You would imagine right, but as long as we’re here
20s- Metropolis
30s- City Lights
40s- Citizen Kane
50s- Vertigo
60s- 2001: A Space Odyssey
70s- Nashville
80s- Raiders of the Lost Ark
90s- Pulp Fiction
00s- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10s – A Separation
Pretty much, my picks would have to be…
’10s: INTOLERANCE
’20s: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
’30s: GRAND ILLUSION
’40s: CITIZEN KANE
’50s: SEVEN SAMURAI
’60s: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
’70s: TAXI DRIVER
’80s: CAT PEOPLE
’90s: SÁTÁNTANGÓ
’00s: CACHÉ
40’s – The Great Dictator
50’s – 12 Angry Men
60’s – 2001: A Space Odyssey
70’s – The Godfather: Part II
80’s – Once Upon a Time in America
90’s – Pulp Fiction
00’s – No Country for Old Men
2010’s – Hugo
1890s: Serpentine Dance
1900s: The Great Train Robbery
1910s: Judex
1920s: Man with a Movie Camera
1930s: Tabu
1940s: Citizen Kane
1950s: Vertigo
1960s: Gertrud
1970s: Stalker
1980s: Blade Runner
1990s: Heavenly Creatures
2000s: The New World
2010s: The Tree of Life
30’s – The Wizard of Oz
40’s – Notorious
50’s – Night & Fog
60’s – Faces
70’s – The Godfather
80’s – Paris, Texas
90’s – Magnolia
00’s – Elephant
10’s – Blue Valentine
This is really tough, especially for the 90’s. It’s either Magnolia or Eyes Wide Shut.
Like my top 10, this changes every five minutes.
40s- Casablanca
50s- Sansho the Bailiff
60s- 2001: A Space Odyssey
70s- The Godfather Part II
80s- Crimes and Misdemeanors
90s- Happiness
2000s- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2010s- Drive
@LOC you must have really been disappointed with LDW if you rank Happiness so high.
10s – Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström)
20s – The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
30s – Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
40s – The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
50s – Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
60s – La jetée (Chris Marker)
70s – Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
80s – Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
90s – Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
00s – Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
10s – Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
’20s: Sunrise
’30s: Trouble in Paradise
’40s: Citizen Kane
’50s: Vertigo
’60s: Belle de Jour
’70s: Chinatown
’80s: Hannah and Her Sisters
’90s: Pulp Fiction
’00s: In the Mood for Love
1910s – DADDY-LONG-LEGS (marshall neilan)
1920s – THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (carl th. dreyer)
1930s – IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (frank capra)
1940s – THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (ernst lubitsch)
1950s – HARVEY (henry koster)
1960s – THE HUSTLER (robert rossen)
1970s – KINGS OF THE ROAD (wim wenders)
1980s – PARIS, TEXAS (wim wenders)
1990s – SLACKER (richard linklater)
2000s – KONTROLL (nimrod antal)
2010s – SCOTT TRILLGRIM VS. THE WORLD (edgar wright)
10—A Trip to the Moon
20—The General
30—A Night at the Opera
40—Brief Encounter
50—Seven Samurai
60—2001: A Space Odyssey
70—Aguirre: Wrath of God
80—Blue Velvet
90—Pulp Fiction
00—There Will Be Blood
I went with my favorites over the best movies. It’s easier that way.
20’s – Metropolis
30’s – M
40’s – Bicycle Thieves
50’s – Ikiru
60’s – 8½
70’s – Apocalypse Now
80’s – Raging Bull
90’s – Magnolia
00’s – Synecdoche, New York
10’s – The Tree of Life
20s – The Man with a Movie Camera
30s – The Rules of the Game
40s – Citizen Kane
50s – Seven Samurai
60s – Lawrence of Arabia
70s – The Godfather
80s – Raging Bull
90s – The Thin Red Line
00s – The Lord of the Rings
10s – The Tree of Life
20’s- The General
30’s- M
40’s- Citizen Kane
50’s- Vertigo
60’s- Dr. Strangelove
70’s- Manhattan
80’s- Do The Right Thing
90’s- Happiness
00’s- No Country For Old Men
@Mogambo
Oh yeah… :(
30’s – The Lady Vanishes
40’s – Notorious
50’s – Seven Samurai
60’s – The Graduate
70’s – A Clockwork Orange
80’s – Fanny and Alexander
90’s – Naked
00’s – Mulholland Drive
That was hard, these lists are strange because you sort of feel obligated to go with films that “best represented that decade” in a broad sense as opposed to personal “favorites”.
