The AFI 100 Years List for 2008... (1 Viewer)

[PatW]

I saw A Cry in the Dark when it first came out years ago. I thought it was an adequate enough movie but not memorable in any way. How this one made the list and not Inherit the Wind is beyond me. I would have thought Inherit the Wind and Tracy's performance in particular would have been more in the mind's of the voters than that obscure Meryl Streep one. I was also surprised by some of the other choices and also shocked but delighted that a David Lynch film made the grade. I thought he would have been just too ' out there' for the voters.

 

[Adam_S]

Yeah the lack of Inherit the Wind and The Apartment are both baffling.

It's interesting that on a couple other forums, the posters (almost all men) bitch that Romantic Comedy shouldn't be a category and they should have War films instead, as if the top ten lists weren't male oriented enough as it was.

 

[Lew Crippen]

I’d like to have seen a further subset of Romantic Comedies: Screwballs. Maybe then Preston Sturges would get a bit more recognition.

 

[AaronMan]

Lists are dumb.

 

[Michael Elliott]

This is so true. The only good thing that comes out of them is that they do cause a discussion, which might make people watch them to see what all the fuss is about.

 

[Adam_S]

Screwball Comedies would have been better, but ratings. :shrug: I noticed that romantic comedies were one of the last genres in the program, that was probably deliberate.

 

[Michael Elliott]

Someone else brought this up on another board but is THE THIRD MAN a British film?

 

[PatW]

I'm assuming only American films qualify. Isn't Lawrence of Arabia and Clockwork Orange British as well ?

 

[Adam_S]

all three made with american funding, put in production by american producers & studios iirc.

 

[Michael Elliott]

Thanks re: THE THIRD MAN. I think I read somewhere that for a film to be considered "American", then it must have had 90% of the money from American hands.

 

[Adam_S]

I thought it was more than 50% financing but I"m not sure.