Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Film List

I pinched this from Andy's blog but have added an extra bit I have italliced those films I haven't seen all of

On Channel 4 they ran down the top 100 films as voted for by the viewers and so I thought I'd list them here, the ones in bold are the ones that I've seen (I have seen some of some of the others but not seen them all the way through), anyway here they are:-
1. Star Wars (1977) / The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. The Godfather (1972) / The Godfather Part 2 (1974)
3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
6. Gladiator (2000)
7. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
8. Blade Runner (1982)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Goodfellas (1990)
11. Psycho (1960)
12. Jaws (1975)
13. Apocalypse Now (1979) Have seen the heart of Darkness though about the making of the movie
14. One flew over the cuckoos nest(1975)
15. The Matrix (1999) Understood the first film got more and more confused as the series went on
16. Casablanca (1942)
17. The Usual Suspects (1995)
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
19. Citizen Kane (1941)
20. Raging Bull (1980)
21. ET (1982) I saw this when it was first released up on Leicester square when I was 11 and I cried all the way home much to my mothers annoyance.
22. Taxi Driver (1976)
23. Life Of Brian (1979)
24. Singin' In The Rain (1952) In fact have probably seen all of this just seemed to have watched it in bits
25. LA Confidential (1997)
26. The Wizard Of Oz (1939) Every Christmas for years as a kid used to be terrified by the flying monkeys
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
28. Kes (1969) Haven't seen but loved the book
29. Vertigo (1958)
30. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
31. Fargo (1996)
32. Gone With The Wind (1939) Always get bored about half way through
33. Trainspotting (1996)
34. The Full Monty (1997)
35. The Graduate (1967)
36. Alien (1979)
37. The Silence Of The Lambs (1990)
38. Withnail & I (1987)
39. The Great Escape (1963)
40. Toy Story (1995)
41. The Third Man (1949)
42. Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
43. The Sound Of Music (1965)
44. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
45. Deliverance (1972)
46. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
47. Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. The Exorcist (1973)
50. Annie Hall (1977)
51. The Italian Job (1969)
52. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
53. The Jungle Book (1967) The first film I ever saw at the cinema
54. Titanic (1998)
55. Jean De Florette (1986) / Manon Des Sources (1986)
56. Dr. Strangelove (1963)
57. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
58. The Seven Samurai (1954)
59. A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
60. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
61. Secrets & Lies (1995) I love this movie, it is so moving a beautiful study of people
62. Blue Velvet (1986)
63. La Dolce Vita (1960)
64. Spartacus (1960)
65. Metropolis (1926)
66. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
67. King Kong(1933)
68. Get Carter (1971)
69. The Searchers (1956)
70. The Seventh Seal (1957)
71. Don't Look Now (1973)
72. Brief Encounter (1945)
73. M*A*S*H (1970)
74. The French Connection (1971)
75. Top Hat (1935)
76. The Producers (1968)
77. Three Colours: Blue (1993) / Three Colours: White (1993) / Three Colours: Red (1994)
78. Cabaret (1972)
79. Goldfinger (1964)
80. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
81. The Gold Rush (1925)
82. High Noon (1952)
83. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
84. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
85. Enter The Dragon (1973)
86. Breathless (A Bout De Souffle) (1960)
87. Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
88. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
89. The African Queen (1951)
90. The General (1926)
91. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
92. Way Out West (1937)
93. Henry V (1944)
94. Easy Rider (1969)
95. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
96. Belle De Jour (1967)
97. The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
98. The Terminator (1984)
99. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)
100. Do The Right Thing (1989)

I don't think I did as bad as thought I would as usually I consider myself not really a great film watcher.
I also think of some that I would have added to the list
1. Awakenings - With Robert De Niro and Robin Williams have watched it many times and I still end up in tears
2. An Affair to remember - Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, the perfect saturday afternoon knitting movie.
3. Holiday Inn - Always try and wrap my Christmas presents whilst watching this one
4. Muriels Wedding
5. Educating Rita - I so empathised with this movie when I started Uni I kept thinking someone was going to find me out and tell me that it was all a big mistake and that I couldn't possibly have thought that I was supposed to be there.

Thinking about it I could probably make up my own one hundred, how about you what five movies would you add?

5 comments:

Michelle said...

You have to see The Shawshank Redemption. Its one of Eric's and my favorite movies.

Anonymous said...

Let's see; top of my list would probably be Now Voyager (1942) followed by Field of Dreams (1989), Jules et Jim (1962), Lost Horizon (1937), Notorious (1946). I could go on, but I won't!

I, Like The View said...

Sound of Music? (sorry)

House of Flying Daggers?

When Harry Met Sally?

Win Wender's Wings of Desire?

The Princess Bride?

so glad to see Blade Runner up there!

I, Like The View said...

oh, actually, I now see that TSOM is in fact there. . .

Dangerous Liasions?

Anonymous said...

Like Water for Chocolate
Eating Raoul
What's cooking
Family Plot
Battle for Algeria