Lights, Camera, Movies!

I was reminded by another blog of my goal to watch all of AFI’s top 100 movies of the past 100 years.  I have made some progress, but after I acquired a late fee charge at Blockbuster I haven’t rented anything lately.  I don’t particularly have a time line for this goal, but sooner rather than later. 

Now there was two list created, one in 1998 and again in 2007.  I think it’s important to watch all of the movies on both list, 1998 & 2007.  Now a couple of these I have seen before but if I can’t really remember the story or if I assume I watched it too young to really understand it I am not qualifying it as read.

I recently watched Citizen Kane and can tell why it’s been given the #1 spot.  An incredible movie.   Below are the two list.  The movies in red are the ones I have seen.

1998

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	Psycho
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	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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	Rebel Without a Cause
60	Raiders of the Lost Ark
61	Vertigo
62	Tootsie
63	Stagecoach
64	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65	The Silence of the Lambs
66	Network
67	The Manchurian Candidate
68	An American in Paris
69	Shane
70	The French Connection
71	Forrest Gump
72	Ben-Hur
73	Wuthering Heights
74	The Gold Rush
75	Dances with Wolves
76	City Lights
77	American Graffiti
78	Rocky
79	The Deer Hunter
80	The Wild Bunch
81	Modern Times
82	Giant
83	Platoon
84	Fargo
85	Duck Soup
86	Mutiny on the Bounty
87	Frankenstein
88	Easy Rider
89	Patton
90	The Jazz Singer
91	My Fair Lady
92	A Place in the Sun
93	The Apartment
94	Goodfellas
95	Pulp Fiction
96	The Searchers
97	Bringing Up Baby
98	Unforgiven
99	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100	Yankee Doodle Dandy

2007

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