2011-01-04

100 movies, Thteeded

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Señora H-B recently posted her progress on the 2007 version of the AFI 100-best list. Lady Steed and I once were working on the earlier lists, but haven't actively pursued said goal since having children. I thought though that it might be helpful to review our progress. (I'm only marking movies we have seen together.)

1. Citizen Kane, 1941
2. The Godfather, 1972*
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. The Wizard of Oz, 1939
11. City Lights, 1931
12. The Searchers, 1956
13. Star Wars, 1977
14. Psycho, 1960
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968*
16. Sunset Blvd., 1950*
17. The Graduate, 1967*
18. The General, 1927
19. On the Waterfront, 1954*
20. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946
21. Chinatown, 1974
22. Some Like It Hot, 1959
23. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940*
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 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, 1944
30. Apocalypse Now, 1979*
31. The Maltese Falcon, 1941
32. The Godfather Part II, 1974
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
35. Annie Hall, 1977
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
39. Dr. Strangelove, 1964
40. The Sound of Music, 1965*
41. King Kong, 1933*
42. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
43. Midnight Cowboy, 1969
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940*
45. Shane, 1953
46. It Happened One Night, 1934
47. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
48. Rear Window, 1954
49. Intolerance, 1916
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
51. West Side Story, 1961*
52. Taxi Driver, 1976
53. The Deer Hunter, 1978
54. M-A-S-H, 1970
55. North by Northwest, 1959
56. Jaws, 1975*
57. Rocky, 1976
58. The Gold Rush, 1925*
59. Nashville, 1975
60. Duck Soup, 1933
61. Sullivan's Travels, 1941
62. American Graffiti, 1973
63. Cabaret, 1972
64. Network, 1976
65. The African Queen, 1951
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
68. Unforgiven, 1992
69. Tootsie, 1982
70. A Clockwork Orange, 1971
71. Saving Private Ryan, 1998
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969*
74. The Silence of the Lambs, 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. The Wild Bunch, 1969
80. The Apartment, 1960
81. Spartacus, 1960
82. Sunrise, 1927
83. Titanic, 1997*
84. Easy Rider, 1969
85. A Night at the Opera, 1935*
86. Platoon, 1986
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957*
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999
90. Swing Time, 1936
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982
92. Goodfellas, 1990
93. The French Connection, 1971
94. Pulp Fiction, 1994*
95. The Last Picture Show, 1971
96. Do the Right Thing, 1989
97. Blade Runner, 1982
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942
99. Toy Story, 1995
100. Ben-Hur, 1959

*Movies I'm fairly sure one or both of us has seen or that we own on DVD.

9 comments:

  1. We all have our work cut out for us... Good thing movie 'work' is fun.

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  2. It's also been years since I've made a concerted effort to make progress on such a list. A quick tally shows that I'm up to 60 on this particular iteration.

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    Yeah, I'm just at 46. No excuse, really, now that we have Netflix.

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  4. Eureka! I found the picture while looking into my second guess (which, in retrospect, was a silly guess--though not as silly as the first).

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    You can't start a comment like this and leave out the salient details. What were your guesses?

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  6. I've seen at least 80 of the 100 but with the wife uh maybe 15.

    (she doesn't like strong languitch)

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  7. Is there a secret to getting through Annie Hall? For me, it's Woody Allen's greatest study in awkwardness--I can never make it all the way through because I just can't overcome my discomfort...

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    I don't know. I haven't seen it in almost ten years, but I truly loved it then. Lady Steed and I saw Small Time Crooks at Movies 8 in the first few weeks of our marriage then got on a Woody Allen kick courtesy of the Orem Library's amazing film collection. Annie Hall was one of my favorites and I want to see it again. I'm not sure I can be more helpful than that until I do.....

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  9. Duly noted. I can't think of another Woody Allen movie that I didn't like...that one just utterly discomfits me, every. single. time...

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