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Adam_S · 01-24-2003, 05:51 PM

This brings me to 62 for the whole list, I decided to add the eight or so films I'd seen about two years ago because I don't really feel urgent to see them again, maybe later on in the challenge. My previous post was counting only the last 18 or so months, so that's why the numbers are different. Luckily I spotted several films they'll be showing at the Norris Theater here at USC on campus in 35mm for classes, for my class we'll be seeing: the Seventh Seal, Contempt, Rashoman amongst others. Salò is the only stretch--I've watched between 1/2 and 2/3 of the film, and have no desire whatsoever to watch it through to its completion.

Ranking system:

- great movie

1/2 - just shy of perfection

- highly recommended

1/2 - recommended with reservations

- solid movie

1/2 - serious flaws

- endurable
1/2 - has one redeeming feature
0 - waste of time, patently offensive

I'll be keeping a master list of my progeress on the list here.

Films I've seen (in the last 24 months) (films in red I've rewatched since starting the challenge):

Citizen Kane -
2001 -
The Godfather Part II -
Seven Samurai -
Singin' in the Rain -
Lawrence of Arabia -
The Godfather -
Bicycle Thieves -
Touch of Evil - 1/2
Dr. Strangelove -
Psycho -
Sunset Blvd. -
The Godfather and the Godfather Part II -
Some Like it Hot -
City Lights -
Grand Illusion -
The Apartment -
Apocalypse Now - 1/2 (revised to on second viewing)
Taxi Driver -
Casablanca -
The 400 Blows -
M -
Modern Times -
North By Northwest -
L'Âge d'or -
Blade Runner - 1/2
The Gold Rush - (upped to 1/2 for the silent version)
Pulp Fiction - 1/2
Rear Window -
A Clockwork Orange - 1/2
Goodfellas - 1/2
The Man who Shot Liberty Valence -
Ran -
Black Narcissus - 1/2
Double Indemnity - 1/2
Gone with the Wind - 1/2
The Grapes of Wrath -
His Girl Friday -
It's a Wonderful Life -
The Lady Eve -
Stagecoach -
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -
King Kong -
To Kill a Mockingbird -
Bonnie and Clyde -
Brazil -
Do the Right Thing -
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial -
In the mood for Love -
Jaws -
Paths of Glory -
Salò - [0]
Spartacus - 1/2
Spirited Away -
Star Wars -
The Bridge on the River Kwai -
Unforgiven -
Fargo - 1/2
Great Expectations - 1/2
The Remains of the Day -
Shane - 1/2
The Thief of Baghdad -

