Which will be the #1 AFI movie this time?

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AFIs100Years

See what Eva Mendes's favorite film is.

Or Helen Mirren's.

I like where Peter Bogdanovich's cuts off. The implication being he lists all the titles in the index of Who the Devil Made It.

I'm not sure Citizen Kane is gonna be able to hold off Finding Nemo.

I was excited that The Fury joined Carrie on that list until I realized it was just plain Fury.

Sleepless in Seattle FTW

The greatest movies of the past 10 years:

*American Beauty
*As Good As It Gets
*Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
*The Aviator
*A Beautiful Mind
*Being John Malkovich
*Boogie Nights
*Brokeback Mountain
*Chicago
*Crash
*Erin Brockovich
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
*Fight Club
*Finding Nemo
*Gladiator
*Good Night, and Good Luck.
*Good Will Hunting
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
*Hotel Rwanda
*The Hours
*The Insider
*L.A. Confidential
*Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
*Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
*Lord of the Rigns: The Return of the King
*Lost in Translation
*The Matrix
*Memento
*Million Dollar Baby
*Moulin Rouge!
*Mystic River
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
*Ray
*Requiem for a Dream
*Rushmore
*Saving Private Ryan
*Shakespeare in Love
*Shrek
*Sideways
*The Sixth Sense
*Spider-Man 2
*There's Something About Mary
*Three Kings
*Titanic
*Traffic

Can't argue with that.

no Incredibles, etc

The greatest movies of the past 10 years:
*Crash

Yup.

Fury >>>> The Fury, of cawse

Now more than ever I don't regret seeing many movies in the past 10 years.

well, you didn't miss much besides Munich.

No Bubble Boy, no credibility!!!

Fury is good, but probably the least interesting Fritz Lang I've seen so far excepting Clash By Night.

best of the newbies is Eternal Sunshine, but thank God the fetishists got Fight Club in there.

I'm sorry you're going to have to type louder. I can't seem to concentrate whenever Titanic is mentioned. I get Celine Dion stuck in my head, and I have to go watch El Topo a few times to come down.

How did they come up with the new nominees anyway? It's, like, retarded.

Big Lebowski is clearly missing from the list. Sorry for the triple post but it had to be said.

Also why would only new movies be added to the list?

Good point. New, mediocre movies.

please stop letting eric make polls about movies.

I can't imagine there being more than three or four legitimate contenders for the "honor"

yeah yeah you don't like movies the other people like... we get that. Now go away.

LOOK AT ME! I'M SPECIAL! I DON'T LIKE ANY MOVIE THAT ANYONE ELSE LIKES! WATCH WHILE I STICK ALL THESE ROLLS OF CELLULOID IN MY BUTT AND DO THE "I'M-BETTER-THAN-YOU" DANCE!

WOOOOO!

srsly, at least morbs is funny sometimes.

Eric H. is more boring than Jonathan Rosenbaum, and that a nearly acrobatic level of boring.

Kenan, I don't think what you quoted has anything to do with whether Eric likes them or not. That's not what "legitimate" means there. It means "likely to be selected by AFI."

Well let me see. Crash is not a great movie to me. The characters are so one-dimensional in the film. Yeah, the cop is a racist because his dad was. Problem solved. The rich white housewife didn't really realize that her Mexican help was her only friend. Problem solved. It's so trite and preachy that I simply can't stand it. It has none of the complexity and depth of Mystic River or Brokeback Mountain, which contain characters that you can conceive of as being real people. Crash just contains a bunch of, well, stereotypes.

Many x's.

It has none of the complexity and depth of Mystic River or Brokeback Mountain

but both of those are Oscar Bait complex, not Actual complex.

Though I agree, Crash is terrible.

You can't produce a movie about gay sex, my friend, and hope to win an Oscar.

i voted for YOUNG MR LINCOLN just cos i know no one else will vote for it

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

kenan, Eric is funny and a total bro, so watch it. He's just a little hung up on AFI canonizing tapioca.

So is that "life of emile zola" worth seeing then?

I've always avoided it. like I have The Hours.

kenan's rant = bizarre levels of projection. Eric, you are my favourite poster about movies on ILX, no contest.

kenan is more angry than frank grimes, and that a nearly acrobatic level of angry

This thread got totally redeemed while I was away.

