THE OMEN (1976), VIDEODROME (1983)

The Omen

A Couple of Horror movies I just never got around to seeing before...

I heard a lot about The Omen when it came out in 1976. I even got the book (a novelization technically). The book had pictures of the highlights of the movie, like the nanny hanging herself or the priest getting speared or the young devil child Damien looking menacingly into the camera. I also saw clips of most of these scenes on television. But I never got around to seeing the actual movie! I even saw the sequel Damien: Omen II! So The Omen is one of those movies I feel like I've seen even though I've never seen it.

So it was an interesting experience finally watching it, because of my perceived familiarity with it.

 The plot: A well-to-do couple (An ambassador and his wife) lose a baby. The father replaces the baby with an adopted baby without the mother knowing. The problem is is that the replacement child turns out to be the devil incarnate! (What parent hasn't called their unruly child Damien at some point since this movie came out?). It is interesting that the movie is set exclusively in Europe with an American couple...Anyway, weird things start happening. Damien's nanny hangs herself. Damien gets a new nanny who turns out to be in league with Damien. (Doesn't anyone check references anymore?)

Damien does all sorts of satanic things like making mommy fall off a balcony. She survives for the time being only to fall to her death out of the window of her hospital room later. The photographer played by David Warner who supplies exposition and helps dad Gregory Peck discover the truth about Damien is one plot point I didn't know about. The photographer meets with a graphic death (If Damien had the power to kill the photographer when he wasn't even in the same country, why didn't Damien just kill dad to get him out of the way and be done with the whole deal?). But dad does come back and takes Damien to sacrifice him in the local church. The police arrive and kill dad to prevent him from killing Damien. The funeral arrives for mom and dad and Damien stares blankly into the camera.

The Omen is worth seeing for horror fans. I'm not sure it would quite make my 1001 movie book, but if I was listing 100 horror movies you must see before you die, The Omen would be in there somewhere.

Videodrome

I heard about this weird movie called Videodrome when it came out in 1983 and went out with the intention of seeing it. It was playing at Phiipps Plaza in Atlanta, I believe. But I had trouble finding a parking space! So I ended up getting there late and decided not to go see it. Thirty years later I still hadn't seen it...until now.

It's the story of Max (James Woods), who runs a UHF station that shows a lot of strange shit on his channel. He gets hold of a weird pirated program called Videodrome that he plans to show on his channel. He gets involved with a psychiatrist/talk show host played by Debbie Harry that likes sex and likes to play it rough! It turns out Videodrome (the show), is even weirder than Max first thought. It is apparently shot out of Pittsburgh! And is part of a political  movement!

The movie keeps getting weirder and weirder. All that view Videodrome (the show) begin to have strange hallucinations, especially Max whose stomach turns into a VCR presumably to watch more episodes of Videodrome! The movie goes on from there to uncover a big conspiracy that finds that Videodrome is trying to ruthlessly control the hearts and minds of the viewing public...which doesn't sound so sinister when you phrase it that way.

Videodrome (the movie) is something to see if you're looking for something off the beaten path. The real star of Videodrome, (still the movie) has to be Rick Baker, whose pre-CGI special effects are scary, gross, creative and effective. Obviously, the 1001 editors thought so since it is in the 1001 book...

Like The Omen, Videodrome took me awhile to get to, but there you have it, but I don't think it's gotten any easier to find a parking space at Phipps Plaza.

ONIBABA (1964, JAPAN), HOUSE (1977, JAPAN)

Onibaba

One of the reasons I started this blog is because I saw so many videos on our library shelf that were critically acclaimed movies put out by the Criterion Collection, and I wanted a systematic way to watch them and decided to go through the 1001 list. (Didn't realize it would take me years to do it, but that's another story)

First up is the story of Onibaba (The Demon), which is set in the back county of war torn 14th century Japan. A woman and her daughter-in-law are forced through necessity of killing soldiers and selling their body plates or anything else of value on them for scrap. When a local war veteran returns and has eyes for the young woman a conflict arises between the women. 

I tried to recount the plot above of Onibaba and no description feels quite right. It is an odd film, but a beautiful one at the same time. It is also an ugly film when it shows the brutal side of human nature. The plot point with the mask is based on old Buddhist legends and gives the film a slight supernatural twist on top of everything else.

The extras: The most worthwhile extra on the Criterion Disc is the interview with Director Kaneto Shindo who (at age 91) details the use of sex in his film, setting, music, fable, war and black and white photography. It is about 20 minutes and brings a great deal to understanding what he was trying to say with this film. It's also heartening how much he appreciates the DVD medium and bringing his film to a new audience.

When I saw the the new releases for the Criterion Collection one month and a strange Japanese movie titled House was on the list, I decided to order it for the library. That was a couple of years ago and I just now got around to watching it.

It is the story of a group of teenage girls named Gorgeous, Melody, Prof, Sweet, Kung Fu and Mac. (I think I got the names right.) Gorgeous's father is remarrying which has her upset. Then all the girls go on a retreat to a house that they soon discover is haunted. It's told in a very nontraditional manner. Some of the early scenes have elements of wackiness that made me wonder if this was a slapstick comedy or not. The music was interesting, but at times seemed remarkably upbeat for something that was supposed to be creating a scary mood. Once we get to the house, we do find a creepy old lady and her cat and all sorts of weird things start happening accompanied by some (intentionally) cheesy special effects. 

In some ways it's a traditional haunted house story, but in many ways it isn't. I'm not sure who the target audience for this was!

House

The extras:  Forty-five minute interview with director Nobuhiko Obayashi answers a lot of questions I had about the movie and I found it as interesting as the movie itself. Obaysahi talks about his apprenticeship in commercials, difficulty in getting the movie made despite a go-ahead from the studio, his appreciation and rejection of Japanese cinema, who the movie appeals too (Answer: pre-teens), and the how the studio actually being disappointed that the movie was a hit! Best of all is the story of a crew member that searched all day for a screw that was part of the set that the director was looking for. The reason the crew member worked so hard to find that screw, was because Obayashi was the first director ever to call him by his name despite being in the business for many years.

I've called on the Criterion Collection often during my journey through these films, and I by necessity will need to return.

LA NOTTE (1961, ITALY), L'ECLISSE (1962, ITALY), RED DESERT (1964, ITALY)

La Notte

The Michelangelo Antonio starter kit...Before I give my opinions on these films, I'm going to get some bullet points from Gerald Mast, author of my old textbook A Short History of Movies.

1. Antonioni's roots were in neorealism, but he soon deserted this style for a highly polished and stylized drama of personal sensations.

2. Antonioni blurred objective reality and buried the action within the subjective perceptions of the central character.

3. His method involves concentrating as much on the scenic environment as the people in it.

4. His use of modern architecture are metaphors for the  hollowness a character feels at a particular dramatic moment.

5. His characters feel an affinity for white walls which his they go to emphasizing that they are trapped or wall-bound.

6. He trusts visuals over words. Words can be misleading and in Antonioni's world, the characters mostly learn through encounters with the physical world.

L'Eclisse

And there's so much more that has been written on Antonioni! But the bottom line for me is how is the experience of watching them? What do you feel afterwards? They aren't necessarily about something in particular that is easy to grasp and are as good of examples as any of what people think of as European art films. La Notte is probably my favorite of the three films listed on this post. The English title of La Notte (The Night) is appropriate of a film I think of as dark and perhaps shows the dark side of the marriage of the two main characters of the film. Maybe I'm off base, who knows? There is a lot here to think about-the husband's (Marcello Mastroianni) bizarre encounter with an attractive mental patient and how he tells his wife about it..though not  quite telling the whole truth. The contrast of the couple's life with their terminally ill friend and then the party for the pretentious rich and the husband's encounter there with a young lady (Monica Vitti, who is in all of these films) that takes his fancy. But there is resolution and coming to grips with the problems in the film and ends on a more upbeat note than one might think.

L'Eclisse is even less accessible than the others. A woman (Monica Vitti) has one relationship end and quickly gets involved with a player on the stock market (Alain Delon). The wildness, unpredictability and mass of people yelling during of the stock market scenes is nicely contrasted with the scenes with the two potential lovers on the street, where they seem like the only people in the world. My first thought was that why didn't Antonioni hire more extras, but I think he might be making a point about isolation and loneliness here. L'Eclisse is as bright as La Notte is dark, but does anything get resolved? And what about that ending? I can't say I loved sitting through L'Eclisse, but the more I think about it, I may want to watch it again someday...just not today.

Red Desert

Red Desert is the only one of these films to be shot in color and Antonioni uses many vivid colorful images (the yellow poisonous smoke coming from the factory is an obvious example). Most of film uses as backdrop a huge impersonal factory and mighty ships whose strength and size is in contrast to frailness and vulnerability of the human characters, mostly in the woman Guiliani (Monica Vitti, of course) whose past bouts with mental illness aren't nearly as far in the past as she would like people to believe. I like the ending of the story which neatly brings the story full circle...

...And I've come full circle with the all the Antonioni films on the 1001 list. I do like going through some of these director's work watching several pf them back to back. I've still got enough on the list to do this a few more times with other directors, and maybe add some additional films from their respective works.

THE DEAD (1987), ROBOCOP (1987)

1987

Robocop

Robocop-One of the big movie events of 1987 for me was Paul Verhooven's Robocop, the story of a Detroit police officer who is killed (almost) and is revived as a super cyborg cop who cleans up the city. The Wikipedia article on this film points out some of the themes, "media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privitation, capitalism, identity, dystopia and human nature." That's all true, but I would add to this list "really cool scenes where things blow up!" I still like Robocop for many of the reasons stated above after seeing it again, though I can't say the same for Robocop II. But I did like the newer Robocop from 2014. It had the basics elements of the first film, but made enough changes to make it distinctive in its own right. But I'll still go with the original if you're making me choose.

