List added by Prelude on 25 May 2007 12:49

AFI 100 Best Films (1997 ver)

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366

7.8

8.60

1. Citizen Kane

478

8.1

8.80

2. Casablanca

984

8.5

9.20

3. The Godfather

331

7.5

8.10

4. Gone with the Wind

182

7.5

8.60

5. Lawrence of Arabia

713

7.5

8.30

6. The Wizard of Oz

333

7.5

8.10

7. The Graduate

108

7.7

8.40

8. On the Waterfront

990

8.2

8.80

9. Schindler's List

259

7.9

8.40

10. Singin' in the Rain

330

7.9

8.60

11. It's a Wonderful Life

117

8.3

8.70

12. Sunset Boulevard

119

7.5

8.40

13. The Bridge on the River Kwai

244

8.1

8.40

14. Some Like It Hot

1407

7.7

8.80

15. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

110

8.2

8.40

16. All About Eve

7.7

8.10

17. The African Queen

452

8.70

18. Psycho

253

7.8

8.50

19. Chinatown

617

8.3

8.80

20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

7.8

8.20

21. The Grapes of Wrath

576

7.6

8.40

22. 2001: A Space Odyssey

157

8.40

23. The Maltese Falcon

257

7.8

8.40

24. Raging Bull

1382

7.1

7.90

25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

472

8.3

8.70

26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

173

7.8

8.00

27. Bonnie and Clyde

574

7.9

8.60

28. Apocalypse Now

129

8.1

8.30

29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

7.6

8.50

30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

276

7.9

8.20

31. Annie Hall

671

8.4

9.00

32. The Godfather Part II

7.8

8.30

33. High Noon

241

7.8

8.50

34. To Kill a Mockingbird

8.30

35. It Happened One Night

108

7.4

7.90

36. Midnight Cowboy

8.20

37. The Best Years of Our Lives

8.2

8.50

38. Double Indemnity

137

7.4

8.00

39. Doctor Zhivago

250

8.1

8.60

40. North by Northwest

153

7.1

7.70

41. West Side Story

331

8.3

8.80

42. Rear Window

149

6.7

8.10

43. King Kong

6.3

7.10

44. The Birth of a Nation

121

7.7

8.00

45. A Streetcar Named Desire

908

8.1

8.50

46. A Clockwork Orange

596

8.1

8.60

47. Taxi Driver

826

8.30

48. Jaws

447

6.9

7.80

49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

194

7.8

8.20

50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

137

8.1

8.10

51. The Philadelphia Story

7.4

7.80

52. From Here to Eternity

375

7.6

8.40

53. Amadeus

7.6

8.10

54. All Quiet on the Western Front

479

7.3

7.80

55. The Sound of Music

142

7.7

7.80

56. MASH

110

8.3

8.50

57. The Third Man

323

7.80

58. Fantasia

129

7.4

7.90

59. Rebel Without a Cause

1028

8.70

60. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

336

7.9

8.60

61. Vertigo

220

6.7

7.40

62. Tootsie

7.9

7.80

63. Stagecoach

442

7.80

64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1132

7.9

8.60

65. The Silence of the Lambs

7.6

8.00

66. Network

7.3

8.30

67. The Manchurian Candidate

7.4

7.30

68. An American in Paris

7.7

7.70

69. Shane

119

7.3

7.90

70. The French Connection

1920

7.7

8.50

71. Forrest Gump

184

8.20

72. Ben-Hur

7.6

7.90

73. Wuthering Heights

7.8

8.20

74. The Gold Rush

404

6.8

7.90

75. Dances with Wolves

8.4

8.40

76. City Lights

166

6.8

7.60

77. American Graffiti

361

7.1

8.00

78. Rocky

264

7.8

8.20

79. The Deer Hunter

7.8

8.20

80. The Wild Bunch

181

8.2

8.40

81. Modern Times

6.9

7.70

82. Giant

418

7.4

8.20

83. Platoon

547

7.8

8.20

84. Fargo

7.8

8.10

85. Duck Soup

6.9

7.90

86. Mutiny on the Bounty

7.3

8.10

87. Frankenstein

120

7.30

88. Easy Rider

6.8

8.10

89. Patton

7.2

6.50

90. The Jazz Singer

235

7.4

7.80

91. My Fair Lady

6.9

7.70

92. A Place in the Sun

121

8.1

8.40

93. The Apartment

584

8.2

8.80

94. GoodFellas

1538

8.90

95. Pulp Fiction

8.00

96. The Searchers

8.1

8.00

97. Bringing Up Baby

260

7.7

8.30

98. Unforgiven

7.5

7.70

99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

7.3

7.80

100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

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American Film Institute's 100 Years - 100 Movies.

(note, this is the original, 1997 version. I'll be making an updated list that just got released in 2007 with many significant {and mostly lame} changes)

List of 100 Greatest American Movies.

Judging criteria for the selection process of the Top 100 films included:

* Feature-Length Fiction Film - typically over 60 minutes in length

* American Film - English language film with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States

* Critical Recognition - formal commendation in print

* Popularity Over Time - including figures for box office adjusted for inflation, television broadcasts and syndication, and home video sales and rentals

* Historical Significance - a film's mark on the history of the moving image through technical innovation, visionary narrative devices or other groundbreaking achievements

* Cultural Impact - a film's mark on American society in matters of style and substance

* Major Award Winner - recognition from competitive events including awards from organizations in the film community and major film festivals

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Comments

Munky

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 21 15:46

Are you going to update now that the new AFI 100 list is out?

Prelude

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 22 11:50

I didn't know a new AFI 100 list is coming out soon. If I find the new list, sure, I'll update it.

The IMDB Top250 list is too volatile to update, however.

Prelude

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 22 11:58

Just found the new list. ugh.. I'm gonna call this the 1997 version and keep this list, and if i get around to it, i'll make a new 2007 version. But I'm not impressed.

Removing classics like Doctor Zhivago, Amadeus, All Quiet on Western Front, ...Read more

Munky

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 22 12:59

The new list bites the big one. I'm very very pissed off that Doctor Zhivago is out.

And why is Citizen Kane still number 1??? It's not that great

Prelude

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jun 22 13:39

As i mentioned in my Kane review, i was letdown by my high expectations of that film. #1 on so many lists, best movie ever, period. And then i finally get around to seeing it (and had to struggle thru it because i kept falling asleep) and overall, very disa...Read more