1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Mystery Train
Sweetie
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Do the Right Thing
Happy Together
The Killer
Drugstore Cowboy
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Weekend
Finian’s Rainbow
She-Devils on Wheels
Teorema
Funny Girl
Hour of the Wolf
Take the Money and Run
Fando & Lis
Mississippi Mermaid
Who’s That Knocking on My Door?
1965:
Help!
The Knack…and How To Get It (loves me some Richard Lester)
Chimes at Midnight
The Masque of the Red Death
Film (shout-out to Beckett)
Chelsea Girls
Alphaville
Repulsion
A Patch of Blue
Battle of Algiers
1991:
Naked Lunch
Barton Fink
JFK
Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2
Cape Fear
Metropolitain
Thelma & Louise
Edward II
Boyz in the Hood
Autumn Afternoon
L’Eclisse
Exterminating Angel
La Jetee
Lawrence Of Arabia
Mamma Roma
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Salvatore Giulano
Trial of Joan of Arc
Winter Light
10. The Pillow Book
9. Nixon
8. Beyond the Clouds
7. The Addiction
6. Showgirls
5. Fallen Angels
4. Safe
3. I Am Cuba
2. Dead Man
1. Underground
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Back to the Future
The Goonies
Cat’s Eye (Probably my favorite Stephen King adaptation if you rule out the Darabonts)
Clue
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Return to Oz
St. Elmo’s Fire (Which I still have not seen!)
Better Off Dead (“Where’s my two dollars? I want my two dollaaaarrrrssss!”), Weird Science, Teen Wolf, etc.
A very 80s list.
DAMN, Aaron is a young’n!
It was kinda hard actually, although a few of these rank high on my all time favourite list (I don’t have one, but anyways). I couldn’t even come up with ten movies.
Down By Law
Blue Velvet
Hannah And Her Sisters
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Fly
She’s Gotta Have It
Platoon
Yep. I’m only 13 and in love with auteurs (both the theory and the site ^^).
And by the way, in case if you’ve realized I Am Cuba is actually from 1964, I added it in because it wasn’t released to North America until 1995. In fact, it was virtually unknown until ’95.
Aaron
WAIT! —-oh no, I (wishfully) thought you meant Cuba Si by Chris Marker… been trying to track that down for a long time. Can’t get it in the US, for censorship reasons.
Anyhow…
_My birthyear threw up some classics - I’ve made it a top 20.
Fat City (John Huston).
Black Fantasy (Lionel Rogosin)
Deliverance (John Boorman)
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
Eat the Document (D. A. Pennebaker)
Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
Malcolm X (Arnold Perl)
Monolog (Ilya Averbakh)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Franco Zeffirelli)
Cocksucker Blues (Robert Frank)
The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Dario Argento)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (Woody Allen)
Night of the Lepus (William F. Claxton) —CULT!!!!
Savage Messiah (Ken Russell)
Pulp (Mike Hodges)
Asylum (aka House of Crazies on its US release) (apex of the Amicus label, dir. Roy Ward Baker)
Under Milk Wood (Andrew Sinclair)
Blacula (William Crain)
It was also a great year for absurd titles >
Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco (Naked Girl Killed in A Park) -Alfonso Brescia- Sergio Martino.
La noche de los mil gatos (Night of 1000 cats) —René Cardona Jr.
Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) -
and a guilty pleasure >
Female Convict 701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
Hmm…Cuba Si…I know Chris Marker (of course), but not Cuba Si. I’ve seen four of his films (Statues Also Die, A Grin without a Cat, Sans soeil, La Jetee). I will try and track that one down.
Goodfellas, my all time favourite film, Back to the Future Part 3, Home Alone and Miller’s Crossing from 1990.
Hey Rossoneri Fan, have you seen To Sleep with Anger or Damnation? Both from ’90 and both quite good.
I recommend them.
I can only come up with 9 that I feel confident listing.
In no weighted order:
Fanny and Alexander
Veronika Voss
Missing
E.T.
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Draughtsman’s Contract
The King of Comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
Fitzcarraldo
(I don’t want to hear any bitching about the absence of Blade Runner from my list)
To Aaron,
No, I haven’t. But, I’ll see if my University library has them.
Aaron, if you find a copy, let me know. It was used as source material by Soderbergh for Che.
