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[kaydeefalls]

Stolen shamelessly from lotrjunkie, AFI's 100 best English-speaking films.

Bold means I've seen it. Bold & italics means it's on my personal top films list (a.k.a. really fucking good).

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 (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)

Only 27. I should get working on that. But, dude, they're missing some great ones. Where's The Sting? Mister Roberts? The Usual Suspects?... ::continues ranting::

Comments

[jimmyrabbitte.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I haven't seen "A Place in the Sun." And not all of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" or "Yankee Doodle Dandy." I've seen, um, at least 94 of these films all the way through. And, true to form for freakin' film school, most of them I've seen this year. And the amazing thing is they're all good, with the exception of "The Jazz Singer," which blows, "2001," which is boring and trite, and "Forrest Gump," which is the third worst film ever made.

But, on the topic, where is "Blade Runner?" "The Princess Bride?" "Chariots of Fire?" "Ghostbusters?" "The Truman Show?" "The Commitments?" "Arsenic and Old Lace?" Yeah, the whole "top movies in English" thing encompasses way too many good movies.

You're right, "The Sting" and "Mr. Roberts" definitely deserve spots on that list, because they're basically undisputed classics. And I don't care what anybody says, Gene Kelly was the man, and "Singin' in the Rain" deserves even higher placement than just-barely-in-the-top-ten.

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell yeah. See, this meme makes me feel a lot more proud of myself than when I took the book one. I've seen sixty-two of those films (whereas I only read thirty-one of the books... gah). Hot damn. And, oh, I know. Where is The Usual Suspects, indeed? American Beauty? Philadelphia? hmm. Though it's great to see several films on there that I never would have suspected... All Quiet on the Western Front and Dances With Wolves being two of them. Sure, they're great movies, but the best of the best? Not nearly.