1960 was a big year for film with the release of The Apartment (review to come next week) and Stanley Kubrick’s Roman epic Spartacus. It was such a big year that Spartacus didn’t even get a nomination for best picture, in spite of the fact that it now sits at #81 on the AFI list. …
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#82 Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans
One of the most unique films on the list, the 1927 silent romance film Sunrise – A Song of Two Humans makes it at #82 on the AFI list. The movie revolves around the owner of a financially struggling farm, plotting with his mistress, a “woman from the city” to drown his wife. He takes …
#83 Titanic
James Cameron’s epic (and I do mean, epic, as it cost a record-at-the-time $200 million to make and clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes) love story Titanic signs in at #83 on our list. The film begins with a crew looking for a lost diamond necklace in the wreckage of the RMS Titanic …
#84 Easy Rider
1969’s breakthrough Indy film Easy Rider clocks in at #84 on our list. The story revolves around 2 bikers from LA (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) who make a big score with a cocaine deal and then travel the country in search of first Mardi Gras and then, a retirement spot in Florida with their …
#85 A Night at the Opera
A brisk 91-minute comedy-musical, 1935’s A Night at the Opera is really just a showcase for the Marx brothers, in particular Groucho, and their comedy stylings. Let me start by saying that the plot of this movie doesn’t make a lot of sense. Otis Driftwood (played by Groucho) is some sort of high-society clown who …
#86 Platoon
So, I obviously went on a bit of a hiatus from running through this list. I did a little work, explored some other hobbies and generally have kept pretty busy. But, I’m back to the project now. Next up on the list is Oliver Stone’s 1986 Vietnam War drama, Platoon. A young Charlie Sheen plays …
#87 12 Angry Men
1957’s courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men, starring a young Henry Fonda clocks in at #87 on our list. The film opens with a judge giving instructions to a jury in a capital murder case. We see a brief shot of the defendant. The film then moves to the set where it spends almost all of …
#88 Bringing Up Baby
Often considered the original romantic comedy, 1936’s Bringing Up Baby clocks in at #88 on the AFI list. This was a hard one to summarize the action from, as there was so much happening in every scene and the gags are very visual, but here goes nothing: At the Natural History, trying to assemble Brontosaurus …
#89 The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan’s best work, 1999’s The Sixth Sense clocks in at #89 on our list. The film is a highly efficient one hour and forty seven minutes. Set in Phialdelphia, Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcom Crowe and his wife Anna, coming home from getting an award for his work for as a child psychiatrist …
#90 Swing Time
1936’s Swing Time saw Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing the night away in a musical tale of romance. Astaire plays “Lucky” Garnett, a member of a dancing troupe who is retiring to marry his fiancé Margaret. The opening scene has members of his troupe trick him into having his pants tailored while they gamble …
The AFI Top 100 - Reviewed by Tony 