John Huston's The Dead

The Dead-A movie from 1987 where nothing blows up (except for emotions) is John Huston's The Dead, based on a James Joyce story (Robocop is not based on a James Joyce story). You've really got to use the non-Robocop side of your brain to watch The Dead. It has the ring of those Merchant-Ivory films and is a pretty good emotional drama, if you're in the mood for it. If you aren't, just watch Robocop again.

It's not quite like any other John Huston I can remember. But is there a typical John Huston film? From a career that went The Maltese Falcon to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre to The Asphalt Jungle to The Man Who Would Be King to Wise Blood, The Dead represents the last act from one of the most significant directors of the 20th century. 

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Robocop and The Dead both made the list of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, but most movies from that year didn't make the cut. Here are twenty from 1987 that I've seen that didn't quite make have the stuff to make the list.

1. Ishtar
Let's update the old Hope and Crosby road picture film with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty and even get Elaine May to direct! It's a sure hit right? Wrong. You can't remember 1987 movies without thinking of Ishtar, whose very title brings about memories of a Hollywood mega-bomb. But to tell you the truth, I didn't think Ishtar was all that bad. It's amusing, Hoffman is good and the Paul Williams songs are funny. Maybe time for a re-evalutation? Some people seem to like Heaven's Gate now, after all!

C'mon! Give Ishtar another chance!

2. Amazon Women on the Moon, Three Men and a Baby, 
Police Academy 4, The Bedroom Window
In 1987, we just couldn't get enough of Steve Guttenberg, could we?

3. Barfly
I had a friend who really liked to watch this movie in a state of inebriation. And I have to agree, this Charles Bukowski semi-autobiography is a great drunk movie!

4. Beverly Hills Cop II
How to do a sequel essentially making the same movie as the first one all over again, just not as well.

5.Black Widow
Theresa Russell in Black Widow is on the short list of sexiest female leads in film history. She's to die for, which may have even been the tagline of the film. If not, it should have been.

Theresa Russell is The Black Widow

6. Cry Freedom
Little surprised that this Richard Attenborough film about apartheid in South Africa isn't on the 1001 list.

7. Dirty Dancing
Not necessarily a personal favorite, but I might include this on the 1001 list just for it's enduring popularity.

8. Dragnet
Feature film version of the classic television series is notable mostly for Dan Akyroyd's spot on Jack Webb impression throughout the movie. And who among us hasn't referred to an innocent young woman as "the virgin, Connie Swayle" at one time or another?" Or maybe that's just me.
   

9. Ernest Goes to Camp
I'm having second thoughts on whether or not I actually saw Ernest Goes to Camp. I know I saw a couple of the Ernest movies...I'll have to give this some more thought whether or not this was one of them.

10. The Stepfather
Long before he played John Locke on Lost, Terry O'Quinn played in this low budget horror/thriller about a stepfather who resolves disputes within his family by knocking them off and starting a new one! Everyone has there own definition of family values, I guess.

Terry O' Quinn contemplating the pros and cons of
family counseling in The Stepfather

11.  House of Games
Lots of plot twists and turns in this David Mamet film. I admit this was one time I did see the final plot twist coming.

12. Planes, Trains  and Automobiles, Roxanne
A good year for Steve Martin.

13. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
I thought this was a pretty good entry in the series, but by the same token what is the point in having a bad guy that you can't kill no matter what you do him?

14. Overboard
I have never seen this Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell from beginning to end. However, TBS has shown this so much over the years, I think I've pretty much seen it all in parts. Overboard was on so much over the years, it got to be a running joke in my house.

15. Harry and the Hendersons
Who the heck knew Bigfoot was just so darned cute? Thanks for creating those sad eyes, Rick Baker.

That cuddly Bigfoot in
Harry and the Hendersons

16. The Principal
Jim Belushi is the ass kickin' baseball bat wielding motorcycle ridin' head of the school!

17. Predator
The original Predator is pretty good from what I remember as this invisible and unstoppable force that battles future governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.

18. September
Thinking about some of the Woody Allen movies from this period...I kind of get this one mixed up with Another Woman...and what was Alice about again?

19. Assassination/Death Wish 4 The Crackdown
Speaking of September...the films of Charlie Bronson at this point were showing a little wear (And I'm being kind here) as he was reaching the September of his years. But we'll always have Once Upon a Time in the West.

20. The Witches of Eastwick
I remember going to see this movie at the Lefont Plaza theater in Atlanta when it came out. But the thing I remember most about it is the guy sitting in front of me. Every time Cher would appear in a scene, he would gasp as if he had seen the most amazing sight he had ever witnessed! And during the scene where Cher is dressed up for a night on the town, the guy gasped and applauded at the same time as I was sure pretty sure he almost fell out of his seat! At this point, I thought the poor guy might pass out in the sheer ecstasy and have a Chergasm! This was pre-Moonstruck, but I really should have slapped him and said, "Snap out of it!"

The woman who needs no introduction in
The Witches of Eastwick

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGHT (1982), BLADE RUNNER (1982)

1982

"Am I hallucinating here?" Sean Penn and Ray Walston in
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I was in the last stages of being a teenager when Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out. Maybe that's why I still have such an affection for it. This comedy about some urban teenagers trying to live and get through high school is still fun to watch. Most of the characters have their flaws, but are pretty likable for the most part. And we also have characters that we recognize from high school: The unobtainable pretty girl (Linda), the schemer (Damone), and of course, Sean Penn as Spicoli, the stoner. The scenes between Penn and Ray Walston as Mr. Hand are my probably my favorite ones in the film. Character I see relate to the most? Why, the nerdy and socially challenged Mark Ratner, of course!

Stu Nahan appreciation society: Stu Nahan is probably best know to moviegoers as the play-by-play announcer in the Rocky movies. But he is also the guy who interviews Spicoli on the beach in Fast Times. 

Stu, Sean and friends..."Hey, bud let's party!"

And those nude scenes: Yes, any male who watched this movie back in the day certainly remembers when Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) takes off her clothes and seduces Damone (Robert Romanus). Not to mention the fantasy scene of Brad (Judge Reinhold), where Linda (Phoebe Cates) emerges from the pool and takes off her top (Hello...Brad!). But on sober reflection, the first scene ends up with Damone ejaculating immediately, getting Stacy pregnant and going out of his way to avoid paying for her abortion. The second scene ends up with Linda catching Brad in the bathroom masturbating while thinking of  her...Ah, nothing like a little male humiliation upon sober reflection.

Hello, Brad!...Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Blade Runner is based on the sci-fi novel by Phillip K. Dick about a Blade Runner named Deckard that is reluctantly hired to hunt down some refugee replicants that are almost indistinguishable from humans. The entire plot synopsis is put forth in the opening crawl, but the plot isn't the main reason to watch Blade Runner. The main reason to watch it is for the stunning visuals. The sets, the design, the make-up, the costumes, the lighting...all these elements took me to another place like few films have. Absolutely in my book.

The original book asks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a query that is irrelevant to the film Blade Runner as the electric animals of the book play pretty much no part here. But at least they changed they did change the title for the film.

Blade Runner

Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Blade Runner made the 1001 list, but here are some other films released in 1982 that didn't make the 1001 cut.

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Still the gold standard of Star Trek movies for me, not to mention having one of the all-time great movie villains.

The Wrath of Khan
For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!

2. Airplane II
The precise type of humor that the Zuckers and Abrams brought to Airplane! mostly falls flat in this sequel without them.

3. The Verdict
Tailor-made role for Paul Newman as an aging, over-the-hill, alcoholic lawyer who finally gets a shot at a big case.

4. Author Author
I mostly remember this comedy with Al Pacino as being a little on the bland side. Might be worthy of a revisit, though.

5. Liquid Sky
When I first got a VCR, I wanted to check out some off-beat things that you couldn't see easily elsewhere. This movie about space aliens, lesbians and heroin addiction certainly fits the bill and should be at the top of any 80's cult movie list.

Liquid Sky
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll and aliens. What better way
to break in your new VCR?

6. Cat People
Remake of the 40's classic does have a sexy Natassia Kinski, a plot that can be much more adult than the original and the David Bowie theme song which is really the first thing I think of when I think of Cat People.
"Puttin' out fire...with GAS-O-LEENE!"

7. Creepshow
You don't see too many horror feature films anymore that are just a section of vignettes. If I ever did watch this one again, it would mostly be for the section that we get to see Stephen King act!

8. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Black and White film noir comedy with Steve Martin I'm sure is still fun to watch, though I'll bet the then groundbreaking special effects of putting 40's movie stars in the scenes with Steve are officially no longer state of the art. Damn CGI!

9. Deathtrap
Remake of Sleuth, but with Christopher Reeve sort of in the Michael Caine role and Michael Caine in the Laurence Olivier role. Or something like that.

10. The World According to Garp
One of my favorite parts of John Irving's book is T. S. Garp's stories within the main story. You can't really show that in a movie adaptation, but I always have liked what George Roy Hill did with the movie version anyway. I honestly think this is Robin Williams's signature role, though I may be in the minority on that one.

Mr. and Mrs. Garp

11. Lookin’ to Get Out

Before my first trip to Las Vegas, I wanted to watch some movies set in Las Vegas. So I picked this Hal Ashby comedy with Jon Voight and Ann-Margaret...which was universally panned, but not as bad as all that if I remember correctly. Or maybe I was just excited about my Vegas trip and want to go easy on it?

12. My Favorite Year
I liked the depiction in this film of the early years of television and how could you not love Peter O'Toole as an egocentric slumming movie star?

13. Missing
I'm a little surprised this critically acclaimed Costa-Gavras political thriller isn't in the 1001 movie book.

14. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
Woody Allen denied that this film was based on Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, but I can't watch Woody's film without thinking about the Bergman film.

15. Pink Floyd-The Wall
The music of Pink Floyd + Alan Parker + Imagination run wild=One of my favorite midnight movie experiences of that year.

