Favorite films from the year you were born.
Berjuan: I don’t think I had the pleasure of listening to his Whitman, unfortunately. But it was just the tone and pace, the music selections as a whole that gave it that relaxing feeling. Oh, and of course . . . . Shelby Foote.
@Shelby Foote
While I was watching I was thinking who is this man that speaks so beautifully. He can really express himself and convey the importance of what he says. I also like how his eyes move when he talks. I’m happy to see this doc getting some love. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to catch the entire thing soon.
Once upon a time in America
1985:
God’s Country
Louie Bluie
A Zed and Two Noughts
My birth year marked the release of my all-time favorite film. I’d like to think it was fate.
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
I can’t remember watching any films that year
1974
The Godfather part 2
Blazing Saddles
The Conversation
Death Wish
F for Fake
Foxy Brown
Chinatown
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Young Frankenstein
Amarcord
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1967
Belle De Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
Dazed and Confused
Ghost in the Machine
Matinee
The Nightmare Before Chrismas
1996
Fargo
Trainspotting
Scream
Fuzzbucket, what a great year.
1990
I see a few “1990” babies here and it’s good to know I’ve got some company. I haven’t seen that many films from that year but standouts are definitely…
Goodfellas, Miller’s Crossing, Days of Being Wild, and The Match Factory Girl, with my favorite being…
This film felt so fresh when I first saw it in my teens (and still does to this day) and to think it was released when I was a little over a month old…
1994 (in no particular order):
Clerks,
Pulp Fiction,
Forrest Gump,
The Shawshank Redemption,
Stargate
1965
Juliet of the Spirits
Alphaville
Pierrot le Fou
Doctor Zhivago (<— personal fave)
Quality of filmmaking was at a major premium in 65. And isn’t that interesting — ’63 and ’64 both are chock full of amazing titles, and then comes this … slow … year.
1978
“Behind Convent Walls” (it’s not one that I’d revisit as much as others on the list, but it’s a mighty impressive piece of erotica/exploitation)
“Blue Collar” (a great dramatic comedy about unions and management, really shows you that Richard Pryor was a dramatic genius apart from being a brilliant comic)
“Capricorn One” (a favourite from childhood, an intelligent conspiracy flick with lots of action and a brilliant cameo from Telly Savalas)
“Coma” (a creepy film from my childhood, one that I revisited just recently, still a great suspense thriller)
“The Deer Hunter” (very privileged to have experienced this on the big screen)
Halloween" (I’m not really interested in the remakes, I prefer the original Michael Myers film and I love the music)
“Heaven Can Wait” (I’ve seen the original “Here Comes Mr Jordan” but being a gridiron fan I must go with the remake)
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (one of my very favourite films not just of 1978 but of all time; I also love the original)
“Midnight Express” (I love the acting, the script, the cinematography…and that score!)
“Superman” (although I reckon the sequel is better!)
“The Wiz” (Sidney Lumet didn’t fancy his own work on this one but it is a childhood favourite and I do have a soft spot for it even today)
Three Colors: Blue
Wittgenstein
Blue
1993. Amazing year, what should I say.
1993.
- The Man Without a Face
- In the Line of Fire
-The Fugitive
- The Firm
- Kalifornia
- A Bronx Tale
- Benny and Joon
- Alive
- Grumpy Old Men
- Hocus Pocus
Seth Farmer, Yes the 1970s was a great decade in film. Thanks.
I’d say Edward Scissorhands (it defined my perspective on cinema), but I was born in 1991, so..
Silence of The Lambs(what else?)
Delicatessen(another safe choice)
Highway Patrolman(better…)
Beauty and The Beast(…well, I LOVED it before)
Le Samorai
Belle de Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
El Dorado
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
1985
/
Oriana
directed by Fina Torres
Venezuela
/
Los motivos de Berta: Fantasía de Pubertad
Berta’s Motives
directed by José Luis Guerín
Spain
/
Иди и смотри
Come and See
directed by Elem Klimov
Soviet Union
/
Shoah
directed by Claude Lanzmann
France
/
乱
Ran
directed by Akira Kurosawa
Japan
/
吸血鬼ハンターD
Vampire Hunter D
directed by Toyoo Ashida
Japan
The Silence of the Lambs
Slacker
My Own Private Idaho
Godfather
The Addams Family
Josh wrote: “(Ken Burns’ The Civil War) was oddly enough very relaxing to go to sleep to.”
Haha, ALL of Ken Burns’ films are that way. I have seen a lot of his work, and fallen asleep to most of it. I guess its a combination of the voices, the music and the slowly panning camera with no action aside from the interviewees (and they aren’t exactly flailing their arms about wildly). The Mark Twain one is probably my favorite to fall asleep to, though Baseball is pretty good too.
Aurevoirshosanna wrote: “Hocus Pocus”
I don’t think that this is a great film by any means, but I had a HUGE crush on Sarah Jessica Parker in this. And the girl played by Vinessa Shaw was pretty cute too (as she was in Eyes Wide Shut). And I had no idea that the little girl was Thora Birch. I suddenly feel very weird that I have seen her nude.
1991: A Brighter Summer Day
1978
days of heaven (malick)
comment ca va? (godard/mieville)
interiors (allen)
paradise alley (stallone)
every which way but loose (fargo)
the deer hunter (cimino)
autumn sonata (bergman)
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck (herzog)
invasion of the body snatchers (kaufman)
despair (fassbinder)
gates of heaven (morris)
piranha (dante)
watership down (rosen)
the fury (de palma)
coming home (ashby)
convoy (peckinpah)
long weekend (eggleston)
fedora (wilder)
in a year with 13 moons (fassbinder)
perceval (rohmer)
1988:
Beetlejuice
Hairspray
Another Woman
Dead Ringers
Heathers
Child’s Play
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
The Blob
The Dead Pool
Running on Empty
Talk Radio
The Accidental Tourist
Beaches
1995 (in no particular order):
Fallen Angels
Dead Man
Safe
In the Mouth of Madness
Underground
Good Men, Good Women
The Addiction
Kind of a weak year aside from these. I was only three months too late for Three Colours (sigh).
God, I wish I was born in some exciting film year like Odilonvert and everyone else. Instead I was just born in 1997. Yeah, really exciting.
Sunday
1985:
- Back To the Future
- Brazil
- Idi i smotri
- Ran