Number 18. Watch the top 100 films of all time.

Number 18. Watch the top 100 films of all time.
This was really hard to choose a list but in the end I plumped for 'Barry Norman's 100 greatest films of all time'.

My hubby has promised to watch them all with me and some of them we will watch with our children! I will rate each film out of 10!

In December 2012 we watched the following 13 films:

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (5/10)
Casablanca (5/10)
Dirty Harry (5/10)
ET (9/10)
Great Expectations (9/10)
Its A Wonderful A Life (10/10)
The Magnificent Seven (5/10)
Master & Commander: Far Side of the World (5/10)
Night of the Living Dead (4/10)
The Railway Children (8/10)
Sunset Boulevard (8/10)
Toy Story (9/10)
When Harry Met Sally (9/10)

In January 2013 we watched the following 7 films (TOTAL WATCHED = 20):

All About Eve (6/10)
Blazing Saddles (2/10)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/10)
GoodFellas (8/10)
High Noon (5/10)
Shrek (9/10)
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (8/10)

In February 2013 we watched the following 10 films (TOTAL WATCHED = 30):

Apocalypse Now (2/10)
Cabaret (8/10)
Chinatown 5/10)
Gladiator (8/10)
The Graduate (5/10)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (8/10)
Psycho (7/10)
Schindler's List (10/10)
The Searchers (5/10)
The Third Man (2/10)

In March 2013 we watched the following 8 films (TOTAL WATCHED = 38):

Bambi (9/10)
Brief Encounter (8/10)
Bringing up Baby (6/10)
Chicago (6/10)
The Cruel Sea (2/10)
Gone With The Wind (10/10)
The Silence of the Lambs (7/10)
The Wizard of Oz (6/10)

April 2013 was a bad month for film watching as we were very busy, so we only managed to watch the following 4 films, must do better next month! (TOTAL WATCHED = 42):

Airplane (6/10)
Deliverance (4/10)
I Know Where I'm Going! (5/10)
Lawrence of Arabia (6/10)

May 2013 saw us get back on track as we are half way through the year before I turn 40 we had to reach the half way point! We watched the following films: (TOTAL WATCHED = 51):

Citizen Cane (2/10)
The Exorcist (7/10)
Kind Hearts & Coronets (8/10)
LA Confidential (8/10)
Moulin Rouge! (10/10)
No Country for Old Men (8/10)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (6/10)
Shane (6/10)
To Kill A Mockingbird (9/10)

June 2013 we watched the following films: (TOTAL WATCHED = 58)

Alien (6/10)
Dr Strangelove, or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (5/10)
The Godfather (8/10)
The Hurtlocker (7/10)
A Matter of Life and Death (6/10)
Raging Bull (4/10)
Unforgiven (6/10)

July 2013 we watched the following films: (TOTAL WATCHED = 63)

Groundhog Day (7/10)
Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone (8/10)
Mary Poppins (8/10)
Star Wars IV: A New Hope (5/10)
12 Angry Men (8/10)

August 2013 was difficult to find the time to watch films as we were busy with the kids summer break and a week away in Italy but we managed a couple!: (TOTAL WATCHED = 65)

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (6/10)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (8/10)

September 2013 we watched the following films (TOTAL WATCHED = 72)

Blade Runner (5/10)
The Dark Knight (8/10)
The Great Escape (8/10)
The Jungle Book (6/10)
Paths of Glory (5/10)
The Shawshank Redemption (10/10)
West Side Story (6/10)

October 2013 we watched loads of films!! (TOTAL WATCHED = 89)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (7/10)

Annie Hall (5/10)

Bad Day at Black Rock (7/10)

The Big Sleep (5/10)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7/10)

Duck Soup (4/10)

Frankenstein (8/10)

Gregory's Girl (8/10)

High Society (8/10)

Jaws (8/10)

Monty Python & the Holy Grail (5/10)

North by Northwest (8/10)

Red River (7/10)

Singin in the Rain (8/10)

To Be or Not To Be (8/10)

2001: a Space Odyssey (3/10)

The Wild Bunch (6/10)

November, time to conquer the remaining films to make the 100!! We watched the following:

Halloween (7/10)

It Happened One Night (8/10)

Kiss Me Kate (5/10)

My Fair Lady (8/10)

Ninotchka (8/10)

The Red Shoes (5/10)

Saturday Night Fever (9/10)

Seven Samurai (6/10)

Shoah (6/10)

Some Like it Hot (8/10)

Rosemary's Baby (7/10) (TOTAL WATCHED= 100!!)

So we did it, yay! Watched the last film on the 20th November, I've really enjoyed this challenge, it's definitely made me more open to all different types of films. My top 5 though are definitely:

1. Gone with the Wind

2. It's a Wonderful Life

3. Moulin Rouge

4. The Shawshank Redemption

5. Schindlers List

However my favourite film of all time which isn't on this list has to be Les Miserables!