afi top 100 – Page 4 – Movie Valhalla

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert predictably fall for each other in this gleefully larger-than-life early road trip romantic comedy

Maybe the classic Old Hollywood movie, made at the height of World War II and maybe one big metaphor for the war itself.

Cloris Leachman won an Oscar for her performance in this drama about teenagers in what Roger Ebert called “a town that should not exist.”

The Marx Brothers got the most freedom of their careers and used it to skewer patriotism, fascism, and war as bum deals for suckers.

A story where three very grizzled dudes find gold in the wilderness and it drives them all nuts. A manly man’s parable about greed.

A western parable in which Gary Cooper is very convinced he is right and everyone else is wrong. He would have fit right in on Twitter.

An “ultra-violent” discussion of free will, human nature, and what it means to be good. At least, I think that’s what’s happening?

The original monster movie continues to thrill when it comes to its giant gorilla. The rest of the movie has not aged as well.

A wildly popular, theoretically inspirational prison drama slash… allegory? metaphor? daydream?

Kubrick’s Science Fiction masterpiece is more of a grand artistic statement than a movie. I love it so much.