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  • BLADE RUNNER - IT'S NOT GENOCIDE - IT'S RETIREMENT
    • BLADE RUNNER IS A SYMBOL FOR
  • DAILY THOUGHTS - THE BLOG, IN FACT
  • SCHEDULE & MISSION
    • WEEK BY WEEK SCHEDULE
    • THE MISSION
    • WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR
    • THE TOP FILMS
  • OBSERVATIONS
    • ESSAY - AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
    • ESSAY - MOTHER - DARREN ARONOFSKY
    • ESSAY - 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY - THE VISION
    • ESSAY - INGMAR BERGMAN - EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST
    • ESSAY - INGMAR BERGMAN - WINTER LIGHT (1963)
    • ESSAY - SURELY A 100 GREATEST FILMS LIST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
    • ESSAY - BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI - IL CONFORMISTA
    • ESSAY - NEVER INVEST IN YOUR OWN FILM
    • ESSAY - VERTIGO - A PATCH OF RED
  • ESSAY - JEAN VIGO'S L'ATALANTE
  • ESSAY - COPPOLA - THE GODFATHER
  • ESSAY - FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA - THE OUTSIDERS
  • ARTICLES
    • ESSAY - WHEN WATCHING MOVIES BECOMES A DISORDER
  • ESSAY - JEAN RENOIR'S CAMERA
  • ESSAY - KINGSMAN - WE ALL KNOW IT'S A JOKE
  • ESSAY - MARTIN SCORSESE - TAXI DRIVER (1976)
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WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR

In amongst the great films listed below, I have also added other films (I've seen) from other top ten lists, or top 100 lists, or just, for instance, because I want to see another two Coppola films again (The Cotton Club and The Outsiders) while I'm watching the four great ones; or watch seven more Renoir films beyond La Grande Illusion and La Règle du Jeu (La bête humaine, The Lower Depths, French Cancan and others). The non-top 200 films I've included are in grey.

The list would be longer if I included the films I've seen in the cinema as well since the project began on July 1, 2017. I'm trying to stay in touch with modern American-British-Australian cinema as it unfolds in Australia. Admittedly, I do sometime see three films in a cinema one week and then don't see a current film, for two or even three weeks.

8½ (1963) FEDERICO FELLINI
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) KUBRICK
2046 (2004) WONG KAR WAI
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) HERZOG 
[aka. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)]
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) FASSBINDER
Amarcord (1973) FEDERICO FELLINI
Andrei Rublev (1966) ANDREI TARKOVSKY
L'Atalante (1934) JEAN VIGO
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) BRESSON
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) FASSBINDER
The Best Man (1964) SCHAFFNER
Blade Runner (1982) RIDLEY SCOTT
Blue Velvet (1986) DAVID LYNCH
Boudu sauve des eaux (1932) RENOIR [aka. Boudu Saved from Drowning]
Casablanca (1942) MICHAEL CURTIZ
Casino (1995) SCORSESE
Chungking Express (1994) WONG KAR WAI
A Clockwork Orange (1971) KUBRICK
The Conversation (1974) COPPOLA
The Cotton Club (1984) COPPOLA
Cries and Whispers (1972) BERGMAN
Dersu Uzala (1975) AKIRA KUROSAWA
Diary of a Country Priest (1962) BRESSON
La Dolce Vita (1960) FELLINI
Elena et les Hommes (1956) RENOIR [aka. Elena and the Men]
Fanny & Alexander (1982) BERGMAN
Fellini's Casanova (1976) FELLINI
The 400 Blows (1959) TRUFFAUT
French Cancan (1955) RENOIR
The General (1926) KEATON
The Godfather (1972) FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The Godfather Part II (1974) COPPOLA
The Gold Rush (1925) CHARLES CHAPLIN
A Hard Day's Night (1964) RICHARD LESTER
The Hidden Fortress (1958) KUROSAWA
Hour of the Wolf (1968) INGMAR BERGMAN
I Vitelloni (1953) FEDERICO  FELLINI
Il Conformista (1970) [aka. The Conformist]
Imitation of Life (1959) DOUGLAS SIRK
In the Mood for Love  (1999) WONG KAR WAI
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) FELLINI
Jules et Jim (1962) [aka. Jules and Jim]
L'historie d'Adèle H. (1975) [aka. The Story of Adèle H.] TRUFFAUT
La Bête humaine (1938) RENOIR [aka. The Human Beast]
La Grande Illusion (1937) RENOIR [aka. The Grand Illusion]
La Jetee (1962) MARKER [aka. The Jetty]
La nuit et brouillard (1956) ALAIN RESNAIS
La Regle du Jeu (1939) RENOIR [aka. The Rules of the Game]
La Strada (1954) FEDERICO FELLINI
Last Tango in Paris (1972) BERTOLUCCI
Late Autumn (1960) YASUJIRO OZU
Late Spring (1949) YASUJIRO OZU
Le Dernier Metro (1980) TRUFFAUT [aka. The Last Metro] 
Les Bas-fonds (1936) RENOIR [aka. The Lower Depths]
Macbeth (1948) WELLES
Macbeth (2015) KURZEL
La Dernier Metro (1980) TRUFFAUT
A Man Escaped (1956) BRESSON
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) VERTOV
Mulholland Drive (2001) LYNCH
Nuit et brouillard (1956) RESNAIS
The Outsiders (1983) COPPOLA
Une Partie de Campagne (1936) RENOIR [aka. A Day in the Country]
Persona (1966) BERGMAN
Pickpocket (1959) BRESSON
Psycho (1960) HITCHCOCK
Rashomon (1950) KUROSAWA
The River (1951) RENOIR
San Soleil (1983) MARKER
Sanjuro (1962) KUROSAWA
Scenes From a Marriage (1974) BERGMAN
The Searchers (1956) JOHN FORD
Seven Samurai (1954) KUROSAWA
The Seventh Seal (1957) BERGMAN
The Silence (1963) BERGMAN
Smiles of a Summer's Night (1955) BERGMAN
The Southerner (1945) RENOIR
Sonatine (1993) KITANO
Stolen Kisses (1968) TRUFFAUT
The Story of a Prostitute (1966) SUZUKI
Sunrise (1927) MURNAU
Taxi Driver (1976) SCORSESE
Teni zabytych predhov ('65) PARADZHANOV
Throne of Blood (1957) KUROSAWA
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) BERGMAN
Tirez sur le pianist (1960) TRUFFAUT
Tokyo Story (1953) OZU
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) BRESSON
Ugetsu mongatari (1953) MIZOGUCHI
Vertigo (1958) HITCHCOCK
The Virgin Spring (1960) BERGMAN
Wild Strawberries (1957) BERGMAN
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) KIAROSTAMI
Winter Light (1963) BERGMAN
Woman of the Dunes (1964) TESHIGAHARA
Yojimbo (1961) KUROSAWA