AND THE WINNER IS...

As previewed (along with predictions) on this site yesterday, the American Film Institute tonight announced the results of its industry poll to determine the top ten films in ten different genres, or "10 Top 10," during a three-hour program on CBS. I find it very hard to find fault with the vast majority of the selections—particularly with those that top each list—but I'll recap the results and share a few reactions anyway...

AFI Top 10: Animated

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Bambi (1942)
4. The Lion King (1994)
5. Fantasia (1940)
6. Toy Story (1995)
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
8. Shrek (2001)
9. Cinderella (1950)
10. Finding Nemo (2003)

PREDICTIONS 7/10, including Snow White as #1; failed to include Beauty and the Beast, Shrek, and Finding Nemo in favor of Dumbo (1941), Babe (1995), and Lady and the Tramp (1955).
COMMENTARY The top three look exactly right—the first full-length animated film, the first great morality tale adapted into a full-length animated film, and the most moving animated film of them all. Then things go a bit askew, in my opinion. The Lion King ahead of Fantasia, the most ambitious animated film of the Disney era? Cinderella behind not only The Lion King, but also Shrek? Shrek?! All-time? As I see it, this list is just a little too heavy on recent stuff (half the films were made post-1990) and a little too light on animation's Golden Age (although I have no objections about the inclusion of Beauty and the Beast, arguably the last great Disney film and the only animated film ever nominated for Best Picture).

AFI Top 10: Romantic Comedies

1. City Lights (1931)
2. Annie Hall (1977)
3. It Happened One Night (1934)
4. Roman Holiday (1953)
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
6. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
7. Adam's Rib (1949)
8. Moonstruck (1987)
9. Harold and Maude (1971)
10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
    

PREDICTIONS 6/10; missed Adam's Rib, Moonstruck, Harold and Maude, and Sleepless in Seattle (1993) in favor of Ninotchka (1939), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Apartment (1960), and The Lady Eve (1941).
COMMENTARY I couldn't be more pleased to be wrong about the #1 film—I thought they'd go with Annie Hall (1977), but the same voters who put Shrek ahead of Dumbo somehow managed to remember the silent-era masterpiece City Lights. 2, 3, and 4 are exactly as they should be, as well, and I'm pleased voters opted for The Philadelphia Story as their requisite Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn rom-com over the also great (but not as much so) Bringing Up Baby and Holiday (both 1938). Meg Ryan, whose movies have not aged well, somehow shows up on the list twice, and while I understand When Harry Met Sally..., I really cannot accept the notion that Sleepless in Seattle is a better rom-com than the wonderful classic that inspired another Ryan film, You've Got Mail (1998), namely Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940). It's disheartening to see snubs of Lubitsch (not even Ninotchka or Trouble in Paradise?), Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, or The Palm Beach Story?), Billy Wilder (The Apartment? Sabrina?), Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth?), and above all Howard Hawks (if not Bringing Up Baby, then why not His Girl Friday or Ball of Fire?). Bottom line: Rob Reiner, one. Ernst Lubitsch, zero.

AFI Top 10: Westerns

1. The Searchers (1956)
   
2. High Noon (1952)
3. Shane (1953)
4. Unforgiven (1992)
   
5. Red River (1948)
6. The Wild Bunch (1969)
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
8. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
9. Stagecoach (1939)
   
10. Cat Ballou (1965)
    

PREDICTIONS 8/10, including The Searchers as #1, High Noon as #2, and Shane as #3; missed McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Cat Ballou in favor of Giant (1956) and Dances with Wolves (1990).
COMMENTARY I couldn't be more thrilled that The Searchers, arguably my favorite of all movies, claimed the top spot, while the often-maligned (unfairly) High Noon placed second. I wasnot at all confident that Red River was going to make the cut, having been snubbed on previous AFI lists, but I'm glad it did. I wish I could say the same about silly Cat Ballou, which had no business displacing must-see heavyweights like William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959), John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (1960), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971)—it's good, but hell, it's not even the funniest satire of the genre... that would be Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974), which deserved a spot on the list but I figured is still too politically-incorrect to earn that endorsement, even thirty-five years after its release. Only other complaint: Why is Stagecoach (1939), which introduced John Wayne and also the generic archetypes for every western that followed, so low on this list?

