#AFI 100

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AFI's 100 Greatest American Films Of All Time 97. Blade Runner (1982)

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Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)

10/04/2024

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OMG FINALLY!!! MY WELL DESERVED LASHTON NOTICES!! 🤗

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yesterday I longed to die; fell to the ground, and the ground caught me.

now, today I question why

I fell.

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Watching Cabaret for the first time in the current political climate sure is something.

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Turnstile, Insane Clown Posse, Corey Feldman, More To Play Riot Fest 2023

Others playing @RiotFest include @thecure, @lsdunes, @teganandsara, @YoungCultureNY, and @fleshwater_fm!

Oh you know what’s goin down. Chicago’s beloved punk rock festival Riot Fest has unveiled its lineup for 2023, and it is nothing but banger after banger. The 17th annual festival will run from Friday, September 15, to Sunday, September 17, at Douglass Park in Chicago, Ill. Friday’s headliners are Foo Fighters and Turnstile, Saturday will bring The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, and Queens…

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100 Years, 100... Snubs! - Part One

It’s May miniseries time, Garys! And we’re doing something a little different!

In 1998, the AFI compiled a list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and turned the list into a primetime special complete with famous faces and a schmaltzy Trisha Yearwood song. It was such a success, the AFI continued to release Top 100 lists for love stories, comedies, stars, and more. For our May miniseries, we are paying a loving tribute to the tradition by selecting our choices for the 100 greatest Oscar snubs of all time, and we have several beloved THOB guests calling in to provide their picks as well!

In part one, we’ll cover our ground rules for selection, including no double mentions for a single category in a year, or double mentions for an artist. And we’ll also be giving the boot to the nomination we would replace in our snubs’ place. Here we kick off the month of May with our first (unranked!) 20 snub selections!

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Olly Alexander wearing a Suman Gurung custom-made organdy spike top in the All For You music video (September 17, 2018).

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AFI's 100 Greatest American Films Of All Time 94. Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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The Warped Shelf - The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 #95)

We’re back up the AFI ladder with a small town tale that’s way too real for a story that’s supposed to take place 70 years ago.   Episode #145

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heyyyyyy might want to mute “parker does AFI 100″ for the next day if you don’t want to see gifsets of like 30 random movies on the dash sorry!

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Haven't voted yet, but the fun part here is that only like four of them are good lawyers.

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Hmmm...

I wonder if it would be fun to watch the movies from these lists. I haven't seen most of them yet and I have wanted to watch "To Kill a Mockingbird" for ages now anyways... I could even give every villain and hero my own rating ^-^

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The AFI Top 100 - What Were They Thinking? | Tales From Hollywoodland

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The AFI Top 100 - What Were They Thinking? | Tales From Hollywoodland

This week, Arthur, Julian, and Steve analyze the most recent movie polling for the AFI Top 100, toasting the good choices, arguing over the questionable, and wondering how they could leave off classics like “Dr. Zhivago,” “The Great Escape” and many others.    

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