At the Movies!

Well, the less said about Epic Movie the better. It was a morning matinee. Mistakes were made. I'm better now. Really.

Rather than belabor that, instead I'll queue off the movie checklist Mark Gibson linked to as a measure of one's movie buffdom, branching eventually off to the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies list, which I'd seen before but hadn't run through.

Me? I was a little surprised to find that I'd seen so many of them over the years. I've marked them as follows:

* = Those I've seen
X = Those I'm unlikely to ever watch, including ones I've already seen and have no desire to watch again.
M = The few I actually saw in a theater.
! = Those I've watched more than once for various reasons.

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941) *

2. CASABLANCA (1942) * !

3. THE GODFATHER (1972) * !

4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) * X

5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) * !

6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) * !

7. THE GRADUATE (1967) * !

8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) *

9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) *

10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

11. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) * !

12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) *

13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) * !

14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) * X

15. STAR WARS (1977) * M !

16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) * !

18. PSYCHO (1960) * !

19. CHINATOWN (1974) *

20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) * !

21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) * !

22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) * M !

23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) * !

24. RAGING BULL (1980) *

25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) * M

26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) * !

27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) *

28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) * M !

29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) *

30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) * !

31. ANNIE HALL (1977) *

32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) * !

33. HIGH NOON (1952) *

34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) *

35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) * !

37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) *

39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) *

40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) * !

41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961) * !

42. REAR WINDOW (1954) * !

43. KING KONG (1933) * !

44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)

45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) *

46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) * !

47. TAXI DRIVER (1976) * !

48. JAWS (1975) *

49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) * X M (early '90s re-release)

50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) * !

51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) *

52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

53. AMADEUS (1984)

54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) *

55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) * X

56. M*A*S*H (1970) * !

57. THE THIRD MAN (1949) *

58. FANTASIA (1940) * M (some re-release... I don't recall when)

59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) * X

60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) * M !

61. VERTIGO (1958) * !

62. TOOTSIE (1982) * M !

63. STAGECOACH (1939)

64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) * X M

65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) * !

66. NETWORK (1976) * !

67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) * !

68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)

69. SHANE (1953)

70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) * M !

71. FORREST GUMP (1994) *

72. BEN-HUR (1959) * !

73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)

74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) * X

76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)

77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) * M

78. ROCKY (1976) *

79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978) * M !

80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969) *

81. MODERN TIMES (1936)

82. GIANT (1956)

83. PLATOON (1986) * M

84. FARGO (1996) *

85. DUCK SOUP (1933) * !

86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) *

87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931) * !

88. EASY RIDER (1969) * !

89. PATTON (1970) * !

90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

91. MY FAIR LADY (1964) *

92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

93. THE APARTMENT (1960) * X

94. GOODFELLAS (1990) * !

95. PULP FICTION (1994) * !

96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)

97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

98. UNFORGIVEN (1992) * !

99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) *

100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) X

So... how about you?

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