AFI Top 10: Sports

1. Raging Bull (1980)
   
2. Rocky (1977)
   
3. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
   
4. Hoosiers (1986)
   
5. Bull Durham (1988)
   
6. The Hustler (1961)
   
7. Caddyshack (1980)
   
8. Breaking Away (1979)
   
9. National Velvet (1944)
   
10. Jerry Maguire (1996)
    

PREDICTIONS 7/10, including Raging Bull as #1, Rocky as #2, and The Pride of the Yankees as #3; missed Caddyshack, Breaking Away, and National Velvet in favor of Chariots of Fire (1981), Field of Dreams (1989), and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
COMMENTARY I can't argue with the top three, but Hoosiers at #4? Caddyshack, which is a great comedy but is not even really about sports, at #7? And Bull Durham at #5 (fine), but no Field of Dreams anywhere? I'll take my three that I missed over the three they used instead. And I was kinda waiting for a Rudy (1993) upset...

AFI Top 10: Mystery

1. Vertigo (1958)
   
2. Chinatown (1974)
   
3. Rear Window (1954)
   
4. Laura (1944)
   
5. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
   
6. The Third Man (1949)
   
7. North by Northwest (1959)
   
8. Blue Velvet (1986)
9. Dial M for Murder (1954)
   
10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
    

PREDICTIONS 8/10; missed North by Northwest and Dial M for Murder in favor of In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Gaslight (1943).
COMMENTARY Nobody loves Hitchcock more than I do, but I think of North by Northwest and especially Dial M for Murder (in which we know who the killer is all along and just wait to see if he'll be caught) more as thrillers than mysteries—his Rebecca (1940) and Suspicion (1941) fit the definition better, in my opinion. I'd say the same for Vertigo except that I suppose Jimmy Stewart doesn't realize he's chasing the same woman until the end, even if it seems he should, so it's still a mystery to him. No gripe about Rear Window, though, which is absolutely a mystery. I'm really glad that a few more people will check out Laura and The Third Man, two of cinema's most underrated masterpieces, as a result of their inclusion, and only wish there had been room for George Cukor's comparably good Gaslight (1943), as well as Stanley Donen's Charade (1963), Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950), Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955, which helped inspire Pulp Fiction), or Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1948).

AFI Top 10: Fantasy

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
   
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
   
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
   
4. King Kong (1933)
   
5. Miracle of 34th Street (1947)
   
6. Field of Dreams (1989)
   
7. Harvey (1950)
   
8. Groundhog Day (1993)
   
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
   
10. Big (1988)
    

PREDICTIONS 7/10, including The Wizard of Oz as #1; missed Miracle on 34th Street, Groundhog Day, and The Thief of Bagdad in favor of The Princess Bride (1987), Mary Poppins (1964), and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971).
COMMENTARY Apparently The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a better and/or more important fantasy film than It's a Wonderful Life and King Kong, according to this crowd... I'm not buying. At least they had the good sense to include Harvey and Groundhog Day, two must-sees, if not Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937), Robert Stevenson's Mary Poppins (1964), Gary Ross' Pleasantville (1998), or Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), each of which is wondrous.

AFI Top 10: Sci-Fi

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
   
2. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
3. E.T.—The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
   
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
   
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
   
6. Blade Runner (1982)
   
7. Alien (1979)
   
8. Terminator 2 (1991)
   
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
   
10. Back to the Future (1985)
    

PREDICTIONS 7/10; missed Star Wars: A New Hope, Terminator 2, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers in favor of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Frankenstein (1931), and Planet of the Apes (1968).
COMMENTARY Simply forgot Star Wars was on the ballot. Shocked by absence of Close Encounters, not because I love it, but because I've always been led to believe others did, especially at the AFI, which has honored it on previous lists (including their overall 100 greatest movies).

AFI Top 10: Gangster

1. The Godfather (1972)
   
2. GoodFellas (1990)
3. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
   
4. White Heat (1949)
   
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
   
6. Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932)
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
   
8. The Public Enemy (1931)
   
9. Little Caesar (1930)
   
10. Scarface (1983)
    

PREDICTIONS 7/10, including The Godfather as #1; missed Bonnie and Clyde, Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, and Scarface in favor of On the Waterfront (1954), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Untouchables (1987).
COMMENTARY Simply forgot Bonnie and Clyde was on the ballot. But no On the Waterfront? Are you kidding?

