I consider this weekend a win. Because: 1) I got Book 1 in my Omega Series (out in January 2015) finished and off to the proofer. 2) I lived through my parents' visit. 3) I got both a swim and a bike ride done in my IM training today. 4) I finished all grading for Fall 2013 semester in my day job (college professor).
Unfortunately, I also consider this weekend a lose. Because: 1) I STILL have not watched The Wizard of Oz and The Dark Knight for #10 in the Sunday Showdown.
What can I say? I pretty much haven't done anything for the past three weeks but write the book that was due. My DVR is hovering at 98% full. The only thing that kept it out of 100% was my unquenchable need to watch The Blacklist as soon as that show comes on.
(As an aside: how I feel about The Blacklist is how I should've felt about Joss Whedon's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but instead that show causes me to have fits abo... zzzzzzz.)
But let's not kid ourselves. There's no way I'm going to give my vote to The Dark Knight over The Wizard of Oz.
The. Wizard. Of. Oz.
Seriously, it's like one of the most beloved, classic films in the history of cinema. It is the epitome of classic -- enthralling audiences every day for nearly 75 years.
So, since I haven't seen them both recently I'll pretend in my mind that Chris Nolan gives Oz a run for it's money with Dark Knight, but I doubt -- once I actually get around to watching them both -- that it will actually be the case.
So, now coming into the Top 4 (since #2 for both lists is The Godfather), AFI has pulled ahead with a runaway lead, 51 to IMDb's 43. Tough break for da masses, but seriously, with films like The Wizard of Oz not even making it into IMDb's Top 100, it's not surprising AFI is winning.
In order to finish the Sunday Showdown in 2013, next week we'll have a double feature: Singin' In the Rain vs. Pulp Fiction and Raging Bull vs. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. One of those showdowns is pretty east for me. But the other is very, very hard.
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AFI’s Top 100
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IMDb’s Top 100 (as of 1/1/12)
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51
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43
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#6
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Inception (2010)
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#7
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Lawrence
of Arabia (1962)
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Schindler’s List (1993)
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#8
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Schindler's List (1993)
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12
Angry Men (1957)
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#9
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Vertigo (1958)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
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#10
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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#11 |
City Lights (1931) |
LoTR: Return of the King (2003) |
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#12
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The
Searchers (1956)
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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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#13
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Star Wars (1977)
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Seven
Samurai (1954)
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#14
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Psycho
(1966)
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Star Wars (1977)
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#15
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Goodfellas
(1990)
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#16
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Sunset
Boulevard (1950)
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Casablanca (1942)
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#17
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The
Graduate (1967)
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Fight Club (1999)
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#18
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The General (1927)
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City
of God (2002)
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#19 |
On the Waterfront (1954) |
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
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#20
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It's
a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Rear Window (1954)
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#21
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Chinatown (1974)
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Once
Upon a Time in the West (1968)
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#22 |
Some
Like It Hot (1959)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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#23
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Toy
Story 3 (2010)
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#24
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E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Psycho (1960)
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#25
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To
Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
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#26
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Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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The Matrix (1999)
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#27
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High
Noon (1952)
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Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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#28
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All About Eve (1950)
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Se7en
(1995)
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#29
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Double
Indemnity (1944)
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
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#30
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Memento
(1990)
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#31 |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
LoTR: The Two Towers(2002) |
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#32
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
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Sunset
Boulevard (1950)
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#33
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Dr.
Strangelove (1964)
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#34
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937)
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Forrest
Gump (1994)
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#35
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Annie
Hall (1977)
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Leon: The Professional (1994)
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#36
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The
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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#37 |
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
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#38 |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
North By Northwest (1959) |
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#39 |
Dr. Strangelove (1964) |
American Beauty (1999) |
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#40 |
The Sound of Music (1965) |
American History X (1998) |
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#41 |
King Kong (1933) |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
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#42 |
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
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#43 |
Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
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#44 |
The Philadelphia
Story (1940) |
Vertigo (1958) |
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#45 |
Shane (1953) |
Amelie (2001) |
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#46 |
It Happened One Night (1934) |
Alien (1979) |
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#47 |
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
Wall E (2008) |
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#48 |
Rear Window (1954) |
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
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#49 |
Intolerance (1916) |
The Shining (1980) |
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#50 |
LoTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
Spirited Away (2001) |
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#51 |
West Side Story (1961) |
Paths of Glory (1957) |
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#52 |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
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#53 |
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
Double Indemnity (1944) |
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#54 |
M*A*S*H* (1970) |
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
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#55 |
North by Northwest (1959) |
The Pianist (2002) |
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#56 |
Jaws (1975) |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
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#57 |
Rocky (1976) |
The Departed (2006) |
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#58
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The Gold Rush (1925)
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Memento
(2000)
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#59 |
Nashville (1975) |
City Lights (1931) |
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#60
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Duck
Soup (1933)
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Aliens (1986)
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#61
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Eternal
Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)
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#62
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American
Graffiti (1973)
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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#63
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Cabaret
(1972)
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Das Boot (1981)
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#64
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Network (1976)
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The
Third Man (1949)
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#65
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The African Queen (1951)
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L.A.
Confidential (1997)
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#66
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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Reservoir
Dogs (1992)
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#67
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Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Chinatown (1974)
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#68
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
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#69
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Tootsie
(1982)
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Modern Times (1936)
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#70
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A
Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Life is Beautiful (1997)
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#71
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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Monty
Python & the Holy Grail (1975)
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#72
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Back
to the Future (1985)
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#73
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Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
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The
Prestige (2006)
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#74
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Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Pan’s
Labyrinth (2006)
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#75
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In
the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Raging Bull (1980)
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#76
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Forrest
Gump (1994)
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
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#77
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All
the President’s Men (1976)
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Singing In the Rain (1952)
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#78
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Modern
Times (1936)
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Some Like it Hot (1959)
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#79
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The
Wild Bunch (1969)
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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#80
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The
Apartment (1960)
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Rashomon (1950)
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#81
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Spartacus
(1960)
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All About Eve (1950)
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#82
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Amadeus
(1984)
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#83
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Titanic (1997)
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Once
Upon A Time in America (1984)
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#84
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Easy
Rider (1969)
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The Green Mile (1999)
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#85
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A
Night at the Opera (1935)
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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#86
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Platoon (1986)
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2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968)
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#87
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12
Angry Men (1957)
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Inglorious Basterds (2009)
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#88
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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The
Great Dictator (1940)
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#89
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Sixth Sense (1999)
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Braveheart
(1995)
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#90
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Swing
Time (1936)
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The Bicycle Thief (1948)
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#91
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Sophie’s Choice (1982)
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The
Apartment (1960)
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#92
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Goodfellas
(1990)
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Up (2009)
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#93
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The French Connection (1971)
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Downfall
(2004)
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#94
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Gran
Torino (2008)
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#95
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The
Last Picture Show (1971)
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Metropolis (1927)
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#96
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Do The Right Thing (1989)
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The
Sting (1973)
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#97
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Blade Runner (1982)
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Gladiator
(2000)
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#98
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Yankee
Doodle Dandy (1942)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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#99
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Toy Story (1995)
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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#100
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Ben Hur (1959)
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The
Elephant Man (1980)
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