100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~61-70~

61. Jacques Tati's genius

62. Claude Rains and Bette Davis in "Mr. Skeffington"

63. The "I'm the Girl Who Invented Rock'n'Roll" sequence in "Teacher's Pet"

64. The unadulterated schmaltz in "Random Harvest"

spoiler alert!

65. The fact that the words "you're a better man than I am Gunga Din" fit perfectly in the theme from "Gunga Din"

Click here to see credits from "Gunga Din"

66. Gary Cooper single-handedly winning WWI in "Sergeant York"

67. Gerard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac

68. Paul Newman still looking sexy shirtless in "The Hudsucker Proxy"

69. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford going at it in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane"

70. The songs "Cool, Cool Considerate Men", "Momma Look Sharp", and "Molasses to Rum to Slaves" in the film "1776"

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~51-60~

51. Charles Boyer's insanely sexy French accent (totally makes up for him being vertically challenged and bald ^_~)

52. All the bird attacks in Hitchcock's "The Birds"

53. Myrna Loy and William Powell

54. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

Click here to view a clip from "Woman of the Year"

55. James Mason's voice

56. George Sander's villainous voice

57. Peter Lawford's adorable face

58. Stephen Boyd as Messala in "Ben-Hur" (especially his death scene)

59. The use of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in "Brief Encounter"

60. The fact that Old Yeller always manages to make me cry

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~41-50~

41. Robert Mitchum and his tattooed digits in "The Night of the Hunter"

42. Harold's suicide attempts in "Harold and Maude"

43. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

44. Peter Finch going bonkers as Howard Beale in "Network"

45. The Odessa Steps sequence in "The Battleship Potemkin" (Interesting fact about me: there are three degrees of separation between myself and Sergei Eisenstein. One of my grandfather's cousins, Agustín Aragón Leiva, was a friend of Eisenstein's and helped him out while he was making "¡Que Viva Mexico!")

46. Klaatu barada nikto!

47. Natalie Wood loosing her marbles because she can't get any from Warren Beatty in "Splendour in the Grass"

48. Ralph Richardson as Olivia de Havilland's complete jerk of a father in "The Heiress"

Click here for the first few minutes of "The Heiress"

49. Joseph Cotten's old man makeup in "Citizen Kane"

50. Alan Rikman in "Galaxy Quest"

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~31-40~

31. Audrey Hepburn asking Cary Grant how he shaves the dimple on his chin in "Charade"

32. Every single second of "One, Two, Three"

33. Gregory Peck's breakdown in "Twelve O'Clock High" (proof that even strong hotties like Brig. Gen. Savage have a breaking point)

34. Alec Guinness as the blustering "Jock" in "Tunes of Glory", especially when he's making the funeral arrangements

35. Dustin Hoffman in drag (I'm sensing a pattern here)

36. Sister-woman in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and her bevy of no-neck monsters

37. "This is Mrs. Norman Maine" ('37) (skip to 8:43 if you don't want to watch all 10 min.)

38. Charlie Chaplin eating his boot in "Gold Rush"

39. Jimmy Stewart's rendition of "Buffalo Gals"

40. The chess scene in "The Seventh Seal"

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~21-30~

21. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

22. Leslie Howard, the consummate gentleman, well, on film anyway ;-)

23. Capra-corn

Click here for clip from "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

24. Clark Gable's massive ears

25. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag

26. Ray Milland as an alcoholic, not that I condone alcoholism but when it's Ray Milland it's kind of... hot

27. Stalag 17

28. Sunset Boulevard

29. James Cagney's meltdown in "White Heat"

30. The face melts that happen in "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark"

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~11-20~

11. The million-billion lens flares in "Star Trek" 2009

12. Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" song and dance sequence in "Singin' in the Rain"

Click here to watch "Make 'Em Laugh"

13. Cyd Charisse's never-ending legs

14. Howard Keel's voice

Howard Keel in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"

15. David Niven's mustache

16. Clifton Webb's mustache

17. Herbert Marshall's voice

18. Tyrone Power's devastatingly gorgeous face

19. Karl Malden's nose

20. Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson

100 Reasons I Love the Movies ~1-10~

This was inspired by a list created by "oldfilmsflicker" (as she is known on Twitter). These are not in order of importance or anything and are simply the first one hundred things that came to mind. I've already got all 100 written out but I'm lazy and I don't feel like posting them all right now =P ^_^

1. the editing in "Lawrence of Arabia"

here are two examples:

2. Yul Brynner as Ramses II in "The Ten Commandments"

3. The way Anne Baxter says 'Moses' in "The Ten Commandments"

4. Gary Cooper

5. Bette Davis's Eyes

6. Vincent Price's voice

7. Burt Lancaster's smile

8. The Chariot race in "Ben-Hur" (1959)

click here to see the über exciting scene

9. When Michael Corleone kisses Fredo in "The Godfather II"

10. Sonny Corleone's death in "The Godfather"