# 16 See IMDB's Top 100 Movies (in progress)

IMDB.com has a voter-determined Top 250 movies list, and it's one of the better lists I've come across in terms of films I'd actually like to see, plus it's a good mix of American and foreign as well as new and old movies. It can change anytime as people vote, so I copied down the list as of a certain date and I'm going by that. I'm still working on this one, so I'll keep progress updated here.

Done: 57

1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather: Part II
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
5. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, II (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)
6. Casablanca
7. Schindler’s List
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
10. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
12. Star Wars
13. Rear Window
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15. 12 Angry Men
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark
17. The Usual Suspects
18. Cidade de Deus (City of God)
19. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
20. Goodfellas
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
22. Psycho
23. Citizen Kane
24. C’era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In the West)
25. North by Northwest
26. Memento
27. The Silence of the Lambs
28. Lawrence of Arabia
29. It’s a Wonderful Life
30. Sunset Blvd.
31. Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain (Amelie)
32. Fight Club
33. American Beauty
34. The Matrix
35. Vertigo
36. Apocalypse Now
37. Taxi Driver
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
39. Se7en
40. Paths of Glory
41. Leon
42. Chinatown
43. To Kill a Mockingbird
44. American History X
45. The Third Man
46. Der Untergang (Downfall)
47. The Pianist
48. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
49. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
50. M
51. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
52. The Bridge on the River Kwai
53. Alien
54. Das Boot
55. L.A. Confidential
56. A Clockwork Orange
57. The Maltese Falcon
58. Requiem for a Dream
59. Hotel Rwanda
60. The Shining
61. Double Indemnity
62. Metropolis
63. Reservoir Dogs
64. Saving Private Ryan
65. Rashomon
66. Singin’ in the Rain
67. Sin City
68. Raging Bull
69. Modern Times
70. Aliens
71. The Manchurian Candidate
72. Rebecca
73. Some Like It Hot
74. The Great Escape
75. All About Eve
76. 2001: A Space Odyssey
77. Touch of Evil
78. The Departed
79. Amadeus
80. Million Dollar Baby
81. La Vita e bella (Life is Beautiful)
82. Det Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal)
83. Forrest Gump
84. Jaws
85. The Sting
86. Strangers on a Train
87. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
88. Batman Begins
89. On the Waterfront
90. El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labarynth)
91. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
92. Braveheart
93. The Wizard of Oz
94. Full Metal Jacket
95. The Elephant Man
96. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
97. Blade Runner
98. The Apartment
99. The Incredibles
100. City Lights

#31 Take a Photography Class

Completed January - May, 2007

I've wanted to take a photography class for a while, so I finally signed up for it. You have to provide your own film SLR camera, so that held me back for a while until I could borrow my aunt's. Anyway, I learned how to manually adjust aperture and depth of field and all that, and learned how to develop my own black and white film. I really liked it; unfortunately I won't be able to take the second level for scheduling reasons, so maybe I'll be able to find one at the local county college when I move back in with Mom after college...which is a whole 'nother story.

PS - I got an A-