Sublist 1: The Films

Being a selection of movies that, for whatever reason, I missed out on completely—or that I've never seen in their entirety—or that I haven't seen since I was a kid—or that I've seen only in a butchered edited-for-television form.

I started developing this list in the mid-90s, when I was working at the college; I was repsonsible for renting and buying videos, and there was a copy of the big Facets Video catalog lying around the office—300 tabloid-sized pages of small print and blurry photos. On slow afternoons, I'd just leaf through it and dream of darkened cinemas.

I still have my original paper list, as typed on my office typewriter. About half the items are checked off: this is the remainder.

Alamo Bay
Alien (all four films)
Altered States
American Me
Apocalypse Now Redux
Baby Doll
The Beguiled
Being There
La Belle Noiseuse
Betty Blue
The Bicycle Thief
Black Robe
Blood Simple
Cat People (1982 remake)
A Cry In The Dark
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Cutter's Way
The Deer Hunter
The Devil's Playground (Fred Schepisi, 1976)
Dial M for Murder
Diva
The Draughtsman's Contract
Dudes
East of Eden
Eat the Peach
Every Man For Himself and God Against All (a/k/a The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser)
Fanny & Alexander
Fitzcarraldo
The Foreigner
The Fountainhead
The Fourth Man
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Full Metal Jacket
Fun House
Gaslight
Hammett
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Heart of Glass
The Hit
The Holy Mountain
Insignificance
Irezumi
Ironweed
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Krays
The Lightship
Liquid Sky
The Man Who Would Be King
Man of Flowers
Marat/Sade
Meet John Doe
Mona Lisa
Monsieur Hire
My Own Private Idaho
Nashville
Night of the Iguana
North By Northwest
The Philadelphia Story
Poison Ivy
Rashomon
Repo Man
Restless Natives
Sex Drugs Rock'n'Roll
Shane
The Shootist
The Shout
A Soldier's Story
Stalker
Straw Dogs
Suddenly, Last Summer
Talk Radio
Targets
To Sleep With Anger
Touch Of Evil
The Verdict
Videodrome
Vincent & Theo
White Hunter, Black Heart
The Wicker Man
Withnail And I
Woman of the Year
Yojimbo

That'll do for starters.