So once I've made my way through the IMDb Top 100, I want to continue this project and move it into other lists of films to watch. I've had a few ideas, including:
- Best Picture winners (or, more ambitiously, nominees), chronologically if possible;
- Picking some of my favourite filmmakers and actors and making my way through their careers from beginning to end;
- Picking a country famous for its cinema (Japan, Italy, Germany and France in particular) and randomly picking some highly-regarded films; and
- Picking a country barely known at all for its cinema and seeing what I can find (North Korea would be fascinating but possibly too hard to source films).
Any ideas?
Joel
Posted November 20, 2009.I think the advantage of your current top 100 approach is you're moving between different genres / directors / eras etc.
When I was in Edmonton, I tivo'd a crap load of movies and filled the hard drive pretty quickly. I noticed I had a lot of Mafia-related movies, so I watched about 5 to 10 Mafia movies in a row (Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface, Carlito's Way, etc). In the end they all just blurred together – I wish I had have spaced them out.
At least the Best Picture option would mix it up a little.
Bradley Dixon
Posted November 20, 2009.Yeah that's good thinking actually. But then all the other possible lists I've thought of should be pretty diverse as well, at least as far as genre. Like I may get sick of seeing Jennifer Connolly's face (unlikely) or hearing people talk German (very likely), but I probably won't get bored either way.