Friday, January 19, 2007

IF A BEAUTIFUL MIND MAKES THE FINAL CUT I MAY HAVE TO SELF-IMMOLATE MYSELF IN FRONT OF THE AFI'S OFFICES: OK, so maybe that is a bit of an overreaction to the news that the American Film Institute will revise its list of the 100 greatest movies of all-time in time for the original list's 10th anniversary. A new ballot of 400 eligible films is available at the AFI's site, but you have to register first to have the link to the ballot emailed to you.

There are 44 new films from the decade since the first list came out on the new list of eligible films:
LA CONFIDENTIAL, GOODWILL HUNTING, TITANIC, AS GOOD AS IT GETS, AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, BOOGIE NIGHTS, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, RUSHMORE, THE MATRIX, FIGHT CLUB, THREE KINGS, THE SIXTH SENSE, THE INSIDER, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, AMERICAN BEAUTY, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, GLADIATOR, TRAFFIC, ERIN BROCKOVICH, SHREK, MOULIN ROUGE!, MEMENTO, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, CHICAGO, THE HOURS, FINDING NEMO, MYSTIC RIVER, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, LOST IN TRANSLATION, SIDEWAYS, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, MILLION DOLLAR BABY, THE AVIATOR, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, SPIDER-MAN 2, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, CRASH and HOTEL RWANDA.
So, your weekend project is to determine which of these films deserves to make the cut this time around and which films do you knock off the original list?

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