Newly Seen Films
The Red Shoes - - 01/24/2003
The Seventh Seal - - 01/27/2003
Rashomon - - 02/10/2003
Sherlock, Jr. - - 02/18/2003
Le Mépris (Contempt) - - 02/24/2003
Tokyo Story - - 03/09/2003
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie - - 03/15/2003
Vertigo - 1/2 - 03/24/2003
Xala -
La Jetee - 1/2 - 03/24/2003
La Regle du Jeu (Rules of the Game} - - 05/11/2003
Alexander Nevsky - - 05/13/2003
Meet me in St. Louis - - 05/19/2003
8 1/2 - - 05/22/2003
The Searchers - - 05/22/2003
Annie Hall -
Duck Soup -
Chinatown - - 05/28/2003
The Conversation - - 06/06/2003
Sullivan's Travels - 1/2 - 06/08/2004
On the Waterfront - - 06/10/2003
The African Queen - 1/2 - 06/13/2003
All About Eve - - 06/14/2004
Brief Encounter - - 06/15/2004
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1/2 06/15/2003
The Exorcist - - 06/18/2003
Bringing up Baby - - 06/18/2003
Birth of a Nation - ZERO - 07/16/2003
Bride of Frankenstein - 1/2 - 07/23/2003
Notorious - 1/2 - 07/24/2003
Todo Sobre mi Madre - - 08/11/2003
The Shining - 1/2 - 08/24/2003
Raging Bull - - 09/08/2003
L'Atalante - 1/2 - 09/10/2003
Trouble in Paradise - - 09/11/2003
Mean Streets - 1/2 - 09/15/2003 revised to 1/2 on second viewing
The Passion of Joan of Arc - - 11/03/2003
The Lady Vanishes - - 11/13/2003
Network - 1/2 - 01/07/2004
The Maltese Falcon - - 01/17/2004
Playtime - 1/2 - 01/24/2004
The Wild Bunch - 1/2 - 01/29/2004
Cabinent of Dr. Caligari - 1/2 - 02/16/2004
The Third Man - - 02/23/2004
Broken Blossoms - 1/2 - 02/25/2004
Vampyr - 1/2 - 03/14/2004
Earth - 1/2 - 03/14/2004
The Scarlett Empress - - 03/15/2004
Intolerance - - 03/18/2004
Greed - - 03/21/2004
Steamboat Bill Jr. - - 03/21/2004
Battleship Potemkin - - 03/22/2004
Nanook of the North - - 03/23/2004
Sunrise - - 03/25/2004
The Best Years of Our Lives - - 04/13/2004
Napoleon - - 05/19/2004
Nosferatu - - 05/20/2004
La Strada - - 05/22/2004
I Vitelloni - 1/2 - 05/22/2004
Strike! - - 05/30/2004
Metropolis - - 06/04/2004
The Night of the Hunter - - 06/06/2004
The General - - 06/08/2004
The Man with the Movie Camera - 1/2 - 06/13/2004
Day of Wrath - - 06/19/2004
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - - 06/24/2004
To Have and Have Not - - 06/27/2004
The Great Dictator - 1/2 - 06/29/2004
Children of Paradise - - 07/01/2004
Open City - - 07/04/2004
La belle et la bête - - 07/07/2004
Ivan the Terrible - Part I - - 07/11/2004
Rosemary's Baby - - 07/23/2004
Monsieur Verdoux - - 07/24/2004
Red River - - 08/01/2004
Orphée - - 08/13/2004
Love me Tonight - - 08/12/2004
Blue Velvet - - 08/15/2004
The Navigator - - 08/26/2004
Un Chien Andalou - - 08/31/2004
Umberto D - 1/2 - 09/06/2004
The Thing From Another World - - 09/19/2004
The Wind - - 09/20/2004
Partie de campaign (A Day in the Country) - - 09/20/2004
October - ½ - 09/22/2004
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - ½ - 10/02/2004
The Last Laugh - ½ - 10/04/2004
Strangers on a Train - - 10/06/2004
Breathless - ½ - 10/10/2004
Battle for Algiers - - 10/30/2004
Angel - ½ - 11/16/2004
Crime of Monsieur Lange - - 11/18/2004
Story of the Last Chrysanthemum - - 11/20/2004
Pather Panchali - - 12/12/2004
Fanny and Alexander - - 12/15/2004
La Dolce Vita - - 12/16/2004
The Palm Beach Story - - 12/17/2004
Les Vampires - - 12/14-21/2004
The Mirror - - 12/22/2004
To Be or Not to Be - 1/2 - 12/27/2004
Once Upon a Time in the West - - 12/27/2004
Once Upon a Time in America - - 12/30/2004
White Heat - - 01/05/2005
Out of the Past - - 01/06/2005
Letter from an Unknown Woman - - 01/06/2005
Ikiru - - 01/07/2005
Hiroshima mon Amour - - 01/14/2005
Ashes and Diamonds - - 01/18/2005
Lancelot of the Lake - - 01/22/2005
Throne of Blood - - 01/23/2005
Late Spring - - 01/25/2005
High and Low - - 02/01/2005
L'Avventura - ½ - 02/10/2005
Jules and Jim - - 02/18/2005
Shansho the Baliff - - 03/06/3005
Ugetsu - - 03/11/2005
Persona - - 04/11/2005 (monday)
The Magnificent Ambersons - 1/2 - 05/04/2005
Shoah , Tape One - - 06/18/2005
Tape Two - - 06/19/2005
Part I -
Part II -
Final Tape -
Two or Three Things I know About Her - - 06/30/2005
Ordet - - 07/03/2005
The Conformist - - 07/08/2005
The Earrings of Madame de... - - 07/10/2005
A Matter of Life and Death - - 07/11/2005
Wild Strawberries - - 07/22/2005
A Star is Born - - 08/09/2005
Nashville - - 08/14/2005
Rio Bravo - - 08/14/2005
Amarcord - - 08/16/2005
Last Year at Marienbad - - 08/21/2005
My Neighbor Totoro - - 01/20/2006
Pierrot le fou - - 03/06/2006
All that Heaven Allows - - 07/26/2006
A Canturbury Tale - - 7/28/2006
The Good The Bad And the Ugly - - 9/4/2006
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - - 9/7/2006
The Last Picture Show - 10/29/2006
Aguirre: The Wrath of God - - 01/07/2007
M. Hulot's Holiday - - 2/19/2007
Au Hasard Balthazar - - 3/25/2007
Godfather Part III (completes trilogy) - - 8/07/07 - trilogy -
Pandora's Box - - 9/6/2007
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - - 01/03/2008
The Tingler - - 01/04/2008
Barry Lyndon - - 2/15/08
The Music Room - - 3/15/08
The Decalogue - - 3/22/08
Cries and Whispers - ½
Crimes and Misdemeanors - ½ 5/4/08
The Exterminating Angel -½ 5/5/08

