ARGS! and 52/100
Dec. 14th, 2006 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
syredronningLivejournal has a new frontend for posting? I hate to be distrupted in my routines!
Anyway, I read a lot of wiki entries on Hollywood actors today and then surfed the list of critics' opinions of the best 100 movies in American cinema. Which made me think....
X 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
X 2. Casablanca (1942)
X 3. The Godfather (1972)
X 4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
X 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
X 6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
X 7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
X 9. Schindler's List (1993)
X 10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
X 13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
X 14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
X 15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950)
X 17. The African Queen (1951)
X 18. Psycho (1960)
X 19. Chinatown (1974)
X 20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
X 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
X 23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
X 25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
X 26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
X 28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
X 30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
X 33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
X 39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
X 41. West Side Story (1961)
X 42. Rear Window (1954)
X 43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
X 46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
X 49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
X 52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
X 53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
X 56. M*A*S*H (1970)
X 57. The Third Man (1949)
X 58. Fantasia (1940)
X 59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
X 60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
X 61. Vertigo (1958)
X 62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
X 65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
X 68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
X 71. Forrest Gump (1994)
X 72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
X 74. The Gold Rush (1925)
X 75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
X 76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
X 81. Modern Times (1936)
X 82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
X 87. Frankenstein (1931)
X 88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
X 91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
X 93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
X 95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
X 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
So that's only 52 out of 100. Guess I should put some on my list...
And I really don't like this new frontend :(
Anyway, I read a lot of wiki entries on Hollywood actors today and then surfed the list of critics' opinions of the best 100 movies in American cinema. Which made me think....
X 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
X 2. Casablanca (1942)
X 3. The Godfather (1972)
X 4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
X 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
X 6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
X 7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
X 9. Schindler's List (1993)
X 10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
X 13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
X 14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
X 15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950)
X 17. The African Queen (1951)
X 18. Psycho (1960)
X 19. Chinatown (1974)
X 20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
X 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
X 23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
X 25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
X 26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
X 28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
X 30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
X 33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
X 39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
X 41. West Side Story (1961)
X 42. Rear Window (1954)
X 43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
X 46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
X 49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
X 52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
X 53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
X 56. M*A*S*H (1970)
X 57. The Third Man (1949)
X 58. Fantasia (1940)
X 59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
X 60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
X 61. Vertigo (1958)
X 62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
X 65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
X 68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
X 71. Forrest Gump (1994)
X 72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
X 74. The Gold Rush (1925)
X 75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
X 76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
X 81. Modern Times (1936)
X 82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
X 87. Frankenstein (1931)
X 88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
X 91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
X 93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
X 95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
X 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
So that's only 52 out of 100. Guess I should put some on my list...
And I really don't like this new frontend :(
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Date: 2006-12-14 01:21 am (UTC)I don't like it, either.
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Date: 2006-12-14 07:15 pm (UTC)(Simply perfect)
(Bette Davis was seldom better)
(not a great film, but Vivien Leigh is brilliant)
(James Stewart AND Cary Grant - do i have to say more?)
(one of the best screwball-comedies ever)
^_^