This year’s AFI 100 TV special

This year, AFI has decided to do 10 top-10 lists, each one pertaining to a specific genre. The final lists will be aired on a TV special on CBS at 8 PM EST on June 17th.

I’m sure the final lists will be different from mine, but Here’s my personal 10-top-10 (taken from the list of nominees on AFI’s website).

***update (7/7/08): finally got to see the special (taped it).  I marked the ones that “made it” in green.***

AFI 10 TOP 10 – MY LIST. And as for the “additions”….the voting ballot technically allows you to add films that they missed.

ANIMATION
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Fantasia (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Incredibles (2004)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)
*addition* Anastasia
Corpse Bride (2005)
The Lion King (1994)
Bambi

MYSTERY – a top 3. I haven’t seen enough of ‘em, and I also don’t see why Psycho can’t be classified as a mystery.
*addition* Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Blue Velvet (1986)

ROMANTIC COMEDY – Oh god…another genre where I haven’t seen 10 of the movies, and really don’t want to, because most romantic comedies SUCK.
Annie Hall (1977)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

FANTASY
The Wizard of Oz (1933)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Mary Poppins (1964)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Labyrinth (1986)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
King Kong (1933)
Brazil (1985)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)

WESTERN – a “top 4.” I hadn’t seen 10 movies from the list… apparently The Man With No Name trilogy isn’t American enough.
The Magnificent Seven
The Unforgiven
Dances With Wolves
Blazing Saddles

GANGSTER – This is a “top 7” because I haven’t seen 10 of the nominated films….
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Godfather (1972)
Scarface (1932)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

SPORTS
I decline to make a “top 10” for Sports because I haven’t seen a lot of the movies, and because I generally don’t like Sports movies….

SCI-FI – a “top 9” because I hadn’t seen 10 films on the list, and I could only think of 2 more to add…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 )
Star Wars (1977)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) *then how come “Brazil” isn’t sci-fi?*
*addition* The Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner (1982)
The Matrix (1999)
*addition* Solaris
Back to the Future (1985)
Tron (1982)

COURT DRAMA – great, yet another genre I can’t pick 10 movies out of. Well, let’s see….
The Crucible (1996)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Amistad (1997)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)

EPIC – finally something I can really get into!

**Seriously, the AFI committee has their heads up their @$$es.  How could they have put “Spartacus” in the top 10 and left out so many good films!?!  They must think it’s inherently better just because Kubrick directed it.  As much as I love Kubrick, I have to disagree.  “Intolerance” is and will always be one of the most massively epic films ever made.  You couldn’t fake all that stuff back then, it was all REAL, and Griffith’s strange views aside, it’s an incredible film.***
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) hands-down. No question.
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Cleopatra (1963)
Intolerance (1916)
The Last Emperor (1987)