Bob Geldorf does some rearranging
Pink Floyd-The Wall

16. The Man from Snowy River
One day in 1982 I just decided to go see a movie at the theater and picked The Man from Snowy River for no reason in particular. This Australian Western with Kirk Douglas was enjoyable enough from what I remember. Or maybe I just felt a need to balance out my midnight movie excursion with The Wall with a more family oriented film.

17. An Officer and a Gentleman
I liked this movie when I saw it. Then I took a college film class the next year and realized how An Officer and a Gentleman had so sneakily manipulated my emotions! I still don't know what to think about it, though the final scene will always remind me of the similar scene of Homer and Marge in one of the early episodes of The Simpsons.

18. Night Shift
Lighthearted, but not a bad start to Ron Howard's post Happy Days feature film directing career. He also directed a high school TV movie in the 70's called Cotton Candy. I wonder if anyone else remembers that one?

19. Porky’s
This may have been the breaking point where I was getting less enthused about slob sex comedies. It did have some funny moments, but wasn't inspired enough to see Porky's II when it came out.

20. Swamp Thing
Is this the one with Adrienne Barbeau or Heather Locklear? I'm trying to get them straight in my mind.

That's Adrienne Barbeau with
Swamp Thing.

21. Rocky III
Probably the III'rd best Rocky film.

22. The Seduction
Morgan Farichild was never going to be a big movie star. But her poster shall remain on my wall (hypothetically) forever!

23. Personal Best
I went to see this movie for the great reviews it got, not all the buzz about nude scenes and Mariel Hemingway Playboy spreads and such. Well...maybe a little of all of the above. I do remember during the steambath scene, the guy sitting in the seat ahead of me leaned over to his date and whispered, "subtle breasts" when speaking of Ms. Hemingway.

A more "subtle" scene from Personal Best

24. The Atomic Café

Why my dating life wasn't so hot in 1982...

Me: Hey, would you like to go see a movie?

Potential date: Oh, how about Officer and a Gentleman? Or maybe you would prefer to see First Blood?

Me: I was thinking about this movie called The Atomic Cafe. It has all this archival footage from the 50's about military manuevers and how to duck and cover all put together in a narrative whole for a new generation to look back in a historical context at our post nuclear-age paranoia!

Potential date: I think I'm busy tonight, come to think of it.

 (I went to see it by anyway...alone)

And finally...

One Movie I Must See Before I Die Because My Wife Told Me I Needed To:

25. First Blood

I may have seen An Officer and a Gentleman and The Atomic Cafe, but I never got around to seeing First Blood. I never saw any subsequent Rambo movie either (Son of Rambow doesn't count). I"m not much of a fan of Sylvester Stallone action movies in general, but I guess this is one I should see once and I'll try to go into it with an open mind.

The movie starts off promisingly with a Vietnam veteran named John Rambo (Stallone) finding out the last man in his unit has died before drifting aimlessly into a town where he is treated with hostility by local law enforcement. They take him in for no real reason, treat him badly before he escapes and the film quickly turns into a action movie that seems to forget about the roots of Rambo's psychological issues and basically just falls into him just blowing stuff up and causing mayhem as he is being chased into the woods by Brian Dennehy and the rest of the "Jerkwater, USA town" sheriff's department. He's a one man wrecking machine, or so says his former Vietnam Commander (Richard Crenna) who comes along to see if he can save the authorities from Rambo (and not the other way around, as he puts it). At this point, some local reserves presumably kill Rambo, but of course he isn't really dead and decides to make sure everyone knows this by stealing a truck and blowing lots more stuff up! Rambo finally has some dialogue at the end of the movie when he tells us about how he was never able to fit in since returning from the 'Nam (I liked Stallone in this scene, got to give him credit). He is then talked into turning himself in by his old commander and the end credits roll.

The movie does have overtones of Billy Jack., which also had a soft spoken Vietnam Vet who had a tendency to be provoked into violence.

Well I'm glad to have finished that short movie list of one.

October, 2015-finally saw a Rambo movie.

THE LAST METRO (1980, FRANCE), CADDYSHACK (1980)

1980

I'm actually not sure when I started watching foreign language films. I guess 1980 (my high school graduation year) might me a good estimate as place to land with a time frame as any. I saw a few French or Italian films around this time and don't remember feeling any great initial degree of difficulty. I definitely don't think about it these days when I watch a movie with subtitles, but I still come across people all the time at the library who tell me they can't deal with reading subtitles while they watch a movie. Here's my advice to them that I want to say and never do: Move your eyes from subtitles to picture to subtitles to picture to subtitles to picture and just keep repeating the process. It's not that hard. You too can do it!

While I'm on that topic the first movie I watched for today's blog is Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro. The story is about theatrical performers in a French during the Nazi occupation. It combines complex human emotions with the greater threat surrounding them all. It is a worthwhile and well done film, but I keep comparing it to Lubitsh's To Be or Not Be, which few films can live up to in my book.

The Last Metro

Before you start thinking I'm a foreign-language-reading-movie-snob, another of my favorite movies from this year is the comedy Caddyshack. But am I seeing this trough a lens that is a bit biased toward the time it came out?  Let's see-Bill Murray as Carl the groundskeeper looking for that varmit gopher and dreaming of playing at Augusta. How many of us have quoted this lines "Cinderella story...It's in the hole!" more than a few times. We also have Chevy Chase in possibly his best role as an eccentric club member, but it's Rodney Dangerfield that really steals the show as the obnoxious, Al Czerbik who is a constant thorn in the side of club regular Ted Knight. I can understand some not liking it (My wife said she thought it was pretty stupid when we went to a local showing a few weeks ago), but it's in the hole for me. And come on, isn't the rogue candy bar scene a classic even for naysayers?

Caddyshack

Caddyshack did not make the 1001 list and here are other films from 1980 that I have seen that also didn't make the 1001 cut.

1. Altered States
Rumor has it that screenwriter Paddy Chaevsky hated this adaptation of his story so much that it ultimately led to the heart-attack that killed him! I actually like it, but I may have been partaking in a foreign substance that may have enhanced my viewing pleasure the last time I saw it many, many years ago now. 

William Hurt in the trippy, trippy, trippy Altered States

2. Alligator

B-movie classic about a baby alligator that is flushed down the toilet only to re-emerge and rage havoc throughout the city. Those urban legends really do have great dramatic possibilities!

3. 9 to 5
When I first saw this movie I actually felt sorry for the chauvinistic boss played by Dabney Coleman. I really don't think that was the point, but the guy is just so damn charming!

4. Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can
One hit and one miss in 1980 for Clint Eastwood

5. The Gods Must Be Crazy
Bushman finds Coke bottle that is thrown out of a plane ultimately causing great dissension in his tribe. He tries to go to the end of the earth to throw it off. One of the all-time great cult movies and should definitely be on the 1001 list.

Nixau! and his new discovery in
The Gods Must Be Crazy

6. The Blue Lagoon

Yes, I've seen The Blue Lagoon, the story of a boy and Brooke Shields stranded and growing up and in love together. It's not really good enough to be memorable for me, but not bad enough to be too horribly cheesy either. So don't see a retro viewing of this one in my future.

7.The Blues Brothers
Yes, I remember the Blue Brothers Saturday Night Live skit. Yes, I owned The Blues Brothers album. But if I'm choosing between the Blues Brothers movie and Caddyshack, I'm going with Caddyshack.

8. Can’t Stop the Music
The Village People, Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner!
How can you possibly stop that music?

No matter how hard you try, you just can't stop the music

9. Coal Miner’s Daughter
I can't say I'm much of a Loretta Lynn fan, but this movie made me a Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn fan.

10. The Jazz Singer
Having Neil Diamond star in a remake of the old Al Jolson movie probably seemed like a good idea at the time...At least they're some good songs on the soundtrack.

The Jazz Singer "You are not my son!"

11. Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma does borrow heavily from Hitchcock's Psycho for this one, but it's distinctive enough on it's own and it would be in my book.

12. Flash Gordon
All right, Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless! That's great! Now now who's going to play Flash? Sam Jones! Sam Jones? Who the hell is Sam Jones?
Well, like The Jazz Singer, let's at least enjoy the songs on the soundtrack.

13. Friday the 13^th
 The first in the seemingly never ending series about Jason the killer with the machete and the hockey mask. I think I saw the first two in this series and that was about it.

14.Inside Moves
Movie about a bunch of guys with different types of physical disabilities hanging out and just trying to get through life seemed to get some positive reviews at the time, only to drop off anyone's radar quickly after that.

15. Mother’s Day
I saw this slasher movie when I was a Freshman in college and thought it was pretty kooky and crazy and worth seeing. A couple of reviews I've seen on it lately has made me think I shouldn't go back and watch it and potentially spoil my good vibes from it.

My viewing of Mother's Day seemed like a good thing
 two lifetimes ago

16. Melvin and Howard
Melvin Dumar did not pick up Howard Hughes hitchhiking. Howard Hughes did not sing Melvin Dumar's song. Howard Hughes did not leave a pot of money to Melvin Dumar. If you can accept these facts, sit back and enjoy this very entertaining, but fictional movie.

17. Little Darlings
Even seeing this as a teenager, I thought the story of two girls wagering on who could lose their virginity at summer camp had little appeal for me. But I did watch it, I guess just because it was on!

18. When Time Ran Out
If Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and Airport '79 didn't kill the 70's disaster movie, When Time Ran Out certainly finished the job. 

19. Serial
I liked this comedy about California residents who...let's see...what happens it this again? It's been thirty-five years. I remember Martin Mull and Tuesday Weld were about the only sane ones in the film and Christopher Lee rode in a gay motorcycle gang. In fact, there are a couple of gay jokes in this movie that seemed funny at the time that people wouldn't laugh at today. I'd still like to revisit this one. 

20.The Return of the King
If Peter Jackson's Return of the King can make the 1001 list, why not some love for the Rankin-Bass version? You got to pay attention to an animated film that has the vocal stylings of Orson Bean, John Huston, Roddy McDowell, William Conrad, Theodor Bikel and Glenn Yarborough as the Minstrel!

