{"id":3546,"date":"2008-01-09T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:03:04","slug":"the-afi-100-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/09\/the-afi-100-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFI 100 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just discovered that, late last year, the American Film Institute revised their List of the 100 Greatest Movies of All-Time<\/a> [pdf]. Looking over the list, I was a little surprised at how many I have never seen.<\/p>\n

Here’s the breakdown, with films I’ve seen in green<\/span>, films I haven’t seen in red<\/span>, and films I have seen but don’t really recall well in yellow<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Citizen Kane<\/b><\/span> (1941)<\/li>\n
  2. The Godfather<\/b><\/span> (1972)<\/li>\n
  3. Casablanca<\/b><\/span> (1942)<\/li>\n
  4. Raging Bull<\/b><\/span> (1980)<\/li>\n
  5. Singin’ In The Rain<\/b><\/span> (1952)<\/li>\n
  6. Gone With The Wind<\/b><\/span> (1939)<\/li>\n
  7. Lawrence Of Arabia<\/b><\/span> (1962)<\/li>\n
  8. Schindler’s list<\/b><\/span> (1993)<\/li>\n
  9. Vertigo<\/b><\/span> (1958)<\/li>\n
  10. The Wizard Of Oz<\/b><\/span> (1939)<\/li>\n
  11. City Lights<\/b><\/span> (1931)<\/li>\n
  12. The Searchers<\/b><\/span> (1956)<\/li>\n
  13. Star Wars<\/b><\/span> (1977)<\/li>\n
  14. Psycho<\/b><\/span> (1960)<\/li>\n
  15. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/b><\/span> (1968)<\/li>\n
  16. Sunset Blvd.<\/b><\/span> (1950)<\/li>\n
  17. The Graduate<\/b><\/span> (1967)<\/li>\n
  18. The General<\/b><\/span> (1927)<\/li>\n
  19. On The Waterfront<\/b><\/span> (1954)<\/li>\n
  20. It’s A Wonderful life<\/b><\/span> (1946)<\/li>\n
  21. Chinatown<\/b><\/span> (1974)<\/li>\n
  22. Some like It Hot<\/b><\/span> (1959)<\/li>\n
  23. The Grapes Of Wrath<\/b><\/span> (1940)<\/li>\n
  24. E.T. The Extra-terrestrial<\/b><\/span> (1982)<\/li>\n
  25. To Kill A Mockingbird<\/b><\/span> (1962)<\/li>\n
  26. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington<\/b><\/span> (1939)<\/li>\n
  27. High Noon<\/b><\/span> (1952)<\/li>\n
  28. All About Eve<\/b><\/span> (1950)<\/li>\n
  29. Double Indemnity<\/b><\/span> (1944)<\/li>\n
  30. Apocalypse Now<\/b><\/span> (1979)<\/li>\n
  31. The Maltese Falcon<\/b><\/span> (1941)<\/li>\n
  32. The Godfather Part Ii<\/b><\/span> (1974)<\/li>\n
  33. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest<\/b><\/span> (1975)<\/li>\n
  34. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs<\/b><\/span> (1937)<\/li>\n
  35. Annie Hall<\/b><\/span> (1977)<\/li>\n
  36. The Bridge On The River Kwai<\/b><\/span> (1957)<\/li>\n
  37. The Best Years Of Our lives<\/b><\/span> (1946)<\/li>\n
  38. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre<\/b><\/span> (1948)<\/li>\n
  39. Dr. Strangelove<\/b><\/span> (1964)<\/li>\n
  40. The Sound Of Music<\/b><\/span> (1965)<\/li>\n
  41. King Kong<\/b><\/span> (1933)<\/li>\n
  42. Bonnie And Clyde<\/b><\/span> (1967)<\/li>\n
  43. Midnight Cowboy<\/b><\/span> (1969)<\/li>\n
