New AFI 100 (best American films)

[Triumph36]

Rushmore:

David Lynch will never make it on this list. They wouldn't let him.

Fight Club would not belong on a list like this either - stylish, yes, shocking, yes, but lacking in real substance too. It's another movie that to me has gotten worse with time.

[miajag]

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These are the ones I haven't seen, which should I see first? I'm leaning towards Dr. Strangelove.


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That's an excellent place to start. The film has aged wonderfully and its black humor is probably more common now than when it was released.

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Wow, could not disagree more.

[secretprankster]

Yeah, agree mia.

[J_T_P]

no movies later than 1999, seems pretty bogus to me. who the hell ranked these films people in their late 70s+++ ?

[elwoodblues]

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These are the ones I haven't seen, which should I see first? I'm leaning towards Dr. Strangelove.

1. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
3. "Casablanca" (1942)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
8. "Schindler's List" (1993)
11. "City Lights" (1931)
12. "The Searchers" (1956)
16. "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)
18. "The General" (1927)
22. "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
23. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940)
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)
31. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941)
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)
41. "King Kong" (1933)
42. "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
44. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)
45. "Shane" (1953)
46. "It Happened One Night" (1934)
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
49. "Intolerance" (1916)
50. "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001)
51. "West Side Story" (1961)
55. "North by Northwest" (1959)
58. "The Gold Rush" (1925)
60. "Duck Soup" (1933)
61. "Sullivan's Travels" (1941)
62. "American Graffiti" (1973)
63. "Cabaret" (1972)
65. "The African Queen" (1951)
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)
78. "Modern Times" (1936)
79. "The Wild Bunch" (1969)
80. "The Apartment" (1960)
81. "Spartacus" (1960)
82. "Sunrise" (1927)
83. "Titanic" (1997)
85. "A Night at the Opera" (1935)
87. "12 Angry Men" (1957)
88. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
90. "Swing Time" (1936)
91. "Sophie's Choice" (1982)
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)
100. "Ben-Hur" (1959)

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Wow...

The moview on the list that you haven't seen that I like to watch the best (not necessarily the "greatest") are:

Bonnie and Clyde, City Lights, To Kill a Mockingbird, All About Eve, Strangelove, North by Northwest, 12 Angry Men, Duck Soup. You really can't go wrong with any of them though.

[Triumph36]

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These are the ones I haven't seen, which should I see first? I'm leaning towards Dr. Strangelove.


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That's an excellent place to start. The film has aged wonderfully and its black humor is probably more common now than when it was released.

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Wow, could not disagree more.

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the satire behind the film has aged very well, but the jokes have not at all. it's another 'landmark' movie but as kubrick goes, it's not his best.

still, peter sellers as dr. strangelove is worth it.

[Claunchy]

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David Lynch will never make it on this list. They wouldn't let him.

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Why is that?

[gusmahler]

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"Toy Story" - I think including this and the other animated movies is really just an effort at some sort of filmmaking political correctness.

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Disagree. I'm not actually sure I've ever seen more than half of Toy Story, so I can't comment on the movie per se, but look at what that movie has spawned over the past 10 years - it's pretty ridiculous.

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Right, and I'm saying that being the first doesn't make it a better movie. What, without "Toy Story" we wouldn't have computer-generated animation? Oh, thank God for the angels that brought us "Toy Story", what would we be doing without them?


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Toy Story is one of the best children's movies I've ever seen. Most children's movies are nearly unbearable for adults. The Pixar films are actually really entertaining.

[Austiger]

Since arguing about the list is so subjective...

How many has everyone seen? (you have to have seen the whole movie from beginning to end at least once.)

I've seen 76. City Lights and The General are the only ones in the top 25 I need to catch.

[Fels krone]

way behind with 34; probably about 15 that I have seen bits and pieces of

I just have trouble convincing myself to watch an old, cheesy looking movie. So that nixes a lot of the list.