101 Films to See

I love lists. Making lists, carrying around lists, revisiting lists and especially crossing things off lists when they are complete! About three years ago I made a great list: 101 Films I Can't Believe I Haven't Seen and the plan was to see them all in 1001 days, which was completed just before midnight of the last day. Overall it was a great experience, so I'm going for round 2 and this time it's literally a 'Films to See' list. I drew inspiration from a variety of sources, the nominees list for the 31 Flicks That Give You the Willies list for filling in some of the blanks for horror films, the Movies You Should See Top 1000 Movies You Like list, the Stephen Jay Schneider book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", the IMDb Top 250 and of course I threw in a bunch of stuff I just want to see as well as the inevitable 'films people always talk about'. Once I filtered out all the films I had seen from those lists I was left with just over 1000 films. It was a challenge to narrow it down to 101, but I excluded films I already own (that is a different challenge), would be near impossible to find and anything I've already requested either from zip.ca or the library. Time to embark on another fun film adventure!

Start Date: February 15, 2009
End Date: November 13, 2011

Films Seen 71/101

Incomplete, but finished - see my post on the experience here.

1. 400 Blows, The (seen August 27, 2009, Vlog)
2. Aguirre, Wrath of God (seen May 25, 2009, Vlog)
3. Amarcord (seen Oct 17, 2009, Vlog)
4. American Psycho (see Apr 17, 2009, Vlog)
(5. Amores Perros (turned off) removed) *
6. Apartment, The (seen Feb 28, 2009, Vlog)
7. Barry Lyndon (seen Feb 4, 2011)
8. Barton Fink (seen Oct 30, 2009, Vlog)
9. Battle Royale
10. Beast Cops / Yeshou xingjing
11. Before Sunset (seen June 1, 2009)
12. Belle et la Bete (seen Oct 17, 2009, Vlog)
13. Black Christmas (1974)
14. Black Sabbath (seen October 28, 2009, Vlog)
15. Blow-Up (seen January 9, 2010, Vlog)
16. Bob Le Flambeur (seen April 5, 2009, Vlog)
17. Boondock Saints (seen October 22, 2010)
18. Bride of Frankenstein (seen March 21, 2009, Vlog)
19. Brides of Dracula, The (seen January 23, 2010, Vlog)
20. Brood, The (seen Apr 12, 2009, Vlog)
21. Carnival of Souls
22. Cat People (1942) (seen September 17, 2010)
23. City of God (seen October 15, 2010)
24. Conversation, The (seen March 7, 2009, Vlog)
25. Cool Hand Luke (seen March 10, 2010, Vlog)
26. Day for Night (seen May 20, 2009, Vlog)
27. Dellamorte Dellamore / Cemetery Man
28. Dracula (1931) (seen Apr 18, 2009, Vlog)
29. Duck Soup (seen January 9, 2010, Vlog)
30. Earth (1998)
31. Eat Drink Man Woman
32. Eraserhead (seen January 20, 2010, Vlog)
33. Farewell My Concubine (seen June 4, 2009)
34. Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill!
35. Freaks
36. Ghost and Mrs Muir, The (seen April 4, 2009, Vlog)
37. Giant (seen March 10, 2010, Vlog)
38. Godzilla / Gojira (seen August 9, 2010)
39. Grand Illusion (seen June 4, 2009)
(40. Grave of the Fireflies) removed *
41. Great Silence, The
42. Hana-Bi
43. Hanging Garden, The (seen Oct 17, 2009, Vlog)
44. Happy Together (seen January 23, 2010, Vlog)
45. Harold and Maude (seen)
46. Harvey (seen May 23 2009, Vlog)
47. Hiroshima Mon Amour
48. House of Wax (1953) (seen April 18, 2010, Vlog)
49. Hustler, The (seen Dec 26, 2009, Vlog)
50. I Walked with a Zombie (seen Sept 13, 2010, Podcast)
51. If… (seen Feb 28, 2009, Vlog)
52. Infernal Affairs (seen November 20, 2010)
53. Iron Monkey (seen September 25, 2010)
54. Kaidan
55. Kes (seen July 3, 2010)
56. Kiltro (seen August 2, 2009, Vlog)
57. Kissed
58. Last House on the Left (1972)
59. Laura (1944) (seen June 21, 2009, Vlog)
60. Layer Cake (seen April 10, 2010, Vlog)
61. Léolo (seen Nov 7, 2009, Vlog)
62. Linda Linda Linda
63. Lonely Are the Brave
64. Love and Human Remains
65. Mad Detective (seen October 15, 2011)
66. Man from Laramie , The (June 30, 2009, Vlog)
67. Margaret's Museum (seen December 5, 2010)
68. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (seen May 23, 2009, Vlog)
69. Mon oncle Antoine (seen January 16, 2010, Vlog)
70. Night Tide
(*) Nosferatu (1922) (seen April 10, 2009, Vlog)
71. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) (seen October 10, 2009, Vlog)
72. Onibaba (seen Apr 25,2009, Vlog)
73. Out of Africa (seen Nov 26, 2009, Vlog)
74. Papillon (seen July 10, 2010)
75. Passion of Joan of Arc , The (seen February 7, 2010, Vlog)
76. Persona (seen June 12, 2009, Vlog)
77. Phantasm
78. Possession (1981)
79. Possible Worlds
80. Quadrophenia
81. Rebecca (1940) (seen December 2, 2010)
82. Red River (seen March 21, 2009, Vlog)
83. Requiem For a Dream
84. Safe (seen December 5, 2009, Vlog)
(*) Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
85. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (seen May 19, 2009, Vlog)
86. Sleuth (seen Apr 18/09, Vlog)
87. Star Is Born, A (seen August 8, 2009, Vlog)
88. Sting, The (seen October 10, 2009, Vlog)
89. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (seen November 25, 2010)
90. Sunset Blvd. (seen Apr 24,2009, Vlog)
91. Tale of Ugetsu, A
92. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
93. Tampopo
94. Tetsuo
95. Thing from Another World, The (seen Apr 23, 2009, Vlog)
96. Time of the Gypsies / Dom za vesanje
97. Vampyr (seen August 29, 2009, Vlog)
98. Westerner, The
99. Yi Yi (seen Dec 27, 2009, Vlog)
100. Zatoichi (seen March 7, 2009, Vlog)
101. Zodiac (seen November 25, 2010)

*replacements:
Amores Perros and it has been replaced with Nosferatu (1922)
Grave of the Fireflies has been replaced with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians