Your top ten of whatever damn year you feel like!

[Mysterious Dude]

Why should 2010 be the only year that gets top ten lists (especially now that both of the 2009 threads are locked)? Post a top ten movies from any random year in this thread.

My top ten of 1919:

1. Broken Blossoms
2. J'accuse!
3. Sir Arne's Treasure
4. The Dragon Painter
5. The Delicious Little Devil
6. Back to God's Country
7. Victory
8. Daddy-Long-Legs
9. Heart o' the Hills
10. South

[Spinal]

I select 1985:

1. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway)
2. Ran (Kurosawa)
3. Brazil (Gilliam)
4. Shoah (Lanzmann)
5. 28 Up (Apted)
6. Ladyhawke (Donner)
7. Come and See (Klimov)
8. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
9. 26 Bathrooms (Greenaway)
10. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Miller/Oglivie)

[Adam]

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1990

Miami Blues
Dick Tracy
Miller's Crossing
Trust
Joe Versus the Volcano
Quick Change
Wild at Heart
Henry and June
The Grifters
Nikita

how does that taste, goodfellas?

[Spinal]

1990 kinda sucks. I only have one 4-star film from that year (Miller's Crossing).

[Derek]

1962, greatest year evah!

1. The Trial (Orson Welles)
2. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
3. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
7. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
8. Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)

[soitgoes...]

1962 is a great year (I get to see Lawrence of Arabia Wednesday in the theater!)

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)


Winter Light switching to 1963 weakens it for me.

How about 1964:


Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Lemonade Joe (Oldrich Lipský)

[soitgoes...]

1962, greatest year evah!

1. The Trial (Orson Welles)
2. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
3. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
7. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
8. Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)

I'd consider 1962 probably the 3rd strongest year (1957, 1964), and we have only 3 of the same films in our top 10's. Interesting.

[StanleyK]

Winter Light switching to 1963 weakens it for me.

If you're going by IMDB on that, they switched it back. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057358)

[soitgoes...]

If you're going by IMDB on that, they switched it back. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057358)
Cool I guess. I know I've bitched about this before, and IMDb is one of the best tools for films out there, but what kind of criteria do they use when it comes to dates of release? In other words, why switch from 1962 to 1963 then back to 1962? This isn't a question directed to you StanleyK, more of a rant.

In that case 1962 is better than 1964.

[StanleyK]

Cool I guess. I know I've bitched about this before, and IMDb is one of the best tools for films out there, but what kind of criteria do they use when it comes to dates of release? In other words, why switch from 1962 to 1963 then back to 1962? This isn't a question directed to you StanleyK, more of a rant.

In that case 1962 is better than 1964.

It's input from users, in this case I noticed wikipedia places the release date at 11/12/1962 and notified them. Why it had gone to 1963 in the first place I don't know, but it kind of bothered me because I go by their release dates too.

[kopello]

1991

1. The Lovers on the Bridge
2. Barton Fink
3. Raise the Red Lantern
4. Terminator 2
5. Night on Earth
6. Europa
7. JFK
8. The Double Life of Veronique
9. Slacker
10. Army of Darkness

Loveeeeee the 90s.

[Grouchy]

A 1990 list without Goodfellas is wrong.

1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Atame)
4. Nightbreed
5. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
6. Wild at Heart
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. Total Recall
9. Nikita
10. King of New York

And my personal favorite, |974:

1. Chinatown
2. The Conversation
3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
4. A Woman Under the Influence
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Phantom of the Paradise
7. F for Fake
8. The Godfather: Part II
9. The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three
10. Young Frankenstein

[Weeping_Guitar]

1957 is probably my favorite year:

01. The Seventh Seal
02. Paths of Glory
03. Wild Strawberries
04. Nights of Cabiria
05. The Bridge on the River Kwai
06. The Sweet Smell of Success
07. 12 Angry Men
08. Throne of Blood
09. Cranes Are Flying
10. A Face in the Crowd

11. Tokyo Twilight
12. The Tin Star
13. Le Notti Bianche
14. 3:10 to Yuma
15. Forty Guns
16. The Lower Depths
17. Witness for the Prosecution
18. Untamed [Arakure]
19. Il Grido
20. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

[number8]

A 1990 list without Goodfellas is wrong.

1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Atame)
4. Nightbreed
5. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
6. Wild at Heart
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. Total Recall
9. Nikita
10. King of New York

Man, Goodfellas is cool and all, but 6 of these are better than it. Have fun guessing which.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1960 was pretty sweet, especially for my beloved horror genre.

01. The Apartment
02. Peeping Tom
03. La Dolce Vita
04. The Magnificent Seven
05. Psycho
06. Spartacus
06. Black Sunday
07. Village of the Damned
08. The Time Machine
09. Inherit the Wind
10. Eyes Without a Face

[Grouchy]

Man, Goodfellas is cool and all, but 6 of these are better than it. Have fun guessing which.
I'm gonna go ahead and hope you're including Nightbreed on those 6.

I've just seen Goodfellas many, many times. I know every quote in every scene by heart.

[EyesWideOpen]

A 1990 list with Dick Tracy is wrong.


fixed

[Adam]

Dick Tracy = Greatest comic book [strip] movie, ever!

[Spaceman Spiff]

Man, Goodfellas is cool and all, but 6 of these are better than it. Have fun guessing which.

It sure as shit ain't Dreams, I can tell you that much.

[MadMan]

2004, which I consider (so far) the best year of the 2000s:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. I Heart Huckabees
3. The Life Aquatic
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. Collateral
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Primer
9. The Incredibles
10. Layer Cake

[number8]

It sure as shit ain't Dreams, I can tell you that much.

Kurosawa's best film!

http://web.mit.edu/ryangray/Public/Gnus/thumbs_up.jpg

[Pop Trash]

1997 is my valentine:

1. The Sweet Hereafter
2. The Ice Storm
3. Boogie Nights
4. Titanic
5. Chasing Amy
6. Fireworks
7. Jackie Brown
8. Gattaca
9. The Game
10. Grosse Pointe Blank

[baby doll]

1955:
1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
5. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
6. A Generation (Andrzej Wajda)
7. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
8. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
9. Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
bubblin' under...
11. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls)
12. East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
13. The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
14. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)

1990:
1. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
3. Trust (Hal Hartley)
4. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
5. Le Mari de la coiffeuse (Patrice Leconte)
6. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
7. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
8. The Witches (Nicolas Roeg)
9.
10.

[Derek]

Kurosawa's best film!

:lol:

[baby doll]

2004, which I consider (so far) the best year of the 2000s:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. I Heart Huckabees
3. The Life Aquatic
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. Collateral
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Primer
9. The Incredibles
10. Layer CakeIf I thought that Hotel Rwanda was the fourth best movie of 2004, I'd probably conclude it was the worst year for movies ever. My own vote is 2007.

2004:
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)
The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
Yes (Sally Potter)

2007:
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (Eric Rohmer)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
La France (Serge Bozon)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
Hairpsray (Adam Shankman)
I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis GuerÃ*n)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Milyang (Lee Chang-dong)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Les Témoins (André Téchiné)
Le Voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)

[Grouchy]

2004

1. The Incredibles
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Kung Fu Hustle
4. Dead Man's Shoes
5. Spiderman 2
6. 3-Iron
7. 2046
8. Downfall
9. The Holy Girl
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2007

1. There Will Be Blood
2. I'm Not There
3. Zodiac
4. Secret Sunshine
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Sunshine
7. Control
8. The Mist
9. You, the Living
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[Watashi]

2007 is soooo good.

1. Ratatouille
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Zodiac
6. Paranoid Park
7. Lars and the Real Girl
8. I'm Not There
9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
10. We Own the Night

[baby doll]

2007 is soooo good.That Paris, Texas avatar is soooo good!

1984:
1. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
2. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan)
4. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
5. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
6. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
7. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
8. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
9. Dune (David Lynch)
10. Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Eric Rohmer)

(Will Love Streams ever come out on Region 1?)

[baby doll]

1972:
1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó)
3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4. Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
5. Fellini's Roma (Federico Fellini)
6. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
8. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
9. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
10. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders)
bubblin' under...
11. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
12. What? (Roman Polanski)
13. Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas) [video]
14. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen)

[megladon8]

2006, probably the best year of the entire decade, particularly for American movies...

The Fountain
The Prestige
Pan's Labyrinth
The Departed
Superman Returns
Children of Men
Volver
A Prairie Home Companion
A Scanner Darkly
Brick

[baby doll]

2006, probably the best year of the entire decade, particularly for American movies...

The Fountain
The Prestige
Pan's Labyrinth
The Departed
Superman Returns
Children of Men
Volver
A Prairie Home Companion
A Scanner Darkly
BrickMy picks:

Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
Coeurs (Alain Resnais)
The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet)
Indigènes (Rachid Bouchareb)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Le Science des rêves (Michel Gondry)
Sommer '04 an der Schlei (Stefan Krohmer)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)

[megladon8]

I still really want to check out Brand Upon the Brain!, and just about everything else Guy Maddin has done.

[Grouchy]

2006

1. Children of Men
2. Exiled
3. I'm a Cyborg, but it's OK!
4. INLAND EMPIRE
5. Paprika
6. Big Bang Love: Juvenile A
7. Casino Royale
8. The Lives of Others
9. Election 2
10. Black Book

[megladon8]

I totally forgot Inland Empire.

That's a fail and a half.

[Grouchy]

Coeurs (Alain Resnais)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Le Science des rêves (Michel Gondry)

Ugh, dude. I hated all three of those with a passion. Specially the first.

[Adam]

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss47/adamstone20/18811134-1.jpg

1966

King of Hearts
Daisies
Cul-de-Sac
Masculin, Feminin
Chimes at Midnight
Persona
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Professionals
Fahrenheit 451
Le deuxieme souffle

Great year and I haven't even seen some real biggies like Andrei Rublev, The Battle of Algiers or The Good the Bad & the Ugly

[MadMan]

Even though I still have much to view from the year of my birth, I feel like covering 1986 anyways:

1. Aliens
2. Blue Velvet
3. Ferris Buller's Day Off
4. Night of the Creeps
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Mona Lisa
7. The Great Mouse Detective
8. The Mission
9. Luxo Jr.
10. An American Tale

[Raiders]

I'm currently updating my blog of all films I have seen and am only up to 1943, so I'll do that year:

1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren)
2. PUSS N' BOOTY (Frank Tashlin)
3. SEVENTH VICTIM, THE (Mark Robson)
4. RED HOT RIDING HOOD (Tex Avery)
5. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. THIS LAND IS MINE (Jean Renoir)
7. LEOPARD MAN, THE (Jacques Tourneur)
8. COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS (Robert Clampett)
9. PORKY PIG'S FEAT (Frank Tashlin)
10. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)

[baby doll]

Coeurs (Alain Resnais)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Le Science des rêves (Michel Gondry)

Ugh, dude. I hated all three of those with a passion. Specially the first.And yet, you evidently loved Casino Royale and The Lives of Others, which both struck me as entirely mediocre. The former has exactly the same plot as every other James Bond picture, and the style sucks. Even the credit sequence exudes lameness from every fibre of its being. I mean, seriously, they're still doing the nude woman silhouette thing in 2006 (and presumably 2008)? Give it a rest. As for the latter, apart from being about as formally adventurous as late Eastwood, it's about as subtle as... well, late Eastwood (i.e., we know this guy is the villain because he pats the heroine on the bum at a party). It's the embodiment of boring Bourgeois European cinema. (Is it possible that Sommer '04 was the only truly great film to come out of Germany in the last decade?)

[baby doll]

Even though I still have much to view from the year of my birth, I feel like covering 1986 anyways:

1. Aliens
2. Blue Velvet
3. Ferris Buller's Day Off
4. Night of the Creeps
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Mona Lisa
7. The Great Mouse Detective
8. The Mission
9. Luxo Jr.
10. An American TaleMy picks for '86:

1. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
3. Soft and Hard (Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Miéville) [video]
4. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
5. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
6. Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
7. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
9.
10.

Not quite ten, but what I have is amazingly solid.

[angrycinephile]

1999:

1. The Insider
2. The Green Mile
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. The Iron Giant
5. Magnolia
6. American Beauty
7. Toy Story 2
8. The Straight Story
9. Bringing Out the Dead
10. The Virgin Suicides

[Dead & Messed Up]

1999:

1. The Insider
2. The Green Mile
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. The Iron Giant
5. Magnolia
6. American Beauty
7. Toy Story 2
8. The Straight Story
9. Bringing Out the Dead
10. The Virgin Suicides

Honestly, I think 2007 and 1999 are the very best years for cinema I've born witness to.

01. The Green Mile
02. Election
03. Bringing Out the Dead
04. Galaxy Quest
05. Eyes Wide Shut
06. The Virgin Suicides
07. Dogma
08. Audition
09. The Talented Mr. Ripley
10. All About My Mother

11. Toy Story 2
12. Three Kings
13. Sleepy Hollow
14. Magnolia
15. Being John Malkovich
16. Existenz
17. The Matrix
18. Man on the Moon
19. The Sixth Sense
20. Office Space

Frankly, that 11-20 is better than most years' top ten.

[Philosophe_rouge]

One of my favourite years, 1946

1. Cluny Brown
2. The Big Sleep
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. My Darling Clementine
5. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. Notorious
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. La Belle et La Bete
9. The Killers
10. Great Expectations

[MadMan]

My picks for '86:

1. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
3. Soft and Hard (Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Miéville) [video]
4. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
5. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
6. Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
7. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
9.
10.

Not quite ten, but what I have is amazingly solid.Heh, I think your list is cooler, and probably better, than mine. I hope to finally see Tarkosvky's movies, and Down by Law and Hannah and Her Sisters are on my infamous To View List.

My Top 10 For 1999:

1. The Limey
2. Fight Club
3. Toy Story 2
4. Three Kings
5. Galaxy Quest
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
7. The Sixth Sense
8. Office Space
9. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
10. Sleepy Hollow

[Spaceman Spiff]

I just reformatted my harddrive, and now have tons of space.

So, somebody do a top 10 movies I still haven't seen yet.

[megladon8]

1999

1 - The Iron Giant
2 - eXistenZ
3 - Office Space
4 - The Matrix
5 - The Limey
6 - Eyes Wide Shut
7 - Sleepy Hollow
8 - The Insider
9 - American Beauty
10 - Magnolia

[Boner M]

For the best movie year, 1973.

1. O Lucky Man (Anderson)
2. Badlands (Malick)
3. The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
4. Charley Varrick (Siegel)
5. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
6. Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman)
7. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
8. The Last Detail (Ashby)
9. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
10. Payday (Duke)

[number8]

2000

1. Battle Royale

[Derek]

No Long Goodbye, boner?

I'm not all that big on '73, though my top 5 is pretty solid.

1. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
4. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
5. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
6. The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
8. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
9. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
10. Coffy (Jack Hill)

[Philosophe_rouge]

still a lot of great films from 73' I need to see, but it's a pretty great year

1. The Long Goodbye
2. Don’t Look Now
3. The Legend of Hell House
4. Badlands
5. The Exorcist
6. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7. Spirit of the Beehive
8. La Mort d’un bucheron
9. Giordano Bruno
10. Robin Hood

[MadMan]

My Top 10 for 1998 (Best Year of the 90s? Or Best Year, Ever? Okay I can't back up that last statement, actually):

1. Rushmore
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Truman Show
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. He Got Game
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7. Pi
8. Bulworth
9. Enemy of the State
10. The Zero Effect

This year is quite strange, in that I saw plenty of great-good movies, but I also viewed a ton of bad movies as well. I'm not sure why.

[Boner M]

No Long Goodbye, boner?
Just outside. Needs a second viewing.

[Derek]

still a lot of great films from 73' I need to see

Same here. Just from your and boner's lists, I have all these left unseen:

The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Charley Varrick (Siegel)
The Last Detail (Ashby)
Payday (Duke)
Don’t Look Now
The Legend of Hell House
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
La Mort d’un bucheron
Giordano Bruno
Robin Hood

[Philosophe_rouge]

Same here. Just from your and boner's lists, I have all these left unseen:

The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Charley Varrick (Siegel)
The Last Detail (Ashby)
Payday (Duke)
Don’t Look Now
The Legend of Hell House
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
La Mort d’un bucheron
Giordano Bruno
Robin Hood
I think mine is even longer

O' Lucky Man
The Mother and the Whore
Charley Varrick
The Last Detail
Payday
Scenes from a Marriage
The Holy Mountain
Fantastic Planet
The Age of Medici
Mean Streets
Amarcord
Coffy

At least I know there is plenty of great cinema in my future <3

[Derek]

Just outside. Needs a second viewing.

Cool. I liked it a good deal more the second time.


My Top 10 for 1998 (Best Year of the 90s? Or Best Year, Ever? Okay I can't back up that last statement, actually):

It's not even the best year in the last two years of the 90s.


This year is quite strange, in that I saw plenty of great-good movies, but I also viewed a ton of bad movies as well. I'm not sure why.

That happens to me every year. I think it's because while some directors make good to great films, other directors make bad to mediocre films. As someone lacking in psychic abilities, seeing the films for myself is the only way to make that distinction, so I end up watching both good and bad films.

[soitgoes...]

1973:


High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
The Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
American Graffiti (George Lucas)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)


Good, but the two years surrounding it are better. The 70's are a weak point for me. Still lots to see.

[MadMan]

It's not even the best year in the last two years of the 90s.Yeah, that's true. 1994 and 1999 are far superior.


That happens to me every year. I think it's because while some directors make good to great films, other directors make bad to mediocre films. As someone lacking in psychic abilities, seeing the films for myself is the only way to make that distinction, so I end up watching both good and bad films.Well as time has gone by, my bullshit meter has seemed to get better and better at detecting movies that might indeed suck. That said, I still from time to time watch either bad movies or mediocre ones for whatever reason. Still, I think that in 1998 I seemed to view a fairly high amount of crap-the same thing happened also in 2004, but I went to the movies a lot that year so that makes sense.

[baby doll]

I think '98 more than holds its own alongside '94 and '99.

1994:
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Les Roseaux sauvages (André Téchiné)
Speed (Jan de Bont)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)

1998:
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold)
Beseiged (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
Fin aoùt, début septembre (Olivier Assayas)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
Secret défense (Jacques Rivette)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)

Bubblin' under: The Big Lebowski (Ethan and Joel Coen), Conte d'automne (Eric Rohmer), Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Seul contre tous (Gaspar Noé).

