Your top ten of whatever damn year you feel like!

[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
Brick

My 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]

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 Tale

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.

[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

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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

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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