My Two Cents

Now that I've linked to the 2005 QHS Movie 200 (keep the comments coming below), I'd like to show you my contribution to the list, the 100 best movies I've seen.

1 Singin' in the Rain
2 Lawrence of Arabia
3 The General
4 Annie Hall
5 Casablanca
6 The Apartment
7 Dr. Strangelove
8 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9 It Happened One Night
10 Rushmore
11 The Graduate
12 Talk to Her
13 Breakfast at Tiffany's
14 The Wizard of Oz
15 Ghostbusters
16 North by Northwest
17 A Night at the Opera
18 A Clockwork Orange
19 Life is Beautiful
20 The Manchurian Candidate
21 The Third Man
22 The Godfather, Part II
23 Touch of Evil
24 Pulp Fiction
25 Fantasia
26 American Beauty
27 Paths of Glory
28 Notorious
29 Wait Until Dark
30 Gone with the Wind
31 The Deer Hunter
32 On the Waterfront
33 The Silence of the Lambs
34 Chinatown
35 The Best Years of our Lives
36 Taxi Driver
37 2001: A Space Odyssey
38 Magnolia
39 Sideways
40 Citizen Kane
41 Office Space
42 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
43 High Noon
44 Reservoir Dogs
45 A Place in the Sun
46 The Seven Year Itch
47 Vertigo
48 Apocalypse Now
49 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
50 The Royal Tenenbaums
51 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
52 The Producers
53 Forrest Gump
54 Rosemary's Baby
55 From Here to Eternity
56 Harold & Maude
57 His Girl Friday
58 Fargo
59 The Shawshank Redemption
60 This is Spinal Tap
61 Network
62 Lost in Translation
63 Midnight Cowboy
64 Rear Window
65 All the President's Men
66 Sex and Lucia
67 Schindler's List
68 The Searchers
69 Psycho
70 Sling Blade
71 Easy Rider
72 The Maltese Falcon
73 Caddyshack
74 Airplane!
75 Punch Drunk Love
76 Amelie
77 Memento
78 The Usual Suspects
79 Do the Right Thing
80 Duck Soup
81 Waiting for Guffman
82 Roger & Me
83 Adam's Rib
84 The Last Picture Show
85 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
86 Almost Famous
87 Pleasantville
88 Jaws
89 High Fidelity
90 The Station Agent
91 Boogie Nights
92 Raiders of the Lost Ark
93 The Incredibles
94 The Big Lebowski
95 The Blair Witch Project
96 Happiness
97 The Princess Bride
98 Rain Man
99 M*A*S*H
100 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

...and for good measure, my 10 favorite actors:

1 Bill Murray
2 Peter Sellers
3 John C. Reilly
4 Montgomery Clift
5 Harpo Marx
6 Dustin Hoffman
7 Phillip S. Hoffman
8 Orson Welles
9 Humphrey Bogart
10 Will Ferrell

my 10 favorite actresses:

1 Audrey Hepburn
2 Ingrid Bergman
3 Frances McDormand
4 Shirley Maclaine
5 Julianne Moore
6 Ruth Gordon
7 Paz Vega
8 Vivian Leigh
9 Judy Garland
10 Katharine Hepburn

my 10 favorite directors:

1 Billy Wilder
2 Stanley Kubrick
3 Wes Anderson
4 Woody Allen
5 Paul Thomas Anderson
6 Alfred Hitchcock
7 Quentin Tarantino
8 Christopher Guest
9 Michel Gondry
10 Roman Polanski

the 10 funniest movies I've seen:

1 Office Space
2 Annie Hall
3 Rushmore
4 Ghostbusters
5 The Royal Tenenbaums
6 Caddyshack
7 Airplane!
8 Old School
9 A Night at the Opera
10 The Producers

my 10 favorite love stories:

1 Breakfast at Tiffany's
2 Punch Drunk Love
3 Casablanca
4 Talk to Her
5 The Apartment
6 Annie Hall
7 It Happened One Night
8 Harold and Maude
9 Singin' in the Rain
10 Life is Beautiful

...and my 10 favorite movie characters:

1 Peter Venkman (Murray, Ghostbusters)
2 Rob Gordon (Cusack, High Fidelity)
3 Cosmo Brown (O'Connor, Singin' in the Rain)
4 Holly Golightly (Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
5 Colonel Dax (Douglas, Paths of Glory)
6 Max Bloom (Wilder, The Producers)
7 Raymond Babbit (Hoffman, Rain Man)
8 TE Lawrence (O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia)
9 Jim Kurring (Reilly, Magnolia)
10 Amelie Poulain (Tautou, Amelie)