I’ve set myself a goal this year of completing various lists of acclaimed films. I’ve likely reviewed over a thousand films here (typically in big posts of 20-35 movies each) so it shouldn’t be surprising that I’ve seen most of the obvious choices.
But there’s some stuff I haven’t got to yet. My aim is to take care of it, this year although with nearly a third of the year gone, I haven’t made much progress.
These films come from various books of the best films ever (The A-list, Taschen’s Top 100 films, etc.) as well as major institutions (the AFI Top 100, the Sight & Sound Top 100 from the Directors and Critics Lists) and the IMDB Top 250.
The full list is…
3 Idiots
All About My Mother
The Ascent
Au Hasard Balthazar
Big Wednesday
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Black Girl
Breaking the Waves
Bridesmaids
Brighter Summer Day
Blue Angel
Capernaum
The Celebration
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Children of Heaven
Cleo from 5 to 7
La Cienaga
Come and See
The Cook, The Thief, The Wife…
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dangal
Daughters of the Dust
Dead Ringers
Dersu Uzalu
Death in Venice
Diary of a Country Priest
Discreet Charm…
The Dirty Dozen
Eraserhead
Faces
Face/ Off
Fanny and Alexander
The Fourth Man
Genevieve
The Gleaners and I
Greed
Gregory’s Girl
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
La Haine
The Handmaiden
Histories Du Cinema
Howl’s Moving Castle
The Hunt
Happy Together
Landscape in the Mist
Les Jeux Interdits/ Forbidden Games
Incendies
The Intouchables
Jailhouse Rock
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Journey to Italy
Into the Wild
Jao Bhim
Klaus
Kes
L’Argent
Late Spring
Love Exposure
Like Stars on Earth
Madame De
La Mama et la Putain
Mary and Max
Meet Me In St Louis
My Father and My Son
My Brilliant Career
My Neighbor Totoro
La Notte
Oh! Mr Porter
Los Olivados/ The Young and Damned
Orpheus
Paris is Burning
Pat and Mike
Pink Flamingos
Pixote
Playtime
A Place In the Sun
Salo
Le Samourai
Sans Soleli
Satantango
Scenes From a Marriage
Secrets & Lies
A Separation
Snatch
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Shoah
Spirit of the Beehive
A Star is Born (1954)
Taste of Cherry
Ten Commandments (Silent)
Topsy- Turvy
Tropical Malady
Under the Roofs of Paris
Vagabond
Les Vampires
Waiting for Guffman
Wanda
Where is the Friends’s House
Wild Things
Witness
Written on the Wind
A Woman Under the Influence
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Wuthering Heights
Yi Yi
Z
During this year, I’ve seen Memories of Murder, Meshes of the Afternoon, 42nd Street and Genevieve.
This is an eclectic watchlist. I suspect one factor is that at this point I’ve seen most of the films on multiple lists, which leaves some more oddball choices.
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