AICN's Australian correspondent has a problem.

Films are being churned out at an incredible rate. I remember hearing about how studios only make twelve films a year, and I was amazed at how difficult it must be to get them made at such a rate. Then I realised how many studios there were, how many sub-studios there were (the Fine Lines, the Dimensions, the Fox Searchlights, etc), how many independently financed films there are, how many countries there are making films... We get about five films released a week, give or take, and we don’t even get everything ever made. We don’t get every French film, every Korean film, every Iranian film. Oh, and there’s the endless stream of straight-to-video/DVD fodder I didn’t mention... but let’s not drag Mary-Kate, Ashley and David Caruso into the argument.
What struck me was that, after more than two decades of film watching, it was only now that I was seeing SEVENTH SEAL, a film that always appears on the ‘I can’t believe you haven’t seen that!’ list. And I have many more films on that list. I’m trying to get through them all, but it’s getting harder.

Mm-hmm. I've never seen The Seventh Seal either. Never saw it at the Cinematheque, missed it the one time I can remember it was on TV. That said, I've asked my friend in the US who tapes stuff from Turner Classic Movies to get it for me when it airs on TCM in a few months (checked the schedule, it's on sometime in September), so I will rectify that situation.

But there's a lot of other films I've never seen that are widely acknowledged classics. Even if I just look at the IMDB's top 250 films list (which has a lot more recent films in it as well as established classics), I've not seen Casablanca, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Angry Men, It's A Wonderful Life, Goodfellas, All About Eve, The Sting, The Manchurian Candidate, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Annie Hall, Jaws, On The Waterfront, The Apartment, Modern Times, The Princess Bride, City Lights, Notorious, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Graduate, Rebecca, The Great Dictator, The Deer Hunter, Cinema Paradiso, Patton, Glory, Princess Mononoke, It Happened One Night, Cool Hand Luke, A Christmas Story, Stalag 17, The Hustler, Platoon, La Grande Illusion, Back To The Future, Charade, Witness For The Prosecution, All The President's Men, Roman Holiday, Three Colours Red, Shadow Of A Doubt, Dog Day Afternoon, Stand By Me, Harvey, The Lion In Winter, Gandhi, Miller's Crossing, Rain Man, Laura, La Strada, Being There, Planet Of The Apes, The Quiet Man, The Thin Man, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, The Man Who Would Be King, The French Connection, From Here To Eternity, A Man For All Seasons, Grave Of The Fireflies, The Player, and JFK.