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Around Brokeback Mountain => Our Support for BBM => Topic started by: Sabine on Jan 31, 2007, 02:33 PM
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AFI to reprise its top-100 films list
Jan 19, 1:23 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - The 100 best movies of all time aren't what they were 10 years ago.
So says the American Film Institute, which first compiled its "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list in 1998. That's why they are doing it again — and plan to repeat the process each decade, AFI president and chief executive Jean Picker Firstenberg said Thursday.
"So much has changed in our country," she said. "Let's just hope there's not another 9/11, but clearly that shifted everything in our lives and shifted everything for anyone who chronicles the human condition."
The decade-by-decade ranking allows filmmakers and fans to examine the changes in what American movies say about life and culture, Firstenberg said.
"Will war films have a different prominence 10 years later," she wonders. "Will new voices be more dominant than we might have thought? Will films that were lower on the list rise higher?"
A jury of 1,500 directors, producers, actors, critics and scholars will select the greatest movies of all time from a ballot of 400 nominated films. They are asked to consider each film's critical recognition, historical significance, cultural impact and popularity over time.
"Citizen Kane" topped the first "100 Years ... 100 Movies" list, followed by "Casablanca," "The Godfather," "Gone With the Wind" and "Lawrence of Arabia."
"100 Years ... 100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition" will be unveiled in June with a three-hour TV special on CBS.
Forty-four films from the past 10 years are now eligible for consideration, including "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," "Brokeback Mountain," "Moulin Rouge," "Fight Club" and "Crash."
On the Net:
http://www.afi.com/
And we have the chance to show our support and love for BBM here:
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
I really hope there will be much response for BBM!! Our movie deserves to be on the new list...!!
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Thanks Sabine. I posted an article about this a few weeks ago, so I am glad that you took the initiative to create this thread!
Friends, I urge you to show your support for BBM
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
Here is what I wrote:
It is a subtle work of art. Its beauty lies in everything that is not said.
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Thanks for the update.
I also wrote mine.
Born from their love...forever bound by ours.
No other movie has affected many like Brokeback Mountain. It is a movie that will never grow old.
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Friends, I encourage you to register and show your support for BBM.
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
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My comment got published. :)
It is also wonderful that BBM is getting so many comments published! Take a look:
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
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I registered and wrote mine - had the impression that I recognized some of the "voices" from the forum.
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Thanks WW! I don't know if there are that many members who have registered and given comments...
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One of the very beautiful testimonials:
http://connect.afi.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5979&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=-1
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Brokeback Mountain
Thursday, February 1, 2007
By: Kathryn Newton
This movie had a profound effect on me, it haunted me for days afterwards.
This movie had a profound effect on me, it haunted me for days afterwards. Its a movie that made me think about human love and the different ways it manifests itself in us as single people and how it links us in relationships. This movie proves that we all need and are capable of love, however much it hurts us, and however it chooses to appear in our lives. If we didn't love, we couldn't be hurt, and therefore we just couldn't claim to be human beings - all of us, who ever we are. A truly inspirational film, beautifully shot and executed perfectly by the actors.
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Wow! About 50% of the quotes are about BBM only, I'm impressed.
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Show your support for BBM:
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
:)
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I got an email back from them today and my comment was also published :)
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Mine was published on Jan 31st- BBM by far has the most comments !!!! &**)
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I see *Rash only has managed two comments- Probably written secretly by Roger Ebert and Oprah lol
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;D Carlton
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It's time for payback from the Brokeback Mountain fans to the supposed to be best movie of the year according to a certain academy... ^^) I'm afraid for them is just the beginning.
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I see *Rash only has managed two comments- Probably written secretly by Roger Ebert and Oprah lol
So true. Ebert is pathetic.
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If you have not done so, please consider registering and posting your support for BBM:
http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100user_stories_landing
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one that - am emailing the Academy just before the Oscars and airmailing Sid Ganin(yuk) next week. May as well make it clear that people out here haven't forgotten last years's events and that the Academy has no claim to our support.
