All Film History in 52 Weeks

You should put this as a list on http://letterboxd.com/ so I can see how many I've actually seen.

Alien is missing. Definitely more essential than Aliens.

Nice list. Only one problem.

No Birdemic. Would make a perfect double with The Room.

- Team Ollie

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

You think "Son of Frankenstein" is better than Frankenstein, Bride of, and Dracula?   *beats up Boost*

 Just not having Edward Van Sloan in it makes it better. 

Lugosi as Igor!? Basil Rathbone! One armed Lionel Atwil! 

 Lugosi as Dracula? The first two performances of Boris Karloff as the Monster?  The scene of the Monster with the blind man?  Colin Clive?  Elsa Lanchester?

Edward Van Sloan. 

He also sucks the life out of "The Mummy."

 NO!

His voice to me is one of the key ingredients of every October. I still hang on every syllable of his character expositions with baited breath just like I did as a child.Also, probably the only reason I got through Dracula's Daughter.

As far as the list, it's an impossible thing to merely nail down a cohesive list of titles to give people an all around glimpse of the medium. Everyone has their niche favorites, and many things will never be covered in the best-of's and textbooks in as good of detail as they should. Being a massive film historian, this was a huge challenge for me when I ran my own film society in college; in that I also tried to fill in all the huge gaps left by the pitiful classes.

Also, since this quickly became an American led medium it is always hard to pull back focus and examine many foreign features.

The best I can do is share the list of films I screened, lectured, discussed and programmed in college, otherwise I'd be here all day:

