Thanks to Miranda at Little Loft, Large Life, my Wednesday nights are booked for the next year. She challenged herself to see every movie on AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions by this time next year. Now, I'm a sucker for year-long goals, so I am jumping on the bandwagon.
Here's the list. Plus signs afters those I have seen IN FULL.
AFI’s List of 100 Years, 100 Passions
. Casablanca +
. Gone with the Wind +
. West Side Story +
. Roman Holiday +
. An Affair to Remember
. The Way We Were
. Doctor Zhivago
. It’s A Wonderful Life
. Love Story
. City Lights
. Annie Hall +++++
. My Fair Lady +
. Out of Africa
. The African Queen
. Wuthering Heights
. Singing in the Rain +
. Moonstruck +
. Vertigo +
. Ghost +
. From Here to Eternity
. Pretty Woman +
. On Golden Pond
. Now Voyager
. King Kong (1933)
. When Harry Met Sally +
. The Lady Eve
. The Sound of Music
. The Shop Around the Corner
. An Officer and a Gentleman
. Swing Time
. The King and I
. Dark Victory
. Camille
. Beauty and the Beast +
. Gigi +
. Random Harvest
. Titanic +
. It Happened One Night
. An American in Paris
. Ninotchka
. Funny Girl
. Anna Karenina (1935)
. A Star is Born
. The Philadelphia Story +
. Sleepless in Seattle +
. To Catch a Thief + (may watch again just to see Grace Kelly's back in the evening gown)
. Splendor in the Grass
. Last Tango in Paris
. The Postman Always Rings Twice
. Shakespeare in Love +
. Bringing Up Baby
. The Graduate +
. A Place in the Sun
. Sabrina +
. Reds
. The English Patient +
. Two for the Road
. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
. Picnic
. To Have and Have Not
. Breakfast at Tiffany’s +
. The Apartment +
. Sunrise
. Marty +
. Bonnie and Clyde
. Manhattan +++++++++++++++++
. A Streetcar Named Desire
. What’s Up, Doc?
. Harold and Maude +
. Sense and Sensibility +
. Way Down East
. Roxanne +
. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir +
. Woman of the Year +
. The American President
. The Quiet Man
. The Awful Truth
. Coming Home
. Jezebel
. The Sheik/ Son of Sheik
. The Goodbye Girl +
. Witness
. Morocco
. Double Indemnity
. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
. Notorious
. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
. The Princess Bride +
. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
. The Bridges of Madison County
. Working Girl +
. Porgy and Bess
. Dirty Dancing +
. Body Heat
. Lady and the Tramp +
. Barefoot in the Park (ugh, I am already dreading this one)
. Grease +
. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I'm guessing not the Disney version....)
. Pillow Talk
. Jerry McGuire + (shame)
I am totally surprised by how many of these I've already seen. Like, the Ghost and Mrs Muir? When did I see that? And why? I mean, a salty sea captain ghost loves a widow in a sea cottage, so that is pretty great...yeah, okay. That one makes sense. But why have I seen Jerry McGuire (in the theater!) and not Funny Girl? I'm digging this challenge because I need to move beyond my comfort zone of the trifecta: Hitchcock, Hepburns, and Woody Allen. And not pysch myself out by focusing on the whys of what I haven't watched. So a rich, full year of Wednesday movie nights it is!
