My AFI Top 100

In their Wizard of Oz episode, the podcast “Unspooled” suggested taking the AFI Top 100 and making your own list. I can’t resist making a list. They’re doing the updated 2007 list, so I worked from that. Having started working through this list in 1997, I have seen all 100 as of October 3, 2024.

Then I realized there’s a bunch of movies on 1997 list I really like, then I was, like, ugh, guess I'll just watch all the movies from both lists, so I folded them in to make my own Top 122 list of all the movies I’ve seen on both lists combined. It’s formatted like it so because of where I copied the lists from, but it works nicely to make the distinction. ALL CAPS is from the 2007 list, and the ones not in caps are movies left off the 2007 list.

I’m sure I’ll adjust this list the more I think about it, but here goes.

THE GODFATHER PART II LAWRENCE OF ARABIA CITIZEN KANE THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION THE GODFATHER 12 ANGRY MEN MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI DR. STRANGELOVE The Third Man THE APARTMENT Fargo THE GENERAL STAR WARS DUCK SOUP NORTH BY NORTHWEST DOUBLE INDEMNITY LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING CHINATOWN THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS THE WIZARD OF OZ REAR WINDOW A CLOCKWORK ORANGE BRINGING UP BABY CASABLANCA GOODFELLAS ON THE WATERFRONT PSYCHO THE SOUND OF MUSIC IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT TAXI DRIVER GRADUATE, THE DO THE RIGHT THING PULP FICTION MODERN TIMES BONNIE AND CLYDE SCHINDLER'S LIST Rebel Without a Cause THE MALTESE FALCON RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID Wuthering Heights SPARTACUS The Manchurian Candidate HIGH NOON CITY LIGHTS ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST NETWORK THE AFRICAN QUEEN Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner JAWS Stagecoach RAGING BULL VERTIGO 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE WEST SIDE STORY All Quiet on the Western Front ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN UNFORGIVEN	| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |	Doctor Zhivago SAVING PRIVATE RYAN THE GRAPES OF WRATH CABARET SINGIN' IN THE RAIN TOY STORY Mutiny on the Bounty E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL THE GOLD RUSH SUNSET BLVD Patton A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE M*A*S*H SOME LIKE IT HOT WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD FORREST GUMP ANNIE HALL ROCKY Close Encounters of the Third Kind APOCALYPSE NOW BEN-HUR YANKEE DOODLE DANDY SWING TIME A NIGHT AT THE OPERA THE FRENCH CONNECTION My Fair Lady IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Fantasia TOOTSIE ALL ABOUT EVE PLATOON AMERICAN GRAFFITI TITANIC THE WILD BUNCH KING KONG THE PHILADELPHIA STORY SUNRISE Frankenstein EASY RIDER THE SIXTH SENSE Amadeus An American in Paris SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS A Place in the Sun THE LAST PICTURE SHOW IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE BLADE RUNNER SHANE From Here to Eternity SOPHIE’S CHOICE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES NASHVILLE GONE WITH THE WIND MIDNIGHT COWBOY The Jazz Singer THE SEARCHERS INTOLERANCE THE DEER HUNTER Dances With Wolves The Birth of a Nation

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