Sunday, July 1, 2007

Facts about My Top 100

Films by Decade:

1930s - 1
M (1931)

1940s - 3
Rebecca (1940)
Rope (1948)
The Third Man (1949)

1950s - 10
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
An American in Paris (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)

1960s - 19
Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Birds (1963)
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Oliver! (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)

1970s - 25
Patoon (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Cabaret (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Sting (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
All the President's Men (1976)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Manhattan (1979)

1980s - 15
Airplane! (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Elephant Man
The Shining (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gandhi (1982)
The Verdict (1982)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
Witness (1985)
Ran (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Empire of the Sun (1987)

1990s - 13
Goodfellas (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Babe (1995)
Heat (1995)
Fargo (1996)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)

2000s - 14
Gladiator (2000)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Chicago (2002)
Kill Bill (2003-2004)
Lost in Translation (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Collateral (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Aviator (2004)
Munich (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
The Departed (2006)
V for Vendetta (2006)
Zodiac (2007)

The Following Directors Have the Most Films on My List-
1. Steven Spielberg - 7 (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Munich, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan)

2. Alfred Hitchcock - 6 (The Birds, Rebecca, North by Northwest, Rope, Psycho, Rear Window)

3. Stanley Kubrick - 6 (Spartacus, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

4. Martin Scorsese - 5 (The Departed, The Aviator, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas)

Best Pictures on My List-
Rebecca (1940)
An American in Paris (1951)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Oliver! (1968)
Patton (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Sting (1973)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Gandhi (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
Platoon (1986)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Gladiator (2000)
Chicago (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Departed (2006)

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