I started this year with a plan, that over the next 12 months I would watch 365 movies that I had never seen before.
Then I realised that that is nearly impossible time-wise so I decided to watch 250 films in the next 12 months that I had never seen before.
Then I realised that by averaging about 12 rental movies a month and including the 25 or so DVDs that I've bought but never watched I'm still bottoming out at about 170 films.
So the final target is 250 movies between 1st January 2011 and 31st December 2011, preferably ones that I have never seen before but also acceptable are films that I've only seen once; haven't seen in the last five years or have seen but can't remember much of what happened in it. There should be no more that about 10 movies all year that I have seen so many times that I could act them out.
So far this year I've seen...
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford 1980) :4star:
Bee Movie (Steve Hickner - 2007 - It was New Year's Day, it was on the TV and I was too hungover to try to find the remote) :2star:
The Man Who Never Was (Ronald Neame 1956) :3star:
The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam 1991) :4star:
The Mission (Roland Joffe 1986) :4star:
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson 2007) :5star:
A Chump at Oxford (Alfred J. Goulding 1940) :4star:
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese 2002) :3star:
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick 1960) :5star:
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn 1992) :4star:
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell 1946) :4star:
Fear and Desire (Stanley Kubrick 1953) :2star:
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick 1962) :5star:
Coraline (Henry Selick 2009) :4star:
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg 1967) :4star:
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel 1971) :3star:
Bullitt (Peter Yates 1968) :4star:
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock 1958) :5star:
The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey 1929) :3star:
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood 1976) :5star:
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah 1972) :3star:
Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton/Louis Pepe 2002) :4star:
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (Kevin Billington 1970) :4star:
I'll update the list every month or so.
Following on from this I've now watched...
Plan 9 From Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr 1957) :1star:
Caddyshack (Harold Ramis 1980) :4star:
The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison 1968) :3star:
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones 1979) :5star:
The Producers (Mel Brooks 1968) :5star:
Chinatown (Roman Polanski 1974) :5star:
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock 1954) :5star:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford 1984) :3star:
Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel 2008) :4star:
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford 1940) :5star:
Jabberwocky (Terry Gilliam 1977) :3star:
Storytime (Terry Gilliam 1968) :4star:
The Miracle of Flight (Terry Gilliam 1974) :4star:
Four Lions (Chris Morris 2010) :4star:
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Alan Parker 1982) :3star:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam 1975) :5star:
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray 1955) :4star:
Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour (Tony Palmer 1974) :5star:
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger 1969) :5star:
Not Only But Always (Terry Johnson 2004) :4star:
Derek and Clive Get the Horn (Russell Mulcahy 1979) :4star:
Freaks (Tod Browning 1932) :3star:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam 1987) :4star:
The Graduate (Mike Nichols 1967) :4star:
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam 1995) :4star:
Great Expectations (David Lean 1946) :4star:
The Man With The Golden Arm (Otto Preminger 1955) :4star:
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker 1988) :4star:
Case 39 (Christian Alvart 2009) :1star:
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock 1951) :4star:
Throw Momma From the Train (Danny Devito 1987) :4star:
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles 1941) :5star:
Scanners (David Cronenberg 1981) :3star:
The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood 1977) :2star:
The Blues Brothers (John Landis 1980) :5star:
Tideland (Terry Gilliam 2005) :4star:
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen 1982) :4star:
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold 2009) :3star:
The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher 1968) :4star:
Batman (Tim Burton 1989) :4star:
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn 1967) :4star:
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie 2007) :4star:
Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg 1973) :4star:
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore 1988) :5star:
Zulu (Cy Endfield 1964) :6star:
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren 1943) :4star:
Naked (Mike Leigh 1993) :4star:
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder 1950) :4star:
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick 1964) :6star:
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein 1925) :5star:
At Land (Maya Deren 1944) :3star:
Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh 1990) :4star:
Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson/Tim Burton 2005) :3star:
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey 1933) :5star:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam 2009) :4star:
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks 1974) :5star:
Little Voice (Mark Herman 1998) :4star:
The Goonies (Richard Donner 1985) :5star:
Les Dogs (Peter Richardson 1990) :4star:
Red Nose of Courage (Peter Richardson 1992) :4star:
Triumph des Willens (Leni Riefenstahl 1935) :4star:
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren 1943) :3star:
Passchendaele (Paul Gross 2008) :2star:
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick 1955) :5star:
Kes (Ken Loach 1969) :5star:
Heat (Michael Mann 1995) :4star:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone 1930) :5star:
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo 1988) :5star:
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren 1946) :3star:
Factotum (Bent Hamer 2005) :2star:
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh 1977) :4star:
Bambule (Eberhard Itzenplitz 1970) :4star:
Storm (DC Turner 2011) :4star: