A few months ago, the AFI put out their list of the Top 100 Movies of all time. I've now seen 87 of them. Now they've put out a new list. The Top 10 Films in ten different genres. (I put in parentheses how many I've seen from each one.) There's a streak of populism in their consensus, but here they are:
ANIMATION (10)
1. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty & the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo
ROMANTIC COMEDY (6)
1. City Lights
2. Annie Hall
3. It Happened One Night
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Philadelphia Story
6. When Harry Met Sally...
7. Adam's Rib
8. Moonstruck
9. Harold & Maude
10. Sleepless in Seattle
WESTERN (6)
1. The Searchers
2. High Noon
3. Shane
4. Unforgiven
5. Red River
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
9. Stagecoach
10. Cat Ballou
SPORTS (7)
1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet
10. Jerry Maguire
MYSTERY (9)
1. Vertigo
2. Chinatown
3. Rear Window
4. Laura
5. The Third Man
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. North by Northwest
8. Blue Velvet
9. Dial M for Murder
10. The Usual Suspects
FANTASY (8)
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. King Kong (1933)
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1948)
6. Field of Dreams
7. Harvey
8. Groundhog Day
9. The Thief of Baghdad
10. Big
SCI-FI (10)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars
3. E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
6. Blade Runner
7. Alien
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
10. Back to the Future
GANGSTER (7)
1. The Godfather
2. GoodFellas
3. The Godfather Part II
4. White Heat
5. Bonnie & Clyde
6. Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Public Enemy
9. Little Caesar
10. Scarface (1982)
COURTROOM DRAMA (6)
1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. The Verdict
5. A Few Good Men
6. Witness for the Prosecution
7. Anatomy of a Murder
8. In Cold Blood
9. A Cry in the Dark
10. Judgement at Nuremburg
EPIC (9)
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Ben-Hur
3. Schindler's List
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Spartacus
6. Titanic
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Reds
10. The Ten Commandments
So I've seen 78. I don't feel compelled to see too many of the ones I've missed from these lists. I have It Happened One Night and The Philadelphia Story at home, so those'll be two more. I was surprised I'd only seen six of the Westerns, so maybe I will put one of them in my Blockbuster queue.
Due to the genres they used, Citizen Kane and Casablanca had no list to be on.
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