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I think that's a great idea WW O0- we should all let them know that we haven't forgotten. Now I just have to find their address again.
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It's on the website somewhere , I think. I'll look it up and post it later.
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Sid Ganin (puke! - this is not obligatory).
The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
8939, Wilshire Boulevard,
Beverly Hills,
California 90211-1972
Phone: 310 - 247 - 3000
Maybe we should inundate their switchboard with phone calls.....
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Maybe we should inundate their switchboard with phone calls.....
They deserve much worse. ;)
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Hmmm I have unlimited long distance :s) >:D Thanks for the info. I'll get busy writing. :)
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Just looked at the current entries- BBM has 66,by far the most of any movie on the list, and *Rash remains at two entries
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I registered and wrote my comments. I also read each and every one of the 66 Brokeback Mountain responses.
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Thanks all! Some of the responses were just beautiful...
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These are the results of the American Film Institute 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
I'll save you the search, Brokeback Mountain is not on the list... neither Crash. BTW Rocky is on the list ::) Whatever >:(
AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2007)
1 CITIZEN KANE
2 GODFATHER, THE
3 CASABLANCA
4 RAGING BULL
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
6 GONE WITH THE WIND
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST
9 VERTIGO
10 WIZARD OF OZ, THE
11 CITY LIGHTS
12 SEARCHERS, THE
13 STAR WARS
14 PSYCHO
15 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
16 SUNSET BLVD.
17 GRADUATE, THE
18 GENERAL, THE
19 ON THE WATERFRONT
20 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
21 CHINATOWN
22 SOME LIKE IT HOT
23 GRAPES OF WRATH, THE
24 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
25 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
26 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
27 HIGH NOON
28 ALL ABOUT EVE
29 DOUBLE INDEMNITY
30 APOCALYPSE NOW
31 MALTESE FALCON, THE
32 GODFATHER PART II, THE
33 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
34 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
35 ANNIE HALL
36 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE
37 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE
38 TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE
39 DR. STRANGELOVE
40 SOUND OF MUSIC, THE
41 KING KONG
42 BONNIE AND CLYDE
43 MIDNIGHT COWBOY
44 PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE
45 SHANE
46 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
47 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A
48 REAR WINDOW
49 INTOLERANCE
50 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE
51 WEST SIDE STORY
52 TAXI DRIVER
53 DEER HUNTER, THE
54 M*A*S*H 56
55 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
56 JAWS
57 ROCKY 58 GOLD RUSH, THE
59 NASHVILLE
60 DUCK SOUP
61 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
62 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
63 CABARET
64 NETWORK
65 AFRICAN QUEEN, THE
66 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
67 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
68 UNFORGIVEN
69 TOOTSIE
70 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
71 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
72 SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE
73 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
74 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE
75 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
76 FORREST GUMP
77 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
78 MODERN TIMES
79 WILD BUNCH, THE
80 APARTMENT, THE
81 SPARTACUS
82 SUNRISE
83 TITANIC
84 EASY RIDER
85 NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A
86 PLATOON
87 12 ANGRY MEN
88 BRINGING UP BABY
89 SIXTH SENSE, THE
90 SWING TIME
91 SOPHIE'S CHOICE
92 GOODFELLAS
93 FRENCH CONNECTION, THE
94 PULP FICTION
95 LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE
96 DO THE RIGHT THING
97 BLADE RUNNER
98 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
99 TOY STORY
100 BEN-HUR
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These are the results of the American Film Institute 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.
