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, so I folded them in to make my own Top 117 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 CITIZEN KANE LAWRENCE OF ARABIA THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION DR. STRANGELOVE THE GODFATHER MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI STAR WARS 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 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 Wuthering Heights SPARTACUS 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 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY SINGIN' IN THE RAIN THE GRAPES OF WRATH WEST SIDE STORY  All Quiet on the Western Front Rebel Without a Cause TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN UNFORGIVEN SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Mutiny on the Bounty TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Doctor Zhivago THE FRENCH CONNECTION CABARET YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 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 KING KONG AMERICAN GRAFFITI THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 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  EASY RIDER Amadeus An American in Paris THE SIXTH SENSE SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS BLADE RUNNER TITANIC SHANE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES NASHVILLE IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE GONE WITH THE WIND MIDNIGHT COWBOY INTOLERANCE THE SEARCHERS THE DEER HUNTER

HAVE NOT SEEN (1997 list only):
The Birth of a Nation | From Here to Eternity | Dances With Wolves
Giant | The Jazz Singer | A Place in the Sun