AFI Update

[Penelope]

I'm curious if anybody has the original list of 400 titles from 1997, what movies have been replaced by these new titles?

[FilmFan720]

I'm just glad we can still vote for Ghostbusters and A Christmas Story as Best American film of all time, but we can't vote for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Bride of Frankenstein, East of Eden or Holiday.

[FilmFan720]

Yes, this time the ballot is not including the classic Bogart-Hepburn-Huston masterpiece, but instead that recent remake I'm sure we all saw with Vin Diesel, Dame Judi Dench, directed by Paul Haggis. You don't remember?

[MovieWes]

FilmFan720, The African Queen is a post-1997 film??? :p

Joking aside, this is a really crappy list if you ask me. But it is a good idea for them to update their top 100 list.

The big question now is what has changed within the past 10 years. Will Citizen Kane still be #1, or will the Casablanca-loving AFI push it to #2? How many films from the original list will make it onto the new list?

[FilmFan720]

Here are the 400 films on their official ballot. I've starred the post-1997 films:

Ace in the Hole
Adam's Rib
Adventures of Robin Hood
An Affair to Remember
*The African Queen
Airplane!
Alien
All About Eve
All Quiet on the Western Front
All That Jazz
All the King's Men
All the President's Men
Amadeus
*American Beauty
American Graffiti
An American in Paris
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
*As Good As It Gets
Atlantic City
*Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
*The Aviator
The Awful Truth
Babe
Back to the Future
Badlands
Bambi
The Bandwagon
The Bank Dick
Beau Geste
*A Beautiful Mind
Beauty and the Beast
*Being John Malkovich
Ben-Hur (1926)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Big
The Big Chill
The Big Parade
The Big Sleep
Birds
The Birth of a Nation
Blackboard Jungle
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
*Boogie Nights
Born on the Fourth of July
Boyz in the Hood
Braveheart
Brazil
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Breaking Away
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Broadcast News
*Brokeback Mountain
Broken Blossoms
Bull Durham
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cabaret
Cabin in the Sky
Camille
Carrie
Casablanca
Cat Ballou
Cat People
Chariots of Fire
The Cheat
*Chicago
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
Cinderella
Citizen Kane
City Lights
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
Coming Home
The Conversation
Cool Hand Luke
*Crash
The Crowd
Dances With Wolves
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Heaven
The Days of Wine and Roses
Dead Poets Society
The Deer Hunter
The Defiant Ones
Deliverance
Destry Rides Again
The Diary of Anne Frank
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Do the Right Thing
Doctor Zhivago
Dodsworth
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Driving Miss Daisy
Duck Soup
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
Easy Rider
The Empires Strikes Back
The English Patient
*Erin Brockovich
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Exorcist
A Face in the Crowd
Fantastia
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fatal Attraction
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams
*Fight Club
*Finding Nemo
Five Easy Pieces
Force of Evil
Forrest Gump
42nd Street
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Frankenstein
Freaks
The French Connection
The Freshman
From Here to Eternity
Funny Girl
Fury
Gandhi
The General
Gentleman's Agreement
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ghostbusters
Giant
Gigi
Gilda
*Gladiator
Glory
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Going My Way
The Gold Rush
Goldfinger
Gone With the Wind
*Good Night, and Good Luck.
*Good Will Hunting
Goodbye Mister Chips
GoodFellas
The Graduate
Grand Hotel
The Grapes of Wrath
Grease
The Great Dictator
The Great Escape
Greed
Groundhog Day
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gun Crazy
Gunga Din
Halloween
Harold and Maude
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Heiress
High Noon
His Girl Friday
Hoosiers
*Hotel Rwanda
*The Hours
The Hustler
How Green Was My Valley
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
In the Heat of the Night
*The Insider
Intolerance
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It Happened One Night
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
The Jazz Singer
Jerry Maguire
Jezebel
Jurassic Park
The Kid
The Killing Fields
The King and I
King Kong
The King of Comedy
Kramer vs. Kramer
*L.A. Confidential
The Lady Eve
The Last Emporer
The Last Picture Show
Last Tango in Paris
Laura
Lawrence of Arabia
The Life of Emile Zola
The Lion King
Little Caesar
Little Foxes
The Longest Day
*Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
*Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
*Lord of the Rigns: The Return of the King
Lost Horizon
*Lost in Translation
The Lost Weekend
Love Story
M*A*S*H
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Maltese Falcon
A Man for All Seasons
The Man Who Would Be King
The Manchurian Candidate
Manhattan
Marty
Mary Poppins
*The Matrix
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets
Meet Me In St. Louis
*Memento
Midnight Cowboy
Mildred Pierce
*Million Dollar Baby
The Miracle of Morgan Creek
Miracle on 34th Street
Modern Times
Moonstruck
*Moulin Rouge!
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mrs. Miniver
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Darling Clementine
My Fair Lady
My Man Godfrey
*Mystic River
Nashville
National Lampoon's Animal House
Network
A Night at the Opera
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Ninotchka
North by Northwest
Notorious
Now, Voyager
On Golden Pond
On the Water Front
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ordinary People
Out of Africa
Out of the Past
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Ox-Bow Incident
Paths of Glory
Patton
The Phantom of the Opera
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Story
Pillow Talk
Pinocchio
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
A Place in the Sun
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
Poor Little Rich Girl
Porgy and Bess
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Pride of the Yankees
The Producers
Psycho
The Public Enemy
Pulp Fiction
Queen Christina
The Quiet Man
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
A Raisin in the Sun
*Ray
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Reds
*Requiem for a Dream
Return of the Seacaucus 7
The Right Stuff
Risky Business
Road to Morocco
Rocky
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Roman Holiday
Rosemary's Baby
*Rushmore
Safety Last
Saturday Night Fever
*Saving Private Ryan
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
The Scarlet Empress
Schindler's List
The Searchers
Sense and Sensibility
Sergeant York
sex, lies and videotape
Shadow of a Doubt
*Shakespeare in Love
Shane
The Shawshank Redemption
She Done Him Wrong
Sherlock Jr.
The Shining
*Shrek
*Sideways
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin' in the Rain
*The Sixth Sense
Sleeper
Sleepless in Seattle
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Some Like It Hot
Sons of the Desert
Sophie's Choice
The Sound of Music
Sounder
Spartacus
*Spider-Man 2
Splendor in the Grass
Stagecoach
Stalag 17
Stand by Me
A Star is Born
Star Wars
The Sting
Stormy Weather
Stranger than Paradise
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sullivan's Travels
Sunrise
Sunset Blvd.
The Sweet Smell of Success
Swing Time
Taxi Driver
The Ten Commandments
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terms of Endearment
Thelma & Louise
*There's Something About Mary
The Thief of Baghdad
The Thin Man
The Thing From Another World
The Third Man
This Is Spinal Tap
*Three Kings
*Titanic
To Be Or Not To Be
To Have and Have Not
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie
Top Hat
Touch of Evil
Toy Story
*Traffic
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
12 Angry Men
Twelve O'Clock High
2001: A Space Odyssey
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
The Way We Were
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
When Harry Met Sally
White Heat
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wild Bunch
Winchester '73
The Wind
Wings
Witness
The Wizard of Oz
Woman of the Year
A Woman Under the Influence
Wuthering Heights
Yankee Doodle Dandy
You Can't Take It With You
Young Frankenstein
Young Mr. Lincoln

