Your top ten of whatever damn year you feel like!

[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:

1. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
4. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
5. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
6. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
7. The Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
9. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. 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?

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[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:

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]

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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 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.

[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:

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Oasis (Chang-dong Lee)
3. 8 Women (François Ozon)
4. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
5. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
6. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)
7. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
8. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
9. Bus 174 (José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda)
10. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)

[kuehnepips]

1960 was rad

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