14 May 2008

1001 Movies

And of course, here's the celluloid version. Full list here. These are the ones I've seen.

106. Grand Illusion (1937)
110. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
123. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
145. Dumbo (1941)
152. Casablanca (1942)
166. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
188. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
233. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
245. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
258. Roman Holiday (1953)
278. The Seven Samurai (1954)
285. Guys and Dolls (1955)
339. The 400 Blows (1959)
341. Some Like It Hot (1959)
351. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
373. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
375. Jules and Jim (1961)
381. West Side Story (1961)
383. Cleo de 5 a 7 (1962)
417. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
419. My Fair Lady (1964)
421. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
437. The Sound of Music (1965)
453. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
459. The Graduate (1967)
463. Belle de Jour (1967)
517. M*A*S*H (1970)
525. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
527. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
544. Cabaret (1972)
550. The Godfather (1972)
575. Amarcord (1973)
593. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
595. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
612. Network (1976)
620. Annie Hall (1977)
636. Grease (1978)
652. Life of Brian (1979)
655. The Muppet Movie (1979)
661. The Last Metro (1980)
667. Airplane! (1980)
680. E.T.: The Extra-Terestrial (1982)
693. A Christmas Story (1983)
712. Paris, Texas (1984)
714. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
721. The Breakfast Club (1985)
722. Ran (1985)
727. Back to the Future (1985)
736. The Color Purple (1985)
742. The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
745. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
760. Babette’s Feast (1987)
764. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
768. The Princess Bride (1987)
783. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
786. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
792. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
798. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
818. Europa Europa (1990)
819. Pretty Woman (1990)
828. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
847. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
856. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
860. Philadelphia (1993)
861. Jurassic Park (1993)
862. The Age of Innocence (1993)
863. Schindler’s List (1993)
866. The Piano (1993)
871. Forrest Gump (1994)
872. Clerks (1994)
873. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
874. The Lion King (1994)
890. Toy Story (1995)
892. Braveheart (1995)
894. Clueless (1995)
897. Seven (1995)
908. Independence Day (1996)
911. The English Patient (1996)
917. L.A. Confidential (1997)
930. Titanic (1997)
933. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
936. Run Lola Run (1998)
941. The Idiots (1998)
947. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
955. Fight Club (1999)
956. Being John Malkovich (1999)
959. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
961. The Matrix (1999)
976. Memento (2000)
978. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
979. Amelie (2001)
987. Moulin Rouge (2001)
995. The Pianist (2002)
999. Chicago (2002)
1000. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)


For comparison's sake, let's apply the same metrics. Except this time I'm going to divide them by decades. This is the number of films in each decade in the original list:

1900s: 2
1910s: 5
1920s: 39
1930s: 85
1940s: 92
1950s: 131
1960s: 149
1970s: 151
1980s: 153
1990s: 151
2000s: 39 (2000-2003)

This is a bit more spread out over the decades. I suspect there was a deliberate attempt to equalize the number of films in each decade of the 60s to the 90s.

And my percentages of movies seen in each decade. I predict this will be the opposite of the books: that I'll have seem primarily the last couple decades. I also predict that my showings will be far poorer than the printed matter.

1900s: 0%
1910s: 0%
1920s: 0%
1930s: 3.5%
1940s: 4.3%
1950s: 6.1%
1960s: 7.3%
1970s: 8.6%
1980s: 12.4%
1990s: 19.9%
2000s: 17.9%

Yep, pretty much as I expected. Although I thought that foreign movies were not very well represented in this list. I've seen my fair share of those.

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