Wednesday, January 4, 2012

AFI Top 100

Its the start of a new year which makes me want to make lists...Here's another list of fantastic movies... The AFI top 100 (2007). We have the Rank, the movie, the director and if I have seen it or not.

1. Citizen Kane Orson Welles
2. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
3. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 
4. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese
5. Singin' in the Rain Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen 
6. Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming 
7. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
8. Schindler's List Steven Spielberg 
9. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock
10. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 
11. City Lights Charlie Chaplin 
12. The Searchers John Ford
13. Star Wars George Lucas
14. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder
17. The Graduate Mike Nichols 
18. The General Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
19. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan
20. It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra
21. Chinatown Roman Polanski
22. Some Like It Hot Billy Wilder
23. The Grapes of Wrath 
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 
25. To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra
27. High Noon Fred Zinnemann
28. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
29. Double Indemnity Billy Wilder
30. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola
31. The Maltese Falcon John Huston
32. The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Miloš Forman
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs David Hand 
35. Annie Hall Woody Allen 
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean
37. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston
39. Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick
40. The Sound of Music Robert Wise
41. King Kong Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack 
42. Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn
43. Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane George Stevens
46. It Happened One Night Frank Capra 
47. A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan
48. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock
49. Intolerance D. W. Griffith
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson 
51. West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
52. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese
53. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino
54. MASH Robert Altman
55. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock
56. Jaws Steven Spielberg
57. Rocky John G. Avildsen 
58. The Gold Rush Charlie Chaplin
59. Nashville Robert Altman 1975
60. Duck Soup Leo McCarey
61. Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges
62. American Graffiti George Lucas
63. Cabaret Bob Fosse
64. Network Sidney
65. The African Queen John Huston
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols
68. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
69. Tootsie Sydney Pollack
70. A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick
71. Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg
72. The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid George Roy 
74. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
75. In the Heat of the Night Norman Jewison
76. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 
77. All the President's Men Alan J. Pakula 
78. Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 
79. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah
80. The Apartment Billy Wilder
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau
83. Titanic James Cameron 
84. Easy Rider Dennis Hopper
85. A Night at the Opera Sam Wood
86. Platoon Oliver Stone
87. 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet
88. Bringing Up Baby Howard Hawks
89. The Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan
90. Swing Time George Stevens
91. Sophie's Choice Alan J. Pakula
92. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 
93. The French Connection William Friedkin
94. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
95. The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich
96. Do the Right Thing Spike Lee
97. Blade Runner Ridley Scott
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy Michael Curtiz
99. Toy Story John Lasseter
100. Ben-Hur William Wyler

Hmmm.... I am not very happy with the number of unseen movies. I think I will start AFI Fridays... Watch a movie from this list every week... Seems like a fun idea. Let's see how it turns out :)