Top 100 - 2009 Edition

As promised, here is my annual top 100 list, 2009 edition. There is a new number 1 as well as a few new additions that weren't on the 2008 edition. Comments, challenges and questions are welcome as always -

My list has different criteria than the AFI - I appreciate humor, originality, vision and a good old fashioned story. Acting, directing and cinematography also impact my decisions. In addition to the criteria listed above, this list also has some personal favorites that take me back to the awe and feeling of the cinematic magic that I felt when I first saw the film.

Without further ado - here it is from #1 - 100.

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. The Godfather
3. The Graduate
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Se7en
6. The Departed
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Patton
9. Aliens
10. A Clockwork Orange
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. No Country for Old Men
13. American History X
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
15. Citizen Kane
16. Casablanca
17. Saving Private Ryan
18. Brokeback Mountain
19. Braveheart
20. Taxi Driver
21. Forrest Gump
22. Schindler's List
23. Fargo
24. The Shining
25. Seven Samurai
26. The Exorcist
27. Pulp Fiction
28. Rear Window
29. The Sixth Sense
30. Scarface
31. Caddyshack
32. Raiders of the Lost Ark
33. Gladiator
34. Return of the Jedi
35. Annie Hall
36. The Apartment
37. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
38. Heat
39. Duck Soup
40. The Silence of the Lambs
41. Godfather 2
42. Cool Hand Luke
43. Rebel Without a Cause
44. Fight Club
45. LA Confidential
46. Dazed and Confused
47. Enter the Dragon
48. Raging Bull
49. American Beauty
50. Modern Times
51. Unforgiven
52. The Dark Knight
53. This is Spinal Tap
54. North by Northwest
55. 2001
56. M.A.S.H
57. Sin City
58. Tombstone
59. The Thing
60. Full Metal Jacket
61. Deer Hunter
62. Alien
63. Jaws
64. Rocky
65. Good Will Hunting
66. Mystic River
67. Glory
68. Bonnie and Clyde
69. The Fellowship Of The Ring
70. A History of Violence
71. Empire Strikes Back
72. To Kill A Mockingbird
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. Star Wars
75. The Big Lebowski
76. On the Waterfront
77. It Happened One Night
78. Vertigo
79. The French Connection
80. A Streetcar Named Desire
81. All Quiet on the Western Front
82. Boogie Nights
83. Training Day
84. American Graffiti
85. Dog Day Afternoon
86. High Noon
87. Psycho
88. Animal House
89. The Wall
90. Titanic
91. The Manchurian Candidate
92. E.T.
93. Primal Fear
94. Into the Wild
95. Return of the King
96. Platoon
97. Chinatown
98. Road to Perdition
99. A Christmas Story
100. The Matrix