Thu 21 Jun 2007
Ebert reacts: “What, no FARGO?”
Posted by jporro under 100 Years... 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition[8] Comments
Roger Ebert has some strong feelings about the list, least of which is the ommision of Fargo. Here’s the following excerpted from his column. Read the full text HERE .
Lists like these cry out to be disagreed with. Seconds after an advance copy was sent to news outlets, film critic Peter Debruge e-mailed me: “Of all the issues surrounding this list, my biggest question: Where did ‘Fargo’ go?”
And finally…
So in the last analysis, it doesn’t really matter what movies are on the list. What matters is the movies on the list, voted by 1,500 above-average moviegoers who don’t think “Citizen Kane” has aged one day.
8 Responses to “Ebert reacts: “What, no FARGO?””
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June 21st, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I agree, or what about The Big Lebowski? How can Titanic make it on this list, in the 80’s no less and the Cohen brothers get the shaft? Titanic was aweful, if making money makes a movie good then all the silent pictures should be moved off the list for crappy Shrek 3.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:47 pm
it’s a shame “Fargo” didn’t make the cut this time around. Ebert’s right; “Fargo” is easily one of the greatest films ever made. so is “Patton,” “Close Encounters,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” and many others who were booted off the list. Film is film; anyone serious about it will find those titles one way or another.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 am
Where is ‘Inherit The Wind?’
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I agree that Fargo is a great movie. But I think that Memento was even better. So I say, “What, no Memento?”
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Where are the following films?
“Rebecca” (1940)
“Gigi” (1958)
“Amadeus” (1984)
“The Ten Commandments” (1956)
“Rebel Without A Cause” (1955)
“My Fair Lady” (1964)
And I think “Ben-Hur” (1959) deserves to be in the top 20.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I try not to argue too much with lists like these because I know they’re all just opinion, but without The Manchurian Candidate… of all the movies they could’ve possibly gotten rid of… I don’t think I can take this one as seriously as I took the last one.
Fargo and The Jazz Singer also seem to have been undeservedly dropped out as well.
And where is the Seven Samurai? Almost every other list I see has that movie on it.
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
It just goes to show that everyone has an opinon. I like most of AFI’s list. THE APARTMENT should be further up on the list, thats my opinon.
Joe
July 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I shouldn’t be shocked but I am that the Big Lebowski didn’t get top comedy or make the list at all. Big mistake. Huge.