Movie Meme

[jacey]

It's a while since a meme has caught my attention so thanks lil_shepherd.

67 and a half out of 100 - but some are ony dimly remembered from late night moveis on telly many years ago. There are some of these I've never even heard of: City Lights, The General, Intolerance, Nashville, Sullivan's Travels, Modern Times, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Do the Right Thing. Odd because I've been a TV movie watcher for years. Ah, OK, (looked 'em up) Intolerance is a silent movie from 1916; Sunrise is a silent movie from 1927: City LIghts a silent Chaplin movie from 1931; Modern Times is Chaplin again, from 1936, his first talkie. I'm beginning to see a pattern emerging. Sullivan's Travels is 1848 and rings no bells whatsoever even reading the synopsis. There are two completely different movies called The General. 1926 and 1998, so I ddn't know which is supposed to be the 'good' one. I haven't heard of either. Nashville is 1975 and Do the Right Thing is 1989. They obviously both went over my head completely. I don't feel so bad about not recognising the silent movies as they are very rarely shown on TV

Wondering why Princess Bride didn't make the cut. Galaxy Quest would also be on my personal top ten list... and  Serenity, of course.

Here goes:
Copy and past, setting the ones you've seen in bold type.

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin' in the Rain (One of my all-time favourites)
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler's List (Saw half of it on telly once)
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Special effects in search of a plot)
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On the Waterfront
20. It's a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown (Can't stand Jack Nicholson. I know he's good but he gives me the creeps)
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Film about a boy making friends with a hoover-bag)
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve (never liked Bette Davis)
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Managed to avoid this)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall (never liked Woody Allen)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story (love this)
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. MASH
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan's Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret
64. Network
65. The African Queen (love this)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange   (No thank you)
71. Saving Private Ryan (Eventually watched it on TV)
72. The Shawshank Redemption
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President's Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time (Why not Easter Parade?)
91. Sophie's Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story (loved this)
100. Ben-Hur (thought this was wonderful when I was 9)

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

No good asking me this one- I tend to be a fan of French and Italian art films :o)

Now if you'd said: 'Manon des Sources' or 'La Vita e Bella'.............

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The General is the early one.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Easter Parade is much better. One of my most rewatched films.

[lizcounihan.livejournal.com]

Isn't this an old list? I thought "Vertigo" was top now.
I suppose foreign language films are out otherwise why no "Seventh Seal"?
Oh and what about Monty Python?

[inamac.livejournal.com]

It's an American film institute list. I wonder whether the BFI has a similar one?

There are a number of great silent movies left off - notably the 1924 Thief of Bagdad (though given the choice of Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks Snr there is no competition).

[anghara.livejournal.com]

90 of those I've seen. Wasted youth, much...? [grin]