Sunday, October 09, 2005

AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies

100 YEARS...100 MOVIES
(America's Greatest Movies by AFI)


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


Clearly, this list is the Hollywood majors’ attempt to create a canon of  American film from their home video catalogs. There are a lot of great films on this list (and also a lot of overrated ones) . . . there are also a lot of great films that aren’t on the list.

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