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Comments for AFI's revised list
AFI's revised list: 07/03/07
The American Film Institute (AFI) has issued a revised version of the 100 Greatest Movies of all time. You can see the full list (with commenary) on Roger Egbert's blog. I found the list via green LA girl's blog and I like how she's turned it into a meme. In following her lead, I've only posted (with their original rankings) the ones I've seen. As it happens, I've seen sixty-five on the list and most of these while I was a film student at UCSB.
LA girl asks "what's the highest ranked film on the list that you haven't seen. " In my case, it's number 2: The Godfather (1972). It was a little before my time and I've just not be interested enough to watch it. Mob films don't float my boat.
One of my favorite films on the list of ones I've seen is Sunrise (1927). I've seen it a half dozen times and it still blows me away. It has some of the most beautiful cinematography and a pretty gripping story too.
Here's my list.
1. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
3. "Casablanca" (1942)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
7. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
9. "Vertigo" (1958)
10. "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
11. "City Lights" (1931)
12. "The Searchers" (1956)
13. "Star Wars" (1977)
14. "Psycho" (1960)
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)
16. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
17. "The Graduate" (1967)
18. "The General" (1927)
19. "On the Waterfront" (1954)
20. "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
22. "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
23. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
24. "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)
27. "High Noon" (1952)
29. "Double Indemnity" (1944)
30. "Apocalypse Now" (1979)
31. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
35. "Annie Hall" (1977)
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957)
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
40. "The Sound of Music" (1965)
41. "King Kong" (1933)
42. "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
43. "Midnight Cowboy" (1969)
44. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
45. "Shane" (1953)
46. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
48. "Rear Window" (1954)
50. "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)
53. "The Deer Hunter" (1978)
54. "MASH" (1970)
55. "North by Northwest" (1959)
58. "The Gold Rush" (1925)
60. "Duck Soup" (1933)
So which films have you seen?
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