As my first order of business at my new job, I am required to create a "top 100 movies" list, and I thought I would share. The movies we like are something that people are judged by everyday in this town. I think these choices do say a lot about a person, but try not to judge too harshly one way or another...
1.West Side Story
2.The Lives of Others (Germany)
3.American Beauty
4.Match Point
5.Little Miss Sunshine
6.Strangers on a Train
7.Hannah and Her Sisters
8.The Counterfeiters (Austria)
9.Traffic
10.Monster
11.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
12.Babel
13.Juno
14.Volver (Spain)
15.Crash
16.Knocked Up
17.Little Children
18.Liar Liar
19.Once
20.Friends with Money
21.Virgin Suicides
22.Notes on a Scandal
23.Fargo
24.Everything Is Illuminated
25.The Life of David Gale
26.Spanglish
27.Rear Window
28.Aladdin
29.Sixth Sense
30.Back to the Future II
31.Chicago
32.Now and Then
33.The Upside of Anger
34.The Orphanage (Spain)
35.Meet the Parents
36.Ocean’s Thirteen
37.Center Stage
38.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
39.Shakespeare In Love
40.The Shawshank Redemption
41.All the President’s Men
42.King of Kong (documentary)
43.Kramer vs. Kramer
44.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
45.The Devil Wears Prada
46.Mean Girls
47.The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France)
48.Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain and Mexico)
49.10 Things I Hate About You
50.The Crucible
51.Girl Interrupted
52.Wedding Crashers
53.Good Will Hunting
54.Sabrina
55.Taxi Driver
56.Eastern Promises
57.Arlington Road
58.Children of Men
59.The Exorcism of Emily Rose
60.Full Frontal
61.Jerry Maguire
62.An Affair to Remember
63.Blue Car
64.Sex, Lies and Videotape
65.Being John Malkovich
66.Erin Brockovich
67.Life as a House
68.Annie Hall
69.Margot at the Wedding
70.Baghead
71.Jesus Camp (documentary)
72.The Usual Suspects
73.Titanic
74.Network
75.Castaway
76.Romeo and Juliet (Baz Lurhmann)
77.The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
78.Annie
79.The People vs. Larry Flynt
80.Princess Diaries
81.The King of Comedy
82.Funny Games
83.The Labyrinth
84.Psycho
85.Badlands
86.The Hours
87.Sex and the City
88.Casino
89.Death at a Funeral
90.Boys Don’t Cry
91.Bubble
92.The Three Faces of Eve
93.The Breakfast Club
94.40 Year-Old Virgin
95.Back to the Future I
96.When Harry Met Sally
97.Solas (Spain)
98.The Family Stone
99.Mrs. Doubtfire
100.How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Friday, August 22, 2008
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I can't believe how many of those I've seen. I would have to add for my list Notting Hill, Gone With the Wind, Bridget Jones Diary, Far and Away, It's a Wonderful Life, Sleeping with the Enemy, Sound of Music, Fame, Singing in the Rain, Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Beauty and the Beast, Terminator, Alien, An Innocent Man, Forrest Gump, Sleepless in Seattle, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, well, I guess I could go on and on and 100 is too limiting, I think.
Arlington Road, I thought I was the only person who remembered that movie :-)
You inspired Brian and I (we have too much time on our hands)...
