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AFI looking for 100 most inspiring films
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| November 18, 2005
Posted on 11/19/2005 9:35:10 AM PST by cloud8
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Distressed by thoughts of war, terrorism and natural disasters? Maybe an uplifting movie will take the edge off.
For its ninth annual celebration of cinema, the American Film Institute aims to uncover the "most inspirational films of the century."
"When times are darkest, during war and depression, movies ... provide a remarkable way for us to find ourselves again," said Jean Picker Firstenberg, AFI's director and chief executive. "We need to feel good again, and that's how these movies make us feel."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afi; americanfilminst; inspiration; movies
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To: TUAN_JIM
now THAT deserves an LOL... I used to take my Dinner with Andre action figures and put them up against my Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegone Rangers and have them calmly discuss the best time of year to have their PBS telethon.
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:30:21 AM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
To: neutrality
42
posted on
11/19/2005 10:31:09 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
("People for the Al Queda Way" support the Democrat Plan to end the war!)
To: cloud8
43
posted on
11/19/2005 10:32:35 AM PST
by
bruoz
To: All
HA! I just looked at the ballot... OF COURSE they'd have "All The President's Men" on there. It's the Democrat playbook for when they're out of the White House.
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:33:21 AM PST
by
newzjunkey
("People for the Al Queda Way" support the Democrat Plan to end the war!)
To: cloud8
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:33:51 AM PST
by
Horatio Gates
(Quotas? I write as many tickets as I want to.)
To: Sofa King
Three Amigos
Blues Brothers
Animal House
PeeWee's Big Adventure
Eraserhead
Master & Commander, The Far Side of the World
Fanny & Alexander
Reefer Madness
La Dolce Vita
Metropolis
Dumbo (I'm serious, the "wine" segment is frickin' psyhedelic)
And 89 other ones
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:34:53 AM PST
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: neutrality
"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings!"
"That`s right! That`s right!"
"Everytime a fog horn blows another liberal gets his pitchfork"
"That`s right! That`s right!"
To: cloud8
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:40:52 AM PST
by
ditto h
(My Eagles are aiming higher ( in the draft, that is ))
To: Guenevere
Braveheart? Best film? Yes indeed!!! was amazed to see it on the list. Mel is not your loser leftist hollyweird elitist.
Reminds me of him looking for help on getting "Passion of the Christ" to the screen. The empty threat was that if he did this movie, he wouldn't work in hollywood again. They almost had it right...with proceeds from the film, he only works in hollyweird if HE wants to!
To: cloud8
Personal inspiration: (just a few)
Rudy
The Rookie (the recent one with Dennis Quaid)
Chariots of Fire
The Defections of Simas Kudirka
The Passion of the Christ
Cinderella Man
Marty (1950s w/ Ernest Borgnine)
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:41:52 AM PST
by
feedback doctor
(Liberalism is like a religion - islam)
To: vbmoneyspender
Because Bluto demonstrates that going through life 'Fat, Drunk and Stupid' is a qualification for becoming a a U.S. Senator. Got that right!
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:46:41 AM PST
by
Bommer
(To Ted Kennedy - "Fat Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life son!" - Dean Wormer)
To: popdonnelly
"Dear Frankie" was a great movie.
It is Scottish, though, does that still count?
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posted on
11/19/2005 10:53:00 AM PST
by
It's me
To: cloud8
Gotta say "Brown Bunny"
It gives inspiration to every geek, since it proves that no matter how incompetant, ugly, filthy, drug-addled or abusive you may be, if you say, "I'm a movie director," starlets will do "anything" to get in your movie.
