jboothmillard Review of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007 TV Movie)

100 Years, 100 Greatest Movies

[8/10 · 24 February 2008]

This was like one of those 100 Greatest lists, except with a different title and countdown, this was an essential list counting down 100 great movie in an edited edition of the last list, 10 years ago, this was the anniversary edition. Hosted by Morgan Freeman and with contributions by Tim Allen, Halle Berry, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Bridges, Mel Brooks, Cher, Billy Crystal, Richard Dreyfuss, Clint Eastwood, Laurence Fishburne, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Harrison Ford, Jodie Foster, William Friedkin, Charlton Heston, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Norman Jewison, Sir Ben Kinglsey, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, Eva Mendes, Liza Minnelli, Peter O'Toole, Sydney Pollack, Debbie Reynolds, Julia Roberts, Martin Scorcese, Martin Sheen, M. Night Shyamalan, Kevin Spacey, Steven Spielberg, Ben Stiller, Sharon Stone, Robin Williams, Sidney Lumet (archive), Jack Lemmon (archive), Sally Field, Anne Bancroft (archive), Carl Weathers, Eva Marie Saint, Anjelica Huston, Cameron Crowe, Billy Wilder (archive), Robert Towne (writer of Chinatown and Mission: Impossible), Arthur C. Clarke (writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey), Janet Leigh (archive), Stanley Donen (co-director of Singin' in the Rain) and many more. The movies included Ben-Hur, Toy Story, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, The French Connection, GoodFellas, Sophie's Choice, Swing Time, The Sixth Sense, Bringing Up Baby, 12 Angry Men, Platoon, A Night at the Opera, Easy Rider, Titanic, Spartacus, The Apartment, The Wild Bunch, Modern Times, All the President's Men, Forrest Gump, In the Heat of the Night, The Silence of the Lambs, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan, A Clockwork Orange, Tootsie, Unforgiven, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The African Queen, Network, Cabaret, American Graffiti, Duck Soup, The Gold Rush, Rocky, Jaws, North by Northwest, MASH, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, West Side Story, The Lord of the Rings, Intolerance, Rear Window, A Streetcar Named Desire, It Happened One Night, Shane, The Philadelphia Story, Midnight Cowboy, Bonnie and Clyde, King Kong, The Sound of Music, Dr. Strangelove, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Annie Hall, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, One Flew over the Cuckoo's; The Godfather, Part II, The Maltese Falcon, Apocalypse Now, Double Indemnity, All about Eve, High Noon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, To Kill a Mockingbird, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Grapes of Wrath, Some Like It Hot, Chinatown, It's a Wonderful Life, On the Waterfront, The Graduate, Sunset Boulevard, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Psycho, Star Wars, The Searchers, City Lights, The Wizard of Oz, Vertigo, Schindler's List, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain, Raging Bull, Casablanca, The Godfather, and same as 10 years ago, number one was Citizen Kane. Very good!