Frodo of the Four Fingers in Return of the King

21. Stardust Memories
Between his fruitful 70's and 80's periods, Woody Allen put out a couple of less than stirring films that were a bit pretentious and narcissistic. Stardust Memories was one of them. Re-evaluation time, maybe?

22. Oh, God Book II
I thought the original Oh, God with George Burns and John Denver was a pleasant film with a lot of charm. Oh, God Book II was essentially a remake with a little girl in the John Denver role. But that's what sequels often do, don't they?

23. Superman II
Still might be my favorite superhero movie of all-time. How can you beat Zod as a bad guy?

24. Up the Academy
After I watched National Lampoon's Animal House at least a dozen times, I had high expectations for their next film, National Lampoon's Up the Academy. Let's just say I've only seen that one once.

25. Xanadu
On the plus side, there are a couple of good ELO songs, there is Gene Kelly, Olivia Newton-John looks fantastic and the I'm Alive scene with all the muses is pretty good.  Other than that, it's freakin' Xanadu!

Olivia in Xanadu

1001: A FILM ODYSSEY (2015 UPDATE)

            

I can't believe it's been six years since I started doing this movie blog and I've....I've...still got a ways to go. I've enjoyed doing it and assume I will continue to, but I honestly didn't think I was going on a pace that might take me ten total years to finish! (Ah, 2019, are you really so far away?)

Anyway, the latest edition (6th, if you are scoring at home) has ten more titles and brings the total number of films to 1175 (if you are still scoring at home) or 1177 if you want to count Ivan the Terrible or Olympia in parts. You could also count the Lord of the Rings trilogy or The Toy Story Trilogy as one movie or three...and I'm thinking about this too much (And you can stop scoring at home now).

By my count, I've seen 773 out of these 1175 listings which comes out to about 2/3 that I've completed and about 400 or so left to go...My calculations may be a bit off...but if I was better with numbers, I'd be doing a quantum mechanics blog instead of this one!

I'd like to thank others with blogs on this subject that show me I'm not alone (you know who you are...at least I hope you know who you are!), my family (Especially my wife, who I can picture now rolling her eyes as she asks me as I'm watching television, "Is this another one of your book movies?"), my friends (Though, interestingly, I have less of these since I started doing this blog), and my pets (Though interestingly, I have more of these since I started doing this blog.)

So it's back to the movies I go...But do I really have to sit through all of The Mother and the Whore? And that experimental film that just stares at a tree for two hours? Do I really have to see that one too? And I've started Les Vampires about three times...might have to save that six hour silent epic for last. And Pink Flamingos? I got to see that one again? But there are still a lot of titles on the list I look forward to visiting or re-visiting.

             

Movies (numbered) I have seen from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Books since I started this blog in 2009

                             1.            A Trip to the Moon (1902) 1

                             2.            The Great Train Robbery (1903) 2

                             3.            The Birth of a Nation (1915) 3

                             4.            Les Vampires (1915)

                             5.            Intolerance (1916) 4

                             6.            The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) 5

                             7.            Broken Blossoms (1919)

                             8.            Way Down East (1920)

                             9.            Within Our Gates (1920) 6

                         10.            The Phantom Carriage (1921) 7

                         11.            Orphans of the Storm (1921)

                         12.            The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)

                         13.            Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 (1922)

                         14.            Nanook of the North (1922) 8

                         15.            Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror(1922) 9

                         16.            Haxan (1923) 10

                         17.            Foolish Wives (1922)

                         18.            Our Hospitality (1923) 11

                         19.            The Wheel (1923)

                         20.            The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

                         21.            Strike (1924)

                         22.            Greed (1924)

                         23.            Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 12

                         24.            The Last Laugh (1924) 13

                         25.            The Great White Silence (1925)

                         26.            Seven Chances (1925) 14

                         27.            The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 15

                         28.            The Battleship Potemkin (1925) 16

                         29.            The Gold Rush (1925) 17

                         30.            The Big Parade (1925)

                         31.            The Eagle (1925) 18

                         32.            The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

                         33.            Metropolis (1927) 19

                         34.            Sunrise (1927) 20

                         35.            The General (1927) 21

                         36.            The Unknown (1927) 22

                         37.            October (1927)

                         38.            The Jazz Singer (1927) 23

                         39.            Napoleon (1927)

                         40.            The Kid Brother (1927) 24

                         41.            The Crowd (1928)

                         42.            The Docks of New York (1928)

                         43.            An Andalusian Dog (1928) 25

                         44.            The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 26

                         45.            Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 27

                         46.            Storm over Asia (1928)

                         47.            Blackmail (1929) 28

                         48.            The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) 29

                         49.            Pandora's Box (1929) 30

                         50.            A Throw of Dice (1929)

                         51.            The Blue Angel (1930) 31

                         52.            The Age Of Gold (1930) 32

                         53.            Earth (1930)

                         54.            Little Caesar (1930) 33

                         55.            All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

                         56.            Freedom For Us (1931) 34

                         57.            The Million (1931) 35

                         58.            Tabu (1931)

                         59.            Dracula (1931) 36

                         60.            Frankenstein (1931) 37

                         61.            City Lights (1931) 38

                         62.            The Public Enemy (1931) 39

                         63.            M (1931) 40

                         64.            The Bitch (1931)

                         65.            Limite (1931)

                         66.            Vampyr (1932) 41

                         67.            Love Me Tonight (1932) 42

                         68.            Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) 43

                         69.            I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

                         70.            Trouble in Paradise (1932)

                         71.            Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation (1932) 44

