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I rarely agree with lists, but those additions do make a lot of sense.

Posted by Audiophilander on June 21, 2007 at 11:14:45:
43 eligible films released from 1996 to 2006 were considered and only four made the new top-100 list: "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Saving Private Ryan," "Titanic" and "The Sixth Sense."

19 movies that failed to make the cut in 1998's Top 100 list are on the list this time: "The General," "Intolerance," "Nashville," "Sullivan's Travels," "Cabaret," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Shawshank Redemption," "In the Heat of the Night," "All the President's Men," "Spartacus," "Sunrise," "A Night at the Opera," "12 Angry Men," "Swing Time," "Sophie's Choice," "The Last Picture Show," "Do the Right Thing," "Blade Runner" and "Toy Story."

I'm very pleased that Lord of The Rings made the cut and also glad to see Sunrise (a true American masterpiece), The General and Blade Runner on the list. I can also understand the others selected including the more recent Saving Private Ryan and Titanic, but I'm not as subjectively supportive of those choices as the ones I mentioned.

One obvious omission from the Top 100 is Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece Brazil and Robert Wise's much lauded SF film The Day The Earth Stood Still. I would like to have see at least one of Erich Von Stroheim's films (Foolish Wives, Greed, or The Wedding March) on the list. It would've also been nice if Harold Lloyd (Safety Last; The Kid Brother; The Freshman; etc.) and Douglas Fairbanks (The Three Musketeers; Thief of Bagdad; Mark of Zorro; etc) represented in the Top 100, but it's easy to quibble over other folk's subjective lists.

Cheers,
AuPh

PS: If I'd had my way Paul Vorhooven's darkly satirical reworking of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers would probably be on the list, so there's probably a good reason I'm not on the AFI's steering committee! ;0)