This is the thread where we list our favourite movies of every year

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Remember when we did this with albums on ILM, way back when? Oh, the fun we had.

So, uhm, yeah, my taste is pretty canonical, americanocentric and often just plain boring. Sue me, I got into movies late. Also, whenever I couldn't find a movie for a certain year, I used a Disney flick (which I have seen, and which are almost always worthwile.) Some choices for recent years may be off, as I chose those based on when they came to Portugal, not when they were released.

Just doing this to get the ball rolling, you see.

1935- “The Bride Of Frankenstein” (James Whale) *
1936- “The Petrified Forest” (Archie Mayo)
1937- “Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs” (William Cotrell)
1938- “Bringing Up Baby” (Howard Hawks)
1939- “The Wizard Of Oz” (Victor Fleming)
1940- “Fantasia” (James Algar)
1941- “The Maltese Falcon” (John Huston)
1942- “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz)
1943- “Journey Into Fear” (Norman Foster)
1944- “Wonder Man” (H. Bruce Humberstone)
1945- “The Three Caballeros” (Walt Disney & Others)
1946- “The Big Sleep” (Howard Hawks)
1947- “Out Of The Past” (Jacques Torneur)
1948- “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” (John Huston)
1949- “The Third Man” (Sir Carol Reed)
1950- “Cinderella” (Clyde Geronimi)
1951- “Alice In Wonderland” (Clyde Geronimi)
1952- “Singin’ In The Rain” (Stanley Donen)
1953- “Peter Pan” (Clyde Geronimi)
1954- “2000 Leagues Under The Sea” (Richard Fleischer) **
1955- “Rebel Without A Cause” (Nicholas Ray)
1956- “High Society” (William Beaudine) ***
1957- “Jailhouse Rock” (Richard Thorpe)
1958- “Look Back In Anger” (Tony Richardson)
1959- “North By Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock)
1960- “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder)
1961- “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” (Blake Edwards)
1962- “Lolita” (Stanley Kubrick)
1963- “The Birds” (Alfred Hitchcock)
1964- “The Pink Panther” (Blake Edwards)
1965- “The Knack…And How To Get It” (Richard Lester)
1966- “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” (Sergio Leone)
1967- “I’ll Never Forget…What’s ‘Is Name” (Michael Winner)
1968- “Once Upon A Time In The West” (Sergio Leone)
1969- “The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah)
1970- “Domicile Conjugal” (Francois Truffaut)
1971- “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick)
1972- “El Discreto Encanto De La Burguesia” (Luís Bunuel)
1973- “Amarcord” (Frederico Fellini)
1974- “The Godfather, Pt.2” (Francis Ford Coppola)
1975- “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (Jim Sharman)
1976- “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese)
1977- “Cet Obscur Object Du Désir” (Luís Bunuel)
1978- “The Rutles – All You Need Is Cash” (Eric Idle)
1979- “The Life Of Brian” (Terry Jones)
1980- “Raging Bull” (Martin Scorsese)
1981- “Time Bandits” (Terry Gilliam)
1982- “The Last Unicorn” (Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.)
1983- “Scarface” (Brian DePalma)
1984- “Once Upon A Time In America” (Sergio Leone)
1985- “Ran” (Akiro Kurosawa)
1986- “The Great Mouse Detective” (Ron Clements & Others)
1987- “Radio Days” (Woody Allen)
1988- “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”(Robert Zemeckis)
1989- “Bill & Ted’s Excelent Adventure” (Stephen herek)
1990- “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” (Joe Dante)
1991- “L.A. Story” (Mick Jackson)
1992- “Aladdin” (Ron Clements)
1993- “Groundhog Day” (Harold Ramis)
1994- “Ed Wood” (Tim Burton)
1995- “Clueless” (Amy Heckerling)
1996- “Mars Attacks” (Tim Burton)
1997- “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (P.J. Hogan) ****
1998- “The Big Lebowski” (Joel Cohen)
1999- “Go” (Doug Liman)
2000- “The Filth & The Fury” (Julien Temple)
2001- “The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring” (Peter Jackson)
2002- “Cidade De Deus” (Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles)
2003- “El Crimen Del Padre Amaro” (Carlos Carrera)
2004- “Kill Bill, Vol.2” (Quentin Tarantino)
2005- “The Life Aquatic” (Wes Anderson)

* mostly for PRETORIOUS!
** well, I THINK I saw it once.
*** well, I caught tem minutes of it on TCM
**** somehow, this seems to be the only movie I’ve ever seen that was released in 1997. I’m as baffled as anyone.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I...just...can't do this

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

i think you're off,, except for 1977.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I can't do this either. I'd need to see at least 10,000 more movies before feeling like it would be worth it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there are many years before 1970 in which no films I've ever seen have been produced.

Ow, that sentence was a complete headfuck to write, grammatically speaking. I still don't think I got it right.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

It makes sense. Sort of.
Also, it's so hard to choose within one year. Some years have loads of good films & others are dead.

