Sunday, December 26, 2010

CHARIOTS OF FIRE* (1981, GREAT BRITAIN)


It’s taken me awhile to get to 100 posts, but here is the list of movies I have noted on this blog so far. I’ve seen a lot of movies I’ve always wanted to see, seen some movies I had never heard of before and revisited some old favorites (and a few not-so-favorites). There are 123 films listed here. 112 from the 1001 movie book. So that would make 878 to go, right? Wait. Different editions have different movies. So would that number be closer to 960? Oh, God! Could I get some more caffeine, please?



Films seen from The 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die List since starting blog

Adaptation (2002)
The African Queen (1951)
Amadeus (1984)
An American in Paris (1951)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Annie Hall (1977)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Poland)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Japan)
The Bank Dick (1940)
The Battle of Algiers (1965, Algeria)
Beauty and the Beast (1946, France)
The Best Years of Our Life (1946)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, Italy)
Breathless (1959, France)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Great Britain)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Cabaret (1972)
Children of God (2002, Brazil)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Great Britain)
Closely Watched Trains (1967, Czechoslovakia)
The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Armenia)
The Constant Gardner (2005)
Crumb (1994)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dracula (1931)
Easy Rider (1969)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Great Britain)
Eyes Without a Face (1960, France)
Floating Weeds (1959, Japan)
Footlight Parade (1933)
The 400 Blows (1959, France)
42nd Street (1933)
Freaks (1932)
The General (1926)
Gilda (1946)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Grand Illusion (1937, France)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Japan)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Grease (1978)
Harvey (1950)
The Haunting (1963)
High Plains Drifter (1972)
High Sierra (1941)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, France)
Horror of Dracula (1958, Great Britain)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
It’s a Gift (1934)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
The Kingdom (1994, Denmark)
Last Year at Marienband (1961, France)
Laura (1944)
The Lion King (1994)
Marty (1955)
Metropolis (1927, Germany)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Great Britain)
Munich (2005)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
No Man’s Land (2001, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Open City (1945, Italy)
Ordet (1955, Denmark)
Ordinary People (1980)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pi (1998)
Play Time (1967, France)
Princess Mononoke (1997, Japan)
Psycho (1960)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991, China)
Run, Lola, Run (1998, Germany)
Sansho Dayu (1954, Japan)
Satyricon (1969, Italy)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Sweden)
Shadows (1959)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964, Soviet Union)
Shane (1953)
Sherman’s March (1986)
Smoke (1996)
Solyaris (1972, Soviet Union)
Spirited Away (2001, Japan)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Star Wars (1977)
La Strada (1954, Italy)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Third Man (1949, Great Britain)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Sweden)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tokyo Story (1953, Japan)
Top Hat (1935)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967, France)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Great Britain)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Unknown (1927)
Vertigo (1958)
Walkabout (1971, Great Britain)
Weekend (1967, France)
West Side Story (1961)
Winter Light (1962, Sweden)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Z (1969, Algeria)

Additions (Some more worthy than others)
Billy Jack (1971)
The Fog of War (2003)
Late Spring (1948, Japan)
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
The Paleface (1923)
The Pawnshop (1916)
Paul Blart: Mall Cart (2009)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Taken (2008)
You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

More meaningless stats
Films seen by decade
1900 (1)
1910 (1)
1920 (5)
1930 (12)
1940 (15)
1950 (22)
1960 (21)
1970 (15)
1980 (10)
1990 (10)
2000 (11)

34 non-English speaking films seen, more or less.

*I still haven’t actually seen Chariots of Fire, but I’ll get to it.

1 comment:

  1. God help us when you do get to it. Slow! That's what I remember from trying to watch it. Hope you have an evening free to fall asleep in your chair. But of course, that is my humble opinion.

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