@Jay
Haha, about a film a day since I was in college, back in college, maybe two a day.
I got the idea from Truffaut. Everyday I try to watch one film, read about 50 pages of whatever I happen to be reading, and run 2 miles. A sort of Preston Sturges level of energy.
Though Truffaut’s regimen was 2 films a day, and a book a week. A great way never to be bored.
And definitely check out more than just Nosferatu. Woyzeck is one of Herzog’s best, and The Marriage of Maria Braun is my favorite Fassbinder.
@Skeleton
That’s a nice daily triathlon. Good for you, man. Personally, I struggle with regular dedication to anything with the exception of excercise and reading. I’m trying to write everyday or at least most days and I want to make it an inexcusable chore. I might try my own version of the Truffaut/Skeleton plan.
RUS: Ha – didn’t know there was a version from 1916 – who but you would??? The Raquel Welch version was a dud – not even worth a look for her skimpy outfits. I guess haute couture had not hit the early one million BC point yet. Like your alternatives, too, although a few I have yet to see. Not the greatest year for film – too much post-war blahs. Perhaps the film going populace was otherwise engaged creating us baby boomers. Now that this old cat is out of the bag…do I get treated with more respect?
Doubt it!
Bob, not a bit less not even a bit more, you will always be treated with the same respect just like before….
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
@Harry
Possibly the best list yet.
1975 was such an incredible year, I had to make a few TOP 10 lists:
Auteur:
The Passenger
Fox and His Friends
The Mirror
The Story of Adele H
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Dersu Uzala
Salò
Barry Lyndon
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Magic Flute
Popular:
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dog Day Afternoon
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Three Days of the Condor
The Man Who Would Be King
Night Moves
Nashville
The Yakuza
Genre:
Master of the Flying Guillotine
A Boy and His Dog
Deep Red
Four of the Apocalypse
Sholay
Hard Times
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Death Race 2000
Race with the Devil
Switchblade Sisters
Blaxploitation:
Sheba, Baby
Dolemite
Boss Nigger
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Cooley High
Black Shampoo
Darktown Strutters
Mandingo
Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde
The Black Gestapo
1986
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Caravaggio
Hannah and her Sisters
Manon des Sources
Platoon
Those are the best I can find and I can’t say I’m that thrilled with some of them. Blue Velvet and Hannah and Her Sisters are the only ones worth regular viewing. I think being born in the 80s instantly puts you at a disadvantage.
@Marcello
Hannah and Her Sisters
Down by Law
Withnail and I
Mona Lisa
The Color of Money
Platoon
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Sid & Nancy
Round Midnight
God’s Country
1956:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
Le ballon rouge (Albert Lamorisse)
The Spanish Gardener (Philip Leacock)
The Searchers (John Ford)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le mystère Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)
Moby Dick (John Huston)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
RUS, you’re good at remembering the years when films were released!
Imagine an astrologist who did birth chart readings for people based on what movie opened on the night they were born! I think that would be a good line for you RUS.
Can’t go wrong with 1967:
1. Bonnie & Clyde
2. Cool Hand Luke
3. The Graduate
4. In Cold Blood
5. The Dirty Dozen
6. In The Heat of the Night
7. Point Blank
8. The Jungle Book
9. A Man For All Seasons
10. Le Samourai
Bonus: Don’t Look Back, Weekend, To Sir With Love, Blow Up
JUSTIN: “Imagine an astrologist who did birth chart readings for people based on what movie opened on the night they were born!”
The night of my birth an Edward Dmytryk movie opened. Unfortunately, it was called Hitler’s Children!!! It starred Kent Smith, Tim Holt, Otto Kruger, and Bonita Granville.
1980:
Raging Bull
Airplane!
The Empire Strikes Back
The Great Rock N Roll Swindle (guilty pleasure)
The Shining
…holy crap, i just realised how many movies from my birth year i’ve been missing out on. here’s something for the rest of you—what 1980 movies SHOULD i have been watching for the past 29 years? RECOMEND! RECOMEND!
you’ve got some good ones during that year, Marq, eg. Melvin & Howard, The Long Good Friday, The Elephant Man, Ordinary People, Atlantic City, The Big Red One, Berlin Alexanderplatz.
1978:
Days of Heaven
Superman
Halloween
Gates of Heaven
In a Year of 13 Moons
The Deer Hunter
Watership Down
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Coming Home
Up in Smoke
@Marqs, if this thread has shown anything, it’s that the 80s weren’t as bad as we all thought. Armands made a good start, 1980:
Airplane!
