From Tiff Crochets: 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.
I love old movies and apparently like to to see the same ones over and over again. They mixed up the first 3.
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)*
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)*
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)
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)*
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)*
29. Double Indemnity
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)
36. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
37. Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
38. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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. MASH (1970)
55. North by Northwest (1959)*
56. Jaws (1975)*
57. Rocky (1976)*
58. Gold Rush, The (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
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)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)*
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)*
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)
80. Apartment, The (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83. Titanic (1997)*
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. Night at the Opera, A (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)*
89. Sixth Sense, The (1999)*
90. Swing Time (1936)
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)
It's realy admirable that you didn't have any that you didn't quit on and also how many older movies you were able to sit through. I don't have the same appreciation as you as I find once I go farther back than 1965 roughly that I lose interest.
That said, I have to comment on the movies that you have not seen, specifically:
4. Raging Bull - A classic, but I sense an avoidance of violent movies.
8. Schindler's List - A moviemaking event, and one that I'd have to insist that anyone I know take the time to watch. It is a 3-hour movie but it won't feel like it.
39. Dr. Strangelove - If you like old movies, this one is pretty funny even by today's standards.
71. Saving Private Ryan - Again, I sense an aversion to WWII movies or violent movies, but this one is mesmerizing. It's one of the few movies that makes you feel like you could possibly even fathom what it must have been like on D-Day.
87. 12 Angry Men - holy cats what a story and what acting. Having served on a jury personally, I find this movie a completely awesome look at the judicial process. If this old version doesn't appeal, there was a remake a few years ago that had top-notch acting as well and holds up as well as the original. Don't let the fact that Tony Danza is in that remake scare you off. ;-)
Posted by: Yanoff | November 27, 2007 at 11:55 PM