― salexander / sophie (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

oh cmon it's easy to choose with a few exceptions, just a bitch to type. I only got one bullshit tie! Good thing I've been logging in my stuff in IMDB since my hardcore movienerd days. Gets harder towards the 90's or whatever your formative years were, I'd imagine. Pre-1930 is pretty sparse for me, so:

1930 Animal Crackers
1931 City Lights
1932 only seen a couple
1933 Duck Soup
1934 The Thin Man
1935 The 39 Steps
1936 My Man Godfrey
1937 La Grande illusion
1938 Holiday
1939 Wizard of Oz
1940 His Girl Friday
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1943 haven't seen any movies!
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 haven't seen any movies!
1946 It's a WOnderful Life
1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1948 Ladri di Biciclette(Bicycle Thief)
1949 The Third Man
1950 All about Eve
1951 A Streetcar named Desire
1952 Ikiru
1953 From Here to Eternity
1954 Dial M for Murder
1955 Du rififi chez les hommes(Rififi)
1956 only seen one apparently
1957 Aparajito
1958 Touch of Evil
1959 Les quatre cents coups(400 Blows)
1960 The Apartment
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962 Sanjuro
1963 The Great Escape
1964 Hard Day's Night
1965 FOr a Few Dollars More
1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1968 2001
1969 Putney Swope
1970 Woodstock
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes(Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
1973 Papillon
1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975 Love and Death
1976 Network
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Superman
1979 Manhattan
1980 Bruce Li's Deadly Strike
1981 My Dinner with Andre
1982 Wild Style
1983 Shaolin dou La Ma(Shaolin v. Lama)
1984 Broadway Danny Rose
1985 Pee wee's Big Adventure
1986 Down By Law
1987 Predator
1988 Die Hard
1989 Do the Right Thing/Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 Trust
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Husbands and Wives
1993 Naked
1994 Huozhe(To Live)
1995 Friday
1996 Fargo
1997 Clockwatchers
1998 Rushmore
1999 The Straight Story
2000 Tillsammans(Together)
2001 Monsters Inc.
2002 Amandla!
2003 Bad Santa
2004 The Incredibles
2005 I've only seen 4 movies from this year! wow I guess it's Rock School which wasn't all that great

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Also, it's so hard to choose within one year. Some years have loads of good films & others are dead.

Years I found hardest to choose from: 1959 ("Les Quatre Cent Coups", "Breathless"), 1961 ("Yojimbo" and "Cape Fear") and 1968 ("Baisers Volées", "Bonnie & Clyde", "Planet Of The Apes", "2001")

i think you're off,, except for 1977.

So you like obsessive, agressive Bunuel, but not whimsical, surrealistic Bunuel?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

that ILM thread

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

wasn't the life aquatic 2004?

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

k nevermind i just read the 'when they came to portugal' part

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to try this. it's going to take a shitload of imdb-searching (and soul-searching, har har) though, so gimme time.

― jbr is the value obtained from the leptonic branching ratio measurement and (Jod, Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

i got about half my choices down before coming to the abrupt conclusion that i, too, have not seen enough movies. i'll get back to this after a few more rentals.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

2005: Can't say yet.
2004: Look at Me (Comme une image)
2003: Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet)
2002: Year of the Devil (Rok dábla)
2001: Shrek
2000: Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen)
1999: Human Resources (Ressources humaines)
1998: Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål)
1997: Lost Highway
1996: Swallowtail (Yentown)
1995: Before Sunrise
1994: Priest
1993: Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji)
1992: The Crimson Pig (Kurenai no buta)
1991: Delicatessen
1990: An Angel at My Table
1989: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1988: My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
1987: Repentance (Monanieba)
1986: Down by Law
1985: Brazil
1984: Gremlins
1983: The King of Comedy
1982: Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de pasiones)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980: The Elephant Man
1979: Stalker
1978: The Adventures of Picasso (Picassos äventyr)
1977: Annie Hall
1976: Pocket Money (L'Argent de poche)
1975: Barry Lyndon
1974: Chinatown
1973: The Grande Bouffe (La Grande bouffe)
1972: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
1971: Millhouse
1970: The Red Circle (Le Cercle rouge)
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968: Ho!
1967: Belle de jour
1966: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1965: Red Beard (Akahige)
1964: Mary Poppins
1963: Irma la Douce
1962: Lolita
1961: -
1960: The Adventure (L'Avventura)
1959: Some Like It Hot
1958: Touch of Evil
1957: Paths of Glory
1956: Street of Shame (Akasen chitai)
1955: Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard)
1954: La Strada
1953: Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari)
1952: The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
1951: -
1950: Rashômon
1949: -
1948: Rope
1947: -
1946: It's a Wonderful Life
1945: Detour
1944: -
1943: -
1942: -
1941: Citizen Kane
1940: The Philadelphia Story
1939: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Zangiku monogatari)
1938: The Lady Vanishes
1937: -
1936: Modern Times

The hardest year was 1964, 'cause I had to choose between Mary Poppins, Dr. Strangelove and The Umbrellas of Cherbourgh.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

are you guys looking at some year by year list of film releases?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

If you set an account on IMBb, you can cast a vote on any film in their database, and then you can view you vote list in chronological order.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

"IMDb"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

2005: Can't say yet.

