What's your favorite year in film?

[Izzy Black]

For me, it's 1994 and 1960.

'94

Three Colors trilogy, Wild Reeds, Cold Water, Sátántangó, Pulp Fiction,The Corridor, To Live, I Can't Sleep, Chungking Express, Vive L'Amour, Hoop Dreams, Dear Diary, The Dancer, Barcelona, Exotica, L'Enfer, Bullets Over Broadway, My Girl 2 (j/k)

'60

L'Avventura, Breathless, Psycho, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, The Virgin Spring, La Dolce Vita.... eh, should I even go on?

You can pick more than one.

This link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_film) may be of help.

[Derek]

Listworthy films only...

1962

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)
11 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
12 Her Lonely Lane (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
14 Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
15 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
16 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
17 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
18 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
19 Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
20 Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)

1967

1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3 Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
4 Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
5 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
7 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8 The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó )
9 Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
10 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
12 Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
13 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)
14 El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
15 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
16 Point Blank (John Boorman)
17 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura)
18 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
19 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)

1959

1 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2 Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
3 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
5 Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
6 The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
7 The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
8 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
9 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
10 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
11 Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
12 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
13 Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
14 Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
15 Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
16 Day of the Outlaw (Andre De Toth)
17 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
18 Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronomi)
19 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

[elixir]

1994 is definitely a favorite of mine.

I'll just do 10 films. There's more that could be listed, of course.

1974
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Un homme qui dort (Queysanne)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
Mes petites amoureuses (Eustache)
Behindert (Dwoskin)
The Mouth Agape (Pialat)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)

[Gizmo]

1994, 1999 and 2001 hold many of my favorite films.

[Raiders]

Only listing the great films from the year...

1964:

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. Scorpio Rising
3. The Patsy
4. Charulata
5. The Naked Kiss
6. Marnie
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
10. Blood and Black Lace
11. The Masque of the Red Death
12. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
13. I am Cuba
14. Fail-Safe

Not to mention damn good films like Band of Outsiders, Zulu, Lilith, Seven Days in May, and many more.

[Pop Trash]

1974 is pretty mindblowing, even if I haven't seen all of the supposed great movies from that year.

I'm also a big fan of '84, '89, '97, and '07.

[Pop Trash]

You forgot Ed Wood and Fresh from 1994 too Israfel. And if you did it intentionally, you are wrong.

I'm also a fan of Spanking the Monkey from that year, but I guess I can understand if people aren't into it. So much better than fucking Whit Stillman though.

[B-side]

A Few Years Not Yet Mentioned (No Order):

1966:

Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Arabesque (Stanley Donen)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
The Story of Asya Klyachina (Andrei Konchalovsky)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Breakaway (Bruce Conner)

1969:

The Joke (Jaromil Jires)
The Dependent (Leonardo Favio)
Three Days and a Child (Uri Zohar)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaya)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
We (Artavazd Peleshian)

1970:

Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Lived Once a Song-Thrush (Otar Iosseliani)
Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy)
Witches' Hammer (Otakar Vávra)
Husbands (John Cassavetes)
Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)

1971:

The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda)
A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson)
Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie)
The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[Pop Trash]

ALSO: elixir's '74 list clearly needs more Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[elixir]

ALSO: elixir's '74 list clearly needs more Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
haven't seen it

[Boner M]

73 for me.

Badlands
Charley Varrick
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
The Fantastic Planet
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
La Grand Bouffe
The Holy Mountain
The Last Detail
The Legend of Hell House
The Long Goodbye
Mean Streets
The Mother and the Whore
O Lucky Man!
Payday
Scenes From a Marriage
Sisters
The Spirit of the Beehive

[Derek]

A Few Years Not Yet Mentioned (No Order):

1966:

Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Arabesque (Stanley Donen)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
The Story of Asya Klyachina (Andrei Konchalovsky)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Masculin Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Breakaway (Bruce Conner)

Yeah, '66 was pretty badass, but you forgot the best film ever. ;) Love Breakaway though! My favorite Conner short along with America is Waiting.

I'd add:

Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima)
La Caza (Carlos Saura)
La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)

[Russ]

Yeah, '66 was pretty badass.

I'd add:

Tokyo Drifter
Daisies
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

:)

[elixir]

And Kluge's Yesterday Girl.

But we could do this for every year, haha.

[Raiders]

'66 also has John Ford's 7 Women and King Hu's Come Drink With Me. Yeah, it should have been my answer as well.

[B-side]

Yeah, I knew I'd forgotten films for each of those years. I don't have anything handy that tells me all the films I've seen, so I just went off the top of my head.

[Derek]

Tokyo Drifter
Daisies

Not too big on either, but they are interesting. I certainly understand why they're widely loved.


