I've wondered about this since these AFI listings started to be generally circulated. Is it known who exactly is compiling these lists? Is it a panel of knowledgeable film scholars/critics/makers, or is it an assignment given to some staff writer, who just asks his pals and his mom which movies the...

Well, here's my tentative list, but expect lots of changes before the final date. 1. Greed 2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 3. Pandora's Box 4. Sunrise 5. Napoleon 6. Sparrows 7. The Passion of Joan of Arc 8. Metropolis 9. Nosferatu 10. The Last Command 11. The Thief of Bagdad 12. Les Vampires 13. The...

Vecchiolarry wrote:Hi,

I just learned that Dody Goodman has died today at age 93....

Very sad...I was an MH2 fan and thought her Martha Shumway was certainly one of the highlights of the series. I would've loved to have met her.

-Stephen

Were it not for the "American" qualifier, I could list Once Upon a Time in the West. Alas... 1. Winchester 73 (1950) 2. Stagecoach (1939) 3. Shane (1953) 4. Ride the High Country (1962) 5. Rio Bravo (1959) 6. The Searchers (1956) 7. High Noon (1952) 8. The Man from Laramie (1955) 9. Red Ri...

It's kind of tricky to define "romantic comedy", because a lot of screwball stuff I really enjoy like Bringing Up Baby , The Palm Beach Story , and The Lady Eve , is in essence romantic comedy. I second-guessed the AFI this past week with another list of my "top tens" and sent i...

I'd love to know how Titanic still manages to rate such respect from their magazine. Granted, during its first run in theaters, everyone was wild about it. But five years later, when it was reduced to the small screen and people were forced to evaluate it for its real merit, everyone I knew thought ...

I took advantage of the sale to order a ton of films I'd wanted to own for a while, but let the buyer beware -if you're interested in purchasing any Warner Home Video titles that have been on DVD for a time, you'll likely get the weaker "cardboard" snapcases rather than the more durable cl...

If you liked The Oscar , I have it on good authority that the upcoming Legend of Lylah Clare (1968), another movie about sleazy Hollywood dealings, should be an equally trashy treat. Though I admittedly haven't seen the film, I am looking forward to it, given what I've read about it. Can't remember ...

Stephen, Is that because there are too many that you enjoy, or not enough? Way, way too many. If we narrowed it to "American non-comedy silents," that would help, but it'd still be hard. And I'm sure it'll be fun. While I may give myself a headache, I always enjoy anything related to film...

We will do Non-Comedy Silents as a genre of its own to begin with. You will be able to include shorts in your choices if you choose to. I know that with all the very knowledgeable silent fans here that at the very least this will be a very educational competiton for me. AAGGGH!! Well, give me about...

Oh, how I miss Daria. That was a really realistic look at what teenagers, especially teenage girls, are like. And it was consistently funny, too. Gotta love those Morgendorffers. Especially Daria's younger sister, Quinn, and the whining way she drew out the syllables of the word "Mom," in...

Daria was a character that appeared in Beavis and Butthead , but I don't think Mike Judge had anything else to do with the series. Daria was long overdue, in my opinion - there needed to be a series that sympathetically dealt with the lives of the teen outcasts and at the same time empowered them. ...

I thought it was just me who finds Raymond revolting. I think the characters are truly ghastly -- I don't understand why anyone laughs at that show. I have a very high tolerance for dump-on-the-Italian-Americans-type humor. I was prepared to find something familiar and amusing about Raymond . I hat...

I watched "Raymond" the first couple of years but he got to be such a twit I couldn't watch him anymore. Because men on sitcoms are such idiots anymore I don't really watch them. It's funny you should bring up ELR after jdb mentioned people's response to the Connors of Roseanne being a dy...

I really enjoyed Roseanne for the first few years of its run and then I kind of drifted away from it. I have not watched an episode since then. I would be very curious to watch some of the first couple of seasons (which I think were very well crafted and clever) and see how they hold up compared to...