1999:
Beau travail (Claire Denis)
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (Walid Raad) [video]
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
L'humanité (Bruno Dumont)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)
Three Kings (David O. Russell)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)

[baby doll]

My list for 1973 is pretty weak:

1. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
3. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
4. Global Groove (John Godfrey / Nam June Paik) [video]
5. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
6. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
7. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
8.
9.
10.

[BuffaloWilder]

Speed (Jan de Bont)


Explain?

:lol:

[Mysterious Dude]

1962:

1. The Four Days of Naples
2. The Miracle Worker
3. Cleo from 5 to 7
4. Mamma Roma
5. Salvatore Giuliano
6. The Exterminating Angel
7. To Kill a Mockingbird
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. The Trial
10. La Jetée

Take that, Lawrence of Arabia! (#19)

[soitgoes...]

1986 is fast becoming one of my favorite years:


Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
Batman (Tim Burton)

[dmk]

I've always loved 1977.

1 . On the Silver Globe
2 . Camouflage
3 . Last Chants for a Slow Dance
4 . 3 Women
5 . News from Home
6 . The American Friend
7 . Suspiria
8 . Andy Warhol's Bad
9 . Man of Marble
10 . Eraserhead

Oh, and 1996 was oddly awesome:

1 . Chamanka
2 . Scream
3 . A Moment of Innocence
4 . Escape from L.A
5 . The Promise
6 . Limited Edition
7 . Trainspotting
8 . Crash
9 . The Bloody Child
10 . MST3K: The Movie

[Boner M]

3 . Last Chants for a Slow Dance
4 . 3 Women
5 . News from Home[/b]
:pritch:

[baby doll]

Explain?

:lol:It's awesome.

[baby doll]

I've always loved 1977.

1 . On the Silver Globe
2 . Camouflage
3 . Last Chants for a Slow Dance
4 . 3 Women
5 . News from Home
6 . The American Friend
7 . Suspiria
8 . Andy Warhol's Bad
9 . Man of Marble
10 . Eraserhead

Oh, and 1996 was oddly awesome:

1 . Chamanka
2 . Scream
3 . A Moment of Innocence
4 . Escape from L.A
5 . The Promise
6 . Limited Edition
7 . Trainspotting
8 . Crash
9 . The Bloody Child
10 . MST3K: The MovieWord on both years.

1977:
1. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
2. Cet obscur objet du désir (Luis Buñuel)
3. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
4. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
5. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
6. Providence (Alain Resnais)
7. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
8. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
9. Le Diable proablement (Robert Bresson)
10. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)

1996:
1. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
2. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
3. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
4. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
5. Y aura-t-il de la neige Ã* Noël? (Sandrine Veysset)
6. Nightjohn (Charles Burnett)
7. The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
8. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
9. Mother (Albert Brooks)
10. Crash (David Cronenberg)

[Pop Trash]

1986 is fast becoming one of my favorite years:


Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
Batman (Tim Burton)


I think you mean 1989 homeslice. I'd also add sex, lies, and videotape, Drugstore Cowboy, Say Anything..., and Mystery Train to your list.

[MadMan]

It's awesome.Yeah Speed is one of the best action movies of the 90s. The sequel on the other hand is something I'm not gonna touch even with a 10 foot pole.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1960 was rad

1. La Dolce Vita
2. L’Avventura
3. The Apartment
4. The Virgin Spring
5. Psycho
6. Black Sunday
7. Les Yeux Sans Visage
8. Breathless
9. Sergeant Rutledge
10. Peeping Tom

[soitgoes...]

I think you mean 1989 homeslice. I'd also add sex, lies, and videotape, Drugstore Cowboy, Say Anything..., and Mystery Train to your list.Yeah, that's what I meant. No, I wouldn't add Say Anything... to my list, but maybe to the others when I see them.

[Boner M]

2002 was amazing.

1. The Son (Dardenne)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
3. Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul)
4. Oasis (Lee)
5. Reflections of Evil (Packard)
6. All or Nothing (Leigh)
7. Friday Night (Denis)
8. Talk to Her (Almodovar)
9. The Man Without a Past (Kaurismaki)
10. Femme Fatale (De Palma)

Also 2000:

1. Eureka (Aoyama)
2. Yi Yi (Yang)
3. In the Mood For Love (Wong)
4. George Washington (Green)
5. Code Unknown (Haneke)
6. The Day I Became a Woman (Makhmalbaf)
7. Little Otik (Svankmajer)
8. You Can Count On Me (Lonergan)
9. The House of Mirth (Davies)
10. Ivans xtc (Rose)

[MadMan]

My 2002 list (which still needs major work, as do all of my Top 10s, period):

1. Adaption
2. Spirited Away
3. Narc
4. 28 Days Later
5. Gangs of New York
6. Dog Soldiers
7. Road to Perdition
8. About Schmidt
9. Bubba Ho-Tep
10. Catch Me If You Can

HMs: Signs, The Bourne Identity, Bowling For Columbine, LOTRs: TTT, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

[dmk]

Yep, 2002 was great.

1 . Punch-Drunk Love
2 . Morvern Callar
3 . LOTR: The Two Towers
4 . Friday Night
5 . Adaptation
6 . Blissfully Yours
7 . Gerry
8 . Heaven
9 . Funny Ha Ha
10 . Day of the Wacko

[soitgoes...]

2002:


Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)
8 Women (François Ozon)
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)
The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
Bus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)

[kuehnepips]

1960 was rad



And no word about The Magnificent Seven and Kuehnepips Being Born? Tsktsktsk ...

[Grouchy]

I really have no idea if I did this before on the same page. If so, apologies.

2002

1. Talk to Her
2. Femme Fatale
3. May
4. The Pianist
5. Punch-Drunk Love
6. Far From Heaven
7. Irreversible
8. Spider
9. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
10. 25th Hour

[baby doll]

2002:
1. demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
2. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
3. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
4. Stevie (Steve James)
5. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
6. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
7. Ararat (Atom Egoyan)
8. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
9. Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
10. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

[baby doll]

1960:
1. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
2. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
4. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
6. Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
8. À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol)
10. The Young One (Luis Buñuel)

Good year for the Italians, the French New Wave, and serial killers.

