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Citizen Kane Still No. 1 on List of Best Movies
Citizen Kane topped the list of the American Film Institute's top 100 movies, holding on to the lead spot 10 years after the list was first compiled.
The 1941 movie, written, directed and produced by Orson Welles when he was 25 years old, tells the story of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane and his final word, 'Rosebud'. Welles also starred in the title role.
The American Film Institute, based in Los Angeles, updated its '100 Years...100 Movies' list issued in 1997, the 100th anniversary of the first motion picture. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians evaluated the movies based on their critical recognition, awards, lasting popularity, and historical and cultural significance, the institute said.
The Godfather, the first of Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia trilogy, ranked second, and Casablanca, the World War II drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, took third place. Raging Bull and Singin' in the Rain were voted into the top five after ranking No. 24 and 10 on the 1997 list.
The Searchers, a John Wayne western, climbed the most, to No. 12 from 96 in 1997, while The African Queen, one of Katharine Hepburn's three films on the list, fell to 65 from 17.
The film institute's rankings include four silent films: Buster Keaton's The General at No. 18, 1916's Intolerance at No. 49, and two Charlie Chaplin films, The Gold Rush at No. 58 and Modern Times at 78. Walt Disney Co's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Toy Story, are the only animated movies.
Among movies made in the last 10 years, only four made the list: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring took the No. 50 spot; Saving Private Ryan came in at 71, Titanic ranked 83rd; and The Sixth Sense, made No. 89.
Nineteen other pictures were added to the list, bumping films such as Dr. Zhivago, The Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, and Frankenstein.
Director Stephen Spielberg has the most films on the list, with five, including Saving Private Ryan. Actors Robert DeNiro and James Stewart star in the most films on the list, with five each, while actresses Hepburn, Faye Dunaway and Diane Keaton have three movies apiece. - Bloomberg
Citizen Kane topped the list of the American Film Institute's top 100 movies, holding on to the lead spot 10 years after the list was first compiled.
The 1941 movie, written, directed and produced by Orson Welles when he was 25 years old, tells the story of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane and his final word, 'Rosebud'. Welles also starred in the title role.
The American Film Institute, based in Los Angeles, updated its '100 Years...100 Movies' list issued in 1997, the 100th anniversary of the first motion picture. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians evaluated the movies based on their critical recognition, awards, lasting popularity, and historical and cultural significance, the institute said.
The Godfather, the first of Francis Ford Coppola's Mafia trilogy, ranked second, and Casablanca, the World War II drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, took third place. Raging Bull and Singin' in the Rain were voted into the top five after ranking No. 24 and 10 on the 1997 list.
The Searchers, a John Wayne western, climbed the most, to No. 12 from 96 in 1997, while The African Queen, one of Katharine Hepburn's three films on the list, fell to 65 from 17.
The film institute's rankings include four silent films: Buster Keaton's The General at No. 18, 1916's Intolerance at No. 49, and two Charlie Chaplin films, The Gold Rush at No. 58 and Modern Times at 78. Walt Disney Co's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Toy Story, are the only animated movies.
Among movies made in the last 10 years, only four made the list: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring took the No. 50 spot; Saving Private Ryan came in at 71, Titanic ranked 83rd; and The Sixth Sense, made No. 89.
Nineteen other pictures were added to the list, bumping films such as Dr. Zhivago, The Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, and Frankenstein.
Director Stephen Spielberg has the most films on the list, with five, including Saving Private Ryan. Actors Robert DeNiro and James Stewart star in the most films on the list, with five each, while actresses Hepburn, Faye Dunaway and Diane Keaton have three movies apiece. - Bloomberg
