Slacktivist has an interesting post comparing Wikipedia with the new “Conservipedia,” which purports to be a conservative alternative to the Wiki.
The argument from the right is that the Wikipedia is “too liberal,” which means that it actually includes liberal views and opinions along with conservative ones. This is identical to the authoritarian right’s criticisms of the mainstream media. They are “too liberal” compared to Fox News and the Mooney Times precisely because they are not completely exclusionary and one-sided all the time.
Needless to say the “Conservipedia” is a joke as Slacktivist makes clear when you compare its entries with the better informed and more comprehensive Wiki.
Friday, June 22, 2007
AFI Top 100 updated
The American Film Institute has updated its list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years already. It seems like just a few years ago that they came out with their first list.
If you go to the website linked above you can download their Top 100 list with a comparison to the 1997 list. You can also download the official ballot with all 400 nominated films that were used to make up the Top 100 list.
Below is the new AFI list followed by my Top 100 list if I had voted using their official ballot. My list, of course, reflects my own personal viewing tastes as well as being restricted to movies that I have actually seen. Also, their list is in rank order while mine is just alphabetical.
The AFI List
1 CITIZEN KANE
2 GODFATHER, THE
3 CASABLANCA
4 RAGING BULL
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
6 GONE WITH THE WIND
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST
9 VERTIGO
10 WIZARD OF OZ, THE
11 CITY LIGHTS
12 SEARCHERS, THE
13 STAR WARS
14 PSYCHO
15 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
16 SUNSET BLVD.
17 GRADUATE, THE
18 GENERAL, THE
19 ON THE WATERFRONT
20 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
21 CHINATOWN
22 SOME LIKE IT HOT
23 GRAPES OF WRATH, THE
24 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
25 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
26 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
27 HIGH NOON
28 ALL ABOUT EVE
29 DOUBLE INDEMNITY
30 APOCALYPSE NOW
31 MALTESE FALCON, THE
32 GODFATHER PART II, THE
33 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
34 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
35 ANNIE HALL
36 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE
37 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE
38 TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE
39 DR. STRANGELOVE
40 SOUND OF MUSIC, THE
41 KING KONG
42 BONNIE AND CLYDE
43 MIDNIGHT COWBOY
44 PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE
45 SHANE
46 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
47 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A
48 REAR WINDOW
49 INTOLERANCE
50 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE
51 WEST SIDE STORY
52 TAXI DRIVER
53 DEER HUNTER, THE
54 M*A*S*H
55 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
56 JAWS
57 ROCKY
58 GOLD RUSH, THE
59 NASHVILLE
60 DUCK SOUP
61 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
62 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
63 CABARET
64 NETWORK
65 AFRICAN QUEEN, THE
66 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
67 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
68 UNFORGIVEN
69 TOOTSIE
70 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
71 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
72 SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE
73 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
74 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE
75 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
76 FORREST GUMP
77 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
78 MODERN TIMES
79 WILD BUNCH, THE
80 APARTMENT, THE
81 SPARTACUS
82 SUNRISE
83 TITANIC
84 EASY RIDER
85 NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A
86 PLATOON
87 12 ANGRY MEN
88 BRINGING UP BABY
89 SIXTH SENSE, THE
90 SWING TIME
91 SOPHIE'S CHOICE
92 GOODFELLAS
93 FRENCH CONNECTION, THE
94 PULP FICTION
95 LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE
96 DO THE RIGHT THING
97 BLADE RUNNER
98 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
99 TOY STORY
100 BEN-HUR
Mike’s List
1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. The African Queen
3. Airplane!
4. All the President’s Men
5. Amadeus
6. An American in Paris
7. Annie Hall
8. Apollo 13
9. Back to the Future
10. Bambi
11. Ben-Hur
12. The Birds
13. Blazing Saddles
14. Born on the Fourth of July
15. Braveheart
16. The Breakfast Club
17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
18. Casablanca
19. Chariots of Fire
20. Citizen Kane
21. A Clockwork Orange
22. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
23. Cool Hand Luke
24. Die Hard
25. Dirty Harry
26. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Duck Soup
28. The Empire Strikes Back
29. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
30. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
31. Finding Nemo
32. The French Connection
33. The General
34. Ghostbusters
35. Giant
36. The Godfather
37. The Godfather Part II
38. Going My Way
39. The Gold Rush
40. Goldfinger
41. Gone With the Wind
42. The Graduate
43. Grease
44. The Great Escape
45. Groundhog Day
46. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
47. High Noon
48. It’s a Wonderful Life
49. Jerry Maguire
50. Jurassic Park
51. The King and I
52. L.A. Confidential
53. Lawrence of Arabia
54. The Lion King
55. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
56. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
57. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
58. M*A*S*H
59. The Maltese Falcon
60. Mary Poppins
61. The Matrix
62. Meet Me in St. Louis
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
64. North By Northwest
65. On the Waterfront
66. The Outlaw Josey Wales
67. Patton
68. The Philadelphia Story
69. Pinocchio
70. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
71. Planet of the Apes
72. Platoon
73. Pulp Fiction
74. The Quiet Man
75. Raiders of the Lost Ark
76. The Road to Morocco
77. Rocky
78. Schindler’s List
79. The Searchers
80. Sense and Sensibility
81. The Shining
82. Singin’ in the Rain
83. Some Like it Hot
84. The Sound of Music
85. Spider Man 2
86. Stagecoach
87. Star Wars
88. The Sting
89. Taxi Driver
90. The Ten Commandments
91. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
92. This is Spinal Tap
93. To Kill a Mockingbird
94. Toy Story
95. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
96. 2001: A Space Odyssey
97. Unforgiven
98. Vertigo
99. Witness
100. The Wizard of Oz
If you go to the website linked above you can download their Top 100 list with a comparison to the 1997 list. You can also download the official ballot with all 400 nominated films that were used to make up the Top 100 list.
