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Overall a MUCH MUCH better list than the one ten years ago. Some real critic's darlings placed high (Sullivans Travels, The General!!) I was actually interested and pleased watching this. Movies like Intolerance and Virginia Woolf should have been on the FIRST list

The big winners -- The Searchers, City Lights, Vertigo, Raging Bull

Clearly a bigger appreciation for silent films, and a decent showing of recent films.

I really object to Raging Bull being in the top 10 (if they were going to move up City Lights, they should have put that there instead)

last ranking - and how they rank now

1 Citizen Kane (1941) still the ONE

2 Casablanca (1942) down 1 to 3

3 The Godfather (1972) up 1 to 2

4 Gone with the Wind (1939) down 2 to 6

5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) down 2 to 7

6 The Wizard of Oz (1939) down 4 to 10

7 The Graduate (1967) down 10 to 17

8 On the Waterfront (1954) down 11 to 19

9 Schindler's List (1993) up 1 to 8

10 Singin' in the Rain (1952) up 5 to 5

11 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) down 9 to 20

12 Sunset Boulevard (1950) down 4 to 16

13 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) down 23 to 36

14 Some Like It Hot (1959) down 8 to 22

15 Star Wars (1977) up 2 to 13

16 All About Eve (1950) down 12 to 28

17 The African Queen (1951) down 48 to 65

18 Psycho (1960) up 4 to 14

19 Chinatown (1974) down 2 to 21

20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) down 13 to 33

21 The Grapes of Wrath (1940) down 2 to 23

22 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) up 7 to 15

23 The Maltese Falcon (1941) down 8 to 31

24 Raging Bull (1980) up 20 to 4, wtf?!

25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) up 1 to 24

26 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) down 13 to 39

27 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) down 15 to 42

28 Apocalypse Now (1979) down 2 to 30

29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) up 3 to 26

30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) down 8 to 38

31 Annie Hall (1977) down 4 to 35

32 The Godfather Part II (1974) same as before!

33 High Noon (1952) up 6 to 27

34To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) up 9 to 25

35 It Happened One Night (1934) down 11 to 46

36 Midnight Cowboy (1969) down 7 to 43

37 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) same as before!

38 Double Indemnity (1944) up 9 to 29

39 Doctor Zhivago (1965) OUT

40 North by Northwest (1959) down 15 to 55

41 West Side Story (1961) down 10 to 51

42 Rear Window (1954) down 6 to 48

43 King Kong (1933) up 2 to 41

44 The Birth of a Nation (1915) OUT

45 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) down 2 to 47

46 A Clockwork Orange (1971) down 34 to 70

47 Taxi Driver (1976) down 5 to 52

48 Jaws (1975) down 8 to 56

49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) up 15 to 34

50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) down 23 to 73

51 The Philadelphia Story (1940) up 7 to 44

52 From Here to Eternity (1953) OUT

53 Amadeus (1984) OUT

54 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)OUT

55 The Sound of Music (1965) up 15 to 40

56 M*A*S*H (1970) up 2 to 54

57 The Third Man (1949) OUT

58 Fantasia (1940) OUT

59 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) OUT

60 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) down 6 to 66

61 Vertigo (1958) up 52 to 9

62 Tootsie (1982) down 7 to 69

63 Stagecoach (1939) OUT

64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) OUT

65 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) down 9 to 74

66 Network (1976) up to 64

67 The Manchurian Candidate (1962) OUT

68 An American in Paris (1951) OUT

69 Shane (1953) up 24 to 45

70 The French Connection (1971) down 23 to 93

71 Forrest Gump (1994) down 5 to 76

72 Ben-Hur (1959) down 28 to 100

73 Wuthering Heights (1939) OUT

74 The Gold Rush (1925) up 16 to 58

75 Dances with Wolves (1990) OUT

76 City Lights (1931) up 65 to 11!

77 American Graffiti (1973) up 15 to 62

78 Rocky (1976) up 21 to 57

79 The Deer Hunter (1978) up 26 to 53

80 The Wild Bunch (1969) up 1 to 79

81 Modern Times (1936) up 3 to 78

82 Giant (1956) OUT

83 Platoon (1986) down 3 to 86

84 Fargo (1996) OUT

85 Duck Soup (1933) up 25 to 60

86 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) OUT

87 Frankenstein (1931) OUT

88 Easy Rider (1969) up 4 to 84

89 Patton (1970) OUT

90 The Jazz Singer (1927) OUT

91 My Fair Lady (1964) OUT

92 A Place in the Sun (1951) OUT

93 The Apartment (1960) up 13 to 80

94 Goodfellas (1990) up 2 to 92

95 Pulp Fiction (1994) up 1 to 94

96 The Searchers (1956) up 85 to 12!

97 Bringing Up Baby (1938) up 9 to 86

98 Unforgiven (1992) up 30 to 68

99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) OUT

100 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) up 2 to 98

NEW

18 THE GENERAL (!) - the lists biggest snub from ten years ago, finally redeemed
49 Intolerance (and Birth of a Nation gone!)
50 Lord of the Rings (all of them? Godfather and Godfather 2 are on the list)
59 Nashville
61 Sullivans Travels
63 Cabaret
67 Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
71 Saving Private Ryan
72 The Shawshank Redemption
75 In The Heat of the Night
77 All The Presidents Men
81 Spartacus
82 Sunrise (Im impressed, who thought THIS would sneak on?)
83 Titanic
85 A Night At The Opera
87 12 Angry Men
89 The Sixth Sense (the most senseless addition)
90 Swing Time
91 Sophie's Choice
95 Last Picture Show
96 Do The Right Thing
97 Blade Runner
99 Toy Story

If you stepped foot in one film class in the past ten years, you could have probably predicted some of these trends:

- a surge in the importance of films from the 70s
- increased importance of old comedians over new
- the continued disinterest in the musical
- renewed interest in older films from big artists (Katharine Hepburn's Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby rise, African Queen falls)
- recent box office as a sign of quality (Sixth Sense, Titanic)
- rescuing two artists from near obscurity (Buster Keaton, Preston Sturges)
- horror shunned
- an appreciation on early films that tackled social issues that are relavant today (The Searchers, In the Heat of the Night)
- renewed interest in silent films (while noticably shunning what was once considered the 'best', The Birth of a Nation)
- the imdb.com predicator (Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men)

And Vertigo being restamped as the 'ultimate' Hitchcock film is a recent phenomenon. In general, movies that have iconic stars playing psychologically flawed characters like John Wayne in the Searchers and Stewart in Vertigo have gotten a lot of renewed attention.

I still cant account for the sudden huge popularity of Raging Bull.

I really really wish this wasnt a list produced by the American Film Institute because it would be amazing to see a list of the greatest films of all time worldwide. Lists like this seem very strange without movies like Metropolis, Das Boot and la Dolce Vita, all were big movies in America but just werent made here. (And werent Clockwork Orange and Lawrence of Arabia British productions anyway?)