Favorite movies from AFI's top 100 movies
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List Description
In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) published a list of the 100 best American films to celebrate 100 years of American film. Around the same time, my wife and I set out to watch movies from the list. We have not seen all of them, but certainly the majority. Some of the ones I've avoided reflect my prejudices anyway.
The complete list is available on Wikipedia.
List
- The Bridge On The River Kwai (AFI #13)
- All About Eve (AFI #16)
- Star Wars (AFI #15)
- Casablanca (AFI #2)
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (AFI #26)
- The African Queen (AFI #17)
- The Graduate (AFI #7)
- Chinatown (AFI #19)
- Pulp Fiction (AFI #95)
- Fargo (AFI #84)
Offlist But Worthy Of Mention
Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall, Midnight Cowboy, Doctor Zhivago, Taxi Driver, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Amadeus, The Manchurian Candidate, Forrest Gump, among other excellent movies.
Notes
I've always said Star Wars was my favorite movie. It was my first, and had a huge impact on my 5 year old brain. I was very disappointed that not every movie was like it. But if Alec Guiness was good in Star Wars, he was brilliant in The Bridge On The River Kwai. (And he single-handedly puts Dr. Zhivago in the worthy of mention category.)
As for All About Eve - I remember how elated I was when Bette Davis delivered her "...it's gonna be a bumpy ride" line. Wow, that's a line.
Casablanca - what I loved about this is that this quintessential romantic movie - or so I had been led to believe - was actually not terribly predictable and was a stunningly intelligent movie. And Bogie and Bacall turned out to be everything I'd been led to believe. Bogie was great in The African Queen as well - and here, Katherine Hepburn was tremendous too. It is also a movie that amazingly holds up pretty well - saddled as it is with 1951's special effects.
Date
This list was added on January 27, 2007.
