100 movies

Today's print column is about watching the Top 100 U.S. movies as chosen by the American Film Institute in 1998. The list was revised in mid-2007, but by that point I just stuck to the original list. I'll get to the "new" movies on the revised list sometime.

As promised, here are links to see the two Top 100 lists. From there you can get to the AFI's plethora of other lists. You can visit the AFI and see the lists there, although you have to register.

For the sake of comparison, here are two other best-American-movie lists: a Chicago critic's Alternative Top 100 and GreatestFilms.Org's Top 100.

And, to broaden the base beyond American movies, here are the National Film Critics Essential 100 and the British Film Institute's Top 100.

Happy reading, and happy viewing.