Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Obstacles to 100

This post details all the films I have not seen or do not own, and the obstacles they present to seeing all 100. (This list is based on the pre-update top 100)

Movies I have but have not seen: (This list is longer than usual because of Christmas)
11 Tokyo Story
16 L'Atalante
26 La Dolce Vita
34 Ordet
41 Andrei Rublev
54 Ugetsu Monogatari
70 Metropolis

Movies I have seen but do not have:
8 Battleship Potemkin
30 The General
45 It's A Wonderful Life
48 Modern Times
62 Wizard Of Oz
67 Nashville

Movies I do not have, and are easily available under $20 in the US:
51 Intolerance
60 Gone With The Wind
71 To Be Or Not To Be
75 Notorious
76 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
79 Bringing Up Baby
83 Stagecoach
85 My Darling Clementine
93 A Clockwork Orange

Movies I do not have, and are easily available $20-$40 in the US: (Mostly Criterion, some collections and imports)
17 The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
27 The Gold Rush
56 Contempt
66 The Leopard
77 Letter From An Unknown Woman**
78 Madame de**
80 Pickpocket
84 Pierrot le fou
86 Voyage In Italy
87 Playtime
88 Sansho The Baliff
89 Last Year At Marienbad
90 L'age dor
95 The Battle Of Algiers
96 Hiroshima mon amour
97 The Man With A Movie Camera
98 Rome, Open City
100 Sherlock, Jr

Movies I do not have, and will have problems finding for a reasonable price:
43 The Magnificent Ambersons
59 Peter Panchali***
64 Greed
69 The Mirror*

*I've heard the cheaply available version of The Mirror has translation issues. I can either pick up that or pray Criterion releases a better version by the end of the year. Maybe I'll give it until late to find a better translation.

**I can probably get both of these in a Max Ophuls collection, maybe cheaper than individually

***Peter Panchali is only available on region 1 DVD as part of a trilogy.

The biggest issue will probably be to pace myself with the criterion stuff. I can probably finance most of it with a combination of my tax refund and ebay sales of the TV DVD sets I watched a lot before I got into movies.

Then, there's the issue of Magnificent Ambersons, and it's lack of a region 1 DVD release.

And a smaller issue is deciding how much I'm willing to pay for stuff I've already seen and didn't necessarily like last time. I'll have to keep an eye out for certain things used and take my opportunities to get them cheap.

Edit: And I just realized 'The Auters' website is streaming a lot of these movies for $5. So this will make things a lot easier on my wallet.

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