afi top 100 – Page 3 – Movie Valhalla

12 ANGRY MEN (1957)

Perhaps the greatest of all “talky dramas,” beloved despite (or because of?) taking place almost entirely in one room.

Perhaps the artistic apotheosis of silent movies, just before sound came in and swept them away.

A war movie for the anti-war crowd, and a comedy that inadvertently launched the biggest TV series of all time.

Estimated to be the most-watched movie of all-time, it somehow works just as well 82 years later.

Jimmy Stewart becomes obsessed with watching his neighbors live their lives through his window, and maybe we do too.

Dustin Hoffman shows women how to be a real feminist in maybe my least favorite of the AFI’s “Top 100” American movies.

Scorsese’s portrait of the classic lone wolf white male remains highly acclaimed, but I wonder if it hasn’t done more harm than good.

A kid and his lovable alien pal try to escape from some government scientists. I found myself rooting for the scientists.

You know almost every song, but wow is this not actually a good movie. This is probably Christopher Plummer’s most famous role, but he also hated it.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Watch Party of this seminal 1967 counterculture classic about Depression-era bank robbers.