Every time I watch a stupid DVD movie I'm left with an emptiness feeling that only a deep meaningful rental can fill.
I'm sure the right intention was there when P.S. I Love You was written but they forgot to put it in the final version. And I wonder what the big mouth star had to say when her heroine character in 27 Dresses falls at the pinnacle of her LIFE? Ugh, so typical. Why doesn't the good looking male character ever trip and fall? Is it a scientific fact, that only women trip and fall?
Anyway, I finally watched August Rush and my son loved it. It's not stupid at all and I today I think I'll rent In the Valley of Elah. Thanks to the Red thing I can catch up on all the big Hollywood blockbusters for a fourth of the price at that other place. Yay!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
we need them
Four women who love each other and are always supportive of one another. Through work problems, trouble with men and personal dissatisfaction, they have each other at the end of the day and in the morning. These women are Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, fictional best friends in Sex and the City.
I developed such a liking toward those characters that at the end of the series I missed them like I would miss my loved ones, my friends.
Like the women in SATC my friends and I share our deepest fears and aspirations. We seek advice from each other and vent when we're going through hard times and we make each other laugh. And yes, we also kiss and tell.
It is only with our closest friends that we share our most intimate details of our sex lives. We talk about our love lives with our husbands, boyfriends and men in general. We find comfort in the words we share together. And I found comfort in their friendship because they never let each other down. The script allowed them a fantasy like world where your friends are always your priority. Reality is friends move away, have children, get married and make new friends.
I was anticipating the SATC movie so much I cried at the sight of the first movie signs. Corny I know. I watched the movie twice and cried both times. Very corny, I'm aware of that.
The movie in fact was like a real long SATC episode. Nothing was left out but the overload sex talk and search of it. In a way it was a little more like Love and the City. The fantasy friendship made me wonder if my real life Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte would pack up and flee the country leaving behind their families and jobs in the time of an emotional crisis if I needed them?
Reality is, they wouldn't. And I just might prefer to recoup on my own. That's just me.
I read in an article that one thing a woman needs in her life to be healthy is a tight group of friends. The article referred to Carrie as the pack leader not being necessary as long as you have good dependable friends. Which is what I have. Friends I can talk to and get together with and are always only a phone call or e-mail away.
I developed such a liking toward those characters that at the end of the series I missed them like I would miss my loved ones, my friends.
Like the women in SATC my friends and I share our deepest fears and aspirations. We seek advice from each other and vent when we're going through hard times and we make each other laugh. And yes, we also kiss and tell.
It is only with our closest friends that we share our most intimate details of our sex lives. We talk about our love lives with our husbands, boyfriends and men in general. We find comfort in the words we share together. And I found comfort in their friendship because they never let each other down. The script allowed them a fantasy like world where your friends are always your priority. Reality is friends move away, have children, get married and make new friends.
I was anticipating the SATC movie so much I cried at the sight of the first movie signs. Corny I know. I watched the movie twice and cried both times. Very corny, I'm aware of that.
The movie in fact was like a real long SATC episode. Nothing was left out but the overload sex talk and search of it. In a way it was a little more like Love and the City. The fantasy friendship made me wonder if my real life Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte would pack up and flee the country leaving behind their families and jobs in the time of an emotional crisis if I needed them?
Reality is, they wouldn't. And I just might prefer to recoup on my own. That's just me.
I read in an article that one thing a woman needs in her life to be healthy is a tight group of friends. The article referred to Carrie as the pack leader not being necessary as long as you have good dependable friends. Which is what I have. Friends I can talk to and get together with and are always only a phone call or e-mail away.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
crime and punishment, jr.
One good thing about my daughter being grounded is I don't have to do all the cleaning. Not only does she take a load of the work as part of her punishment but it's easier to get her to do anything I ask. Is that mean? Is that slavery in my home?
Monday, May 26, 2008
In 12 days
Since my last post I had three unsuccessful tries at making the perfect chocolate chip cookies, the kids have been happy with my trying and they agree that I should keep baking them until I get the batch of cookies just right, there have been celebrity marriages and engagements, it has rained-which makes me wonder if the Chinese have been meddling with the clouds?-and I dreamed the craziest dream I ever had.
