Mar042005

How Many of the AFI 100 Have You Seen?

Here’s another of those interminable list-entries in which I show off my vast experience with popular culture. This time we’re looking at the American Film Institute’s Top 100, a list of the greatest American movies of all time as determined by “a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from across the film community.” Whoever they might be.


You know the drill — the films I’ve seen are in bold text:

  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. Casablanca (1942)
  3. The Godfather (1972)
  4. Gone With The Wind (1939)
  5. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
  6. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
  7. The Graduate (1967)
  8. On The Waterfront (1954)
  9. Schindler’s List (1993)
  10. Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
  11. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
  12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  13. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
  14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  15. Star Wars (1977)
  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)
  21. The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  24. Raging Bull (1980)
  25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  26. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  27. Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
  28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  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)
  33. High Noon (1952)
  34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
  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)
  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)
  48. Jaws (1975)
  49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
  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. M*A*S*H (1970)
  57. The Third Man (1949)
  58. Fantasia (1940)
  59. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
  60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
  61. Vertigo (1958)
  62. Tootsie (1982)
  63. Stagecoach (1939)
  64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
  65. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
  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)
  72. Ben-Hur (1959)
  73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
  74. The Gold Rush (1925)
  75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
  76. City Lights (1931)
  77. American Graffiti (1973)
  78. Rocky (1976)
  79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  81. Modern Times (1936)
  82. Giant (1956)
  83. Platoon (1986)
  84. Fargo (1996)
  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)
  95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  96. The Searchers (1956)
  97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  98. Unforgiven (1992)
  99. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
  100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

All things considered, I think I spend way too much sitting in the dark…

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7 comments on “How Many of the AFI 100 Have You Seen?”

  1. anne

    Based on a rough counting, it looks like I’ve seen just over half. Not too bad for someone who really didn’t start into movies until her early 20’s. 🙂

  2. jason

    I like to think I’ve had some influence in that regard…

  3. cheno

    All those and you’ve never seen To Kill A Mockingbird or Dr. Zhivago?
    And I didn’t think I’d one up you in the film department.. 🙂
    I own High Noon just haven’t bothered to put it in yet. Have been told it still holds up as one of the best westerns ever.

  4. jason

    I taped Zhivago off PBS a few years ago, was all ready to sit down and put another notch on my VCR when I realized I’d run out of tape about five minutes before the end. I was so pissed… but I’ve never gotten around to renting it or anything.
    High Noon has never much appealed to me, for some reason. I’m not big on westerns in general, though. Or musicals. And most people are absolutely stunned when I mention that I’ve never seen Rocky. But then, I’m always surprised when I encounter people who haven’t seen Casablanca, so I guess it’s all just chance and personal taste.

  5. jason

    I have no excuse for not seeing To Kill a Mockingbird, however. That’s one I really need to bump to the top of my “must-rent” list.

  6. cheno

    Speaking of Rocky and Stallone vying for a sixth film.. arghh… KJZZ or UPN or one of the locals has run the first 4 Rocky films for the past few weeks. Amazingly enough, personally I was never a Rocky fan, but I’m surprised that they really don’t hold up like I thought they would. Especially the first one.
    TKAM is really worth renting. You’ll see a very, very young Bobby Duvall…..

  7. jason

    Duvall plays Boo Radley, doesn’t he? (I’ve read the book…)
    I’ve seen the opening of Rocky V about four times in the last week on whatever station is running it. The week before that, I kept running into “The RM” everyime I turned on KJZZ. (Talk about Arg!) I think one or two re-runs during the week is cool, in case you miss it the first time, but good lord, do modern syndication deals only allow them to own the rights to one flick at a time?