Haven't seen that one. Who's in it?
Probably No Body.
Har har

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Ok, it's a lazy Saturday afternoon, I'm going to give it a shot:

1933 King Kong
1934 Pass
1935 The Bride of Frankenstein
1936 Reefer Madness
1937 A Day at the Races
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1940 Pinnochio
1941 Dumbo
1942 Casablanca
1943 Pass
1944 Arsenic and Old lace
1945 Brief Encounter
1946 It's a Wonderful Life
1947 Brighton Rock
1948 Pass
1949 The Third Man
1950 Harvey
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
1952 Pass
1953 Peter Pan
1954 Rear window
1955 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 Forbidden Planet
1957 12 Angry Men
1958 Vertigo
1959 Some Like It Hot
1960 Spartacus
1961 West Side Story
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963 From Russia With Love
1964 A Hard Day's Night
1965 Pass
1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967 Bonnie and Clyde
1968 The Night of the Living Dead
1969 Once Upon a time in the West
1970 Pass
1971 A Clockwork orange
1972 The Godfather
1973 Pappilon
1974 Chinatown
1975 Jaws
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Star Wars
1978 Pass
1979 Life of Brian
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 E.T.
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Stand By Me
1987 Empire of the Sun
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 Henry V
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Barton Fink
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Toy Story
1996 Fargo
1997 La Confidential
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Being John Malkovich
2000 Memento
2001 Fellowship of the Rings
2002 City of God
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 Kill Bill Vol 2
2005 Batman Begins

Wow, that's some pretty mainstream taste I've got there. Notice the dominance of children's films in the 80s!

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Actually, replace Papillon with The Wicker Man.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Saturday, 8 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

you can view best-of year-by-years on both IMDB (longer, vote-based) and AMG (shorter, critical). the lists are relatively similar. now everyone will view these lists and all of the lists posted here will look just like the IMDB/AMG lists!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

People agreeing in what films are great shocka!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 9 October 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Wow, it's awesome that CWWDTKATT enjoys both the original "Pass"(1934) AND all the re-makes.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 9 October 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

i personally prefer the spooky spaghetti vibe of sergio leone's "pass" (1970) to the endless cokehead twittering of robert altman's "pass" (1978).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

The Rules of the Game 1939
Rebecca 1940
Citizen Kane 1941
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
Casablanca 1943
Double Indemnity 1944
Brief Encounter 1945
Notorious 1946
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
The Third Man 1949
Rashomon 1950
Strangers on a Train 1951
Ikiru 1952
Tokyo Story 1953
Seven Samurai 1954
Pather Panchali 1955
The Searchers 1956
Nights of Cabiria 1957
A Touch of Evil 1958
The 400 Blows 1959
La Dolce Vita 1960
Last Year in Marienbad 1961
Jules and Jim 1962
8 1/2 1963
Woman In the Dunes 1964
The Battle for Algiers 1965
Closely Watched Trains 1966
The Graduate 1967
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Andrei Rublev 1969
Five Easy Pieces 1970
The Last Picture Show 1971
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
Day for Night 1973
Chinatown 1974
Nashville 1975
Taxi Driver 1976
Annie Hall 1977
Days of Heaven 1978
Manhattan 1979
Raging Bull 1980
My Dinner With Andre 1981
Blade Runner 1982
Tender Mercies 1983
Stranger Than Paradise 1984
Ran 1985
Blue Velvet 1986
House of Games 1987
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Miller's Crossing 1990
Raise the Red Lantern 1991
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Naked 1993
Red 1994
Dead Man 1995
Lonestar 1996
Hana Bi 1997
The Thin Red Line 1998
Being John Malkovich 1999
Yi Yi 2000
Time Out 2001
The Son 2002
Lost In Translation 2003
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Eh, can't resist I guess. Completely cut-n-pasted, so some directors (Kubrick) appear more often than they should, and I don't know which direction these fall along the favorite/best continuum. Towards the earlier years, the film listed represents maybe the only film I've seen from that year.

2005: Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
2004: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2003: Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
2002: Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
2001: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
2000: Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
1999: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
1998: Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
1997: Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
1996: Crash (David Cronenberg)
1995: Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
1994: Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
1993: Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
1992: Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
1991: Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
1990: White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988: A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1987: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
1986: The Fly (David Cronenberg)
1985: Crime Wave (John Paizs)
1984: Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
1983: Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
1982: Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
1981: Polyester (John Waters)
1980: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1979: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
1978: The Fury (Brian De Palma)
1977: Le Fond de l'air est rouge (Chris Marker)
1976: The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
1975: Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
1973: The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
1972: Winter Soldier (Winterfilm collective)
1971: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)
1970: Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
1969: Camille 2000 (Radley Metzger)
1968: Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
1967: Playtime (Jacques Tati)
1966: Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
1965: Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
1964: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1963: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
1962: La Jetée (Chris Marker)
1961: The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
1960: L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1959: Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
1958: Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch) [well, part two of Ivan the Terrible, but it was made in '46]
1957: What's Opera, Doc (Chuck Jones)
1956: The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
1955: All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
1954: Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
1953: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
1952: Europa ‘51 (Roberto Rossellini)
1951: Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1950: Un Chant d’amour (Jean Genet)
1949: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
1948: Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
1947: Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
1946: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1945: Ivan the Terrible, Part One (Sergei Eisenstein)
1944: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
1943: The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1940: The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
1939: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
1938: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
1937: Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
1936: Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
1935: The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
1934: The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
1933: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
1932: Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
1931: M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
1930: Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1929: Un Chien andalou (Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali)
1928: The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
1926: Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanov)
1925: Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1924: Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
1923: Le Retour à la Raison (Man Ray)
1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1921: Manhatta (Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler)
1920: The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

my dick is bigger than yours.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

This thread needs some pictures anyway.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

So, uhm, yeah, my dick is pretty canonical, americanocentric and often just plain boring. Sue me, I got laid late. Also, whenever I couldn't find a dick for a certain year, I used a Disney dildo (which I have seen, and which are almost always worthwile.) Some choices for recent dicks may be off, as I chose those based on when they came in Portugal, not when they were released.

xpost!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

my dick is pretty canonical

co-sign

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

J.D., Jody, did you ever finish yours?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Had to dig up my ballots for this one. (What's up with the 60s poll BTW?) Hardest years: 1984 and 1971.

