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It’s been 10 years since the first release of the American Film Institute‘s Top 100 movies of our time list. Well now we have a new list (slightly changing my efforts to watch all 100 movies). Here’s some things of note of how the new list has changed from the last. (And as with all of my AFI 100 lists, movies in bold have been seen already.)

• From the originally released list, 78 still remain on the Top 100 list. What movies were dropped? See below.
• All Top 10 from the original list remained on the list, but were significantly rearranged; some losing their Top 10 placement.
• Of the Top 10, only one maintained its spot from 10 years ago: Citizen Kane.
• Raging Bull was added to the Top 10, breaking me streak of having seen all of them. I now have to make Raging Bull priority; but really did we need another boxing film?
• A sweeping surprise was the movement of The Searchers from #96 to #12 (passing by 84 other films). This solidifies a place in American film history for John Wayne and his contributions. However, I would’ve liked to see The Quiet Man added for selfish reasons since it’s one of my faves.
• Only four movies added to the list were actually filmed in the last decade, in spite of the 45 films added on the AFI 400 list.

Movies that dropped off the face of AFI
Twenty-two movies were dropped but fortunately only seven I’d seen (so really no big loss). I’ve included each movies placement on the old list, title and its year.   [ Read more ]