03 December 2007

LIST: AFI Top 100 Movies of All Time

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Psycho (1960)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17. The Graduate (1967)
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40. The Sound of Music (1965)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance (1916)
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51. West Side Story (1961)
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*A*S*H (1970)
55. North By Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1977)
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1958)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Forrest Gump (1994)
77. All the President's Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83. Titanic (1997)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995)
100. Ben-Hur (1959)

Titles in yellowish are ones I'd already seen prior to starting this whole thing, so they don't count. The 50 will come from the remaining titles.

***Update 1/30: I have put many of these in my Blockbuster Online queue. They're in green, and barring delays, they're scheduled to come in reverse order, starting with Ben Hur. Game on.

***Update 2/9: If you're thinking of undertaking this sort of endeavor in the Nashville area, the Blockbuster on West End has an outstanding inventory of these movies. I can't say the same for Gallatin Rd. in Inglewood, but West End is most certainly my new Blockbuster.

LIST: Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction

2009 TBA
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
2007 The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
2006 March (Geraldine Brooks)
2005 Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
2004 The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
2003 Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
2002 Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)

1999 The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
1998 American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Steven Millhauser)
1996 Independence Day (Richard Ford)
1995 The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
1994 The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Robert Olen Butler)
1992 A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
1991 Rabbit At Rest (John Updike)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)

1989 Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler)
1988 Beloved (Toni Morrison)
1987 A Summons to Memphis (Peter Taylor)
1986 Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
1985 Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie)
1984 Ironweed (William Kennedy)
1983 The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
1980 The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)

1979 The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
1978 Elbow Room (James Alan McPherson)
1976 Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
1975 The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty)
1972 Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner)
1970 Collected Stories (Jean Stafford)

1969 House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron)
1967 The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
1966 Collected Stories (Katherine Anne Porter)
1965 The Keepers Of The House (Shirley Ann Grau)