Adam

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01-24-2003, 05:51 PM	#35 of 3706
Adam_S *Adam_S* Member Location: Marina del Rey, CA Join Date: Feb 2001 Local Time: 11:52 PM Local Date: 07-08-2008 Posts: 4,963	This brings me to 62 for the whole list, I decided to add the eight or so films I'd seen about two years ago because I don't really feel urgent to see them again, maybe later on in the challenge. My previous post was counting only the last 18 or so months, so that's why the numbers are different. Luckily I spotted several films they'll be showing at the Norris Theater here at USC on campus in 35mm for classes, for my class we'll be seeing: the Seventh Seal, Contempt, Rashoman amongst others. Salò is the only stretch--I've watched between 1/2 and 2/3 of the film, and have no desire whatsoever to watch it through to its completion. Ranking system: - great movie 1/2 - just shy of perfection - highly recommended 1/2 - recommended with reservations - solid movie 1/2 - serious flaws - endurable 1/2 - has one redeeming feature 0 - waste of time, patently offensive I'll be keeping a master list of my progeress on the list here. Films I've seen (in the last 24 months) (films in red I've rewatched since starting the challenge): Citizen Kane - 2001 - The Godfather Part II - Seven Samurai - Singin' in the Rain - Lawrence of Arabia - The Godfather - Bicycle Thieves - Touch of Evil - 1/2 Dr. Strangelove - Psycho - Sunset Blvd. - The Godfather and the Godfather Part II - Some Like it Hot - City Lights - Grand Illusion - The Apartment - Apocalypse Now - 1/2 (revised to on second viewing) Taxi Driver - Casablanca - The 400 Blows - M - Modern Times - North By Northwest - L'Âge d'or - Blade Runner - 1/2 The Gold Rush - (upped to 1/2 for the silent version) Pulp Fiction - 1/2 Rear Window - A Clockwork Orange - 1/2 Goodfellas - 1/2 The Man who Shot Liberty Valence - Ran - Black Narcissus - 1/2 Double Indemnity - 1/2 Gone with the Wind - 1/2 The Grapes of Wrath - His Girl Friday - It's a Wonderful Life - The Lady Eve - Stagecoach - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - King Kong - To Kill a Mockingbird - Bonnie and Clyde - Brazil - Do the Right Thing - E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - In the mood for Love - Jaws - Paths of Glory - Salò - [0] Spartacus - 1/2 Spirited Away - Star Wars - The Bridge on the River Kwai - Unforgiven - Fargo - 1/2 Great Expectations - 1/2 The Remains of the Day - Shane - 1/2 The Thief of Baghdad - Newly Seen Films The Red Shoes - - 01/24/2003 The Seventh Seal - - 01/27/2003 Rashomon - - 02/10/2003 Sherlock, Jr. - - 02/18/2003 Le Mépris (Contempt) - - 02/24/2003 Tokyo Story - - 03/09/2003 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie - - 03/15/2003 Vertigo - 1/2 - 03/24/2003 Xala - La Jetee - 1/2 - 03/24/2003 La Regle du Jeu (Rules of the Game} - - 05/11/2003 Alexander Nevsky - - 05/13/2003 Meet me in St. Louis - - 05/19/2003 8 1/2 - - 05/22/2003 The Searchers - - 05/22/2003 Annie Hall - Duck Soup - Chinatown - - 05/28/2003 The Conversation - - 06/06/2003 Sullivan's Travels - 1/2 - 06/08/2004 On the Waterfront - - 06/10/2003 The African Queen - 1/2 - 06/13/2003 All About Eve - - 06/14/2004 Brief Encounter - - 06/15/2004 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1/2 06/15/2003 The Exorcist - - 06/18/2003 Bringing up Baby - - 06/18/2003 Birth of a Nation - ZERO - 07/16/2003 Bride of Frankenstein - 1/2 - 07/23/2003 Notorious - 1/2 - 07/24/2003 Todo Sobre mi Madre - - 08/11/2003 The Shining - 1/2 - 08/24/2003 Raging Bull - - 09/08/2003 L'Atalante - 1/2 - 09/10/2003 Trouble in Paradise - - 09/11/2003 Mean Streets - 1/2 - 09/15/2003 revised to 1/2 on second viewing The Passion of Joan of Arc - - 11/03/2003 The Lady Vanishes - - 11/13/2003 Network - 1/2 - 01/07/2004 The Maltese Falcon - - 01/17/2004 Playtime - 1/2 - 01/24/2004 