  44. The Philadelphia Story<\/b><\/span> (1940)<\/li>\n
  45. Shane<\/b><\/span> (1953)<\/li>\n
  46. It Happened One Night<\/b><\/span> (1934)<\/li>\n
  47. A Streetcar Named Desire<\/b><\/span> (1951)<\/li>\n
  48. Rear Window<\/b><\/span> (1954)<\/li>\n
  49. Intolerance<\/b><\/span> (1916)<\/li>\n
  50. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring<\/b><\/span> (2001)<\/li>\n
  51. West Side Story<\/b><\/span> (1961)<\/li>\n
  52. Taxi Driver<\/b><\/span> (1976)<\/li>\n
  53. The Deer Hunter<\/b><\/span> (1978)<\/li>\n
  54. M*a*s*h<\/b><\/span> (1970)<\/li>\n
  55. North By Northwest<\/b><\/span> (1959)<\/li>\n
  56. Jaws<\/b><\/span> (1975)<\/li>\n
  57. Rocky<\/b><\/span> (1976)<\/li>\n
  58. The Gold Rush<\/b><\/span> (1925)<\/li>\n
  59. Nashville<\/b><\/span> (1975)<\/li>\n
  60. Duck Soup<\/b><\/span> (1933)<\/li>\n
  61. Sullivan’s Travels<\/b><\/span> (1941)<\/li>\n
  62. American Graffiti<\/b><\/span> (1973)<\/li>\n
  63. Cabaret<\/b><\/span> (1972)<\/li>\n
  64. Network<\/b><\/span> (1976)<\/li>\n
  65. The African Queen<\/b><\/span> (1951)<\/li>\n
  66. Raiders Of The Lost Ark<\/b><\/span> (1981)<\/li>\n
  67. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?<\/b><\/span> (1966)<\/li>\n
  68. Unforgiven<\/b><\/span> (1992)<\/li>\n
  69. Tootsie<\/b><\/span> (1982)<\/li>\n
  70. A Clockwork Orange<\/b><\/span> (1971)<\/li>\n
  71. Saving Private Ryan<\/b><\/span> (1998)<\/li>\n
  72. The Shawshank Redemption<\/b><\/span> (1994)<\/li>\n
  73. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid<\/b><\/span> (1969)<\/li>\n
  74. The Silence Of The Lambs<\/b><\/span> (1991)<\/li>\n
  75. In The Heat Of The Night<\/b><\/span> (1967)<\/li>\n
  76. Forrest Gump<\/b><\/span> (1994)<\/li>\n
  77. All The President’s Men<\/b><\/span> (1976)<\/li>\n
  78. Modern Times<\/b><\/span> (1936)<\/li>\n
  79. The Wild Bunch<\/b><\/span> (1969)<\/li>\n
  80. The Apartment<\/b><\/span> (1960)<\/li>\n
  81. Spartacus<\/b><\/span> (1960)<\/li>\n
  82. Sunrise<\/b><\/span> (1927)<\/li>\n
  83. Titanic<\/b><\/span> (1997)<\/li>\n
  84. Easy Rider<\/b><\/span> (1969)<\/li>\n
  85. A Night At The Opera<\/b><\/span> (1935)<\/li>\n
  86. Platoon<\/b><\/span> (1986)<\/li>\n
  87. 12 Angry Men<\/b><\/span> (1957)<\/li>\n
  88. Bringing Up Baby<\/b><\/span> (1938)<\/li>\n
  89. The Sixth Sense<\/b><\/span> (1999)<\/li>\n
  90. Swing Time<\/b><\/span> (1936)<\/li>\n
  91. Sophie’s Choice<\/b><\/span> (1982)<\/li>\n
  92. Goodfellas<\/b><\/span> (1990)<\/li>\n
  93. The French Connection<\/b><\/span> (1971)<\/li>\n
  94. Pulp Fiction<\/b><\/span> (1994)<\/li>\n
  95. The Last Picture Show<\/b><\/span> (1971)<\/li>\n
  96. Do The Right Thing<\/b><\/span> (1989)<\/li>\n
  97. Blade Runner<\/b><\/span> (1982)<\/li>\n
  98. Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/b><\/span> (1942)<\/li>\n
  99. Toy Story<\/b><\/span> (1995)<\/li>\n
  100. Ben-hur<\/b><\/span> (1959)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And so, my New Year’s Resolution: to rid the above list of red. In other words, my goal, in 2008, is to watch these 41 movies:<\/p>\n