AFI Top 10: Courtroom Drama

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
   
2. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
   
3. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
   
4. The Verdict (1982)
   
5. A Few Good Men (1992)
   
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
7. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
   
8. In Cold Blood (1967)
   
9. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
   
10. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    

PREDICTIONS 6/10, including To Kill a Mockingbird as #1 and Twelve Angry Men as #2; missed Kramer vs. Kramer, The Verdict, In Cold Blood, and A Cry in the Dark in favor of Inherit the Wind (1960), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Philadelphia (1993), and The Accused (1988).
COMMENTARY I shouldn't have missed The Verdict, but as far as Kramer vs. Kramer goes I just didn't feel enough of the film was set in the courtroom to merit its inclusion. Oh, and A Cry in the Dark is hands-down the most random, out-of-left-field selection of the night—over Inherit the Wind (1960)?! I think I'm gonna go cry myself to sleep.

AFI Top 10: Epic

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
   
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
   
3. Schindler's List (1993)
   
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
   
5. Spartacus (1960)
   
6. Titanic (1997)
   
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
   
8. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
   
9. Reds (1981)
   
10. The Ten Commandments (1956)
    

PREDICTIONS 7/10; missed Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Reds in favor of Apocalypse Now (1979), The Birth of a Nation (1915), and Braveheart (1995).
COMMENTARY I think this category was just poorly defined, which led to films being nominated and then included that are not really epics... Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, for instance, are wonderful long dramas, but they are not epics. To me, epics are as much about the "size" of the movie as the length: they are large-scale, massive spectacles, not just marathon sittings... otherwise Shoah or other fine hours-eaters would have made the cut. I guess Gone with the Wind falls in-between the two definitions, which is why it placed third, but it would have topped my list because of the crane shot over the depot of wounded veterans, the burning of Atlanta, and so many other showy moments spread over three hours. I'm delighted they got Lewis Milestone's pioneering epic All Quiet on the Western Front on there, and only wish it was ahead of some of the others for which it paved the way. Speaking of which, where the hell are the politically-incorrect but historically-pivotal early D.W. Griffith epics The Birth of a Nation (1915) and/or Intolerance (1916)? Lastly, I'm surprised The Ten Commandments placed so low, not because it's the greatest movie ever made, but because I have always closely associated it and its director, Cecil B. DeMille, with the word "epic."

In a three-hour special that will air tomorrow evening at 8pm EST/5pm PST on CBS, the American Film Institute will unveil its latest "greatest list"—this year, the AFI will actually announce ten lists identifying the top ten films in ten different genres, or "10 Top 10," which were selected by 1,500 leaders from all sectors of the film industry from a ballot (PDF version here) featuring fifty options for each genre, which offered the opportunity to write-in any other candidate, as well.

The AFI's "10 Top 10" follows "100 Movies" (1998), "100 Stars" (1999), "100 Laughs" (2000), "100 Thrills" (2001), "100 Passions" (2002), "100 Heroes and Villains" (2003), "100 Songs" (2004), "100 Movie Quotes" (2005), "25 Film Scores" (2005), "100 Cheers" (2006), "25 Musicals" (2006), and "100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition" (2007). These lists have been widely credited for generating interest in classic movies among young people, and for that the AFI deserves immense praise.

(So, too, do a select few others, including: the National Society of Film Critics, whose books The A-List, The X-List, and the forthcoming The B-List also offer well-considered choices and well-written explanations for them, including several by my friend Jim Verniere, the great film critic at the Boston Herald; Tim Dirks of the marvelous indie web site Filmsite.org, which features fantastic in-depth analysis and rankings of classics; Sight and Sound magazine, for their once-each-decade polls; Turner Classic Movies, for offering easy access to all the important classics on both TV and DVD; and, of course, passionate professors in burgeoning film departments at colleges and universities across the country, including several with whom I've been fortunate enough to work, like Tom Doherty and Alice Kelikian. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others who are worthy of mention, but I think these are the biggies.)

As I sifted through the AFI's '10 Top 10' ballot before filing this post, I contemplated two very different things: (a) the films/filmmakers that have been embraced on previous AFI lists, and (b) the films/filmmakers that I believe most deserve recognition. By blending these two considerations together, I have composed my predictions of what these lists will end up looking like. (LOCK denotes a film that I cannot fathom being excluded from its category.)

Be sure to share your own favorites/predictions in the "Comments" section before the show...

