So I was challenged to come up with my official Shame List, which is to say, the 100 movies (in this case) that I am the most ashamed/chagrined/resigned to have never actually seen. And then the project is that from June 14-September 13, 2016 (because that’s when I’m writing this), it is a challenge between me and two of my friends to see as many as we can on each of our lists. The winner is showered in honor and glory and also the two losers have to buy them a nice DVD/Blu-ray of the movies of their choice.

Here is my list, as of June 14th, 2016, to be updated as I see movies and actually, just maybe, write about them:

1 12 Angry Men
2 8 1/2
3 A Fistful of Dollars
4 All the President’s Men
5 Almost Famous
6 Amelie
7 American Beauty
8 American History X
9 Annie Hall
10 Apocalypse Now
11 Back to the Future
12 Badlands
13 Bicycle Thieves
14 Black Hawk Down
15 Blade Runner
16 Blair Witch Project
17 Blazing Saddles
18 Blue Velvet
19 Bonnie and Clyde
20 Boogie Nights
21 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
22 Breakfast Club
23 Bridge on the River Kwai, The
24 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
25 Caddyshack
26 Chinatown
27 Citizen Kane
28 City Lights
29 Die Hard
30 District 9
31 Do the Right Thing
32 Dog Day Afternoon
33 Drop Dead Gorgeous
34 Easy Rider
35 Escape from New York
36 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
37 First Blood
38 Forrest Gump
39 French Connection, The
40 Fugitive, The
41 Full Metal Jacket
42 General, The
43 Ghost in the Shell
44 Goodfellas
45 Graduate, The
46 Grave of the Fireflies
47 Great Escape, The
48 Grey Gardens
49 Halloween
50 Heat
51 In the Mood for Love
52 Indiana Jones (first one)
53 Jaws
54 Labyrinth
55 Lawrence of Arabia
56 Leon: The Professional
57 Lethal Weapon
58 MAS*H
59 Malcolm X
60 Minority Report
61 Mulholland Dr.
62 My Neighbor Totoro
63 Network
64 Night of the Hunter
65 Night of the Living Dead
66 Out of Sight
67 Patton
68 Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
69 Platoon
70 Primer
71 Psycho
72 Raging Bull
73 Rain Man
74 Requiem for a Dream
75 Rock, The
76 Rocky
77 Saving Private Ryan
78 Se7en
79 Searchers, The
80 Seven Samurai
81 Shaft
82 Silence of the Lambs, The
83 Solaris
84 Spirited Away
85 Star Wars, I guess (first one)
86 Strangers on a Train
87 Sunset Blvd
88 Terminator
89 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
90 There Will Be Blood
91 They Live
92 Thin Blue Line, The
93 This is Spinal Tap
94 Titanic
95 To Kill a Mockingbird
96 Top Gun
97 Total Recall
98 Touch of Evil
99 Trainspotting
100 When Harry Met Sally