(AP) - The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies: |
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1. "Citizen Kane," 1941 2. "The Godfather," 1972 3. "Casablanca," 1942 4. "Raging Bull," 1980 5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952 6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939 7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962 8. "Schindler's List," 1993 9. "Vertigo," 1958 10. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939 11. "City Lights," 1931 12. "The Searchers," 1956 13. "Star Wars," 1977 14. "Psycho," 1960 15. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968 16. "Sunset Blvd.", 1950 17. "The Graduate," 1967 18. "The General," 1927 19. "On the Waterfront," 1954 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 26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939 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 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 45. "Shane," 1953 46. "It Happened One Night," 1934 47. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951 48. "Rear Window," 1954 49. "Intolerance," 1916 50. "Lord of the Rings: 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 57. "Rocky," 1976 58. "The Gold Rush," 1925 59. "Nashville," 1975 60. "Duck Soup," 1933 61. "Sullivan's Travels," 1941 62. "American Graffiti," 1973 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 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. |
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Facts about AFI's top-100 movies, then and now:(AP) - Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998: • Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new top-100 list: "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Saving Private Ryan," "Titanic" and "The Sixth Sense." • Nineteen other movies that failed to make the cut in 1998 landed on the list this time: "The General," "Intolerance," "Nashville," "Sullivan's Travels," "Cabaret," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Shawshank Redemption," "In the Heat of the Night," "All the President's Men," "Spartacus," "Sunrise," "A Night at the Opera," "12 Angry Men," "Swing Time," "Sophie's Choice," "The Last Picture Show," "Do the Right Thing," "Blade Runner" and "Toy Story." • Twenty-three films on the 1998 list dropped out of the top-100 this time: "Dr. Zhivago," "The Birth of a Nation," "From Here to Eternity," "Amadeus," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Third Man," "Fantasia," "Rebel Without a Cause," "Stagecoach," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Manchurian Candidate," "An American in Paris," "Wuthering Heights," "Dances With Wolves," "Giant," "Fargo," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Frankenstein," "Patton," "The Jazz Singer," "My Fair Lady," "A Place in the Sun" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." • The earliest film represented is 1916's "Intolerance" and the newest is 2001's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." • The 1970s is the most-represented decade, with 20 films. • Only three films hold the same rank they held on the 1998 list: "Citizen Kane" at No. 1, "The Godfather Part II at No. 32 and "The Best Years of Our Lives" at No. 37. |
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