Gideon Strauss (scroll down to July 23rd) has a list of ten movies that the British Film Institute says every child should see before they are fourteen years old. The list:
1. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy)
2. ET The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982, USA)
3. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969, UK)
4. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA)
5. Les Quatre Cents Coups (Fran�ois Truffaut, 1959, France)
6. Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998, Sw/Dk)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan)
8. Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995, USA)
9. Where is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987, Iran)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939, USA)
How many did you see by the age of fourteen? How many have you seen altogether? Personally, I never even heard of six of them, I'm ashamed to say.
