Monday, March 9, 2009

Top Movies by AFI

I was thinking about what some of the top movies were by critics. I came across a list of the top 100 movies from the American Film Institute. This list has been criticized a lot (with good reason). It seems to be revised every 10 years or so. The last year being 2007. So here is the list for 2007. Here is the list comparing the two years courtesy of Wikipedia. If you are like me you agree with the 1997 list more so than the newer one.
+ is what I remember seeing before
* is what I would recommend to see

1) Citizen Kane
The Godfather+
Casablanca+
Raging Bull+
Singing in the Rain+*
Gone with the Wind+*
Lawerence of Arabia
Schindler's List+ (*the edited version)
Vertigo+*
10) The Wizard of Oz+*
City Lights
The Searchers
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope+*
Psycho+*
2001: Space Odyssey
Sunset Boulevard
The Graduate+
The General
On the Waterfront
20) Its a Wonderful Life+*
Chinatown
Some Like it Hot
The Grapes of Wrath
E.T.+*
To Kill a Mockingbird+*
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
High Noon
All About Eve
Double Indemnity
30) Apocalypse Now+*
The Maltese Falcon
The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest+
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs+*
Annie Hall
The Bridge Over the River Kwai+
The Best Year of Our Lives
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
40) The Sound of Music+*
King Kong (1933) +*
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
The Philadelphia Story
Shane
It Happened One Night
A Streetcar Name Desire
Rear Window+*
Intolerance
50) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring+*
West Side Story+*
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
MASH
North by Northwest+*
Jaws+*
Rocky+*
The Gold Rush
Nashville
60) Duck Soup
Sullivan's Travels
American Graffiti+
Cabaret
Network
The African Queen
Raiders of the Lost Ark+*
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Unforgiven+*
Tootsie
70) A Clockwork Orange
Saving Private Ryan+
The Shawshank Redemption+*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid+
The Silence of the Lambs+
In the Heat of the Night
Forrest Gump+*
All the President's Men
Modern Times
The Wild Bunch
80) The Apartment
Spartacus+
Sunset: A Song of Two Humans
Titanic+
Easy Rider
A Night at the Opera
Platoon
12 Angry Men+
Bringing Up Baby+
The Sixth Sense+*
90) Swing Time
Sophie's Choice
Goodfellas+
The French Connection
Pulp Fiction+
The Last Picture Show
Do the Right Thing
Blade Runner
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Toy Story+*
100) Ben-Hur+*

3 comments:

jennywren said...

I'm with you--I like the 1997 version better. :) Still, it's fun to use the list to find something new to watch. Hope you guys are doing well!

Rach said...

Some of them I have never even heard of and I think that Ben Hur should be higher up the list!

JAW said...

.....that's.... quite the list.