1. The Graduate
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. Kramer vs. Kramer
5. The Godfather
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8. The Royal Tenenbaums
9. Dances With Wolves
10. Malcolm X
11. Bottle Rocket
12. Zodiac
13. Once
14. Annie Hall
15. The Big Lebowski
16. Do the Right Thing
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. North by Northwest
19. Bull Durham
20. The Apartment
21. Charade
22. Rushmore
23. The Deer Hunter
24. The Squid and the Whale
25. I Heart Huckabees
26. Lovely and Amazing
27. Harold and Maude
28. The Sting
29. Good Will Hunting
30. The Breakfast Club
31. Taxi Driver
32. Out of Sight
33. Fargo
34. About a Boy
35. Before Sunset
36. It’s a Wonderful Life
37. Shoot the Piano Player
38. JFK
39. Wonder Boys
40. Breathless
41. The TV Set
42. All The Presidents Men
43. Brokeback Mountain
44. All About Eve
45. When Harry Met Sally
46. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
47. Back to the Future Part 1
48. Friends with Money
49. Jerry Maguire
50. Chinatown
51. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
52. Tootsie
53. The African Queen
54. The Life Aquatic
55. The Station Agent
56. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
57. Memento
58. Empire Strikes Back
59. Ocean’s Eleven
60. Mrs. Doubtfire
61. Letters from Iwo Jima
62. The Untouchables
63. Silverado
64. The Shawshank Redemption
65. Star Wars
66. Jurassic Park
67. Spartacus
68. Silence of the Lambs
69. Children of Men
70. The Crucible
71. Hotel Rwanda
72. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
73. You Can Count On Me
74. The Little Mermaid
75. Toy Story
76. My Fair Lady
77. The Sound of Music
78. Gone With the Wind
79. The Departed
80. Quiz Show
81. Margot at the Wedding
82. West Side Story
83. Pulp Fiction
84. Toy Story 2
85. Batman: The Dark Knight
86. The Matrix
87. Monsters Inc.
88. Garden State
89. The Wedding Singer
90. Best in Show
91. Braveheart
92. Armageddon
93. Dark City
94. Aladdin
95. Beauty and the Beast
96. Knocked Up
97. Ratatouille
98. The Puffy Chair
99. Mean Girls
100. The Princess Bride
We spent our Saturday making lists of our own.
1. Rushmore
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Do the Right Thing
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. The Godfather
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. The Graduate
8. Taxi Driver
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Casablanca
11. The Squid and the Whale
12. Goodfellas
13. Margot at the Wedding
14. Lost in Translation
15. The Departed
16. Hannah and Her Sisters
17. North by Northwest
18. Annie Hall
19. Deconstructing Harry
20. Short Cuts
21. City of God
22. Kramer vs. Kramer
23. Lovely and Amazing
24. The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada
25. Adaptation
26. Pulp Fiction
27. The Darjeeling Limited
28. Bonnie and Clyde
29. The Sting
30. The Deer Hunter
31. Harold and Maude
32. Once
33. The Incredibles
34. Before Sunset
35. Kicking and Screaming
36. Raging Bull
37. Zodiac
38. Three Kings
39. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
40. Friends With Money
41. Before Sunrise
42. Amores Perros
43. Bottle Rocket
44. Toy Story 2
45. Good Will Hunting
46. Reprise
47. Jurassic Park
48. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
49. JFK
50. Shoot the Piano Player
51. Barcelona
52. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
53. Son of Rambow
54. Finding Nemo
55. Quiz Show
56. Breathless
57. Jackie Brown
58. Shaun of the Dead
59. A Hard Day’s Night
60. I Heart Huckabees
61. Mean Streets
62. SLC Punk
63. Toy Story
64. Baghead
65. Puffy Chair
66. Network
67. Collateral
68. Mr. Jealousy
69. Memento
70. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
71. The Lives of Others
72. Murderball
73. Rocket Science
74. The Game
75. Children of Men
76. The TV Set
77. Ocean’s Eleven
78. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
79. Knocked Up
80. Back to the Future
81. Monsters Inc.
82. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
83. Blues Brothers
84. Back to the Future 2
85. Slacker
86. The Dark Knight
87. The Manchurian Candidate
88. The Breakfast Club
89. Dogtown and Z Boys
90. Batman Begins
91. Wall-E
92. Spider-Man 2
93. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
94. Being John Malkovich
95. Stop Making Sense
96. The Dinner Game
97. A Nightmare Before Christmas
98. Best in Show
99. The Station Agent
100. Mutual Appreciation
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