                         72.            Shanghai Express (1932)

                         73.            Freaks (1932) 45

                         74.            Me and My Gal (1932)

                         75.            Zero for Conduct (1933) 46

                         76.            42nd Street (1933) 47

                         77.            Footlight Parade (1933) 48

                         78.            Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 49

                         79.            She Done Him Wrong (1933) 50

                         80.            Duck Soup (1933) 51

                         81.            Queen Christina (1933)

                         82.            Land Without Bread (1933)

                         83.            King Kong (1933) 52

                         84.            The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

                         85.            Sons of the Desert (1933) 53

                         86.            It's a Gift (1934) 54

                         87.            Triumph of the Will (1934)

                         88.            L'Atalante (1934) 55

                         89.            The Black Cat (1934) 56

                         90.            Judge Priest (1934) 57

                         91.            It Happened One Night (1934) 58

                         92.            The Thin Man (1934) 59

                         93.            The Goddess (1934)

                         94.            Captain Blood (1935) 60

                         95.            Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 61

                         96.            A Night at the Opera (1935) 62

                         97.            The 39 Steps (1935) 63

                         98.            Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 64

                         99.            Top Hat (1935) 65

                    100.            Peter Ibbertson (1935)

                    101.            A Day in the Country (1936) 66

                    102.            Modern Times (1936) 67

                    103.            Swing Time (1936) 68

                    104.            My Man Godfrey (1936) 69

                    105.            Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 70

                    106.            Camille (1936) 71

                    107.            Sabotage (1936) 72

                    108.            Dodsworth (1936) 73

                    109.            Things to Come (1936) 74

                    110.            The Story of a Cheat (1936) 75

                    111.            Captains Courageous (1937) 76

                    112.            Midnight Song (1937)

                    113.            Grand Illusion (1937) 77

                    114.            Stella Dallas (1937)

                    115.            The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

                    116.            Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) 78

                    117.            Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 79

                    118.            The Awful Truth (1937) 80

                    119.            Pepe Le Moko (1937) 81

                    120.            Jezebel (1938) 82

                    121.            The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 83

                    122.            Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 84

                    123.            Olympia (1938)

                    124.            The Baker's Wife (1938)

                    125.            Bringing Up Baby (1938) 85

                    126.            The Lady Vanishes (1938) 86

                    127.            Stagecoach (1939) 87

                    128.            The Story of the Late Chrysanthemum (1939)

                    129.            Babes in Arms (1939)

                    130.            Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 88

                    131.            The Wizard of Oz (1939) 89

                    132.            Destry Rides Again (1939) 90

                    133.            Only Angels Have Wings (1939) 91

                    134.            Gone With the Wind (1939) 92

                    135.            Daybreak (1939)

                    136.            Gunga Din (1939) 93

                    137.            Ninotchka (1939) 94

                    138.            The Rules of the Game (1939)

                    139.            Wuthering Heights (1939) 95

                    140.            His Girl Friday (1940) 96

                    141.            Rebecca (1940) 97

                    142.            Fantasia (1940) 98

                    143.            The Philadelphia Story (1940) 99

                    144.            The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 100

                    145.            Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 101

                    146.            Pinocchio (1940) 102

                    147.            The Mortal Storm (1940) 103

                    148.            The Bank Dick (1940) 104

                    149.            Citizen Kane (1941) 105

                    150.            The Lady Eve (1941) 106

                    151.            The Wolf Man (1941) 107

                    152.            The Maltese Falcon (1941) 108

                    153.            Sergeant York (1941) 109

                    154.            Dumbo (1941) 110

                    155.            High Sierra (1941) 111

                    156.            Sullivan's Travels (1941) 112

                    157.            How Green Was My Valley (1941) 113

                    158.            The Palm Beach Story (1942) 114

                    159.            Now, Voyager (1942) 115

                    160.            Casablanca (1942) 116

                    161.            To Be or Not to Be (1942) 117

                    162.            Cat People (1942) 118

                    163.            The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 119

                    164.            Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) 120

                    165.            Mrs. Miniver (1942) 121

                    166.            Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) 122

                    167.            Fires Were Started (1943)

                    168.            The Man in Grey (1943) 123

                    169.            The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 124

                    170.            I Walked with a Zombie (1943) 125

                    171.            The Seventh Victim (1943)

                    172.            The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 126

                    173.            Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 127

                    174.            Ossessione (1943)

                    175.            Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 128

                    176.            To Have and Have Not (1944) 129

                    177.            Laura (1944) 130

                    178.            Gaslight (1944) 131

                    179.            Henry V (1944)

                    180.            Ivan the Terrible, Parts One and Two (1944)

                    181.            Double Indemnity (1944) 132

                    182.            Murder, My Sweet (1944) 133

                    183.            The Battle of San Pietro (1945) 134

                    184.            Spellbound (1945) 135

                    185.            Mildred Pierce (1945) 136

                    186.            The Children of Paradise (1945) 137

                    187.            Open City (1945) 138

                    188.            The Lost Weekend (1945) 139

                    189.            Detour (1945) 140

                    190.            I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) 141

                    191.            The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 142

                    192.            Brief Encounter (1946) 143

                    193.            Paisan (1946) 144

                    194.            The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 145

                    195.            My Darling Clementine (1946) 146

                    196.            The Stranger (1946) 147

                    197.            Beauty and the Beast (1946) 148

                    198.            The Big Sleep (1946) 149

                    199.            The Killers (1946) 150

                    200.            A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 151

                    201.            Great Expectations (1946) 152

                    202.            Notorious (1946) 153

                    203.            Black Narcissus (1946) 154

                    204.            It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 155

                    205.            Gilda (1946) 156

                    206.            Monsieur Verdoux (1947) 157

                    207.            Out of the Past (1947) 158

                    208.            The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) 159

                    209.            Odd Man Out (1947) 160

                    210.            The Bicycle Thief (1948) 161

                    211.            Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

                    212.            Secret Beyond the Door (1948) 162

                    213.            Force of Evil (1948) 163

                    214.            Spring in a Small Town (1948)

                    215.            Red River (1948) 164

                    216.            Rope (1948) 165

                    217.            The Snake Pit (1948) 166

                    218.            The Lady from Shanghai (1948) 167

                    219.            The Paleface (1948) 168

                    220.            The Red Shoes (1948) 169

                    221.            The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 170

                    222.            Louisiana Story (1948) 171

                    223.            The Heiress (1949) 172

                    224.            Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 173

                    225.            Gun Crazy (1949)

                    226.            Adam's Rib (1949) 174

                    227.            Whiskey Galore! (1949)

                    228.            White Heat (1949) 175

                    229.            The Reckless Moment (1949)

                    230.            The Third Man (1949) 176

                    231.            On the Town (1949) 177

                    232.            Orpheus (1949)

                    233.            The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 178

                    234.            Rashomon (1950) 179

                    235.            Winchester '73 (1950) 180

                    236.            Rio Grande (1950) 181

                    237.            All About Eve (1950) 182

                    238.            Sunset Blvd. (1950) 183

                    239.            Los Olvidados (1950)

                    240.            In a Lonely Place (1950) 184

                    241.            Ace in the Hole (1951) 185

                    242.            A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 186

                    243.            Strangers on a Train (1951) 187

                    244.            The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 188

                    245.            Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

                    246.            The African Queen (1951) 189

                    247.            Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

                    248.            An American in Paris (1951) 190

                    249.            A Place in the Sun (1951)

                    250.            The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 191

                    251.            The Quiet Man (1952) 192

                    252.            Forbidden Games (1952) 193

                    253.            Angel Face (1952) 194

                    254.            Singin' in the Rain (1952) 195

                    255.            Ikiru (1952)

                    256.            Europa '51 (1952)

                    257.            The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) 196

                    258.            The Big Sky (1952)

                    259.            High Noon (1952) 197

                    260.            Umberto D (1952)

                    261.            The Golden Coach (1952)

                    262.            The Bigamist (1953) 198

                    263.            The Band Wagon (1953) 199

                    264.            Madame De… (1953)

                    265.            From Here to Eternity (1953) 200

                    266.            Tokyo Story (1953) 201

                    267.            Roman Holiday (1953) 202

                    268.            Wages of Fear (1953) 203

                    269.            The Naked Spur (1953) 204

                    270.            Pickup on South Street (1953) 205

                    271.            Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 206

                    272.            The Big Heat (1953) 207

                    273.            Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) 208

                    274.            Voyage in Italy (1953) 209

                    275.            Tales of Ugetsu (1953) 210

                    276.            Shane (1953) 211

                    277.            Beat the Devil (1953) 212

                    278.            Summer with Monika (1953) 213

                    279.            Johnny Guitar (1954) 214

                    280.            On the Waterfront (1954) 215

                    281.            Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 216

                    282.            Les Diaboliques (1954) 217

                    283.            Animal Farm (1954) 218

                    284.            Rear Window (1954) 219

                    285.            A Star Is Born (1954)

                    286.            The Barefoot Contessa (1954) 220

                    287.            La Strada (1954) 221

                    288.            The Seven Samurai (1954) 222

                    289.            Senso (1954)

                    290.            Silver Lode (1954) 223

                    291.            Carmen Jones (1954) 224

                    292.            Sansho the Baliff (1954) 225

                    293.            Salt of the Earth (1954)

                    294.            Artists and Models (1955)

                    295.            Guys and Dolls (1955) 226

                    296.            Pather Panchali (1955)

                    297.            Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 227

                    298.            The Mad Masters (1955)

                    299.            Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (1955)

