Thing to Do #57: See the All-Time Greatest Films

After I heard the Oscar Nominees on Thursday, I was inspired to post about the greatest films of all time.

First off, let me say that I LOVE movies.  Let me illustrate:

• Unlike most people, I prefer having a movie play in the background while cleaning my house or fiddling on the internet, rather than listening to music
• I watch an average of 12 NEW movies a month (at least according to my Netflix account).  This doesn’t count the movies I re-watch  over and over on DVD and satellite
• I was only one class short of minoring in film in college

With all my love of film, watching the 200+ movies on the list was more difficult than I had expected, considering there were some that I wanted to walk out on 5 minutes in.  Three movies weren’t even offered for rent by Netflix -I had to search and purchase off of Ebay.  When I purchased the book, I had probably already seen over half of the movies; even still, it took a good solid year of (sometimes forcing myself to) watch movies.

That being said, I discovered several movies (especially a few foreign ones) that I sincerely enjoyed and was glad to have watched.  Below is the list of the all-time greatest films (according to Richard Horne, based on several different lists) that I completed in October 2007.

Which films do you think should be added to the list? (Really? Barbarella, The Clash of the Titans or Flash Gordon over Lawrence of Arabia, Raging Bull, or The Searchers ?).

12 Angry Men
2001: Space Odyssey
A Bout de Souffle
Alien
Aliens
Amadeus
Amelie
American Beauty
An American Werewolf in London
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Arsenic and Old Lace
Audition
Back to the Future I
Barbarella
The Big Lebowski
Big Wednesday
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Das Boot
Brazil
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast Club
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Caddyshack
Casablanca
Casino
A Christmas Carol (1970)
Citizen Kane
City of God
Clash of the Titans
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Deer Hunter
Deliverance
Les Diaboliques
Donnie Darko
Do the Right Thing
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Ed Wood
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
Evil Dead 2
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Festen
Fight Club
Flash Gordon
Ghostbusters
The Godfather, Part I
The Godfather, Part 2
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
The Great Escape
Grosse Point Blank
Groundhog Day
Harold and Maude
Harvey
Heathers
The Italian Job (1969)
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Jules et Jim
The Jungle Book
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kingpin
L.A. Confidential
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lost in Translation
The Matrix
Memento
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
National Lampoon’s Animal House
The Night of the Hunter
North by Northwest
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Omen (1976)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Passage to India
Peeping Tom
Pi
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Platoon
The Producers (1967)
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
The Right Stuff
The Ring
Risky Business
The Royal Tenenbaums
Scanners
Secretary
Sexy Beast
Seven
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Shrek
The Sixth Sense
Spirited Away
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
The Sting
The Straight Story
The Sure Thing
Swingers
Taxi Driver
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Thing
This is Spinal Tap
To Kill a Mockingbird
Top Secret
Touch of Evil
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trading Places
True Romance
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
The Vanishinig
Videodrome
When We Were Kings
The Wicker Man (1973)
Withnail & I
Young Frankenstein