Best Movie of Every Year
Submitted by hinterland on Sat, 07/02/2005 - 10:45
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- 2009: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, US)
- 2008: Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, US)
- 2007: Sunshine (Danny Boyle, UK)
- 2006: Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, UK/US)
- 2005: Green Chair (Cheol-su Park, S. Korea)
- 2004: Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, Japan)
- 2003: Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki, Japan)
- 2002: Turning Gate (Sang-soo Hong, S. Korea)
- 2001: Visitor Q (Takashi Miike, Japan)
- 2000: Ritual (Hideaki Anno, Japan)
- 1999: Fight Club (David Fincher, US)
- 1998: I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé, France)
- 1997: Lost Highway (David Lynch, US)
- 1996: Breaking The Waves (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
- 1995: Love Letter (Shunji Iwai, Japan)
- 1994: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, US)
- 1993: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, US)
- 1992: Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux/André Bonzel/Benoît Poelvoorde, Belgium)
- 1991: Delicatessen (Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
- 1990: Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne, US)
- 1989: Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
- 1988: Die Hard (John McTiernan, US)
- 1987: The Red Spectacles (Mamoru Oshii, Japan)
- 1986: Aliens (James Cameron, US/UK)
- 1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1984: The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
- 1983: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, US)
- 1982: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, US)
- 1981: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Alan J.W. Bell, UK)
- 1980: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, US)
- 1979: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, W. Germany/Soviet Union)
- 1978: Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, US)
- 1977: Eraserhead (David Lynch, US)
- 1976: Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, US)
- 1975: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, UK)
- 1974: The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, Germany)
- 1973: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1 (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan)
- 1972: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, Germany)
- 1971: THX 1138 (George Lucas, US)
- 1970: Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, US)
- 1969: Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
- 1968: Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, US)
- 1967: Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, US)
- 1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
- 1965: For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, Italy)
- 1964: A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, Italy)
- 1963: Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japan)
- 1962: Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1961: Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1960: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
- 1959: Ohayô [Good Morning] (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
- 1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
- 1957: Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
- 1956: The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, US)
- 1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
- 1954: Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1953: Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
- 1952: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1951: Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
- 1950: Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1949: Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1948: Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
- 1947:
- 1946: It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, US)
- 1945: The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, US)
- 1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, US)
- 1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
- 1942: Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, US)
- 1941: The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, US)
- 1940: The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, US)
- 1938: The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
- 1937: Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, Japan)
- 1936: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1935: Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany)
- 1934: It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, US)
- 1933: Lady for a Day (Frank Capra, US)
- 1932: I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
- 1931: M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
- 1930:
- 1929: Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
- 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, France)
- 1927: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany)
- 1926: Faust (F.W. Murnau, Germany)
- 1925: The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1924:
- 1923: Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer/Sam Taylor, US)
- 1922: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, Germany)
- 1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany)
- 1919:
- 1918:
- 1917: The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1916: The Vagabond (Charles Chaplin, US)
- 1915:
- 1914: Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett, US)
- 1913:
- 1912:
- 1911:
- 1910:
- 1909: Nero. Or the Fall of Rome (Luigi Maggi, Italy)
- 1908:
- 1907:
- 1906:
- 1905:
- 1904: The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, France)
- 1903: The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, US)
- 1902: A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France)
- 1901:
- 1900:
- 1899:
- 1898:
- 1897:
- 1896: Demolition of a Wall (Louis Lumière, France)
- 1895: The Execution of Mary Stuart (Alfred Clark, US)
- 1894: Carmencita (William K.L. Dickson, US)
- 1893:
- 1892:
- 1891: Dickson Greeting (William K.L. Dickson, US)
- 1890: Monkeyshines (William K.L. Dickson/William Heise, US)
- 1889:
- 1888: Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, UK)
Cloned From:
This isn't that great of a list since I'm not much of a 'classic' movie watcher. Some movies only make it for their years because I haven't really seen anything else worthwhile from that year. Some I've put in because they're the most memorable of that year. Early years are a wasteland of little seen.
And, of course, a rewatch of some movies would shift things. It's all fluid.