A number of people here are younger than I expected.
’79
Manhattan
The Jerk
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Life of Brian
Stalker
I’m going to stop there. If I push for ten, I fear I may have to include Caligula
This topic makes me wish I had been born one year later, for I believe 1994 was maybe the best film year of all in the 90’s. But in terms of 1993, I haven’t seen enough films to have an opinion.
Demon Seed
Equus
The Duellists
Eraserhead
That Obscure Objet of Desire
Star Wars
(Never compiled a list like this one, interesting results, thou: 3 opera primas (Lynch, Lucas and Scott)
@Jay
Let me finish off your list:
Woyzeck
The Tin Drum
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Nosferatu
didn’t even have to leave Germany.
What happened to 10 (myself included), Major Tom, 1977, c’mon:
Annie Hall
Stroszek
The Last Wave
In the Realm of the Senses
(and, if it pleases you, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
“C’mon fellas, you’re losing your heads.”
@Aaron
If you are 13 as you say, Showgirls has a definite appeal (I was 13 at the time, I understand). But no, sorry. Nowhere near one of the 10 best. If you need a replacement, check out Leaving Las Vegas.
Cool Hand Luke
the Graduate
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Jungle Book
Point Blank
Bonnie and Clyde
Wait Until Dark
In the Heat of the Night
In Cold Blood
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle
i am very old and decrepit, my eyes are drooping, my hair is grey, i have a hearing aid, my teeth are falling out, my memory’s like a…now what is it called?… ,a few yards walk has me puffing like a choochoo, but i can just about still brandish my stick at young whippersnappers
Magnificent that Aaron has such knowledge and taste at 13. Seen Rivette’s Out 1, which is more than i have. And to have Mizoguchi as #2 director. At that age i was playing with my marbles, now i’ve lost em
The Human Condition
The End of Summer
El Cid
The Innocents
Last Year at Marienbad
One-Eyed Jacks
La Notte
Il Posto
Mother Joan of the Angels
Une Femme est une Femme
(1989):
- Dead Poets Society
- Do the Right Thing
- Dekalog 1, 4, 10
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Miller’s Crossing
- Dip huet seung hung (Bloodshed of Two Heroes)
- Glory
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
I have a copy of Cuba Si.
For 1951, the top earners were:
1. Quo Vadis MGM $11,902,000
2. Alice in Wonderland* Disney/RKO $7,196,000
3. Show Boat MGM $5,533,000
4. A Streetcar Named Desire Warner Brothers $4,800,000
5. David and Bathsheba 20th Century Fox $4,720,000
6. The Great Caruso MGM $4,531,000
7. The African Queen United Artists $4,300,000
8. An American in Paris MGM $4,213,000
9. That’s My Boy Paramount $3,800,000
10. A Place in the Sun/Strangers on a Train Paramount/Warner Brothers $3,500,000
My choices:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (SCROOGE)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
HIS KIND OF WOMAN
THE LAVENDAR HILL MOB
THE MAGIC BOX
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT
MIRACLE IN MILAN
PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
THE TALES OF HOFFMAN
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Honorable Mention: CAPTAIN VIDEO – MASTER OF THRE STRATOSPHERE
But if ever catch up with MISS JULIE and/or DIARY OF A COUNTRT PRIEST, this list might change.
Not a good year for cinema, maybe.
DER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN (Wenders)
Full Metal Jacket
Blind Chance (Kieslowski)
Radio Days (Allen)
ZHERTVA VECHERNYAYA (Sokurov)
Red Sorghum (Zhang)
L’ultimo imperatore (bertolucci)
Black Widow (Rafelson)
…
…
Yeah, I know Showgirls is considered among the worst ever made. I had been avoiding it until I read Slant Magazine’s $-out-of-four star review for the movie:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=1171
The reviewer made a case for it as an “experimental-but-not-quite-experimental” satire, and in another article, compared it to the works of Sirk.
Oops. That should the 4-out-of-four, not $-out-of-four.
BRADLEY- E
For me 1963:
1. Hud (Martin Ritt)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4. High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
5. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
6. America, America (Elia Kazan)
7. Charade (Stanley Donen)
8. Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
9. The Great Escape (John Strurges)
10. The Haunting (Robert Wise)