The "original" 100 Best Movies of All Time per the AFI.
1997 List
- Citizen Kane (1941) -yes
- Casablanca (1942) - yes
- The Godfather (1972) - yes
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - yes
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - yes
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) - yes
- The Graduate (1967) - yes
- On the Waterfront (1954) - not all
- Schindler's List (1993) - yes
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - yes
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - yes
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - no, but on my Netflix queue
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - yes
- Some Like It Hot (1959) - yes
- Star Wars (1977) - yes
- All About Eve (1950) - don't think so
- The African Queen (1951) - yes
- Psycho (1960) - yes
- Chinatown (1974) - when I was little - too gritty for me at that age
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - when I was little - too gritty for me at that age
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - yes
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - yes
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - not all
- Raging Bull (1980) - no
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - yes
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - yes
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - not all
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - not all
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - not all
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - no
- Annie Hall (1977) - no, but on Netflix queue
- The Godfather Part II (1974) - yes
- High Noon (1952) - not all
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - yes
- It Happened One Night (1934) - no
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) - no, again too gritty for young mind
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - no
- Double Indemnity (1944) - no
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) - no
- North by Northwest (1959) - yes
- West Side Story (1961) - yes
- Rear Window (1954) - yes
- King Kong (1933) - no, but on Netflix queue
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) - no
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - watched beginning on Netflix Watch Now
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) - yes, though fell asleep 3/4 through
- Taxi Driver (1976) - part
- Jaws (1975) - yes
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - yes
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - yes
- The Philadelphia Story (1940) - yes
- From Here to Eternity (1953) - no
- Amadeus (1984) - yes
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - no
- The Sound of Music (1965) -yes
- M*A*S*H (1970) - yes
- The Third Man (1949) - yes
- Fantasia (1940) - not all
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - no
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - yes
- Vertigo (1958) - yes
- Tootsie (1982) -yes
- Stagecoach (1939) - no
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - yes
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - yes
- Network (1976) - part
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - no
- An American in Paris (1951) - no
- Shane (1953) - no
- The French Connection (1971) - no
- Forrest Gump (1994) - yes
- Ben-Hur (1959) - part
- Wuthering Heights (1939) - no
- The Gold Rush (1925) - no
- Dances with Wolves (1990) - yes
- City Lights (1931) - no
- American Graffiti (1973) - part
- Rocky (1976) - yes
- The Deer Hunter (1978) - part, though again, gritty
- The Wild Bunch (1969) - no
- Modern Times (1936) - no
- Giant (1956) - part
- Platoon (1986) - yes
- Fargo (1996) - yes
- Duck Soup (1933) - part
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - no
- Frankenstein (1931) - no
- Easy Rider (1969) - yes, in 10th grade government class
- Patton (1970) - yes
- The Jazz Singer (1927) - no
- My Fair Lady (1964) - yes
- A Place in the Sun (1951) - no
- The Apartment (1960) - no
- Goodfellas (1990) - part
- Pulp Fiction (1994) - yes
- The Searchers (1956) - yes
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) - yes
- Unforgiven (1992) - yes
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - yes
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - part
9 comments:
50, on the nose. I didn't count ones I sorta watched once before age 20.
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?
Nothing wrong with Close Encounters. It may not be great, but it is interesting.
As for ET, no excuses.
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.
Not necessarily - some of the films were chosen because of their significance in the history of film.
http://www.filmsite.org/afi100films.html
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.
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.
In this Field of 64, the Judges were harder.
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.
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