Romantic Comedies (segment hosted by Jessica Alba)

1. Annie Hall (1977, d. Woody Allen) LOCK
   
2. It Happened One Night (1934, d. Frank Capra) LOCK
3. Roman Holiday (1953, d. William Wyler)
   
4. The Philadelphia Story (1940, d. George Cukor)
5. City Lights (1931, d. Charlie Chaplin)
   
6. Ninotchka (1939, d. Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Bringing Up Baby (1938, d. Howard Hawks)
8. When Harry Met Sally... (1989, d. Rob Reiner)
   
9. The Apartment (1960, d. Billy Wilder)
10. The Lady Eve (1941, d. Preston Sturges)

Fantasy (segment hosted by Sean Astin)

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939, d. Victor Fleming) LOCK
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, d. Frank Capra) LOCK
3. King Kong (1933, d. Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Shoedsack) LOCK
4. The Princess Bride (1987, d. Rob Reiner)
5. Mary Poppins (1964, Robert Stevenson)
   
6. Big (1988, d. Penny Marshall)
7. Field of Dreams (1989, d. Phil Alden Robinson)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, d. Peter Jackson)
9. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, d. Mel Stuart)
10. Harvey (1950, d. Henry Koster)

Mystery (segment hosted by Gabriel Byrne)

1. Chinatown (1974, d. Roman Polanski) LOCK
2. The Maltese Falcon (1941, d. John Huston) LOCK
3. Vertigo (1958, d. Alfred Hitchcock)
   
4. Laura (1944, d. Otto Preminger)
5. Rear Window (1954, d. Alfred Hitchcock)
6. The Third Man (1949, d. Carol Reed)
   
7. In the Heat of the Night (1967, d. Norman Jewison)
8. The Usual Suspects (1995, d. Bryan Singer)
9. Gaslight (1944, d. George Cukor)
10. Blue Velvet (1986, d. David Lynch)

Epic (segment hosted by Kirk Douglas)

1. Gone with the Wind (1939, d. Victor Fleming) LOCK
2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, d. David Lean) LOCK
3. Ben-Hur (1959, d. William Wyler) LOCK
4. The Ten Commandments (1956, d. Cecil B. DeMille) LOCK
5. Apocalypse Now (1979, d. Francis Ford Coppola)
6. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, d. Lewis Milestone)
7. The Birth of a Nation (1915, d. D.W. Griffith)
8. Braveheart (1995, d. Mel Gibson)
9. Spartacus (1960, d. Stanley Kubrick)
10. Titanic (1997, d. James Cameron)

Western (segment hosted by Clint Eastwood)

1. The Searchers (1956, d. John Ford) LOCK
2. High Noon (1952, d. Fred Zinnemann) LOCK
3. Shane (1953, d. George Stevens) LOCK
4. Stagecoach (1939, d. John Ford)
   
5. Unforgiven (1992, d. Clint Eastwood)
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, d. George Roy Hill)
7. The Wild Bunch (1969, d. Sam Peckinpah)
   
8. Giant (1956, d. George Stevens)
9. Red River (1948, d. Howard Hawks)
10. Dances with Wolves (1990, d. Kevin Costner)

Sports (segment hosted by Cuba Gooding Jr.)

1. Raging Bull (1980, d. Martin Scorsese) LOCK
2. Rocky (1976, d. John G. Avildsen) LOCK
3. The Pride of the Yankees (1942, d. Sam Wood) LOCK
4. Chariots of Fire (1981, d. Hugh Hudson) LOCK
5. Bull Durham (1988, d. Ron Shelton) LOCK
6. The Hustler (1961, d. Robert Rossen) LOCK
7. Jerry Maguire (1996, d. Cameron Crowe)
   
8. Field of Dreams (1989, d. Phil Alden Robinson)
9. Hoosiers (1986, d. David Anspaugh)
10. Million Dollar Baby (2004, d. Clint Eastwood)

Animation (segment hosted by Jennifer Love Hewitt)

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, d. David Hand) LOCK
2. Cinderella (1950, d. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, etc.) LOCK
3. Bambi (1942, d. David Hand) LOCK
4. Fantasia (1940, d. Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, etc.) LOCK
5. Pinocchio (1940, d. Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen) LOCK
6. Toy Story (1995, d. John Lasseter)
7. Dumbo (1941, d. Ben Sharpsteen)
   
8. Babe (1995, Chris Noonan)
9. Lady and the Tramp (1955, Clyde Gernomini, Wilfred Jackson, etc.)
10. The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)

Gangster (segment hosted by Quentin Tarantino)

1. The Godfather (1972, d. Francis Ford Coppola) LOCK
2. On the Waterfront (1954, d. Elia Kazan) LOCK
3. The Godfather, Part II (1974, d. Francis Ford Coppola) LOCK
4. GoodFellas (1990, d. Martin Scorsese)
5. White Heat (1949, d. Raoul Walsh)
6. Touch of Evil (1958, d. Orson Welles)
   
