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Moviegeekz vs. The AFI Top 100

(Last Updated: April 17, 2005)

I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve only seen 27 out of the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of the first 100 years of cinema. I’m not ashamed because I think the AFI’s list is by any means definitive–for god’s sake, The Shawshank Redemption isn’t even in here–but so many of these movies are considered classics and if I want to consider myself in any way a movie critic or a student of film, then I think it’s my responsibility to see as many of these movies as I can.

More about the list:

I’ve graded the movies I’ve seen, though even those grades might not be completely accurate since it’s been a long time since I saw some of them. As I watch the movies on this list I haven’t yet seen (and re-watch some of the ones I have), I’ll link the movies here to the review. You’ll have to bear with me since this process is going to take some time–for every Lawrence of Arabia I’m going to have an Ocean’s Twelve or two.

(The idea for this feature was shamelessly lifted from MaryAnn Johanson at The Flick Filosopher.)

  1. CITIZEN KANE (1941) :: A
  2. CASABLANCA (1942)
  3. THE GODFATHER (1972) :: A
  4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) :: B+
  5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
  6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
  7. THE GRADUATE (1967) :: A
  8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
  9. SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
  10. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)
  11. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) :: C
  12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
  13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
  14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
  15. STAR WARS (1977) :: A++ (at 7 years old); B (now)
  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) :: A-
  21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
  22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
  23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
  24. RAGING BULL (1980) :: A
  25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) :: A
  26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) :: B-
  27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
  28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) :: A
  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) :: A-
  33. HIGH NOON (1952)
  34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) :: A
  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) :: A
  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) :: B
  48. JAWS (1975)
  49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
  50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) :: A
  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. MAS*H (1970)
  57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)
  58. FANTASIA (1940)
  59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
  60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) :: A-
  61. VERTIGO (1958)
  62. TOOTSIE (1982) :: B+
  63. STAGECOACH (1939)
  64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) :: B+
  65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) :: A
  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) :: A-
  72. BEN-HUR (1959)
  73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
  74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
  75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) :: A
  76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
  77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
  78. ROCKY (1976) :: B
  79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
  80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
  81. MODERN TIMES (1936)
  82. GIANT (1956)
  83. PLATOON (1986) :: B+
  84. FARGO (1996) :: A-
  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) :: A-
  95. PULP FICTION (1994) :: A
  96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
  97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
  98. UNFORGIVEN (1992) :: A
  99. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
  100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

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