This Weekend’s Film Festival Celebrates AFI 100 Newbies Part IV

This Weekend’s Film Festival concludes the four-part series on the new editions to the AFI Top 100 List upon its 10th anniversary. By viewing this lineup, along with Part I, Part II, and Part III, you will have seen 20 of the 23 new films to make the list. Some are far more deserving than others, but for the most part the all newbies deserve to be included. The reason three films didn’t make TWFF lineups were for various reasons. SOPHIE’S CHOICE was featured in another lineup on regret, while INTOLERANCE and A NIGHT AT THE OPERA represent the weakest of the newcomers. For the fourth, and final, lineup, the films mainly represent newer movies. One of the films is a classic black & white courtroom drama from the 1950s. One is a 1970s crime procedural that doesn’t feature cops. One of the films is a modern classic that found its... [read full story]