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first aughts optional:

Electrocuting an Elephant (Thomas Edison)
After Death (Evengi Baeur)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
The Fury (Brian De Palma)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

― Eric H., Saturday, 24 February 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

00s - 25th Hour
90s - Dazed & Confused
80s - Full Metal Jacket
70s - Fat City or The Man Who Would Be King
60s - Masculin-Feminin
50s - Kiss Me Deadly
40s - His Girl Friday
30s - It Happened One Night
20s - The Passion of Joan of Arc
10s - probably some Chaplin shorts?
00s - A Trip to the Moon

Hardest decade to choose: 50s
most overrated decade: 70s

― milo z, Saturday, 24 February 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

alternate '00s choice: crazy/beautiful

― milo z, Saturday, 24 February 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Der Golem (Henrik Galeen, Paul Wegener)
Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
Shichinin no samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
Kikujirô no natsu (Takeshi Kitano)

I couldn't be just, so I was arbitrary.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 24 February 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

00s-A Trip to the Moon
10s-Les Vampires
20s-Man With the Movie Camera
30s-The 39 Steps or Zero de conduite
40s-Sullivan's Travels
50s-Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
60s-Playtime
70s-Out 1 or Celine et Julie
80s-Robocop
90s-Dead Man
00s-Platform

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Der Golem (Henrik Galeen, Paul Wegener)

I was going to list this until I remembered Les Vampires.

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I get the feeling if I see Les Vampires it would make the list. But this game is crazy and unsatisfying anyway.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Actually now that I think about it, I haven't seen the first Golem, I was thinking about the 1920 version also Wegener (Der Golem: Wie er in die welt kam). I was under the impression that the 1915 version was lost...

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oops I think you're right. It's the 1920 versh that I've seen.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

00s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
90s Crumb
80s Full Metal Jacket
70s Ali - Fear Eats the Soul
60s High and Low
50s Vertigo
40s Citizen Kane
30s Vampyr
20s Sunrise
pass on 1910s and 1900s

― abanana, Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

But this game is crazy and unsatisfying anyway.

I know, that was what I was thinking when it was proposed on a different MB. It really has a way of conservatizing one's top 10.

― Eric H., Saturday, 24 February 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

It really has a way of conservatizing one's top 10

Well I kinda deliberately picked a couple of "lesser" films because of that, but I could make 2 dozen or more of these lists and be equally (un)happy with them. Except I don't remember much that I've seen from pre-1920, and I couldn't think of anything I wanted to choose from the 2000s except, perhaps, the Kill Bill movies and I've got no great desire to open up that conversation. I guess the biggest omission from my first list, for me, is Buñuel.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 24 February 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

10's Broken Blossoms
20's Napoleon
30's Earth
40's Day of Wrath
50's Hiroshima Mon Amour
60's L'avventura
70's Chinatown
80's Blue Velvet
90's Chunking Express
00's Mulholland Drive

i couldnt really decide on 20's, 50's, 60's or 70's

― t0dd swiss, Saturday, 24 February 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Noodle Vague and Eric both OTM re: problems with this format.

― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 24 February 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

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