I adore Some Like It Hot! Only just saw it a few months ago, actually, and was blown away. Total genius.
I almost watched The Apartment about a year-and-a-half ago, but my TiVo (actually me ex's TiVo, hence not having one anymore) did something retarded and recorded the wrong thing.
As for noir, American Movie Classics, which I used to get via my old cable company, runs a lot of them. Also, I made a point of watching a lot of that type of stuff back in university when I was doing my Film Studies minor. I just adore the look and feel of that era of cinema as a whole and especially the film noir aesthetic.
They only just recently released this new, revised "Tenth Anniversary" Edition of the list this past January. I do not agree with all of the changes, myself, but that is admittedly based on personal preference more than anything else.
The Wikipedia page for the new list has a side-by-side comparison chart of the old and new versions:
There are some films that got knocked off the list entirely (e.g. Giant, Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) that I still have not seen, but fully intend to, despite their having been replaced.
Honestly, I firmly believe that some films that got bumped off, like Fantasia and The Third Man1, deserved to stay more than others deserved to be added (specifically, Saving Private Ryan and Titanic, for starters). I am glad to see that Nashville and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, two of my all-time favorites, got the nod, though
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Looks like you've watched much more noir than I have, despite best efforts as well. *jealous*
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I almost watched The Apartment about a year-and-a-half ago, but my TiVo (actually me ex's TiVo, hence not having one anymore) did something retarded and recorded the wrong thing.
As for noir, American Movie Classics, which I used to get via my old cable company, runs a lot of them. Also, I made a point of watching a lot of that type of stuff back in university when I was doing my Film Studies minor. I just adore the look and feel of that era of cinema as a whole and especially the film noir aesthetic.
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The Wikipedia page for the new list has a side-by-side comparison chart of the old and new versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years..._100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)
There are some films that got knocked off the list entirely (e.g. Giant, Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) that I still have not seen, but fully intend to, despite their having been replaced.
Honestly, I firmly believe that some films that got bumped off, like Fantasia and The Third Man1, deserved to stay more than others deserved to be added (specifically, Saving Private Ryan and Titanic, for starters). I am glad to see that Nashville and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, two of my all-time favorites, got the nod, though ( ... )
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http://tinyurl.com/yrf2a3
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