The Limey (1999)
Rushmore (1998)
PASS (1997)
HYPE! (1996)
To Die For (1995)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Slacker (1991)
Goodfellas (1990)
Heathers (1989)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Wings of Desire (1987)
PASS (1986)
After Hours (1985)
Repo Man (1984)
Scarface (1983)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Diva (1981)
Airplane! (1980)
Being There (1979)
Blue Collar (1978)
Annie Hall (1977)
Jonah, Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000 (1976)
Smile (1975)
California Split (1974)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Getaway (1972)
The French Connection (1971)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Persona (1967)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Great Escape (1963)
My Life To Live (1962)
A Woman Is A Woman (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
The 400 Blows (1959)
PASS (1958)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
The Searchers (1956)
Bob Le Flambeur (1955)
La Strada (1954)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Rashomon (1951)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

I need to see more stuff from 2000-up and 1949-back.

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 15 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Gabb and Jop

1971 – "The Hospital"

1974 - "Chinatown"
1975 - "Dersu Uzala"
1976 - "All the President's Men"
1977 - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
1978 - "Days of Heaven"
1979 - "The Black Stallion"
1980 – "Gates of Heaven"
1981 - "Chariots of Fire"
1982 - "Wasn't That a Time!"
1983 - "The Right Stuff"
1984 - "Paris, Texas"
1985 - "Shoah"
1986 - "Tampopo"
1987 - "James Joyce's The Dead"
1988 - "Running on Empty"
1989 - "Do the Right Thing"
1990 - "Mo’ Better Blues"
1991 - "City of Hope"
1992 - "My Cousin Vinny"
1993 - "Trois Couleurs: Bleu"
1994 - "Clerks"
1995 - "Before Sunrise"
1996 - "Swingers"
1997 - "Taste of Cherry"
1998 - "Paul Taylor: Dancemaker"
1999 - "Eyes Wide Shut"
2000 - "Ghost Dog"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

About half of these are coin flips. I made up my own rules about 'assigning' years, ie, if it opened in NYC since I started going to films here, that's what I used. And like Eric I picked shorts (and cribbed his choices when they seemed inevitable).

2005: Munich (Steven Spielberg)
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
2003: The Son (Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
2002: Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2000: The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
1999: The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
1998: The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
1997: Underground (Emir Kusturica)
1996: A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
1995: JLG/JLG - Autoportrait de Décembre (Jean-Luc Godard)
1994: The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
1993: Naked (Mike Leigh)
1992: Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene)
1991: My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988: Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola)
1987: Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
1986: Le Rayon Vert (Summer) (Eric Rohmer)
1985: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
1984: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
1983: The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
1982: E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
1981: Pixote (Hector Babenco)
1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979: The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)
1978: In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1976: All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
1975: The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
1973: The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
1972: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog)
1971: Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
1970: Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
1969: The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967: Playtime (Jacques Tati)
1966: La Noire de... (Black Girl) (Ousmane Sembene)
1965: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1964: Dr. Strangelove... (Stanley Kubrick)
1963: The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
1962: La Jetée (Chris Marker)
1961: Lola (Jacques Demy)
1960: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
1959: The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957: Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
1956: A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
1955: Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1953: The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
1952: Othello (Orson Welles)
1951: Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1950: Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948: Red River (Howard Hawks)
1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
1946: My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
1945: Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
1944: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
1943: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1942: The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
1941: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1940: The Bank Dick (W.C. Fields/Edward Cline)
1939: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1936: Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
1935: Top Hat (Astaire & Rogers/Irving Berlin/Mark Sandrich)
1934: L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1933: Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
1932: Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
1931: M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
1929: Big Business (Laurel & Hardy/James W. Horne/Leo McCarey)
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1927: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
1926: The Strong Man (Frank Capra)
1925: The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
1924: Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
1923: Safety Last! (Harold Lloyd/Fred C. Newmeyer/Sam Taylor)
1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1921: Manhatta (Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler)
1920: One Week (Buster Keaton)
1919: A Day's Pleasure (Charles Chaplin)
1918: A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin)
1917: Fatty at Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle)
1916: Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

oh man, i totally can't do this either

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

safety last rules though, nice pick morbs.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

thanks blount; my '76 pick is just for you!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Now why did I read s1ocki's second post as blount... very Blowup, maybe.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

nice '88 choice

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

So I am doing this right now (only from '60 onward, fuck event that is a chore and I'm shocked how often there is really only one clear pick--and Morbius has already chosen it haha.) Will post once I figure out late 70s choices.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Three question marks mean that if someone can suggest a better movie I'll probably switch it out cuz honestly I'm not totally sold on my own pick, but I couldn't figure out a movie I liked more (my 1992 pick is particularly amusing haha.)

