Top 100 Movies – Meme Monday

The following is the AFI Top 100 Movies list. I’m gonna bold all the movies I’ve seen from it. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty depressing sight. But I’m working on it.

  1. Citizen Kane
  2. Casablanca
  3. The Godfather
  4. Gone with the Wind
  5. Lawrence of Arabia
  6. The Wizard of Oz
  7. The Graduate
  8. On the Waterfront
  9. Schindler’s List
  10. Singin’ in the Rain
  11. It’s a Wonderful Life
  12. Sunset Boulevard
  13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  14. Some Like It Hot
  15. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  16. All About Eve
  17. The African Queen
  18. The General
  19. Chinatown
  20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  21. The Grapes of Wrath
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  23. The Maltese Falcon
  24. Raging Bull
  25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  26. Dr. Strangelove
  27. Bonnie and Clyde
  28. Apocalypse Now
  29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  31. Annie Hall
  32. The Godfather Part II
  33. High Noon
  34. To Kill a Mockingbird
  35. It Happened One Night
  36. Midnight Cowboy
  37. The Best Years of Our Lives
  38. Double Indemnity
  39. Doctor Zhivago
  40. North by Northwest
  41. West Side Story
  42. Rear Window
  43. King Kong
  44. The Birth of a Nation
  45. A Streetcar Named Desire
  46. A Clockwork Orange
  47. Taxi Driver
  48. Jaws
  49. Intolerance
  50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  51. The Philadelphia Story
  52. From Here to Eternity
  53. Amadeus
  54. All Quiet on the Western Front
  55. The Sound of Music
  56. MASH
  57. The Third Man
  58. Fantasia
  59. Nashville
  60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  61. Sullivan’s Travels
  62. Tootsie
  63. Cabaret
  64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  65. The Silence of the Lambs
  66. Network
  67. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
  68. An American in Paris
  69. Shane
  70. The French Connection
  71. Saving Private Ryan
  72. The Shawshank Redemption
  73. Wuthering Heights
  74. The Gold Rush
  75. In the Heat of the Night
  76. City Lights
  77. All the President’s Men
  78. Rocky
  79. The Deer Hunter
  80. The Wild Bunch
  81. Spartacus
  82. Sunrise
  83. Titanic
  84. Fargo
  85. A Night at the Opera
  86. Mutiny on the Bounty
  87. 12 Angry Men
  88. Easy Rider
  89. The Sixth Sense
  90. Swing Time
  91. Sophie’s Choice
  92. A Place in the Sun
  93. The Apartment
  94. Goodfellas
  95. The Last Picture Show
  96. Do the Right Thing
  97. Blade Runner
  98. Unforgiven
  99. Toy Story
  100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

32 out of a hundred… That’s worse than I thought… gotta start watching.

8 comments

  1. I’ve seen 10 out of 100. Out of these ten I’ve seen 2 (Sophie’s coice and All quiet on the western front) which you haven’t seen.
    My educational gap deepens. : P

    Maybe we should really do a book and movies club where we can catch up on our classics. I feel a great longing for humanities between toddlers and law. If you’d be interested, I think I’d have time to start reading freetime books and watching freetime movies in September.

    • I’m all for a club of some kind. Although earlier tries to build one always ended after a pretty short time, maybe we can keep it going this time.
      Or at least, we could get it started. :)

      • … yes, our clubs don’t quite work out but in the end it doesn’t matter ;)

        I wanted to give you a call a few times, but then something happened (like C. having an accident involving her knee and the floor, or like baby-A. crying etc.) and then I never got around it somehow. I’ll make A. babysit the kids on the weekend and call you – maybe you could suggest a certain time where I can reach you best : P It seems so silly that I have to plan a phonecall but it is true.

  2. I’ve seen 17 completely and remember them.

    There are 20 more that I remember having seen at least bits and pieces of, sometimes vaguely. “Spartacus” and “High Noon”, for example, are favourites of my father’s. I remember Charlton Heston rowing…and dusty John Wayne waiting in front of a dusty saloon waiting for other dusty people to come so he could shoot them.

    *sigh* Shame on me.

  3. 28 gesehn. auch nicht so toll, aber diese liste ist auch ein schas, wenn ich das so sagen darf.
    schindlers liste in den top 10??? bei einer guten liste duerfte der nichtmal unter die besten 100. city lights nur platz 76. pffffft.

    aber was du auf jeden fall sehen solltest: 2001, taxi driver, north by northwest (und rear window, sag mal, verweigerst du hitchcock?), cabaret und den dritten mann. oh und intolerance vielleicht mal im filmmuseum.

    vom rest kenn ich ur viel nichtmal vom hoeren.
    und wtf ist yakee doodle dandy?

    • Jede Top irgendwas Liste hat ihre Probleme – ich finde, es sind auch nur gute Startpunkte für Gespräche und Diskussionen.
      Kennst du eine Top 100 Liste, die deinem Geschmack mehr entspricht?

      Und ich verweigere Hitchcock nicht – ich habe die Vögel gesehen, zumindest – aber irgendwie bin ich halt nie dazu gekommen. Aber ich plane noch, mir seine Filme anzuschauen.

      yankee doodle dandy ist irgendwie die Geschichte von einem Musical-Schreiber oder so.
      Die ganze Liste ist halt total US-zentriert. Ich hab auch nicht alle gekannt.

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