100 best films of all time...

Post by **Diabolique** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:09 am

According to the AFI (The American Film Institute) those are the best 100 films of all time. They asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the 100 best films of all time from a list of 400 movies nominated by the institute. The criteria for inclusion was historical significance, critical recognition and awards, and popularity determined by box-office revenue, syndication, video sale and rental figures.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3.The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)*
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 )
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948 )
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958 )
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978 )
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. GoodFellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938 )
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
*Also known as Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Do you agree with them, or not?

What do you think?

IcySparks · Post by **IcySparks** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:31 am

Well, there are certainly amazing and unforgettable movies on the list! AFI lists are always excellent and I love their TV specials!

coffeehound · Post by **coffeehound** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:13 am

Tootsie at no. 62, or even on the list at all is questionable
in my opinion. I have favorites that I would place on the
list, but those on the list that I have seen are great movies...

Post by **NOA Imawario** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:54 am

I'm glad to see an Indiana Jones and Star Wars movie on that list.

Kevinator · Post by **Kevinator** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:57 am

What no Leonard Part 6???

Just kidding!

That is an excellent list and I agree that is most acurate list I have ever seen!

Colonel Zoidberg · Post by **Colonel Zoidberg** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:17 am

By and large, I can agree with that...though I will always picture The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird as books and not movies.

Also, WTF is Snow White doing up there? I've seen beer commercials with better storylines than that.

Post by **Diabolique** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:52 am

I was also surprised that they listed GoodFellas @ #92.

chooch · Post by **chooch** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:24 pm

Diabolique wrote:I was also surprised that they listed GoodFellas @ #92.

you mean # 94 and do you mean by that, that it should of been higher or lower or even left out?

Post by **Nakor** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:55 pm

This really emphasises how few movies I watch.

I've seen five of those. 5. o_O

Post by **Diabolique** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:25 am

chooch wrote: you mean # 94 and do you mean by that, that it should of been higher or lower or even left out?

Ooops!!!! err...yeah! #94!

I think it should be waaaay higher! It was a good movie!

T. Drama · Post by **T. Drama** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:14 am

i never got the whole Citizen Kane as the best movie of all time thing. i've watched it twice, well one and a half seeing as i fell asleep the second time around. at least the Godfather's in the top 3.