Best Screenplays

[LiddyRules]

The AFI people released another top 100 list (for best screenplays). Here are the top 10:

1. Casablanca (Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch)
2. The Godfather (Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Chinatown (Robert Towne)
4. Citizen Kane (Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles)
5. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr.)
8. Network (Paddy Chayefsky)
9. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond)
10. The Godfather Part II (Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola)

While I can't find the Full List yet.

I'm so glad Network made the list. That was just on cable a few nights ago and I watched it. Holy shit, just, holy shit. I seriously forgot how amazing that movie is. Some of the most brilliant monologues ever written, some of one of the most ensemble performances ever and how a satire 30 years old can just get more and more relevant with each passing years (there was even an Arab-buying an American controversy in the movie!!) So yeah, see Network. Also, Faye Dunaway- strangely hot in it.

[abudabit]

AFI is obsessed with old movies. Everyonce in a while they will throw in a newer movie like Godfather II or Chinatown.

[LiddyRules]

This seems to be a bit more new-film friendly, according to the article I read Charlie Kaufman got a hat trick

[MrMotherFucker]

They should do a list of great scripts that were never made. Here are two that would easily make the list

Kevin Smith's draft of Superman Lives
Robert Rodriguez' draft of Predator 3 (It took us to the home planet of the Predators

btw, have any of you ever read the treatment for the Freddy Vs. Jason sequel that Ashe in it? I found a copy of it online. let me know if you want it.

[LilJimmyRbinson]

AFI has such a hardon for Casablanca. Maybe it's my 21st century mind, but every time I watch old "classic" movies like that, Citizen Kane, Maltese Falcoln, etc I fall asleep in 20 minutes. They're just too different from what I've grown up watching and it bores me to tears.

The Usual Suspects and Dogma better be on this list.

[LiddyRules]

AFI has such a hardon for Casablanca. Maybe it's my 21st century mind, but every time I watch old "classic" movies like that, Citizen Kane, Maltese Falcoln, etc I fall asleep in 20 minutes. They're just too different from what I've grown up watching and it bores me to tears.

The Usual Suspects and Dogma better be on this list.

Don't know about Dogma. Usual Suspects is not on the list but "last 5 minutes" of Usual Suspects is because really that's the only part of the movie that's memorable.