{"id":28352,"date":"2011-10-03T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?page_id=28352"},"modified":"2011-10-13T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T01:34:38","slug":"afis-top-100-films-1997","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/watching\/personal-to-watch-list\/afis-top-100-films-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI’s Top 100 Films (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:<\/b> American Film Institute<\/a>
\nPublished:<\/b> 1997
\nConstraints:<\/b> American films made between 1900 and 1997<\/p>\n

Yet to See<\/h3>\n

92. A Place in the Sun<\/em> (1951; George Stevens)
\n83. Platoon<\/em> (1986; Oliver Stone)
\n79. The Deer Hunter<\/em> (1978; Michael Cimino)
\n78. Rocky<\/em> (1976; John G. Avildsen)<\/p>\n

Seen<\/h3>\n

100. Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/em> (1942; Michael Curtiz)
\n99. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner<\/em> (1967; Stanley Kramer)
\n98. Unforgiven<\/a><\/em> (1992; Clint Eastwood)
\n97. Bringing Up Baby<\/a><\/em> (1938; Howard Hawks)
\n96. The Searchers<\/em> (1956; John Ford)
\n95. Pulp Fiction<\/em> (1994; Quentin Tarantino)
\n94. Goodfellas<\/em> (1990; Martin Scorsese)
\n93. The Apartment<\/a><\/em> (1960; Billy Wilder)
\n91. My Fair Lady<\/em> (1964; George Cukor)
\n90. The Jazz Singer<\/em> (1927)
\n89. Patton<\/em> (1970; Franklin J. Schaffner)
\n88. Easy Rider<\/a><\/em> (1969; Dennis Hopper)
\n87. Frankenstein<\/em> (1931; James Whale)
\n86. Mutiny on the Bounty<\/em> (1935)
\n85. Duck Soup<\/em> (1933)
\n84. Fargo<\/em> (1996; Joel Coen)
\n82. Giant<\/em> (1956; George Stevens)
\n81. Modern Times<\/em> (1936; Charlie Chaplin)
\n80. The Wild Bunch<\/em> (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
\n77. American Graffiti<\/em> (1973; George Lucas)
\n76. City Lights<\/em> (1931; Charlie Chaplin)
\n75. Dances With Wolves<\/em> (1990; Kevin Costner)
\n74. The Gold Rush<\/em> (1924; Charlie Chaplin)
\n73. Wuthering Heights<\/em> (1939; William Wyler)
\n72. Ben-Hur<\/em> (1959; William Wyler)
\n71. Forrest Gump<\/em> (1994; Robert Zemeckis)
\n70. The French Connection<\/em> (1971; William Friedkin)
\n69. Shane<\/em> (1953; George Stevens)
\n68. An American in Paris<\/em> (1951; Vincente Minnelli)
\n67. The Manchurian Candidate<\/em> (1962; John Frankenheimer)
\n66. Network<\/em> (1976)
\n65. Silence of the Lambs<\/em> (1991; Jonathan Demme)
\n64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> (1977; Steven Spielberg)
\n63. Stagecoach<\/em> (1939; John Ford)
\n62. Tootsie<\/em> (1982)
\n61. Vertigo<\/em> (1958; Alfred Hitchcock)
\n60. Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> (1982; Steven Spielberg)
\n59. Rebel Without a Cause<\/em> (1955; Nicholas Ray)
\n58. Fantasia<\/em> (1940)
\n57. The Third Man<\/em> (1949; Carol Reed)
\n56. M*A*S*H<\/a><\/em> (Robert Altman)
\n55. The Sound of Music<\/em> (1965; Robert Wise)
\n54. All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> (1930; Lewis Milestone)
\n53. Amadeus<\/em> (1984; Milos Forman)
\n52. From Here to Eternity<\/em> (1953; Fred Zinnemann)
\n51. The Philadelphia Story<\/em> (1940; George Cukor)
\n50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em> (1969)
\n49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/em> (1937)
\n48. Jaws<\/em> (1975; Steven Spielberg)
\n47. Taxi Driver<\/a><\/em> (1976; Martin Scorsese)
\n46. A Clockwork Orange<\/a><\/em> (Stanley Kubrick)
\n45. A Streetcar Named Desire<\/a><\/em> (1951; Elia Kazan)
\n44. The Birth of a Nation<\/em> (1915; D.W. Griffith)
\n43. King Kong<\/em> (1933; Merian C. Cooper)
\n42. Rear Window<\/a><\/em> (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
\n41. West Side Story<\/em> (1961; Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
\n40. North by Northwest<\/em> (1959; Alfred Hitchcock)
\n39. Doctor Zhivago<\/em> (1965; David Lean)
\n38. Double Indemnity<\/em> (1944; Billy Wilder)
\n37. The Best Years of Our Lives<\/em> (1946; William Wyler)
\n36. Midnight Cowboy<\/em> (1969; John Schlesinger)
\n35. It Happened One Night<\/em> (1934; Frank Capra)
\n34. To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> (1962)
\n33. High Noon<\/em> (1952; Fred Zinnemann)
\n32. The Godfather Part II<\/a><\/em> (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
\n31. Annie Hall<\/em> (1977; Woody Allen)
\n30. Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/em> (1948; John Huston)
\n29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington<\/em> (1939; Frank Capra)
\n28. Apocalypse Now<\/em> (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
\n27. Bonnie & Clyde<\/em> (1967; Arthur Penn)
\n26. Dr. Strangelove<\/em> (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
\n25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial<\/em> (1982; Steven Spielberg)
\n24. Raging Bull<\/em> (1980; Martin Scorsese)
\n23. The Maltese Falcon<\/em> (1941; John Huston)
\n22. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
\n21. The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> (1940; John Ford)
\n20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> (1975; Milos Forman)
\n19. Chinatown<\/em> (1976; Roman Polanski)
\n18. Psycho<\/em> (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
\n17. The African Queen<\/em> (1951; John Huston)
\n16. All About Eve<\/em> (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
\n15. Star Wars<\/em> (1977; George Lucas)
\n14. Some Like It Hot<\/em> (1959; Billy Wilder)
\n13. The Bridge on the River Kwai<\/em> (1957; David Lean)
\n12. Sunset Boulevard<\/em> (1950; Billy Wilder)
\n11. It’s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (1946; Frank Capra)
\n10. Singin’ in the Rain<\/em> (1952; Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
\n9. Schindler’s List<\/em> (1993; Steven Spielberg)
\n8. On the Waterfront<\/em> (1954; Elia Kazan)
\n7. The Graduate<\/em> (1967; Mike Nichols)
\n6. The Wizard of Oz<\/em> (1939; Victor Fleming)
\n5. Lawrence of Arabia<\/em> (1962; David Lean)
\n4. Gone With the Wind<\/em> (1939; Victor Fleming)
\n3. The Godfather<\/em> (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
\n2. Casablanca<\/em> (1943; Michael Curtiz)
\n1. Citizen Kane<\/em> (1941; Orson Welles)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: American Film Institute Published: 1997 Constraints: American films made between 1900 and 1997 Yet to See 92. A Place in the Sun (1951; George Stevens) 83. Platoon (1986; Oliver Stone) 79. The Deer Hunter (1978; Michael Cimino) 78. Rocky (1976; John G. Avildsen) Seen 100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942; Michael Curtiz) 99. Guess Who’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20522,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28661,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/watching\/personal-to-watch-list\/1001-films-you-must-see-before-you-die\/","url_meta":{"origin":28352,"position":0},"title":"1001 Films You Must See Before You Die","author":"Jandy","date":"October 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Schneider Up to date from source: 2007 Up to date per my viewing: 6 October 2015. 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