[Derek]

Yeah, 1960 is a solid year, especially for international cinema.

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4. Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
5. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock
7. Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
8. Devi (Satyajit Ray)
9. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
10. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

[dmk]

Mmm, I quite like 1960 too.

1 . Bad Luck
2 . Devi
3 . Innocent Sorcerers
4 . Psycho
5 . La Dolce Vita
6 . Paris Belongs To Us
7 . Knights of the Black Cross
8 . Rocco and his Brothers
9 . Nobody's Calling
10 . Breathless

[MadMan]

Looking back through some years, I noticed that for some reason or another I can actually post a Top 10 for 1973. Huh.

1. Enter The Dragon
2. Sleeper
3. The Long Goodbye
4. Save The Tiger
5. The Day of the Jackal
6. High Plains Drifter
7. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
8. Black Caesar
9. Magnum Force
10. Charlie Varrick

HM: The Crazies, Solyent Green, Live and Let Die, Horror Express, Theatre of Blood.

Man I watched a decent amount of horror movies from this year as well.

[trotchky]

2009:

1. Antichrist
2. Two Lovers
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. The White Ribbon
5. Trash Humpers
6. The Box
7. Where The Wild Things Are
8. Tetro
9. A Serious Man
10. The Hurt Locker

[Rowland]

1. Enter The Dragon
Wow, that's a bold choice. Truth be told, I wasn't too impressed by it. Probably blasphemy to say so, but I'd probably take Paul Anderson's Mortal Kombat, Corey Yuen's DOA: Dead or Alive, or hell, even the Van Dammage cheesefest Blood Sport most days of the week over Enter the Dragon.

I'm woefully behind on '73 viewings, but my list would be topped by The Wicker Man, followed closely by the underseen Electra Glide in Blue. Most overrated of the year? The Sting. :rolleyes:

[B-side]

Antichrist (Von Trier, 2009) ****

I knew I liked you for a reason.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Truth be told, I wasn't too impressed by it. Probably blasphemy to say so, but I'd probably take Paul Anderson's Mortal Kombat...

I...agree.

:confused:

[Grouchy]

Nah, Enter the Dragon is pretty great. Maybe too much but #1, but still classic martial arts.

1973

1. Amarcord
2. High Plains Drifter
3. The Wicker Man
4. Horror Express
5. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
6. The Long Goodbye
7. The Mother and the Whore
8. The Exorcist
9. Scarecrow
10. Enter the Dragon

[B-side]

Nah, Enter the Dragon is pretty great. Maybe too much but #1, but still classic martial arts.

1973

1. Amarcord
2. High Plains Drifter
3. The Wicker Man
4. Horror Express
5. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
6. The Long Goodbye
7. The Mother and the Whore
8. The Exorcist
9. Scarecrow
10. Enter the Dragon

Love it.

[Rowland]

I...agree.

:confused:Don't be confused, it's a damn fine entertainment as far as unabashed junk cinema is concerned.

[soitgoes...]

Yeah, I was wholly unimpressed with Enter the Dragon.

[MadMan]

Wow, that's a bold choice. Truth be told, I wasn't too impressed by it. Probably blasphemy to say so, but I'd probably take Paul Anderson's Mortal Kombat, Corey Yuen's DOA: Dead or Alive, or hell, even the Van Dammage cheesefest Blood Sport most days of the week over Enter the Dragon.Fair enough. Me, I'm a sucker for Bruce Lee and kung fu movies, and Enter the Dragon is beyond entertaining. I find very little flawed about it, plus it has Jim Kelly and John Saxton as well, which is all instant win to me. I haven't seen DOA, and I've only viewed half of Blood Sport. I love Mortal Kombat, 90s cheese and all.


I'm woefully behind on '73 viewings, but my list would be topped by The Wicker Man, followed closely by the underseen Electra Glide in Blue. Most overrated of the year? The Sting. :rolleyes:Sadly I haven't seen any of those. But I will. Eventually.


Nah, Enter the Dragon is pretty great. Maybe too much but #1, but still classic martial arts.

1973

1. Amarcord
2. High Plains Drifter
3. The Wicker Man
4. Horror Express
5. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
6. The Long Goodbye
7. The Mother and the Whore
8. The Exorcist
9. Scarecrow
10. Enter the DragonMmmm, I should finally watch The Exorcist, plus Pat Garret & Billy the Kid. Props to your list having Horror Express and High Plains Drifter.

[B-side]

Mmmm, I should finally watch The Exorcist, plus Pat Garret & Billy the Kid. Props to your list having Horror Express and High Plains Drifter.

I can't see you not loving Pat Garrett. It's so good.

[trotchky]

2006:

1. Inland Empire
2. L'Enfant
3. Three Times
4. The Science of Sleep
5. Marie Antoinette
6. The Fountain
7.
8.
9.
10.

[B-side]

1986:

1. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
2. The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos)
3. Mauvais sang (Carax)
4. Street of Crocodiles (Quay)
5. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
6. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)

[MadMan]

I can't see you not loving Pat Garrett. It's so good.Well I'm a huge western fan, and The Wild Bunch is one of my favorites. So I agree.

The fact that I love making lists so much speaks to part of a complusive nature within me. Oh well.

2006:

1. Children of Men
2. The Departed
3. A Scanner Darkly
4. This is England
5. Casino Royale
6. The Host
7. Stranger Than Fiction
8. Borat
9. Special
10. V For Vendetta

HM: Thank You For Smoking, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Lifted, Inside Man, Rocky Balboa.

Plenty of great movies at the top, but then after #5 its all 90s the rest of the way until Tenacious D. Overall though I rather like this year, and think its pretty good.

[dmk]

I'd like to see some Top 10's for 1992/1993. As far as my tens go, they're two of my weakest years.

1992.
1 . Simple Men
2 . Bad Lieutenant
3 . A Winter's Tale
4 . Raising Cain
5 . Hard Boiled
6 . Braindead
7 . Reservoir Dogs
8 . Man Bites Dog
9 . Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
10 . Bitter Moon

1993
1 . Three Colours: Blue
2 . Frameup
3 . The Bed You Sleep In
4 . Short Cuts
5 . Age of Innocence
6 . Red Rock West
7 . Naked
8 . Demolition Man
9 . The Piano
10 . Schindler's List

I'd say half of those need to go.

