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FEATURE | Chris Fujiwara | 6/21/0

100 Years...100 Laughs



Continuing its celebration of the centennial of American cinema, the American Film Institute has put together its long-awaited list of America's 100 funniest movies, as hand-picked by such noted figures in the American entertainment community as Lisa Bonet, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bonnie Bedelia, Bonnie Raitt, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Helena Bonham Carter, Bono, Spencer Gordon Bennett, and Bennett Cerf. The results were unveiled June 14 on a nationally broadcast television program, "100 Years...100 Laughs."

During a heartfelt opening address (unfortunately preempted in some areas by ongoing news coverage of the Uzbekistan parliamentary crisis), Georg Trakl, AFI's Vice-President of Finance & Administration, quipped: "Over the last hundred years we've loved and laughed so hard at so many movies, we just had to make a list of them. And of course in this, as in all things, tastes differ. At least be thankful it's not the list of the 100 best dog movies." To which program host Charlton Heston replied with a firm "Amen, Georg."

(NOTE: To express disagreement or to nominate your own favorites, do not, repeat do not respond to this press release. Instead, find a Web chat room and complain amongst yourselves.)

The Top 100


1. Que Viva Mexico!


2. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell


3. House of Frankenstein


4. V. I. Warshawski


5. Pulp Fiction


6. What! No Beer?


7. The Andromeda Strain


8. Meet John Doe


9. Anna Christie


10. Bowery to Bagdad


11. Donovan's Reef


12. Car Wash


13. The Cannonball Run


14. Earthquake


15. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)


16. Mom and Dad


17. O. Henry's Full House


18. The Reluctant Debutante


19. An American Guerrilla in the Philippines


20. The Great McGinty


21. Alexander's Ragtime Band


22. Sign of the Pagan


23. The Fortune Cookie


24. Please Don't Eat the Daisies


25. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine


26. How to Make a Monster


27. Hook


28. Jumanji


29. Three Amigos!


30. Room Service


31. Barcelona


32. House Party 2


33. Mortuary Academy


34. Four Weddings and a Funeral


35. Radio Days


36. The Fighting Seabees


37. Wavelength (1967)


38. Killers from Space


39. Bus Stop


40. Ghost Dad


41. Barton Fink


42. The True Story of Jesse James


43. The Honey Pot


44. Beavis and Butt-head Do America


45. Casanova's Big Night


46. The Little Mermaid


47. Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)


48. Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!


49. Miller's Crossing


50. Spinout


51. Look Who's Talking


52. Gimme an "F"


53. Imitation of Life (1959)


54. Born Free


55. Make Mine Mink


56. Limelight


57. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini


58. Red Planet Mars


59. Elmer Gantry


60. Buck Privates


61. Lady Windermere's Fan


62. Love and Death


63. The Family Jewels


64. Two on a Guillotine


65. Frankenhooker


66. Wilson


67. The Flim-Flam Man


68. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?


69. The Wedding March


70. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)


71. The Wild World of Batwoman


72. Brighton Beach Memoirs


73. I Married a Witch


74. Blame It on the Bellboy


75. Roman Holiday


76. Bullitt


77. The Half-Naked Truth


78. Sextette


79. Utopia


80. Every Which Way But Loose


81. Destry Rides Again


82. Grumpy Old Men


83. The Shining


84. Let's Go Navy


85. Nightmare on Elm Street


86. The Immoral Mr. Teas


87. White Men Can't Jump


88. The Brute Man


89. Revenge of the Nerds


90. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


91. A Very Brady Sequel


92. When Willie Comes Marching Home


93. Night Monster


94. The Last Remake of Beau Geste


95. Leave It to Blondie


96. Psych-Out


97. Willard


98. Brain of Blood


99. Sergeant York


100. Images


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