86 down now, after finishing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

The next 3 in hand, either on DVD or on my DVR. Gonna finish this goal. The finish line is almost in sight!

from the 1997 list:
5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
13.BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (1957)
17.AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951)
21.GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
22.2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
24. RAGING BULL (1980)—finished 7/2/09
26.DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
28.APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
30.TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
33.HIGH NOON (1952)
34.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
37.BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (1946)
38.DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39.DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
43.KING KONG (1933)
44.BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (1915)
50.BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
53.AMADEUS (1984)
54.ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
56.MA*SH(1970)
57.THIRD MAN, THE (1949)
60.RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
63.STAGECOACH (1939)
64.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
67.MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962)
68.AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (1951)
69.SHANE (1953)
70.FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (1971)
72.BEN-HUR (1959)
73.WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74.GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
75.DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76.CITY LIGHTS (1931)
78.ROCKY (1976)
79.DEER HUNTER, THE (1978)
80.WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
81.MODERN TIMES (1936)
82.GIANT (1956)
83.PLATOON (1986)
85.DUCK SOUP (1933)
86.MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
87.FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88.EASY RIDER (1969)
89.PATTON (1970)
90.JAZZ SINGER, THE (1927)
91.MY FAIR LADY (1964)
96.SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
97.BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98.UNFORGIVEN (1992)
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

Added to 2007 List:
Intolerance (1916)
Nashville (1975)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Cabaret (1972)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
All the President’s Men (1976)
Spatacus (1960)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Swing Time (1936)
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
The Last Picture Show (1971)

i’m going to watch Citizen Kane and put a hold on singin in the rain.

the early era silent film about an adulterous country man. i am still not quite sure why this is on the list. don’t get me wrong, i can appreciate silent film, but this thing bored me to tears.

at least i can move on now. my next challenge? finding three and a half hours to watch spartacus.

1.Citizen Kane
2.The Godfather DONE
3.Casablanca DONE
4.Raging Bull DONE
5.Singin’ in the Rain
6.Gone with the Wind DONE
7.Lawrence of Arabia
8.Schindler’s List DONE
9.Vertigo DONE
10.The Wizard of Oz DONE
11.City Lights
12.The Searchers
13.Star Wars – A New Hope DONE
14.Psycho DONE
15.2001 – A Space Odyssey
16.Sunset Boulevard
17.The Graduate DONE
18.The General
19.On the Waterfront
20.It’s a Wonderful Life
21.Chinatown DONE
22.Some Like It Hot DONE
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24.E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial DONE
25.To Kill a Mockingbird
26.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27.High Noon
28.All About Eve
29.Double Indemnity
30.Apocalypse Now DONE
31.The Maltese Falcon
32.The Godfather, Part II DONE
33.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest DONE
34.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DONE
35.Annie Hall DONE
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 DONE
40.The Sound of Music DONE
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 DONE
48.Rear Window DONE
49.Intolerance (1916)
50.The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring DONE
51.West Side Story DONE
52.Taxi Driver DONE
53.The Deer Hunter DONE
54.MASH Collector’s Edition DONE
55.North By Northwest DONE
56.Jaws DONE
57.Rocky DONE
58.The Gold Rush (1925)
59.Nashville
60.Duck Soup
61.Sullivan’s Travels – Criterion Collection
62.American Graffiti
63.Cabaret
64.Network
65.The African Queen
66.Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
67.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68.Unforgiven
69.Tootsie DONE
70.A Clockwork Orange DONE
71.Saving Private Ryan
72.The Shawshank Redemption DONE
73.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74.The Silence of the Lambs DONE
75.In the Heat of the Night
76.Forrest Gump DONE
77.All the President’s Men
78.Modern Times
79.The Wild Bunch
80.The Apartment
81.Spartacus
82.Sunrise (1927)
83.Titanic DONE
84.Easy Rider DONE
85.A Night at the Opera
86.Platoon DONE
87.12 Angry Men
88.Bringing Up Baby DONE
89.The Sixth Sense DONE
90.Swing Time
91.Sophie’s Choice DONE
92.Goodfellas DONE
93.The French Connection
94.Pulp Fiction DONE
95.The Last Picture Show
96.Do the Right Thing
97.Blade Runner
98.Yankee Doodle Dandy
99.Toy Story DONE
100.Ben-Hur

