The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)

1920's Best Movies: 100 Years Later
1930's Best Movies: 90 Years Later
1940's Best Movies: 80 Years Later
1950's Best Movies: 70 Years Later
1960's Best Movies: 60 Years Later
1970's Best Movies: 50 Years Later
1980's Best Movies: 40 Years Later
1990's Best Movies: 30 Years Later
2000's Best Movies: 20 Years Later
2010's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

some tough choices, gentle sadness in my heart that one of the wrong ones will win

personally really torn between L'Age and Yi Yi

yi yi. his girl friday in second

My tiers/ranks:

YI YI
THE SHINING
CERTIFIED COPY
ALL ABOUT EVE
L'ÂGE D'OR

L'AVVENTURA

PSYCHO

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
HIS GIRL FRIDAY

FIVE EASY PIECES
GOODFELLAS

top 5, ish

L'Age = Yi Yi
Psycho
All About Eve
His Girl Friday

My top 5 is pretty much "throw a dart" territory. They're all among my very favorite movies.

haven't seen the Kiarostomi but intend to eventually. have cooled on Antonioni but haven't watched L'Avventura in 20+ years so i could be wrong. don't think any of the list is less than good.

1. The Shining
2. Psycho
3. Goodfellas
4. Five Easy Pieces
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Yi Yi might’ve knocked Caligari out of my top 5 if I’d seen it more recently. I still need to watch L’Aventurra (I know).

Buñuel vs Kiarostami :/

The head says Buñuel, but the heart wins.

Five Easy Pieces, All About Eve & Yi Yi

My copy of Yi Yi has sat unwatched for years. Might be time to finally crack that sucker open

Five Easy Pieces.

anything but The Shining

voted for L'Avventura

of all of the films on the decade lists that led up to this poll, I think my favorites are four films that were not winners: In the Mood for Love, Sunset Blvd, Uncle Boonmee, La Dolce Vita

also Close-Up, my favorite film of 1990

Close-up >>>>>>>>>>>> Goodfellas

theyre both pretty

one is in a popular genre, one is not; i wonder which was more popular on a messageboard that only gets cultish about music?

there are so many films from these polls which I watched a long time ago and about which I formed instant and lasting impressions. it's interesting seeing some of them again recently

think I voted for Raging Bull, but my recollection is that The Shining was one of the most memorable films from 1980. The Elephant Man was another

I’ve only seen half of these but Caligari ftw. Runners-up: Antonioni, Buñuel.

from the 1970 list - Performance was unhinged but fascinating, I watched it recently and want to see it again. I haven't seen The Conformist or Five Easy Pieces in decades. enjoyed watching M*A*S*H and Dodes’ka-den a couple of months ago.

Close-up, Goodfellas, Days of Being Wild, and Kurosawa’s Dreams aside, 2000 seems like a better film year than 1990 overall, with In the Mood for Love, Werckmeister Harmonies, Code Unknown, In Vanda’s Room, Platform, La Commune, Yi Yi, The Gleaners and I, Songs from the Second Floor

I think I mentioned it on the other poll thread, but 2000 is probably the best single movie year in my lifetime, rivaled probably only by 1999.

besides Certified Copy and Uncle Boonmee, 2010 also featured Mysteries of Lisbon, Meek’s Cutoff, and Nostalgia for the Light, all amazing films

2000 was a great year in retrospect

a film from 2000 I still haven't seen is Jonas Mekas' As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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in the end I don't think any of these are among my favorite films of the last 100 years except L'Avventura

I voted Psycho for its many superb aspects, from the plot twist that reliably blindsides every unaware viewer, to its score, cinematography, acting and pacing. It is marred only by its tin-plated pop-psychiatric 'splaining tacked onto the ending as a sop to the audience's deeply shocked sensibilities.

would definitely vote for In the Mood for Love, Sunset Blvd, Rashomon, La Dolce Vita over any of these

Maybe the first one, but none of the rest over anything but GoodFellas.

it's the random Eric-hates-Goodfellas poll

So do I

Psycho as a consensus wouldn't be bad

xp I think I regard Five Easy Pieces even lower but sure, I’ll take that position

You mean the one where Nicholson plays a layered human being instead of a crazy hotel ghost

the poll that I thought got the results wrong was 2000, not completely, but enough to bother me

some all-time great films that year got few or no votes

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whatever

it's not a bad choice

I hate you people.

lol

still think In the Mood for Love is greater than any film on this list

lol @ results

I’ll take Yi Yi Lansing third as a moral victory.

"goodfellas" is such trash

don't hate it, but there are other films from other decades I liked much more

OTM!!!!!!

gentle sadness in my heart that one of the wrong ones will win

― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:36 (two weeks ago)

i miss the first ten years of The Shining's history when people knew it was a failure.

As opposed to the next 30, where exactly one person knows it's a failure.

quite an echo chamber there, Mr Torrance

One of our local drive-ins is doing a double feature starting Friday night of POLTERGEIST and THE SHINING. Can't wait! Haven't seen either on a movie screen since their original releases.

still think In the Mood for Love is greater than any film on this list

― Dan S, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 7:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

would've voted for this if it were an option, but i voted for goodfellas instead cause i knew it would annoy the right people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_All_the_Right_People

Ray Liotta and his Michael J. Fox ass delivery ruin Goodfellas more than anything else. Beyond the utterly unremarkable mafia story, but a better actor would've gone a long way.

i think you're reaching; he's fine. You need a nonstar in that part to play footsoldier.

what was your vote ?

Psycho i think.

plus ive heard Henry Hill talk; you dont want Richard Burton's delivery.

if only ray liotta's performance was even close to the worst thing about "goodfellas"

i miss the first ten years of The Shining's history when people knew it was a failure.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:41 PM (yesterday)

yeah, and plenty of ppl thought 2001 was an incomprehensible mess

aaaand?

Goodfellas isn't bad, its reputation is just wildly outsized to me. Feels like a mid-career summation, "Scorsese for the whole family" (I know...), unlike Taxi Driver or KOC, which remain just absolutely relentless and cruel.

I think it's mistrusted bcz it's ridiculously entertaining. It certainly has its moments of "yikes, these guys are monsters" for me, as in the second time Pesci shoots Michael Imperioli and RdN's reaction is "You disgust me... bury him yourself."

that's a great point, it's fun in a way the others I mentioned absolutely are not

Will grant that at least the balance in Goodfellas is closer to in-skew than Wolf of Wall Street.

now THAT'S a fun movie!