Atlantic City
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Breaker Morant
La Città delle Donne (City of Women)
Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro)
Kagemusha
The Long Good Friday
Permanent Vacation
Raging Bull
Claire’s Knee
The Spider’s Strategem
The Conformist
Five Easy Pieces
Le Boucher
Zabriskie Point
Women in Love
The Honeymoon Killers
Little Big Man
Le Cercle Rouge
>>Jeff, are you sure that you don’t have your Best & Worst mixed up?<<
Thank you!
>>But since Kenji and Harry have, and are still younger<<
It’s getting rarer & rarer not to be the oldest fart in any crowd.
>>here’s something for the rest of you—what 1980 movies SHOULD i have been watching for the past 29 years?<<
American Gigolo
The Fog
Caligula (dreadful but probably ought to be seen once)
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Defiance
The Changeling (wonderful ghost story with George C. Scott … follow the bouncing ball!)
The Shining
Mad Max
The Island
*The Stunt Man
Airplane!
The Big Red One
9 to 5
Altered States
*Atlantic City, Golden Lion winner
Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Breaker Morant
Cannibal Holocaust
City Of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini
The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins
Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Golden Lion winner
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Heaven’s Gate, directed by Michael Cimino
Inferno, directed by Dario Argento
*Kagemusha, Palme d’Or winner
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Mon oncle d’Amérique, Cannes Special Jury Prize
Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford
Palmero oder Wolsfburg, Golden Bear (award) winner
*Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese
Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Galliene
Somewhere in Time
*Stardust Memories
(Cut, edited & pasted this from Wikipedia — I have no idea why some titles ended up in bold but the asterisked titles are my most-reccommended ones of those I’ve seen.)
Thank you to Harry Long and Rich Uncle Skelton for virtually listing every film made in 1980.
The only omission I see worth mentioning is Caddyshack!
Young Frankenstein
Dark Star
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Conversation
Chinatown
The Godfather Part 2
F For Fake
Death Wish
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alice doesn’t live here Anymore
Blazing Saddles
In honour of our senior and youngest
1943 (Harry):
Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger)
I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman)
The Seventh Victim (Robson)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)
For whom the Bell Tolls (Wood)
L’Eternel Retour (Delannoy)
1995 (Aaron):
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
Ulysses’ Gaze (Angelopoulos)
The White Balloon (Panahi)
The Flower of my Secret (Almodovar)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Toy Story (Lasseter)
Cyclo (Tran Anh-Hung)
Babe (Noonan)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou)
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
Caddyshack is not a movie. It is an old friend. And I don’t list my friends.
1951 (Harry Long)
The River (Renoir)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
Repast (Naruse)
The Lady from Musashino (Mizoguchi)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
Bellissima (Visconti)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
The African Queen (Huston)
i could just as well have picked:
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
The Idiot (Kurosawa)
An American in Paris (Minnelli)
if my 365 films was bad enough, be grateful i’ve not submiited my 1001!
>>I don’t think he was ever that good – in my opinion, “The Sixth Sense” is one of the most overrated films of all time<<
Deliberate I assure you.
>>1951 (Harry Long)
The River (Renoir)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
Repast (Naruse)
The Lady from Musashino (Mizoguchi)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
Bellissima (Visconti)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
The African Queen (Huston)
i could just as well have picked:
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
The Idiot (Kurosawa)
An American in Paris (Minnelli)<<
Well, some of these are already on my list.
But THE AFRICAN QUEEN and A PLACE IN THE SUN, being over-rated twaddle would never make my list. And AMERICAN IN PARIS only got on my list for the ballet & the final images.
1973: (a great year for Prog Rock, but an ‘in between’ year for films…)
- Amarcord (yes, CC lists it as 1973)
- Badlands
- The Day of the Jackal
- Serpico
- The Spirit of the Beehive
- Paper Moon? (I admit- haven’t seen it yet)
- Enter the Dragon
- A Film About Jimi Hendrix (doc)
- Monty Python’s Holy Grail
(my TNT Film Encycl. says that The Godfather (and Super Fly!) belong(s) to 1972- o well!)
Anyone able to add others…?
@Marq:
Bad Timing
Sauve qui pet (la vie)
Mon Oncle d’Amerique
Lucifer Rising
Zigeunerweisen
Kagemusha
Gloria
Dressed to Kill
From the Life of the Marionettes
Out of the Blue
Hardly Working (Many say it’s among Lewis’ worst. I thought it was quite funny, actually.)
Popeye
Heaven’s Gate (no really. They’re both actually quite good.)
Tim Bean, my picks for 1973:
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Badlands (Malick)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Don’t Look Now (Roeg)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann)
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)
Sleeper (Allen)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Teddy Cheong
LOL