Back in September, I set myself the goal of watching and reviewing every film that appeared on one or more of three prestigious lists: one from the United States, one from Great Britain, and one from France. There are 219 movies in total and at the time I started the project, I had reviewed only 73 of them. Now I’m up to 160!
You can track my progress here:
- AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies – 78 of 100
- Cahiers du Cinéma Greatest Films of All Time – 70 of 100
- The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time – 77 of 101
I’ve been posting 3-4 and I watched 20 in April for the Blogging A to Z Challenge. But I’m reaching a point where I’m running out of movies that are available on streaming services I subscribe to. Some of the movies are available from services I don’t subscribe to – such as HBO Max and Criterion Channel – or I can rent them online, but I need to save money. So I’m going to pare down my Classic Movie reviews to one time a week published on Sundays. And I’ll most likely rent them from my local video store or – gasp – see some in a movie theater (thank you COVID vaccination!).
But fear not, I will watch and review plenty of movies not on this list and perhaps some of them will be classic films in their own right.
Here’s my list of films remaining for Classic Movie Project II:
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | 1951 |
| All the President’s Men | 1976 |
| America, America | 1963 |
| Annie Hall | 1977 |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 |
| Band Wagon, The | 1953 |
| Ben-Hur | 1959 |
| Cabaret | 1972 |
| Colour of Pomegranates, The | 1968 |
| Confessions of a Cheat (Le Roman d’un tricheur) | 1936 |
| Easy Rider | 1969 |
| French Connection, The | 1971 |
| Gertrud | 1964 |
| Golden Helmet (Casque d’or) | 1952 |
| Gone With the Wind | 1939 |
| Graduate, The | 1967 |
| Imitation of Life | 1959 |
| La Grande Illusion | 1937 |
| Laura | 1944 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 |
| Le Jour se lève | 1939 |
| Le Mepris | 1963 |
| Leopard, The | 1963 |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | 1948 |
| Magnificent Amberson, The | 1942 |
| Maman et la Putain | 1973 |
| Manhattan | 1979 |
| MASH | 1970 |
| Monsieur Verdoux | 1947 |
| Moonfleet | 1955 |
| Mullholland Drive | 2001 |
| Nashville | 1975 |
| On The Waterfront | 1954 |
| Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | 1975 |
| Ordet | 1955 |
| Pierrot le Fou | 1965 |
| Scarface | 1932 |
| Senso | 1954 |
| Shoah | 1985 |
| Some Came Running | 1958 |
| Spartacus | 1960 |
| Star Is Born, A | 1954 |
| Talk to Her | 2002 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 |
| Wild Bunch, The | 1969 |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 |
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