Best Year For Movies?

[cbas593]

I am curious to see what fellow members of this forum would say their best year for movies is and please list some of the movies you love and why that year is the best year for movies for you.

[Abdrewes]

1999
1960
1950
1939

[cbas593]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

1999
1960
1950
1939

What movies did you love from those years?

[jamesdevil]

1939:

The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
Union Pacific
Gone with the Wind
Wuthering Heights
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ninotchka
Dodge City

[jasonjl]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

1999
1960
1950
1939

ugh...Fight Club and The Matrix are both overrated

[King Troll]

1994

[Patient-X]

1977

Not only Star Wars but Herbie goes to Monte Carlo

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by cbas593

What movies did you love from those years?

Stagecoach (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Rules of the Game (1939)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Los Olvidados (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)

Letter Never Sent (1960)
Purple Noon (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
The Adventure (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Revenge of the Vampire / Black Sunday (1960)
Zazie Dans Le Metro (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
Spartacus (1960)


And for 1999, lemme look up my Mubi list...

[jamesdevil]

1995:

Leaving Las Vegas
Babe
Heat
Braveheart
Toy Story
Sense and Sensibility
Apollo 13
Dead Man Walking
To Die For
Mighty Aphrodite
Friday
Il Postino: The Postman
Before Sunrise
Casino
Kids
Get Shorty
Mallrats

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

ugh...Fight Club and The Matrix are both overrated

Not a huge fan of Fight Club either.

[kpkelley]

1939:
Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Stagecoach
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Only Angels Have Wings
Gunga Din
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Women
The Rules of the Game

[Abdrewes]

MAGNOLIA Paul Thomas Anderson
02BOYS DON'T CRY Kimberly Peirce
03THE MATRIX Andy Wachowski
04THE INSIDER Michael Mann
05THE STRAIGHT STORY David Lynch
06THREE KINGS David O. Russell
07AMERICAN BEAUTY Sam Mendes
08ROSETTA Jean-Pierre Dardenne
09AUDITION Takashi Miike
10THE GREEN MILE Frank Darabont
11PRINCESS MONONOKE Hayao Miyazaki
12BRINGING OUT THE DEAD Martin Scorsese
13EYES WIDE SHUT Stanley Kubrick
14RIDE WITH THE DEVIL Ang Lee
15GUINEVERE Audrey Wells
16TOPSY-TURVY Mike Leigh
17THE SIXTH SENSE M. Night Shyamalan
18ELECTION Alexander Payne
19THE LIMEY Steven Soderbergh
20EXISTENZ

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

1995:

Leaving Las Vegas
Babe
Heat
Braveheart
Toy Story
Sense and Sensibility
Apollo 13
Dead Man Walking
To Die For
Mighty Aphrodite
Friday
Il Postino: The Postman
Before Sunrise
Casino
Kids
Get Shorty
Mallrats

You're forgetting Katherine Bigelow's Strange Days & Fallen Angels

[jamesdevil]

1967:

The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
The Jungle Book
The Dirty Dozen
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Camelot
In the Heat of the Night
Blowup

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

You're forgetting Katherine Bigelow's Strange Days & Fallen Angels

That I did. Especially the former.

[kpkelley]

1954 is pretty good, too:
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
On the Waterfront
Sansho the Baliff
Dial M for Murder
La Strada
The Caine Mutiny
Sabrina
A Star is Born
Senso
Musashi Miyamoto aka Samurai I
French Cancan
Godzilla

[cbas593]

Okay, how would everyone rank 2012?

Aftershock
Argo
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
End Of Watch
Flight
Jack Reacher
Lawless
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Looper
Mud
Pitch Perfect
Prometheus
Silver Linings Playbook
Skyfall
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hunger Games
The Place Beyond The Pines
This Is 40
Wreck It Ralph
Zero Dark Thirty

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

1967:

[Show spoiler]The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
Cool Hand Luke
The Jungle Book
The Dirty Dozen
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Camelot
In the Heat of the Night
Blowup

missing:
Le Samourai
Samurai Rebellion
In Cold Blood
Playtime
Mouchette
Belle de Jour
Marketa Lazarova

[jamesdevil]

1976:

Taxi Driver
Network
All The President's Men
Rocky
Marathon Man
Harlan County USA
The Omen
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Buffallo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Fellin's Casanova
Bound for Glory

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

missing:

Belle de Jour

In my head that is '68.