I'll save you the search, Brokeback Mountain is not on the list... neither Crash. BTW Rocky is on the list ::) Whatever >:(
AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2007)
1 CITIZEN KANE
2 GODFATHER, THE
3 CASABLANCA
4 RAGING BULL
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
6 GONE WITH THE WIND
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST
9 VERTIGO
10 WIZARD OF OZ, THE
11 CITY LIGHTS
12 SEARCHERS, THE
13 STAR WARS
14 PSYCHO
15 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
16 SUNSET BLVD.
17 GRADUATE, THE
18 GENERAL, THE
19 ON THE WATERFRONT
20 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
21 CHINATOWN
22 SOME LIKE IT HOT
23 GRAPES OF WRATH, THE
24 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
25 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
26 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
27 HIGH NOON
28 ALL ABOUT EVE
29 DOUBLE INDEMNITY
30 APOCALYPSE NOW
31 MALTESE FALCON, THE
32 GODFATHER PART II, THE
33 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
34 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
35 ANNIE HALL
36 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE
37 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE
38 TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE
39 DR. STRANGELOVE
40 SOUND OF MUSIC, THE
41 KING KONG
42 BONNIE AND CLYDE
43 MIDNIGHT COWBOY
44 PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE
45 SHANE
46 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
47 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A
48 REAR WINDOW
49 INTOLERANCE
50 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE
51 WEST SIDE STORY
52 TAXI DRIVER
53 DEER HUNTER, THE
54 M*A*S*H 56
55 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
56 JAWS
57 ROCKY 58 GOLD RUSH, THE
59 NASHVILLE
60 DUCK SOUP
61 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
62 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
63 CABARET
64 NETWORK
65 AFRICAN QUEEN, THE
66 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
67 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
68 UNFORGIVEN
69 TOOTSIE
70 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
71 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
72 SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE
73 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
74 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE
75 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
76 FORREST GUMP
77 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
78 MODERN TIMES
79 WILD BUNCH, THE
80 APARTMENT, THE
81 SPARTACUS
82 SUNRISE
83 TITANIC
84 EASY RIDER
85 NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A
86 PLATOON
87 12 ANGRY MEN
88 BRINGING UP BABY
89 SIXTH SENSE, THE
90 SWING TIME
91 SOPHIE'S CHOICE
92 GOODFELLAS
93 FRENCH CONNECTION, THE
94 PULP FICTION
95 LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE
96 DO THE RIGHT THING
97 BLADE RUNNER
98 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
99 TOY STORY
100 BEN-HUR
A lot of rubbish, to be sure!
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Some Like it Hot was maybe good but in the 100 best ever list? Same for Tootsie. Good movies but... shut up cham! :-X
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oh who cares, it's like the academy awards. It started out this small dinner among it's own. Now it's this weird pageant.
Just for income producing is all.
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Some Like it Hot was maybe good but in the 100 best ever list? Same for Tootsie. Good movies but... shut up cham! :-X
Some of the films do deserve to be there.
I do like BLADE RUNNER< for instance, but I am actually surprised it made the cut!
I suspect that they deliberately didn't include some films because it is still too soon to tell the impact in the long run. Not that you need to be a prophet to know that BBM will last.
Let's give them another 10 years to correct their mistake. ;)
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You're right!
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The most recent film on the list is LOTR, and that's--what?--six years old. Brokeback will be on the next list, even if it does take ten years. In the meantime, AFI will probably post another list of movie catch phrases, and there's plenty to pick from in BBM for that!
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&*&
OMG that is crazy....all of those movies on there, and no one could recognize BBM???
Don't get me wrong, there are movies on there that are in my favorites, but in no way do they compare to BBM.
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rubbish bbm should be on it!!!
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Tootsie? ...Tootsie?!
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For anyone who's interested, the American Film Institute is doing another list. This time they provide a list of 500 movies slotted into ten different categories and ask for votes. Voting is done by mail. The only category that might possibly be suitable for BBM is "western," and it didn't make the cut. However, you are allowed to write in titles as well. "The Last Picture Show" made the list--why not BBM?
Go to:
http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=361
for the ballot.
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For anyone who's interested, the American Film Institute is doing another list. This time they provide a list of 500 movies slotted into ten different categories and ask for votes. Voting is done by mail. The only category that might possibly be suitable for BBM is "western," and it didn't make the cut. However, you are allowed to write in titles as well. "The Last Picture Show" made the list--why not BBM?
Go to:
http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=361
for the ballot.
Why is there a category for Courtroom Drama and not Drama. The categories are clearly not inclusive enough. Is this intentional?
Thanks, afhickman!