Favorite Movie of Every Year
Submitted by openstacks on Thu, 07/22/2004 - 01:03
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- This is a fair starting point, but will probably evolve as I remember other films and see more classics. I'm clearly no connoisseur. Perhaps next I'll add in some close seconds for each year.
- 1915 - Birth of a Nation
- 1916 - Intolerance
- 1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 1921 - Nanook of the North
- 1922 - Nosferatu
- 1923 - Safety Last
- 1924 - Greed
- 1925 - The Gold Rush
- 1927 - Metropolis
- 1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
- 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1931 - City Lights
- 1932 - Scarface
- 1933 - King Kong
- 1934 - It Happened One Night
- 1935 - A Night at the Opera
- 1936 - Modern Times
- 1937 - La grande illusion
- 1938 - Bringing Up Baby
- 1939 - The Wizard of Oz
- 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
- 1941 - Dumbo
- 1942 - Casablanca
- 1944 - Double Indemnity
- 1945 - Spellbound
- 1946 - It's A Wonderful Life
- 1948 - Ladri di Biciclette
- 1949 - The Third Man
- 1950 - Rashomon
- 1951 - Alice in Wonderland
- 1952 - Ikiru
- 1953 - Julius Caesar
- 1954 - Rear Window
- 1955 - Pather Panchali
- 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
- 1957 - Throne of Blood
- 1958 - Touch of Evil
- 1959 - North By Northwest
- 1960 - Psycho
- 1961 - West Side Story
- 1962 - To Kill A Mockingbird
- 1963 - 8 1/2
- 1964 - Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- 1965 - The Sound of Music
- 1966 - Blowup
- 1967 - The Graduate
- 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 1969 - Easy Rider
- 1970 - M*A*S*H
- 1971 - The Clockwork Orange
- 1972 - Aguirre, Wrath of God
- 1973 - Enter the Dragon
- 1974 - Young Frankenstein
- 1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976 - Taxi Driver
- 1977 - Annie Hall
- 1978 - Up in Smoke
- 1979 - Apocalypse Now
- 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
- 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 1982 - The Dark Crystal
- 1983 - Koyannisqatsi
- 1984 - This Is Spinal Tap
- 1985 - Ran
- 1986 - Stand By Me
- 1987 - Full Metal Jacket
- 1988 - A Fish Called Wanda
- 1989 - Cinema Paradiso
- 1990 - Yume
- 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 - Reservoir Dogs
- 1993 - Dazed and Confused
- 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
- 1995 - The Usual Suspects
- 1996 - Swingers
- 1997 - Life Is Beautiful
- 1998 - The Big Lebowski
- 1999 - The Iron Giant
- 2000 - Memento
- 2001 - Spirited Away
- 2002 - Bowling for Columbine
- 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- 2004 - The Incredibles
- 2005 - Batman Begins
- 2006 - Wordplay
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Nothing like having The Iron Giant bump off Magnolia to make my evening. :-) Thanks! (even though I know you didn't do it for my benefit)
It's true that it wasn't expressly for your benefit, but I do remember reading that you had a fondness for it.
The Iron Giant is a wonderful movie. Absolutely wonderful. One of the best recent animated films, if not the best.
finally someone who realizes that shawshank redemption was the best movie of '94 not pulp fiction... not by a long shot.
Urgh. Urgh.
The Shawshank Redemption may be one of the most overrated movies of all time. Treakly story, uninspired filmmaking, and average to overbaked performances.
An inspiring story does not equal a good movie.
Sorry, just had to get my resentment of that film out. All better now.
I concur with AAA. Shawshank is very over-rated.
treakly story? what the hell does that mean and are we watching the same movie... it's a great story with imo great direction... being a stephen king fan probably helps... but i'm not insane... i realize outside of this movie darabont sucks... and what you're describing sounds more like the green mile than shawshank redemption.
Um, hey y'all, fascinating discussion and what not, but don't forget that this is a list of my favorite films, not the best ones. At least not best by any scale other than my own personal enjoyment of the film. Quality is a slippery concept anyway.
Oh, and I assume treacly to indicate cloyingly and sickeningly sweet, which in reference to Shawshank is a point about which AAA and I can agree to disagree. As for it being over-rated, that's largely a moot point as regards a list of this nature. Sometimes I like what others like; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I even like treacly; I'm a real sugar fiend. My opinion is only tangentially based on the opinion of others anyway, mostly insofar as it helps me select films about which I might want to have an opinion of my own.
That said, Pulp Fiction currently stands as my second favorite film from that year, narrowly beating out films from the Trois Colours series and Clerks.
I have always said that I am a poor critic; for pete's sake, it says right up top that I'm clearly no connoisseur. I tend to like things and I tend to go easy on things I didn't. Hell, I gave Garfield two stars out of five!
I'm sorry if I came off as mean-spirited. I didn't mean to demean any taste you have. Usually, when I disagree with people on movies, I really don't mean any harm.
I completely understand your points, and I think we can agree to disagree.
Not at all mean-spirited. This is a forum for discussing opinions after all. If we all agreed, what fun would it be? I just thought the direction of the conversation had moved a bit outside of the context of the list, so I opted to throw my two cents in. As I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm always good for a bit of dissension.
Still, I appreciate your sentiment.