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If you look at the original AFI list, almost all of them deal, in some way, with what Eric calls “American themes.” Possible exceptions include The Third Man, the David Lean films and A Clockwork Orange, each arguably British, as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is thematically nationless as far as I’m concerned.
Those titles aside, the list is full of movies about the frontier, the road, capital, idealism, greed, as well as classic American dilemmas like interventionism vs. isolationism and the outer limits of democracy.
This, I think, will change with the AFI’s new list. As time goes on, it becomes harder to ignore classic films from the 1980s onwards. And it will therefore be harder to ignore “nationless” (globalized) films like 2001. The AFI will, no doubt, include movies like The Return of the King for the effect it had on American audiences (and it will qualify as “American” because of its financing). But it seems to me that including a movie like this misses the point of having a list of great American films. By the same token, it would also miss the point to include movies like Birth, Before Sunrise or Buffalo 66, fantastic films that will be excluded for the wrong reasons. The right reason to exclude them is that they fall more under the rubric of International Art Cinema than they do under an American national cinema.
On the other hand, it would be nice to see a film like My Own Private Idaho make the list. Despite the fact that it exhibits some of the hallmarks of International Art Cinema (non-narrative storytelling, central protagonist alienated from his society, foregrounding of visual style over narrative, long(ish) wide shots), it is also very much about America.
It is a road movie - one of the great American genres - that takes place over the span of America - Portland, Seattle, and of course, Idaho. But unlike most road movies, the viewer rarely sees how Mike (River Phoenix) travels from one place to another. Mike is transported while he is sleeping (he is a narcoleptic), but the effect (made possible by the magic of movie technology) mimics the effect of modern transportation (literally collapsing space by reducing the amount of time it takes to get somewhere). One minute Mike is on a road in Idaho, the next he wakes up on a bench in Portland. The experience of travel – once a mark of territorial expansion and conquest, so much a part of American mythology – is now more like a reverie. In modern America, the landscape is something to drift through as in a dream.
Mike’s memories play a large role in the film, and he slips in and out of them (represented by 16mm stock footage) in much the same way he travels distances – he closes his eyes and then he’s there. Mike’s sexual identity works in a similar fashion; he is receptive to all forms of love. He is fluid.
The reasons that I initially fell in love with My Own Private Idaho had to do with idolizing the cool sensibility of River Phoenix and the other hustlers, even though I was not gay and never considered selling my body to anybody. It may have been River Phoenix's hair or Gus Van Sant’s knack for photographing youth, but I think that the movie captures something essential about what it feels like to be a Young American of a certain generation – gay, straight, or fluid.
As good a job as the AFI initially did in picking quintessentially American movies, the majority of them tell very old American stories. It would be nice if the new list, rather than attempt to honor super co-productions that have made a lot of money in the United States, paid tribute to some of the smaller films that have told newer kinds of American stories.



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Sadly, the list of 400 films the AFI provided for its voters does not even include MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. In fact, the only Gus Van Sant film they did include is GOOD WILL HUNTING. Apparently, this is a worthier film than ELEPHANT, GERRY and TO DIE FOR. Not to mention FINDING FORRESTER.
Here's a short list of 30 great films the AFI omitted from the 400 eligible films:
ABOUT SCHMIDT
ALL THE REAL GIRLS
THE APOSTLE
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
BARRY LYNDON
BOB ROBERTS
THE CAMERAMAN
DEAD MAN
EYES WIDE SHUT
FACES
FOOLISH WIVES
FOOTLIGHT PARADE
FULL METAL JACKET
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
THE INCREDIBLES
THE KILLING
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
LOVE ME TONIGHT
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
THE PALM BEACH STORY
RETURN OF THE JEDI
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
SCARLET STREET
THE SCHOOL OF ROCK
TARGETS
TOMORROW
UNFAITHFUL
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN
Finding Forrester
This is an abomination. That movie was so full of greatness that even a throwaway line ("You're the man now, dog!") developed into an internet phenomenon.
