A Journey Through Film: August 2011

Here it is. The list of legend! Join me as I travel my way through these films some of which I am already familiar with, some of which I have never even heard of, and some I am dreading like that feeling you get with a dentist appointment looming (no matter how great a day you have, you know it's coming!).

1984
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 1/2
Adaptation
The African Queen
After Hours
Airplane!
Alien & Aliens
All About Eve
Amadeus
Amelie
American Beauty
American Graffiti
Animal House
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Assault on Precinct 13
Audition
Back to the Future
Barbarella
Batman
Battleship Potemkin
Ben-Hur
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Bicycle Thief
The Birds
The Birth of a Nation
Blade Runner
The Blair Witch Project
Blazing Saddles
Blood Simple
Blue Velvet
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Bonnie and Clyde
Bazil
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Breathless
Bride of Frankenstein
Bullitt
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Caddyshack
Carrie
Casablanca
The Celebration
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
CitizenKane
Cleo from 5 to 7
Cleopatra
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Cool Hand Luke
Coup de Torchon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crumb
The Crying Game
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Wine and Roses
Dead Poets Society
Deliverance
Die Hard
Diner
Dirty Dancing
~~Dirty Harry~~
Do the Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
Dr. Stranglove
Duck Soup
Duel
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Easy Rider
Ed Wood
El Mariachi
Election
The Elephant Man
The Endless Summer
The English Patient
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
The Evil Dead
The Exorcist
Exotica
Fail-Safe
Fanny and Alexander
Fantasia
Far From Heaven
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A Few Good Men
Fight Club
Freaks
The French Connection
Fritz the Cat
Full Metal Jacket
Fury
Ganhi
Gaslight
The General
Ghost in the Shell
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glitter
The Godfather 1 & 2
The Gold Rush
Gone with the Wind
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Hotel
Grand Illusion
The Grapes of Wrath
Grease
The Great Train Robbery
Groundhog Day
Halloween
Hannah and Her Sisters
A Hard Day's Night
Heathers
Heavenly Creatures
Heaven's Gate
Heavy Metal
High Noon
The Highlander
The Hours
House of Games
Howards End
The Hustler
I Spit on Your Grave
Imitation of Life
The Incredibles
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Inherit the Wind
It Happened One Night
It's a Gift
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Wonderful Life
Jacob's Ladder
Jailhouse Rock
Jaws
The Jazz Singer
Jean de Florette
JFK
Jules and Jim
Jurassic Park
The Karate Kid
King Kong
Kissing Jessica Stein
L.A. Confidential
La Cage aux Folles
La Jetee
Lagaan
Last Tango in Paris
L'Avventura
Lawrence of Arabia
Leaving Las Vegas
The Lion King
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Lost in Translation
M
MASH
Magnolia
The Maltese Falcon
Man Bites Dog
The Manchurian Candidate
Marathon Man
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Matrix
Medium Cool
Memento
Metropolis
Metropolitan
Midnight Cowboy
Minority Report
Misery
Modern Times
Mommie Dearest
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moulin Rouge!
My Man Godfrey
Nanook of the North
Natural Born Killers
Network
North by Northwest
Nosferatu
Ocean's Eleven
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali
Paths of Glory
The Philadelphia Story
The Piano
Pink Flamingos
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Pinocchio
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet of the Apes
The Player
The Poseidon Adventure
Pretty Woman
The Princess Bride
The Producers
The Professional [Leon]
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rambo
Rashomon
Real Genius
Rear Window
Reefer Madness
Repulsion
Rio Bravo
The Road to Utopia
Rocky
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Roger & Me
Roman Holdiay
Rope
Rosemary's Baby
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rules of the Game
Run Lola Run
Run Silent, Run Deep
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Schindler's List
Scream
The Searchers
Sense and Sensibility
Seven
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
sex, lies, and videotape
Shadow of a Doubt
Shaft
Shallow Grave
Shane
The Sheik
Shine
Shock Corridor
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin' in the Rain
The Sixth Sense
Slacker
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like it Hot
The Sound of Music
Spider-Man
Spirited Away
Stand by Me
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Trilogy
Straw Dogs
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sullivan's Travels
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Smell of Success
Swingers
Taxi Driver
The Ten Commandments
The Terminator
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This is Spinal Tap
This Man Must Die
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tokyo Story
Toy Story I&II
Traffic
Trainspotting
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Triumph of the Will
Tron
Twelve Angry Men
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
The Verdict
Vertigo
Waking Life
Wall Street
WarGames
Wayne's World
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
When Harry Met Sally
White Heat
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wicker Man
The Wild Bunch
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Witness
The Wizard of Oz

So there it is. A 300 Movie Journey. I have a feeling that this is going to be just as painful as it is interesting and educational. Just looking at these movies I can already tell that over half the movies I am not looking forward to (my loathing of horror movies knows no bounds...) but here we go. As we make our way, let me know how I'm doing, what I am doing well, and what I need to do better. Here we go.

A Journey Through Film

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The LIST