Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
The Big Picture Most directors work long and hard to make just one film that is considered among the greatest of all time. There is certainly no shame in spending years as a hired hand making moderately successful films, and many highly respected directors have yet to create one definitive masterpiece — in fact, some never do. Thus, it's even more impressive that there are some famous directors with multiple films considered to be worthy of celebrating for generations to come.
The Scorsese chosen for the AFI list shows just how diverse of a profile he has. Indeed, there aren’t many directors who could make a neo-noir classic, one of the greatest sports movies ever made, and one of the best mob movies of all time. What’s even more impressive is that Scorsese has several recent hits that he made after the AFI list was issued, including The Wolf of Wall Street and the recent Killers of the Flower Moon.
Huston directed several classics selected by the AFI that represented major achievements in their respective genres. The Maltese Falcon is known as the film that essentially launched the neo-noir style, while The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was a haunting revisionist Western that explored the dark side of human nature. Lastly, The African Queen was an old-fashioned adventure romance that earned Humphrey Bogart the Oscar for Best Actor, which had long eluded him.
Capra’s films have aged very well and continue to be celebrated by younger generations of moviegoers. It’s A Wonderful Life is a holiday classic that many families watch every year during the holiday season, while Mr. Smith Goes To Washington is a powerful political drama that grows more relevant with each passing day. For its part, It Happened One Night is regarded as the film that essentially kicked off the romantic comedy genre as it is known today.
The films from Hitchcock on the AFI list represent only a fraction of the masterpieces he made, but they are still classics nonetheless that have significantly influenced the medium. Vertigo is a film that grows even deeper with each viewing and currently ranks among the all-time best in American cinema.
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