“There are some genres that are rarely associated with high art: slasher movies, sports movies, anything with Rob Schneider in it. But romantic comedies are different, because they do exist on this AFI list—just mostly the ones in black and white…”
“In prior weeks, I talked about movies that do genre so well they deserve to be on the list. Chinatown is a great example because it’s not only a movie that did noir so well but found new ways to do it…”
“Film history is such a big piece of this AFI list as we’re not only looking at movies that movie well but ones that taught all other movies how to movie. Back when filmmakers were still trying to figure out…”
