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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Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It’s not that hard: Samir Na-gheen-an-a-jar.
Nagheenanajar.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn’t Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know there’s nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent a$$ clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well why don’t you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
That is the movie about the scandinavian kid, right?
It was kinda cute, as I recall.
LOL...I am waiting to get together with a few people and watch it again...I just loved that parody scene of them destroying the printer...it reminded me of a number of movies, very well done.
Patton
Monty Python And the Holy Grail
Airplane! (Any thread about airplanes in peril always turns into an Airplane! references thread)
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now!
Saving Private Ryan
Slapshot
Animal House
Caddyshack
The Longest Day
The Godfather & The Godfather II (III - not so much)
OK, strike Apocalypse Now! and put in Team America and Office Space.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Maltese Falcon (my personal favorite of all time)
The Kane Mutiny (probably the single best acting performance ever).
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen that movie and every time Claude Raines shines above an incredibly strong cast. His Captain Renault makes the film.
where the hell is CADDYSHACK
Of course. My, how all those classic films did suffer fron not having the "f-word" spewed forty-nine times every minute. That just ruins them. [/sarcasm]
Doesn’t anyone KNOCK ANYMORE!!
Wow. I’ve only seen one of those...Raging Bull. I need to get with the program.
Tombstone
Broken Arrow
Ulzana’s Raid
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to finish my TPS report...
It’s not the F word, it’s the idiotic rules that largely depended on how well the filmmaker could con the Hays people. The reality is the Hays Code didn’t actually ban anything so long as the filmmaker could convince the gatekeepers that the film had a “moral” message, it’s what lead to “morality movies” (most of the ones that survived to today were “anti-drug” movies) that were really just titillation films with a supposed message. You got movies like Cocaine Devils Powder that had full nudity, but it was OK with Hays because it “showed: the “bad things” people on coke did. Of course then you get the filmmakers that weren’t able to coax the Hays guys so you get things like the silly ending to the original Scarface because the Hays people didn’t think the bad guy getting gunned down was enough punishment, he had to go to court and be punished by the government. Then there’s the whole silliness of not even being able to intimate that couples, including married people, have sex so you wind up all those hokey two bed bedrooms. Hays was stupid.
Of all the funny scenes in the movie, that one almost killed me, I was laughing so hard. I love Michael Bolton. "Print error 567? What the f@#$! is that!"
Yup.
Don’t forget the cover sheet.
Those films were made outside of the Hayes code. They DID have to contend with local censor boards (Baltimore had their own town censor into the 1970s and John Waters had to endure their scrutiny).
The morality movies are mostly from the Hays era and had to put up with it. The funny part is that everybody making the movies knew that the “message” was just a cover, everybody paying to watch them seemed to figure that out too, but the Hays people (and other censors, Hays wasn’t alone) never seemed to figure it out.
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