Below is the new AFI list followed by my Top 100 list if I had voted using their official ballot. My list, of course, reflects my own personal viewing tastes as well as being restricted to movies that I have actually seen. Also, their list is in rank order while mine is just alphabetical.
The AFI List
1 CITIZEN KANE
2 GODFATHER, THE
3 CASABLANCA
4 RAGING BULL
5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
6 GONE WITH THE WIND
7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
8 SCHINDLER'S LIST
9 VERTIGO
10 WIZARD OF OZ, THE
11 CITY LIGHTS
12 SEARCHERS, THE
13 STAR WARS
14 PSYCHO
15 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
16 SUNSET BLVD.
17 GRADUATE, THE
18 GENERAL, THE
19 ON THE WATERFRONT
20 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
21 CHINATOWN
22 SOME LIKE IT HOT
23 GRAPES OF WRATH, THE
24 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
25 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
26 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
27 HIGH NOON
28 ALL ABOUT EVE
29 DOUBLE INDEMNITY
30 APOCALYPSE NOW
31 MALTESE FALCON, THE
32 GODFATHER PART II, THE
33 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
34 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
35 ANNIE HALL
36 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE
37 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE
38 TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE
39 DR. STRANGELOVE
40 SOUND OF MUSIC, THE
41 KING KONG
42 BONNIE AND CLYDE
43 MIDNIGHT COWBOY
44 PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE
45 SHANE
46 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
47 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A
48 REAR WINDOW
49 INTOLERANCE
50 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE
51 WEST SIDE STORY
52 TAXI DRIVER
53 DEER HUNTER, THE
54 M*A*S*H
55 NORTH BY NORTHWEST
56 JAWS
57 ROCKY
58 GOLD RUSH, THE
59 NASHVILLE
60 DUCK SOUP
61 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
62 AMERICAN GRAFFITI
63 CABARET
64 NETWORK
65 AFRICAN QUEEN, THE
66 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
67 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
68 UNFORGIVEN
69 TOOTSIE
70 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
71 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
72 SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE
73 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
74 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE
75 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
76 FORREST GUMP
77 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
78 MODERN TIMES
79 WILD BUNCH, THE
80 APARTMENT, THE
81 SPARTACUS
82 SUNRISE
83 TITANIC
84 EASY RIDER
85 NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A
86 PLATOON
87 12 ANGRY MEN
88 BRINGING UP BABY
89 SIXTH SENSE, THE
90 SWING TIME
91 SOPHIE'S CHOICE
92 GOODFELLAS
93 FRENCH CONNECTION, THE
94 PULP FICTION
95 LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE
96 DO THE RIGHT THING
97 BLADE RUNNER
98 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
99 TOY STORY
100 BEN-HUR
Mike’s List
1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. The African Queen
3. Airplane!
4. All the President’s Men
5. Amadeus
6. An American in Paris
7. Annie Hall
8. Apollo 13
9. Back to the Future
10. Bambi
11. Ben-Hur
12. The Birds
13. Blazing Saddles
14. Born on the Fourth of July
15. Braveheart
16. The Breakfast Club
17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
18. Casablanca
19. Chariots of Fire
20. Citizen Kane
21. A Clockwork Orange
22. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
23. Cool Hand Luke
24. Die Hard
25. Dirty Harry
26. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Duck Soup
28. The Empire Strikes Back
29. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
30. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
31. Finding Nemo
32. The French Connection
33. The General
34. Ghostbusters
35. Giant
36. The Godfather
37. The Godfather Part II
38. Going My Way
39. The Gold Rush
40. Goldfinger
41. Gone With the Wind
42. The Graduate
43. Grease
44. The Great Escape
45. Groundhog Day
46. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
47. High Noon
48. It’s a Wonderful Life
49. Jerry Maguire
50. Jurassic Park
51. The King and I
52. L.A. Confidential
53. Lawrence of Arabia
54. The Lion King
55. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
56. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
57. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
58. M*A*S*H
59. The Maltese Falcon
60. Mary Poppins
61. The Matrix
62. Meet Me in St. Louis
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
64. North By Northwest
65. On the Waterfront
66. The Outlaw Josey Wales
67. Patton
68. The Philadelphia Story
69. Pinocchio
70. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
71. Planet of the Apes
72. Platoon
73. Pulp Fiction
74. The Quiet Man
75. Raiders of the Lost Ark
76. The Road to Morocco
77. Rocky
78. Schindler’s List
79. The Searchers
80. Sense and Sensibility
81. The Shining
82. Singin’ in the Rain
83. Some Like it Hot
84. The Sound of Music
85. Spider Man 2
86. Stagecoach
87. Star Wars
88. The Sting
89. Taxi Driver
90. The Ten Commandments
91. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
92. This is Spinal Tap
93. To Kill a Mockingbird
94. Toy Story
95. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
96. 2001: A Space Odyssey
97. Unforgiven
98. Vertigo
99. Witness
100. The Wizard of Oz
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Summer vacations
Excuse the lack of blogging this week. It's not that there is nothing I want to write about. It's just that I have no time. I'm covering for two other people at work this week while they are on vacation. I hope to be back soon.
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