[MadMan]

Sure thing, dude.

1992:

1. Unforgiven
2. Dead Alive
3. Bob Roberts
4. Sneakers
5. Resevoir Dogs
6. Hard Boiled
7. A Few Good Men
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. Hero
10. Wayne's World

HM: Man Bites Dog, Red Rock West, A River Runs Through It, Under Siege

1993:

1. Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
2. Groundhog Day
3. Jurassic Park
4. The Fugitive
5. Army of Darkness
6. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
7. The Sandlot
8. True Romance
9. Cliffhanger
10. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Meh on both lists, really. There's some great in there, and then there are some movies that probably wouldn't make my Top 10 for either year if I had seen more movies.

[B-side]

I fail at the 90s.

[soitgoes...]

1992:

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Benny’s Video (Michael Haneke)
Baraka (Ron Fricke)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
Careful (Guy Maddin)
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Aleksandr Petrov)
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)


1993:


Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)

[soitgoes...]

And for Brightside, 1986:


Aliens (James Cameron)
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
Manon des Sources (Claude Berri)
Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)

[soitgoes...]

I fail at the 90s.I tend to too. I've seen a shit ton of films from the 90's, but most of them are utter crap (I worked in a theater for a number of years, and my tastes are hardly comparable to what they are now). I generally have 10-15 films each year I'm comfortable including at the top, but the quality slips fast. I feel that my 80's lists are much more sound than the 90's.

[Boner M]

'92 isn't as weak as I remembered when I last made a list for it.

1. Lessons of Darkness
2. The Long Day Closes
3. Husbands and Wives
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Unforgiven
6. Olivier, Olivier
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
8. Un couer en hiver
9. Wayne's World
10. Laws of Gravity

[Grouchy]

I think 1992 is a fantastic year and I can easily draw a Top20 of absolute favorites from it. 1993, not so much.

1992

1. Hard Boiled
2. Braindead
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Malcolm X
5. The Bohemian Life
6. Unforgiven
7. Bitter Moon
8. The Crying Game
9. Man Bites Dog
10. Bad Lieutenant

1993

1. Three Colors: Blue
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Sonatine
4. The Age of Innocence
5. Cronos
6. In the Name of the Father
7. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
8. Arizona Dream
9. Mutant Action
10. Carlito's Way

[baby doll]

1992
1. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Malcom X (Spike Lee)
3. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
4. Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
5. Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
7. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) [video]
8. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
9.
10.

Overrated: The Player.

Careful is quite good, but I don't know if I like it quite enough to top ten it. I mean, it's no The Heart of the World. And I need to rewatch Bad Lieutenant, Husbands and Wives, and Simple Men.

1993
1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
2. The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
4. Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
5. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
6. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
7. Passage Ã* l'acte (Martin Arnold)
8. Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné)
10.

I need to rewatch Arizona Dream, The Baby of Mâcon, The Blue Kite, Kalifornia, King of the Hill, Madadayo, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Overrated: The Piano and Short Cuts, but both are still quite good.

[baby doll]

2009:

1. Antichrist
2. Two Lovers
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. The White Ribbon
5. Trash Humpers
6. The Box
7. Where The Wild Things Are
8. Tetro
9. A Serious Man
10. The Hurt Locker2009
1. A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
5. The Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
6. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
7. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
8.
9.
10.

2008
Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
Burn After Reading (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet)
La Frontière de l'aube (Philippe Garrel)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Tony Manero (Pablo LarraÃ*n)

[Dead & Messed Up]

I had no problem coming up with top tens for those two years. Interesting...

1992:

01. Unforgiven
02. Reservoir Dogs
03. Dead/Alive
03. Belle Epoque
04. The Last of the Mohicans
05. Supercop
06. Wayne's World
07. Candyman
08. El Mariachi
09. Army of Darkness
10. Jamon, Jamon

1993:

01. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
02. Searching for Bobby Fischer
03. The Nightmare Before Christmas
04. Schindler's List
05. Groundhog Day
06. Cronos
07. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
08. Dazed and Confused
09. The Fugitive
10. Matinee

[dmk]

The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)


2. The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
9. Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné)
Arizona Dream
4. The Age of Innocence
Here are [1993] films I need to see.

Thanks.

[Derek]

I'd like to see some Top 10's for 1992/1993.

1993

1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Naked (Mike Leigh)
3. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
4. Blue (Derek Jarman)
5. Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
6. The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
7. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
8. Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
10. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)

1992

1. The Player (Robert Altman)
2. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
3. Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
5. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
6. Damage (Louis Malle)
7. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
8. Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
9. Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
10. The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)

[Adam]

can't do '92

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss47/adamstone20/469Shortcuts.jpg

1993

Short Cuts
Naked
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Sonatine
Dazed & Confused
Malice
Arizona Dream
Fearless
Farewell My Concubine
Six Degrees of Separation

[baby doll]

I'm pretty weak on the early 80s:

1981
1. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
2. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
3. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Ancient of Days (Bill Viola) [video]
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1982
1. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
2. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The State of Things (Wim Wenders)
5. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
7. Pink Floyd The Wall (Alan Parker)
8.
9.
10.

(I need to rewatch E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Fitzcarraldo.)

1983
1. Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
2. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
4. The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven)
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[Grouchy]

1981

1. Mad Max 2
2. Blow Out
3. Diva
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Evil Dead
6. Excalibur
7. Gallipoli
8. Possession
9. Thief
10. Escape from New York

1982

1. Blade Runner
2. The Thing
3. Fitzcarraldo
4. Conan the Barbarian
5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
6. The Atomic Cafe
7. Basket Case
8. Pink Floyd The Wall
9. Q
10. Vincent

1983

1. Videodrome
2. The King of Comedy
3. The Meaning of Life
4. Scarface
5. Le Bal
6. The Fourth Man
7. Rumble Fish
8. A Christmas Story
9. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
10. Sudden Impact

[Derek]

I'm pretty weak on the early 80s:

Yeah, '81 used to easily be the weakest year of all my lists, but it's starting to fill out nicely.