In case anyone is curious about the voting process, you mark up to your 100 best films. You can also write in up to five films, and they ask you to rank your top 5 films overall, for tie-breaking purposes.

Tripp

[anonymous1980]

I'm predicting the following films from the last ten years to make it:

Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
American Beauty
The Sixth Sense
Traffic
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Brokeback Mountain

But, yeah, the AFI has ran out of ideas.

[Penelope]

I doubt Titanic will make it in (I mean, if it could only land at 37 on their top 100 romances, I doubt it'll make the top 100 of all time).

However, I must admit I hope Brokeback Mountain makes it in, leaving Crash in the dust.

[The Original BJ]

Just when you think the AFI couldn't possibly come up with a dumber idea . . .

THEY DO!

What is the purpose of this? The same 100 movies already show up on every AFI list. I bet this is going to be a total rehash of the original list, swapping in Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, The Lord of the Rings, and (in-a-look-how-ballsy-we-think-we-are-let's-stick-it-to-the-Academy-in-the-most-vanilla-way-possible move) Brokeback Mountain.

These people are beyond hopeless.

[Eric]

On another note, it's been 10 effing years since they did this the first time around?!?! Man, time is starting to fly.

[Eric]

Two topics to keep in mind they haven't covered yet: top 100 directors and top 100 scripts...

American Film Institute to rank the top 100 films each decade

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The 100 best movies of all time aren't what they were 10 years ago.

So says the American Film Institute, which first compiled its "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list in 1998. That's why they are doing it again -- and plan to repeat the process each decade, AFI president and chief executive Jean Picker Firstenberg said Thursday.

"So much has changed in our country," she said. "Let's just hope there's not another 9/11, but clearly that shifted everything in our lives and shifted everything for anyone who chronicles the human condition."

The decade-by-decade ranking allows filmmakers and fans to examine the changes in what American movies say about life and culture, Firstenberg said.

"Will war films have a different prominence 10 years later," she wonders. "Will new voices be more dominant than we might have thought? Will films that were lower on the list rise higher?"

A jury of 1,500 directors, producers, actors, critics and scholars will select the greatest movies of all time from a ballot of 400 nominated films. They are asked to consider each film's critical recognition, historical significance, cultural impact and popularity over time.

"Citizen Kane" topped the first "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list, followed by "Casablanca," "The Godfather," "Gone With the Wind" and "Lawrence of Arabia."

"100 Years ... 100 Movies -- 10th Anniversary Edition" will be unveiled in June with a three-hour TV special on CBS.

Forty-four films from the past 10 years are now eligible for consideration, including "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," "Brokeback Mountain," "Moulin Rouge," "Fight Club" and "Crash."

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)