Man I don’t think Afi has ever made a list I care for. No Once Upon a Time in America? And why would they have courtroom drama instead of horror? Shrek one of the best animated films ever?
AFI promotes the ignorance of foreign films in the movie going public. The general audience for these things doesn’t realize that they are only American films, and takes these as the end all be all lists, assuming that no foreign films are as good as American ones.