1983

1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3. El Sur (Victor Erice)
4. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5. Zelig (Woody Allen)
6. Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
7. A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
9. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
10. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)

1982

1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
5. Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
6. The Thing (John Carpenter)
7. The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
8. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
10. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1981

1. The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2. Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
3. America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
5. Excalibur (John Boorman)
6. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
7. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
8. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)

[B-side]

Yeah, '81 used to easily be the weakest year of all my lists, but it's starting to fill out nicely.

1983

1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)

:pritch:

[soitgoes...]

1981:


Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Muddy River (Kôhei Oguri)
Crac! (Frédéric Back)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
Reds (Warren Beatty)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica)
The Fox and the Hound (Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens)


1982:


The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
The Chorus (Abbas Kiarostami)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
The Thing (John Carpenter)


1983:


El Sur (VÃ*ctor Erice)
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang)
Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (Terry Gilliam)
Barefoot Gen (Mori Masaki)
Funny Dirty Little War (Héctor Olivera)


Definitely weaker than 1984-1989, but that's probably more due to me seeing more films in each of the following years than the early 80's years. Still some solid films, including one of my all-time faves.

[B-side]

1983:


Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
El Sur (VÃ*ctor Erice)
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang)
Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (Terry Gilliam)
Barefoot Gen (Mori Masaki)
Funny Dirty Little War (Héctor Olivera)


Hm. You seem to have forgotten Nostalghia. That's OK, though. I went ahead and edited it in to the #1 spot.:)

[soitgoes...]

Hm. You seem to have forgotten Nostalghia. That's OK, though. I went ahead and edited it in to the #1 spot.:)
Ha. Thanks!

To be fair its exclusion is due to me not seeing it, as opposed to not liking it.

[B-side]

Ha. Thanks!

To be fair its exclusion is due to me not seeing it, as opposed to not liking it.

I gotta say, that's almost as bad. Ignorance never got anyone anywhere, my friend.

[soitgoes...]

I gotta say, that's almost as bad. Ignorance never got anyone anywhere, my friend.
We're all ignorant then when it comes to film. Have you seen Muddy River? Yeah, that's what I thought. Of course me liking it pretty much guarantees a less than satisfactory grade from you. ;)

[B-side]

We're all ignorant then when it comes to film. Have you seen Muddy River? Yeah, that's what I thought. Of course me liking it pretty much guarantees a less than satisfactory grade from you. ;)

Bah. I'll out-obscure you one of these days.

[dmk]

1981:
1 . Possession
2 . Roadgames
3 . Le pont du Nord
4 . Gallipoli
5 . A Short Working Day
6 . A Lonely Woman
7 . Tales of Ordinary Madness
8 . Man of Iron
9 . The Aviator's Wife
10 . Beau-père
11 . Hand's Up
12 . Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
13 . Mommie Dearest

1982:
1 . Moonlighting
2 . The State of Things
3 . Fanny and Alexander
4 . The Thing
5 . Imperativ
6 . A Good Marriage
7 . Koyaanisqatsi
8 . Year of Living Dangerously
9 . The Plague Dogs
10 . The Secret of NIMH

1983:
1 . In the White City
2 . Nostalghia
3 . The Eighties
4 . À nos amours
5 . Danton
6 . Crime and Punishment
7 . The Fourth Man
8 . Pauline at the Beach
9 . Sans Soleil
10 . Man of Flowers

'82/'83 aren't as strong as they could be, but I adore 1981. I'm checking out Blow Out in the next few days too.

[Boner M]

Lovin' yr lists, dmk.

[Chac Mool]

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)


I like the trilogy, but I've always been a bit torn: Red and Blue are beautifully made and have a lot to say, but they've always seemed a bit contrived or artificial -- more like theses than movies about real life. White is the most natural and affecting, but perhaps less impressive.

[Mysterious Dude]

I always hope that my top ten list for every year will consist only of four-star films. I've already accomplished that for 1967 and 1968, and I just now accomplished it for 1969, too, after seeing The Joke.

1. Satyricon
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Z
4. Double Suicide
5. Kes
6. The Cremator
7. The Joke
8. The Cow
9. Army of Shadows
10. Boy

1970 is going to be a lot harder.

[baby doll]

1992
1. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Malcom X (Spike Lee)
3. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
4. Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
5. Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
7. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) [video]
8. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
9.
10.

1993
1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
2. The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
4. Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
5. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
6. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
7. Passage Ã* l'acte (Martin Arnold)
8. Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné)
10.Time to update these...

1992
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
Malcom X (Spike Lee)
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Mark Rappaport) [video]
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

More good stuff: Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola), Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino), Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)

1993
1. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
2. The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Naked (Mike Leigh)
4. Passage Ã* l'acte (Martin Arnold)
5. Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
6. Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
8. The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
9. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
10. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)

More good stuff: King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh), Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné), Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen), La Naissance de l'amour (Philippe Garrel)

[baby doll]

2009
1. A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
5. The Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
6. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
7. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
8.
9.
10.

2008
Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
Burn After Reading (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet)
La Frontière de l'aube (Philippe Garrel)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Tony Manero (Pablo LarraÃ*n)
2008
Black and White Trypps, Number Four (Ben Russell)
La Frontière de l'aube (Philippe Garrel)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Home (Ursula Meier)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
My Dear Enemy (Lee Yoon-ki)
Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
Tony Manero (Pablo LarraÃ*n)

More good stuff: Adoration (Atom Egoyan), Burn After Reading (Ethan and Joel Coen), Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet), Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)

2009
The Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Les Herbes folles (Alain Resnais)
Night Mayor (Guy Maddin)
A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen)
Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
White Material (Claire Denis)
The White Ribbon: A German Children's Story (Michael Haneke)

More good stuff: Antichrist (Lars von Trier), Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira), I Love You, Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficara and John Requa), Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino), A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Police, Adjective (Corneliu Poromboiu), A Single Man (Tom Ford)

[baby doll]

I always hope that my top ten list for every year will consist only of four-star films. I've already accomplished that for 1967 and 1968, and I just now accomplished it for 1969, too, after seeing The Joke.

1. Satyricon
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. Z
4. Double Suicide
5. Kes
6. The Cremator
7. The Joke
8. The Cow
9. Army of Shadows
10. Boy

1970 is going to be a lot harder.1969
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
L'Armée des ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
Intervals (Peter Greenaway)
Love Is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Ma nuit chez Maud (Eric Rohmer)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)

More good stuff: Model Shop (Jacques Demy), True Grit (Henry Hathaway)

[Spinal]

1970 is going to be a lot harder.

