I got caught last night watching AFI: 10 Top 10 which is their list of "America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres". It's always about half way through theses lists that I feel like something is missing. This one it was when they hit westerns, then I remembered they only include American films. Anyhow, I'm a sucker for lists and had my virtual highlighter hand to see how many I had seen (69/99, I bumped it down from 100 as A Clockwork Orange is on my 'not seeing' list). With the exception of Sci Fi, I am shocked that there was at least one per category I had not seen. Other categories that I scored high in the 'I've seen that!' lists are: Animated (9/10), Fantasy (8/10) and Mystery (8/10).
As for the list over all, there are a lot of great films included. I was surprized at some of the entries under Fantasy as I consider them 'holiday' films but in the strictest sense they are fantasy and they certainly meet the definition they use to describe the genre. I was surprized they put Romantic Comedy together and didn't have Romance and Comedy on there own. Also, I never would have picked Courtroom Drama as a genre, but then again along with Gangster that was the group of which I had seen the least both with 4/10 seen.
All in all, this brings a lot of films to explore in the future and it may encourage me to make my own lists! How about you?
Animated
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- Pinocchio
- Bambi
- Lion King, The
- Fantasia
- Toy Story
- Beauty and the Beast
- Shrek
- Cinderella
- Finding Nemo
- Wizard of Oz, The
- Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring
- It's a Wonderful Life
- King Kong
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Field of Dreams
- Harvey
- Groundhog Day
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Big
- 2001
- Star Wars: Episode Four A New Hope
- E.T.
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Blade Runner
- Alien
- The Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50's)
- Back to the Future
- Raging Bull
- Rocky
- The Pride of the Yankees
- Hoosiers
- Bull Durham
- The Hustler
- Caddyshack
- Breaking Away
- National Velvet
- Jerry Maguire
- The Searchers
- High Noon
- Shane
- Unforgiven
- Red River
- The Wild Bunch
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Stagecoach
- Cat Ballou
- The Godfather
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather Part II
- White Heat
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
- Pulp Fiction
- The Public Enemy
- Little Caesar
- Scarface
- Vergito
- Chinatown
- Rear Window
- Laura
- The Third Man
- The Maltese Falcon
- North by Northwest
- Blue Velvet
- Dial M for Murder
- The Usual Suspects
- City Lights
- Annie Hall
- It Happened One Night
- Roman Holiday
- The Philadephia Story
- When Harry Met Sally
- Adam's Rib
- Moonstruck
- Harold and Maude
- Sleepless in Seatle
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- 12 Angry Men
- Kramer vs Kramer
- The Verdict
- A Few Good Men
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Anatomy of a Murder
- In Cold Blood
- A Cry in the Dark
- Judgement at Nuremberg
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Ben-Hur
- Schindler's List
- Gone with the Wind
- Spartacus
- Titanic
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Saving Private Ryan
- Reds
- The Ten Commandments
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