Alan Jacobs


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Meanwhile standard-bearer lists like the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies or Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films Poll are sorely underrepresented. None of the AFI’s top 10 American films are currently streaming on Netflix; just 14 out of the list’s 100 titles are currently available there. The pickings are even slimmer from Sight & Sound’s top 100 (or 102; they rank with ties), where just 11 movies are streaming at the moment. You’ll have to look elsewhere if you want to watch Citizen Kane or The Godfather or The Rules Of The Game or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Breathless or Seven Samurai or Vertigo or Psycho (at least Hitchcock’s version; Netflix has Van Sant’s). And if students aren’t looking elsewhere, that’s troubling.