University of Tampa Film Appreciation Society Programming:
All titles were culled from the best available sources (DVD, VHS, Laserdisc or fan made preservations) The films were screened in the Department’s Screening Room A in their proper aspect ratios (1.33, 1.66, 1.78, 1.85, 2.35, 2.55 and 2.21:1) on a Epson projector integrated into a dedicated surround sound system with their original theatrical audio mixes (Mono, Stereo, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Stereo SR, Dolby 5.1, Dolby 5.1 EX, DTS 5.1, DTS 6.1 ES, PCM and audio derived from 70mm 6 track mixes). Each film was preceded by an informative speech either about the film, its makers, or the context of the time period and ended with a friendly chat over coffee.
Film series:
Hitchcock At Work:
1.    The Lodger (1926)
2.    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
3.    The 39 Steps (1935)
4.    Secret Agent (1936)
5.    Sabotage (1936)
6.    Young and Innocent (1937)
7.    The Lady Vanishes (1938)
8.    Rebecca (1940)
9.    Foreign Correspondent (1940)
10.    Suspicion (1941)
11.    Saboteur (1942)
12.    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
13.    Lifeboat (1944)
14.    Spellbound (1945)
15.    Notorious (1946)
16.    The Paradine Case (1947)
17.    Rope (1948)
18.    Stage Fright (1950)
19.    Strangers on a Train (1951)
20.    I, Confess (1952)
21.    Dial M For Murder (1954)
22.    Rear Window (1954)
23.    To Catch a Thief (1955)
24.    The Trouble With Harry (1955)
25.    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
26.    The Wong Man (1957)
27.    Vertigo (1958)
28.    North by Northwest (1959) 50th Anniversary Restoration
29.    Psycho (1960)
30.    The Birds (1963)
31.    Marnie (1964)
32.    Torn Curtain (1966)
33.    Topaz (1969)
34.    Frenzy (1972)
The Revisionist Sam Peckinpah:
1.    Ride the High Country (1962)
2.    Major Dundee (Extended Restored Version, 1965)
3.    The Wild Bunch (1969)
4.    Straw Dogs (1971)
5.    Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973, 1988 Preview Version)
6.    Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
John Frankenheimer and the surreal paranoia of reality:
1.    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2.    Seven Days in May (1964)
3.    Seconds (1966)
4.    Ronin (1998)
The Epic Cinema of David Lean:
1.    The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
2.    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3.    Doctor Zhivago (1965) (45th anniversary restoration)
4.    Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
Kurosawa, a Portrait:
1.    Drunken Angel
2.    Stray Dog
3.    Rashoman
4.    Ikiru
5.    Seven Samurai
6.    Yojimbo
Once Upon a Time…..the revolutionary Cinema of Sergio Leone:
1.    A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
2.    For a Few Dollars More (1965)
3.    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (original 1966 US theatrical cut supervised by Leone.)
4.    Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (Restored 165 minute version.)
5.    Duck, You Sucker!/A Fistful of Dynamite/Once Upon a Time…the Revolution (1971) (restored 157 minute version.)
6.    Once Upon a Time in America (1984) (Restored 224 minute version.)
The essence of Billy Wilder:
1.    Double Indemnity (1944)
2.    Sunset Blvd. (1950)
3.    Ace in the Hole (1951)
4.    The Apartment (1960)
5.    One, Two, Three (1961)
6.    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Purity of Essence: The Visions of Stanley Kubrick:
1.    Killer’s Kiss (1955)
2.    The Killing (1956)
3.    Paths of Glory (1957)
4.    Spartacus (1960)
5.    Lolita (1962)
6.    Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)
7.    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8.    A Clockwork Orange (1971)
9.    Barry Lyndon (1975)
10.    The Shining (1980)
11.    Full Metal Jacket (1987)
12.    Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Wellesian Cinema:
1.    Citizen Kane (1941)
2.    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
3.    The Stranger (1946)
4.    The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
5.    Touch of Evil (1958)
Coppola:
1.    The Godfather (1972)
2.    The Conversation (1974)
3.    The Godfather Part II (1974)
4.    Apocalypse Now (Theatrical version, 1979)
Scorsese:
1.    Who’s The Knocking at My Door? (I Call First, 1967)
2.    Mean Streets (1973)
3.    Taxi Driver (1976)
4.    The King of Comedy (1981)
5.    After Hours (1985)
6.    The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
7.    The Age of Innocence (1993)
8.    Casino (1995)
9.    Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Sidney Lumet:
1.    12 Angry Men (1957)
2.    The Hill (1965)
3.    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
4.    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
5.    Network (1976)
6.    Prince of the City (1981)
7.    The Verdict (1982)
8.    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Changing attitudes towards the police:
1.    The French Connection (1971)
2.    Bullitt (1968)
Francois Truffaut:
1.    The 400 Blows (1959)
2.    Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
3.    Jules and Jim (1962)
4.    Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
5.    Day For Night (1973)
Jean-Luc Godard:
1.    Breathless (1959)
2.    My Life To Live (1962)
Carol Reed:
1.    The Fallen Idol (1948)
2.    The Third Man (1949)
John Huston:
1.    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
2.    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
3.    The African Queen (1951)
4.    The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
F.W. Murnau:
1.    Nosferatu (1922)
2.    Sunrise (1927)
Spielberg:
1.    Duel (1971)
2.    Jaws (1975)
3.    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
4.    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
5.    Empire of the Sun (1987)
6.    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Alan J. Pakula’s “Paranoia Trilogy”:
1.    Klute (1971)
2.    The Parallax View (1974)
3.    All The President’s Men (1975)
The Archers: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger:
1.    A Matter of Life and Death (1947)
2.    The Small Back Room (1949)
3.    Peeping Tom (1960) (Dir. By Powell alone)
Disney Classics:
1.    Pinocchio (1940)
2.    Fantasia (1941)
50’s Sci-fi:
1.    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)
2.    The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)
3.    The Blob (1958)
4.    The Thing From Another World (1951)
5.    The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Hammer Horror:
1.    The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
2.    Dracula (1958)
3.    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1958)
4.    The Mummy (1959)
5.    Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
6.    Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974)
Roman Polanski:
1.    Repulsion (1965)
2.    The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
3.    Chinatown (1974)
4.    The Ghostwriter (2009)
Woody Allen:
1.    Bananas (1972)
2.    Sleeper (1973)
3.    Annie Hall (1977)
4.    Manhattan (1979)
5.    Match Point (2005)
Ridley Scott:
1.    The Duellists (1977)
2.    Blade Runner (1982)
