I originally saw this on And She Knits Too and found my way back to the source.

Yes, another movie meme in which I mark a huge boring list to show off how cool I am. Hey, it’s fun to do and it gives me an idea for good movies to add to the netflix queue. And while it’s similar to this and this it has more recent and obscure films listed and I found the groupings to be interesting.

According to these guys if you score over 100 (out of 205) you are a true film buff. So here goes.

+ have it on DVD
* have it on VHS

[X] Citizen Kane
[X] Casablanca
[X] The Godfather*+
[X] The Godfather Part 2*+
[X] Gone with the Wind+
[ ] Lawrence of Arabia
[X] The Wizard of Oz
[X] The Graduate
[X] On the Waterfront
[ ] Schindler’s List
[X] Singing in the Rain
[X] Ben-Hur

Total:10

[X] Seven Samurai
[ ] Magnificent Seven
[ ] Three Amigos
[ ] Yojimbo
[ ] Fist Full of Dollars
[ ] Last Man Standing
[ ] Hidden Fortress
[X] Star Wars*+
[X] Empire Strikes Back*+
[X] Return of the Jedi*+
[ ] Ran
[ ] Dreams
[X] Rashomon

Total:5

[X] Psycho
[X] Vertigo
[X] North by Northwest
[X] The Birds
[X] Rear Window
[ ] Dial M for Murder

a few missing (my favorite Hitchcock is Rebecca)..

Total:5

the rest has been moved to the extended entry.

[ ] Blood Simple
[X] Raising Arizona
[ ] Millers Crossing
[X] Barton Fink
[X] Hudsucker Proxy*
[X] Fargo*
[X] Big Lebowski
[X] O Brother Where Art Thou?+

Hee the Cohen Brothers really are a category unto themselves

Total:6

[X] Alien*
[X] Blade Runner*
[ ] Legend
[ ] Black Rain
[X] Thelma & Louise
[ ] Black Hawk Down
[ ] Gladiator

Thelma & Louise? Is it me or does that one stick out from that list?

Total:3

[X] Time Bandits
[X] Brazil*
[X] The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
[X] The Fisher King
[X] Twelve Monkeys*+ (as well as the original La Jetee)
[X] Seven+
[X] Fight Club
[ ] Primal Fear
[X] American History X

Nice cluster here.

Total:8

[X] Spartacus
[X] Lolita
[X] Dr. Strangelove+
[X] Point for knowing the full title of Dr. Strangelove
(I know it. I can’t tell YOU, though. That would be cheating.)
[X] 2001: A Space Odyssey
[X] Clockwork Orange
[X] The Shining*+
[X] Full Metal Jacket

I think Paths of Glory is missing in this list

Total:7+1=8

[ ] The Pianist
[X] Rosemary’s Baby*
[X] China Town*
[X] Easy Rider
[X] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Total:4

[ ] Unforgiven
[X] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
[ ] The Searchers
[X] Rio Bravo
[ ] Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
[ ] Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

meh, westerns.

Total:2

[X] Halloween+
[X] Nightmare on Elm Street
[X] Friday the 13th
[X] Chainsaw Massacre (own #2)
[X] The Exorcist*+
[X] Silence of the Lambs

The Haunting (original Robert Wise one), Last House on the Left, The Audition

Total:6

[X] Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
[X] Beetle Juice*
[X] Batman
[X] Edward Scissor Hands
[X] Ed Wood
[X] Mars Attacks!

Total:6

[X] Reservoir Dogs*
[X] Pulp Fiction*
[X] Kill Bill: Vol 1
[X] Kill Bill: Vol 2
[ ] Sin City
[X] Four Rooms
[X] From Dusk Till Dawn
[X] Desperado
[ ] El Mariachi

Total:7

[X] Gates of Heaven
[X] Vernon, Florida
[X] The Thin Blue Line
[ ] Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
[X] Mr. Death
[X] The Fog of War

Errol Morris makes interesting documentaries

Total:5

[ ] LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings
[ ] LOTR: The Two Towers
[ ] LOTR: Return of the King
[ ] Forgotten Silver
[X] Heavenly Creatures
[X] Braindead aka Dead Alive+
[X] Meet the Feebles
[X] Bad Taste

