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More AFI “Best” movies - whatever
By Carl Hoover
| Thursday, June 19, 2008, 03:16 PM
The American Film Institute released the latest round of Top 10 lists this week, this time the best of 10 genres, as chosen by actors, movie critics and industry insiders.
Their choices are, well, safe (though I wonder about Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights as the No. 1 romantic comedy. Or In Cold Blood as a courtroom drama?), which only reinforces my suspicion that the AFI’s on-going series of lists are meant to create money-making TV specials and drive occasional fans to DVD rentals to check out films with which they are unfamiliar.
Of the 100 films making the Top 10 Genre cut, three - three - came out after the year 2000, The Lord of the Rings, Shrek and Finding Nemo.
I find the film lists on www.greencine.com or www.netflix.com more likely to introduce me to something I haven’t seen and would find worthwhile.
Let’s see. In the last 10 years, other AFI lists have covered Top 100 of All Time, Top 100 Stars. Top 100 Cheers, 100 Movie Quotes, 100 Songs, 100 Years of Film Scores, 100 Heroes & Villains, 100 Laughs, 100 Passions, 100 Thrills …
I know, I know. They’re only preparing the way for Top 100 Films Not Yet Referenced by the AFI …
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