I only have one four-star film for that year. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

[Mysterious Dude]

I only have one four-star film for that year. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
Never heard of it. Looks very Spinal-y.

Edit: From the director of The Joke! Well, I might as well see it!

[Spinal]

Never heard of it. Looks very Spinal-y.

It is. Probably one of the films I would use if I had to give five films to describe my taste. The book is good too.

[MadMan]

1982:

http://schlockfootage.files.wordpress .com/2011/04/bladerunner.jpg

1. Blade Runner
2. The Thing
3. Star Trek II: The Wraith of Khan
4. The Atomic Cafe
5. Creepshow
6. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
7. First Blood
8. My Favorite Year
9. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
10. The Snowman

HM's: Cat People, Koyaanisqatsi

Eh, I've had worst Top 10s, and I'm rather curious for more recommendations from this year. This was clearly one of the top tier years for sci-fi, too.

[Spinal]

4. The Atomic Cafe


Nice.

1982
1. The Atomic Cafe
2. Poltergeist
3. The Secret of NIMH
4. The Dark Crystal
5. Sophie's Choice
6. Fitzcarraldo
7. The King of Comedy
8. The Draughtsman's Contract
9. Diner
10. E.T.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
2. The Return of Martin Guerre
3. Tron
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. All Summer in a Day
6. Time Masters
7. Koyaanisqatsi
8. Gandhi
9. Blade Runner
10. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

[MadMan]

Poltergeist just barely misses my list, but its a new favorite of mine.


3. The Secret of NIMH
4. The Dark Crystal Considering that last night I revisited Labyrinth I'm now rather interested in seeing more dark fantasy movies from the 80s aimed at kids. I hear those two are pretty good.


6. Fitzcarraldo
7. The King of ComedyThese are two films I'm ashamed to admit I have not seen. I think that Fitzcarraldo might be at my local library, but I will have to probably use Netflix to watch The King of Comedy.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1982? Okay.



ET
Koyaanisqatsi
The Thing
Pink Floyd The Wall
Blade Runner
Poltergeist
Time Bandits
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Conan the Barbarian
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[B-side]

7. The Joke

It's quite good, isn't it?

[Mysterious Dude]

Updating my top ten of 1962:

1. The Four Days of Naples
2. The Miracle Worker
3. Cleo from 5 to 7
4. Mamma Roma
5. Salvatore Giuliano
6. Sundays and Cybele
7. The Exterminating Angel
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. The Manchurian Candidate
10. Electra

[Peng]

Ohh nice thread.

Watched like 11 films from 1982 I think..



1.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2.Sophie’s Choice
3.The Thing
4.Fitzcarraldo
5.Tootsie
6.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
7.Poltergeist
8.Blade Runner
9.Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10.Halloween III: Season of the Witch

[Peng]

And only 7 from 1962, but they're all good.



1.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2.Lawrence of Arabia
3.The Manchurian Candidate
4.The Exterminating Angel
5.Dr. No
6.Experiment in Terror
7.Knife in the Water

[Skitch]

This is neat.

1982

Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
The Thing
Tron
The Road Warrior
Time Bandits
First Blood
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn
Poltergeist
E.T.

H.M.'s for insanity: Xtro, Mad Mission

[Dead & Messed Up]

2013

1. Before Midnight
2. The World's End
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. Nebraska
5. Stoker
6. Pacific Rim
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Monsters University
9. Gravity
10. The Conjuring

[Pop Trash]

1977

1. Stroszek
2. Annie Hall
3. Star Wars
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Eraserhead
6. 3 Women
7. That Obscure Object of Desire
8. Saturday Night Fever
9. Cross of Iron
10. Rolling Thunder

[transmogrifier]

Top 12 Community Episodes

1. Cooperative Calligraphy (Season 2, Episode 8)
2. Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design (Season 2, Episode 9)
3. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Season 2, Episode 14)
4. Basic Lupine Urology (Season 3, Episode 17)
5. Paradigms of Human Memory (Season 3, Episode 21)
6. Digital Estate Planning (Season 3, Episode 20)
7. Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (Season 2, Episode 11)
8. Modern Warfare (Season 1, Episode 23)
9. Curriculum Unavailable (Season 3, Episode 19)
10. Regional Holiday Music (Season 3, Episode 10)
11. Pillows and Blankets (Season 3, Episode 14)
12. G.I. Jeff (Season 5, Episode 11)

Top 5 Worst Community Episodes

1. Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples (Season 2, Episode 5)
2. Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations (Season 4, Episode 5)
3. Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Season 5, Episode 10)
4. Contemporary Impressionists (Season 3, Episode 11)
5. Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing (Season 6, Episode 4)

[MadMan]

Hah I forgot all about this thread.

1981 (so far):

1. Blow-Out
2. Das Boot
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Possession
5. The Professional
6. Thief
7. The Road Warrior
8. An American Werewolf In London
9. The Funhouse
10. Escape From New York

HM: The Evil Dead, Stripes

That's not a bad list.

[Mysterious Dude]

1927

1. Metropolis
2. Napoleon
3. Sunrise
4. The Kid Brother
5. The Lodger
6. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
7. When a Man Loves
8. Underworld
9. The End of St. Petersburg
10. The Unknown

[MadMan]

1984, can't recall if I posted this one, I'm not gonna go back and look cause whatever:

1. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
2. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
3. Secret Honor (Altman)
4. Stop Making Sense (Demme)
5. Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
6. The Terminator (Cameron)
7. Repo Man (Cox)
8. This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
9. Purple Rain (Magnoli)
10. Firestarter (Lester)

HM: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki), Dreamscape (Ruben)

[MadMan]

I only have one four-star film for that year. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

That movie is wonderful. I miss Spinal.

[MadMan]

I've only seen 3 movies from 1927, wow I'm so behind.

I'll go with 1979:

1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
2. All That Jazz (Fosse)
3. Alien (Scott)
4. Manhattan (Allen)
5. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog)
6. Life of Brian (Jones)
7. Mad Max (Miller)
8. The Warriors (Hill)
9. Time After Time (Meyer)
10. Zombie (Fulci)

HM: The Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki), The Queen of Black Magic (Sudjio). The first 5 are all 10s btw.