'66 also has John Ford's 7 Women and King Hu's Come Drink With Me. Yeah, it should have been my answer as well.

I must've forgotten to add Hu's film, which is indeed great. Been meaning to see Ford's film for a while now.

[B-side]

Been meaning to see Ford's film for a while now.

The Fugitive and The Sun Shines Bright deserve your attention first.

[Derek]

The Fugitive and The Sun Shines Bright deserve your attention first.

Seen and quite like the latter. The Fugitive's pretty high on my Ford to-see list. I need a mini-marathon to catch up more with him.

[B-side]

Seen and quite like the latter. The Fugitive's pretty high on my Ford to-see list. I need a mini-marathon to catch up more with him.

I had a feeling you'd seen the latter. The Fugitive might be Ford's most impressive film from a purely visual standpoint, and those first 15 minutes are stunning.

[Irish]

1982

These were all released within 2 weeks of one another, over the summer:

- Blade Runner
- Tron
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- The Thing
- The Road Warrior (US release)
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
- Poltergeist
- Conan the Barbarian

Also notable:

- The Verdict
- Gandhi
- Fanny and Alexander
- First Blood
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- 48 Hours
- Tootsie
- The Dark Crystal
- An Officer and a Gentleman

[soitgoes...]

I think a solid case can be made for any year between 1950-1977. My answer, if pressured though, would be:

1964
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Becket (Peter Glenville)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
Culloden (Peter Watkins)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura)
Lemonade Joe (Oldrich Lipský)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
Seduced and Abandonded (Pietro Germi)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse)

1962
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
Electra (Michael Cacoyannis)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
The Intruder (Roger Corman)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet)
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico)
The Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

The deeper year is 1964 with 1962 having the stronger top films.

1928 probably is the best year in regards to total amount of awesome films to total films seen (13/24):

L’argent (Marcel L’Herbier)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Strenberg)
The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
Lonesome (Pál Fejös)
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Patsy (King Vidor)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton)
The Wind (Victor Sjöström)

Also fwiw, I think 1978 has to be the worst year for film.

[soitgoes...]

I had a feeling you'd seen the latter. The Fugitive might be Ford's most impressive film from a purely visual standpoint, and those first 15 minutes are stunning.I take full credit for you having seen this.

[Izzy Black]

No love for the 90s

[B-side]

I take full credit for you having seen this.

You do? I don't even remember you watching it.

[B-side]

No love for the 90s

1999:

The Insider (Michael Mann)
Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
Rosetta (Dardenne bros.)
Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
Running Out of Time (Johnnie To)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog)
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (Mike Figgis)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

[MadMan]

I'll go with 1999 for now, even though damn B-Side mentioned it already

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

HM: Sleepy Hollow, The Blair Witch Project, American Pie, RKO 281, The Matrix

Plus the year of my birth, 1986:

1. Aliens
2. Ferris Buller's Day Off
3. Night of the Creeps
4. The Fly
5. Down By Law
6. From Beyond
7. Big Trouble In Little China
8. Labyrinth
9. Mona Lisa
10. The Great Mouse Detective

HM: The Mission, Luxo Jr., An American Tail, Crocodile Dundee, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Also for random sake, 1973:

1. F For Fake
2. The Exorcist
3. Enter The Dragon
4. Sleeper
5. The Long Goodbye
6. Save The Tiger
7. Mean Streets
8. The Day of the Jackal
9. High Plains Drifter
10. The Legend of Hell House

HM: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Black Caesar, Magnum Force, Charley Varrick, The Crazies

Oh and some love should be given to 1984:

1. Once Upon A Time in America
2. Paris, Texas
3. Secret Honor
4. Stop Making Sense
5. Blood Simple
6. The Terminator
7. This Is Spinal Tap!
8. Dreamscape
9. Ghostbusters
10. Repo Man

HM: The Hit, Gremlins, The Killing Fields, Body Double, The Brother From Another Planet...actually the HM's here is full of 85s that deserves a spot.

[B-side]

Amusing that MadMan and my lists for 1999 share not one film.

[B-side]

Though, to be fair, mine probably would include The Limey if I'd seen it.

[MadMan]

Amusing that MadMan and my lists for 1999 share not one film.Hah, I know....its a shame that I haven't viewed the following yet off of your list:

The Insider (Michael Mann)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

Which I have no excuse for not viewing yet. Really. Especially Eyes Wide Shut considering how much I love Kubrick, and The Insider since I like Mann a lot.


Though, to be fair, mine probably would include The Limey if I'd seen it.The Limey made my Top 10 of the 90s, I believe. Or at least my Top 20. One of Terrance Stamp's finest performances.

