Thursday, October 18, 2007

Movies I've watched

Out of '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', I've watched the following (in chronological order by date of release):

The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
Wuthering Heights
Fantasia
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Dumbo
Casablanca
Singin' in the Rain
Roman Holiday
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
12 Angry Men
An Affair to Remember
North by Northwest
Ben-Hur
The Apartment
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Lolita
The Nutty Professor
Goldfinger
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
The Jungle Book
M*A*S*H
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Sting
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Picnic at Hanging Rock
All the President's Men
Star Wars
Grease
Alien
Life of Brian
The Muppet Movie
Ordinary People
The Empire Strikes Back
Airplane!
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chariots of Fire
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Tootsie
Return of the Jedi
The King of Comedy
The Terminator
Ghost Busters
Back to the Future
Stand By Me
Aliens
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Babette's Feast
The Princess Bride
Moonstruck
The Untouchables
A Fish Called Wanda
Big
Die Hard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Batman
When Harry Met Sally
Pretty Woman
Total Recall
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Strictly Ballroom
Groundhog Day
Philadelphia
Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Casino
Babe
Toy Story
Clueless
The Usual Suspects
Independence Day
Secrets and Lies
L.A. Confidential
Titanic
There's Something About Mary
The Sixth Sense
The Matrix
Meet The Parents
Memento
Moulin Rouge!
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Chicago

Books I've read

Out of '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die', I've read or watched (more than half of) the following (in chronological order by date of publication):

Aesop's Fables - Aesopus
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tes of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep - Philip K. Dick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Sea - John Banville
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (sort of)
Saturday - Ian McEwan (currently reading!)