Movies I've Seen from Lists... (AFI 100 Movies)

From the movies selected in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) published in 2008, I've seen 22 out of 100 (22%). Below are the movies that I've already seen :

Rank	10th anniversary list (2007)	Year
1	Citizen Kane	1941
3	Casablanca	1942
6	Gone with the Wind	1939
8	Schindler's List	1993
10	Wizard of Oz	1939
13	Star Wars	1977
15	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
20	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
24	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
34	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937
40	The Sound of Music	1965
46	It Happened One Night	1934
50	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001
58	The Gold Rush	1925
72	The Shawshank Redemption	1994
74	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
76	Forrest Gump	1994
83	Titanic	1997
87	12 Angry Men	1957
94	Pulp Fiction	1994
97	Blade Runner	1982
99	Toy Story	1995

For the complete list, please click here.

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Casablanca (1943)

Short film summary from IMDB :

 

In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Much to Rick's surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan....

 

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My Rebyu :

 

This film is listed in AFI 100 Films (2007) as the 3rd best. Am not really sold, after watching Mrs. Miniver (1942) just a day ago, which for me is better than Casablanca (but of course it's just me). Ingrid Bergman is so pretty but i dont like her character here, she is so married and why he falls for Humphrey Bogart is beyond me. Yes, her husband is in concentration camp but he is not dead, though she thought he might be. And I screen captured all the scenes where the lines "Here's looking at you kid" is spoken by Humphrey. Equally gorgeous man is Paul Henreid who played the character Victor Laszlo, wife of Ingrid. I might just give this movie a 7 rating and it's IMDB average is 8.6, well to each his own.

 

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**images are from IMDB, links are from wikipedia and screen captures are from the movie i downloaded online.

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