In the dream I was in L.A. and I think I was working as an usher at a party held at the building I used to work in but I was dressed fancy as the guests were and I remember feeling like there was no one in charge and so I took charge and led the party guests to a grand room with very high ceilings in which I could hear my heels as I walked on the marble floor in the Biltmore Hotel. They all lined up and followed me like children follow their teachers to the cafeteria. At some point Odie and I ended up in a black limousine with Hugh Hefner. Hef lay naked on me and I held him like a baby on my lap. Thank goodness I didn't see his wee-wee because his whole skin was wrinkled and it sagged. Or maybe I did see it but I'm traumatized and chose to forget it. You know what else is good? I don't remember feeling his body either. Could I remember that from a dream? Anyway, then he told me something very important, something I wonder and worry about so much it keeps me up at night. He told me that there is hope for eight ball hearts like mine. I never knew he could be so deep. Thanks for the words of encouragement! I looked over at Odie sitting across from us and gave him an "I told you so" look.
It is a strange dream because why of all people, did I find hope in Hugh Hefner?
In the dream I was in L.A. and I think I was working as an usher at a party held at the building I used to work in but I was dressed fancy as the guests were and I remember feeling like there was no one in charge and so I took charge and led the party guests to a grand room with very high ceilings in which I could hear my heels as I walked on the marble floor in the Biltmore Hotel. They all lined up and followed me like children follow their teachers to the cafeteria. At some point Odie and I ended up in a black limousine with Hugh Hefner. Hef lay naked on me and I held him like a baby on my lap. Thank goodness I didn't see his wee-wee because his whole skin was wrinkled and it sagged. Or maybe I did see it but I'm traumatized and chose to forget it. You know what else is good? I don't remember feeling his body either. Could I remember that from a dream? Anyway, then he told me something very important, something I wonder and worry about so much it keeps me up at night. He told me that there is hope for eight ball hearts like mine. I never knew he could be so deep. Thanks for the words of encouragement! I looked over at Odie sitting across from us and gave him an "I told you so" look.
It is a strange dream because why of all people, did I find hope in Hugh Hefner?
Monday, May 12, 2008
no pressure. no fuss.
Nicole graced my tattoo collection with one of her own. It was the cherry on top of a happy sundae. A great Mother's day it was. It was meaningful, serene and oddly typical.
Given that my family is not one to plan, I don't expect anything elaborate on days like my birthday or Mother's day. But I am still disappointed when I get asked what I want to do for the day or what I want as a gift; I talk so much about what I want throughout the year, one would think the roof on our house would collapse with the hint bombs dropping. No one remembers those hints though. And a gift or present is something you give me, on your own without any pressure. Surely after so much time, my family could think of something I like. Teacher's understand.
Mother's day gifts made by children at school are the best. This year Nicole gave me a Mother's day coupon book. It's fabulous! Some of the coupons entitle me to two meals of my choice made by her, she'll make my bed for a week, and my favorite, she won't talk back to me for a week. Benjamin made me a card that says, "every day with you is like Disneyland". I joked and said it's true the way it's chaotic, they have to wait for food and sometimes I still have to take him to the bathroom. Every day I am given more time to be with my family, the ones I love the most in this world, is present enough.
That is why I am not one to make a big deal out of a marked holiday such as Mother's day. Every day is special and some days are celebrated unexpectedly for the little things. The little things are the things that matter. Every day I am a mother. So on calendar marked celebrating days, I think it should be the one's loved ones to make that day a celebrated one because I personally don't feel any different on Mother's day than I feel every day.
Like I told my husband and children yesterday, every weekend we're set to spend the day out, we come up with suggestions for how we should spend it and we contemplate lunch or dinner options, so if you want mother's day to be celebrated for me, come up with a plan and surprise me. That is truly meaningful. Meaningful like home made gifts and meals. Anything from the heart is appreciated. Just like I don't want to stuff my face with an over priced meal because we think we have to to fulfill the date, I don't want to be given a gift for the same reason.
Always expect the unexpected. And always expect to repeat your desires. This year I told Odie I wanted flowers for Mexican mother's day. Instead he gave me a beautiful card with a painted flower on it and eventhough it doesn't fill my glass bottles, I love it. Will they plan something different next year? I don't know, but as long as we're together and my kids keep their promise not to fight at least one day out of the year, I know I will be happy.
Given that my family is not one to plan, I don't expect anything elaborate on days like my birthday or Mother's day. But I am still disappointed when I get asked what I want to do for the day or what I want as a gift; I talk so much about what I want throughout the year, one would think the roof on our house would collapse with the hint bombs dropping. No one remembers those hints though. And a gift or present is something you give me, on your own without any pressure. Surely after so much time, my family could think of something I like. Teacher's understand.
