Ok, my goal for 2007. I plan to watch 1 movie everyday for 365 days in 2007 (or if the days are less/more. is it a lip year?)
Anyway, I will try to watch movies I have planned to see but never have or movies I should have seen by haven't. Like "The Maltese Falcon" or "Citizen Kane".
I am asking people to post movies they thing I should see. I am not talking main streem movies like "Star Wars" or anything most people have seen. Looking for great movies that probally were over looked at it's release. Also any good movie (even main streem) before 1980. Its time I look back at some classic.
thanks
0rac

Straw Dogs
Dog Day Afternoon
Spartacus
And Justice For All
The Verdict
Bullitt
Any Criterion

Well hell. Just check out AFI's several top 100 lists and you'll find plenty of options.

I have done that to get some and I do love Dog Day. But hoping to find some other "missed" movies that doesn't pop up on "best movies" list.
I have heard good things about Straw Dogs and Billitt is in my MUST SEE list.

Gigli.....

What's a lip year?

here's a recommended book to peruse:

a short list of great movies that get looked over

Serpico
Rope
The Bad Seed
Inherit the Wind
On the Beach
Young Mr. Lincoln
Point Blank (1967)
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Barton Fink
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
My Man Godfrey
House of Wax (1953)
Bedtime for Bonzo
A Piece of the Action
Repo Man
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Gunga Din
Meet John Doe
The Up Series
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Safety Last! (1923)
After Hours

It might also help if you posted a dvd collection, as we could see what your into/what you have already seen

Near Dark is a little film from 1987 that is amazing, but semi-unheard of (and it would make a good october entry)

I was gonna say that too. I was born on LEAP year, so no. Now, a lip year, I don't know.

One way to tackle this would be to watch as many movies as possible by some of the greatest directors, such as Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Lang, Scorsese, Altman, Ford, Coppola, Cassavetes, etc. You may want to watch their movies in order, to see how they developed their styles. Just an idea.

How about some RKO goodness?

I Walked with a Zombie
The Set-up
The Stranger
Swing Time
Notorious

Sounds like a great project. Have fun.

Here's a website with an interesting top 1,000 list, based on critics, filmmakers, and film scholars' picks. You might get some ideas looking through it.

Dogfight - one of my favorite River Phoenix movies.
The Stoned Age - like Dazed and Confused, but more goofy humor.

Hands On A Hard Body

Dang, nice link.

Here are a few that come to mind:

Hard Candy
Brick
Constant Gardener
Thank You For Smoking
City of God

Freaks

Check the film noir threads. That will really help you meet your goal.

0rac -

It would help to have a link to your DVD collection, so we can know where your tastes lie, and more practically, what you've seen. Sounds like a cool project (and kind of tough to stick to), and I'd like to see the final list/plan when you finish compiling it. I'll put up a few recommendations with imdb links either later tonight or tomorrow.

cheers,

-the Jesus

I don't know what you like, a movie I really love that will probably never show up any of these lists is Barcelona. It is pretty talky, but the things they say I find very amusing.

Romper Stomper
The Believer

No rhyme or reason here, just a few of my personal faves:

Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Trip to Bountiful, The (1985)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
Station Agent, The (2003)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Japanese Story (2003)
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Cries & Whispers (1972)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time Machine, The (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
My Darling Clementine (1946)

Here's a couple of suggestions from my collection:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Cockfighter (1974)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Getaway (1972)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Nashville (1975)
Playtime (1967)
Scarface (1932)
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

This is how I started with classical/silent films...

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance and Broken Blossoms. German Expressionism with F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, The Last Laugh and Faust. Then the very The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. At that point I was so interested in German films I went further with Fritz Lang's Metropolis and M. Then others like Pandora's Box (the stunning Louise Brooks) and F.W. Murnau's American debut of Sunrise.

Some time during that period I also watched some film-noir starting with Double Indemnity which lead to me to seek more of Billy Wilder's works like Sunset Blvd. Other film-noir like The Maltese Falcon and The Third Man - And so on with new genres like Kurosawa and Frank Capra.

All that within two weeks period time and I tell you my brain was cookie-dough! So I took some time off reading about each director and film and I realized that it is better to think about each film for a day or so before rushing into a new one. So personally I wouldn't recommend on watching a movie everyday but take it slowly.

Frankenhooker