                    300.            The Ladykillers (1955) 228

                    301.            Marty (1955) 229

                    302.            Ordet (1955) 230

                    303.            Bob the Gambler (1955) 231

                    304.            Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 232

                    305.            The Man from Laramie (1955)

                    306.            Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 233

                    307.            The Phenix City Story (1955)

                    308.            Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) 234

                    309.            Night and Fog (1955) 235

                    310.            The Night of the Hunter (1955) 236

                    311.            The Sins of Lola Montes (1955)

                    312.            The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 237

                    313.            Oklahoma! (1955) 238

                    314.            Forbidden Planet (1956) 239

                    315.            The Burmese Harp (1956) 240

                    316.            The Searchers (1956) 241

                    317.            A Man Escaped (1956) 242

                    318.            Written on the Wind (1956)

                    319.            The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 243

                    320.            Giant (1956)

                    321.            All That Heaven Allows (1956) 244

                    322.            Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 245

                    323.            The Wrong Man (1956)

                    324.            Bigger Than Life (1956)

                    325.            High Society (1956)

                    326.            The Ten Commandments (1956) 246

                    327.            12 Angry Men (1957) 247

                    328.            The Seventh Seal (1957) 248

                    329.            An Affair to Remember (1957) 249

                    330.            Wild Strawberries (1957) 250

                    331.            The Nights of Cabiria (1957)

                    332.            Throne of Blood (1957) 251

                    333.            The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

                    334.            The Unvanquished (1957)

                    335.            Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) 252

                    336.            The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 253

                    337.            Mother India (1957)

                    338.            The Cranes Are Flying (1957) 254

                    339.            Paths of Glory (1957) 255

                    340.            Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 256

                    341.            Man of the West (1958) 257

                    342.            Touch of Evil (1958) 258

                    343.            Cairo Station (1958) 259

                    344.            Gigi (1958) 260

                    345.            The Defiant Ones (1958) 261

                    346.            Vertigo (1958) 262

                    347.            Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 263

                    348.            Horror of Dracula (1958) 264

                    349.            My Uncle (1958)

                    350.            The Music Room (1958)

                    351.            Some Came Running (1958) 265

                    352.            The 400 Blows (1959) 266

                    353.            North by Northwest (1959) 267

                    354.            Some Like It Hot (1959) 268

                    355.            Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 269

                    356.            Eyes without a Face (1959) 270

                    357.            Ride Lonesome (1959) 271

                    358.            Black Orpheus (1959) 272

                    359.            Shadows (1959) 273

                    360.            The World of Apu (1959)

                    361.            Breathless (1959) 274

                    362.            Ben-Hur (1959)

                    363.            Pickpocket (1959)

                    364.            Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) 275

                    365.            Rio Bravo (1959) 276

                    366.            The Hole (1959)

                    367.            Floating Weeds (1959) 277

                    368.            Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

                    369.            La Dolce Vita (1960)

                    370.            Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 278

                    371.            Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

                    372.            The Adventure (1960) 279

                    373.            The Young One (1960)

                    374.            The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)

                    375.            The Housemaid (1960)

                    376.            Psycho (1960) 280

                    377.            Black Sunday (1960) 281

                    378.            Peeping Tom (1960) 282

                    379.            The Apartment (1960) 283

                    380.            Spartacus (1960) 284

                    381.            Splendor in the Grass (1961)

                    382.            Last Year at Marienbad (1961) 285

                    383.            The Pier (1961) 286

                    384.            One-Eyed Jacks (1961) 287

                    385.            Lola (1961)

                    386.            Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) 288

                    387.            La Notte (1961) 289

                    388.            Jules and Jim (1961) 290

                    389.            Viridiana (1961)

                    390.            The Ladies Man (1961)

                    391.            Through a Glass Darkly (1961) 291

                    392.            Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

                    393.            The Hustler (1961)

                    394.            West Side Story (1961) 292

                    395.            The Exiles (1961)

                    396.            A Dog's Life (1962)

                    397.            Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

                    398.            Dog Star Man (1962)

                    399.            An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 293

                    400.            L’Eclisse (1962) 294

                    401.            Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

                    402.            To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 295

                    403.            The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

                    404.            Lolita (1962) 296

                    405.            Keeper of Promises (1962)

                    406.            The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 297

                    407.            What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 298

                    408.            My Life to Live (1962) 299

                    409.            Heaven and Earth Magic (1962) 300

                    410.            The Exterminating Angel (1962)

                    411.            The Birds (1963) 301

                    412.            The Nutty Professor (1963)

                    413.            Blonde Cobra (1963) 302

                    414.            The Cool World (1963)

                    415.            8 1/2 (1963) 303

                    416.            Passenger (1963)

                    417.            Contempt (1963) 304

                    418.            Hud (1963)

                    419.            Winter Light (1963) 305

                    420.            Flaming Creatures (1963) 306

                    421.            The Great Escape (1963)

                    422.            Shock Corridor (1963) 307

                    423.            The Leopard (1963) 308

                    424.            Barren Lives (1963)

                    425.            Mediteranee (1963)

                    426.            The House is Black (1963)

                    427.            The Haunting (1963) 309

                    428.            An Actor's Revenge (1963)

                    429.            The Servant (1963)

                    430.            Goldfinger (1964) 310

                    431.            Scorpio Rising (1964) 311

                    432.            The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) 312

                    433.            Marnie (1964) 313

                    434.            My Fair Lady (1964) 314

                    435.            Woman in the Dunes (1964) 315

                    436.            Dr. Strangelove (1964) 316

                    437.            A Hard Day's Night (1964) 317

                    438.            The Red Desert (1964) 318

                    439.            Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) 319

                    440.            The Masque of the Red Death (1964) 320

                    441.            Before the Revolution (1964)

                    442.            Gertrud (1964) 321

                    443.            The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)

                    444.            Black God, White Devil (1964)

                    445.            The Demon (1964) 322

                    446.            Mary Poppins (1964)

                    447.            Vinyl (1965) 323

                    448.            The Shop on Main Street (1965) 324

                    449.            Doctor Zhivago (1965) 325

                    450.            The War Game (1965) 326

                    451.            Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

                    452.            The Battle of Algiers (1965) 327

                    453.            The Sound of Music (1965)

                    454.            The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

                    455.            Alphaville (1965) 328

                    456.            Chimes at Midnight (1965)

                    457.            Repulsion (1965) 329

                    458.            Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

                    459.            Pierrot Goes Wild (1965) 330

                    460.            Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill! (1965) 331

                    461.            The Golden Thread (1965)

                    462.            The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965)

                    463.            Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) 332

                    464.            Blowup (1966) 333

                    465.            The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) 334

                    466.            Daisies (1966) 335

                    467.            Come Drink with Me (1966)

                    468.            Seconds (1966) 336

                    469.            Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

                    470.            Persona (1966) 337

                    471.            Masculine-Feminine (1966) 338

                    472.            Balthazar (1966) 339

                    473.            In the Heat of the Night (1967) 340

                    474.            Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) 341

                    475.            The Graduate (1967) 342

                    476.            Playtime (1967) 343

                    477.            Report (1967) 344

                    478.            Hombre (1967) 345

                    479.            Belle de Jour (1967)

                    480.            The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) 346

                    481.            Week End (1967) 347

                    482.            Le Samourai (1967) 348

                    483.            Cool Hand Luke (1967) 349

                    484.            Point Blank (1967) 350

                    485.            Wavelength (1967) 351

                    486.            Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 352

                    487.            The Red and the White (1967)

                    488.            Marketa Lazarova (1967) 353

                    489.            The Jungle Book (1967) 354

                    490.            The Fireman's Ball (1967)

                    491.            Earth Entranced (1967)

                    492.            Closely Watched Trains (1967) 355

                    493.            Vij (1967)

                    494.            The Cow (1968)

                    495.            Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 356

                    496.            Planet of the Apes (1968) 357

                    497.            Faces (1968) 358

                    498.            Rosemary's Baby (1968) 359

                    499.            If… (1968)

                    500.            Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

                    501.            The Producers (1968) 360

                    502.            David Holzman's Diary (1968) 361

                    503.            Shame (1968) 362

                    504.            2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 363

                    505.            Hour of the Wolf (1968) 364

                    506.            Targets (1968) 365

                    507.            Night of the Living Dead (1968) 366

                    508.            My Night with Maud (1969)

                    509.            Lucia (1969)

                    510.            A Touch of Zen (1969)

                    511.            Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 367

                    512.            Midnight Cowboy (1969) 368

                    513.            Satyricon (1969) 369

                    514.            Z (1969) 370

                    515.            The Conformist (1969)

                    516.            Easy Rider (1969) 371

                    517.            High School (1969)

                    518.            In the Year of the Pig (1969)

                    519.            The Wild Bunch (1969) 372

                    520.            Andrei Rublev (1969)

                    521.            The Butcher (1969) 373

                    522.            The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 374

                    523.            Kes (1969)

                    524.            Tristana (1970) 375

                    525.            Five Easy Pieces (1970) 376

                    526.            El Topo (1970)

                    527.            Woodstock (1970) 377

                    528.            Deep End (1970)

                    529.            The Spider's Stratagem (1970)

                    530.            Little Big Man (1970) 378

                    531.            The Ear (1970) 379

                    532.            Patton (1970) 380

                    533.            M*A*S*H (1970) 381

                    534.            Performance (1970) 382

                    535.            Gimme Shelter (1970) 383

                    536.            Zabriskie Point (1970) 384

                    537.            The Bird with The Crystal Plumage (1970) 385

                    538.            The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

                    539.            Wanda (1971)

                    540.            W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

                    541.            A Clockwork Orange (1971) 386

                    542.            The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) 387

                    543.            Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) 388

                    544.            McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) 389

                    545.            Walkabout (1971) 390

                    546.            Klute (1971) 391

                    547.            Harold and Maude (1971) 392

                    548.            Red Psalm (1971)

                    549.            Get Carter (1971)

                    550.            The French Connection (1971) 393

                    551.            Shaft (1971) 394

                    552.            Dirty Harry (1971) 395

                    553.            Murmur of the Heart (1971)

                    554.            Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

                    555.            The Last Picture Show (1971) 396

                    556.            Straw Dogs (1971)

                    557.            Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

                    558.            The Devils (1971)

                    559.            The Hired Hand (1971)

                    560.            Wake in Fright (1971)

                    561.            The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

                    562.            Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

                    563.            Cabaret (1972) 397

                    564.            Last Tango in Paris (1972)

                    565.            High Plains Drifter (1972) 398

                    566.            Sleuth (1972)

                    567.            Deliverance (1972) 399

                    568.            Solaris (1972) 400

                    569.            The Godfather (1972) 401

                    570.            Cries and Whispers (1972) 402

                    571.            Fat City (1972)

                    572.            The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

                    573.            The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)

                    574.            Frenzy (1972)

                    575.            Pink Flamingos (1972)

                    576.            Superfly (1972)

                    577.            The Sting (1973) 403

                    578.            The Mother and the Whore (1973)

                    579.            Badlands (1973) 404

                    580.            American Graffiti (1973) 405

                    581.            Papillon (1973)

                    582.            Enter the Dragon (1973) 406

                    583.            Mean Streets (1973) 407

                    584.            The Long Goodbye (1973) 408

                    585.            The Wicker Man (1973)

                    586.            Day for Night (1973) 409

                    587.            Don't Look Now (1973) 410

                    588.            Sleeper (1973) 411

                    589.            Serpico (1973) 412

                    590.            The Exorcist (1973) 413

                    591.            Turkish Delight (1973)

                    592.            The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

                    593.            Fantastic Planet (1973) 414

                    594.            Amarcord (1973)

                    595.            The Harder They Come (1973) 415

                    596.            F is for Fake (1973) 416

                    597.            Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

                    598.            Dersu Uzala (1974) 417

                    599.            The Conversation (1974) 418

                    600.            The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 419

                    601.            The Mirror (1974)

                    602.            A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 420

                    603.            Young Frankenstein (1974) 421

                    604.            Chinatown (1974) 422

                    605.            Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

                    606.            Blazing Saddles (1974) 423

                    607.            The Godfather Part II (1974) 424

                    608.            Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 425

                    609.            Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) 426

                    610.            The Towering Inferno (1974) 427

                    611.            Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 428

                    612.            One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 429

                    613.            Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

                    614.            The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 430

                    615.            The Wall (1975)

                    616.            Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 431

                    617.            Barry Lyndon (1975) 432

                    618.            Fox and His Friends (1975)

                    619.            India Song (1975)

                    620.            Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

                    621.            Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)

                    622.            Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 433

                    623.            Nashville (1975) 434

                    624.            Cria! (1975)

                    625.            The Travelling Players (1975)

                    626.            Jaws (1975) 435

                    627.            The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

                    628.            Carrie (1976) 436

                    629.            The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 437

                    630.            All the President's Men (1976) 438

                    631.            Rocky (1976) 439

                    632.            Taxi Driver (1976) 440

                    633.            Network (1976) 441

                    634.            The Ascent (1976) 442

                    635.            In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 443

                    636.            1900 (1976)

                    637.            The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) 444

                    638.            Star Wars (1977) 445

                    639.            Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 446

                    640.            The Last Wave (1977) 447

                    641.            Annie Hall (1977) 448

                    642.            Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)