Mother's day gifts made by children at school are the best. This year Nicole gave me a Mother's day coupon book. It's fabulous! Some of the coupons entitle me to two meals of my choice made by her, she'll make my bed for a week, and my favorite, she won't talk back to me for a week. Benjamin made me a card that says, "every day with you is like Disneyland". I joked and said it's true the way it's chaotic, they have to wait for food and sometimes I still have to take him to the bathroom. Every day I am given more time to be with my family, the ones I love the most in this world, is present enough.
That is why I am not one to make a big deal out of a marked holiday such as Mother's day. Every day is special and some days are celebrated unexpectedly for the little things. The little things are the things that matter. Every day I am a mother. So on calendar marked celebrating days, I think it should be the one's loved ones to make that day a celebrated one because I personally don't feel any different on Mother's day than I feel every day.
Like I told my husband and children yesterday, every weekend we're set to spend the day out, we come up with suggestions for how we should spend it and we contemplate lunch or dinner options, so if you want mother's day to be celebrated for me, come up with a plan and surprise me. That is truly meaningful. Meaningful like home made gifts and meals. Anything from the heart is appreciated. Just like I don't want to stuff my face with an over priced meal because we think we have to to fulfill the date, I don't want to be given a gift for the same reason.
Always expect the unexpected. And always expect to repeat your desires. This year I told Odie I wanted flowers for Mexican mother's day. Instead he gave me a beautiful card with a painted flower on it and eventhough it doesn't fill my glass bottles, I love it. Will they plan something different next year? I don't know, but as long as we're together and my kids keep their promise not to fight at least one day out of the year, I know I will be happy.
Friday, May 9, 2008
TMI?
A couple of weeks ago I started using allergy relief eye drops. They helped much. My eyes weren't itchy or watery. They didn't feel like they were on fire. The eye drops also relieved me from sneezing and my nose, ears and throat were not itchy. Today however, they were not as effective. The eye drops must have not traveled south to my nose ducts so I've been walking around with a roll of toilet paper in my hand, ready for the attack of gunk; a bounty paper towel goes a long way also.
The biggest dilemma of today is not my allergies but our female dog not being spayed. Soldier, is the name of the dog with ovaries, and our male dog DJ are becoming quite friendly if you know what I mean ;). Sera sera. But that's not only a dilemma today, it has been and it will until she gets spayed or pregnant.
Tuesday a mouse went AWOL while I was feeding our snakes and I thought Traveler, my daughter's cat, would take care of it. When I walked back into that room on Thursday and was greeted by the stench, I knew he hadn't. Odie and I have cleaned out the entire room, every nook and cranny was checked and we didn't find it. So that is today's dilemma. Ugh... if we don't find it, the real dilemma will come when the toxic smell starts to travel through the door ways.
Are you disgusted? Sorry, I'm just blogging. It helps to blog, like it helps to vent.
How about those gas prices eh?
The biggest dilemma of today is not my allergies but our female dog not being spayed. Soldier, is the name of the dog with ovaries, and our male dog DJ are becoming quite friendly if you know what I mean ;). Sera sera. But that's not only a dilemma today, it has been and it will until she gets spayed or pregnant.
Tuesday a mouse went AWOL while I was feeding our snakes and I thought Traveler, my daughter's cat, would take care of it. When I walked back into that room on Thursday and was greeted by the stench, I knew he hadn't. Odie and I have cleaned out the entire room, every nook and cranny was checked and we didn't find it. So that is today's dilemma. Ugh... if we don't find it, the real dilemma will come when the toxic smell starts to travel through the door ways.
Are you disgusted? Sorry, I'm just blogging. It helps to blog, like it helps to vent.
How about those gas prices eh?
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
300
I love movies. And since I have had the spare time, I tried to catch up with movies I have read about or heard about. Some old, classics, and some new, but mostly old because those are the ones I have seen less of. Today I came across a list put together by Tim Dirks, a review author-so I read-of the best 300 films in the 20th century:
1915: The Birth of a Nation
1916: Intolerence
1919: Broken Blossoms
1921: The Kid
1924: The Thief of Bagdad
1924: Greed
1924: Sherlock, Jr.
