I saw this list of The New York Times’ The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made (requires a free registration) via Kottke and decided to see how many of these movies I have already seen (Kottke has seen 201). Not surprisingly, I’ve seen a mere 37 out of 1,004. What’s surprising is the choices of the “film critics of The New York Times.” I’m surprised the list didn’t include any of the following: American Beauty, The Matrix, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings. I’m also surprised that movies like Clueless and The Naked Gun were included. Oh well, there’s no arguing in matters of taste.

Here is the list of the movies I’ve seen that’s on the list:

• A.I. (2001)

• Aladdin (1992)

• Amadeus (1984)

• Back to the Future (1985)

• Beauty and the Beast (1991)

• Beetlejuice (1988)

• Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

• Breakfast Club, the (1985)

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

• Clueless (1995)

• Dead Calm (1989)

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

• Fantasia (1940)

• Full Monty, the (1997)

• Groundhog Day (1993)

• L.A. Confidential (1997)

• League of Their Own, a (1992)

• Little Women (1994)

• Monsters, Inc. (2001)

• Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, the (1988)

• Piano, the (1993)

• Pinocchio (1940)

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

• RoboCop (1987)

• Schindler’s List (1993)

• Sense and Sensibility (1995)

• Shakespeare in Love (1998)

• Shrek (2001)

• Silence of the Lambs, the (1991)

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)

• Sound of Music, the (1965)

• Star Wars (1977)

• Ten Commandments, the (1956)

• Toy Story (1995)

• Usual Suspects, the (1995)

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

• Wizard of Oz, the (1939)