3.    Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut (2005)
Cary Grant and the Art of Screwball:
1.    Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
2.    Topper (1937)
3.    The Awful Truth (1937)
4.    Bringing Up Baby (1938)
5.    Holiday (1938)
6.    His Girl Friday (1940)
7.    The Philadelphia Story (1940)
8.    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
9.    I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Classic Swashbuckling and Adventure:
1.    The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
2.    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
3.    Gunga Din (1939)
4.    The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Roger Corman Poe series:
1.    House of Usher (1960)
2.    The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
3.    The Premature Burial (1962)
4.    Tales of Terror (1962)
5.    The Raven (1963)
6.    The Haunted Palace (1963)
7.    The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
8.    The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Vincent Price:
1.    Witchfinder General (1967)
2.    The Abominable Doctor Phibes (1971)
3.    Doctor Phibes Rises Again (1972)
4.    Theatre of Blood (1973)
Bogart:
1.    They Drive By Night (1940)
2.    High Sierra (1941)
3.    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
4.    Casablanca (1942)
5.    To Have and Have Not (1944)
6.    The Big Sleep (1946)
7.    Dark Passage (1947)
8.    Key Largo (1948)
9.    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
10.    In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Insanity of Monty Python:
1.    Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975)
2.    Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
3.    Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
Arthur Penn:
1.    Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2.    Night Moves (1975)
Fritz Lang:
1.    Metropolis (1927)
2.    M (1931)
3.    Fury (1936)
4.    The Big Heat (1953)
Chaplin:
1.    The Gold Rush (1925)
2.    The Circus (1928)
3.    City Lights (1931)
4.    Modern Times (1936)
5.    The Great Dictator (1940)
6.    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Buster Keaton:
1.    Sherlock Jr. (1924)
2.    The General (1926)
The 60’s in a nutshell:
1.    Our Man Flint (1965)
2.    The President’s Analyst (1967)
3.    Casino Royale (1967)
Nicholas Roeg:
1.    Don’t Look Now (1973)
2.    The Man Who fell to Earth (1975)
Capracorn:
1.    It Happened One Night (1934)
2.    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
3.    It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Pink Panther:
1.    The Pink Panther (1963)
2.    A Shot in the Dark (1964)
3.    Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
4.    The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
5.    Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
NOIRFEST:
1.    Elevator to the Gallows (1957)
2.    Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)
3.    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
4.    The Big Sleep (1946)
5.    In a Lonely Place (1950)
6.    Out of the Past (1946)
7.    Gun Crazy (1950)
8.    Detour (1945)
9.    Laura (1944)
10.    Gilda (1946)
11.    Double Indemnity (1944)
12.    Ace in the Hole (1951)
13.    Chinatown (1974)
Evolution of a Superhero: Batman:
1.    Batman: The Movie (1966)
2.    Batman (1989)
3.    Batman Returns (1992)
4.    Batman Forever (1995)
5.    Batman & Robin (1998)
6.    Batman Begins (2005)
Development of the modern action film in the 1980’s and its refinement in the 1990’s:
1.    To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
2.    Lethal Weapon (1987)
3.    The Living Daylights (1987)
4.    Die Hard (1988)
5.    The Hunt for Red October (1990)
James Bond: The Ultimate Adventure Hero and Escapist Fantasy:
1.    Casino Royale (1954, CBS Television Adaptation)*
2.    Doctor No (1962)
3.    From Russia With Love (1963)
4.    Goldfinger (1964)
5.    Thunderball (1965)
6.    Casino Royale (1967)*
7.    You Only Live Twice (1967)
8.    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
9.    Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
10.    Live and Let Die (1973)
11.    The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
12.    The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
13.    Moonraker (1979)
14.    For Your Eyes Only (1981)
15.    Octopussy (1983)
16.    Never Say Never Again (1983)*
17.    A View To a Kill (1985)
18.    The Living Daylights (1987)
19.    Licence To Kill (1989)
20.    Goldeneye (1995)
21.    Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
22.    The World Is Not Enough (1999)
23.    Die Another Day (2002)
*Denotes unofficial entry.
Single Films:
Blade Runner (1982) (The 2007 Final Cut, with comparisons to four other archival versions.)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Star Wars (Original 1977 theatrical Version compared to the first Special Edition from 1997.)
The Third Man (1949)
THX-1138 (1971) (original 1971 theatrical version.)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
8 ½ (1963)
The Conformist (1970)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Charade (1960)
Cat People (1942)
The Killers (1946)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Get Carter (1971)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Superman animated serials by Max and Dave Fleischer (1941-1945)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Being There (1979)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
On the Waterfront (1954)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Clue (1985)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962)
Anatomy of a Murder (1950)
Le Femme Nikita (1991)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
White Heat (1949)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Special Events and Double Features:
-An Evening with John Woo, Saturday Sept. 11 2010: Hard Boiled (1992) and The Killer (1989)
-Halloween Horror FestEvil Night 1:
Original British Double Bill of Don’t Look Now (1973) and The Wicker Man (1973)
-Universal Classic Horrors Night 2:
Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
-Duel (1971) and Jaws (1975)
STAR WARS:
-Star Wars (fan preserved original 1977 16mm print with since unheard original Dolby theatrical mono audio!)
-The Empire Strikes Back (fan made 30th Anniversary 1980 Theatrical Reconstruction)
-Return of The Jedi (fan preserved 1983 Theatrical Version with original Dolby Stereo track)
-A rare presentation of the 1997 Special Edition Trilogy in Dolby 5.1
- The Jerk (1976)/Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
- The Yakuza (1975)/The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

The best experiences I ever had doing this in both high school and college were probably going in depth into Hitchcock's career, explaining the deeper facets of the Bond series and most of all when I ran the Puggo Grande for a mixture of students and faculty which turned into a packed room and many, many amazed people afterwards.

SO MUCH LIST.

I vote for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's the best Disney film IMO and indisputably groundbreaking.

Plus, it's my favorite, so there's that.