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Rosenbaums Alternative 100

When AFI premeired it's Top 100 American Movies, Johnathan Rosenbaum(among many critics) felt it was a rather drab and boring list. Most of the list seemed to simply promote already commercially successful films so that even more money would be made off of the renewed intrest in the films(A few exceptions, like Citizen Kane, which was never commercial successful but few are unreluctant to argue with its critical acclaim). If Rosebaum were to make an alternative list completely from scratch, it would not doubt include some films represented on the AFI, but has refreained from doing so. His list is also alphabetical, because cases can also be made to propose one film was more important than the other or vice versa.

 

Rosenbaums Alternative 100 Greatest American Films

 
1. Ace In the Hole (1951)
2. An Affair To Remember (1957)
3. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
4. Avanti! (1972)
5. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
6. Bigger Than Life (1956)
7. The Big Sky (1952)
8. The Black Cat (1934)
9. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
10. Broken Blossoms (1919)
11. Cat People (1942)
12. Christmas In July (1940)
13. Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
14. The Crowd (1928)
15. Dead Man (1995)
16. The Docks of New York (1928)
17. Do the Right Thing (1989)
18. Eadweard Muybridge Zoopraxographer (1975)
19. 11 x 14 (1977)
20. Eraserhead (1977)
21. Foolish Wives (1922)
22. Force of Evil (1948)
23. Freaks (1932)
24. The General (1927)
25. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
26. Gilda (1946)
27. Greed (1924)
28. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
29. The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
30. Housekeeping (1987)
31. The Hustler (1961)
32. Intolerance (1916)
33. Johnny Guitar (1954)
34. Judge Priest (1934)
35. Killer of Sheep (1978)
36. The Killing (1956)
37. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
38. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
39. The Ladies Man (1961)
40. The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
41. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (1977)
42. Laughter (1930)
43. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
44. Lonesome (1928)
45. Love Me Tonight (1932)
46. Love Streams (1984)
47. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
48. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
49. Man's Castle (1933)
50. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
51. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
52. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
53. Mikey and Nicky (1976)
54. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
55. My Son John (1952)
56. The Naked Spur (1953)
57. Nanook of the North (1922)
58. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
59. The Nutty Professor (1963)
60. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
61. Panic In the Streets (1950)
62. Park Row (1952)
63. The Phenix City Story (1955)
64. Point Blank (1967)
65. Real Life (1979)
66. Reminiscences of a Journey To Lithuania (1972)
67. Rio Bravo (1959)
68. Scarface (1932)
69. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
70. Scarlet Street (1945)
71. Scenes From Under Childhood Section #1 (1967)
72. The Scenic Route (1978)
73. The Seventh Victim (1943)
74. Shadows (1959)
75. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
76. The Shooting (1967)
77. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
78. Try and Get Me (1950)
79. Stars In My Crown (1950)
80. Steel Helmet (1951)
81. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
82. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
83. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
84. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
85. The Tarnished Angels (1958)
86. Thats Entertainment! III (1994)
87. This Land Is Mine (1943)
88. Thunderbolt (1929)
89. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
90. To Sleep With Anger (1990)
91. Track of the Cat (1954)
92. Trouble In Paradise (1932)
93. Vinyl (1965)
94. Wanda (1970)
95. While the City Sleeps (1956)
96. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
97. Woodstock (1970)
98. The Wrong Man (1956)
99. Zabriskie Point (1970)