Chasing pellets: Meet the Pac-Man world champions | Add to My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Add to: My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines AFI's New List of "Top 100 Films" Announced! Posted Jun 21st 2007 9:02AM by Patrick Walsh "This list..
.is an absolute good." Well, it's an absolute "pretty good.
" As I told you yesterday, the American Film Institute has refreshed its "100 Years ...
From a master list of 400 films, a panel that included directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers, critics, and historians, selected their top 100 choices. The original list came out in 1998, and last night's special taught us that apparently not many great films have been released since then! The new poll allowed voters to select movies released between 1996 and 2006 for the first time.
Of the newly eligible films, only , and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Steven Spielberg was the director with the most films on the list, with five. Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Billy Wilder each had four. James Stewart and Robert DeNiro were the most represented actors, with five films apiece.
You can check out the list for yourself here. I can sit and watch these things for hours. I don't care how many times I hear about the shark not working, I still love it.
But to be honest, last night's special was a bit dull. These lists tend to be painfully predictable, and this was no exception. was ranked #1 yet again, and the only major additions to the Top 10 were (jumping from #24 to #4) and (jumping from #61 to #9).
New to the 2007 list are the following films: The General, Intolerance, Nashville, Sullivan's Travels, Cabaret, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Shawshank Redemption, In The Heat of the Night, All the President's Men, Spartacus, Sunrise, A Night at the Opera, 12 Angry Men, Swing Time, Sophie's Choice, The Last Picture Show, Blade Runner, Toy Story and -- a special cheers to this one -- Do the Right Thing, though it came in at a pretty weak #96.
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