1925: The Big Parade
1925: The Goldrush
1925: The Freshmen
1927: The General
1927: Sunrise
1927: Metropolis
1927: The Jazz Singer
1928: The Crowd
1928: The Wind
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1930: Little Ceasar
1931: City Lights
1931: Dracula [x]
1931: Frankenstein [x]
1931: The Public Enemy
1932: Trouble in Paradise
1932: I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1932: Freaks
1932: Scarface: the Shame of the Nation
1933: Duck Soup
1933: Footlight Parade
1933: King Kong
1933: 42nd Street
1933: She Done Him Wrong
1933: Sons of the Deserts
1933: Queen Christina
1933: Dinner at Eight
1934: It Happened One Night
1934: It's a Gift
1934: The Thin Man
1934: The Scarlet Empress
1935: Bride of Frankeinstein [x]
1935: Top Hat
1935: A Night at the Opera
1935: The 39 Steps
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: Modern Times
1936: Dodsworth
1936: My Man Godfrey
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936: Camille
1936: Swing Time
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [x]
1937: Way Out West
1937: The Awful Truth
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (errol flynn)
1938: Bringing up Baby
1938: Jezebel
1938: Pygmalion
1939: Dark Victory
1939: Gone With the Wind [x]
1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939: Only Angels Have Wings
1939: The Wizard of Oz [x]
1939: Coach Stage
1939: Wuthering Heights
1939: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
1939: Ninochka
1940: Fantasia
1940: The Bank Dick
1940: His Girl Friday
1940: The Letter
1940: The Great Dictator
1940: The Grapes of Wrath [x]
1940: The Philadelphia Story
1940: Pinochio [x]
1940: Rebecca
1940: The Great Dictator
1941: Citizen Kane
1941: The Maltese Falcon
1941: The Lady Eve
1941: Sullivan's Travels
1941: How Green was My Valley
1942: Now, Voyager
1942: To be or Not to Be
1942: Casablanca [x]
1942: Cat People
1942: Bambi [x]
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
1942: Kings Row
1942: The Palm Beach Story
1943: Cabin in the Sky
1943: The Ox-Bow Incident
1943: Shadow of a Doubt
1944: Double Indemnity
1944: Henry V
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis
1944: Murder, My Sweet
1944: Laura
1944: To Have and Have Not
1944: Arcenic and Old Lace
1944: Gaslight
1945: The Lost Weekend
1945: Mildred Pierce
1946: Brief Encounter
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1946: Stairway to Heaven
1946: The Killers
1946: My Darling Clementine
1946: Notorious
1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946: It's a Wonderful Life [x]
1946: The Big Sleep
1947: Out of the Past
1947: Miracle on 34th Street [x]
1948: The Lady From Shanghai
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman
1948: Red River
1948: The Red Shoes
1948: Key Largo
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Third Man
1949: The Heiress
1949: White Heat
1949: Adam's Rib
1949: All the King's Men
1950: All About Eve
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1950: The Asphalt Jungle
1950: In a Lonely Place
1950: Gun Crazy
1950: Winchester 73
1951: The African Queen
1951: An American in Paris
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951: A Street Car Named Desire
1951: Strangers on a Train
1951: A Place in the Sun
1951: The Thing (from another world)
1952: The Quiet Man
1952: High Noon
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful
1953: Roman Holiday
1953: The Big Heat
1953: From Here to Eternity
1953: Shane
1954: A Star is Born
1954: On the Waterfront [x]
1954: Rear Window [x]
1955: Marty
1955: The Night of the Hunter
1955: Rebel w/o a Cause
1955: Kiss Me Deadly
1955: Bad Day at Black Rock
1955: East of Eden
1956: The Searches
1956: Bus Stop
1956: Babydoll
1956: Written on the Wind
1956: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956: The Killing
1957: The Bridge on the Water of Kawai
1957: Paths of Glory
1957: Witness for the Prosecution
1957: Sweet Smell of Success
1957: 12 Angry Men
1957: Jailhouse Rock
1958: Touch of Evil
1958: Vertigo
1959: Ben Hur [x]
1959: North by Northwest
1959: Some Like it Hot
1960: The Apartment [x]
1960: Spartacus
1960: Psycho [x]
1960: Inherit the Wind
1961: West Side Story [x]
1961: The Hustler
1961: Splender in the Grass
1962: The Manchurian Candidate
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1962: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1963: The Birds [x]
