1001 Movies

A few years ago my girlfriend received a booked called 1001 Movies to See Before You Die. Due to Jordan's love of ticking things off lists, we decided that it would be fun to tick off the films that we have seen and work our way through the book. To be honest, we haven't been the dedicated high brow film watchers that we hoped but we have managed to watch a fair few. 

Some time last week we decided to make a concerted effort to work our way through the list. We have also set up a spreadsheet to mark off each film so we get a running total... it also makes searching for a film on there much easier.

So this week I have watched...

Roman Holiday 

Annie Hall 

The Great Escape 

Wolf Man 

Notorious 

Easy Rider 

Grave of the Fireflies 

Things to Come 

Frankenstein 

The Maltese Falcon

The Great Train Robbery 

Only Angels Have Wings 

Rabbit-Proof Fence 

Muriel's Wedding

There was, I'm sure, one other film on that list but I cannot for the life of me remember what film I watched before The Maltese Falcon. I suppose that says something about how much I enjoyed The Maltese Falcon... good ol' Bogie.

For any one curious about what's included the 2008 list can be found here.

Movies of Last Week

The Hunger
Deliverance
Grease
Bubba Ho-Tep

Movies of Last Week

The Green Mile
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Eastern Promises

Movies of Last Week

I'm very pressed for time as I need to get back to work, but here is this weeks Movies post. Have a look at my previous post on Diary of the Dead for my reaction to the new Romero Dead film.

Sin City

Sixteen Candles

No Country For Old Men

Diary of the Dead

Movies of Last Week

This is what I have been watching over the past week...

Juno
Cloverfield
Wrong Turn 2

Godzilla Vs Mothra Vs King Ghidorah

Resident Evil Extinction

Desperado

Juno is an amazing film.  I cannot recommend it highly enough and I'm glad it picked up an oscar.

This week I am hoping to get in Charlie Wilson's War and No Country For Old Men.

Movies of last week

Okay, so I meant to do this yesterday (it would have been a lot more logical) but better late than never. I've decided to make a list of films I watch each week, just to keep track if anything.

This week I have mostly been watching...

Atonement
Casablanca
Young Frankenstein
Dangerous Minds
Don Jaun Demarco

I feel bad that this is the first time I had watched Casablanca, especially after doing a film degree! I am glad to say that I wasn't disappointed - Bogey is always a pleasure to watch.
Atonement, however, was fairly awful. The excellent James Mcavoy just couldn't make up for the talentless Ikea Knightly (nod to Mark Kermode) and it really felt a wee bit pretentious in it's playing to the Oscar crowd.

I'm hoping on Friday to make it to the late night screening of Bladerunner (Final Cut) at the Duke of York. Other than that, I have a few films I would like to watch or re-watch this week including M and a few more James Cagney's from Jordan's new box set.