                    643.            Stroszek (1977)

                    644.            Man of Marble (1977)

                    645.            Saturday Night Fever (1977) 449

                    646.            Killer of Sheep (1977)

                    647.            Eraserhead (1977) 450

                    648.            Ceddo (1977)

                    649.            The American Friend (1977)

                    650.            The Hills Have Eyes (1977) 451

                    651.            Soldier of Orange (1977)

                    652.            Suspiria (1977) 452

                    653.            Sleeping Dogs (1977)

                    654.            The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

                    655.            Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

                    656.            The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

                    657.            The Deer Hunter (1978) 453

                    658.            Grease (1978) 454

                    659.            Days of Heaven (1978) 455

                    660.            Dawn of the Dead (1978) 456

                    661.            Shaolin Master Killer (1978)

                    662.            Up in Smoke (1978) 457

                    663.            Halloween (1978) 458

                    664.            The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

                    665.            Real Life (1979)

                    666.            My Brilliant Career (1979) 459

                    667.            Stalker (1979)

                    668.            Alien (1979) 460

                    669.            Breaking Away (1979) 461

                    670.            The Tin Drum (1979)

                    671.            All That Jazz (1979) 462

                    672.            Being There (1979) 463

                    673.            Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 464

                    674.            Life of Brian (1979) 465

                    675.            Apocalypse Now (1979) 466

                    676.            The Jerk (1979) 467

                    677.            The Muppet Movie (1979)

                    678.            Manhattan (1979) 468

                    679.            Mad Max (1979) 469

                    680.            Nosferatu: Phantom Of The Night (1979) 470

                    681.            Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

                    682.            Ordinary People (1980) 471

                    683.            Atlantic City (1980) 472

                    684.            The Last Metro (1980) 473

                    685.            The Shining (1980) 474

                    686.            Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 475

                    687.            The Elephant Man (1980) 476

                    688.            The Big Red One (1980) 477

                    689.            Loulou (1980)

                    690.            Airplane! (1980) 478

                    691.            Raging Bull (1980) 479

                    692.            Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 480

                    693.            Das Boot (1981) 481

                    694.            Gallipoli (1981) 482

                    695.            Chariots of Fire (1981) 483

                    696.            Body Heat (1981) 484

                    697.            Reds (1981) 485

                    698.            An American Werewolf in London (1981) 486

                    699.            Three Brothers (1981)

                    700.            Man of Iron (1981)

                    701.            Too Early, Too Late (1981)

                    702.            Diva (1981)

                    703.            Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 487

                    704.            E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 488

                    705.            The Thing (1982)

                    706.            Poltergeist (1982)

                    707.            Blade Runner (1982) 489

                    708.            The Evil Dead (1982) 490

                    709.            Tootsie (1982) 491

                    710.            Yol (1982)

                    711.            Diner (1982)

                    712.            Fitzcaraldo (1982) 492

                    713.            Gandhi (1982)

                    714.            The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

                    715.            A Question of Silence (1982)

                    716.            Fanny and Alexander (1982) 493

                    717.            The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)

                    718.            A Christmas Story (1983) 494

                    719.            El Norte (1983)

                    720.            Videodrome (1983) 495

                    721.            Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 496

                    722.            The Big Chill (1983) 497

                    723.            Sunless (1983)

                    724.            The Last Battle (1983)

                    725.            Money (1983)

                    726.            Utu (1983)

                    727.            Terms of Endearment (1983) 498

                    728.            The Fourth Man (1983)

                    729.            The King of Comedy (1983)

                    730.            The Right Stuff (1983) 499

                    731.            Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

                    732.            Once Upon a Time in America (1983)

                    733.            Scarface (1983)

                    734.            The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

                    735.            Local Hero (1983)

                    736.            Amadeus (1984) 500

                    737.            The Terminator (1984) 501

                    738.            Paris, Texas (1984)

                    739.            A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 502

                    740.            This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 503

                    741.            Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 504

                    742.            Ghostbusters (1984) 505

                    743.            A Passage to India (1984)

                    744.            Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

                    745.            The Killing Fields (1984)

                    746.            The Natural (1984) 506

                    747.            The Breakfast Club (1985) 507

                    748.            Ran (1985) 508

                    749.            Come and See (1985)

                    750.            The Official Story (1985)

                    751.            Out of Africa (1985) 509

                    752.            The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) 510

                    753.            Back to the Future (1985) 511

                    754.            The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)

                    755.            Brazil (1985) 512

                    756.            Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) 513

                    757.            The Quiet Earth (1985) 514

                    758.            Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

                    759.            Prizzi's Honor (1985) 515

                    760.            Vagabond (1985)

                    761.            Shoah (1985)

                    762.            The Color Purple (1985) 516

                    763.            Manhunter (1986) 517

                    764.            Stand By Me (1986) 518

                    765.            Blue Velvet (1986) 519

                    766.            Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 520

                    767.            She's Gotta Have It (1986)

                    768.            The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

                    769.            The Fly (1986) 521

                    770.            Aliens (1986) 522

                    771.            Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 523

                    772.            Down by Law (1986)

                    773.            A Room with a View (1986) 524

                    774.            Children of a Lesser God (1986)

                    775.            Platoon (1986) 525

                    776.            Caravaggio (1986)

                    777.            Tampopo (1986)

                    778.            Peking Opera Blues (1986)

                    779.            Salvador (1986)

                    780.            Top Gun (1986) 526

                    781.            Sherman's March (1986) 527

                    782.            The Horse Thief (1986)

                    783.            Brightness (1987)

                    784.            Wings of Desire (1987)

                    785.            Project A, Part II (1987)

                    786.            Babette's Feast (1987) 528

                    787.            Raising Arizona (1987)

                    788.            Full Metal Jacket (1987) 529

                    789.            Withnail and I (1987) 530

                    790.            Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) 531

                    791.            Goodbye Children (1987)

                    792.            Broadcast News (1987)

                    793.            Housekeeping (1987)

                    794.            The Princess Bride (1987) 532

                    795.            Moonstruck (1987) 533

                    796.            The Untouchables (1987) 534

                    797.            Red Sorghum (1987) 535

                    798.            The Dead (1987) 536

                    799.            Fatal Attraction (1987) 537

                    800.            A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

                    801.            Wall Street (1987)

                    802.            RoboCop (1987) 538

                    803.            Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) 539

                    804.            The Vanishing (1988) 540

                    805.            Bull Durham (1988) 541

                    806.            Ariel (1988)

                    807.            The Thin Blue Line (1988) 542

                    808.            Akira (1988) 543

                    809.            Cinema Paradiso (1988)

                    810.            Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)

                    811.            A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

                    812.            The Naked Gun (1988) 544

                    813.            Big (1988) 545

                    814.            Dangerous Liaisons (1988) 546

                    815.            Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 547

                    816.            Landscape in the Mist (1988) 548

                    817.            The Decalogue (1988)

                    818.            Die Hard (1988)

                    819.            A Tale of the Wind (1988)

                    820.            Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 549

                    821.            Rain Man (1988) 550

                    822.            The Story of Women (1988)

                    823.            The Accidental Tourist (1988)

                    824.            Alice (1988)

                    825.            Dead Ringers (1988)

                    826.            Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

                    827.            Drowning by Numbers (1988)

                    828.            Batman (1989) 551

                    829.            When Harry Met Sally (1989) 552

                    830.            Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) 553

                    831.            The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) 554

                    832.            Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

                    833.            My Left Foot (1989)

                    834.            The Killer (1989)

                    835.            Do the Right Thing (1989) 555

                    836.            Roger and Me (1989)

                    837.            Glory (1989)

                    838.            The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)

                    839.            Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)

                    840.            Say Anything (1989) 556

                    841.            The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

                    842.            A City of Sadness (1989)

                    843.            Field of Dreams (1989) 557

                    844.            No Fear, No Die (1990)

                    845.            Reversal of Fortune (1990)

                    846.            Goodfellas (1990)

                    847.            Jacob's Ladder (1990)

                    848.            King of New York (1990)

                    849.            Dances with Wolves (1990) 558

                    850.            Europa Europa (1990)

                    851.            Pretty Woman (1990) 559

                    852.            Archangel (1990)

                    853.            Trust (1990)

                    854.            Close-Up (1990) 560

                    855.            Edward Scissorhands (1990) 561

                    856.            Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990) 562

                    857.            Total Recall (1990) 563

                    858.            Once Upon a Time in China (1991)

                    859.            Boyz 'n the Hood (1991)

                    860.            Raise the Red Lantern (1991) 564

                    861.            Delicatessen (1991) 565

                    862.            A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

                    863.            Naked Lunch (1991)

                    864.            The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991) 566

                    865.            The Rapture (1991)

                    866.            My Own Private Idaho (1991)

                    867.            Thelma & Louise (1991)

                    868.            Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 567

                    869.            The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 568

                    870.            JFK (1991) 569

                    871.            Slacker (1991)

                    872.            Tongues Untied (1991)

                    873.            Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) 570

                    874.            The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 571

                    875.            Strictly Ballroom (1992) 572

                    876.            The Player (1992) 573

                    877.            Reservoir Dogs (1992) 574

                    878.            Romper Stomper (1992)

                    879.            Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 575

                    880.            Unforgiven (1992) 576

                    881.            Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 577

                    882.            Candy Man (1992) 578

                    883.            A Tale of Winter (1992)

                    884.            Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992) 579

                    885.            The Crying Game (1992)

                    886.            Man Bites Dog (1992)

                    887.            The Actress (1992)

                    888.            Farewell My Concubine (1993)

                    889.            Thirty Two Films about Glenn Gould (1993)

                    890.            Groundhog Day (1993)

                    891.            Short Cuts (1993)

                    892.            Philadelphia (1993) 580

                    893.            Jurassic Park (1993)

                    894.            The Age of Innocence (1993)

                    895.            The Puppetmaster (1993)

                    896.            Schindler's List (1993) 581

                    897.            Three Colors: Blue (1993) 582

                    898.            The Piano (1993) 583

                    899.            The Blue Kite (1993)

                    900.            The Wedding Banquet (1993)

                    901.            Three Colors: Red (1994) 584

                    902.            Hoop Dreams (1994)

                    903.            Forrest Gump (1994) 585

                    904.            Clerks (1994) 586

                    905.            Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 587

                    906.            The Lion King (1994) 588

                    907.            Satantango (1994)

                    908.            Natural Born Killers (1994)

                    909.            The Last Seduction (1994)

                    910.            Pulp Fiction (1994) 589

                    911.            The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 590

                    912.            The Wild Reeds (1994)

                    913.            Chungking Express (1994) 591

                    914.            Crumb (1994) 592

                    915.            Heavenly Creatures (1994) 593

                    916.            Through the Olive Trees (1994) 594

                    917.            Riget (1994) 595

                    918.            Dear Diary (1994)

                    919.            Muriel's Wedding (1994) 596

                    920.            The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

                    921.            Casino (1995)

                    922.            Deseret (1995) 597

                    923.            Babe (1995)

                    924.            Toy Story (1995) 598

                    925.            Strange Days (1995) 599

                    926.            Braveheart (1995)

                    927.            Safe (1995)

                    928.            Clueless (1995)

                    929.            Heat (1995) 600

                    930.            Zero Kelvin (1995)

                    931.            Seven (1995)

                    932.            Smoke (1995) 601

                    933.            The White Balloon (1995) 602

                    934.            Cyclo (1995)

                    935.            Underground (1995)

                    936.            The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride (1995)

                    937.            Dead Man (1995) 603

                    938.            The Usual Suspects (1995)

                    939.            The Pillow Book (1996)

                    940.            Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

                    941.            Fargo (1996) 604

                    942.            Independence Day (1996) 605

                    943.            Secrets and Lies (1996)

                    944.            Breaking the Waves (1996) 606

                    945.            The English Patient (1996)

                    946.            Gabbeh (1996) 607

                    947.            Lone Star (1996)

                    948.            Trainspotting (1996)

                    949.            Scream (1996) 608

                    950.            Shine (1996) 609

                    951.            Deconstructing Harry (1997) 610

                    952.            L.A. Confidential (1997)

                    953.            Happy Together (1997)

                    954.            Princess Mononoke (1997) 611

                    955.            Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (1997)

