A.F.I's 100 Films for trainspotters

[johndav]

What a worldwide impact the AFI's latest list- of inspirational films- is having already! It's inspired the Azerbaijan Film Institute, in cooperation with other interested organisations (Baku Association of Rail Enthusiasts, Federation of Armenian Cinema Employees + Devotees, Listaholics International Evangelist Society) to come up with a new list of films to inspire the locomotive lover in all of us. What a grand idea- they're on the right track for sure, but what train of thought prompted it i wonder. Anyway, for your delight, here's the list of 100. Which films have those steamed up Caucasians forgotten?

Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
The American Friend (Wenders)
Anna Karenina (Brown)
Aparajito (Ray)
Around the World in 80 Days (Anderson)
Arrival of a Train (Lumiere bros)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)
La Bataille du Rail (Clement)
Batman Begins (Nolan)
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
Berlin Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann)
La Bete Humaine (Renoir)
Blind Chance (Kieslowski)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
Brief Encounter (Lean)
Cairo Station (Chahine)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
Central Station (Salles)
Closely Observed Trains (Menzel)
The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
The Devil is a Woman (Von Sternberg)
Doctor Zhivago (Lean)
Double Indemnity (Wilder)
Dumbo (Disney- Hand)
Europa (Von Trier)
The First Great Train Robbery (M.Crichton)
Un Flic (Melville)
From Russia with Love (Young)
From the Pole to the Equator (Gianikian)
The General (Keaton, Bruckmann)
The Great Escape (J.Sturges)
The Great Train Robbery (Potter)
A Hard Day's Night (Lester)
Harry Potter series...(various)
Heaven's Gate (Cimino)
L'Homme du Train (Leconte)
High Noon (Zinnemann)
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)
The Iron Horse (Ford)
Journey into Fear (Foster)
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Leaving Lenin (Emlyn)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
Love me Tonight (Mamoulian)
Madame de (Ophuls)
Mission Impossible (De Palma)
Murder on the Orient Express (Lumet)
Pather Panchali (Ray)
Narrow Margin (Fleisher)
Night Mail (Wright, Watt)
Night Train (Kawalerowicz)
Night Train (J.Lynch)
Night Train to Munich (Reed)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Oh Mr Porter (Varnel)
Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)
The Only Son (Ozu)
Our Hospitality (Keaton, Blystone)
Palm Beach Story (P.Sturges)
Polar Express (Zemeckis)
The Railway Children (Jeffries)
Les Rendezvous d'Anna (Akerman)
Runaway Train (Konchalovsky)
Shanghai Express (Von Sternberg)
Secret Defense (Rivette)
Schindler's List (Spielberg)
The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci)
Silver Streak (Hiller)
Some Like it Hot (Wilder)
Speed (De Bont)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
The Station Agent (McCarthy)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
Subway (Besson)
Sunrise (Murnau)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (Sargent)
The Tall Target (Mann)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
3:10 to Yuma (Daves)
Those who Love me will Take the Train (Chereau)
Tickets (Kiarostami, Olmi, Loach)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (C.Crichton)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Trading Places (Landis)
The Train (Frankenheimer)
Trans-Europ Express (Robbe-Grillet)
Twentieth Century (Hawks)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos)
The Untouchables (De Palma)
Von Ryan's Express (Robson)
Voyage beyond the Impossible (Melies)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
Zhou Yu's Train (Sun Zhou)

[Capo]

King Kong and The French Connection. Famous train sequences, no?

Where's Mystery Train?

[johndav]

Well, i was bound to forget some- even French Connection!