June 30, 2007

AFI Top 100

Chris had a good idea for presenting his relation with the AFI Top 100, so I'll copy it: seen it, tried to see it, haven't:

  1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.
  2. "The Godfather," 1972.
  3. "Casablanca," 1942.
  4. "Raging Bull," 1980.
  5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952. (best musical ever, and I hate musicals)
  6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939. (meh)
  7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.
  8. "Schindler's List," 1993.
  9. "Vertigo," 1958.
  10. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.
  11. "City Lights," 1931.
  12. "The Searchers," 1956.
  13. "Star Wars," 1977.
  14. "Psycho," 1960.
  15. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968.
  16. "Sunset Blvd.", 1950.
  17. "The Graduate," 1967.
  18. "The General," 1927.
  19. "On the Waterfront," 1954.
  20. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946. (it's possible to miss this!)
  21. "Chinatown," 1974.
  22. "Some Like It Hot," 1959.
  23. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940.
  24. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982.
  25. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962.
  26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939.
  27. "High Noon," 1952.
  28. "All About Eve," 1950.
  29. "Double Indemnity," 1944.
  30. "Apocalypse Now," 1979.
  31. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941.
  32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974. (should be higher than the first)
  33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975.
  34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937.
  35. "Annie Hall," 1977.
  36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957.
  37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946.
  38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.
  39. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964.
  40. "The Sound of Music," 1965.</b>
  41. "King Kong," 1933.
  42. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967.
  43. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969.
  44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940.
  45. "Shane," 1953.
  46. "It Happened One Night," 1934.
  47. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.
  48. "Rear Window," 1954.
  49. "Intolerance," 1916.
  50. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001.
  51. "West Side Story," 1961.
  52. "Taxi Driver," 1976.
  53. "The Deer Hunter," 1978.
  54. "M-A-S-H," 1970.
  55. "North by Northwest," 1959.
  56. "Jaws," 1975.
  57. "Rocky," 1976.
  58. "The Gold Rush," 1925.
  59. "Nashville," 1975.
  60. "Duck Soup," 1933.
  61. "Sullivan's Travels," 1941.
  62. "American Graffiti," 1973.
  63. "Cabaret," 1972.
  64. "Network," 1976.
  65. "The African Queen," 1951.
  66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981.
  67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966.
  68. "Unforgiven," 1992.
  69. "Tootsie," 1982.
  70. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971.
  71. "Saving Private Ryan," 1998.
  72. "The Shawshank Redemption," 1994.
  73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969.
  74. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.
  75. "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.
  76. "Forrest Gump," 1994. (not until a couple years ago, weirdly)
  77. "All the President's Men," 1976.
  78. "Modern Times," 1936.
  79. "The Wild Bunch," 1969.
  80. "The Apartment, 1960.
  81. "Spartacus," 1960.
  82. "Sunrise," 1927.
  83. "Titanic," 1997. (how is this here?)
  84. "Easy Rider," 1969.
  85. "A Night at the Opera," 1935.
  86. "Platoon," 1986.
  87. "12 Angry Men," 1957.
  88. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938.
  89. "The Sixth Sense," 1999.
  90. "Swing Time," 1936.
  91. "Sophie's Choice," 1982.
  92. "Goodfellas," 1990.
  93. "The French Connection," 1971.
  94. "Pulp Fiction," 1994.
  95. "The Last Picture Show," 1971.
  96. "Do the Right Thing," 1989.
  97. "Blade Runner," 1982.
  98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.
  99. "Toy Story," 1995.
  100. "Ben-Hur," 1959. </ol>

    Score: 60. I'd classify that as 'needs work', particularly with the missing items from the 1950s-1970s. The earlier items don't bother me as much -- IMO they tend to be interesting from a film history point of view, not so much that they're enjoyable in and of themselves.

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