Greetings and salutations!
If you weren't already aware, the American Film Institute has released one of its annual lists ranking American films in some sort of clever way. This year, having revised their top 100 of all time last year, the AFI chose to send ballots out to rank the top 10 films in ten specific genres, giving films that might not otherwise make some of the greatest lists a chance. The ten genres include animation, fantasy, scifi, westerns, sports films, gangster films, romantic comedies, mystery, courtroom dramas, and epics. You can see the complete lists, along with all of the other lists, at www.afi.com, but you do have to register to access them. Or, you can visit the Oscars group here on Spout, because I've been compiling the lists slowly but surely there in conjunction with my own bloggy project of watching all of the AFI films.
Now, since we've been given a new list, and since my neurotic little project has been underway for awhile, and since the AFI tends to focus on the same films time and again, rightly or not, I wanted to note for any followers of the AFI Project that I am going to go back and edit the entries involving films that have made this new list. In particular, the following films corresponding with this project will have their entries edited:
The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, The Godfather, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, and Lawrence of Arabia
These films made the new list and have already been watched (recently) and blogged about by yours truly (just as recently), so they have been checked off appropriately. All of the other films listed will be viewed and blogged about in due course and, perhaps, discussed in various genre specific groups here on Spout. It's an interesting exercise to see if you agree with AFI or not. Some of the genres boasted easy-to-predict number ones, but others were a complete surprise. What are your thoughts?
In the meantime, on with the project...