![]() ![]() The Russian roulette sequences of The Deer Hunter are iconic, and there’s no way around that. It’s shocking, heightened, and utilized to extreme effect… so that’s understandable. I suspect all that many remember about The Deer Hunter is the Russian roulette. I’m not sure what an 18 year old me took away from a film this awash in raw, exposed humanity… but all I really remembered was the Russian roulette. To my shame I’ve still not seen every film on that list, but I worked hard on it, and at some point I soaked in The Deer Hunter as a young man directly because of its inclusion in that list. Here were 100 of the greatest American films ever made, being published just as a burgeoning young cinephile worked his first real job at a locally owned video store. ![]() In 1998, the year of my high school graduation and a time before the internet dominated, the American Film Institute released its 100 Years… 100 Movies list.
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