In an effort to make myself feel less like a failure in this endeavor, I've decided on a solution - one that even at my laziest, I should be able to abide by. I'm going to break the list in half. This year, 2010, I will watch the top 50 films and write about them. In 2011, I will watch the bottom 50 and do the same. Here are the movies I still need to watch this year (excluding Raging Bull and Casablanca, which I have watched but haven't gotten around to blogging about...yet); those in purple are ones I have seen before:
- Singing In The Rain
- Gone With The Wind
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Schindler's List
- Vertigo
- The Wizard of Oz
- City Lights
- The Searchers
- Star Wars
- Psycho
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Sunset Blvd.
- The Graduate
- The General
- On The Waterfront
- It's A Wonderful Life
- Chinatown
- Some Like It Hot
- The Grapes of Wrath
- E.T.
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
- High Noon
- All About Eve
- Double Indemnity
- Apocalypse Now
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Godfather Part II
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
- Annie Hall
- The Bridge on The River Kwai
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Dr. Strangelove
- The Sound of Music
- King Kong
- Bonnie & Clyde
- The Midnight Cowboy
- The Philadelphia Story
- Shane
- It Happened One Night
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Rear Window
- Intolerance
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I'm also not going to be a stickler for watching and writing about my assigned films in the order that they appear on the list.
So...anybody want to come over some time and watch a bunch of movies with me? That could be a fun way to get through a chunk of them.
Anyway, wish me luck.