Citizen Kane
 

In honor of AFI's new release of the Top 100 Movies of All Time I watched Citizen Kane for the first time, which has maintained the top billing on the list when released in 1998 and again in 2007. Excellent movie. I found myself really questioning how I felt about Kane...did I have sympathy for Kane or was he really the self centered man that Leland claimed?

Have others seen this movie and what did you think?

AFI's complete list can be downloaded through this link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19350080/

Haven't seen Citizen Kane for many years...I should watch it again before commenting...Clockwork Orange is a piece of garbage that should not be on the list, glad to see Blade Runner get listed however.

The list from 1-100

"Citizen Kane," 1941
"The Godfather," 1972
"Casablanca," 1942
"Raging Bull," 1980
"Singin’ in the Rain," 1952
"Gone With the Wind," 1939
"Lawrence of Arabia," 1962
"Schindler’s List," 1993
"Vertigo," 1958
"The Wizard of Oz," 1939
"City Lights," 1931
"The Searchers," 1956
"Star Wars," 1977
"Psycho," 1960
"2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968
"Sunset Blvd.", 1950
"The Graduate," 1967
"The General," 1927
"On the Waterfront," 1954
"It’s a Wonderful Life," 1946
"Chinatown," 1974
"Some Like It Hot," 1959
"The Grapes of Wrath," 1940
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982
"To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939
"High Noon," 1952
"All About Eve," 1950
"Double Indemnity," 1944
"Apocalypse Now," 1979
"The Maltese Falcon," 1941
"The Godfather Part II," 1974
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," 1975
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937
"Annie Hall," 1977
"The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957
"The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948
"Dr. Strangelove," 1964
"The Sound of Music," 1965
"King Kong," 1933
"Bonnie and Clyde," 1967
"Midnight Cowboy," 1969
"The Philadelphia Story," 1940
"Shane," 1953
"It Happened One Night," 1934
"A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951
"Rear Window," 1954
"Intolerance," 1916
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001
"West Side Story," 1961
"Taxi Driver," 1976
"The Deer Hunter," 1978
"M-A-S-H," 1970
"North by Northwest," 1959
"Jaws," 1975
"Rocky," 1976
"The Gold Rush," 1925
"Nashville," 1975
"Duck Soup," 1933
"Sullivan’s Travels," 1941
"American Graffiti," 1973
"Cabaret," 1972
"Network," 1976
"The African Queen," 1951
"Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981
"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966
"Unforgiven," 1992
"Tootsie," 1982
"A Clockwork Orange," 1971
"Saving Private Ryan," 1998
"The Shawshank Redemption," 1994
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969
"The Silence of the Lambs," 1991
"In the Heat of the Night," 1967
"Forrest Gump," 1994
"All the President’s Men," 1976
"Modern Times," 1936
"The Wild Bunch," 1969
"The Apartment, 1960
"Spartacus," 1960
"Sunrise," 1927
"Titanic," 1997
"Easy Rider," 1969
"A Night at the Opera," 1935
"Platoon," 1986
"12 Angry Men," 1957
"Bringing Up Baby," 1938
"The Sixth Sense," 1999
"Swing Time," 1936
"Sophie’s Choice," 1982
"Goodfellas," 1990
"The French Connection," 1971
"Pulp Fiction," 1994
"The Last Picture Show," 1971
"Do the Right Thing," 1989
"Blade Runner," 1982
"Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942
"Toy Story," 1995
"Ben-Hur," 1959

I do not see FARGO on the list.

This disturbs me. We can all pick movies that we dont like on the list. But FARGO should be on that list. A lot of good movies on the list, quite a few which I have not seen. No fargo... I weep.

I can handle that 3h...

I would have the most hesitation with Network and Raiders.

It was on the original list, dropped out in this one.

Well I guess its no good anymore. Thanks, I only copied the 2007 list.

ok, so it's 11 i highlighted....to kill a mockingbird and sophie's choice are incredible novels. it's a shame harper lee never wrote another book. i have one other of styrons, it's good but doesn't compare. much prefer books to movies. as for star wars, i was a kid when that came out--that movie was MAGIC!! watching it now (and jaws) the special effects seem a bit cheesy, but it doesn't matter. they are works of art!

can't believe how many on that list i have never seen.

I've seen several of these, but the highlighted movies are the movies I enjoyed the most.

I remember sitting in a meeting with some English teachers. We all had to mention movies that had an effect on us. They mentioned all of the classics, some of which I did not totally get. Time came for me to mention my movie and I stated "One Flew over the Cuckoo..." And they looked at me like what the hell is wrong with you.

I am vindicated. At a much later date.

We watched that in school, but we also got to read Canterbury Tales ;)

yeah, but school only lets you read the 'clean' tales...i have a beautiful book at home with all the tales (shame he only got started on several) and some are raunchy! hilarious, and such a sense of humor. love to read them.

matter of fact, it's been a while since i have read them. time for a re-read.

Our school actually let us read the whole book. We really got to cover a lot of literature and movies in regular classwork as supplemental learning.


Speaking of which, I think Gettysburg is one of the most under-rated movies out there.

Really...I'm floored.







OOOOOOOOOO

I saw it E-LEVENDY times!










;)

wasn't that movie based on 'the killer angels'? GREAT book!! the turning point of the war.

Yup, I loved the book too. Gettysburg is a great vacation too if you haven't been there!

You have fallen and you cant get up?

Press the beeper, the men in the white coats will come for you.
So young.... very sad.

I just hit you with the big fish.

Gee wizz...I gave ya a compliment there Mr.Wizzard.