2005: Head On (Fatih Akin)
2004: Dogville (Lars Von Triers)
2003: The Blind Swordman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
2002: City of God (Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles)
2001: Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaki)
2000: The Princess & the Warrior (Tom Twyker) (???)
1999: The War Zone (Tim Roth)
1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1997: Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
1996: Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh) (???)
1995: Babe (Chris Noonan)
1994: Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
1993: Menace II Society (Hughes Brothers)
1992: Full Contact (Ringo Lam) (???)
1991: Europa, Europa (Agniezcka Holland) (???)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988: Akira (Katshuro Otome)
1987: Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch) (???)
1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1984: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen) (???)
1983: The Right Stuff (Phillip Kaufman)
1982: Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
1981: Diva (Jean-Jacques Benieux)
1980: Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
1979: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) (???)
1978: The Deerhunter (Michael Cimino) (???)
1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1976: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese)
1975: Nashville (Robert Altman)
1974: The Conversation (Francis Coppola)
1973: Badlands (Terrence Malick) (???)
1972: The Godfather (Francis Coppola)
1971: The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1970: Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo) (???)
1969: The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
1968: Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1967: Marat/Sade (Peter Brook)
1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
1965: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1964: Dr. Strangelove... (Stanley Kubrick)
1963: The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
1962: The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1961: The Hustler (Robert Wise)
1960: Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Three question marks mean that if someone can suggest a better movie I'll probably switch it out cuz honestly I'm not totally sold on my own pick

1979: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) (???)

Nope. That's pretty much the right pick.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I almost had Star 80 for '83. That was a good year. At least three very legit choices.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I don't wanna think about the year I last saw All That Jazz, so I ain't saying. (but my guilt at picking a faux-Sirk and no Sirks feels absolved by Fellini-less lists with ATJ)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I like the Fellini-esque parts of All That Jazz more than I like Fellini's own films though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

well, I figured. Amarcord and Nights of Cabiria? I'm not wild about the phantasmagoric work of FF myself.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've been able to watch a Fellini film all the way through, but I will admit to be rather young the last time I tried. I will give those two a shot though. I've been thinking I need to give Bergman a chance too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

How are you guys making these lists?! Even trying to start is giving a massive headache.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Haha I took Morbius' list (I knew that esp. for the 60's he'd picked most of my favs) and pasted it into excel and then went through the my Netflix ratings and pasted fav movies into each year. When I finished with Netflix, I went to IMDB and checked BAFTA, Cannes, Oscars, etc, for a few straggly years and to just generally double-check stuff I was uncertain on.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I've got a spreadsheet at home of every movie I've seen since I was 13, so technically I could do this, although I'm not sure it would be very impressive, since there's only about 800 movies on there and the majority of them are from the last 15 years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I've rated more movies on Netflix than you've seen!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

PRETORIOUS? There's no such name! PRETORIOUS?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

1986 was the hardest year to pick, I think. Variously Something Wild, Mona Lisa, and Bette Blue occupied that year and I'm still not sure I made the right choice.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

nope, because you forgot this one, the centerpiece of my list:
http://www.film.org.pl/images/carpenter/big%20trouble%20in%20little%20china.jpg

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Haha I did forget that one, but I don't rate it as much as the other four flicks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

NO CARPENTER NO CREDIBILITY

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I'll just list my favorites in Alex's question-marked years:

2000: Platform
1996: Irma Vep (or Goodbye, South, Goodbye)
1992: La Sentinelle (Or Bad Lieutenant)
1991: Actress
1986: Sherman's March
1984: Love Streams (or Stranger than Paradise)
1979: Wise Blood
1978: Killer of Sheep
1973: F for Fake
1970: The Conformist (or Scenes from Under Childhood)

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Oooh I've always wanted to see the Conformist. Is that on DVD?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

:( No

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

You might like Fellini's I Vitelloni too... a hair too laddish for me (like Diner in b&w without the Colts quiz). And all those '86 films are interesting train wrecks. :)

btw The Hustler = Robert ROSSEN

My list came from iMdb, memory, Eric's, and having zip to do at work so far this week. Ah, the cycles of publishing...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Haha dammit I tried to type directors from memory. There must be some terrible spelling about too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Oooh I've always wanted to see the Conformist. Is that on DVD?

SF didn't get the travelling revival?

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

It did and I missed it :(

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Even if it were available, I would seriously recommend waiting for a print! (I mean, moreso than even most things [if I had made an original list, I would've put question marks next to it]).

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I'm going to do this. Apologies for missing years, occasional USCentrism, bad taste, pretention, etc.:

1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmayer, Sam Taylor)
1927: The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
1929: The Broadway Melody of 1929 (Harry Beaumont)
1930: Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
1931: Frankenstein (James Whale)
1932: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
1933: 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
1934: The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
1935: A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
1936: My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
1937: The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1938: You Can’t Take It With You (Frank Capra)
1939: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
1940: The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
1941: Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
1942: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1943: Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
1944: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
1945: Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
1946: The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
1947: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
1948: The Lady of Shangai (Orson Welles)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1950: The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
1951: Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1952: Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
1953: The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1954: The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1955: Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
1956: The Court Jester (Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)
1957: Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
1958: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
1959: Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
1960: The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1961: West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
1963: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
1964: Dr. Strangelove… (Stanley Kubrick)
1965: Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966: Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1967: To Sir With Love (James Clavell)
1968: In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio)
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
1970: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Vicente Minnelli)
1971: They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey)
1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
1973: The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
1974: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
1975: Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
1976: Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
1978: National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Landis)
1979: Manhattan (Woody Allen)
1980: The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
1981: Reds (Warren Beatty)
1982: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
1983: Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1984: Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
1985: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco)
1986: Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
1987: Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1990: Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
1991: Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
1992: Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris)
1993: Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
1994: Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
1995: Se7en (David Fincher)
1996: Fargo (Joel Coen)
1997: Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
1998: Babe II: Pig in the City (George Miller)
1999: Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
2000: Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
2001: Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
2002: Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2003: School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
2004: The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
2005: The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Haikunym's the one who can take 90 minutes of Danny Kaye!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

anyone who doesn't love 'the court jester' is too cool for me!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

