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 101 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 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