I guess this is Steal Ideas off Jaquandor‘s Site week. He cites a new pastime of ticking off which movies one has seen of IMDB’s Top 100. It looks like I’m fairly well-versed — well-spooled? — in the cinema classics. There are only a few movies I haven’t seen, and in some cases (like Double Indemnity) I have seen them but just don’t remember them well enough, or (as with Casablanca) I’ve caught bits and pieces of them on television (or have only seen the edited televised version, such as with Chinatown).1 The Godfather (1972)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4 The Return of the King (2003)
5 The Two Towers (2002)
6 Casablanca (1942)
7 Schindler’s List (1993)
8 The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9 Seven Samurai (1954)
10 Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
11 Citizen Kane (1941)
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
13 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
14 Rear Window (1954)
15 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17 Memento (2000)
18 The Usual Suspects (1995)
19 Pulp Fiction (1994)
20 North by Northwest (1959)
21 12 Angry Men (1957)
22 Amélie (2001)
23 Psycho (1960)
24 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
26 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27 It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28 Goodfellas (1990)
29 American Beauty (1999)
30 Vertigo (1958)
31 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32 The Matrix (1999)
33 Apocalypse Now (1979)
34 The Pianist (2002)
35 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
37 Some Like It Hot (1959)
38 Taxi Driver (1976)
39 The Third Man (1949)
40 Paths of Glory (1957)
41 Fight Club (1999)
42 Spirited Away (2001)
43 Das Boot (1981)
44 Double Indemnity (1944)
45 L.A. Confidential (1997)
46 Chinatown (1974)
47 Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
49 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
50 M (1931)
51 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
52 All About Eve (1950)
53 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
54 Se7en (1995)
55 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56 City of God (2002)
57 Raging Bull (1980)
58 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
59 Rashômon (1950)
60 The Sting (1973)
61 Alien (1979)
62 American History X (1998)
63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64 Léon (The Professional) (1994)
65 Life is Beautiful (1997)
66 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
67 Touch of Evil (1958)
68 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
69 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
70 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
71 The Great Escape (1963)
72 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
73 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
74 Amadeus (1984)
75 Annie Hall (1977)
76 Jaws (1975)
77 Modern Times (1936)
78 Ran (1985)
79 On the Waterfront (1954)
80 Braveheart (1995)
81 High Noon (1952)
82 The Apartment (1960)
83 The Sixth Sense (1999)
84 Fargo (1996)
85 Aliens (1986)
86 The Shining (1980)
87 Strangers on a Train (1951)
88 Blade Runner (1982)
89 Metropolis (1927)
90 Duck Soup (1933)
91 Finding Nemo (2003)
92 Donnie Darko (2001)
93 The General (1927)
94 The Princess Bride (1987)
95 Toy Story 2 (1999)
96 City Lights (1931)
97 The Great Dictator (1940)
98 Run Lola Run (1998)
99 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
100 Notorious (1946)
