So, Gin and I are going to watch the IMDB Top 100. Like any Top 100 there’s a lot of crap on there that doesn’t deserve to be (we were both relieved to find the other had already sat through Taxi Driver), but thems the breaks when you choose to watch someone else’s list of films. A good deal of what we haven’t seen are the classics of 20th century cinema… a lot of which we’ve been meaning to get around to – so this serves as a good motivation.
Gin and I each went through and marked which films we’d already seen. Gin had already seen 61 of the list and I’d seen 67. There are 27 films neither of us have seen. We’ll mostly re-watch things together if the other has already seen it. The one exception is Alien, which I’m not willing to sit through yet again (and I’m not sure about Paths of Glory either). Other than that there’s a few really good films I’ve seen that Gin hasn’t and I’m actually looking forward to re-watching them. Likewise some of the films I haven’t seen Gin thoroughly recommends.
Obviously the list changes a little over time, so we’re going by the list as it was when we started the goal (January 2006).
After all of that we’re left with a list of 45 films one or both of us hasn’t seen:
5. Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (1954)
11. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1966)
14. Rear Window (1954)
16. Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
20. 12 Angry Men (1957)
21. Citizen Kane (1941)
23. C’era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) (1968)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
29. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
30. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
36. Vertigo (1958)
38. Paths of Glory (1957)
40. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
44. The Third Man (1949)
46. Untergang, Der (Downfall) (2004)
49. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
50. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
53. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
54. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
56. M (1931)
57. Rashômon (1950)
58. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
60. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
61. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
62. Alien (1979)
63. All About Eve (1950)
67. Raging Bull (1980)
68. Some Like It Hot (1959)
69. Double Indemnity (1944)
71. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
72. Vita è bella, La (Life is Beautiful) (1997)
75. The Shining (1980)
77. Amadeus (1984)
79. City Lights (1931)
81. The Sting (1973)
82. Touch of Evil (1958)
83. Rebecca (1940)
84. On the Waterfront (1954)
87. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
88. Ran (1985)
89. The Apartment (1960)
90. Sjunde inseglet, Det (The Seventh Seal) (1957)
93. Strangers on a Train (1951)
95. The Great Dictator (1940)
