AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions - The Most Romantic Films of All Time
[6/11/2002]
Today, the American Film Institute announced its picks for the 100 most romantic films of all time. Celebrated with a TV Special, aptly named "AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions," the movie named most romantic was Casablanca, the 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
"Last year, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills counted down America’s most heart-pounding films and focused on how those films viscerally effect an audience," stated AFI Director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg. "This year, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions celebrates matters of the heart in a whole different way—more heartbreaks, heartaches and hearts bursting with love, rather than heart attacks and hearts in the throat. It’s a wonderful and broad list of films and I hope this fifth installment of AFI’s centennial celebration of cinema will prompt people to watch these classics, either for the first time or the fortieth."
The 100 most passionate films of all time were selected by a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from the film community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers, etc.), critics, historians and film executives.
Here are the Top 10 films, with a link to the remaining 90 in the list:
- Casablanca (1942)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- An Affair to Remember (1957)
- The Way We Were (1973)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Love Story (1970)
- City Lights (1931)
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