Summer Movie Watch 2009 |
| Final progress update: as of August 5, 2009, I have completed all three lists! What was the summer movie watch? It was my attempt to make up for all the time I've spent watching (and rewatching) mediocre movies on cable, by making a clean sweep of three greatest movies lists: the American Film Institute's 100 Bests (the original list from 1998, as well as the 2007 revision) and Entertainment Weekly's 100 New Classics. Over the course of thirteen weeks in the summer of 2009, I watched the 91 movies that represented the gaps in the three lists. Any movie that appears on any of the three lists which does not appear here, I had already seen. I have now seen all hundred films on each of the three lists (due to repeat entries, this is fewer than 300 total movies). Further information is available on my blog. |
| Movie Watch Record: May 9: Stagecoach; Mutiny on the Bounty May 11: Terminator 2: Judgment Day May 13: The Shawshank Redemption May 18: Fatal Attraction May 20: The Bridge on the River Kwai May 23: Spider-Man 2 May 25: All Quiet on the Western Front; Bonnie and Clyde May 27: When Harry Met Sally May 28: The Sound of Music June 1: A Room with a View June 2: Brokeback Mountain June 4: Sunrise June 9: Out of Africa June 10: Saving Private Ryan June 11: Sullivan's Travels June 12: Boogie Nights June 13: Breaking the Waves June 14: Intolerance June 15: The French Connection June 16: Sex, Lies and Videotape; The Player June 17: Spartacus; Ben-Hur; Aliens June 18: Crumb June 21: King Kong June 22: Dances With Wolves June 23: In the Mood for Love; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon June 24: Scarface; The Godfather; The Godfather Part II June 25: A Place in the Sun June 26: Rebel Without a Cause June 27: The Incredibles June 28: Hannah and Her Sisters; Evil Dead 2 June 29: City Lights June 30: The Lives of Others; Swing Time July 1: High Noon; Shane; The Searchers; The Wild Bunch July 3: Blue Velvet July 4: 12 Angry Men July 5: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring; Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; Lord of the Rings: Return of the King July 6: Glory July 7: Yankee Doodle Dandy July 8: Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut July 9: In the Heat of the Night July 10: Giant July 12: Patton; Raging Bull July 13: The General July 14: Ed Wood July 15: Frankenstein July 16: Sophie's Choice; Schindler's List July 17: Sid and Nancy July 18: The Piano; The Bourne Supremacy July 19: Wings of Desire July 21: Y Tu Mama Tambien July 22: Menace II Society; Do the Right Thing; Hoop Dreams July 23: Drugstore Cowboy July 24: Natural Born Killers July 25: Unforgiven July 26: A Night at the Opera; Duck Soup July 27: Cabaret July 28: Rocky July 29: MASH; Platoon; The Deer Hunter July 30: Modern Times July 31: The Birth of a Nation August 1: All the President's Men; The Jazz Singer August 2: 2001: A Space Odyssey August 4: Nashville August 5: Easy Rider; Midnight Cowboy; Taxi Driver; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| The summer movie watch project was embarked upon by Erin Wolverton. Thanks to Netflix, Turner Classic Movies, Cleveland Heights libraries, and especially the Kelvin Smith library at Case Western Reserve University. Last update: 8.17.2009. |