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March 3, 2005
TT: Hostages to fortune
While we're on the subject of movies, Ed posted a copy of the AFI's list of the top 100 American films. To look at it, go here. It is, to say the least, a most peculiar list, but it does contain a reasonably high percentage of good movies. Ed has seen ninety-six of them. I've seen seventy (I told Ed sixty-nine, but I'd forgotten one).I shall now octuple the ante by posting the films on the list that I haven't seen. Kindly keep your smartass remarks to yourselves:
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Schindler's List
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Raging Bull
- Apocalypse Now
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Best Years of Our Lives (I've seen the first 15 minutes and listened to all of Hugo Friedhofer's score)
- Doctor Zhivago
- King Kong (I've seen a snippet or two)
- The Birth of a Nation (one of these days...)
- A Clockwork Orange
- All Quiet on the Western Front (hey, I read the book)
- The Sound of Music (not in this lifetime, baby)
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (I taped it but never watched it)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Wuthering Heights (and no, I haven't even read the book!)
- Dances With Wolves (puh-leeze--life's too short)
- American Graffiti
- Rocky
- The Deer Hunter
- Modern Times (I've seen most of it)
- Giant
- Platoon
- Frankenstein (I've seen part of it)
- The Jazz Singer (I've seen the part with sound)
- A Place in the Sun (I read the book, alas)
- Pulp Fiction (I know, I know, lay off already)
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (I've seen part of it)
Ooh, that was fun. Now, anybody for a round of Humiliation?
Posted March 3, 2005 12:30 PM
