10 Best Years in Film History
Submitted by lukeprog on Thu, 07/08/2004 - 03:30
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- 1939 - The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Gunga Din
- 1946 - Brief Encounter, It's a Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Notorious, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Stairway to Heaven
- 1999 - American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, The Insider, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix
- 1940 - His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, Rebecca, The Bank Dick
- 1967 - Cool Hand Luke, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night
- 1959 - North by Northwest, Ben-Hur, Anatomy of a Murder, Some Like it Hot, Sleeping Beauty
- 1927 - The General, Metropolis, Sunrise, The Jazz Singer
- 1950 - All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Rashomon, Harvey
- 1991 - Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2
- 1989 - Do the Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Glory, Henry V, When Harry Met Sally
Author Comments:
A HIGHLY subjective list.
Can i nominate 1994
Films Include : Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Lion King, Four Weddings and a funeral, Forrest Gump, Shawshank, Ed Wood & Dumb And Dumber
keep up the great Posts bb mate
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bb
there are lots more great years. I'll probably expand the list to 10 eventually. But personally, the movies I really loved from 1884 were Pulp Fiction and Shawshank and Forrest Gump, so it didn't make my top 5. Feel free to keep nominating, though :-)
I nominated 1959 a little while ago. Take a handful from that list if you like.
I think 1950 (Sunset Boulevard, Rashomon, All About Eve, Harvey, etc.) and 1957 (12 Angry Men, Paths of Glory, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Seventh Seal, Witness for the Prosecution, Nights of Cabiria, Sweet Smell of Success, and a few accclaimed films I haven't seen, like Throne of Blood and A Face in the Crowd) were pretty strong too.
Yup, those are two great candidates, and certainly ones that would fit in the top ten.
er, three great candidates, I mean.
I just checked out a top 100 films list that I really like. Seems like the big winners there are 1959 and 1960 with 5 each and 1954 with 4.
which list do you really like? I swear by filmsite, but there are movies not listed on Filmsite's 'greatest' lists that I consider, and some that are listed that I'm not so much a fan of. But, it's an incredible site.
Filmsite is an amazing site, and Tim Dirks's list is a great top 100 list. If Dirks were more familiar with foreign films, I bet he could construct a fantastic definitive top 100 list. However, I think his list is hindered by the fact that is it is only English-language films. Some of the lists linked on Filmsite solve this, but the list I've been obsessed with recently is the one at www.theyshootpictures.com. It weighs hundreds of critical outputs from around the world to construct a list of the most acclaimed films of all-time. Formerly, they had an index of 1000 films and also a list of the top 100 in order, but in a recent update, they put up a fantastic list of the 1000 most acclaimed films in ranking order. This site has really opened my eyes up to classic foreign films.
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two towers is there, but not return of the king?
Actually, no 2003 or 2004 films are there yet. I think some will probably appear in a future update. I'm not really a big LOTR fan, but I've got my fingers crossed for "Lost in Translation", "Kill Bill Vol. 1", and "Finding Nemo."
1962 and 1989 were others I considered, BTW.
lol 1994 still not good enough :(
Again, I encourage you to make you own list. 1994 would barely make my own, personal, top 30.
lol ok
Just found this list at Box Office Prophets:
Jerry Simpson's Top 5 Years for Movies
1. 1999
2. 1979
3. 1977
4. 1994
5. The next one
Apparently, he's as excited about next year as I am!!!