Blind Spots

I've been slowly working down the list of the Criterion collection.  Salo is the lowest spine that I haven't seen and frankly it's not one I'm looking forward to watching.  

Solaris is great though.  Film club people, take note.



I don't know why my brain instantly went to 'Human Centipede Trilogy.'  1godzillafan would be proud.  But Human Condition is one I think I'll dedicate myself to in a block of time and just burn through the whole thing over the course of a week or so.

Based on how many times it's been logged on Letterboxd. Meant to mention that in my post.

I feel attacked.

I passed on Stop Making Sense a couple of months ago because I wanted to watch it with a decent sound set-up.

How are you finding these that way?

I feel atta--  Oh.  Right.  You don't like Harry Potter.

You can also set your own filters to hide films you've watched.

So I had my own personal list going and I used Letterboxd to fill in the gaps for the particular decades.  I also ignored movies that I just have no interest in watching or if I saw a movie lower on the Letterboxd list that I consider to be a more egregious cinematic overlook.


Updated 6/4/24


2020s
Glass Onion
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
Challengers
Bottoms
Bullet Train

2010s
Call Me By Your Name
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Portrait of A Lady On Fire
Bohemian Rhapsody
Your Name.

2000s
Ratatouille
Monsters, Inc.
The Devil Wears Prada
Pride and Prejudice
Mamma Mia!

1990s
Dead Man Walking
But I'm A Cheerleader
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Lost Highway
Clueless

1980s
Fanny and Alexander
Wings of Desire
Pretty In Pink
Footloose
Possession

1970s
Saturday Night Fever
Suspiria
The Long Goodbye
Stalker
The Wicker Man

1960s
Blow-Up
Pierrot le Fou
Andrei Roublev
Daisies
Vivre Sa Vie

1950s
Nights of Cabiria
Good Morning
Funny Face
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Mon Oncle

1940s
Late Spring
Meshes of the Afternoon
Rome, Open City
Meet Me In St. Louis
I Married A Witch

We shoulda thought of this years ago.

Now I actually have more concrete options for Dracula and PG Cooper.

My main goal moving forward is recommending 60s/70s movies forthe next top 100.

1920s

A Page of Madness (1926)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Napoleon (1927)
Greed (1924) Really want to watch this but finding the legit version is a challenge
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

1930s

Frankenstein (1931) Yikes
Dracula (1931) Yikes
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Yikes
The Mummy (1932)
The Black Cat (1934)

So basically I've romped through the 30s except have seen none of its horror classics. Shame.

1940s

Rope (1948) Easily my biggest Hitchcock entry missing
Cat People (1942)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Not sure how I missed this seeing as I've seen basically every Michael Powell film.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Gaslight (1944)

1950s

Nights of Cabiria (1957) My biggest Fellini miss along with Amarcord.
Good Morning (1959) Biggest Ozu miss.
The Hidden Fortress (1958) Biggest Kurosawa miss along with Sanjuro.
Funny Face (1957) Meh, don't want to watch this.
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) More classic horror.

These are literally the only ones from the first page on Letterboxd that I'm missing.

1960s

Daisies (1966)
Easy Rider (1969) Shame.
Planet of the Apes (1968) Neverending is gonna be pissed.
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Onibaba (1964)


1970s

Grease (1978) Neverending won't like this either.
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Salo (1975) Not sure when a good day will ever be to watch this shit.
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Black Christmas (1974) 

1980s

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Possession (1981)
Clue (1985)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

So basically I need to finally do a Studio Ghibli run.

1990s

Titanic (1997) You read that right.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Perfect Blue (1997)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)

2000s

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Twilight (2008) And I'll be damned if I ever do watch it.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Mamma Mia! (2008) Fuck no.

2010s

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
A Star is Born (2018)
Annihilation (2018) Have more saved this because I'm so excited to watch it in the near future.
Suicide Squad (2016) Not even the morbidest of curiosity. 

So basically I need to watch a lot more anime and horror classics. And finally watch Titanic and Easy Rider.

It's one of those I'd never watch on my own, but if some friends wanted to have a drinking night to laugh at it then that's really the only way I'd sit down and view the damn thing.

One of them was on in a bar I was at in Atlanta and the entire place just kept laughing at it. The CGI was beyond terrible. It was sort of a nice moment to see an entire bar unified in clowning on such an awful franchise.