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In case you were wondering, the 1,000 Greatest Films I speak of are those over at the wonderful filmsite They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, where a compiled list of greatest films (gleaned from over 1,300 different critic's and filmmaker's lists) has been put together. My quest is to see all of the films on this list.
Although I thought myself rather well-versed (so to speak) in the world of cinema, when I decided to take this quest upon myself, I had only seen 444 of these films. That means 556 to go. Many of these films are classics of cinema which, for some inexplicable reason, I have not yet seen, but many are films from the obscurest reaches of world cinema, so it should be a challange indeed - and one I whole-heartedly leap into. As for an extra challange, Kevin Lee is doing the same damn thing over at Shooting Down Pictures, and he is already waaaaay ahead of me. He is currently at #913 (this number will be updated as Mr. Lee completes his quest).
So wish me luck and periodically check back to see how I am doing. You can scroll down the page (most recent additions are listed at the top) to see how I am progressing throughout the next year or two. I wonder if I can actually pull it off in under two years!? I don't want to rush myself, so we will see. As for any sort of critique of these films, it probably won't happen. With reviewing current cinema on a regular basis, the time will probably not present itself for any true critical analysis, though many of these films will be given ample space once I post my Greatest Films List (which should be published sometime in late 2008) elsewhere on this site. Until then, this is mainly just a list for the purpose of showing off how many films I have seen. I say that rather tongue-in-cheek, but basically I suppose it is true. Anyway, thanx for listening.
Oh yeah, one last thing. In a desire to multi-task, I went and found out how many films I had already seen on Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films List (which can be viewed here), and lo and behold, I am even worse off there, having seen just a meager 279 of his choices. Perhaps that is another project for another day, but instead of waiting (and with quite the crossover) I have undertaken this quest as well. All the bells and whistles can be seen over at the aptly named Rosenbaum Project.
#492 (May 19, 2008) - Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915-16)
#491 (May 17, 2008) - High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
#490 (May 07, 2008) - Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1975)
#489 (May 04, 2008) - Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
#488 (Apr 30, 2008) - Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
#487 (Mar 30, 2008) - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
#486 (Mar 30, 2008) - Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961)
#485 (Mar 27, 2008) - W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971)
#484 (Mar 27, 2008) - Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
#483 (Mar 10, 2008) - Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
#482 (Mar 09, 2008) - The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921)
#481 (Jan 14, 2008) - I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
#480 (Jan 14, 2008) - Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
#479 (Jan 07, 2008) - When A Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
#478 (Jan 07, 2008) - Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958)
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The wonderful folks over at They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have updated their 1,000 Greatest Films List and in doing so, a bit of adjustment needs to take place here in my countdown. You see, 139 new films have been added to the list, and (of course) 139 films have been dropped from the list as well. Unfortunately for yours truly, just as a finally reached #500 (after a long drought I was feeling a bit like Alex Rodriguez just before he hit that ball over the left field wall) I have to go back and do it all over again. Okay, maybe not all of it, but since more films I had seen dropped off the list than were added, I find myself back down at #477. Arrrggghhhh!!!!! Oh well, this just means more films to watch and that is never a problem. The only film added to the list that I have first seen after taking on this project is The Chronicles of Anna Magdelena Bach, otherwise all the additions I have seen were prior to January 1, 2007. With that being said, the countdown will resume above with number 478. Meanwhile below, the adjusted numbers are listed in red (those no longer on the 1,000 Greatest List are unumbered).
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(477)#500 (Dec 16, 2007) - Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
(476)#499 (Aug 30, 2007) - The Navigator (Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924)
(475)#498 (Aug 26, 2007) - Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
(474)#497 (Aug 25, 2007) - And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956)
(---)#496 (Aug 16, 2007) - Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, 1966)
(473)#495 (Aug 15, 2007) - La Belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
(472)#494 (Aug 12, 2007) - A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings, 1945)
(471)#493 (Aug 12, 2007) - Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)
(470)#492 (Aug 12, 2007) - Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings, 1942)
(469)#491 (Aug 08, 2007) - Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
(468)#490 (Aug 04, 2007) - The Damned (Luchino Visconti, 1969)
(467)#489 (Aug 02, 2007) - Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)
(466)#488 (Jul 31, 2007) - La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti, 1948)
(465)#487 (Jul 29, 2007) - La Belle et la Bete (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
(464)#486 (Jul 14, 2007) - The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
(463)#485 (Jul 08, 2007) - Moonfleet (Fritz Lang, 1955)
(462)#484 (Jul 08, 2007) - Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)
(---)#483 (May 13, 2007) - Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
(---)#482 (Apr 22, 2007) - King-Size Canary (Tex Avery, 1947)
(461)#481 (Apr 17, 2007) - The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925)
(460)#480 (Apr 15, 2007) - Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
(459)#479 (Apr 01, 2007) - Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
(458)#478 (Mar 25, 2007) - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961)
(457)#477 (Mar 23, 2007) - The Night of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
(456)#476 (Mar 20, 2007) - Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
(455)#475 (Mar 19, 2007) - The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
(454)#474 (Mar 10, 2007) - Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (T. Richardson, 1962)
(453)#473 (Mar 09, 2007) - Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
(452)#472 (Mar 06, 2007) - Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974)
(451)#471 (Mar 04, 2007) - The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
(450)#470 (Mar 02, 2007) - Lola Montes (Max Ophüls, 1955)
(449)#469 (Feb 26, 2007) - I, Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953)
(448)#468 (Feb 23, 2007) - The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
(447)#467 (Feb 21, 2007) - Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1949)
(446)#466 (Feb 20, 2007) - Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
(445)#465 (Feb 19, 2007) - The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
(444)#464 (Feb 18, 2007) - Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
(443)#463 (Feb 17, 2007) - Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
(442)#462 (Feb 16, 2007) - Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
(441)#461 (Feb 12, 2007) - The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
(440)#460 (Feb 12, 2007) - Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
(439)#459 (Feb 11, 2007) - M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
(438)#458 (Feb 05, 2007) - The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
(437)#457 (Jan 29, 2007) - The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
(436)#456 (Jan 26, 2007) - Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
(435)#455 (Jan 20, 2007) - El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970)
(434)#454 (Jan 17, 2007) - The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
(433)#453 (Jan 14, 2007) - Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1953)
(432)#452 (Jan 12, 2007) - 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
(431)#451 (Jan 11, 2007) - Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
(430)#450 (Jan 09, 2007) - The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
(429)#449 (Jan 08, 2007) - L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
(428)#448 (Jan 07, 2007) - Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, 1934)
(427)#447 (Jan 06, 2007) - Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
(---)#446 (Jan 04, 2007) - Dames (Ray Enright, 1932)
(426)#445 (Jan 04, 2007) - Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
COMING SOON: A LISTING OF THE FIRST 425
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