A few summers ago, Lauren and I started to tackle AFI's Top 100 movies. We used this list from 1998 and were starting to take a chunk of it. We took in movies like:
-Goodfellas
-All About Eve
-Annie Hall
-The Godfather
-Taxi Driver
Now, several years later, my Belarusian friend Anya was eager to watch classic American films... so I have now picked up the AFI Top 100 list and we are tackling many of them thanks to an unlimited monthly rental subscription through the mail. I'll be keeping track of the new movies in the sidebar. So far, we have watched:
-Psycho
-Midnight Cowboy
-Tootsie
-Chinatown
-North by Northwest
-Casablanca
-Citizen Kane
-Some Like It Hot
-Bonnie and Clyde
-The Wizard of Oz
-Doctor Zhivago
I'm also hoping to hit the ones that made the revised 2007 list.
Anyone have favorites on the list? Favorites *not* on the list? Leave it in the comments!
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
AFI Top 100
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(+ Recommended)
(++ Highly Recommended)
++Tender Mercies
++A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
+Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)
++The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Cat People (Tourneur)
Curse of the Cat People (Robeson)
An American in Paris (Minnelli)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Marnie (Hitchcock)
+Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
+McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)
++Nashville (Altman)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
+Zodiac (Fincher)
++Ratatouille (Bird)
+Sunrise (Murnau)
++The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Carnival of Souls
-Nick Garklavs
Marty (1955) should definitely be on that list, and I'm frankly surprised that they overlooked it. It's, as far as I know, the only film ever to win both the Best Picture Oscar and the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Instead, they add a mawkish and insipid film like Titanic...
I do have a few favorites on that list: The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dr. Strangelove, Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, a few others. The Shawshank Redemption is a welcome addition to their updated list.
here is a fun related post:
http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2008/07/100-most-overra-1.html
I second The Philadelphia Story, as well as Rear Window.
As for some real Americana, there's "Sergeant York", "Pinky", and "It Happened One Night".
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