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]

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!)

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

Winter Light switching to 1963 weakens it for me.

How about 1964:

1. Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
2. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura)
5. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
6. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
7. The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
8. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
9. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
10. 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.

[soitgoes...]

If you're going by IMDB on that, they switched it back.

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!

[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 Cake

If 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)