Thank you Mad Hatter for the suggestion! He suggested that I should do a post about the Best Picture winners, mostly indicating which ones I've seen. Well, here you are, Mad (underline means plan to see, bold means have seen):
Wings
The Broadway Melody
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cimarron
Grand Hotel
Cavalcade
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Great Ziegfield
The Life of Emila Zola
You Can't Take It With You
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs. Miniver
Casablanca
Going My Way
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gentleman's Agreement
Hamlet
All the King's Men
All About Eve
An American in Paris
The Greatest Show on Earth
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Marty
Around the World in 80 Days
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Gigi
Ben-Hur
The Apartment
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Jones
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
A Man for All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
Oliver!
Midnight Cowboy
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Out of Africa
Platoon
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Dances with Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
American Beauty
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker
This is what happens when you're bored out of of your mind. Also expect a post on all the Best Picture nominees. Ooh, my hands are already aching from the thought of it. That's not good. :P
I've seen 47 of those. Including every single film from Rain Man to The Hurt Locker. I need to see more of the older movies...
ReplyDeleteSEE REBECCA!!!
ReplyDeleteNot bad...not bad at all. For what it's worth, these would be my starting points for what you should chase down first (some you've underlined, some you haven't):
ReplyDeleteWEST SIDE STORY
BEN-HUR
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA**
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
THE STING
AMADEUS
PLATOON
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
THE DEPARTED
(** It is imperitive that you watch LAWRENCE on the biggest screen you can find. if you know someone with a sweet set-up, comandeer it for an afternoon. Otherwise wait for a screening of some sort).