For 1984 I remembered that Streetwise came out that year and it's better than Broadway Danny Rose.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Streetwise having a song as good as "Agita / My goombah / In the bonzo."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's not a funny.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

1895: Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory
1896: The Kiss
1900: As Seen Through a Telescope
1901: Fire!
1902: A Trip to the Moon
1903: Alibaba and the Forty Thieves
1904: The Impossible Voyage
1915: The Birth of a Nation
1916: Intolerance
1919: Broken Blossoms
1920: Way Down East
1921: The Phantom Chariot
1922: Dr Mabuse the Gambler
1923: Our Hospitality
1924: Entr'acte
1925: The Gold Rush
1926: The Lodger
1927: The General
1928: The Fall of the House of Usher
1929: The Cocoanuts
1930: Blood of a Poet
1931: M
1932: Trouble in Paradise
1933: Duck Soup
1934: The Scarlet Empress
1935: The 39 Steps
1936: My Man Godfrey
1937: Pepe le Moko
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: Rules of the Game
1940: Rebecca
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Sullivan's Travels
1943: Le Corbeau
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: Children of Paradise
1946: A Matter of Life and Death
1947: Quai des Orfevres
1948: The Red Shoes
1949: Orpheus
1950: All About Eve
1951: The Lavender Hill Mob
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1953: Wages of Fear
1954: Richard III
1955: Rebel Without a Cause
1956: Written on the Wind
1957: The Seventh Seal
1958: Ivan the Terrible, Part 2
1959: Ballad of a Soldier
1960: L'avventura
1961: Il Posto
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: Kwaidan
1965: The Saragossa Manuscript
1966: Cul-de-Sac
1967: Branded to Kill
1968: 2001
1969: Kes
1970: The End of the Road
1971: The Devils
1972: The Ruling Class
1973: Don't Look Now
1974: Arabian Nights
1975: Dog Day Afternoon
1976: Network
1977: That Obscure Object of Desire
1978: Days of Heaven
1979: Stalker
1980: Return of the Secaucus 7
1981: Coup de torchon
1982: Blind Chance
1983: Videodrome
1984: Ghostbusters
1985: After Hours
1986: Sherman's March
1987: Matewan
1988: Dangerous Liaisons
1989: Say Anything
1990: Jacob's Ladder
1991: Naked Lunch
1992: Man Bites Dog
1993: The Blue Kite
1994: Three Colors: Red
1995: Nixon
1996: Schizopolis
1997: The Kingdom II
1998: Velvet Goldmine
1999: Nowhere to Hide
2000: Songs from the Second Floor
2001: Spirited Away
2002: 25th Hour
2003: Elephant
2004: Infernal Affairs
2005: The Best of Youth
2006: none seen yet

― von Wenk, Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

1912 From the Manger to the Cross
1913 Evidence of the Film
1914 In the Land of the Head Hunters
1915 Regeneration
1916 Intolerance
1917 The Immigrant
1918 The Blue Bird
1919 Broken Blossoms
1920 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1922 Nanook of the North
1923 Safety Last!
1924 Greed
1925 Bronenosets Potyomkin
1926 Ménilmontant
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928 The Crowd
1929 Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1930 L'Âge d'or
1931 M
1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

..and then my erudition breaks down.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Antiquarian props, Mike!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

The fascinating thing about this thread, to me, is how our tastes are all quite different but then loop back around certain films or years or genres. I have been checking DVDs out of the library right and left based on recommendations from youse guys.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, what the hell:

1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1895 La Sortie des Usines Lumière
1896 The John C. Rice-May Irwin Kiss
1897 Butterfly Dance
1898 Pack Train at Chilkoot Pass
1899 Firemen Rescuing Men and Women
1900 Searching Ruins on Broadway for Dead Bodies, Galveston
1901 Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
1902 Le Voyage Dans La Lune
1903 Electrocuting an Elephant
1904 Le Voyage à Travers L'Impossible
1905 New York Subway
1906 Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
1907 Le Scarabée D'Or
1908 Vive la Vie de Garçon
1909 Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
1910 Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (Piloted by M. Cody)
1911 Little Nemo
1912 The Land Beyond the Sunset (replaces my previous entry)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Weird thing: Robert Altman movies land in the runner-up slot extremely often.

1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller just behind The Act of Seeing...
1973: The Long Goodbye just behind The Wicker Man
1975: Nashville just behind Barry Lyndon
1977: 3 Women just behind A Grin without a Cat
2003: The Company just behind Elephant

Short Cuts is pretty far out in front of Carlito's Way.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

And yet you've got Popeye four color codes behind The Shining. (man, Altman wins on every score there for me, esp in giving Shelley something to do besides catanonia followed by weeping)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

No one loves "A bout de Souffle" :(

― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

2003: The Company just behind Elephant

Love for The Company warms me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Popeye probably ought to be blue. But The Shining will never be less than orange.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody lists!

