The last of my lists - the themed movie challenge!

And my last movie list... based on the 888 Book Challenge idea - what a great one!

Movies originally not in English:

1. Amelie (France)
2. The Lives of Others - Germany
3. All About my Mother (Spain)
4. Downfall (Germany)
5. Dekalog (Poland)
6. Le Declin de l'Empire americain (Canada)
7. And your Mother too (Spain)
8. Rejs (Poland)

Musicals:

1. All That Jazz (1979)
2. Cabaret (1972)
3. 42nd Street (1933)
4. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
5. Rent (2005)
6. Hello, Dolly (1969)
7. Dreamgirls (2006)
8. The Producers (1967)

Movies by female directors:

1. My life without me (2003 - Isabel Coixet)
2. Lost in Translation (2004 - Sofia Coppola)
3. The Virgin Suicides (2000 - Sofia Coppola)
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982 - Amy Heckerling)
5. Monsoon Wedding (2002 - Mira Nair)
6. Frida (2003 - Julie Taymor)
7. The Piano (1993 - Jane Campion)
8. ?

Chick Flicks:

1. Music and Lyrics (2007)
2. Now and Then (1996)
3. The Prince and Me (2004)
4. The Ice Princess (2005)
5. The Princess Diaries (2001)
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?

Movies based on books:

1. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
2. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
3. Casino Royale (2006)
4. The Bourne Identity (2002)
5. Angela's Ashes (2000)
6. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
8. Sense and Sensibility (1996)

Award winners:

1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
2. The Departed (2006)
3. The English Patient (1996)
4. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
5. Rain Man (1988)
6. Amadeus (1984)
7. Ordinary People (1980)
8. Chariots of Fire (1981)

Films I've seen, but way too long ago:

1. Muriel's Wedding (1995)
2. The Matrix (1999)
3. Moulin Rouge (2001)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
5. The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Apollo 13 (1995)
8. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Just Because (I'm leaving these open!):

1. Hot Fuzz (2007)
2. Juno (2007)
3. The Corpse Bride (2005)
4. Bee Season (2005)
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?

Movie challenge: Decades!

I think this was my favorite movie list to make...

1930's

1. City Lights (1931)
2. Duck Soup (1933)
3. 42nd Street (1933)
4. It happened one night (1934)
5. Swing Time (1935)
6. Three Smart Girls (1936)
7. Mr Smith goes to Washington (1939)
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1940's

1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. How Green was my Valley (1941)
4. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
5. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
6. Meet me in St. Louis (1945)
7. The Big Sleep (1946)
8. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

1950's

1. Sunset Blvd (1950)
2. All About Eve (1950)
3. An American in Paris (1951)
4. Roman Holiday (1953)
5. A Star is Born (1954)
6. Gigi (1958)
7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
8. Some like it Hot (1959)

1960's

1. Inherit the Wind (1960)
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
3. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
4. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
5. Barefoot in the Park (1967)
6. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

1970's

1. The Way We Were (1973)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Freaky Friday (1977)
5. The Turning Point (1977)
6. Midnight Express (1978)
7. Autumn Sonata (1978)
8. The Sting (1973)

1980's

1. Footloose (1984)
2. Sixteen Candles (1984)
3. St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
4. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
5. Fatal Attraction (1987)
6. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
7. The Princess Bride (1987)
8. Beetlejuice (1988)

1990's

1. The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
2. Ed Wood (1994)
3. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset (1995)
4. Il Postino (1995)
5. Mr Holland's Opus (1996)
6. Fargo (1996)
7. Wag the Dog (1998)
8. Fight Club (1999)

2000-

1. Mystic River (2003)
2. Bride and Prejudice (2004)
3. Serenity (2005)
4. Thank you for smoking (2005)
5. Miss Potter (2006)
6. Children of Men (2006) - watched 19/02
7. The Illusionist (2006)
8. Ratatouille (2007)

Stories on screen... anyone up for the challenge?

I couldn't resist, I love the reading challenge idea so much that I used it for movies! Or rather I used three of the ideas... I think I'm crazy. I have an A-Z list, an 888-type challenge (8 categories, 8 films each) and a decades list. I'll post them in separate posts so that it's easier to find them later... And I don't know if I'll even get to watch half of them this year, but I sure do love making 'em lists! ;-)

My movie-watching is just as unstructured as my reading - and yet I have a giant list of films that I want to see or that I think I should see. So here I am - I couldn't find anything like this on the web but maybe I didn't look hard enough. If any of you want to join me in this then let me know and we can make it more official - if not then it will be just my challenge. But I'll still hope that my reviews are interesting for you!

Movie A-Z Challenge

A - Almost Famous (2000)
B - Babel (2006)
C - Charlie's Angels (2000)
D - Dr. Strangelove (1963)
E - Everyone says I Love You (1997)
F - Far From Heaven (2003)
G - The Godfather (1972)
H - Heavenly Creatures (1995)
I - In America (2003)
J - JFK (1991)
K - K-Pax (2002)
L - Little Children (2006)
M - Memento (2000)
N - The Notebook (2004)
O - Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
P - Pirates of the Carribbean (2003)
Q - The Queen (2006)
R - Requiem for a Dream (2000)
S - Sin City (2005)
T - Tap (1989)
U - Underworld (2003)
V - Vanilla Sky (2002)
W -
X - American History X ( 1999 - and I know I'm cheating!)
Y -
Z - Zoolander (2001)