March 10, 2007

Top 100 Movies

movie still frameI was looking at movies in the new Circuit City that opened in Chambersburg and decided I should have some help with figuring out what to watch. I googled the American Film Institutes's top 100 movies of all time. Before I die I want to see all of them on the list. It's amazing how few of them I have actually seen.

Here's the list (plus a star by the ones I've already seen). Gee, I'd better get started watching now if I'm going to blaze through all of these before my death! At the rate I'm going I will have to live well into my 100's.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone With The Wind (1939) *
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) *
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) *
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On The Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993) *
10. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
11. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) *
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977) *
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) *
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I ... (1964)
27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North By Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933) *
44. The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975) *
49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937) *
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965) *
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1941) *
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) *
61. Vertigo (1958)
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) *
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American In Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994) *
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances With Wolves (1990) *
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976) *
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) *
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964) *
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. GoodFellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Bonus points if you know what movie the still shot is from!

And some big shockers. Fantasia was one of the worst movies ever created (if you can call it a movie), and I hear Citizen Kane sucked too. Plus I hated Forrest Gump and Lawrence of Arabia was hardly a nail-biter. Never mind, I have better things to do than watch all these movies. Please disregard this post.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous11:02 PM

    How could you have not seen Ben Hur?! wow, that's just...crazyness. Oh, don't waste your time...don't watch dr. zhivago.

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