Like many of you, I'd guess, I own a good number of movies that I haven't actually watched yet. I did a count yesterday and for me, that number lies at around 99, about half of which are Criterion blind-buys. I'm tired of it! So now it's time to watch all of them. I think I finally know myself well enough to not commit to a schedule or an order, but I do have a general goal of watching all of these movies (listed below) in the next year. I will write at least a little review here for each, and then at the end I'll be done.
I'm interested in hearing if any of y'all have favorites in and among these films, as I'll likely prioritize those to some degree. Ok, here's the list:
Criterions
John Cassavetes Box SetShadows
Faces
A Woman Under the Influence
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Opening Night
Jaques Demy Box Set Lola
Bay of Angels
Donkey Skin
Une chamre en ville
Jaques Tati Box Set Parade
Trafic
Mon Oncle
Jour de Fete
Apu Trilogy Pather Panchali
Aparajito
Apur Sansar
Che Part 1
Part 2
David Lean Directs Noël Coward In Which We Serve
This Happy Breed
Blithe Spirit
DekalogOne
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Love
Lone Wolf and Cub Sword of VengeanceBaby Cart at the River Styx
Baby Cart to Hades
Baby Cart in Peril
Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
White Heaven in Hell
Three Colors Trilogy White
Red
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy Rome, Open CityPaisanGermany Year Zero8 1/2
Barry Lyndon
Beauty and the Beast
Blow-Up
Blow Out
A Brighter Summer Day
Breaker Morant
BreathlessChimes at Midnight
Close-Up
The Confession
Dreams
The Double Life of VéroniqueGates of Heaven
GodzillaHiroshima Mon Amour
I, Daniel Blake
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Last Metro
A Man Escaped
Kwaidan
The Last Temptation of Christ
Make Way for Tomorrow
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Magician
Medium CoolMonsieur Verdoux
Nashville
Picnic at Hanging RockRebeccaSafety Last!
Sanjuro
Le Silence de la Mer
StalkerThief
VampyrVernon, Florida
The Wages of Fear
Yojimbo
Universal Monsters Box Set
Frankenstein
The Mummy
The Invisible Man
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Phantom of the Opera
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Spielberg Box Set
The Sugarland Express
1941
Always
Herzog Box Set
Even Dwarves Started Small
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fata Morgana
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Heart of Glass
Stroszek
Woyzeck
Fitzcaraldo
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Cobra Verde
Lessons of Darkness
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
My Best Fiend
Warner Bros. Box Set
Grand Hotel
Mutiny on the Bounty (35)
Mrs. Miniver
Gigi
Ben-Hur (59)
How the West Was Won
Doctor Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
Bullitt
Dirty Harry
Chariots of Fire
The Color Purple
The Bodyguard
Million Dollar Baby
The Animatrix
A Star Is Born
Alexander
Forbidden PlanetHalloween IIThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Lawrence of ArabiaThe Lives of Others