I'm going to take Kenan's side on this one, tho. I haven't really been any fun on ILX since the decade film polls.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years..._100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)

Apropos of nothing, perhaps, but I got riled when I was reading the Red Eye this morning, which this awful free paper that the Tribune puts at all the train stations. They ragged hard on "Joe Vs. The Volcano." This is clearly a rong thing to do.

That is the only Hanks/Ryan movie worth watching!

Hmm, I stand corrected on the whole thing. Apparently the AFI have themselves confused with Sight & Sound.

What, like they used to be legitimate, and now they're not? Sometimes you're not cynical ENOUGH.

For what it is, this is probably the best list AFI has yet put out -- if only for the huge jumps City Lights, Vertigo and The Searchers (!) made from their previous positions in the lower third into the top 20, not to mention The General appearing from out of nowhere to land at #18. Do they have themselves confused with Sight & Sound all of a sudden?

I'm no Lord of the Rings fan, but I was personally just relieved that, after the bumper to commercial voiceover which teased "both the newest and oldest film on the list, back-to-back," my horrible premonition of a Birth of a Nation/Crash one-two punch did not materialize. The relief when LotR showed up became elation when they opted for Intolerance in the Griffith slot. (Seriously, how many times did they let Bogdanovich and Scorsese vote?)

As for the rest, sure there are the usual suspects both overrated (High Noon, Raging Bull, The Sixth Sense) and just plain bad (Rocky, Butch Cassidy, Easy Rider). But, still...

Some of the films making their debut this time around:
Do the Right Thing
Sunrise
The Last Picture Show
Nashville
All the President's Men
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cabaret

Some of the films that got the boot:
Dances With Wolves
Patton
Doctor Zhivago
From Here To Eternity
Giant
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
The Jazz Singer
My Fair Lady

I give those lists a hearty welcome and "sayonara," respectively. White elephants went down, even if they slipped Titanic in there.

Oops, sorry about reiterating the S&S comment. That was obviously cut-and-pasted from a different MB. It's late and I'm boring.

hi eric, sorry i compared you to rosenbaum, that was low.

shake hands?

My top 2 reminder lists will have to be yr color codes, and last year's Schrader article. :D

Doesn't Schrader's article have only about 17 U.S. films in it?

(I'd also recommend using Jaime C's lists instead of mine. He's actually seen a few films from the '40s and earlier.)

yes, 17 sounds about right.

I'm sorry, for Leo McCarey I just can't take Make Way for Tomorrow over Duck Soup.

I also wouldn't take my word on Leo McCarey. Based off what I've seen, I don't even think I like the guy, Make Way aside.

That's right: you hate screwball.

Preston Sturges seems OK so far, though neither my mind nor my gut have been busted by any of his movies.

I don't think his films inspire bellylaughs though.

They sure don't.

um yes they do.

'the lady eve' bitches.

Then again, I don't have a gut to bust. Does The Lady Eve really inspire bellylaughs? I chuckle a lot.

Buster Keaton inspires belly laughs. John Waters inspires belly laughs. Wet Hot American Summer inspires belly laughs. Screwball ... not so much.

!!

Hell, Douglas Sirk inspires belly laughs.

NO.

Hutton, Bracken & Demarest inspire belly laughs.

'lady eve' is good filthy fun. 'great mcginty' is good cynical fun. john waters is dnw for all time though.

What we have here is a failure to care.

I forgot about Morbs' girl-crush on Bracken.

The only McCarey scene to inspire bellylaughs is the one in An Affair to Remember in which Deborah Kerr tells the little black kid not to dance all jungle and shit.

LOL!

I dunno, Sister Ingrid Bergman boxing still does it for me.

I have a girl-crush on Joel McCrea (like you). I am Eddie Bracken.

By the way, I can now access nuILX at work so, yay.

yay, I know how good you are with email!

my shortlist is only 110.

How does that happen? Did you limit it to only three Spielbergs? ;)

Yes! I was fairly ruthless.

