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Titanic? Toy Story? The Sixth Sense? Lord Of The Rings?
Ugh.
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=micro_top_100_list
Follow Ups:
The AFI has an agenda -- they want to promote film-going. That means that the AFI list is going to be VERY different than a list compiled by, say, Professors of Film History. You lose your voice as an authority and undermine your public relations activities if you alientate or disenfranchise 90% of our audience -- hence the inclusion of so many trite films and the demotion of so many serious and signficant ones.
Interesting list...Spielberg the real winner there...with 5 films on the list...alot of omissions but some that come immediately to mind are: Born Yesterday, Funny Girl, Wuthering Heights, My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday, Sabrina (original)...I'm sure I've forgotten others...
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..into the top fifty? What, did someone change the rules?
clark
responders.
Yeah, they make you sign up. Sorry about that...
The ones marked * are "new" to the list since the last time...
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin' in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler's List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General*
19. On the Waterfront
20. It's a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance*
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. M*A*S*H
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville*
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan's Travels*
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret*
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption*
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night*
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President's Men*
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus*
82. Sunrise*
83. Titanic*
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera*
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men*
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense*
90. Swing Time*
91. Sophie's Choice*
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show*
96. Do the Right Thing*
97. Blade Runner*
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story*
100. Ben-Hur
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But "Spartacus was added, to a list that already included "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001".
one or two others of his.
Oh well...
Now, if only "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," and "The Long Goodbye," both by Altman, it would be a much better list.
ET is a fine kids' film so... maybe.
Several other choices are just bizarre.
Z
They did do some stuff right. The addition of Spartacus, Sullivan's Travels, and In the Heat of the Night were good IMO.
Rod
As always, discard the ones I don't care for (lotsa those)& replace with:
California Split (just may be Altman's best)
All That Jazz
Trash (Warhol/Morrissey)
(Flesh is good too, and Lonesome Cowboys is a hoot at times)
Barry Lyndon
The Hustler
Cape Fear (the original)
Round Midnight
Brazil (For God's sake NOT the altered version)
Casino
King of Comedy (I'm always going up & down in my opinions of Scorcese's stuff; I'm amazed Raging Bull got such a high AFI score now, but at one time I thought it was clearly his best... clearly too bad about his recent output though...)
Spinal Tap (speaking of comedy....)
The original Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell AND the Farewell My Lovely w/Mitchum
Jackie Brown (VERY underrated in my opinion)
Koyaanisqatsi (very American)
Just a few off the top of my head. Any comments anybody?
(I guess documentaries are out but The Fog of War's a must-see...)
Bill
My wife, who didn't watch AFI, later asked me if Barry Lyndon had finally made the list. I can think of at least 20 films I'd boot off to place it there.
BTW, anyone know what makes a film American, and what makes it British? Hitch came to America, so his film here were included. Kubrick went to England, and his are also included. Hollywood funding?
Rod
King of Comedy
Agree it's generally underrated, though I'm still not sure I'd have it on my top 100.
clearly too bad about his recent output though...
not to mention DeNiro's....
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)
"glad to see Sunrise (a true American masterpiece), The General and Blade Runner on the list."
That much we can agree on... ;)
Did I see that Blade Runner is going to have a limited theatrical re-release soon, or am I dreaming of electric sheep?
Here is what I tracked down (excerpted from Digital Bits news late last year; source linked below)
"Then next year (note: refering to 2007, as this column was run in the summer of 2006), just in time for the film's 25th anniversary, Ridley Scott's ultimate Blade Runner: The Final Cut will hit theaters for a limited run. This will be a REAL director's cut, with restored scenes and more - all the stuff that Ridley's always wanted to do with the film but hasn't really been given the chance to do before. That will be followed later in the year by an Ultimate Blade Runner DVD release. You can expect a multi-disc box set (again, likely with a simultaneous HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc release) that will contain at least four different versions of the film... ALL in full anamorphic widescreen, we might add. You'll get the film's original U.S. theatrical cut, you'll get the expanded international theatrical cut, you'll get the 1992 Director's Cut and you'll get the new Final Cut as well. Now... we realize at this point, you may have questions. Keep in mind, there's a TON of additional material that's going to be included in this set that hasn't been announced and can't be talked about yet - all-new material that you've never seen before. The set is pretty early in the planning and production stage, so it's way too early to talk details, but trust us... some very cool stuff is in the works."
Cheers,
AuPh
4 versions of the film, huh?
I think I'll be satisfied with just seeing it in the theater, although I have a feeling that I'll probably end up with this monstrous box set before its all said and done.
I sat through the whole thing, switching over to the Red Sox/Braves game
(I mean slaighter)during the obscenely frequent commercials. I puked at the beginning when they briefly showed a clip from the horrid "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Even though they limited themselves to American films, some of the choices were amazingly poor. Others ("Citizen Kane" as #1 still. "Sunrise", "Chinatown") made sense. But "LOTR"? And if they gave it to the LOTR trilogy, then why was "Star Wars" limited to Episode IV? Oh wait, because the other episodes suck so much. I see.
... was given a slot among the Top 100 even though all are excellent, but your point about the other Star Wars films sucking (well, Episodes I, II & III respectively) is well taken.
AuPh
Thanks. I missed that and thought all three got it.
As I was watching this last night I looked at the time and realized it was after 10:00 and I needed to get to bed more then I needed to care what the AFI thought were their favorite films.
Sixth Sense is the only one of the four that I even enjoyed, but not enough to put in the top 100.
Rod
I wouldn't argue that they're not "good" films, but the BEST? EVER?We could go on and on about glaring omissions, but it would be pointless to try.
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