6.21.2007

Have you seen them?

The "original" 100 Best Movies of All Time per the AFI.

1997 List

  1. Citizen Kane (1941) -yes
  2. Casablanca (1942) - yes
  3. The Godfather (1972) - yes
  4. Gone with the Wind (1939) - yes
  5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - yes
  6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - yes
  7. The Graduate (1967) - yes
  8. On the Waterfront (1954) - not all
  9. Schindler's List (1993) - yes
  10. Singin' in the Rain (1952) - yes
  11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - yes
  12. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - no, but on my Netflix queue
  13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - yes
  14. Some Like It Hot (1959) - yes
  15. Star Wars (1977) - yes
  16. All About Eve (1950) - don't think so
  17. The African Queen (1951) - yes
  18. Psycho (1960) - yes
  19. Chinatown (1974) - when I was little - too gritty for me at that age
  20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - when I was little - too gritty for me at that age
  21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - yes
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - yes
  23. The Maltese Falcon (1941) - not all
  24. Raging Bull (1980) - no
  25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - yes
  26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - yes
  27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - not all
  28. Apocalypse Now (1979) - not all
  29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - not all
  30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - no
  31. Annie Hall (1977) - no, but on Netflix queue
  32. The Godfather Part II (1974) - yes
  33. High Noon (1952) - not all
  34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - yes
  35. It Happened One Night (1934) - no
  36. Midnight Cowboy (1969) - no, again too gritty for young mind
  37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - no
  38. Double Indemnity (1944) - no
  39. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - no
  40. North by Northwest (1959) - yes
  41. West Side Story (1961) - yes
  42. Rear Window (1954) - yes
  43. King Kong (1933) - no, but on Netflix queue
  44. The Birth of a Nation (1915) - no
  45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - watched beginning on Netflix Watch Now
  46. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - yes, though fell asleep 3/4 through
  47. Taxi Driver (1976) - part
  48. Jaws (1975) - yes
  49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - yes
  50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - yes
  51. The Philadelphia Story (1940) - yes
  52. From Here to Eternity (1953) - no
  53. Amadeus (1984) - yes
  54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - no
  55. The Sound of Music (1965) -yes
  56. M*A*S*H (1970) - yes
  57. The Third Man (1949) - yes
  58. Fantasia (1940) - not all
  59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - no
  60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - yes
  61. Vertigo (1958) - yes
  62. Tootsie (1982) -yes
  63. Stagecoach (1939) - no
  64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - yes
  65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - yes
  66. Network (1976) - part
  67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - no
  68. An American in Paris (1951) - no
  69. Shane (1953) - no
  70. The French Connection (1971) - no
  71. Forrest Gump (1994) - yes
  72. Ben-Hur (1959) - part
  73. Wuthering Heights (1939) - no
  74. The Gold Rush (1925) - no
  75. Dances with Wolves (1990) - yes
  76. City Lights (1931) - no
  77. American Graffiti (1973) - part
  78. Rocky (1976) - yes
  79. The Deer Hunter (1978) - part, though again, gritty
  80. The Wild Bunch (1969) - no
  81. Modern Times (1936) - no
  82. Giant (1956) - part
  83. Platoon (1986) - yes
  84. Fargo (1996) - yes
  85. Duck Soup (1933) - part
  86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - no
  87. Frankenstein (1931) - no
  88. Easy Rider (1969) - yes, in 10th grade government class
  89. Patton (1970) - yes
  90. The Jazz Singer (1927) - no
  91. My Fair Lady (1964) - yes
  92. A Place in the Sun (1951) - no
  93. The Apartment (1960) - no
  94. Goodfellas (1990) - part
  95. Pulp Fiction (1994) - yes
  96. The Searchers (1956) - yes
  97. Bringing Up Baby (1938) - yes
  98. Unforgiven (1992) - yes
  99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - yes
  100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - part
All told 52 that I've seen all the way through and at an age where I could appreciate them.

9 comments:

Stephen Cummings said...

50, on the nose. I didn't count ones I sorta watched once before age 20.

Dan said...

Only 39. Are you sure you guys didn't count some movies you saw early on? I have a hard time believing you guys watched ET or Close Encounters as adults. For God's sake - why?

Pat said...

Nothing wrong with Close Encounters. It may not be great, but it is interesting.

As for ET, no excuses.

Dan said...

At #64, it's supposed to be good.

All of the list is subjective, of course. But a lot of it is also bullshit. I mean, 'Birth of a Nation?' Give me a break.

Pat said...

Not necessarily - some of the films were chosen because of their significance in the history of film.

http://www.filmsite.org/afi100films.html

Dan said...

OK - well that makes a little more sense; particularly with the particular movie I mentioned. But if that's the case, why not throw in certain "genre granfathers" such as 'Friday the 13th,' 'Animal House,' or 'Dr. No.' I still say it's bullshit.

Pat said...

It's worth noting that this endeavor is more difficult than a Field of 64 in the halls of West High. Much harder.

You can have your bullshit.

Dan said...

In this Field of 64, the Judges were harder.

Stephen Cummings said...

I've seen Close Encounters and E.T. recently (within the past six years). It's perfectly fine to bash both films, but that's the easy thing to do. Both are shameless films, and E.T. is just swiss cheese. I loved it as a kid, and I'm fine with that.

Close Encounters is intriguing, given that there's, like, fifteen versions of the film out there.