A Century's Worth of Favorites.

It's 2010, see? How cool is that? If you take 2010 and subtract 1910, what do you get? That's right, kiddos-- one hundred years, aka a century's worth of movies for me (or you, or that guy) to enjoy and discuss.

I know, I know..."What about The Great Train Robbery, made in 1903?" Or, "What about The Horse in Motion, everyone's favorite flicker from 1878??" No thanks. I'm not including those because 1) I haven't seen them, and 2) I have a hunch they wouldn't be my favorites.

So here we are, back at the start. Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule has created a list --this list-- of favorite films from the past 100 years. Being the idea-thief that I am, I thought it'd be fun to try a list of my own. And you know what?-- it was. :)

20s

Sadie Thompson

Pandora’s Box

The Passion of Joan of Arc

30s

Gone With the Wind

The Lady Vanishes

Stage Door

Baby Face

Freaks

Captain Blood

Bringing Up Baby

The Bride of Frankenstein

Top Hat

Marked Woman

His Girl Friday

40s

Meet Me in St. Louis

Shadow of a Doubt

The Lady Eve

The Major and the Minor

The Heiress

My Name is Julia Ross

Laura

Children of Paradise

A Letter to Three Wives

Brief Encounter

Unfaithfully Yours

Ball of Fire

Double Indemnity

Sweater Girl

50s

All About Eve

Auntie Mame

Pillow Talk

Singin’ in the Rain

Nights of Cabiria

Les diaboliques

The Earrings of Madame De…

Lili

60s

Charade

The Moon Spinners

In Cold Blood

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Persona

Wait Until Dark

Faster Pussycat Kill Kill

The Knack and How to Get It

Repulsion

Eyes Without a Face

Seconds

The World of Henry Orient

Who Kaun Thi

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

Divorce, Italian Style

Tokyo Drifter

70s

Paper Moon

The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane

Sybil

Grey Gardens

The Godfather

The Stepford Wives

What’s Up Doc

The Last Picture Show

Cabaret

Two Lane Blacktop

Who Saw Her Die

Iodo

Picnic at Hanging Rock

80s

Zelig

Hopscotch

Amadeus

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Peking Opera Blues

The Thin Blue Line

Gloria

90s

Dead Again

Playing by Heart

The Hudsucker Proxy

Festen

Waiting for Guffman

Girl, Interrupted

Election

Wild at Heart

Beauty and the Beast

Pulp Fiction

Withnail and I

Dead Man

Swingers

Cape Fear

Muriel’s Wedding

Small Time Crooks

Ghost World

2000s

Volver

Kill Bill vol. 1

Kill Bill vol. 2

Amelie

The Fall

The Royal Tenenbaums

Kamikaze Girls

In the Mood for Love

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Memories of Murder

Big Fish

**Before yelling at me, you should check out the Sergio Leone site-- he explains that I don't hafta put critically acclaimed movies on here if I don't wanna. :)