                    956.            The Butcher Boy (1997) 612

                    957.            The Ice Storm (1997) 613

                    958.            Boogie Nights (1997)

                    959.            Kundun (1997)

                    960.            The Sweet Hereafter (1997) 614

                    961.            Funny Games (1997) 615

                    962.            Taste of Cherry (1997)

                    963.            Open Your Eyes (1997)

                    964.            Mother and Son (1997) 616

                    965.            Titanic (1997) 617

                    966.            Hana-Bi (1997)

                    967.            Tetsuo (1998)

                    968.            The Celebration (1998)

                    969.            Saving Private Ryan (1998)

                    970.            Buffalo 66 (1998)

                    971.            Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

                    972.            Run Lola Run (1998) 618

                    973.            Rushmore (1998)

                    974.            Pi (1998) 619

                    975.            Happiness (1998)

                    976.            The Thin Red Line (1998) 620

                    977.            The Idiots (1998)

                    978.            Sombre (1998)

                    979.            Ringu (1998) 621

                    980.            There's Something About Mary (1998)

                    981.            The Big Lebowski (1998) 622

                    982.            Magnolia (1999)

                    983.            Beau Travail (1999)

                    984.            The Blair Witch Project (1999) 623

                    985.            Taboo (1999)

                    986.            Rosetta (1999)

                    987.            All About My Mother (1999) 624

                    988.            Three Kings (1999)

                    989.            The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

                    990.            The Audition (1999)

                    991.            Time Regained (1999)

                    992.            Fight Club (1999) 625

                    993.            Being John Malkovich (1999) 626

                    994.            American Beauty (1999)

                    995.            Attack the Gas Station! (1999)

                    996.            Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 627

                    997.            The Sixth Sense (1999)

                    998.            The Matrix (1999) 628

                    999.            Toy Story 2 (1999) 629

                1000.            Nine Queens (2000) 630

                1001.            The Captive (2000)

                1002.            In the Mood for Love (2000) 631

                1003.            Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets (2000) 632

                1004.            Gladiator (2000) 633

                1005.            Kippur (2000) 634

                1006.            A One and a Two 635

                1007.            Requiem for a Dream (2000) 636

                1008.            Amores Perros (2000) 637

                1009.            Meet the Parents (2000)

                1010.            Signs and Wonders (2000)

                1011.            Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 638

                1012.            Traffic (2000)

                1013.            The Gleaners and I (2000) 639

                1014.            Memento (2000) 640

                1015.            Dancer in the Dark (2000)

                1016.            O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) 641

                1017.            Amelie (2001) 642

                1018.            What Time Is It Over There? (2001)

                1019.            Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

                1020.            Kandahar (2001)

                1021.            Spirited Away (2001) 643

                1022.            The Piano Teacher (2001) 644

                1023.            The Son's Room (2001) 645

                1024.            No Man's Land (2001) 646

                1025.            Moulin Rouge (2001)

                1026.            Monsoon Wedding (2001) 647

                1027.            Fat Girl (2001) 648

                1028.            Mulholland Dr. (2001) 649

                1029.            The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 650

                1030.            The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

                1031.            A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) 651

                1032.            Lantana (2001)

                1033.            Gangs of New York (2002) 652

                1034.            The Pianist (2002)

                1035.            Talk to Her (2002) 653

                1036.            City of God (2002) 654

                1037.            Russian Ark (2002) 655

                1038.            Chicago (2002) 656

                1039.            Bowling for Columbine (2002)

                1040.            Adaptation (2002) 657

                1041.            Far From Heaven (2002) 658

                1042.            Hero (2002) 659

                1043.            Bus 174 (2002)

                1044.            Uzak (2002)

                1045.            Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) 660

                1046.            Irreversible (2002) 661

                1047.            The Two Towers (2002)

                1048.            The Barbarian Invasions (2003) 662

                1049.            Kill Bill (2003) 663

                1050.            Oldboy (2003) 664

                1051.            Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

                1052.            The Best of Youth (2003)

                1053.            Lost in Translation (2003)

                1054.            Elephant (2003)

                1055.            Aileen Wuornos: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) 665

                1056.            Osama (2003)

                1057.            The Return of the King (2003)

                1058.            Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

                1059.            The Passion of the Christ (2004)

                1060.            Collateral (2004) 666

                1061.            The Aviator (2004) 667

                1062.            Million Dollar Baby (2004) 668

                1063.            Downfall (2004) 669

                1064.            A Very Long Engagement (2004)

                1065.            Sideways (2004) 670

                1066.            Head-On (2004)

                1067.            3-Iron (2004)

                1068.            The Consequences of Love (2004) 671

                1069.            Moolade (2004)

                1070.            Cache (2005) 672

                1071.            Go, Live and Become (2005)

                1072.            Paradise Now (2005) 673

                1073.            Brokeback Mountain (2005) 674

                1074.            Tsotsi (2005) 675

                1075.            The Constant Gardner (2005) 676

                1076.            Crash (2005) 677

                1077.            Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 678

                1078.            The Prestige (2006) 679

                1079.            The Lives of Others (2006) 680

                1080.            United 93 (2006) 681

                1081.            Children of Men (2006) 682

                1082.            Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 683

                1083.            Apocalypto (2006) 684

                1084.            The Departed (2006) 685

                1085.            Borat (2006) 686

                1086.            Once (2006) 687

                1087.            The Queen (2006) 688

                1088.            The Host (2006) 689

                1089.            The Last King Of Scotland (2006) 690

                1090.            Babel (2006) 691

                1091.            Volver (2006) 692

                1092.            The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) 693

                1093.            La Vie En Rose (2007) 694

                1094.            No Country For Old Men (2007) 695

                1095.            Into the Wild (2007) 696

                1096.            There Will Be Blood (2007) 697

                1097.            Atonement (2007) 698

                1098.            Surfwise (2007) 699

                1099.            The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) 700

                1100.            Paranormal Activity (2007) 701

                1101.            Wall-E (2008) 702

                1102.            The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) 703

                1103.            The Dark Knight (2008) 704

                1104.            The Wrestler (2008) 705

                1105.            The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 706

                1106.            Gomorra (2008) 707

                1107.            The Class (2008) 708

                1108.            Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 709

                1109.            Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) 710

                1110.            Let The Right One In (2009) 711

                1111.            The Hurt Locker (2009) 712

                1112.            An Education (2009) 713

                1113.            The Hangover (2009) 714

                1114.            Precious (2009) 715

                1115.            Avatar (2009) 716

                1116.            Fish Tank (2009) 717

                1117.            The White Ribbon (2009) 718

                1118.            Inglorious Basterds (2009) 719

                1119.            District 9 (2009) 720

                1120.            In the Loop (2009) 721

                1121.            Monsters (2010) 722

                1122.            Of Gods and Men (2010) 723

                1123.            Black Swan (2010) 724

                1124.            Four Lions (2010) 725

                1125.            The Social Network (2010) 726

                1126.            Inception (2010) 727

                1127.            The King’s Speech (2010) 728

                1128.            True Grit (2010) 729

                1129.            Senna (2010) 730

                1130.            Toy Story 3 (2010) 731

                1131.            Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) 732

                1132.            Nostalgia for the Light (2010) 733

                1133.            Le Havre (2011) 734

                1134.            Shame (2011)

                1135.            The Tree of Life (2011) 735

                1136.            The Kid with a Bike (2011) 736

                1137.            The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo (2011) 737

                1138.            Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (2011) 738

                1139.            Drive (2011) 739

                1140.            War Horse (2011) 740

                1141.            A Separation (2011) 741

                1142.            Bridesmaids (2011) 742

                1143.            The Descendants (2011) 743

                1144.            Hugo (2011) 744

                1145.            The Artist (2011) 745

                1146.            Les Miserables (2012) 746

                1147.            Amour (2012) 747

                1148.            Argo (2012) 748

                1149.            Lincoln (2012) 749

                1150.            Skyfall (2012) 750

                1151.            Django Unchained (2012) 751

                1152.            The Life of Pi (2012) 752

                1153.            The Cabin in the Woods (2012) 753

                1154.            Wadjda (2012) 754

                1155.            The Act of Killing (2012) 755

                1156.            Blancanieves (2012) 756

                1157.            Twelve Years a Slave (2013) 757

                1158.            American Hustle (2013) 758

                1159.            Gravity (2013) 759

                1160.            The Great Beauty (2013) 760

                1161.            Nebraska (2013) 761

                1162.            The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 762

                1163.            Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 763

                1164.            A Touch of Sin (2013) 764

                1165.            Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) 765

                1166.            Ida (2013) 766

                1167.            Under the Skin (2013)

                1168.            Citizenfour (2014)

                1169.            Leviathan (2014) 767

                1170.            Boyhood (2014) 768

                1171.            Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 769

                1172.            Birdman (2014) 770

                1173.            Whiplash (2014) 771

                1174.            The Theory of Everything (2014) 772

                1175.            The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 773

  

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