My Top 100 (or the best I could do for this year)

So here is my top 100 for filmspotting.

This is a very personal list where I had to make some tough choices as to how to order it but after working on this for a week, I'm finally comfortable with the films and their positions. Like I said, this list is more personal than a representation of the "best filmmaking." These are films that affected me emotionally to a high degree. So I apologize for those that are questioning where Casablanca, 8 1/2, The Seventh Seal, or Raging Bull are. I just didn't quite connect with them the way I did these 100 other movies. Read on...

1. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

2. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)

3. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)

4. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)

5. American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)

6. Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze)

7. All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)

8. City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles)

9. Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)

10. Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)

11. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)

12. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)

13. LA Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)

14. The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck)

15. Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo Del Toro)

16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)

17. Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)

18. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-Wook)

19. Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy)

20. The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lumet)

21. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

22. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet)

23. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)

24. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)

25. A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)

26. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)

27. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

28. No Country for Old Men (2007, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)

29. Finding Neverland (2004, Marc Forster)

30. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann)

31. Quiz Show (1994, Robert Redford)

32. Black Hawk Down (2001, Ridley Scott)

33. Born on the Fourth of July (1989, Oliver Stone)

34. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)

35. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

36. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)

37. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley)

38. Mystic River (2003, Clint Eastwood)

39. The Constant Gardener (2005, Fernando Meirelles)

40. Awakenings (1990, Penny Marshall)

41. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)

42. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)

43. Wall-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)

44. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)

45. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

46. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero)

47. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)

48. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

49. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)

50. Fargo (1996, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)

51. Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)

52. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)

53. Missing (1982, Costa Gavras)

54. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)

55. All the President's Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)

56. Good Night and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney)

57. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)

58. Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)

59. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)

60. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)

61. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)

62. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)

63. Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell)

64. Lone Star (1996, John Sayles)

65. The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)

66. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

67. In the Heat of the Night (1967, Norman Jewison)

68. Serpico (1973, Sidney Lumet)

69. JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)

70. District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp)

71. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold)

72. Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)

73. Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)

74. The Matrix (1999, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski)

75. 12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

76. Knocked Up (2007, Judd Apatow)

77. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)

78. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)

79. Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)

80. The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

81. The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)

82. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)

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83. In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonaugh)

84. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)

85. The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)

86. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)

87. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)

88. Walk the Line (2005, James Mangold)

89. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

90. Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)

91. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)

92. Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola)

93. Borat (2006, Larry Charles)

94. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005, Judd Apatow)

95. Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh)

96. The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers and Robert Minkoff)

97. Road to Perdition (2002, Sam Mendes)

98. Dead Man Walking (1995, Tim Robbins)

99. Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)

100. Beauty and the Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)