The Great Movies

I finished reading Roger Ebert's The Great Movies and The Great Movies II a couple of days ago. Most of the movies I've never heard of - old silent films, various foreign flicks, etc. I've never had any real interest in silent films, and ever since I watched Babette's Feast, I've been gun-shy of foreign films.

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to make my own "great movies" list - not a top 100, just flicks I dig. I don't claim to be a film expert or anything like that, so please don't think I'm trying to come off as some kind of authority (I've listed a Muppet movie in the list, that alone should toss any notions of film snobbery out the window). The only criteria I have for this list is that I have to a) like the movie enough to reccomend it to someone else, and b) have watched it more than a handful of times.

I cross-referenced my list with both of Ebert's books and with IMDB's top 250 films. Movies in bold are in Ebert's books, movies in blue are on the IMDB list. Can you guess what blue and bold mean? If so, pat yourself on the back.

The list...

1. 12 Monkeys
2. American Beauty
3. American History X
4. American Movie
5. Apocalypse Now
6. As Good As It Gets
7. Batman II
8. Beetlejuice
9. Being John Malkovich
10. Beyond The Sea
11. The Big Lebowski
12. Blade Runner
13. Blazing Saddles
14. Blow
15. Blue Velvet
16. The Blues Brothers
17. Boogie Nights
18. Boys Don't Cry
19. Boyz n the Hood
20. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
21. Casino
22. Chaplin
23. A Christmas Story
24. A Clockwork Orange
25. Comedian
26. Do The Right Thing
27. Dogma
28. Drugstore Cowboy
29. Ed Wood
30. El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon A Time in Mexico (Trilogy)
31. Elf
32. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
33. Fargo
34. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
35. Fear of a Black Hat
36. Finding Nemo
37. Forrest Gump
38. From Dusk Till Dawn
39. Garden State
40. Goodfellas
41. Grease
42. The Green Mile
43. Hair
44. Halloween
45. Hotel Rwanda
46. Indiana Jones Trilogy
47. Jaws
48. The Jerk
49. Johnny Got His Gun
50. Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi
    
51. L.A. Confidential
52. L.A. Story
53. Leaving Las Vegas
54. Lord of the Rings (All)
55. Love, Actually
56. Malcolm X
57. Million Dollar Baby
58. Misery
59. Monster's Ball
60. The Muppet Christmas Carol
61. Mystic River
62. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
63. Office Space
64. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
65. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
66. Permanent Midnight
67. Pirates of the Carribean
68. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
69. The Polar Express
70. Pulp Fiction
71. The Rat Pack
72. Repo Man
73. Reservoir Dogs
74. The River's Edge
75. The Road to Perdition
76. Rocky
77. Runaway Jury
78. Se7en
79. The Shawshank Redemption
80. Sid & Nancy
81. The Silence of the Lambs
82. A Simple Plan
83. Sin City
84. Singles
85. Sixteen Candles
86. The Sixth Sense
87. Sling Blade
88. Spider-Man II
89. Spy Kids II: Island of the Lost Dreams
90. Star Trek II: THe Wraith Of Kahn
91. Star Wars (All)
92. Summer of Sam
93. Swingers
94. Thelma & Louise
95. This is Spinal Tap
96. Unbreakable
97. The Usual Suspects
98. The Warriors
99. When Harry Met Sally
100. Wings of Desire/Faraway, So Close!

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