Well, I’ve finally done it, I’ve seen all of the Oscar Best Picture winners. But I’ve also updated my personal list of “Must Watch Movies” and I still have 171 movies to go. This is a list I’ve compiled using the AFI Top 100 American Movies, Roger Ebert’s Greatest Movies list, Oscar Best Picture winners, TIFF’s Essential 100 Movies and several incarnations of the IMDb Top 250.
On Friday I actually updated the list, adding the latest IMDb Top 250 to my previous list and now have a total of 294 films that have at one time or another been on IMDb’s Top 250 and actually have two new films I need to watch that weren’t on there previously — The Celebration (1998) and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984). Ebert has also been updating his list of greatest movies and I had to add a few there as well.
Overall it makes for a list of 608 movies and that doesn’t include Empire magazine’s list of Top 500 films, many of which overlap my current list of 608, but on that list there are still 100 movies I have yet to see. I’m not sure how many of them overlap with my current list, but I will have to update that to find out. Essentially, I still have a lot to watch. This is a project I put together for myself as my own form of a film school. It’s not as perfect as film school, but it’s the best I can do in an effort to improve my ability to discuss films intelligently, which is all any of us can ask of one another right?
All that said, let’s get to this week’s list.
| Wings (1927) |
| Cavalcade (1933) |
| Pretty Woman (1990) |
So that does it for me. This coming week is filled with Criterion titles on my part so hopefully I’ll have those reviews for you soon. For now, let’s hear what you watched. Did any of you head to the theaters or catch any of the other offerings on Turner Classic Movies? Let us know below.
