AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Over my break, I watched the Godfather trilogy. In all honesty, I wasn't expecting much and rather, just wanted to have something running in the background while I was doing other things. After about an hour, I was completely absorbed by the storyline and the main character, Michael Corleone, who I didn't learn until later was Al Pacino. I ended up sitting for 6 hours straight watching the first two movies. It made me realize once again that old movies were better than any movies I had seen in the last few years. I really didn't gain an appreciation for old movies until I took a film studies class my senior year of high school where I watched a lot of movies I would have never watched on my own free will. Out of curiosity and for old times sake, I looked up the list of AFI's 100 Best Movies and I think LESS than five were made and released in the 90's and following. Sad, isn't it?

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1 CITIZEN KANE 1941  --Film Studies class, 2007

2 THE GODFATHER 1972 -- 01/12/2011

3 CASABLANCA 1942 --Film Studies class, 2007

4 RAGING BULL 1980

5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952

6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939 --Film Studies class, 2007

7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962

8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993 -- U.S. History class, 2007

9 VERTIGO 1958

10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

11 CITY LIGHTS 1931

12 THE SEARCHERS 1956

13 STAR WARS 1977

14 PSYCHO 1960 --Film Studies class, 2007

15 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968

16 SUNSET BLVD. 1956

17 THE GRADUATE 1967

18 THE GENERAL 1927

19 ON THE WATERFRONT 1954 --Film Studies class, 2007

20 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946

21 CHINATOWN 1974

22 SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959

23 THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1940

24 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982

25 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962 -- English Class, 2006

26 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939  --Film Studies class, 2007

27 HIGH NOON 1952

28 ALL ABOUT EVE 1950

29 DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1944

30 APOCALYPSE NOW 1979

31 THE MALTESE FALCON 1941

32 THE GODFATHER PART II 1974 --01/12/2011

33 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST 1975

34 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 1937

35 ANNIE HALL 1977

36 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI 1957

37 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES 1946

38 THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948

39 DR. STRANGELOVE 1964

40 THE SOUND OF MUSIC 1965

41 KING KONG 1933

42 BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967

43 MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1969

44 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 1940 --Film Studies class, 2007

45 SHANE 1953

46 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT 1934

47 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951

48 REAR WINDOW 1954 -- Film Studies class, 2007

49 INTOLERANCE 1916

50 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001

51 WEST SIDE STORY 1961

52 TAXI DRIVER 1976

53 THE DEER HUNTER 1978

54 M*A*S*H 1970

55 NORTH BY NORTHWEST 1959

56 JAWS 1975 -- --Film Studies class, 2007

57 ROCKY 1976

58 THE GOLD RUSH 1925

59 NASHVILLE 1975

60 DUCK SOUP 1933

61 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS 1941

62 AMERICAN GRAFFITI 1973 -- --Film Studies class, 2007

63 CABARET 1972

64 NETWORK 1976

65 THE AFRICAN QUEEN 1951

66 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981

67 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? 1966

68 UNFORGIVEN 1992

69 TOOTSIE 1982

70 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971

71 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998

72 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 1994

73 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969

74 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991

75 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967

76 FORREST GUMP 1994

77 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1976

78 MODERN TIMES 1936

79 THE WILD BUNCH 1969

80 THE APARTMENT 1960

81 SPARTACUS 1960

82 SUNRISE 1927

83 TITANIC 1997

84 EASY RIDER 1969

85 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA 1935

86 PLATOON 1986 -- --Film Studies class, 2007

87 12 ANGRY MEN 1957

88 BRINGING UP BABY 1938

89 THE SIXTH SENSE 1999

90 SWING TIME 1936

91 SOPHIE'S CHOICE 1982

92 GOODFELLAS 1990

93 THE FRENCH CONNECTION 1971

94 PULP FICTION 1994

95 THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 1971

96 DO THE RIGHT THING 1989

97 BLADE RUNNER 1982

98 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 1942

99 TOY STORY 1995

100 BEN-HUR 1959