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

[soitgoes...]

1986 is fast becoming one of my favorite years:

1. Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
3. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4. Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
5. Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
6. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
7. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
8. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
9. A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
10. 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]

ritch:

[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 Movie

Word 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:

1. Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
3. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4. Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
5. Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
6. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
7. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
8. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
9. A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
10. 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.

[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

[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

[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)