'Ruining wishes since yesterday afternoon'

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Flipping through 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (for the 101st time), and I’m reminded of the many films that I want to see before my brother dies*. Mainly must-sees, but a bit of should-sees as well.
  • A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
  • The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Freaks (1932)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • Giant (1956)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)
  • One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • 8½ (1963)
  • Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  • Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  • The Producers (1968)
  • Satyricon (1969)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • Pink Flamingos (1972)
  • Serpico (1973)
  • Amarcord (1973)
  • Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • Carrie (1976)
  • Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
  • All That Jazz (1979)
  • Being There (1979)
  • The Muppet Movie (1979)
  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Mad Max (1979)
  • Ordinary People (1980)
  • The Big Red One (1980)
  • The Boat (1981)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Poltergeist (1982)
  • Fitzcaraldo (1982)
  • The Big Chill (1983)
  • Amadeus (1984)
  • Paris, Texas (1984)
  • Out of Africa (1985)
  • Withnail and I (1987)
  • When Harry Met Sally (1989)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
  • My Own Private Idaho (1991)
  • Thelma & Louise (1991)
  • JFK (1991)
  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • The Crying Game (1992)
  • Farewell My Concubine (1993)
  • Clerks (1994)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  • Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
  • Trainspotting (1996)
  • The Ice Storm (1997)
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  • Russian Ark (2002)
All the Hitchcock, Disney, and Wilder films I haven’t seen (or in a while) are also on the agenda. I’ve noticed that I’m quite apathetic towards Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Oliver Stone. I’m surprised they included Project A, Part II (1987) rather than the first one, or any other Jackie Chan film for that matter. I think I’ve attempted to watch Thelma & Louise two or threes now.
*of natural causes…

Posted on February 17th, 2012
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