an extensive list of films I wish to see (as of 07/27/10)

• Akira Kurosawa
  • Rashômon (1950)
  • Yojimbo (1961)
  • Ran (1985)
• Alfred Hitchcock
  • The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  • Rebecca (1940)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • Rope (1948)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • Dial M for Murder (1954)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
    
  • Psycho (1960)
    
• Blaxploitation
  
  • Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Pebbles, 1971)
  • Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971)
  • Super Fly (dir. Gordon Parks Jr., 1972)
  • Coffy (dir. Jack Hill, 1973)
  • Boss Nigger (dir. Jack Arnold, 1975)
    
  • Black Dynamite (dir. Scott Sanders, 2009)
• Bollywood
  • Mother India (dir. Mehboob Khan, 1957)
  • Embers (dir. Ramesh Sippy, 1975)
• Chinese Cinema
  
  • Raise the Red Lantern (dir. Yimou Zhang, 1991)
  • In the Mood For Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong, 2000)
• David Lean
  • Brief Encounter (1945)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  • Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• The Documentary
  • Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner, 2008)
  • Capitalism: A Love Story (dir. Michael Moore, 2009)
• Federico Fellini
  • Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  • Amarcord (1973)
• Film Noir
  • The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941)
  • The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, 1946)
  • The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed, 1949)
  • Sunset Blvd. (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)
• French Cinema
  • All’s Well (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1972)
  • Delicatessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991)
  • The Science of Sleep (dir. Michel Gondry, 2006)
• French New Wave
  • The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut, 1959)
  • Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  • Band of Outsiders (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
• Ian Fleming’s “James Bond” Adaptations
  
  • You Only Live Twice (dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1967)
  • Diamonds Are Forever (dir. Guy Hamilton, 1971)
  • Moonraker (dir. Lewis Gilbert, 1979)
• Italian Cinema
  • Il Postino: The Postman (dir. Michael Radford, 1994)
  • Life Is Beautiful (dir. Roberto Benigni, 1997)
• Korean Cinema
  • The Isle (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2000)
  • Real Fiction (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2000)
  • Address Unknown (dir. Ki-duk Kim, 2001)
  • The President’s Last Bang (dir. Sang-soo Im, 2005)
  • Chaser (dir. Hong-jin Na, 2008)
  • The Good, The Bad, The Weird (dir. Ji-Woon Kim, 2008)
  • Mother (dir. Joon-ho Bong, 2009)
  • Thirst (dir. Chan-wook Park, 2009)
• The Kung Fu Film
  • A Touch of Zen (dir. King Hu, 1969)
  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1978)
  • Drunken Master (dir. Woo-ping Yuen, 1978)
  • Shaolin Challenges Ninja (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1979)
  • Clan of the White Lotus (dir. Lieh Lo, 1980)
  • The Prodigal Son (dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, 1982)
  • Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (dir. Chia-Liang Liu, 1984)
• Martin Scorcese
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
  • Cape Fear (1991)
  • Casino (1995)
  • Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Michael Caine
  • Zulu (dir. Cy Endfield, 1964)
  • Get Carter (dir. Mike Hodges, 1971)
  • Sleuth (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)
  • The Man Who Would Be King (dir. John Huston, 1975)
  • Is Anybody There? (dir. John Crowley, 2008)
  • Harry Brown (dir. Daniel Barber, 2009)
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955)
  • 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1957)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards, 1961)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan, 1962)
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman, 1975)
  • Marathon Man (dir. John Schlesinger, 1976)
  • Risky Business (dir. Paul Brickman, 1983)
  • Footloose (dir. Herbert Ross, 1984)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone, 1984)
  • Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone, 1986)
  • She’s Gotta Have It (dir. Spike Lee, 1986)
  • Top Gun (dir. Tony Scott, 1986)
  • Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
  • Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
  • El Mariachi (dir. Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
  • Quiz Show (dir. Robert Redford, 1994)
  • Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross, 1998)
  • Rounders (dir. John Dahl, 1998)
  • American Pie (dir. Paul Weitz, 1999)
  • Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe, 2000)
  • Ali G Indahouse (dir. Mark Mylod, 2002)
  • Bend It Like Beckham (dir. Gurinder Chadha, 2002)
  • Hell Boy (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2004)
  • Layer Cake (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2004)
  • Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood, 2005)
  • A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater, 2006)
  • Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster, 2006)
  • Across the Universe (dir. Julie Taymor, 2007)
  • I’m Not There. (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007)
  • There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  • Taken (dir. Pierre Morel, 2008)
  • Avatar (dir. James Cameron, 2009)
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir. Wes Anderson, 2009)
  • The Hangover (dir. Todd Phillips, 2009)
  • Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze, 2009)
• Patrick Swayze
  • The Outsiders (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
  • Red Dawn (dir. John Milius, 1984)
  • Dirty Dancing (dir. Emile Ardolino, 1987)
  • Road House (dir. Rowdy Herrington, 1989)
  • Ghost (dir. Jerry Zucker, 1990)
  • Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
• Paul Newman
  • Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
  • Slap Shot (dir. George Roy Hill, 1977)
• Rob Reiner
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Stand By Me (1986)
  • When Harry Met Sally (1989)
  • Misery (1990)
• Robert Altman
  • Brewster McCloud (1970)
  • The Long Goodbye (1973)
• The Slapstick
  • Our Hospitality (dir. John G. Blystone, 1923)
  • The General (dir. Buster Keaton, 1927)
  • The Cameraman (dir. Edward Sedgwick, 1928)
  • City Lights (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1931)
  • Modern Times (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1936)
  • The Great Dictator (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1940)
• The Theater-to-Film Adaptation
  
  • His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940)
  • Henry V (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1989)
  • Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1996)
• Victor Fleming
  • Gone with the Wind (1939)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Western
  • Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks, 1959)
  • The Magnificent Seven (dir. John Sturges, 1960)
  • Blazing Saddles (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974)
• Woody Allen
  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)