truffaut: 99 minutes, 8.1 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• Dr. Strangelove (1964) by Stanley Kubrick: 96 minutes, 8.7 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen: 93 minutes, 8.2 IMDB, 97.8% RT – Read our review
• The Brother from Another Planet (1984) by John Sayles: 108 minutes, 6.7 IMDB, 91.3% RT – Read our review
• Daughters of the Dust (1991) by Julie Dash: 112 minutes, 5.6 IMDB, 87.5% RT – Read our review
• Joy Luck Club (1993) by Wayne Wang: 139 minutes, 7.2 IMDB, 89% RT – Read our review
• Crooklyn (1994) by Spike Lee: 115 minutes, 6.5 IMDB, 88% RT – Read our review
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) by Ang Lee: 136 minutes, 7.7 IMDB, 100% RT – Read our review
• Children of Heaven (1997) by Majid Majidi: 89 minutes, 7.9 IMDB, 87% RT – Read our review

Update: Added links to our reviews.