These are the 27 movies from the AFI 100 that I’ve not seen. Pretty much. Actually, there are a bunch that I’ve seen, but I don’t remember them well enough to say that I’ve actually comprehended them. The numbers on the left are their places in the big list.
4 Gone With the Wind (1939)
8 On the Waterfront (1954)
11 It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
13 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
18 Psycho (1960)
24 Raging Bull (1980)
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
33 High Noon (1952)
34 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
37 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
39 Doctor Zhivago (1965)
46 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
52 From Here to Eternity (1953)
54 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
63 Stagecoach (1939)
67 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
69 Shane (1953)
76 City Lights (1931)
79 The Deer Hunter (1978)
80 The Wild Bunch (1969)
86 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
90 The Jazz Singer (1927)
92 A Place in the Sun
99 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Why does this matter, though? THAT is the question.