10’s – Intolerance
20’s – The Cameraman
30’s – City Lights
40’s – The Red Shoes
50’s – Vertigo
60’s – 8 1/2
70’s – Annie Hall
80’s – Fanny and Alexander
90’s – Eyes Wide Shut
00’s – Dogville
10’s – Blue Valentine
10’s – Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
20’s – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
30’s – City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
40’s – Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
50’s – Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
60’s – Closely Watched Trains (Jiří Menzel)
70’s – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
80’s – Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
90’s – Larks on a String (Jiří Menzel)
00’s – Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
10’s – A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
30’s City Lights (1931: Charlie Chaplin)
40’s The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944: Preston Sturges)
50’s The Searchers (1956: John Ford)
60’s Army of Shadows (1969: Jean-Pierre Melville)
70’s Network (1976): Sidney Lumet)
80’s Au revoir les enfants (1987: Louis Malle)
90’s Happy Together (1997: Wong Kar-Wai)
00’s Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001: Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10’s Another Year (2010: Mike Leigh)
20’s – Sunrise
30’s – Trouble in Paradise
40’s – Out of the Past
50’s – The Seventh Seal
60’s – La Dolce Vita
70’s – Barry Lyndon
80’s – Videodrome
90’s – Naked
00’s – Lord of the Rings
Without thinking too hard
00s – Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
10s – Intolerance
20s – Napoleon
30s – All Quiet on the Western Front
40s – Citizen Kane
50s – Singin’ in the Rain
60s – 2001: A Space Odyssey
70s – Apocalypse Now
80s – Berlin Alexanderplatz
90s – Pulp Fiction
2000s – Mulholland Drive
2010s – Tree of Life
Intolerance
The General
Grand Illusion
Citizen Kane
Sunset Boulevard
Playtime
The Godfather Part II
Blow Out
The Thin Red Line
Mulholland Drive
The Tree of Life
00s: A Trip to the Moon
10s: Broken Blossoms
20s: The General
30s: Grand Illuson
40s: The Big Sleep
50s: Seven Samurai
60s: Blow Up
70s: Aguirre the Wrath of God
80s: Fanny and Alexander
90s: Short Cuts
00s: Spirited Away
10s: Carlos
Im gonna go with my favs of each decade.
20’s – Sunrise
30’s – Gone with the wind
40’s – The heiress
50’s – Apur Sansar
60’s – Balthazar
70’s – A Clockwork Orange
80’s – Cinema paradiso
90’s – Jackie Brown
00’s – Mulholland Drive
Okay sorry, whoever put their favourite films of the 1890s can’t be serious!
Not a fan of such gems as serpentine dance or sandow the strong man? I do however get your point
1910s – The Birth of a Nation
1920s – Pandora’s Box
1930s – Triumph of the Will
1940s – Les Enfants du Paradis
1950s – La Ronde
1960s – Zorba the Greek
1970s – Young Frankenstein
1980s – Zorro, the Gay Blade
1990s – A Foreign Field
2000s – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
00s: The one with the boy and the hose…
10s: Les Vampires
20s: Greed
30s: City Lights
40s: The Magnificent Ambersons
50s: A Man Escaped
60s: 2001
70s: Nashville
80s: Paris, Texas
90s: Heat
00s: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
10s: The Tree of Life
20’s – The passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
30’s – Osaka elegy (Mizoguchi)
40’s – Late spring (Ozu)
50’s – Pickpocket (Bresson)
60’s – Shadows of forgotten ancestors (Parajanov)
70’s – Stalker (Tarkovsky)
80’s – Decalogue (Kieslowski)
90’s – Satantango (Tarr)
00’s – Russian ark (Sokurov)
10’s – the Turin horse (Tarr)
Scottie Ferguson
I would imagine that there are other threads out there like this, but I don’t know where to find them so here’s a new one. My picks:
30s- Gone With the Wind
40s- Casablanca
50s- Vertigo
60s- Psycho
70s- Taxi Driver
80s- Blue Velvet
90s- Magnolia
00s- Mulholland Drive