Here's an older HTML version, but it hasn't been updated recently. Actually, there shouldn't be (too) many more entries, but my seen/unseen status is likely different for a good number of them. Suggestions for additions/subtractions, however, will be summarily ignored regardless of actual content.
Behold! The Masterlist
To recap:
Girolamo Savonarola - here's what Wilder is on my masterlist in chronological order
Slutsky - What do you mean, your masterlist?
GS - I have a list of films I've personally compiled. I haven't seen most of them, but it's a good quick reference for me.
S - Is it films by director or something?
GS - It's a spreadsheet with columns for title, director, year, whether or not I've seen it, Criterion number (if it has one), and what its call number is at a local library's film collection - although I'm skipping town soon, so that one will become entirely useless very soon.
It essentially is a masterlist compilation of a large number of other lists, but only from ones I felt were good, relevant, or had a number of interesting picks I wouldn't have found otherwise. Occasionally I've even included everything listed in the indices of very select books. My only rule is that it's all or nothing - I don't cherry pick what titles from those lists should make it, and therefore my personal taste has no value, aside from picking the lists themselves. It is currently holding at close to 4000 films, and pretty much from the first hundred on, as I slowly started compiling it, I've maintained a steady rate of having seen between 15 and 20 percent of it.
S - Wow!
GS - Yes, the rumors are true; I am a geek.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)
Shocking, Girolamo, absolutely shocking.
My brain just burst.
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)
holy shit, you are a maniac!
― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)
I think it merely confirms our deepest suspicions.
That said, you don't need to spend the rest of your life agonizing over the fact that you have yet to watch Caddyshack.
― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 25 September 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)
I've been working on something similar, so I was wondering which lists you used?
On mine, I'm using the AFI 100, the Village Voice Century Poll, the Sight and Sound top 10's, and the complete 2003 Sight and Sound poll, and Jonathan Rosenbaum's alternate 100. I'd like to find more sources that offer even greater diversity. Any suggestions?
― ted cogswell, Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)
Let's see, I used the AFI 100, the complete Sight and Sound list, Roger Ebert's Great Movies list from his, and then some miscellaneous sources I honestly couldn't tell you from memory offhand. That formed the bedrock, essentially.
Recently I added the entire Library of Congress' National Film Registry and the complete list from http://www.filmsite.org
If you want a good site for lists, try this one:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aw220/bylist.htm
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)