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To: cloud8
To: InvisibleChurch
now THAT deserves an LOL... I used to take my Dinner with Andre action figures and put them up against my Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegone Rangers and have them calmly discuss the best time of year to have their PBS telethon. Thanks. My 'Remains of the Day' lunch-box was my other prize possession.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:03:12 AM PST
by
TUAN_JIM
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Fresh Wind
My prediction for what will win, from their list:
- The Grapes of Wrath (directed by John Ford, 1940)
My top 10 choices, in order, from the official list you posted a link to are:
- The Passion Of The Christ (directed by Mel Gibson, 2004)
- High Noon (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
- Shane (directed by George Stevens, 1953)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (directed by Robert Mulligan, 1962)
- Without Limits (directed by Robert Towne, 1998)
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
- The Alamo (directed by John Wayne, 1960)
- Apollo 13 (directed by Ron Howard, 1995)
- Braveheart (directed by Mel Gibson, 1995)
- Boys Town (directed by Norman Taurog, 1938)
My list of movies that should have been included on their list
- Unforgiven (directed by Clint Eastwood, 1992)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (directed by John Ford, 1962)
- The Shootist (directed by Don Siegel, 1976)
- The Last of the Mohicans (directed by Michael Man, 1992)
- Léon (directed by Luc Besson, 1994)
- Henry V (directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1989) *not 100% that this is an "American Film"
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (directed by Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
- The Iron Giant (directed by Brad Bird, 1999)
My "semi finalist" choices from the official ballot list (in alphabetical order)
- The Adventures Of Robin Hood (directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938)
- The African Queen (directed by John Huston, 1951)
- The Alamo (directed by John Wayne, 1960)
- Apollo 13 (directed by Ron Howard, 1995)
- Boys Town (directed by Norman Taurog, 1938)
- Braveheart (directed by Mel Gibson, 1995)
- Captains Courageous (directed by Victor Fleming, 1937)
- Casablanca (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- Chariots of Fire (directed by Hugh Hudson, 1981)
- A Christmas Carol (directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951)
- El Cid (directed by Anthony Mann, 1961)
- Exodus (directed by Otto Preminger, 1960)
- Fiddler on the Rook (directed by Norman Jewison, 1971)
- Field of Dreams Phil (directed by Alden Robinson, 1989)
- Ghandi (directed by Richard Attenborough, 1982)
- The General (directed by Buster Keaton, 1927)
- Go Man Go (directed by James Wong Howe, 1954)
- Godspell (directed by David Greene, 1973)
- Going My Way (directed by Leo McCarey, 1944)
- Gone With The Wind (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939)
- The Good Earth (directed by Sidney Franklin, 1937)
- The Grapes of Wrath (directed by John Ford, 1940)
- The Great Escape (directed by John Sturges,1963)
- Gunga Din (directed by George Stevens, 1939)
- High Noon (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
- Hotel Rwanda (directed by Terry George, 2004)
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
- The Magnificent Seven (directed by John Sturges, 1960)
- A Man For All Seasons (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (directed by Frank Capra, 1939)
- The Natural (directed by Barry Levinson, 1984)
- The Passion Of The Christ (directed by Mel Gibson, 2004)
- Patton (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)
- The Pride Of The Yankees (directed by Sam Wood, 1942)
- The Right Stuff (directed by Philip Kaufman, 1983)
- Rudy (directed by David Anspaugh, 1993)
- Run Silent, Run Deep (directed by Robert Wise, 1958)
- Saving Private Ryan (directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998)
- Sergeant York (directed by Howard Hawks, 1941)
- Shane (directed by George Stevens, 1953)
- The Shawsank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont, 1994)
- Song Of Bernadette (directed by Henry King, 1943)
- Spartacus (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
- The Spirit Of St. Louis (directed by Billy Wilder, 1957)
- Stand And Delver (directed by Ramón Menéndez, 1988)
- Sullivan's Travels (directed by Preston Sturges, 1941)
- To Hell And Back (directed by Jesse Hibbs, 1955)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (directed by Robert Mulligan, 1962)
- 12 Angry Men (directed by Sidney Lumet, 1957)
- Without Limits (directed by Robert Towne, 1998)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (directed by John Ford, 1939)
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:03:29 AM PST
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: cloud8
Uh, Porky's, of course.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:04:30 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: najida
> My Life as a Dog
That was about boxing. Sort of. We watched it one night and just scratched our heads.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:05:27 AM PST
by
cloud8
To: cloud8
Back To The Future
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious sh!t."
"One point twenty-one jiggawatts !!!"
"Like I've always told you, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."
... and I share the name of the main character, and I, like Dave, used to be a professional Whopper flopper.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:17:52 AM PST
by
AF_Blue
(Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus)
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