1964: Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Loved the Bomb
1964: My Fair Lady
1964: A Hard Day's Night
1965: Repulsion
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
1966: Blow-Up
1966: A Man for all Seasons
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1967: Cool Hand Luke
1967: The Graduate [x]
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1968: 2001 a Space Oddisey
1968: Planet of the Apes
1968: The Lion in the Winter
1968: Night of the Living Dead [x]
1968: Romeo and Juliet
1968: Rosemary's Baby [x]
1968: The Producers
1969: The Wild Bunch
1969: Easy Rider
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969: Midnight Cowboy [x]
1970: Five Easy Pieces
1970: Patton
1970: M*A*S*H
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1971: The Last Picture Show
1971: The French Connection [x]
1972: The Godfather [x]
1972: Cabaret
1972: Last Tango in Paris
1972: Deliverance
1973: American Graffiti
1973: Don't Look Now
1973: Enter the Dragon
1973: Sleeper
1973: Mean Streets
1973: Bad Lands
1973: The Exorcist [x]
1974: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1974: Chinatown [x]
1974: The Conversation
1974: The Godfather II [x]
1974: Young Frankenstein
1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975: The Man who Would be King
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest [x]
1975: Jaws [x]
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975: Nashville
1976: Taxi Driver [x]
1976: Network
1976: Rocky [x]
1977: Annie Hall
1977: Star Wars [x]
1977: Saturday Night Fever [x]
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978: Days of Heaven
1978: Halloween [x]
1978: The Deer Hunter [x]
1979: Apocalypse Now
1979: Being There
1979: Manhattan
1979: Alien [x]
1980: The Shining [x]
1980: Raging Bull [x]
1980: Airplane! [x]
1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981: Atlantic City
1982: Poltergeist [x]
1982: Blade Runner
1982: E.T. [x]
1982: The Road Warrior
1982: Tootsie
1983: The King of Comedy
1983: Koyaaniskatsi
1984: The Terminator [x]
1984: Amadeus
1984: This is Spinal Tap
1985: Brazil
1986: Blue Velvet
1986: A Room with a View
1986: Platoon
1986: Hannah and her Sisters
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Bull Durham
1988: A Fish Called Wanda [x]
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit [x]
1989: Dield of Dreams [x]
1989: Do the Right Thing
1989: Crimes and Misdemeaners
1989: Henry V
1989: Glory
1989: When Harry Met Sally [x]
1990: Goodfellas [x]
1991: Beauty and the Beast [x]
1991: The Silence of the Lambs [x]
1991: JFK
1991: Terminator 2 [x]
1991: Thelma and Louise [x]
1992: Unforgiven
1992: The Crying Game
1993: Schindler's List
1993: Groundhog Day [x]
1993: The Piano
1993: The Nightmare Before Christmas [x]
1994: The Shawshank Redemption
1994: Pulp Fiction [x]
1995: Toy Story [x]
1995: Babe [x]
1995: The Usual Suspects
1996: Fargo [x]
1997: Titanic [x]
1997: L.A. Confidential
1998: Saving Private Ryan [x]
1999: American Beauty [x]
1999: Toy Story 2 [x]
1999: The Matrix
what do you think?
I put an [x] next to the ones I have watched and it turns out there are a lot of movies I have to watch. I'm kidding, I'm not interested in all the movies on this list. In average I have watched a fifth of the 300 titles on this list and will probably try to watch a third more.
Some newer titles gathered from lists from The NY Times and Time Magazine included:
2000: Amores Perros
2000: Traffic [x]
2001: Y Tu Mama Tambien [x]
2001: Waking Life
2001: Shrek [x]
2001: Sexy Beast [x]
2001: Monsters Inc. [x]
2001: Mullholand Dr. [x]
2001: The Gleaners am I
2001: Amelie [x]
2001-03: The Lord of the Rings [x]
2002: City of God
2002: Adaptation
2002: About Schmidt [x]
2002: Gangs of New York [x]
2002: The Pianist
2002: Talk to Her [x]
2003: Finding Nemo [x]
2003: Pirates of the Carribean [x]
I'm not sure I agree so much with these newer titles. In my opinion, a few were only better than good.
Overall Citizen Kane seemed to be voted the best film ever made. Given that I haven't yet seen it, I can't give my opinion. But I have definitely put it on top of my "to watch list".
1915: The Birth of a Nation
1916: Intolerence
1919: Broken Blossoms
1921: The Kid
1924: The Thief of Bagdad
1924: Greed
1924: Sherlock, Jr.
