Top 1000 Films Project

I decided it was worthwhile to catch up on movies considered to be among the best created, but which I had failed to see. Not sure what I’m going to do except make myself more educated/pompous about film.

View current list. Score: 430/1000 (as of 5/25/12)

List courtesy of They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?, updated in January 2012.

Recent viewings (or re-viewings) include:

2012

• 4/6/12 – #349 Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
• 3/7/12 – #194 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
• 2/16/12 – #102 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)

– List updated, 2011 rankings below. –

2011

• 11/15/11 – #92 Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
• 11/5/11 – #66 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• 9/10/11 – #888 Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)
• 7/19/11 – #511 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, 1949)
• 7/15/11 – #4 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• 6/22/11 – #753 Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
• 5/25/11 – #669 Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, 1975)
• 5/12/11 – #990 Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
• 5/6/11 – #608 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
• 4/23/11 – #297 Le Million (Rene Clair, 1931)
• 3/20/11 – #485 The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968)
• 3/17/11 – #489 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
• – List updated, 2010 rankings below. –
• 2/23/11 – #184 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
• 2/13/11 – #794 Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

2010

• 12/30/10 – #745 The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
• 11/7/10 – #486 Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
• 11/6/10 – #220 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
• 10/29/10 – #153 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919)
• 10/13/10 – #27 The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, 1926)
• 10/5/10 – #138 A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
• 10/4/10 – #139 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
• 10/3/10 – #900 Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)
• 9/21/10 – #635 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932)
• 8/31/10 – #541 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970)
• 8/26/10 – #422 A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
• 8/22/20 – #132 The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
• 8/11/10 – #286 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
• 7/27/10 – #145 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
• 7/17/10 – #496 All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
• 6/9/10 – #259 The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
• 6/5/10  – #161 Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
• 5/30/10 – #602 Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982)
• 5/27/10 – #125 Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
• 5/10/10 – #819 The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984)
• 5/2/10 – #521 Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
• 4/28/10 – #229 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
• 4/24/10 – #781 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
• 4/15/10 – #340 F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
• 4/11/10 – #252 Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
• 4/9/10 – #349 Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
• 3/30/10 – #990 Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
• 3/27/10 – #435 Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
• 3/24/10 – #870 Purple Noon/Plein soleil (René Clément, 1960)
• 2/23/10 – #237 A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)
• 2/16/10 – #216 Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
• 2/15/10 – #9 Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
• 2/8/10 – #290 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
• 2/8/10 – #144 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
• 2/7/10 – #490 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
• 2/4/10  – #127 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
• 1/20/10  – #981 Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
• 1/20/10  – #709 Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)

2009

• 12/16/09 – #17 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
• 11/11/09 – #816 Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
• 10/21/09 – #442 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
• 9/30/09 – #539 Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
• 9/28/09 – #533 The Double Life of Veronique (Krszystof Kieslowski, 1991)
• 8/27/09 – #309 Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
• 8/25/09 – #99 Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
• 8/24/09 – #360 Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
• 8/19/09 – #434 Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)