Well, my first year of graduate school is over. I spent a lot of time reading, writing, and doing tons of research. It is the summer time now and while I have to do more research for my thesis, I also need a summer project. So, given the fact that I love watching movies and I finished watching Oz, The Wire, and there are only 2 episodes of LOST left I have decided I am going to start making my way down "Greatest Movie Lists."

I have settled on three lists that I want to watch (although this will take much longer than just 1 summer). The first list is the New York Times "The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made." I choose this list for two reasons: 1) It will cover AFI's 100 list, and 2) It's long and will give me a nice project to work on in my spare time for a while.

The second list is Channel 4 (which is a British TV Station the conducted a 50 greatest documentary series) "50 Greatest Comedy Films." I choose this for no other reason I wanted to be more expansive than the New York Times list provided; I didn't feel enough comedy's were on there. This adds 50 more titles to my list. And last but not least is the last 20 years worth of Foreign Language Oscar Winners. So from 1989-2009 I will watch each foreign language film that won the Oscar for that year. This brings a total of 1,070 movies (although there will be a number of overlaps so it won't be as much as it seems) to watch and write reviews on.

All three lists are posted to my blog in the pages section. I will watch all movies I have not seen, or movies that have been so long since I have seen them that I can barely remember them and write a review on each movie I watch but will not write a review on any I have already see. However, there is one exception since the movie Citzen Kane is considered the greatest movie of all time and I have already seen it, my first review will be on that movie. Also, I will rate every movie with your typical star system (I know very creative).

1 star = Hated It

2 stars = Did not like it

3 stars = Enjoyed it

4 stars = Really Liked it

5 stars = Loved it!

The list of movies are up under the "pages" section. Both the foreign language movies and best comedy films list are up. The ones I have seen are crossed through and rated.