Looking for movies to borrow or otherwise watch

[carbonel]

(sent to my entire friends list, but really mostly meant for locals, I suppose)

Specific movies, that is. For the last (eep!) 12 years, I've been slowly working my way through Leonard Maltin's 4-star movie list, almost exclusively via Netflix rentals. ("Slowly" because I've been alternating it with other stuff -- plus all the current material on my DVR.) I'm now about halfway through the list -- alphabetically, at least, because I suspect the back half of the alphabet contains fewer titles. If anyone's interested, I could post the list here.

But while the availability of movies on the list from Netflix started out a bit thin in 2000 but has increased gratifyingly, there are still a number of movies that just aren't available from there; either they were available once but went out of print, or were never acquired by Netflix for some reason, or were never released on DVD. (Elia Kazan's America, America just came available last year, so I still hold out hope.)

To celebrate finishing through the letter L, I'm posting my "haven't found yet" list here. If anyone has any of these to lend me, in any usable format, I'd be most grateful. I can play DVD and videotape, and for these will borrow Blu-Ray or videodisc as necessary.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
The Big Parade (1925)
Cavalcade (1933)
The Crowd (1928)
Day in the Country, A (1946)
Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Dead of Night (1945)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Docks of New York (1928)
Every Man for Himself and God Against All (1975)
For Heaven's Sake (1926)
4 Clowns (1970)
Golden Age of Comedy, The (1957)
Greed (1925)
Harvest (1937)
Innocent, The (1976)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (1964)
La Chienne (1931)
La Traviata (1982)
Lili (1953)
Magic Box, The (1951)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
Memory of Justice, The (1976)

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I have a project similar to yours. A while back, I read Jerry Beck's (), which attempts to list every animated feature film ever released in the U.S.

I realized I could scrape the list off Mr. Beck's Web site (http://www.cartoonresearch.com/feature.html), dump it into Excel, add the four-star ratings from the book, and mark both whether I had seen a movie and, if not, a rating expressing the strength of my desire to see it.

After sorting, I have a handy list of "animated movies I have a strong desire to see."

Later I added a column for "films my wife K has seen." Was surprised to learn that she has seen nearly as many cartoons as I have.