Posted on 08/12/2018 8:14:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers is a list of the 100 most inspiring films of all time.
These 100 movies inspire us, encourage us to make a difference and send us from the theatre with a greater sense of possibility and hope for the future. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians selected the classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, starring James Stewart, as the most inspiring movie of all time.
Here's the AFI top ten:
1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962
3. SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
4. ROCKY 1976
5. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939
6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982
7. THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1940
8. BREAKING AWAY 1979
9. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1947
10. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
I forgot to check the Excerpt box (or maybe the Russians deleted it). Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.afi.com/100Years/cheers.aspx
I’m impressed that they had Breaking Away that high. I love that movie.
No Hunger Games?
Whats more inspiring than a bunch of teenagers running around the woods trying to kill each other?
Not impressed that Remember The Titans is not on the list.
Bless you.
No “Sharknado”?
Re: 6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982 ~
Why did illegal aliens dislike ET?
He learned English, and all he ever wanted was to go home...
what did ET inspire us todo?
I’m glad Rocky is on the list. It’s easy to make fun of the endless sequels, but Rocky is still a GREAT movie.
Home phone.
Eat Reese’s Pieces.
I don’t have home phone. Inspired by a dozen other movies to unplug.
I was inspired y Tom Jones to eat chicken with busty women.
“The Best Years of Our Lives.” 1948.
Well why isn’t Yentl on the list?
Capra receives the DSM from Gen George Marshall.
Frank Capra walked away from the movie business because "he refused to adjust to the cynicism of the new order." In his autobiography written in 1971, Capra expressed his feelings about the shifting film industry: "The winds of change blew through the dream factories of make-believe, tore at its crinoline tatters.... The hedonists, the homosexuals, the hemophiliac bleeding hearts, the God-haters, the quick-buck artists who substituted shock for talent, all cried: "Shake 'em! Rattle 'em! God is dead. Long live pleasure! Nudity? Yea! Wife-swapping? Yea! Liberate the world from prudery. Emancipate our films from morality!".... Kill for thrill shock! Shock! To hell with the good in man, Dredge up his evil shock! Shock!"
Capra added that in his opinion, "practically all the Hollywood film-making of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the 'patronage' of deviates and masturbators."
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