AFI TOP 100 U.S. FILMS
posted by Fred Schroeder on June 21, 2007 at 9:50 am in Lists, Film
The American Film Institute has released its revised list of the 100 best American films. There have been some changes since they last posted, ten years ago. Most notably (to me anyway) Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” now rests within the top 10. “Citizen Kane” still retains the top spot. Agree or disagree? The complete list after the jump.
1. “Citizen Kane,” 1941.
2. “The Godfather,” 1972.
3. “Casablanca,” 1942.
4. “Raging Bull,” 1980.
5. “Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952.
6. “Gone With the Wind,” 1939.
7. “Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962.
8. “Schindler’s List,” 1993.
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 Blvd.”, 1950.
17. “The Graduate,” 1967.
18. “The General,” 1927.
19. “On the Waterfront,” 1954.
20. “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.
21. “Chinatown,” 1974.
22. “Some Like It Hot,” 1959.
23. “The Grapes of Wrath,” 1940.
24. “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” 1982.
25. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962.
26. “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” 1939.
27. “High Noon,” 1952.
28. “All About Eve,” 1950.
29. “Double Indemnity,” 1944.
30. “Apocalypse Now,” 1979.
31. “The Maltese Falcon,” 1941.
32. “The Godfather Part II,” 1974.
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.
39. “Dr. Strangelove,” 1964.
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.
49. “Intolerance,” 1916.
50. “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001.
51. “West Side Story,” 1961.
52. “Taxi Driver,” 1976.
53. “The Deer Hunter,” 1978.
54. “M-A-S-H,” 1970.
55. “North by Northwest,” 1959.
56. “Jaws,” 1975.
57. “Rocky,” 1976.
58. “The Gold Rush,” 1925.
59. “Nashville,” 1975.
60. “Duck Soup,” 1933.
61. “Sullivan’s Travels,” 1941.
62. “American Graffiti,” 1973.
63. “Cabaret,” 1972.
64. “Network,” 1976.
65. “The African Queen,” 1951.
66. “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1981.
67. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966.
68. “Unforgiven,” 1992.
69. “Tootsie,” 1982.
70. “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971.
71. “Saving Private Ryan,” 1998.
72. “The Shawshank Redemption,” 1994.
73. “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
74. “The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991.
75. “In the Heat of the Night,” 1967.
76. “Forrest Gump,” 1994.
77. “All the President’s Men,” 1976.
78. “Modern Times,” 1936.
79. “The Wild Bunch,” 1969.
80. “The Apartment, 1960.
81. “Spartacus,” 1960.
82. “Sunrise,” 1927.
83. “Titanic,” 1997.
84. “Easy Rider,” 1969.
85. “A Night at the Opera,” 1935.
86. “Platoon,” 1986.
87. “12 Angry Men,” 1957.
88. “Bringing Up Baby,” 1938.
89. “The Sixth Sense,” 1999.
90. “Swing Time,” 1936.
91. “Sophie’s Choice,” 1982.
92. “Goodfellas,” 1990.
93. “The French Connection,” 1971.
94. “Pulp Fiction,” 1994.
95. “The Last Picture Show,” 1971.
96. “Do the Right Thing,” 1989.
97. “Blade Runner,” 1982.
98. “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” 1942.
99. “Toy Story,” 1995.
100. “Ben-Hur,” 1959.
Comment by Don posted June 21, 2007 at 4:22 pm:
“Star Wars” at #13??
Comment by Fred Schroeder posted June 21, 2007 at 6:41 pm:
No Rio Bravo?
No His Girl Friday?
No Blue Velvet?
Not a single documentary?
And yet The Sixth Sense? Forrest Gump? The Sound of Music?
Comment by Don posted June 21, 2007 at 9:45 pm:
did you accidentally get the list of AFI the band and not AFI the institute?
Comment by Becky posted June 21, 2007 at 10:24 pm:
Heck yes, Sound of Music! I made Greg watch that with me when we were first dating. It was one of his “tests.”
I’m pleased to see that my personal fave Vertigo cracked the top 10.
Comment by Fred Schroeder posted June 22, 2007 at 8:59 am:
Wow, “Vertigo” is my favorite film of all time. Hitchcock’s best.
But the “Sound of Music” falls into the same category as “Gone with the Wind”– great films that I can’t stand. Although Pulmmer is quite good in it.
Comment by Greg Sabin posted June 22, 2007 at 2:38 pm:
Excuse me, where is “A Fish Called Wanda”?
Comment by Fred Schroeder posted June 22, 2007 at 10:10 pm:
British film. This list is limited to American movies. It’s on the BFI’s list found here: http://www.britishpictures.com/articles/BFI100.htm #39. Funny how “Lawrence of Arabia” makes both lists.
Comment by Tony posted June 23, 2007 at 7:05 pm:
Way to big and broad a list.
Fred’s Top 10 “great films that I can’t stand” would be more interesting.
So true about Blue Velvet.
I would add Patton, and skip ET.
Comment by Becky posted June 24, 2007 at 12:49 pm:
Christopher Plummer is a hot smokin’ babe in “The Sound of Music.” I’d put him up there with Chris Brown.
Comment by waspylady posted July 5, 2007 at 6:14 am:
Excuse me young lady, but I respectfully request that you take an appropriate number of steps in the opposite direction of my gentlemanly suitor, Christopher Plummer. Your chances of a romantic encounter are sadly limited, due to your lack of sufficient chronological maturity. This point bears repeating; please remove yourself from any dialogue suggesting the remotest possibility of wanton dalliance with my dignified beau, you shameless hussy.
Comment by El Jimador posted July 20, 2007 at 10:25 am:
Um, why is “Belly” not on this list? They’re making the sequel, you know….