1925: The Big Parade
1925: The Goldrush
1925: The Freshmen
1927: The General
1927: Sunrise
1927: Metropolis
1927: The Jazz Singer
1928: The Crowd
1928: The Wind
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1930: Little Ceasar
1931: City Lights
1931: Dracula [x]
1931: Frankenstein [x]
1931: The Public Enemy
1932: Trouble in Paradise
1932: I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1932: Freaks
1932: Scarface: the Shame of the Nation
1933: Duck Soup
1933: Footlight Parade
1933: King Kong
1933: 42nd Street
1933: She Done Him Wrong
1933: Sons of the Deserts
1933: Queen Christina
1933: Dinner at Eight
1934: It Happened One Night
1934: It's a Gift
1934: The Thin Man
1934: The Scarlet Empress
1935: Bride of Frankeinstein [x]
1935: Top Hat
1935: A Night at the Opera
1935: The 39 Steps
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: Modern Times
1936: Dodsworth
1936: My Man Godfrey
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936: Camille
1936: Swing Time
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [x]
1937: Way Out West
1937: The Awful Truth
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (errol flynn)
1938: Bringing up Baby
1938: Jezebel
1938: Pygmalion
1939: Dark Victory
1939: Gone With the Wind [x]
1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939: Only Angels Have Wings
1939: The Wizard of Oz [x]
1939: Coach Stage
1939: Wuthering Heights
1939: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
1939: Ninochka
1940: Fantasia
1940: The Bank Dick
1940: His Girl Friday
1940: The Letter
1940: The Great Dictator
1940: The Grapes of Wrath [x]
1940: The Philadelphia Story
1940: Pinochio [x]
1940: Rebecca
1940: The Great Dictator
1941: Citizen Kane
1941: The Maltese Falcon
1941: The Lady Eve
1941: Sullivan's Travels
1941: How Green was My Valley
1942: Now, Voyager
1942: To be or Not to Be
1942: Casablanca [x]
1942: Cat People
1942: Bambi [x]
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons
1942: Kings Row
1942: The Palm Beach Story
1943: Cabin in the Sky
1943: The Ox-Bow Incident
1943: Shadow of a Doubt
1944: Double Indemnity
1944: Henry V
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis
1944: Murder, My Sweet
1944: Laura
1944: To Have and Have Not
1944: Arcenic and Old Lace
1944: Gaslight
1945: The Lost Weekend
1945: Mildred Pierce
1946: Brief Encounter
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1946: Stairway to Heaven
1946: The Killers
1946: My Darling Clementine
1946: Notorious
1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946: It's a Wonderful Life [x]
1946: The Big Sleep
1947: Out of the Past
1947: Miracle on 34th Street [x]
1948: The Lady From Shanghai
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman
1948: Red River
1948: The Red Shoes
1948: Key Largo
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Third Man
1949: The Heiress
1949: White Heat
1949: Adam's Rib
1949: All the King's Men
1950: All About Eve
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1950: The Asphalt Jungle
1950: In a Lonely Place
1950: Gun Crazy
1950: Winchester 73
1951: The African Queen
1951: An American in Paris
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951: A Street Car Named Desire
1951: Strangers on a Train
1951: A Place in the Sun
1951: The Thing (from another world)
1952: The Quiet Man
1952: High Noon
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful
1953: Roman Holiday
1953: The Big Heat
1953: From Here to Eternity
1953: Shane
1954: A Star is Born
1954: On the Waterfront [x]
1954: Rear Window [x]
1955: Marty
1955: The Night of the Hunter
1955: Rebel w/o a Cause
1955: Kiss Me Deadly
1955: Bad Day at Black Rock
1955: East of Eden
1956: The Searches
1956: Bus Stop
1956: Babydoll
1956: Written on the Wind
1956: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956: The Killing
1957: The Bridge on the Water of Kawai
1957: Paths of Glory
1957: Witness for the Prosecution
1957: Sweet Smell of Success
1957: 12 Angry Men
1957: Jailhouse Rock
1958: Touch of Evil
1958: Vertigo
1959: Ben Hur [x]
1959: North by Northwest
1959: Some Like it Hot
1960: The Apartment [x]
1960: Spartacus
1960: Psycho [x]
1960: Inherit the Wind
1961: West Side Story [x]
1961: The Hustler
1961: Splender in the Grass
1962: The Manchurian Candidate
