Friday, December 18, 2009

Scratch That - The Final List


Alright, so two days ago my analytical side kicked in and I realized that my list was way too subjective and has no real basis. So instead I decided to compile five lists: AFI's 100 greatest movies, Entertainment Weekly's Top 100, filmsite.org's top 100, the 100 highest grossing movies (adjusted for inflation), and the sixty movies that won and were nominated for the most Academy Awards (without repeating those on both lists). There were 101 movies that repeated twice or more between these lists. Theoretically, these are the 101 greatest movies ever made according to critics, viewers, and the industry combined. Obviously I started this as the 100 movies in one year, however, given that there is only one extra movie, I will watch all 101 movies and then from there, decide if the 100 greatest films ever made are on that last.
Over the last month, as I've been compiling my list, there have been so many signs that I need to stay at school. For one, I've gotten a job working as a production assistant and assistant director on a grad student's thesis film. We start filming the third weekend in January and end the third weekend in February. Hopefully it goes well and will be a great experience to go along with my viewings.
Anyways, until then, here is the list of movies that will keep me preoccupied.

1915 - The Birth of a Nation
1916 - Intolerance
1925 - The Goldrush
1927 - Sunrise
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 - City Lights
1933 - Duck Soup
1933 - King Kong
1934 - It Happened One Night
1936 - Modern Times
1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 - Bringing Up Baby
1938 - The Adventures of Robinhood
1939 - Gone with the Wind
1939 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 - Stagecoach
1939 - The Wizard of Oz
1939 - Wuthering Heights
1940 - Fantasia
1940 - Rebecca
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
1940 - The Philadelphia Story
1941 - Citizen Kane
1941 - Sergeant York
1941 - The Lady Eve
1941- The Maltese Falcon
1942 - Casablanca
1942 - Yankee Doodle Dandy
1944 - Double Indemnity
1946 - It's a Wonderful Life
1946 - Notorious
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 - The Third Man
1950 - All About Eve
1950 - Sunset Boulevard
1951 - A Place in the Sun
1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 - An American in Paris
1951 - The African Queen
1952 - High Noon
1952 - Singin' in the Rain
1953 - From Here to Eternity
1953 - Shane
1954 - On the Waterfront
1954 - Rear Window
1955 - Rebel Without a Cause
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 - Touch of Evil
1958 - Vertigo
1959 - Ben-Hur
1959 - North by Northwest
1959 - Some Like it Hot
1960 - Psycho
1961 - West Side Story
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1962 - The Manchurian Candidate
1962 - To Kill a Mockingbird
1964 - Dr. Strangelove
1964 - Mary Poppins
1964 - My Fair Lady
1965 - Doctor Zhivago
1965 - The Sound of Music
1966 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 - Bonnie and Clyde
1967 - The Graduate
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 - Easy Rider
1969 - Midnight Cowboy
1969 - The Wild Bunch
1970 - MASH
1970 - Patton
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - American Graffiti
1973 - The Sting
1974 - Chinatown
1974 - The Godfather II
1975 - Jaws
1975 - Nashville
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 - Rocky
1976 - Taxi Driver
1977 - Annie Hall
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - Raging Bull
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - E.T.
1982 - Tootsie
1984 - Amadeus
1990 - Dances with Wolves
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Forrest Gump
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1997 - Titanic
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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