After finishing my last series with the grandiose title (“Better than AFI’s Top 100“), I thought I’d take a longer break from a series. “The British Film Institute’s top 100 British films turns twenty in 2019,” I said to myself. “You could catch up on those in eighteen months. Or,” I said, and this is… Read More 100 Exceptional American Movies in 10 Genres: 2017 Version
The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 95-91
The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here. And for a way to vote on what you think the top… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100 (2017): 100-96
The American Film Institute, if it’s on schedule, should put out a new Top 100 list of American films this summer; they did so for the first time in 1997, and then did it again in 2007. I like the AFI lists. I’m not ashamed to admit that reading an special edition of Newsweek on… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 2017 Version
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