Bob Taylor Rocks!

I'm currently a Screenwriting Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory and am screening all of AFI's 100 Years...100 Films before graduation. Each article looks at a film from a modern standpoint to see if it still stands as a masterpiece or crumbles under its own legacy.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

One Last Furtive Look Around

12,717 minutes 212 hours 8.83 days That’s the amount of time it takes to watch AFI’s 2007 list of the "100 greatest American films....

Citizen Kane

AFI Top 100 Ranking : 1 Year : 1941 Writer : Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles Director : Orson Welles Star : Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, ...

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Godfather / The Godfather Part II

AFI Top 100 Ranking: 2, 32 Year : 1972, 1974 Writer : Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola (adaptations), Mario Puzo (novel) Director : Francis...

Friday, February 3, 2012

Casablanca

AFI Top 100 Ranking : 3 Year : 1942 Writer : Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch (adaptation), Murray Burnett, Joan Alison (pl...

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Raging Bull

AFI Top 100 Ranking: 4 Year : 1980 Writer : Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin (adaptation), Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage (book) Dir...

Singin' in the Rain

AFI Top 100 Ranking : 5 Year : 1952 Writer : Betty Comden, Adolph Green Director : Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen Star : Gene Kelly, Donald O’Con...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Gone With The Wind

AFI Top 100 Ranking: 6 Year : 1939 Writer : Sidney Howard Director : Victor Fleming Star : Vivien Leigh, Clark Cable, Olivia de Havilland I...

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