{"id":194,"date":"2005-03-04T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2005-03-04T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T12:19:23","slug":"how_many_of_the_afi_100_have_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/03\/04\/how_many_of_the_afi_100_have_y\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many of the AFI 100 Have You Seen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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>, 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.<\/p>\n


\nYou know the drill — the films I’ve seen are in bold text<\/b>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Citizen Kane<\/b><\/i> (1941)<\/li>\n
  2. Casablanca<\/i> (1942)<\/li>\n
  3. The Godfather<\/i> (1972)<\/li>\n
  4. Gone With The Wind<\/i> (1939)<\/li>\n
  5. Lawrence Of Arabia<\/i> (1962)<\/li>\n
  6. The Wizard Of Oz<\/i> (1939)<\/li>\n
  7. The Graduate<\/i> (1967)<\/li>\n
  8. On The Waterfront<\/i> (1954)<\/li>\n
  9. Schindler’s List<\/b><\/i> (1993)<\/li>\n
  10. Singin’ In The Rain<\/i> (1952)<\/li>\n
  11. It’s A Wonderful Life<\/i> (1946)<\/li>\n
  12. Sunset Boulevard<\/i> (1950)<\/li>\n
  13. The Bridge On The River Kwai<\/i> (1957)<\/li>\n
  14. Some Like It Hot<\/i> (1959)<\/li>\n
  15. Star Wars<\/i> (1977)<\/li>\n
  16. All About Eve<\/i> (1950)<\/li>\n
  17. The African Queen<\/b><\/i> (1951)<\/li>\n
  18. Psycho<\/i> (1960)<\/li>\n
  19. Chinatown<\/i> (1974)<\/li>\n
  20. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest<\/i> (1975)<\/li>\n
  21. The Grapes Of Wrath<\/i> (1940)<\/li>\n
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/b><\/i> (1968)<\/li>\n
  23. The Maltese Falcon<\/i> (1941)<\/li>\n
  24. Raging Bull<\/i> (1980)<\/li>\n
  25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial<\/b><\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  26. Dr. Strangelove<\/i> (1964)<\/li>\n
  27. Bonnie And Clyde<\/i> (1967)<\/li>\n
  28. Apocalypse Now<\/i> (1979)<\/li>\n
  29. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington<\/i> (1939)<\/li>\n
  30. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre<\/i> (1948)<\/li>\n
  31. Annie Hall<\/i> (1977)<\/li>\n
  32. The Godfather Part II<\/i> (1974)<\/li>\n
  33. High Noon<\/i> (1952)<\/li>\n
  34. To Kill A Mockingbird<\/i> (1962)<\/li>\n
  35. It Happened One Night<\/b><\/i> (1934)<\/li>\n
  36. Midnight Cowboy<\/i> (1969)<\/li>\n
  37. The Best Years Of Our Lives<\/b><\/i> (1946)<\/li>\n
  38. Double Indemnity<\/i> (1944)<\/li>\n
  39. Doctor Zhivago<\/i> (1965)<\/li>\n
  40. North By Northwest<\/b><\/i> (1959)<\/li>\n
  41. West Side Story<\/i> (1961)<\/li>\n
  42. Rear Window<\/i> (1954)<\/li>\n
  43. King Kong<\/i> (1933)<\/li>\n
  44. The Birth Of A Nation<\/i> (1915)<\/li>\n
  45. A Streetcar Named Desire<\/i> (1951)<\/li>\n
  46. A Clockwork Orange<\/i> (1971)<\/li>\n
  47. Taxi Driver<\/i> (1976)<\/li>\n
  48. Jaws<\/i> (1975)<\/li>\n
  49. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs<\/i> (1937)<\/li>\n
  50. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid<\/i> (1969)<\/li>\n
  51. The Philadelphia Story<\/i> (1940)<\/li>\n
  52. From Here To Eternity<\/i> (1953)<\/li>\n
  53. Amadeus<\/b><\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  54. All Quiet On The Western Front<\/i> (1930)<\/li>\n
  55. The Sound Of Music<\/i> (1965)<\/li>\n
  56. M*A*S*H<\/b><\/i> (1970)<\/li>\n
  57. The Third Man<\/i> (1949)<\/li>\n
  58. Fantasia<\/i> (1940)<\/li>\n
  59. Rebel Without A Cause<\/i> (1955)<\/li>\n
  60. Raiders Of The Lost Ark<\/i> (1981)<\/li>\n
  61. Vertigo<\/i> (1958)<\/li>\n
  62. Tootsie<\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  63. Stagecoach<\/i> (1939)<\/li>\n
  64. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind<\/b><\/i> (1977)<\/li>\n
  65. The Silence Of The Lambs<\/i> (1991)<\/li>\n
  66. Network<\/i> (1976)<\/li>\n
  67. The Manchurian Candidate<\/i> (1962)<\/li>\n
  68. An American In Paris<\/i> (1951)<\/li>\n
  69. Shane<\/b><\/i> (1953)<\/li>\n
  70. The French Connection<\/i> (1971)<\/li>\n
  71. Forrest Gump<\/i> (1994)<\/li>\n
  72. Ben-Hur<\/i> (1959)<\/li>\n
  73. Wuthering Heights<\/i> (1939)<\/li>\n
  74. The Gold Rush<\/b><\/i> (1925)<\/li>\n
  75. Dances With Wolves<\/i> (1990)<\/li>\n
  76. City Lights<\/i> (1931)<\/li>\n
  77. American Graffiti<\/i> (1973)<\/li>\n
  78. Rocky<\/i> (1976)<\/li>\n
  79. The Deer Hunter<\/b><\/i> (1978)<\/li>\n
  80. The Wild Bunch<\/i> (1969)<\/li>\n
  81. Modern Times<\/b><\/i> (1936)<\/li>\n
  82. Giant<\/i> (1956)<\/li>\n
  83. Platoon<\/b><\/i> (1986)<\/li>\n
  84. Fargo<\/i> (1996)<\/li>\n
  85. Duck Soup<\/i> (1933)<\/li>\n
  86. Mutiny On The Bounty<\/b><\/i> (1935)<\/li>\n
  87. Frankenstein<\/i> (1931)<\/li>\n
  88. Easy Rider<\/i> (1969)<\/li>\n
  89. Patton<\/i> (1970)<\/li>\n
  90. The Jazz Singer<\/b><\/i> (1927)<\/li>\n
  91. My Fair Lady<\/i> (1964)<\/li>\n
  92. A Place In The Sun<\/i> (1951)<\/li>\n
  93. The Apartment<\/i> (1960)<\/li>\n
  94. Goodfellas<\/b><\/i> (1990)<\/li>\n
  95. Pulp Fiction<\/i> (1994)<\/li>\n
  96. The Searchers<\/i> (1956)<\/li>\n
  97. Bringing Up Baby<\/i> (1938)<\/li>\n
  98. Unforgiven<\/b><\/i> (1992)<\/li>\n
  99. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner<\/i> (1967)<\/li>\n
  100. Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/i> (1942)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All things considered, I think I spend way too much sitting in the dark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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