12 i missed, revisited
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Ten years ago, following up on a meme of the times, I looked at "Twelve movies you haven't seen that you should have seen and are embarrassed to admit you have missed." Over the last ten years, I have managed to see all 12 (links provided when I could hunt them down ... a reminder that you can see every movie I ever wrote about on the blog here):
L'Atalante.
Persona.
Contempt.
Pather Panchali.
If I were to redo this meme, using the same methodology as before (basically, what movies from They Shoot Pictures, Don't They I haven't seen, ranked from the top), this is what I'd find. If I'm still around in ten years, I'll check again:
Sátántangó
Once Upon a Time in America
The Mother and the Whore
Hiroshima mon amour
Letter from an Unknown Woman
A Brighter Summer Day
A Day in the Country
Rome, Open City
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Beau travail
Come and See
Ten years ago, I also listed the top 12 American movies I hadn't seen. Here is an updated version of that (the ones in bold are repeats from ten years ago):
Once Upon a Time in America, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Crowd, Only Angels Have Wings, Meshes of the Afternoon, Love Streams, Lost Highway, Stranger Than Paradise, Man of Aran, Heaven's Gate, Chelsea Girls, The Dead.
Finally, since this is easier than it was ten years ago, the top 12 movies from the 21st century I haven't seen:
Russian Ark, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Inland Empire, Zhantai, Silent Light, Syndromes and a Century, Good Bye Dragon Inn, Holy Motors, Songs from the Second Floor, Still Life.
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