So here we go, my first blog post for my new project. The 'mission' is relatively simple: watch 100 films in a year. That means watching one film every 3.65 days. Hardly the most taxing of missions, but a very interesting one nonetheless.
To try to justify my project, so that it isn't just a case of me spending 250 hours of my life sat on the sofa, I am also going to blog about each film (which will probably entail a further 50 hours sat at my desk, but hey, at least that way I'm flexing my oft neglected (probably with good reason) writing muscles). And if anybody finds this blog and wants to say what they think about the films, then that's awesome too.
I am mainly doing this as a crash course in the history of cinema. The films I am going to watch are not just a random bunch- the list is the '100 Films to See Before You Die', which was compiled by the staff at Yahoo! Movies. It includes silent films, foreign films, big budget films, comedies, tradegies, animation - a huge variety of features which highlight the very best of cinema.
It's a really good list, but I'm ashamed to say that whilst I have heard of most of the films, I have only actually seen nine of them before. Which is why this is such a good project: it helps me catch up. And of course I'll be watching those nine again, because otherwise it wouldn't be the 100 Film Project.
The project starts today, the 9th of June 2010, and will end on the 9th of June 2011. I won't be watching them in any particular order, just as long as I have watched all 100 by the end of 9th June 2011, the project will be complete.
I'm off to go and watch the first film, but in the mean time, here is The List:
1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. The 400 Blows (1959)
4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. The African Queen (1952)
6. Alien (1979)
7. All About Eve (1950)
8. Annie Hall (1977)
9. Apocalypse Now (1979)
10. The Battle of Algiers (1967)
11. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
12. Blade Runner (1982)
13. Blazing Saddles (1974)
14. Blow Up (1966)
15. Blue Velvet (1986)
16. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
17. Breathless (1960)
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
19. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
20. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
21. Casablanca (1942)
22. Chinatown (1974)
23. Citizen Kane (1941)
24. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
25. Die Hard (1988)
26. Do the Right Thing (1989)
27. Double Indemnity (1944)
28. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
29. Duck Soup (1933)
30. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
31. Enter the Dragon (1973)
32. The Exorcist (1973)
33. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
34. The French Connection (1971)
35. The Godfather (1972)
36. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
37. Goldfinger (1964)
38. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
39. Goodfellas (1990)
40. The Graduate (1967)
41. Grand Illusion (1938)
42. Groundhog Day (1993)
43. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
44. In the Mood For Love (2001)
45. It Happened One Night (1934)
46. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
47. Jaws (1975)
48. King Kong (1933)
49. The Lady Eve (1941)
50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
51. The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)
52. M (1931)
53. M*A*S*H (1970)
54. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
55. The Matrix (1999)
56. Modern Times (1936)
57. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
58. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
59. Network (1976)
60. Nosferatu (1922)
61. On the Waterfront (1954)
62. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
63. Paths of Glory (1958)
64. Princess Mononoke (1999)
65. Psycho (1960)
66. Pulp Fiction (1994)
67. Raging Bull (1980)
68. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
69. Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
70. Rashomon (1951)
71. Rear Window (1954)
72. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
73. Rocky (1976)
74. Roman Holiday (1953)
75. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
76. Schindler's List (1993)
77. The Searchers (1956)
78. Seven Samurai (1954)
79. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
80. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
81. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
82. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
83. Some Like It Hot (1959)
84. The Sound of Music (1965)
85. Star Wars (1977)
86. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
87. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
88. The Third Man (1949)
89. This is Spinal Tap (1984)
90. Titanic (1997)
91. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
92. Toy Story (1995)
93. The Usual Suspects (1995)
94. Vertigo (1958)
95. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
96. Wild Strawberries (1957)
97. Wings of Desire (1988)
98. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
99. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
100. The World of Apu (1959)
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