At the end of June The Guardian - for reasons known only unto themselves - published a list of the 1000 FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE.

I am ashamed to say I didn't even make 500. I made 497.

So here's my first lot, from A-D:

Ace in the Hole - The Adventures of Robin Hood - After Hours - Airplane! - Alfie - Alien - All About My Mother - All That Heaven Allows - All That Jazz - Amadeus - Amelie - American Beauty - American Gigolo - American Graffiti - An American in Paris - An American Werewolf in London - Amores Perros - An Angel At My Table - Annie Hall - The Apartment - Apocalypse Now - L'Appartement - The Asphalt Jungle - L'Atalante - Atlantic City - Au Revoir les Enfants - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery – Babe - Back to the Future - Bad Day at Black Rock - Bad Lieutenant - Badlands - Bagdad Café - Bambi - Barbarella - Barton Fink - Batman - The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Becket - Being John Malkovich - Being There - Belle de Jour - Belleville Rendez-vous - Betty Blue – The Big Chill - The Big Heat - The Big Lebowski - The Big Sleep - The Birds – Blade Runner - The Blair Witch Project - Blazing Saddles - Blow-Up - The Blue Angel - The Blue Dahlia - The Blue Lamp - Blue Velvet - The Blues Brothers - Body and Soul - Bonnie & Clyde - Boogie Nights - The Boston Strangler - Le Boucher - Bowling for Columbine - The Brady Bunch Movie - Brazil - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Breaking the Waves - Breathless - Bride of Frankenstein - The Bridge On the River Kwai - Brief Encounter - Brighton Rock - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Broadway Danny Rose - Brokeback Mountain - Buffalo 66 - Bugsy Malone - Burnt By the Sun - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid – Cabaret - The Cabinet of Dr Calgari - La Cage Aux Folles - Carry On Cleo - Casablanca - Casino - Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – Central Station - La Cérémonie - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Chariots of Fire - Chicken Run - Chinatown - The Cincinnati Kid - Citizen Kane – Clerks - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Clueless - Come and See - The Company of Wolves - Comrades - The Conversation - Coogan's Bluff - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Cool Hand Luke - Crash - Crimes and Misdemeanors - Crossfire - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - The Crying Game - Cul-De-Sac - Cyrano de Bergerac – Dancer in the Dark - Dangerous Liaisons - Darling - Day for Night - Days of Heaven - Dead of Night - Dead Ringers - Death In Venice - The Deer Hunter - Deliverance - Desperately Seeking Susan - Detour - The Devils – Les Diaboliques - Dick Tracy - Die Hard - Dirty Harry - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Distant Voices, Still Lives – Dog Day Afternoon - Dogville - Don't Look Now - Double Indemnity - Downfall - Doctor Zhivago - Dracula - The Dresser - Drugstore Cowboy - Duck Soup - Dumb & Dumber

and out of these 142, how many do I have on dvd? 17!