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AFI Challenge Countdown #94: Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese’s work makes its first appearance in the countdown with one of Watson’s favorite films, the based-on-a-true-story mob drama Goodfellas.
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AFI Countdown Challenge #95: Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino;s second–and possibly best–movie, a collection of stories about criminals and other lowlifes in Los Angeles made some careers and revived one other.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #96: The Searchers
John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter won’t give up the search for a girl kidnapped by Comanches in this John Ford Western.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #97: Bringing Up Baby
Cary Grant is a quiet scientist who catches the eye of ditzy socialite Katherine Hepburn in this 1938 screwball comedy.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #98: Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood rode off into the sunset with this, his last Western and a beautiful meditation on the effects of legend and violence on the West.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #99: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
It’s the landmark 1967 film on interracial marriage.
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AFI Challenge Countdown #100: Yankee Doodle Dandy
James Cagney plays Broadway singer/dancer/actor/songwriter/patriot George M. Cohan in this musical biopic