Wednesday, November 1, 2023

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. Turns out I’ve seen 96 of them. Go me.

Then I realized there’s a bunch of movies on 1997 list I really like, so I folded them in to make my own Top 110 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 SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
CITIZEN KANE
THE GODFATHER PART II
DR. STRANGELOVE
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
STAR WARS
THE GODFATHER
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
The Third Man

12 ANGRY MEN
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
THE APARTMENT
Fargo
THE GENERAL
DUCK SOUP
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
PULP FICTION
CHINATOWN
LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

DOUBLE INDEMNITY
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
REAR WINDOW
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
BRINGING UP BABY
GOODFELLAS
The Manchurian Candidate
SPARTACUS
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
ON THE WATERFRONT

PSYCHO
TAXI DRIVER
GRADUATE, THE
MODERN TIMES
BONNIE AND CLYDE
CASABLANCA
SCHINDLER'S LIST
THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE MALTESE FALCON
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
HIGH NOON
CITY LIGHTS
DO THE RIGHT THING
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
NETWORK
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
JAWS
Stagecoach

RAGING BULL
VERTIGO
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
WEST SIDE STORY
Rebel Without a Cause
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
UNFORGIVEN
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Doctor Zhivago
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
CABARET
THE GOLD RUSH
M*A*S*H
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
TOY STORY
FORREST GUMP

ANNIE HALL
ROCKY
Patton
SUNSET BLVD
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
APOCALYPSE NOW
SWING TIME
Fantasia
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

SOME LIKE IT HOT
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
TOOTSIE
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
PLATOON
BEN-HUR
THE WILD BUNCH
ALL ABOUT EVE
SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
SOPHIE’S CHOICE
My Fair Lady
SUNRISE
Frankenstein 
Amadeus
An American in Paris
THE SIXTH SENSE
SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
TITANIC

SHANE
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
NASHVILLE
BLADE RUNNER
GONE WITH THE WIND
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
INTOLERANCE
THE SEARCHERS
THE DEER HUNTER

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