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 – 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-
23The 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 (1916)
50.The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring
51.West Side Story
52.Taxi Driver
53.The Deer Hunter
54.MASH Collector’s Edition
55.North By Northwest
56.Jaws
57.Rocky
58.The Gold Rush (1925)
59.Nashville
60.Duck Soup
61.Sullivan’s Travels – Criterion Collection
62.American Graffiti
63.Cabaret
64.Network
65.The African Queen
66.Indiana Jones and the 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 (1927)
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

I’ve watched a few. I’m excited to watch the rest!

61 on 2007 list

Sullivan’s Travels is a movie I have been meaning to see for years, and I am happy it ended up being the final movie for this goal. A film about moviemaking, Sullivan’s Travels pokes fun at Hollywood and its attempts to reach an audience. The main character, a director, wants to make something more than a simple comedy picture, he wants to make a movie for the poor people.

John Sullivan, a famous movie director, decides he wants to make a movie about human suffering so he decides to figure out suffering for himself by going on the road as a tramp. The studio sees this as a great publicity stunt and decide to follow him on the journey. Try as he may to get on the road, he ends up back in Hollywood or wherever his crew decides to follow. Along the way, he meets “The Girl,” played by Veronica Lake. She is a failing actress who ends up tagging along with him. This journey brings humor, sadness, drama and laughter.

Great scenes include Sullivan trapped in a movie theater with noisy kids and loud eaters, a funny car chase, a mixed audience enjoying the funny antics of Pluto and many more. It has great dialogue with plenty of one-liners. After all, humor is universal. Whether you are rich or poor, a funny movie will still bring you laughter.

Sullivan’s Travels is a worthy addition to this list and is indeed one of the greatest movies I have seen. I highly urge you to experience Sullivan’s Travels.

52 on 1998 list

A powerful movie about war and relationships. It takes place in Hawaii and centers around a soldier, Pvt. Prewitt, who is harassed by his officer because he won’t box on their team. At the same time, the officer’s wife becomes involved with his sergeant and Prewitt becomes involved with a “prostitute” at a gentleman’s club. I’m not a big fan of adultery for personal reasons and it is always hard for me to see it portrayed on screen as a good thing, but this movie handles it well. All of these troubled relationships reach their peak at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Evidently the book was too racy and did not paint the army in a good light, so the movie had to be toned down for audiences at the time. However, I think it does a good job at tackling the issues it presents. I have not read the book, but I am interested after seeing this.

82 on 2007 list

This was one of the hardest movies to find to watch, but I am glad I made the effort. It was a very good movie, worthy of a spot on the top 100 movie list. It has a simple plot, a farmer is tempted by a city woman to leave/kill his wife but realizes how much he loves his wife, but it is very well done with minimal title cards.
Things worth noting. When the city woman suggests he drown his wife, the title card that says “she could be drowned” has a great effect. The word drowned falls down towards the bottom of the screen. Very cool for a silent movie. The special effects were great, such as the city scenes. As the man and his wife go to the city, images dominate the screen around them. These include people dancing, bands playing and the city in movement.
Once again, I will link to Roger Ebert. His review is well written and is able to say so much about Sunrise than I ever could.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040411/REVIEWS08/404110301/1023

Sunrise is a film everyone should be required to watch.

49 on 2007 list

D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance has been touted as a masterpiece of film worthy of the same recognition of Michelango’s art and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (as noted on Wikipedia). I did not receive that impression in my viewing. The film was good and lavishly filmed, the Babylonion walls and battles were especially impressive, but it seemed way to preachy and forced. From what I understand, Griffith made it to apologize for A Birth of a Nation, but it seemed like the theme of intolerance was pushed to hard at the viewer. Besides that one little complaint, it was a very impressive movie.