19 October 2007

Movies.

How about another list? AFI's top 100 movies. Bold the ones you have seen. Strike out the ones you couldn't finish. * the ones you have seen more than once.

  1. Citizen Kane (1941)*
  2. Godfather, The*
  3. Casablanca (1942)*
  4. Raging Bull (1980)
  5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  6. Gone with the Wind (1939)*
  7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  8. Schindler’s List (1993)
  9. Vertigo (1958)*
  10. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)* This used to be on TV once a year in the 1950s. I'd watch it every time, even if it meant hiding under the coffee table because I was so scared of the Wicked Witch of the West.
  11. City Lights (1931)
  12. Searchers, The (1956)
  13. Star Wars (1977)*
  14. Psycho (1960)*
  15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  16. 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)*
  17. Graduate, The (1967)*
  18. General, The (1927)
  19. On the Waterfront (1954)
  20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Nope, never seen it. Hard to believe, huh? 
  21. Chinatown (1974)*
  22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  23. Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
  24. E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
  25. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) An amazing number of older female boomers wish they had had James Stewart Gregory Peck* for their father, apparently because of this movie. I saw it years later so wasn't affected that way. ETA: Thanks to Ann of Sheep Shots for pointing out that it was GP, not JS, who played Atticus Finch. Thanks, Ann!
  26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  27. High Noon (1952)
  28. All About Eve (1950)*
  29. Double Indemnity (1944)
  30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  31. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)*
  32. Godfather Part II, The (1974)
  33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)*
  34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  35. Annie Hall (1977)* For years this was my favorite movie. (It has since been replaced by The Big Lebowski, tragically missing from this list.)
  36. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)*
  37. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)*
  38. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) I read it, too, in Spanish!
  39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)* "Gentlemen, there is no fighting in the War Room!"
  40. Sound of Music (1965)
  41. King Kong (1933)
  42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  44. Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
  45. Shane (1953)
  46. It Happened One Night (1934)*
  47. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
  48. Rear Window (1954)*
  49. Intolerance (1916)
  50. Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  51. West Side Story (1961)
  52. Taxi Driver (1976)
  53. Deer Hunter, The (1978)
  54. M*A*S*H (1970)*
  55. North by Northwest (1959)* Seen it many times, most recently while camping in the Black Hills.
  56. Jaws (1975)*
  57. Rocky (1976)
  58. Gold Rush, The (1925)
  59. Nashville (1975)
  60. Duck Soup (1933)* Many, many times. I love the Marx Brothers.
  61. Sullivan’s Travels (1941) never heard of it
  62. American Graffiti (1973)
  63. Cabaret (1972)
  64. Network (1976)
  65. African Queen, The (1951)*
  66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) I was quite taken with Edward Albee's work in high school.
  68. Unforgiven (1992)
  69. Tootsie (1982)*
  70. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
  71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  72. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)* I can’t believe this one isn’t higher in the list.
  73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)* Smokey and I quote from this one all the time. “And if I could remember what I had for dinner that night I’d die a happy man.” “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” “Woodcock?!?”
  74. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)*
  75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  76. Forrest Gump (1994)
  77. All the President’s Men (1976)*
  78. Modern Times (1936)
  79. Wild Bunch, The (1969) Notable mainly, imho, because it was the first Western to show blood spurting from gunshot wounds.
  80. Apartment, The (1960)
  81. Spartacus (1960)
  82. Sunrise (1927) Never heard of it.
  83. Titanic (1997) Only saw the first half or so; I had to leave the theater at the scene where the water started lapping up the corridor because being trapped underwater is my worst fear and I couldn’t stand to watch.
  84. Easy Rider (1969)
  85. Night at the Opera, A (1935)*
  86. Platoon (1986)
  87. 12 Angry Men (1957)* One of Smokey's favorite movies.
  88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  89. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
  90. Swing Time (1936) Never heard of it.
  91. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
  92. Goodfellas (1990)
  93. French Connection, The (1971)
  94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  95. Last Picture Show, The (1971)
  96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
  97. Blade Runner (1982)
  98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  99. Toy Story (1995)
  100. Ben-Hur (1959)

So. I have seen 90% of these. Or 91%; I can't remember for sure if I have seen Spartacus or not. When Andrew was in high school he set himself the goal to watch iMDb's top 250 movies. That's when I saw many of the old classics on this list.

List shamelessly lifted from Jill Smolinski's blog, My Life List.

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