What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.aspx
The Sound of Music is on the following AFI lists:
The Original Top 100 (#55)
100 Years...100 Passions (#27)
100 Greatest Film Songs (#10 - "The Sound of Music;" #64 - "My Favorite Things;" #88 - "Do Re Mi")
25 Greatest Movie Musicals (#4)
100 Most Inspiring Movies (#41)
The Revised Top 100 (#40)
This is a bit of a psych-out. I didn't actually watch this again because I very very recently revisited this movie in another context. Rather than rewrite a whole other entry as to why this movie may or may not belong on those AFI lists, read the revisit blog entry I wrote here:
http://www.spout.com/blogs/pippin06/archive/2007/9/3/19315.aspx
In fact, in general, if I have recently blogged about a movie, I am not going to rewrite a whole other blog entry about it. I see no use in re-spinning these wheels, but for the record, since The Sound of Music is one of my most favorite movies, I think it's, perhaps in a biased way, a requisite inclusion on the AFI lists, without question. I would personally rate it a 9 for being perfectly entertaining (my one minor flaw with the movie centers on the protracted last half hour of escape from the Nazis, a sequence which is portrayed much more succinctly in the stage version). I also, of course, own it and watch it every so often. It's one of those films/musicals that I find myself singing randomly when the mood strikes, and it's one of my three most favorite movie musicals anyway. Also, it's a movie that holds up well with it's entertainment value; the show sold out almost every night at the Civic when I stage managed it, and the movie is quintessential in its classic quality, making it a qualified AFI entry.