{"id":1760,"date":"2006-04-03T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/04\/03\/the-50-greatest-independent-films\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:28:00","slug":"the-50-greatest-independent-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/04\/03\/the-50-greatest-independent-films\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe 50 Greatest Independent Films\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA British film website called Empire Online has a list of what they deem \u201cThe 50 Greatest Independent Films\u201d  Here it is along with Media Services call numbers for the ones we own.<\/p>\n<p>In countdown order:<\/p>\n<p>50. El Mariachi  VHS 2947<br \/>49. Run Lola Run  DVD 92<br \/>48. Cube  DVD 78<br \/>47. Blood Feast  <br \/>46. Texas Chainsaw Massacre DVD 352<br \/>45. Mad Max  (Library owns Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior  VHS 3155)<br \/>44. Amores Perros  DVD 262<br \/>43. Shadows  DVD 1390<br \/>42. Swingers  VHS 5429<br \/>41. Dead Man\u2019s Shoes<br \/>40. The Descent  <br \/>39. The Passion of the Christ  DVD 943<br \/>38. Grosse Point Blank  <br \/>37. Being John Malkovich  DVD 91<br \/>36. Buffalo \u201966  <br \/>35. THX-1138  DVD 1401<br \/>34. The Blair Witch Project  DVD 24<br \/>33. Shallow Grave  &#8211; on order<br \/>32. Two-Lane Blacktop  VHS 5770<br \/>31. Pink Flamingos VHS 4638<br \/>30. Sweet Sweetback\u2019s Baadassss\u2019 Song  VHS 4318<br \/>29. Bad Lieutenant<br \/>28. In the Company of Men<br \/>27. Dark Star  <br \/>26. Lost in Translation  DVD 741<br \/>25. Drugstore Cowboy  VHS 3260<br \/>24. Happiness  VHS 7040<br \/>23. Evil Dead  (Library owns Evil Dead II \u2013 DVD 926)<br \/>22. Nosferatu  DVD 393<br \/>21. Roger and Me  DVD 1166<br \/>20. Slacker  DVD 1347<br \/>19. Lone Star  DVD 379<br \/>18. Withnail and I  <br \/>17. City of God  DVD 849<br \/>16. She\u2019s Gotta Have It  VDD 111 (laserdisc)<br \/>15. Blood Simple  VHS 2648<br \/>14. Stranger Than Paradise  DVD 144<br \/>13. Memento  DVD 256<br \/>12. Eraserhead  DVD 1491<br \/>11. Bad Taste <br \/>10. Mean Streets  DVD 1813<br \/>9. Sideways  DVD 1316<br \/>8. The Usual Suspects  DVD 1671<br \/>7. Sex, Lies, and Videotape DVD 383<br \/>6. Night of the Living Dead  DVD 600<br \/>5. Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian  DVD 970<br \/>4. Clerks  VHS 4389<br \/>3. The Terminator  VHS 3416<br \/>2. Donnie Darko  DVD 381<br \/>1. Reservoir Dogs  VHS 2915<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/features\/50greatestindependent\/50-41.asp\">link<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British film website called Empire Online has a list of what they deem \u201cThe 50 Greatest Independent Films\u201d Here it is along with Media Services call numbers for the ones we own. In countdown order: 50. El Mariachi VHS 294749. Run Lola Run DVD 9248. Cube DVD 7847. Blood Feast 46. Texas Chainsaw Massacre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}