I love entering a theater, heavy with the smell of stale popcorn and spilled soda, watching the advertisements in anticipation of the theater jingle and the lights going low. For the next two hours I can't get emails. I can't learn of what our idiot president did. For two hours, outside problems do not exist.
When I'm in hotels, if they have Turner Classic Movies, I watch, full attention on the screen.
Film Struck was a streaming service I wanted to support. It was a streaming service for people that loved cinema, old and new. It wasn't meant to be a conduit for spoon feeding the newest Avengers or Transformers film, it was for people that got excited about the 4k reprint of Night of the Living Dead. People that appreciate Michel Gondry pulling off a 20 minute uncut scene using practical effects. Fans that are in awe by Casablanca having the best written script of all time.
Unfortunately, while I was in Japan last year, Film Struck was shutdown.
Criterion, those film loving people that bring you gorgeous DVDs of older films with documentaries attached to them, is going to launch a streaming service and I signed up to be a part of it from the beginning. I'm incredibly excited to expand my understanding of film based on tightly curated collection for film buffs, from film buffs.
Hell, about $8,000 of my student loans went to a film studies minor.
I want to try to see every best picture winner in history. Below is the complete list. I bolded films I've seen.
I'm not putting a time limit on when I need to complete this, but I want to make major progress this year.
I've seen 40 of 90 films. It's not a bad start, but there are a lot of films I've never even heard of and that's a problem. I need to round this out better.
- 2018 - ???
- 2017 - "The Shape of Water"
- 2016 - "Moonlight"
- 2015 - "Spotlight"
- 2014 - "Birdman"
- 2013 - "12 Years a Slave"
- 2012 - "Argo"
- 2011 - "The Artist"
- 2010 - "The King's Speech"
- 2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
- 2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
- 2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
- 2006 - "The Departed"
- 2005 - "Crash"
- 2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"
- 2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
- 2002 - "Chicago"
- 2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"
- 2000 - "Gladiator"
- 1999 - "American Beauty"
- 1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"
- 1997 - "Titanic"
- 1996 - "The English Patient"
- 1995 - "Braveheart"
- 1994 - "Forrest Gump"
- 1993 - "Schindler’s List"
- 1992 - "Unforgiven"
- 1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
- 1990 - "Dances With Wolves"
- 1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
- 1988 - "Rain Man"
- 1987 - "The Last Emperor"
- 1986 - "Platoon"
- 1985 - "Out of Africa"
- 1984 - "Amadeus"
- 1983 - "Terms of Endearment"
- 1982 - "Gandhi"
- 1981 - "Chariots of Fire"
- 1980 - "Ordinary People"
- 1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
- 1978 - "The Deer Hunter"
- 1977 - "Annie Hall"
- 1976 - "Rocky"
- 1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- 1974 - "The Godfather Part II"
- 1973 - "The Sting"
- 1972 - "The Godfather"
- 1971 - "The French Connection"
- 1970 - "Patton"
- 1969 - "Midnight Cowboy"
- 1968 - "Oliver!"
- 1967 - "In the Heat of the Night"
- 1966 - "A Man for All Seasons"
- 1965 - "The Sound of Music"
- 1964 - "My Fair Lady"
- 1963 - "Tom Jones"
- 1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia"
- 1961 - "West Side Story"
- 1960 - "The Apartment"
- 1959 - "Ben-Hur"
- 1958 - "Gigi"
- 1957 - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
- 1956 - "Around the World in 80 Days"
- 1955 - "Marty"
- 1954 - "On the Waterfront"
- 1953 - "From Here to Eternity"
- 1952 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
- 1951 - "An American in Paris"
- 1950 - "All About Eve"
- 1949 - "All the Kings Men"
- 1948 - "Hamlet"
- 1947 - "Gentleman's Agreement"
- 1946 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
- 1945 - "The Lost Weekend"
- 1944 - "Going My Way"
- 1943 - "Casablanca"
- 1942 - "Mrs. Miniver"
- 1941 - "How Green Was My Valley"
- 1940 - "Rebecca"
- 1939 - "Gone with the Wind"
- 1938 - "You Can't Take It with You"
- 1937 - "The Life of Emile Zola"
- 1936 - "The Great Ziegfeld"
- 1935 - "Mutiny on the Bounty"
- 1934 - "It Happened One Night"
- 1932/1933 - "Cavalcade"
- 1931/1932 - "Grand Hotel"
- 1930/1931 - "Cimarron"
- 1929/1930 - "All Quiet on the Western Front"
- 1928/1929 - "The Broadway Melody"
- 1927/1928 - "Wings"
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