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1962: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1963: The Birds [x]
1964: Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Loved the Bomb
1964: My Fair Lady
1964: A Hard Day's Night
1965: Repulsion
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
1966: Blow-Up
1966: A Man for all Seasons
1967: Bonnie and Clyde
1967: Cool Hand Luke
1967: The Graduate [x]
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1968: 2001 a Space Oddisey
1968: Planet of the Apes
1968: The Lion in the Winter
1968: Night of the Living Dead [x]
1968: Romeo and Juliet
1968: Rosemary's Baby [x]
1968: The Producers
1969: The Wild Bunch
1969: Easy Rider
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969: Midnight Cowboy [x]
1970: Five Easy Pieces
1970: Patton
1970: M*A*S*H
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1971: The Last Picture Show
1971: The French Connection [x]
1972: The Godfather [x]
1972: Cabaret
1972: Last Tango in Paris
1972: Deliverance
1973: American Graffiti
1973: Don't Look Now
1973: Enter the Dragon
1973: Sleeper
1973: Mean Streets
1973: Bad Lands
1973: The Exorcist [x]
1974: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1974: Chinatown [x]
1974: The Conversation
1974: The Godfather II [x]
1974: Young Frankenstein
1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975: The Man who Would be King
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest [x]
1975: Jaws [x]
1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975: Nashville
1976: Taxi Driver [x]
1976: Network
1976: Rocky [x]
1977: Annie Hall
1977: Star Wars [x]
1977: Saturday Night Fever [x]
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978: Days of Heaven
1978: Halloween [x]
1978: The Deer Hunter [x]
1979: Apocalypse Now
1979: Being There
1979: Manhattan
1979: Alien [x]
1980: The Shining [x]
1980: Raging Bull [x]
1980: Airplane! [x]
1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981: Atlantic City
1982: Poltergeist [x]
1982: Blade Runner
1982: E.T. [x]
1982: The Road Warrior
1982: Tootsie
1983: The King of Comedy
1983: Koyaaniskatsi
1984: The Terminator [x]
1984: Amadeus
1984: This is Spinal Tap
1985: Brazil
1986: Blue Velvet
1986: A Room with a View
1986: Platoon
1986: Hannah and her Sisters
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Bull Durham
1988: A Fish Called Wanda [x]
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit [x]
1989: Dield of Dreams [x]
1989: Do the Right Thing
1989: Crimes and Misdemeaners
1989: Henry V
1989: Glory
1989: When Harry Met Sally [x]
1990: Goodfellas [x]
1991: Beauty and the Beast [x]
1991: The Silence of the Lambs [x]
1991: JFK
1991: Terminator 2 [x]
1991: Thelma and Louise [x]
1992: Unforgiven
1992: The Crying Game
1993: Schindler's List
1993: Groundhog Day [x]
1993: The Piano
1993: The Nightmare Before Christmas [x]
1994: The Shawshank Redemption
1994: Pulp Fiction [x]
1995: Toy Story [x]
1995: Babe [x]
1995: The Usual Suspects
1996: Fargo [x]
1997: Titanic [x]
1997: L.A. Confidential
1998: Saving Private Ryan [x]
1999: American Beauty [x]
1999: Toy Story 2 [x]
1999: The Matrix
what do you think?
I put an [x] next to the ones I have watched and it turns out there are a lot of movies I have to watch. I'm kidding, I'm not interested in all the movies on this list. In average I have watched a fifth of the 300 titles on this list and will probably try to watch a third more.
Some newer titles gathered from lists from The NY Times and Time Magazine included:
2000: Amores Perros
2000: Traffic [x]
2001: Y Tu Mama Tambien [x]
2001: Waking Life
2001: Shrek [x]
2001: Sexy Beast [x]
2001: Monsters Inc. [x]
2001: Mullholand Dr. [x]
2001: The Gleaners am I
2001: Amelie [x]
2001-03: The Lord of the Rings [x]
2002: City of God
2002: Adaptation
2002: About Schmidt [x]
2002: Gangs of New York [x]
2002: The Pianist
2002: Talk to Her [x]
2003: Finding Nemo [x]
2003: Pirates of the Carribean [x]
I'm not sure I agree so much with these newer titles. In my opinion, a few were only better than good.
Overall Citizen Kane seemed to be voted the best film ever made. Given that I haven't yet seen it, I can't give my opinion. But I have definitely put it on top of my "to watch list".
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