The Wild Bunch - 1/2 - 01/29/2004 Cabinent of Dr. Caligari - 1/2 - 02/16/2004 The Third Man - - 02/23/2004 Broken Blossoms - 1/2 - 02/25/2004 Vampyr - 1/2 - 03/14/2004 Earth - 1/2 - 03/14/2004 The Scarlett Empress - - 03/15/2004 Intolerance - - 03/18/2004 Greed - - 03/21/2004 Steamboat Bill Jr. - - 03/21/2004 Battleship Potemkin - - 03/22/2004 Nanook of the North - - 03/23/2004 Sunrise - - 03/25/2004 The Best Years of Our Lives - - 04/13/2004 Napoleon - - 05/19/2004 Nosferatu - - 05/20/2004 La Strada - - 05/22/2004 I Vitelloni - 1/2 - 05/22/2004 Strike! - - 05/30/2004 Metropolis - - 06/04/2004 The Night of the Hunter - - 06/06/2004 The General - - 06/08/2004 The Man with the Movie Camera - 1/2 - 06/13/2004 Day of Wrath - - 06/19/2004 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - - 06/24/2004 To Have and Have Not - - 06/27/2004 The Great Dictator - 1/2 - 06/29/2004 Children of Paradise - - 07/01/2004 Open City - - 07/04/2004 La belle et la bête - - 07/07/2004 Ivan the Terrible - Part I - - 07/11/2004 Rosemary's Baby - - 07/23/2004 Monsieur Verdoux - - 07/24/2004 Red River - - 08/01/2004 Orphée - - 08/13/2004 Love me Tonight - - 08/12/2004 Blue Velvet - - 08/15/2004 The Navigator - - 08/26/2004 Un Chien Andalou - - 08/31/2004 Umberto D - 1/2 - 09/06/2004 The Thing From Another World - - 09/19/2004 The Wind - - 09/20/2004 Partie de campaign (A Day in the Country) - - 09/20/2004 October - ½ - 09/22/2004 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - ½ - 10/02/2004 The Last Laugh - ½ - 10/04/2004 Strangers on a Train - - 10/06/2004 Breathless - ½ - 10/10/2004 Battle for Algiers - - 10/30/2004 Angel - ½ - 11/16/2004 Crime of Monsieur Lange - - 11/18/2004 Story of the Last Chrysanthemum - - 11/20/2004 Pather Panchali - - 12/12/2004 Fanny and Alexander - - 12/15/2004 La Dolce Vita - - 12/16/2004 The Palm Beach Story - - 12/17/2004 Les Vampires - - 12/14-21/2004 The Mirror - - 12/22/2004 To Be or Not to Be - 1/2 - 12/27/2004 Once Upon a Time in the West - - 12/27/2004 Once Upon a Time in America - - 12/30/2004 White Heat - - 01/05/2005 Out of the Past - - 01/06/2005 Letter from an Unknown Woman - - 01/06/2005 Ikiru - - 01/07/2005 Hiroshima mon Amour - - 01/14/2005 Ashes and Diamonds - - 01/18/2005 Lancelot of the Lake - - 01/22/2005 Throne of Blood - - 01/23/2005 Late Spring - - 01/25/2005 High and Low - - 02/01/2005 L'Avventura - ½ - 02/10/2005 Jules and Jim - - 02/18/2005 Shansho the Baliff - - 03/06/3005 Ugetsu - - 03/11/2005 Persona - - 04/11/2005 (monday) The Magnificent Ambersons - 1/2 - 05/04/2005 Shoah , Tape One - - 06/18/2005 Tape Two - - 06/19/2005 Part I - Part II - Final Tape - Two or Three Things I know About Her - - 06/30/2005 Ordet - - 07/03/2005 The Conformist - - 07/08/2005 The Earrings of Madame de... - - 07/10/2005 A Matter of Life and Death - - 07/11/2005 Wild Strawberries - - 07/22/2005 A Star is Born - - 08/09/2005 Nashville - - 08/14/2005 Rio Bravo - - 08/14/2005 Amarcord - - 08/16/2005 Last Year at Marienbad - - 08/21/2005 My Neighbor Totoro - - 01/20/2006 Pierrot le fou - - 03/06/2006 All that Heaven Allows - - 07/26/2006 A Canturbury Tale - - 7/28/2006 The Good The Bad And the Ugly - - 9/4/2006 McCabe and Mrs. Miller - - 9/7/2006 The Last Picture Show - 10/29/2006 Aguirre: The Wrath of God - - 01/07/2007 M. Hulot's Holiday - - 2/19/2007 Au Hasard Balthazar - - 3/25/2007 Godfather Part III (completes trilogy) - - 8/07/07 - trilogy - Pandora's Box - - 9/6/2007 Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - - 01/03/2008 The Tingler - - 01/04/2008 Barry Lyndon - - 2/15/08 The Music Room - - 3/15/08 The Decalogue - - 3/22/08 Cries and Whispers - ½ Crimes and Misdemeanors - ½ 5/4/08 The Exterminating Angel -½ 5/5/08 Adam top 20 films 2008 film list My DVDs; S&S List 62...212 AFI lists: - DONE! HTF Stars list 247/248 Last edited by Adam_S : 05-05-2008 at 06:23 AM.