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Originally Posted by Mister Underhill
Those AFI lists are American films only, which accounts for some of the missing masterpieces you mention, like Ran (or rather, Seven Samurai) .
Now everyone can debate whether or not FotR is really an American film...  |
Of course, silly of me. I was looking at an earlier 100 best list (1998) that mentioned AFI in the Google blurb, but which wasn't the actual AFI list. Bah! Never mind.
P.S. Except for the funding, FotR had really nothing whatsoever to do with the U.S. except for some pre-film casting calls in New York and L.A. (neither did
Lawrence of Arabia or
The Third Man, for that matter). There is a reason that FotR's premiere was in New Zealand and not in L.A.