Jonathan Rosenbaum says "Just about everyone I’ve spoken to about the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American movies, presented on a stultifyingly vacuous three-hour CBS special last week, has been depressed about it—partly because the list was so lackluster and partly because the show failed to offer an interesting justification for any of the titles… Let me hasten to add that if I were drawing up my own list of the 100 greatest American movies, roughly a quarter of the AFI’s list would be on it. But it seems more useful to offer an alternative list of 100 features rather than an unwieldy composite of the 25 or so AFI titles I can live with and 75 others. I’ve also decided to list my choices alphabetically rather than impose an order based on merit, since that would be tantamount to ranking oranges over apples or declaring cherries superior to grapes." (found at: http://www.chireader.com/movies/100best.html)
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Ace in the Hole (1951) - Criterion Collection
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An Affair to Remember
by Leo McCarey
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Anatomy of a Murder
by Otto Preminger
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Avanti!
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The Barefoot Contessa
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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The Big Sky (1952)
by Howard Hawks
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Bigger Than Life
by Nicholas Ray
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Black Cat / Movie
by Edgar G. Ulmer
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The Bride of Frankenstein
by James Whale
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Broken Blossoms
by D.W. Griffith
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Cat People
by Jacques Tourneur
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Christmas in July
by Preston Sturges
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Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
by Albert Zugsmith
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The Crowd
by King Vidor
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Dead Man
by Jim Jarmusch
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Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection
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Docks of New York (1928) (Silent)
by Josef von Sternberg
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Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
by Thom Andersen
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11 x 14
by James Benning
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Eraserhead
by David Lynch
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Foolish Wives
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Force of Evil
by Abraham Polonsky
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Freaks
by Tod Browning
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The General
by Clyde Bruckman
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Howard Hawks
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Gilda
by Charles Vidor
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The Great Garrick (1937)
by James Whale
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Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration)
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Hallelujah I'm a Bum
by Lewis Milestone
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The Heartbreak Kid
by Elaine May
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Housekeeping / Movie
by Bill Forsyth
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The Hustler
by Robert Rossen
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Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
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Johnny Guitar
by Nicholas Ray
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Judge Priest
by John Ford
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Killer of Sheep
by Charles Burnett
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The Killing
by Stanley Kubrick
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
by John Cassavetes
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Kiss Me Deadly
by Robert Aldrich
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The Ladies Man
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The Lady from Shanghai
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Last Chants for a Slow Dance
by Jon Jost
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Laughter (1930)
by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
by Max Ophüls
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Lonesome (1928)
by Pal Fejos
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Love Me Tonight
by Rouben Mamoulian
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Love Streams
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The Magnificent Ambersons
by Orson Welles
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
by Leo McCarey
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by John Ford
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