After much thought and deliberation, I have decided to expand this year’s Movie Project to a full 50 films, just like last year. It was hard to narrow down my proposed list to just 50, but I am feeling pretty good about this year’s batch. I kept most of the suggestions from my initial announcement, and I added several films that I have been wanting to see for a long time. I tried to incorporate a good mix of genres from all eras, and I included a few films from trilogies that I have not yet completed (Dollars, Indiana Jones, Vengeance). I am eager to get this project started, so be on the lookout for the first post sometime soon.

The Final List:

Metropolis [1927, Fritz Lang]
M [1931, Fritz Lang]
Modern Times [1936, Charlie Chaplin]
The Philadelphia Story [1940, George Cukor]
Gilda [1946, Charles Vidor]
Notorious [1946, Alfred Hitchcock]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948, John Huston]
All About Eve [1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz]
Singin’ in the Rain [1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly]
On the Waterfront [1954, Elia Kazan]
The Searchers [1956, John Ford]
Paths of Glory [1957, Stanley Kubrick]
Touch of Evil [1958, Orson Welles]
Shadows [1959, John Cassavetes]
Some Like It Hot [1959, Billy Wilder]
Lawrence of Arabia [1962, David Lean]
To Kill a Mockingbird [1962, Robert Mulligan]
A Fistful of Dollars [1964, Sergio Leone]
For a Few Dollars More [1965, Sergio Leone]
The Wild Bunch [1969, Sam Peckinpah]
The Last Picture Show [1971, Peter Bogdanovich]
Vanishing Point [1971, Richard C. Sarafian]
Aguirre: The Wrath of God [1972, Werner Herzog]
Pink Flamingos [1972, John Waters]
Coffy [1973, Jack Hill]
Enter the Dragon [1973, Robert Clouse]
The Sting [1973, George Roy Hill]
Rocky [1976, John G. Avildsen]
The Blues Brothers [1980, John Landis]
Blow Out [1981, Brian De Palma]
Paris, Texas [1984, Wim Wenders]
Blue Velvet [1986, David Lynch]
The Fly [1986, David Cronenberg]
Cinema Paradiso [1988, Giuseppe Tornatore]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989, Steven Spielberg]
The Nightmare Before Christmas [1993, Henry Selick]
Dead Man [1995, Jim Jarmusch]
Ringu [1998, Hideo Nakata]
Rushmore [1998, Wes Anderson]
The Truman Show [1998, Peter Weir]
All About My Mother [1999, Pedro Almodóvar]
O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000, Coen Brothers]
The Bourne Identity [2002, Doug Liman]
Chicago [2002, Rob Marshall]
The Pianist [2002, Roman Polanski]
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [2005, Shane Black]
Lady Vengeance [2005, Chan-wook Park]
Casino Royale [2006, Martin Campbell]
The Lives of Others [2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck]
Into the Wild [2007, Sean Penn]

So, what do you guys think? Are any of your favorite movies listed? Are there any films in particular that I should see first?