A couple of people have asked so here is the complete list of films I'm to have seen before school starts.

8 1/2
A Man Escaped
A Place in the Sun
An American in Paris
Andrei Rublev
Ashes and Diamonds
Badlands
Battle of Algiers
Bicycle Thief
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Children of Paradise
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Decalogue
Double Indemnity
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Jules and Jim
L'Avventura
Lawrence of Arabia
Lola Montes
Midnight Cowboy
My Man Godfrey
Nashville
Ninotchka
Raging Bull
Rear Window
Red River
Rules of the Game
Seven Samurai
Singin' in the Rain
Stairway to Heaven/A Matter of Life and Death
Sullivan's Travels
The Godfather
The Leopard
The Piano
The Searchers
The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Ugestu
Vagabond
Wild Strawberries

Many of these I am seeing for the first time. Some are old favorites.