AFI Top 100 U.S. Films
June 24th, 2007I don’t often play along with the memes (If everyone’s posting the same stuff, how can it be interesting?) but just this once…
I’m somewhat surprised at how many of these I’ve seen. Friends may be surprised at how many of the ones I’ve seen are not Science Fiction.
The idea is to bold the ones you’ve seen. I think I have some ideas for more movies to watch.
Ok, here are the ones I’ve seen (remembering is another story). Blair - have you really not seen “Gone With the Wind”??
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. - it seems like I should have seen this, but I don’t think I have
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. - hmm… not sure I’ve seen the movie, just the series
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. 
this was just on tv, too!
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. Ok, I’ll count this although I only made it halfway through. Awful and disturbing. Watched as much as I could handle in freshman psych.
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. I’ll skip this, thanks.
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.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Wow. You’ve seen about twice as many of those films as what’s on my list
Nope. I’ve never seen Gone with the Wind. I already know the gist of it… The House burns down, Scarlet runs around wearing the curtains, and Rhett doesn’t give a damn. (His priorities are clearly messed up. Having his girlfriend parade around with nothing to wear except the curtains should have drawn his interest.)
Have you really never seen Citizen Kane?
June 27th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Yup, that’s the gist of it, LOL. It is also, however, a good explanation of some of the idiotic games girls (Scarlett in particular) play trying to get a man.
I have seen bits and pieces of Citizen Kane on tv, but never from the beginning, so I didn’t count it. About all I know is that Rosebud is the sled (I’ve never read the book either, shame on me).
You have to see Rear Window. One of Hitchcock’s best.
July 1st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
What should really surprise you about that list is that I’ve never seen any of the Marx Brothers films. That’s something which is in need of correction.
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:13 am
And no Chaplin either… get on that!
July 20th, 2007 at 4:24 am
i was going to start this same meme! i have it as a draft in wordpress that i never got around to finishing. i guess someone beat me to it.
you should see Citizen Kane, it’s great. M*A*S*H too. also, for our generation, Do the Right Thing is also a must-see. (hmm, come to think of it, i can’t remember if you are a Gen X’er like me or not.)
i don’t find the Marx Brothers to be funny. i guess i don’t have a very refined funny bone.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Jen! Hi, how are you? Yeah, I think I’m a gen x’er - I was born in 1970. I’ll have to check out Do The Right Thing…