I didn't put a set limit, but I did, for whatever reason, only highlight two Spielbergs: A.I. and War of the Worlds.

mine:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Vertigo
3. Sherlock, Jr.
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. Citizen Kane

Other 95 (half wd be interchangeable on any given day, obv):

Intolerance
Greed
The Gold Rush
The General
The Crowd
Trouble in Paradise
Love Me Tonight
Man's Castle
Duck Soup

King Kong
Sons of the Desert
Bride of Frankenstein
Top Hat
Modern Times
Angels with Dirty Faces
His Girl Friday
The Bank Dick

The Shop Around the Corner
The Maltese Falcon
The Lady Eve
Shadow of a Doubt
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Meet Me in St. Louis
My Darling Clementine
The Big Sleep
Notorious
Out of the Past

Force of Evil
Red River
The Lady from Shanghai
The Third Man
Adam's Rib
In a Lonely Place
Son of Paleface
Rear Window
A Star Is Born (1954)
On the Waterfront

Kiss Me Deadly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Written on the Wind
Seven Men from Now
Paths of Glory
The Tarnished Angels
Bonjour Tristesse
Rio Bravo
North by Northwest
The Apartment

Psycho
Ride the High Country
Dr. Strangelove…
Point Blank
Rosemary's Baby
Once Upon a Time in the West
Five Easy Pieces
Two-Lane Blacktop
Winter Soldier
The Long Goodbye

Sleeper
Chinatown
The Godfather Part II
Female Trouble
Barry Lyndon
Nashville
Mikey and Nicky
All the President's Men
Annie Hall
Airplane!
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Zelig

The King of Comedy
Local Hero
Stop Making Sense
Lost in America
Prizzi's Honor
Lost in America
The Fly (1986)
Raising Arizona
Full Metal Jacket

Housekeeping
Empire of the Sun
Do the Right Thing
Say Anything...
Goodfellas
Paris Is Burning
My Own Private Idaho
Groundhog Day
Se7en
The Portrait of a Lady
The Iron Giant
The Virgin Suicides
Mulholland Dr.
Far from Heaven
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Munich
The Joy of Life

I'll finish my list in the long car ride to Des Moines today.

then I hope Field of Dreams doesn't make it!

Docs aren't allowed.

who said? well, Paris Is Burning is the only one I had.

Good call on Housekeeping, Morbs.

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. The Godfather, Pt II
3. Rear Window
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Mulholland Drive
6. My Own Private Idaho
7. Imitation of Life
8. Only Angels Have Wings
9. Dead Ringers
10. The Big Sleep

and The Joy of Life.

The rules on the blog post say they're only talking about narrative, feature-length films, though I guess that doesn't explicitly rule out docs even if they meant for it to.

1. Trouble in Paradise

Is that a screwball?

You're screwball!

No, I don't consider The Joy of Life a doc, esp the first half, but not the whole thing either. Essay, sort of.

Yeah, I'll admit I'm probably breaking the hardline narrative imperative (at least as it relates to the AFI) with my nomination of Inland Empire.

http://dailyfilmdose.blogspot.com/2007/10/afi-reloaded-fanboy-100-51-100.html
fanboy 100 results are up.

there are some howlers in the summaries:
Steven Spielberg’s powerful film re-invented the modern war film and established the new cinematic language of war.

It’s quality noir about the dark side of Hollywood and celebrityism.

The honourable presence of Gregory Peck anchors this important film about civil rights in the segregated U.S. South.

“L.A. Confidential” is the only worthy rival to “Chinatown’s” crown as the noir-king.

on casablanca: a tight script which practically invented the screenwriting template

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) dir. Frank Capra
This film is such a classic – and a film with so much optimism that it could only have been made in the United States

It looks like 1999 is one of the most popular years for film fans.

OMG, the comments include this gem:

This list suffered a bit because people older than 50 generally don't know how to use the internet.

that last is, of course, OTM

on the omission of Braveheart:

Before 1995, who would ever have thought Mel Gibson could have directed such a passionate and exhilarating epic film such as this. For me the battle scenes are still the best of its kind and have yet to be topped.

It’s a steaming plot twister that established many of the rules of the noir genre.
Which seemed funny to me, but looking around, I guess '44 was when it really took off, and lots of stuff before is considered pre-noir.

these lists are so idiotic. and if you doubt that... the sixth sense.

that list is no more idiotic than the actual AFI list

ohhhhh yes it is.

The Sixth Sense >>> Shawshank, Silence of Lambs, The Shining etc.

"STUTTERING STANLEY!" oh psychic zing emnightshamalah.

I figured they were done doing lists now, but they always come up with something fresh and exciting.

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx

It isn't AFI, but it might as well be:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/list/100-greatest-films-all-time-713215