What are the 100 Modern Classics you need to see before you die?

Well, Yahoo Movies has compiled a list here for you to take a peek at (and believe it or not, I've seen all 100...and I'm not sure whether to be ashamed for proud of that fact), but I'd like to submit ten more films (in year order) that didn't make the list, just for fun:

Clerks
Chasing Amy
High Fidelity
Love Actually
Garden State
United 93
The Fountain
Into The Wild
The Wrestler
Up in the Air

-How many films from this essential 100 have you seen?

The National Film Registry adds 25 new films...

...and they are the following:

• "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975)

• "The Exiles" (1961)

• "Heroes All" (1920)

• "Hot Dogs for Gauguin" (1972)

• "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957)

• "Jezebel" (1938)

• "The Jungle" (1967)

• "The Lead Shoes" (1949)

• "Little Nemo" (1911)

• "Mabel's Blunder" (1914)

• "The Mark of Zorro" (1940)

• "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)

• "The Muppet Movie" (1979)

• "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968)

• "Pillow Talk" (1959)

• "Precious Images" (1986)

• "Quasi at the Quackadero" (1975)

• "The Red Book" (1994)

• "The Revenge of the Pancho Villa" (1930-36)

• "Scratch and Crow" (1995)

• "Stark Love" (1927)

• "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945)

• "A Study in Reds" (1932)

• "Thriller" (1983)

• "Under Western Stars" (1938)

-Thoughts?

Kelly's 100 Films - # 100: CITY LIGHTS (1931)

Writer/Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Meyers, Florence Lee, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann.

Summary: Charmingly simple story of The Little Tramp who meets a lovely blind girl selling flowers on the sidewalk who mistakes him for a wealthy duke.

When he learns that an operation may restore her sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have the surgery.

In a series of comedy adventures that only Chaplin could pull off, he eventually succeeds, even though his efforts land him in jail. While he is there, the girl has the operation and afterwards yearns to meet her benefactor. The tear-inducing closing scene, in which she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke but only The Little Tramp, is one of the highest moments in movies.

My Thoughts:

In doing my research on what exactly I should write about, I stumbled upon a Charlie Chaplin website-subpage devoted to City Lights (1931). I thought that this page said more about this particular film than I could ever possibly think to write. So, click here if you wish to explore Chaplin's City Lights a bit more or go directly to his website:

http://www.charliechaplin.com/

From the TIME Magazine Archive:
"Chaplin does not reject the sound-device because he does not think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art"
—Feb. 9, 1931