[Irish]

The thing I liked about 1999 is that it was packed with movies from notable directors and had some interesting stuff from newcomers:

Any Given Sunday - Oliver Stone
Summer of Sam - Spike Lee
Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
Existenz - David Cronenberg
Audition - Takashi Miike
Cider House Rules - Lasse Hallstrom
The Limey - Steven Soderburgh
All About My Mother - Pedro Almodovar
Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Straight Story - David Lynch

Three Kings - David O. Russell
The Sixth Sense - M Knight Shyamalan
Being John Malchovich - Spike Jonze
The Matrix - The Wachowski Bros.
Iron Giant - Brad Bird
Toy Story 2 - John Lasseter
American Beauty - Sam Mendes
Fight Club - David Fincher
Virgin Suicides - Sophia Coppola
Boys Don't Cry - Kimberly Pierce

Not that every movie on the list is four-star, but it's interesting that so many of these guys turned out memorable movies in the same year.

Also, note the relative absence of sequels and adaptations. A majority of these releases were written for the screen.

[soitgoes...]

You do? I don't even remember you watching it.
I do. (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=344833&highlight=fugitive#post344833) But it was inevitable that you would have without me.

[B-side]

I do. (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=344833&highlight=fugitive#post344833) But it was inevitable that you would have without me.

Oh, wow. You really did help kick me in the ass to see that. My bad.

[soitgoes...]

Oh, wow. You really did help kick me in the ass to see that. My bad.

It was easy. You love Ford, and you love pretty films. Pretty much as close to a no-brainer as it comes.

[B-side]

It was easy. You love Ford, and you love pretty films. Pretty much as close to a no-brainer as it comes.

This is true.

[Watashi]

2007:

Ratatouille
Sweeney Todd
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
I'm Not There
Zodiac
Death Proof
Once
We Own the Night
The King of Kong
Atonement
Hot Fuzz
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Lars and the Real Girl

[Dead & Messed Up]

What I've seen of 1960.

The Apartment
La Dolce Vita
Peeping Tom
Psycho
The Time Machine
Black Sunday
Eyes Without a Face
Inherit the Wind
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
Village of the Damned
The House of Usher
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
Little Shop of Horrors
Spartacus

And 1994 is pretty awesome too.

Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Cemetery Man
Ed Wood
Quiz Show
The Legend of Drunken Master
Speed
The Lion King
The Crow
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The River Wild
The Secret of Roan Inish
True Lies
In the Mouth of Madness
The Hudsucker Proxy
Dumb and Dumber
Clerks

[baby doll]

1955
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren)
The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
A Generation (Andrzej Wajda)
Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Lola Montès (Max Ophüls)
The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais)
One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)

[Russ]

1955

Also, Rififi, Floating Clouds, Les Diaboliques...

[Dukefrukem]

2012

The Avengers
Cabin in the Woods
Haywire
21 Jump Street
The Grey
John Carter
Contraband
Chronicle
The Inkeepers
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
The Dictator
Prometheus
The Dark Knight Rises
Dark Shadows
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Lords of Salem
Total Recall
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Silent Hill: Revelation
Argo
Skyfall
Brave
The Amazing Spider-Man
Django Unchained
Taken 2

[baby doll]

And 1994 is pretty awesome too.Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette)
Les Roseaux sauvages (André Téchiné)
Rouge (Krzyzstof Kieślowski)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
Vive l'amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

[baby doll]

2007:

There Will Be Blood
I'm Not There
We Own the NightAlso:

Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (Eric Rohmer)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
Dans la ville de Sylvie (José Luis GuerÃ*n)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
La France (Serge Bozon)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
Hairspray (Adam Shankman)
Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
The Man From London (Béla Tarr)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Milyang (Secret Sunshine) (Lee Chang-dong)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen)
Les Témoins (André Téchiné)
Le Voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)

[Yxklyx]

- 1957

Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)

everyone has their own year - there is no consensus.

[baby doll]

The thing I liked about 1999 is that it was packed with movies from notable directors...

Beau travail (Claire Denis)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)


...and had some interesting stuff from newcomers:

The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (Walid Raad) [video]
L'humanité (Bruno Dumont)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)

[Boner M]

Tscherkassky wasn't a newcomer at that point.

[baby doll]

Tscherkassky wasn't a newcomer at that point.I suppose, but had any of his previous films received much attention?

[baby doll]

'60

L'Avventura, Breathless, Psycho, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, The Virgin Spring, La Dolce Vita.... eh, should I even go on?Wasn't that 1945?

Also from 1960:

The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)
Les Yeux sans visage (Georges Franju)
The Young One (Luis Buñuel)

1945 wasn't bad either, considering the historical circumstances:

The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné)
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

[baby doll]

1986:Also...

Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
Mélo (Alain Resnais)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Soft and Hard (Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Miéville) [video]
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)