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Remember that top 20 movies list I made once? Remember how I said I might revise it someday? The day has come! There's one movie that's new and that just had to be added, and one old one that, after a couple more viewings, I realized had earned a spot. And so, from last to first . . .

20. An Affair to Remember (1957)
19. The Court Jester (1955)
18. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
17. The Princess Bride (1987)
16. Charade (1963)
15. Les Misérables (2012)
14. The Odd Couple (1968)
13. All about Eve (1950)
12. The Lion in Winter (1968)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
10. The King's Speech (2010)
9. 1776 (1972)
8. Rear Window (1954)
7. The Sound of Music (1965)
6. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
5. Casablanca (1942)
4. Notorious (1946)
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
2. My Fair Lady (1964)
1. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

(I still love Shadowlands and The Thin Man, though!)

A King's Speech sequel?? With the actors coming back??? And the London blitz????

I just . . . 

Oh my . . .

I can't . . .

*faints*

Still haven't gathered enough mental energy to start the 100 Things meme, but I still hope to do it one of these days. In the meantime, let's have a movie meme! Got this off Tumblr.


( Consider yourself tagged if you want! )

King's Speech piano book = best thing ever. It's lovely to be able to play some of those pieces from the movie. There's even a really good transcription of the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh!

My King's Speech DVD is here! I've waited and waited for this. I'm so excited. I want to hug it and squeeze it and call it George.

(Ha! That last part actually fits!)

It came on Queen Elizabeth's birthday, too. How fitting.

ABC is running a Best in Film special tonight, and I'm posting a list of my 20 favorite movies. The two events are not related. Actually, I had the idea before I heard about the special -- though I'll probably watch it and fume about it, much as I used to watch and fume about the old AFI movie list shows.

I just think it's fun to make lists -- not least because it helps me avoid doing actual work. But it's hard in its own way. I'm still not certain that this list is exactly the way I want it, and a few months from now I may revisit it and do some rearranging. In fact, there's a good chance I'll end up fuming over my OWN list. That seems to be the nature of these things.

I'm not calling this a meme, because I'm not sure whether anyone else is OCD enough to make a list of 20 favorite movies, but you may treat it as one and make your own list if you so desire! Maybe we'll all end up getting some good suggestions from each other.

( In order, then, from #20 to #1: )

If The King's Speech wins Best Picture, I will squee like a fourteen-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber concert.

I shanghaied my mother into seeing The King's Speech with me this afternoon. She's not much into going to the movies, so I had to really work at it. I even used my pouty face, and I can't remember the last time I used my pouty face. So the process was a bit strenuous, but the outcome was gratifying: She loved it. She even cried! (*I* didn't even cry, much as I loved it!) Now she's joining me in working on my dad to go.

Seriously, if you haven't seen this movie, go see it. It's really special. And I don't want to jinx it, but I'm 99.99999% sure that Colin Firth is getting that Oscar. (Maybe Geoffrey Rush, too, for supporting.) However, if it's true that, as I've heard, Firth was hoping that this would be the role that broke the "Mr. Darcy" mold, it may have backfired on him a bit, because I'm pretty sure every woman in the theater wanted to take him home and snuggle him. If you can snuggle a king.

And now for Downton Abbey tonight on PBS! There's a Twitter event going on in conjunction (hashtag #DowntonPBS), so that should be fun.