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AFI names top 100 genre flicks

AP, Los Angeles
Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film institute's best genre movies.
Films featuring those characters were among the number 1 picks last Tuesday on the AFI's top-10 lists of the finest flicks in 10 genres, including mystery, Westerns, sports tales and courtroom dramas.
The winners included "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" for animation; "The Wizard of Oz," featuring Dorothy and her little dog, for fantasy; "2001: A Space Odyssey," with HAL the demented computer, for science fiction; Chaplin's "CityLights" forroman-tic comedy; and Brando's "The Godfather" for gangster flicks.
The other number 1 movies: Westerns, "The Searchers"; sports, "Raging Bull"; courtroom drama, "To Kill a Mockingbird"; epics, "Lawrence of Arabia"; and mysteries, "Vertigo."
Not surprisingly, Alfred Hitchcock dominated the mystery category. Besides "Vertigo," he landed three others on that top-10 list "RearWindow" atnumber3, "North By Northwest" at number 7 and " Dial M for Murder" at number 9.
Chaplin's "City Lights" from 1931, one of only two silent films x to make the genrp lists, was- a ; surprise, beaungsuch popular modern romances as "Annie Hall" (number 2), "When Harry Met Sally..." (number 6) and "Sleepless in Seattle" (number 10).
"This is why these shows are so important. They keep these films in the cultural conversation," said
Bob Gazzale, AFI president. "When 'City Lights' is honoured as the number 1 romantic comedy, millions of people will go back and watch it again."
The best genre movies were
announced in the CBS special "AFI's 10 Top 10," the latest in the institute's annual best-of shows. The winners were chosen by actors, filmmakers, critics and others in Hollywood from ballots
that included 50 nominees in each genre.
Past AFI lists have included rankings of the top-100 American films, comedies, love stories, screen stars and movie quotes.
Walt Disney ruled die animation category. Trailing 1937's "Snow White," the first featurelength animated film, in the top five were the Disney tales "Pinocchio," "Bambi," "The Lion King" and "Fantasia."
Some filmmakers were confined to their best-known specialties, such as Hitchcock in mysteries and "The Searchers" director John Ford in Westerns. Others landed films in several genres.
Steven Spielberg had Nos. 3 and 8 among epics with "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" and number 3 among sci-fi movies with "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial." Besides "2001," Stanley Kubrick had the number 4 sci-fi tale with "A Clockwork Orange" and the number 5 epic with "Spartacus."
Along with "Raging Bull" in sports, Martin Scorsese was on the gangster list with "Goodfellas” at number2.
Major movie franchises were snubbed as fantasy nominees "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "Spider-Man 2," "Batman" and "Superman" failed to make the cut.
Gazzale said pan of the fun of the film lists is the debate they prompt over Which movie§ are included and omitted.
"These countdowns are a collective opinion of leaders from across the film community. Any surprise about an omission would be entirely subjective," Gazzale said.