"Nationless" Cinema
I fully support Jeff’s argument for MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’S inclusion into the canon of great American cinema. But the aspect of Jeff’s posting that I found the most provocative and interesting is the notion that we are moving toward a “nationless” era of mainstream commercial movies. “Nationless” in the sense that movie studios today don’t want to tell stories or deal with themes that seem too exclusively American. Movies dealing overtly with the American political system or race (“urban” movies perform notoriously poorly overseas) are unlikely to have the same international appeal as Silver Surfers and giant asteroids—particularly in an era in which the rest of the world, with few exceptions, hates America. It’s also interesting to think of Stanley Kubrick as a proto-nationless filmmaker—the boy from the Bronx turned ex-patriot residing in England, making movies that exceed boundaries both national and earthly (in the case of 2001).
However, more than a decade before Kubrick gave us the star child, Hollywood studios were making movies in European countries with local cast members and crews. Laws in European countries such as Italy and France only allowed studios to extract a certain amount of box office receipts as cash. The rest of the money was frozen into accounts that the studios could only spend in those countries. The “Hollywood on the Tiber” era of sword-and-sandals epics in the 50s and 60s resulted from the studios’ need to spend this money abroad. Although the stories, some actors, and below-the-line crew were not American, the financing and global distribution apparatus remained so.
Similarly, today we can’t ignore the fact that “nationless” blockbusters still revolve around Hollywood studios with global distribution apparatuses. And despite the availability of international movie financing—through foreign pre-sales, international co-productions, and tax shelter schemes—the money that flows through giant blockbusters remains predominately American. I agree with Jeff that the AFI should address this. As an organization positioned as sort of an intermediary between the Hollywood studios and the public, the AFI has the opportunity to start a meaningful conversation about what it means for a movie to be American and whether important national themes and stories are being ignored in today’s era. It’s a conversation I doubt will take place, but it would be useful.
Still, we should remember that even if commercial movies appear on the outside to be increasingly “nationless,” Hollywood remains the center of gravity and control that these productions orbit around.
...but if Hollywood remains
...but if Hollywood remains the center of gravity, then what is the point of making a list of exclusively American films when all films are connected to America in some fashion? Why not include foreign films that are distributed and do well in the US like Cache? And if the financing is the chief criteria, then should a movie like Mulholland Dr., financed by European dollars, qualify?
I guess what I'm saying is that it is only worth making an American list if we take that term seriously in some way. Otherwise, fuck America, let's just make an All Time Great Cinema list.
Race Abroad
Just wanted to follow up on Eric's parenthetical, "'urban' movies perform notoriously poorly overseas."
This came up a couple years ago, when Will Smith made a gaffe by explaining to foreign press why they cast Eva Mendes in HITCH:
“There’s sort of an accepted myth that if you have two black actors, a male and a female, in the lead of a romantic comedy, that people around the world don’t want to see it,” Smith told the British paper, the Birmingham Post while promoting the flick overseas. “We spend $50-something million making this movie and the studio would think that was tough on their investment. So the idea of a black actor and a white actress comes up — that’ll work around the world, but it’s a problem in the U.S.”
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I think there are two issues here. The first is the desire for a vibrant American national cinema and canons that admit great films (both commercial and non-commercial) that have interesting takes on these American themes and concerns. In this regard, we both seem to agree that mainstream American movies today are addressing less and less of these concerns. On an artistic level, any national cinema that America might have had is being largely eroded.
The second issue relates to issues of financing and political economy. In other words, what goes on behind the screen. All I'm saying is that we can argue that the narratives and aesthetics of contemporary Hollywood movies are becoming more nationless, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that most of these movies are still tied to Hollywood and the U.S. movie industry. It doesn't mean we should admit these movies into our canon. It just means we need to recognize the political issues of production and ownership that are at stake.
As for MULHOLLAND DR., it is a movie directed by an American and shot in Los Angeles. It is also a masterpiece that offers its own twist on the STAR IS BORN American theme, among others. So I say: admit it to the canon. And thank you, Canal Plus, for putting up the money for this picture.
Am I contradicting myself by asking us to be mindful of both artistic and economic factors? I clearly privilege the artistic in terms of inclusion into the canon, but I am not comfortable with using a term like "nationless" without qualifying it.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2004, Idaho had an estimated population of 1,493,262. The state's postal abbreviation is ID. Idaho's nickname is the Gem State because of its abundance of natural resources.
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