7. Little Caesar (1930, d. Mervyn LeRoy)
8. The Public Enemy (1931, d. William A. Wellman)
9. Pulp Fiction (1994, d. Quentin Tarantino)
10. The Untouchables (1987, d. Brian De Palma)

Sci-Fi (segment hosted by Sigourney Weaver)

1. E.T.—The Extra Terrestrial (1982, d. Steven Spielberg) LOCK
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, d. Stanley Kubrick) LOCK
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, d. Steven Spielberg) LOCK
4. Alien (1979, d. Ridley Scott) LOCK
5. Blade Runner (1982, d. Ridley Scott)
   
6. Back to the Future (1985, d. Robert Zemeckis)
7. A Clockwork Orange (1971, d. Stanley Kubrick)
8. Frankenstein (1931, d. James Whale)
   
9. Planet of the Apes (1968, d. Franklin J. Schaffner)
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, d. Robert Wise)

Courtroom Drama (segment hosted by James Woods)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, d. Robert Mulligan) LOCK
2. Twelve Angry Men (1957, d. Sidney Lumet) LOCK
3. Inherit the Wind (1960, d. Stanley Kramer)
   
4. Witness for the Prosecution (1957, d. Billy Wilder)
   
5. Anatomy of a Murder (1959, d. Otto Preminger)
6. The Caine Mutiny (1954, d. Edward Dmytryk)
7. Philadelphia (1993, d. Jonathan Demme)
8. The Accused (1988, d. Jonathan Kaplan)
9. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, d. Stanley Kramer)
   
10. A Few Good Men (1992, d. Rob Reiner)

Last night, the American Film Institute hosted a tribute to two-time Oscar nominee Laura Linney, one of the finest actresses and classiest people in the industry, as part of its 2007 AFI Fest. Linney was touchingly introduced by her two on-screen brothers, Mark Ruffalo, her co-star in the underrated You Can Count on Me (2000), and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who years ago worked on the New York theater scene at the same time as Linney and stars opposite her in the upcoming The Savages (11/30, Fox Searchlight), for which she has generated rave reviews, including from this writer, who had the privilege of seeing her film and briefly chatting her up informally this past September in Toronto, and who cannot wait to formally interview her in the very near future. (We had a date scheduled for this coming week, but laryngitis, which cut short her Q&A at the AFI tribute, may prevent us from going forward for a little while longer.)

Some headlines: Citizen Kane (1941) holds off The Godfather (1972), which moves past Casablanca (1942) for the 2 spot... Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980) zooms up to 4 from 20... as I hoped, Ford's The Searchers (1956) also shot up from 96 to 12, while Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958, up from 61 to 9) and Chaplin's City Lights (1931, up from 76 to 11) also make big gains... The Graduate (1967), On the Waterfront (1954), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946) apparently no longer worthy of top 10 spots... 23 films knocked off list, including Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915)... 23 films make debut, including Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)... 4 films released since last list make cut, including Titanic (1997)... for full analysis and breakdown, click here; for full new list, see below:

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941) [previously #1]
2. THE GODFATHER (1972) [previously #3]
3. CASABLANCA (1942) [previously #2]
4. RAGING BULL (1980) [previously #24]
5. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) [previously #10]
6. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) [previously #4]
7. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) [previously #5]
8. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) [previously #9]
9. VERTIGO (1958) [previously #61]
10. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) [previously #6]
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) NEW!
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) NEW!
50. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) NEW!
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) NEW!
60. DUCK SOUP (1933)
61. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941) NEW!
62. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
63. CABARET (1972) NEW!
64. NETWORK (1976)
65. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
66. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
67. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) NEW!
68. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
69. TOOTSIE (1982)
70. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
71. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) NEW!
72. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) NEW!
73. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
74. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
75. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967) NEW!
76. FORREST GUMP (1994)
77. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) NEW!
78. MODERN TIMES (1936)
79. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
80. THE APARTMENT (1960)
81. SPARTACUS (1960) NEW!
82. SUNRISE (1927) NEW!
83. TITANIC (1997) NEW!
84. EASY RIDER (1969)
85. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935) NEW!
86. PLATOON (1986)
87. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) NEW!
88. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
89. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999) NEW!
90. SWING TIME (1936) NEW!
91. SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982) NEW!
92. GOODFELLAS (1990)
93. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
94. PULP FICTION (1994)
95. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) NEW!
96. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) NEW!
97. BLADE RUNNER (1982) NEW!
98. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
99. TOY STORY (1995) NEW!
100. BEN-HUR (1959)