Best / Favorite Movie of Every Year
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Sun, 09/14/2003 - 04:41
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- 1895 - Baby's Meal
- 1896 - The Kiss (only one I've seen)
- 1899 - The Kiss in the Tunnel (only one I've seen)
- 1900 - The Big Swallow
- 1902 - A Trip to the Moon (only one I've seen)
- 1903 - The Gay Shoe Clerk (only one I've seen)
- 1907 - Teddy Bears (only one I've seen)
- 1908 - The Physician of the Castle (only one I've seen)
- 1909 - A Corner in Wheat (only one I've seen)
- 1914 - Tillie's Punctured Romance (only one I've seen)
- 1915 - Birth of a Nation (only one I've seen)
- 1916 - The Floorwalker
- 1917 - The Immigrant
- 1919 - Broken Blossoms (only one I've seen)
- 1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (only one I've seen)
- 1921 - The Kid (only one I've seen)
- 1922 - Nosferatu
- 1923 - Safety Last
- 1924 - The Last Laugh
- 1925 - The Battleship Potemkin
- 1926 - The General
- 1927 - Metropolis
- 1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
- 1929 - The Man With a Movie Camera
- 1930 - L'Age D'Or
- 1931 - City Lights
- 1932 - Horse Feathers
- 1933 - Duck Soup
- 1934 - It Happened One Night
- 1935 - The 39 Steps
- 1936 - Modern Times
- 1937 - The Awful Truth
- 1938 - Bringing Up Baby
- 1939 - The Rules of the Game
- 1940 - His Girl Friday
- 1941 - Citizen Kane
- 1942 - Casablanca
- 1943 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- 1944 - Double Indemnity
- 1945 - Children of Paradise
- 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1947 - The Lady From Shanghai
- 1948 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1949 - The Third Man
- 1950 - Sunset Boulevard
- 1951 - Ace in the Hole
- 1952 - Singin' in the Rain
- 1953 - Ugetsu
- 1954 - Rear Window (though I need to rewatch On the Waterfront)
- 1955 - Night of the Hunter
- 1956 - The Killing
- 1957 - 12 Angry Men
- 1958 - Touch of Evil
- 1959 - Hiroshima Mon Amour
- 1960 - Breathless
- 1961 - Last Year at Marienbad
- 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate
- 1963 - 8 1/2
- 1964 - Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- 1965 - Juliet of the Spirits
- 1966 - Persona
- 1967 - Cool Hand Luke
- 1968 - Once Upon a Time in the West
- 1969 - Midnight Cowboy
- 1970 - The Conformist
- 1971 - Harold and Maude
- 1972 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- 1973 - The Long Goodbye
- 1974 - Chinatown
- 1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976 - Taxi Driver
- 1977 - Annie Hall
- 1978 - National Lampoon's Animal House
- 1979 - Apocalypse Now
- 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
- 1981 - Body Heat
- 1982 - The Verdict
- 1983 - Zelig
- 1984 - Paris, Texas
- 1985 - Brazil
- 1986 - Hannah and Her Sisters
- 1987 - The Princess Bride
- 1988 - Cinema Paradiso
- 1989 - When Harry Met Sally...
- 1990 - Goodfellas
- 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 - Reservoir Dogs
- 1993 - Schindler's List
- 1994 - Pulp Fiction
- 1995 - Before Sunrise
- 1996 - Secrets and Lies
- 1997 - Life Is Beautiful
- 1998 - Run Lola Run
- 1999 - Being John Malkovich
- 2000 - Memento
- 2001 - Mulholland Drive
- 2002 - Talk to Her
- 2003 - The Station Agent
- 2004 - Before Sunset
- 2005 - L'Enfant
- 2006 - The Departed
- 2007 - There Will Be Blood
- 2008 - WALL•E
- 2009 - The Secrets in Their Eyes
- 2010 - The Social Network
Author Comments:
I decided to try my hand at a list like this. Great idea, AAA! I too am rather underviewed for many years, sometimes embarrassingly so, but I'll try to keep the list updated with my most recent viewings.
If a year is not on the list, it means I haven't seen any films released in that year.
For the purposes of simplicity, I'm going by the IMDB year in all cases.
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Truly bizarre. I'm not sure why all this time I've thought that "City Lights" was a 1934 release, but that's the year I had it as on my list of movies I've seen (it's on Microsoft Word on my computer). Perhaps even more bizarre, I realized I forgot to write a year for it on my "1930's: Movies I've Seen" list. That's corrected now. I hope to put it on this list under its correct year, and also fix up a few things here too.
I get very confused by different sources giving different release years for certain films. For example, I've seen 1926 and 1927 for Metropolis, and 1919 and 1920 for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. If there's a conflict, I usually just go with what imdb.com says, even if it appears to be in the minority on that 'opinion.'
I do too, and just now, I've discovered that "Cinema Paradiso" is a 1989 film according to the IMDB. D'oh!
Wow, I know you must have loved The Passion of Joan of Arc if it knocked beloved Buster Keaton off the list! I'm right behind you though. Loved that movie - my favorite silent film so far.
It was tough, especially since that's probably my favorite Buster Keaton film. I dunno, how do you choose between these two films that are so incredibly different? Anyway, consider "Steamboat Bill, Jr." a very close runner-up.
You really must remove Tillie's Punctured Romance from this list - even if it's the only one you've seen :-)
Scientist: Well, Homer, I guess you're the winner by default.
Homer Simpson: Default? Woo hoo! The two sweetest words in the English language: de-fault! De-fault! De-fault!
Great list! I definitely agree with a lot of your choices. Very nice to see "Grave of the Fireflies" on the list.
I'm glad you like what you see, especially that dazzlingly brilliant film.
1967- Bresson and Godard did great job that year...