Posted on 06/21/2007 8:04:26 AM PDT by teddyballgame
LOS ANGELES — The years have been kind to "Citizen Kane," including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic — the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse — was again rated the best movie ever Wednesday by the American Film Institute.
In the CBS special "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition," "Citizen Kane" held the same No. 1 billing it earned in the institute's first top-100 ranking in 1998.
There were notable changes elsewhere, though, with Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece "Raging Bull" bounding upward from No. 24 in 1998 to No. 4 on the new list and Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller "Vertigo" hurtling from No. 61 to No. 9 this time.
Charles Chaplin's 1931 silent gem "City Lights" jumped from No. 76 to No. 11, while the 1956 John Ford-John Wayne Western "The Searchers" took the biggest leap, from No. 96 all the way to No. 12.
"The ones that made the huge jumps are really, really fascinating," said Jean Picker Firstenberg, chief executive at AFI, which has done top-10 lists every year since 1998 showcasing best comedies, thrillers, love stories and other highlights in American cinema.
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No “Star Wars”?
Best movie: The Searchers w/ John Wayne.
The Top Ten:
1 CITIZEN KANE
2 THE GODFATHER
3 CASABLANCA
4 RAGING BULL
5 SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
6 GONE WITH THE WIND
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
8 SCHINDLER’S LIST
9 VERTIGO
10 THE WIZARD OF OZ
“A Hard Day’s Night” has to be in any Top 10 list, IMHO. “Patton” too.
Would pick "North By Northwest" over High Anxiety....
“Citizen Cane” is number one on my list...
of the most over-rated movies
They have had the same list for years.
Citizen Kane was a good film, but I would put Casablanca ahead of it.
Isn't it strange how everyone's (including liberals') favorite films were all made under the Hays Code, yet, liberals act as if bringing it back would be the equivalent of Auschwitz?
I didn't hear any liberals screaming when Jesse Jackson ordered an industry-wide ban on the "N"-word a while back. And that's different from the Hays Code how???
Oh, that's right! "Free speech" is solely for advancing the historical "thesis," and doesn't apply to the "antithesis!"
Yes, along with anything Chaplin. Yankee Doodle Dandy should be much farther up and the Graduate and Cuckoo’s nest down. I didn’t even see 42nd Street.
I have a 50th Anniversary copy of Citizen Kane. It has a dissertation about the Hearst family at the end. Best Movie FOR MY TASTES? Patton.
Actually most of the movies at the top of the list are from the post Hays era. Hays was a joke, a very bad joke.
Should have easily been in the top 5!
Rosebud...
Then again it could just be that it IS a darn good movie.
“A Hard Day’s Night” has to be in any Top 10 list...
Silly plot, but the sheer, innocent joy of Beatlemania and that EARLY Fab Four music is just sublime.
Sh•t-list?
What no “Lonely Lady” starring Pia Zadora?
The Sound of Music should be in that top ten. And some kind of western.
Raging Bull? Odd choice.
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