1950 In A Lonely Place
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob
1952 Singin' in the Rain
1953 Roman Holiday
1954 Rear Window
1955 The Ladykillers
1956 The Sweet Smell of Success
1957 Night of the Demon
1958 Vertigo
1959 I’m Alright, Jack

1960 The Rebel
1961 A Kind of Loving
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963 The Haunting
1964 A Hard Day’s Night
1965 Alphaville
1966 Blow-Up
1967 Week End
1968 Witchfinder General
1969 Kes

1970 The Railway Children
1971 The Last Picture Show
1972 Duel
1973 The Wicker Man
1974 Chinatown
1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Saturday Night Fever
1978 Blue Collar
1979 Alien

1980 Flash Gordon
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Blade Runner
1983 The Man With Two Brains
1984 This is Spinal Tap
1985 Brazil
1986 Blue Velvet
1987 Withnail & I
1988 Midnight Run
1989 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1990 Wild At Heart
1991 Barton Fink
1992 Beauty & the Beast
1993 Groundhog Day
1994 Heavenly Creatures
1995 Seven
1996 Swingers
1997 Jackie Brown
1998 Rushmore
1999 The Blair Witch Project

2000 Gladiator
2001 Spirited Away
2002 Mulholland Dr
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 The Incredibles
2005 The Descent
2006 Munich (so far)

― David Orton (scarlet), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

To add to my previous list, my favourite movie of last year was Walk the Line.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Sunrise (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
M (1931)
Vampyr (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
Grande illusion, La (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Detour (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Out Of The Past (1947)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Night and the City (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Singin' In the Rain (1952)
Pickup On South Street (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Le Trou (1960)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Repulsion (1965)
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Patton (1970)
Walkabout (1971)
Cabaret (1972)
Sleeper (1973)
Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Repo Man (1984)
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
The Fly (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Calendar (1993)
Crumb (1994)
Safe (1995)
Lone Star (1996)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Mr. Death (1999)
Memento (2000)
A.I. (2001)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Sin City (2005)

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 1 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Given my age (18) and my general ignorance... here are the movies I KNOW from every year (This may be difficult in parts)

1891. Dickson Greeting
1892. Carmencita
1893. Fred Ott's Sneeze
1894. Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory
1895. Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
1896. The Kiss
1897. La Fee aux Choux
1898. ???
1899.????
1900. Robin Hood
1901. ????
1902. La Voyage sur la lune
1903.
1904.
1910. Frankenstein
1911. Pygmalion
1912. Saved from the Titanic
1913.
1914.
1915. Garden of Inspiration (??)
1916. Where are my Children?
1917. The Gulf Between
1918.
1919. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
1920.
1921. Haxan
1922. Nosferatu
1923.
1924. Hot Water
1925.
1926.
1927. The Jazz Singer
1928.
1929.
1930.
1931. M
1932.
1933. I Lived with You
1934. Boots Boots
1935. Top Hat
1936. Gold Diggers of 1937
1937. The Awful Truth
1938. Bringing up Baby
1939. Wizard of Oz
1940. The Philadelphia Story
1941. Dumbo
1942. Pinocchio
1943. Bambi
1944. Murder on the Orient Express
1945. Brief Encounter
1946. Song of the South
1947.
1948.
1949.
1950. Father of the Bride
1951. Father's Little Dividend
1952. The Greatest Show on Earth
1953. Genevieve
1954. High Society
1955. Lady and the Tramp
1956. A Touch of Mink (?)
1957. Carry on Sergeant
1958. Carry on Nurse
1959. A Bout de souffle
1960. Sink the Bismark!
1961. West Side Story
1962. Dr No
1963. From Prussia with Love
1964. Goldfinger
1965. Thunderball
1966. Manos the Hands of Fate
1967. You Only Live Twice
1968. Thoroughly Modern Millie
1969. On her Majesty's Seret Service
1970. The Railway Children
1971. The Wanderer
1972. Shaft
1973. Walkabout
1974. Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1975. Barry Lyndon
1976. Taxi Driver
1977. Saturday Night Fever
1978. Amityville Horror
1979. Alien
1980. Mother's Day
1981. For Your Eyes Only
1982. Tron
1983. Brainstorm
1984. Terminator
1985. Back to the Future
1986. Short Circuit
1987. The Living Daylights
1988. Big
1989. Hairspray
1990. Home Alone
1991. My Girl
1992. Death Becomes Her
1993. Mrs Doubtfire
1994. The Pagemaster
1995. Twelve Monkeys
1996. 101 Dalmations
1997. Men in Black
1998. The Faculty
1999. The World is Not Enough
2000. Bring It On
2001. I Am Sam
2002. Vanilla Sky
2003. Finding Nemo
2004. After the Sunset
2005. Monster in Law
2006. The Da Vinci Code

Quite a variety there.... and no cheating either.....

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 2 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

