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Favorite films from the year you were born.

Erik Villase​nor

over 2 years ago

1994:
Crumb
Chungking Express
Pulpfiction
Natural Born Killers

Pedja

over 2 years ago

1967
from my native country Yugoslavia:
I Even Met a Happy Gypsies
The Birch Tree
When I’m Dead and Gone
The Rats Woke Up
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
… and also
Belle de Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
Weekend
Point Blank
Mouchette
Marketa Lazarova
Samurai Rebellion
Le Samourai
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
etc.

Harry

over 2 years ago

Again, for me 1943

Ossessione with Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo; Directed By: Luchino Visconti

Shadow of a Doubt with Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hune Cronyn; Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

I Walked with A Zombie with Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Christine Gordon, Edith Barrett, Darby Jones, Sir Lancelot; Directed By: Jacques Tourneur

The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn; Directed By: William A. Wellman

Day of Wrath with Kirsten Andreasen, Sigurd Berg, Albert Høeberg, Harald Holst; Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Five Graves to Cairo with Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim; Directed By: Billy Wilder

The Gang’s All Here with Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman; Directed By: Busby Berkeley

Heaven Can Wait with Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Cobun, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Sring Byington; Directed by: Ernest Lubitsch

Cabin in the Sky with Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington; Directed By: Vincente Minnelli

The Miracle of Morgan Creek with Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall; Directed By: Preston Sturges

Pierlui​gi Puccini

over 2 years ago

1985:
-Brazil
-Back to the future
-After Hours
-Come and See (idi i smotri)
-The Breakfast club
-The Goonies
-To live and die in L.A
-Pale Rider
-Out of Africa
-Year of the dragon
-A view to a kill

Stu Witmer

over 2 years ago

1949

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu)
Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius)
Tight Little Island aka Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick)
The Bicycle Thief (U.S. release) (Vittorio De Sica)
The Fallen Idol (U.S. release) (Carol Reed)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (Burgess Meredith, mostly)

deckard croix

over 2 years ago

Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
Rumble Fish (Coppola)
Videodrome (Cronenberg)
Zelig (Allen)

and …

Superman 3!

Mr Centaur

over 2 years ago

Tenebrae
The Thing
Blade Runner
The King of Comedy
Fanny and Alexander
Cat People
A Good Marriage
The Verdict

LEAVES

over 2 years ago

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time

It’s like a mission statement.

Josh H

over 2 years ago

Army of Darkness
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Hard Boiled
Malcolm X
My Cousin Vinny
Police Story 3: Supercop
Reservoir Dogs
Unforgiven
Wayne’s World

Films I still need to watch:
Bad Lieutenant
El Mariachi
Candyman
Chaplin
A Few Good Men
Man Bites Dog
Patriot Games
The Player
White Men Can’t Jump

1992 really wasn’t a great year in film though. A handful of semi-classics, but nothing super amazing.

robaldo

over 2 years ago

1989

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*
Jesus of Montreal
Heathers
Henry V
New York Stories
Sex lies and videotape*
The Cook, the thief his wife and her lover*

*My personal favourites. Not a vintage year!

L.

over 2 years ago

1988

On the Silver Globe by Andrei Zulawski proud to be born that year!

also:
Akira
Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
Ashik Kerib (Sergej Parajanov)
Medea (Lars Von Trier)

probably there are more but it doesn’t seem like the best year :/

Z. Bart

almost 2 years ago

David Holzman’s Diary
L’enfance nue
The Fireman’s Ball
The Girl on the Motorcycle
High School
I am Curious (Blue)
If . . .
The Magus
Monterey Pop
The Party
Planet of the Apes
Psych-Out
Le Révélateur
Revolution (documentary)
Suburban Roulette

TRILLYA KOVALCH​UK

almost 2 years ago

1987:
WINGS OF DESIRE takes the cake with ease

Cacopho​nism

almost 2 years ago

1988:
Dead Ringers
Akira
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Serpent and the Rainbow
They Live
Hairspray
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Alice (Svankmajer)
On the Silver Globe
Phantasm II
Night of the Demons

Dimitri​s Psachos

almost 2 years ago

Damn Z., you’re old :P

IMDben

almost 2 years ago

My 10 Favourite from 1979:

Alien
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Black Stallion
The Brood
Hardcore
Manhattan
Scum
Stalker
Wise Blood

TheArsh​Man

almost 2 years ago

Full Metal Jacket
The Last Emperor

idreami​ncellul​oid

almost 2 years ago

1989
Field of Dreams, I was a week old when I went to see it.

captain

almost 2 years ago

Man, 1981 was pretty amazingly mediocre. I’m sure this is mostly my fault, as the only foreign (non-English) I’ve seen is Truffaut’s The Woman Next Door :)

Chariots of Fire
My Dinner With Andre
Brooklyn Bridge (Ken Burns)
Gallipoli
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Chosen
The Great Muppet Caper
They All Laughed
Time Bandits

trelk

almost 2 years ago

1977

Opening Night
Eraserhead

Haven’t seen “Killer of Sheep” but would probably like it.

NRH

almost 2 years ago

1987 doesn’t seem like such a weak year.

Hamlet Goes Business
Belly of an Architect
The Blind Owl
Yeelen
Under the Sun of Satan
Ishtar
Doc’s Kingdom
Evil Dead II
Walker
Mon Cas

Maybe not all undying classics, but “Yeelen” and “Doc’s Kingdom” are close. Not to mention all the incredibly ambitious films that I’m not an enormous fan of – “King Lear,” or “Zegen,” for example.

Berjuan

almost 2 years ago

I was watching Sans Soleil yesterday and I noticed it was from the year I was born. :)

Black Irish

almost 2 years ago

Since I’ve not seen many from my birthyear, I’ll just make a brief list of films which I look forward to seeing:

The Civil War
The Golden Boat
Il y a des Jours . . . et des Lunes
Innisfree
Jacques Rivette, le Veilleur
Korczak
Metropolitan
Milou en Mai
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Non, ou A Vã Glória de Mandar
Nouvelle Vague
Szürkület
To Sleep with Anger
Vincent & Theo
White Hunter Black Heart

Berjuan

almost 2 years ago

S,
“The Civil War” by whom?

Black Irish

almost 2 years ago

The Ken Burns film.

Seth Farmer

almost 2 years ago

Scubadonc, nice list.

1989

The Abyss
Batman

Berjuan

almost 2 years ago

Awesome. Just making sure. It’s been showing on Public Broadcasting here. I’m really impressed.

Black Irish

almost 2 years ago

Why, was there another film released that year with the same title? ;)

I caught some of it on PBS several months back when they were ‘celebrating?’ the anniversary of the conflict. However, they had it on late at night and despite how good it was [I liked very much what I saw,] it was oddly enough very relaxing to go to sleep to.

Berjuan

almost 2 years ago

:) I know, but there are so many films with the same titles. Garrison Keillor does some great voice overs for the Walt Whitman material. It was probably one of his VOs that put you to sleep.

EastyBo​y

almost 2 years ago

1994:
Satantango
Chungking Express
Pulp Fiction