A quick note

Part of this mission statement is to fulfill another, older mission statement of watching the entirety of the imdb top 250. After polishing off The Manchurian Candidate I have 68 films to go. My current week's list will knock off two more (Magnolia and The Lives of Others). Other requirements for entry will be to fulfill watching an important director's canon:

Hitchcock (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Dardenne Brothers
Kurosawa (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Ford (1, 2)
Leone (1, 2)
Allen (1)
Bresson (1)
Kubrick (1, 2, 3, 4)
Cassavetes

Satyajit Ray (1)
Polanski (1)
Cronenburg
Herzog
Bergman (1, 2)
Hawkes (1)
Fellini (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Altman

Scorcese (1)
Von Trier (1)
Truffaut (1)
Godard
Ozu (1)
Anthony Mann (1, 2)
Almodovar (1, 2, 3)
Antonioni (1)
Renoir (1, 2, 3, 4)
Loach

Tati (1)
Trakovsky (1, 2, 3)

Melville
De Sica (1, 2)

Other requirements will be to more fully appreciate a particular presence in film, be it a movement (French New Wave) or simply a country's important body of work (Germany, China) or a specific genre (Samurai Films, Spaghetti Westerns).

Other requirements include films that I've meant to watch and haven't, films that my friends can't believe I haven't watched yet, films that I haven't heard of that I'm watching for a class, or any other "list" that I can find on the internet of must see films and such.

As for the imdb list of films that I need to watch (including, inexplicably, Changling):

A Fistful of Dollars - Check
For a Few Dollars More - Check
Life is Beautiful - Check
Double Indemnity - Check
M - Check
Paths of Glory - Check
Aliens
The Lives of Others - Check
Das Boot - Check
The Bridge on the River Kwai - Check
All About Eve - Check
Singin' in the Rain - Check
Modern Times - Check
Rebecca - Check
Downfall - Check
Metropolis - Check
Once Upon a Time in America
Full Metal Jacket - Check
The Bicycle Thief - Check
Witness for the Prosecution
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Check
Ran - Check
The Deer Hunter
Wild Strawberries - Check
Diabolique (The Devils 1955) - Check
Judgement at Nuremberg
Platoon
The Wages of Fear - Check
8 1/2 - Check
The Night of the Hunter - Check
Nights of Cabiria - Check
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - Check
The Killing - Check
Brief Encounter - Check
The Thing
The Best Years of Our Lives
Sleuth - Check
The Wild Bunch
Umberto D. - Check
Shadow of a Doubt - Check
Stalag 17
Grave of the Fireflies - Check
The Lady Vanishes - Check
The Battle of Algiers - Check
Anatomy of Murder - Check
The Ox-Bow Incident - Check
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Check
La Strada - Check
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Lost Weekend - Check
The Exorcist
The Conversation - Check
Rosemary's Baby - Check
Bonnie and Clyde - Check
Sweet Smell of Success - Check
All Quiet on the Western Front
Network - Check
Frankenstein (1931) - Check
Great Expectations (1946) - Check
Patton
Arsenic and Old Lace
Laura - Check
My Man Godfrey (1936) - Check
The Big Parade (1925)
Magnolia - Check
The Day the Earth Stood Still - Check
La Dolce Vita - Check
Changling