Total:4

[ ] King Kong (1933)
[X] King Kong (1976)
[ ] King Kong (2005)

Total:1

[X] The Sixth Sense*
[ ] Unbreakable
[ ] Signs
[X] The Village

Total:2

[ ] Pi
[X] Requiem for a Dream
[ ] Memento
[X] Insomnia
[X] Batman Begins
[ ] Following
[X] The Virgin Suicides
[X] Lost in Translation+
[X] Being John Malkovich*
[X] Adaptation
[X] Eternal Sunshine or the Spotless Mind

Total:8

[X] Better Off Dead
[X] Sixteen Candles
[X] The Breakfast Club
[X] Weird Science
[X] Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
[X] Planes, Trains & Automobiles
[X] The Goonies
[X] Stand by Me

Total:8

[X] The Shawshank Redemption
[ ] The Green Mile

Total:1

[X] Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory+
[X] Princess Bride*+
[X] This is Spinal Tap+
[X] The Jerk
[X] Ghost Busters+
[X] Animal House
[X] Blues Brothers
[X] Little Shop of Horrors

Total:8

[ ] Princess Mononoke
[ ] My Neighbor Totoro
[ ] Spirited Away
[ ] Howl’s Moving Castle
[X] Akira*+
[ ] Steamboy
[X] Ghost in the Shell+

Total:2

[X] Waiting for Guffman+
[X] Best in Show+
[X] A Mighty Wind+

Total:3

[X] Night of the Living Dead+
[X] Dawn of the Dead (1978)
[X] Day of the Dead
[ ] Land of the Dead
[X] Shawn of the Dead
[ ] 28 days later

Total:4

[ ] Bottle Rocket
[X] Rushmore+
[X] Royal Tenenbaums+
[X] The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou+
[ ] Snatch
[ ] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
[X] Trainspotting
[X] Shallow Grave

those missing three just happen to be in my netflix queue

Total:5

[X] Delicatessen
[X] Amilie+
[X] City of Lost Children
[X] Run Lola Run
[X] La Femme Nikita
[X] The Professional*+
[X] The Fifth Element*+

Total:7

[X] Mean Streets
[X] Taxi Driver+
[X] Raging Bull
[ ] Last Temptation of Christ
[X] Goodfellas*+
[X] Casino+

no “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore?”

Total:5

[ ] M
[X] Metropolis
[X] Nosferatu
[X] Diabolique
[X] Usual Suspects*+
[X] Double Indemnity
[X] The Third Man
[X] Manchurian Candidate (1962) (love this movie love love it)
[X] Cool Hand Luke

Total:8

[X] Raiders of the Lost Ark+
[X] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom+
[X] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade+
[X] Jurassic Park
[X] Color Purple
[ ] Saving Private Ryan
[X] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
[X] Jaws+

Total:7

[X] Die Hard
[ ] Lethal Weapon
[ ] Mad Max
[ ] The Road Warrior
[ ] Braveheart
[ ] Man Without a Face
[ ] Passion of the Christ

can you tell I’m not a big Mel Gibson fan?

Total:1

GRAND TOTAL: 149

Of course, things like this can’t be all-inclusive so these are the ones I think are missing

Classic Comedies like Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth

a few more Film noir- Gilda, Sunset Blvd, The Big Sleep

Jim Jarmusch- Trust, Mystery Train, Down by Law, Stranger than Paradise

good “chick” flicks - Bagdhad Cafe, Ruby in Paradise, Mi Vida Loca, Gas, Food, Lodging

Period pieces such as Topsy-Turvy, Valmont, Restoration, Jane Austen adaptations,

Uncategorized - All About Eve, Charade, Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show

Robert Altman is completely missing as well as Mel Brooks and Cameron Crowe. No Fellini, no Bergman, only one Elia Kazan

But I really enjoyed seeing this list. It was fun and there were some surprises. Definitely different from the other two top 100 film lists.