Thursday, September 22, 2005

AFI's Top 100 Movies


AFI has released its list of the top 100 most influential movies of the past 100 years. I think the list is pretty complete. There where a few movies I was surprised to see and also a few I thought should have been included. 2 movies that surprised me where Fargo and Pulp Fiction. Both are great movies and this is a large compliment for their respective directors. I think that the original Superman with Christopher reeves should have been on there somewhere, it was a well done movie and the first true super-hero movie of its kind. Also missing, and a worthy movie on any list is Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Below is the list that AFI put together. What do you think ??

Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence Of Arabia, Wizard Of Oz, The Graduate, On The Waterfront, Schindler's List, Singin' In The Rain, It's A Wonderful Life, Sunset Boulevard, Bridge On The River Kwai, TheSome Like It Hot, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, All About Eve, African Queen, Psycho Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Grapes Of Wrath, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Maltese Falcon, Raging Bull, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie And Clyde, Apocalypse Now, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Annie Hall, The Godfather: Part II, High Noon, To Kill A Mockingbird, It Happened One Night, Midnight Cowboy, Best Years Of Our Lives, Double Indemnity, Doctor Zhivago, North By Northwest, West Side Story, Rear Window, King Kong, The Birth of a Nation, Streetcar Named Desire, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Philadelphia Story, From Here To Eternity, Amadeus, All Quiet On The Western Front, The Sound Of Music, M*A*S*H, The Third Man, Fantasia, Rebel Without A Cause, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Vertigo, Tootsie, Stagecoach, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, The Silence Of The Lambs, Network, The Manchurian Candidate, An American In Paris, Shane, The French Connection, Forrest Gump, Ben-Hur, Wuthering Heights, Gold Rush, Dances With Wolves,City Lights, American Graffiti, Rocky, The Deer Hunter, The Wild Bunch, Modern Times, Giant, Platoon, Fargo, Duck Soup, Mutiny On The Bounty, Frankenstein, Easy Rider, Patton, The Jazz Singer, My Fair Lady, A Place In The Sun, The Apartment, GoodFellas, Pulp Fiction, The Searchers, Bringing Up Baby, The Unforgiven, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Yankee Doodle Dandy

2 comments:

RockFromDot said...

Where the hell is the best movie of all time, The Shawshank Redemption???

Dumbass AFI...

Bradley Herring said...

How could they consider "The Unforgiven" influential? It's a great movie, but it's great because it worked within a well-established, but recently overlooked genre.

The AFI sucks.