Not mine, Time magazine’s. Taking the lead from Verbatim, of the Top 100 Movies listed by Time, here are the films that I’ve seen. (But before I do, let me officially state for the record that I think these kinds of lists are completely bogus and arbitrary. Of course, that doesn’t stop me from always stopping to count and see how many on the list I’ve seen.)
I’ve taken the liberty of marking my personal favorites.
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Apu Trilogy
The Awful Truth
Baby Face
Barry Lyndon
Blade Runner
Bonnie and Clyde
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Camille
Casablanca
Charade
Children of Paradise
Chinatown
Chungking Express
Citizen Kane
City Lights
The Crowd
The Decalogue
Detour
Dodsworth
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Drunken Master II
ET
8 1/2
The 400 Blows
Farewell My Concubine
Finding Nemo
The Fly
The Godfather (I & II)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Goodfellas
His Girl Friday
Ikiru
In a Lonely Place
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It’s a Wonderful Life
Kind Hearts and Coronets
King Kong
The Lady Eve
The Last Command
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
The Man With a Camera
The Manchurian Candidate
Meet Me in St. Louis
Metropolis
Miller’s Crossing
Ninotchka
Notorious
Olympia (part 1)
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
Persona
Pinocchio
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Raging Bull
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Sherlock, Jr.
The Shop Around the Corner
Singin’ in the Rain
The Singing Detective
Some Like It Hot
Star Wars
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunrise
Sweet Smell of Success
Swing Time
Talk to Her
Taxi Driver
Tokyo Story
Unforgiven
White Heat
Yojimbo
79 movies seen
Haven’t Seen:
Bande a Part
Berlin Alexanderplatz
City of God (on my Netflix queue already)
Closely Watched Trains
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Day for Night
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Drunken Master II (on the list to be seen)
It’s a Gift
Kandahar
The Last Command
Leolo
The Man With a Camera
Mon Oncle d’Amerique
Mouchette
Nayakan (never heard of it ’til this list)
Out of the Past
Pyaasa (another one I’d not heard of)
Smiles of a Summer Night
A Touch of Zen
Ugetsu
21 not seen
