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

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Audiophilander

In Reply to: RE: AFI Top 100 List redux posted by mishmashmusic on June 21, 2007 at 08:29:11

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)

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RE: I rarely agree with lists, but those additions do make a lot of sense. - mishmashmusic 11:17:45 06/21/07 (2)
"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?
- No, I think you heard it right; released prior to the Dir. Cut Collector Ed. DVD set (BR & HD) this fall. - Audiophilander 13:20:16 06/21/07 (1)
  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
  - Digital Bits Blade Runner News (5/26/06) (Open in New Window)
  - Nothing like a little DVD overkill to keep things interesting - mishmashmusic 12:13:21 06/22/07 (0)
    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.

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