AFI Rates 'Citizen Kane' No. 1 Movie

FoxNews ^ | 6/21/07 | staff

[teddyballgame]

No "Anchorman"? No "Dumb and Dumber"? What kinda list is this?!?

[PzLdr]

No “Star Wars”?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Best movie: The Searchers w/ John Wayne.

[teddyballgame]

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

[MrLee]

“A Hard Day’s Night” has to be in any Top 10 list, IMHO. “Patton” too.

[Psalm 73]

"9 VERTIGO"

Would pick "North By Northwest" over High Anxiety....

[kidd]

“Citizen Cane” is number one on my list...

of the most over-rated movies

[Retired Greyhound]

They have had the same list for years.

Citizen Kane was a good film, but I would put Casablanca ahead of it.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I knew they would. They always do.

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!"

[steve8714]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

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.

[discostu]

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.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I watched it last night. Star Wars came in at #13, I think.

Should have easily been in the top 5!

[Sybeck1]

Rosebud...

[BallyBill]

Hollywood may have fallen back in love with "Citizen Kane" because they see Kane as a modern day Murdoch.

Then again it could just be that it IS a darn good movie.

[EyeGuy]

“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.

[johnny7]

What kinda list is this?!?

Sh•t-list?

[OC_Steve]

What no “Lonely Lady” starring Pia Zadora?

[what's up]

Citizen Kane should be around 39.

The Sound of Music should be in that top ten. And some kind of western.

Raging Bull? Odd choice.