I remember the first Christmas after Jimmy Stewart died it was hard to watch that movie. He seemed almost like family.
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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It’s a one of kind experience though. No movie like it. It’s not really about Vietnam
Ever since she got divorced from her billionaire husband, the AFI turned it's back on her. But she'll have her revenge. Oh yes.
What. No Jerry Lewis?
If you’re striking that Average Joe populist tone then Titanic should be #1 since it was the highest grossing film of all time. ‘Annie Hall’ is constantly imitated by just about every Romantic comedy.
And I think Suspicion worked just fine with them leading you to think that Cary Grant was plotting to murder his wife and it turned out he was contemplating suicide! Who saw that coming???
Yes, common wisdom is often wrong.
http://www.filmsite.org/afi100filmsA.html
I remember the first Christmas after Jimmy Stewart died it was hard to watch that movie. He seemed almost like family.
But, Annie Hall just isn’t funny. It may be witty, but wit isn’t comedy. Wit is when you laugh about how smart you are. Comedy is when the other guy laughs, and nobody cares how smart you are.
My beef with Titanic is less the storyline than the masking of its nature to get me to shell out theater money for it.
Certain elements of AH may be imitated, but most of the others are funnier. When Harry met Sally is a good example- we are told it is derivative, but the people behind it respected the filmgoer and put their pleasure ahead of their own. To Woody and his crew it was always more important to be the artiste.
"Hey, you're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you play center for the Los Angeles Lakers. My dad says...you don't work hard enough on defense."
“You try dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the floor for 48 minutes.”
On Bravo Channel right now if anyone's interested.
“I am serious...and don’t call me Shirley.”
It's A Wonderful Life is at #19.
"In addition, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will air a cable festival this fall that features many of the movies. And the 100 films will be available in videostores across the nation as part of this special celebration, with labels designating these films as part of AFI's 100 greatest list."
---www.afi.com
“25!”
Jaws has to be on there somewhere.
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