1920: the cabinet of dr. caligari (robert wiene)
1921: the phantom carriage (victor sjöstrom)
1922: häxan (benjamin christensen)
1923:
1924: the last laugh (fw murnau)
1925: the battleship potemkin (sergei eisenstein)
1926: faust: a german folk legend (fw murnau)
1927: sunrise (fw murnau)
1928: the passion of joan of arc (carl theodor dreyer)
1929: un chien andalou (luis bunuel)
1930: all quiet on the western front (lewis milestone)
1931: m (fritz lang)
1932: vampyr - der Traum des Allen Grey (carl theodor dreyer)
1933: duck soup (leo mccarey)
1934: the thin man (ws van dyke)
1935: a night at the opera (sam wood)
1936: my man godfrey (gregory la cava)
1937: the grand illusion (jean renoir)
1938: alexander nevsky (sergei eisenstein)
1939: only angels have wings (howard hawks)
1940: the grapes of wrath (john ford)
1941: citizen kane (orson welles)
1942: casablanca (michael curtiz)
1943: meshes of the afternoon (maya deren)
1944: arsenic and old lace (frank capra)
1945: children of paradise (marcel carne)
1946: beauty and the beast (jean cocteau)
1947: black narcissus (michael powell/emeric pressburger)
1948: the red shoes (michael powell/emeric pressburger)
1949: the third man (carol reed)
1950: orpheus (jean cocteau)
1951: strangers on a train (alfred hitchcock)
1952: forbidden games (rene clement)
1953: the wages of fear (henri-georges clouzot)
1954: seven samurai (akira kurosawa)
1955: the night of the hunter (charles laughton)
1956: the searchers (john ford)
1957: paths of glory (stanley kubrick)
1958: vertigo (alfred hitchcock)
1959: some like it hot (billy wilder)
1960: breathless (jean-luc godard)
1961: the hustler (robert rossen)
1962: lawrence of arabia (david lean)
1963: the great escape (john sturges)
1964: dr. strangelove (stanley kubrick)
1965: the war game (peter watkins)
1966: the good, the bad and the ugly (sergio leone)
1967: the dirty dozen (robert aldrich)
1968: 2001: a space odyssey (stanley kubrick)
1969: the sorrow and the pity (marcel ophüls)
1970: five easy pieces (bob rafelson)
1971: a clockwork orange (stanley kubrick)
1972: the godfather part I (francis ford coppola)
1973: high plains drifter (clint eastwood)
1974: the godfather part II (francis ford coppola)
1975: one flew over the cuckoo's nest (milos forman)
1976: taxi driver (martin scorsese)
1977: eraserhead (david lynch)
1978: the deer hunter (michael cimino)
1979: apocalypse now (francis ford coppola)
1980: raging bull (martin scorsese)
1981: raiders of the lost ark (steven spielberg)
1982: blade runner (ridley scott)
1983: scarface (brian de palma)
1984: the terminator (james cameron)
1985: brazil (terry gilliam)
1986: blue velvet (david lynch)
1987: wings of desire (wim wenders)
1988: the last temptation of christ (martin scorsese)
1989: do the right thing (spike lee)
1990: goodfellas (martin scorsese)
1991: boyz 'n the hood (john singleton)
1992: reservoir dogs (quentin tarantino)
1993: three colors: blue (krzysztof kieslowski)
1994: pulp fiction (quentin tarantino)
1995: the usual suspects (bryan singer)
1996: fargo (joel and ethan coen)
1997: good will hunting (gus van sant)
1998: american history x (tony kaye)
1999: the iron giant (brad bird)
2000: snatch (guy ritchie)
2001: ichi the killer (takashi miike)
2002: the bourne identity (doug liman)
2003: oldboy (park chan-wook)
2004: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (michel gondry)
2005: batman begins (christopher nolan)
2006: borat (larry charles)
2007: no country for old men (joel and ethan coen)
2008: the dark night (christopher nolan)
2009: moon (duncan jones)
2010: marwencol (jeff malmberg)

― pookkake (Eisbaer), Sunday, 8 January 2012 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

That's hard to do. I've got a few years here where I became impatient trying to find something I loved, so I settled for something I liked (e.g., The Quiet Man). I'll start in '41:

1941 – Citizen Kane
1942 – The Magnificent Ambersons
1943 – Shadow of a Doubt
1944 – Double Indemnity
1945 – Scarlet Street
1946 – The Big Sleep
1947 – T-Men
1948 – Red River
1949 – White Heat
1950 – All About Eve
1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 – The Quiet Man
1953 – Roman Holiday
1954 – On the Waterfront
1955 – Pather Panchali
1956 – The Harder They Fall
1957 – Sweet Smell of Success
1958 – Touch of Evil
1959 – Les Quatre Cents Coups
1960 – Tirez sur le pianiste
1961 – Il Posto
1962 – Advise and Consent
1963 – Hud
1964 – Bande à part
1965 – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1966 – Masculin, féminin
1967 – To Sir with Love
1968 – Rosemary’s Baby
1969 – Midnight Cowboy
1970 – Goin’ Down the Road
1971 – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972 – The Godfather
1973 – American Graffiti
1974 – The Godfather II
1975 – Nashville
1976 – All the President’s Men
1977 – Saturday Night Fever
1978 – Straight Time
1979 – The China Syndrome
1980 – Raging Bull
1981 – Blow Out
1982 – Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1983 – Heart Like a Wheel
1984 – Comfort and Joy
1985 – Lost in America
1986 – Blue Velvet
1987 – Broadcast News
1988 – Married the Mob
1989 – Casualties of War
1990 – Goodfellas
1991 – Boyz n the Hood
1992 – Reservoir Dogs
1993 – Menace II Society
1994 – Crumb
1995 – Smoke
1996 – Fargo
1997 – Jackie Brown
1998 – Boogie Nights
1999 – The Virgin Suicides
2000 – You Can Count on Me
2001 – Ghost World
2002 – Spellbound
2003 – Lost in Translation
2004 – Elephant
2005 – The Heart of the Game
2006 – Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
2007 – Zodiac
2008 – Wendy and Lucy
2009 – Tyson
2010 – Phil Spector: The Agony & the Ecstasy
2011 – Bobby Fischer Against the World

Anything to avoid marking stories by 11-year-old that often aren't really stories.

― clemenza, Sunday, 8 January 2012 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

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