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Inspired by Cristiano Betta I grabbed the current IMDB top 250 movies and had a trawl through to see how I was doing. The tally comes out in my favour, with 150 watched, 5 to be released this year and 95 left to go. So, my project for this evening is to add those 95 to Lovefilm and kick them up the priority list in an effort to fill in some holes in my movie education.

Of the upcoming, 4 aren’t a surprise, as I’d heard about them, and I hadn’t heard of the 5th:

• The Wrestler
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Gran Torino
• Milk
• Låt den rätte komma in

Two of the five were already on my ‘go to the cinema’ list and the other three are now on there (with the release of all of them in the next month or so). Of the 95 remaining there are a few on the list that I’m almost ashamed of not seeing: Schindler’s List (never seen the whole thing), The Elephant Man, Brief Encounter, the Chaplin collection, Toy Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still (the old good one), Lawrence of Arabia and It’s a Wonderful Life. There doesn’t seem to be many that I don’t want to watch (Lion King is in there…), so let’s see how it goes.

And, as ever, the list:

Bold for watched, italic for to see in the cinema, plain text for to see.

1    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2    The Godfather (1972)
3    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4    Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966)
5    The Dark Knight (2008)
6    Pulp Fiction (1994)
7    Schindler’s List (1993)
8    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9    Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10    12 Angry Men (1957)
11    Casablanca (1942)
12    Star Wars (1977)
13    Shichinin no samurai (1954)
14    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
15    Goodfellas (1990)
16    Rear Window (1954)
17    Cidade de Deus (2002)
18    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19    C’era una volta il West (1968)
20    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21    The Usual Suspects (1994)
22    Fight Club (1999)
23    Psycho (1960)
24    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25    Sunset Blvd. (1950)
26    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27    Memento (2000)
28    North by Northwest (1959)
29    Citizen Kane (1941)
30    The Matrix (1999)
31    It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
32    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
33    Se7en (1995)
34    Léon (1994)
35    WALL·E (2008)
36    Apocalypse Now (1979)
37    Taxi Driver (1976)
38    American Beauty (1999)
39    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
40    American History X (1998)
41    Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
42    Vertigo (1958)
43    Paths of Glory (1957)
44    Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
45    M (1931)
46    Forrest Gump (1994)
47    The Departed (2006)
48    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
49    Double Indemnity (1944)
50    Alien (1979)
51    A Clockwork Orange (1971)
52    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
53    Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
54    The Third Man (1949)
55    Chinatown (1974)
56    The Shining (1980)
57    The Pianist (2002)
58    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
59    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
60    The Wrestler (2008)
61    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
62    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
63    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
64    L.A. Confidential (1997)
65    Aliens (1986)
66    Requiem for a Dream (2000)
67    Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
68    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
69    Das Boot (1981)
70    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
71    Reservoir Dogs (1992)
72    City Lights (1931)
73    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
74    Rashômon (1950)
75    Raging Bull (1980)
76    All About Eve (1950)
77    Metropolis (1927)
78    Der Untergang (2004)
79    Modern Times (1936)
80    Rebecca (1940)
81    Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
82    Some Like It Hot (1959)
83    The Prestige (2006)
84    Amadeus (1984)
85    The Elephant Man (1980)
86    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
87    Vita è bella, La (1997)
88    Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
89    The Apartment (1960)
90    Sin City (2005)
91    The Great Escape (1963)
92    Full Metal Jacket (1987)
93    No Country for Old Men (2007)
94    The Sting (1973)
95    Touch of Evil (1958)
96    Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
97    Hotel Rwanda (2004)
98    Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
99    The Great Dictator (1940)
100    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
101    On the Waterfront (1954)
102    Batman Begins (2005)
103    Back to the Future (1985)
104    Braveheart (1995)
105    Jaws (1975)
106    Ladri di biciclette (1948)
107    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
108    Blade Runner (1982)
109    Strangers on a Train (1951)
110    Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
111    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
112    There Will Be Blood (2007)
113    Unforgiven (1992)
114    Notorious (1946)
115    High Noon (1952)
116    The Green Mile (1999)
117    The Big Sleep (1946)
118    Fargo (1996)
119    Oldboy (2003)
120    Cool Hand Luke (1967)
121    Gladiator (2000)
122    Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
123    The Wizard of Oz (1939)
124    Die Hard (1988)
125    Mononoke-hime (1997)
126    Donnie Darko (2001)
127    Yojimbo (1961)
128    Ran (1985)
129    The General (1927)
130    Annie Hall (1977)
131    Smultronstället (1957)
132    Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
133    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
134    Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
135    It Happened One Night (1934)
136    Heat (1995)
137    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
138    Gran Torino (2008)
139    The Deer Hunter (1978)
140    The Sixth Sense (1999)
141    Ben-Hur (1959)
142    Platoon (1986)
143    Into the Wild (2007)
144    Million Dollar Baby (2004)
145    The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
146    Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
147    Life of Brian (1979)
148    Diaboliques, Les (1955)
149    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
150    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
151    Ratatouille (2007)
152    8½ (1963)
153    The Big Lebowski (1998)
154    The Killing (1956)
155    Amores perros (2000)
156    Finding Nemo (2003)
157    The Graduate (1967)
158    Brief Encounter (1945)
159    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
160    Stand by Me (1986)
161    Snatch. (2000)
162    The Night of the Hunter (1955)
163    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
164    The Wild Bunch (1969)
165    Gandhi (1982)
166    The Gold Rush (1925)
167    V for Vendetta (2005)
168    Gone with the Wind (1939)
169    The Princess Bride (1987)
170    The Incredibles (2004)
171    Trainspotting (1996)
172    Scarface (1983)
173    The Thing (1982)
174    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
175    Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
176    The Lion King (1994)
177    Harvey (1950)
178    Milk (2008)
179    Groundhog Day (1993)
180    Children of Men (2006)
181    Toy Story (1995)
182    Sleuth (1972)
183    The Hustler (1961)
184    The Terminator (1984)
185    The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
186    Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
187    Twelve Monkeys (1995)
188    The African Queen (1951)
189    Umberto D. (1952)
190    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
191    The Conversation (1974)
192    Duck Soup (1933)
193    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
194    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
195    Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
196    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
197    The Lady Vanishes (1938)
198    Stalag 17 (1953)
199    Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007)
200    Crash (2004/I)
201    Casino (1995)
202    King Kong (1933)
203    The Kid (1921)
204    Ed Wood (1994)
205    Hotaru no haka (1988)
206    Dial M for Murder (1954)
207    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
208    Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
209    The Exorcist (1973)
210    The Lost Weekend (1945)
211    All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
212    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
213    Rope (1948)
214    Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
215    Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
216    Patton (1970)
217    Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
218    Wo hu cang long (2000)
219    Glory (1989)
220    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
221    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
222    Belle et la bête, La (1946)
223    Frankenstein (1931)
224    Magnolia (1999)
225    His Girl Friday (1940)
226    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
227    In Bruges (2008)
228    Spartacus (1960)
229    Strada, La (1954)
230    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
231    Big Fish (2003)
232    The Philadelphia Story (1940)
233    In the Heat of the Night (1967)
234    Manhattan (1979)
235    Network (1976)
236    Roman Holiday (1953)
237    Safety Last! (1923)
238    Mystic River (2003)
239    Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
240    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
241    Great Expectations (1946)
242    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
243    A Christmas Story (1983)
244    Rocky (1976)
245    Dolce vita, La (1960)
246    Planet of the Apes (1968)
247    Laura (1944)
248    Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
249    Doctor Zhivago (1965)
250    Mou gaan dou (2002)

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