TOP 10 FILMS FROM YOUR "BIRTH YEAR"
1978 was not a banner year… Here’s what I’ve got:
The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman)
Halloween (Carpenter)
Violette Noziere (Chabrol)
Place Without Limits (Ripstein)
Interiors (Allen)
The Driver (Hill)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
Yeah, 1978 was a weak year, sad to say. I could do with seeing Place without Limits, highly regarded by Mexican (and other) critics i think. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting and Tree of the Wooden Clogs may be worth your checking out if not already (the former i’ve not seen in full myself), and i would love to see the great Manoel de Oliveira’s Amor de Perdicao/Doomed Love
I have seen the Olmi, which is alright, but not a favorite.
Amazingly, I just had Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting show up from NetFlix today. I will give it a shot, for sure.
Guess what year.
Bad Boys
the dead zone
El norte
The king of comedy
lone wolf mcquade
Octopussy
The Outsiders
Psycho 2 underrated as hell
Right stuff
risky bizz
ScarFace
trading places
Twilight zone
Mr. Mom
Star 80
a sinch. I’ll come up with my list for it.
oh dear, a very weak year, but i can at least include Isabelle Adjani sashaying around in her swishy ra-ra skirt, that made a big impression on me at the time.
Sans Soleil (Marker)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
Local Hero (Forsyth)
The Right Stuff (Kaufman)
Trading Places (Landis)
One Deadly Summer (Becker)
oh yeah Risky Business was fun
@The Mayor of Hell- 1983.
Nice kenji, tho I wil have to catch up w/ the Tarkovsky and One deadly summer? ive never heard of that
It’s not a masterpiece though it did well at the French César awards, and if you can bear seeing Isabelle in her sexy youth wearing, er nothing, then any shortcomings may be forgiven. Actually it sets out as what appears a frivolous sort of sex comedy, but then….well, i won’t give too much away, but i was affected also by some psychological depth.
That’s Suzanne Flon on the left, who won the César for best supporting actress
1985. A year for some 80’s ass shit. Wish I could name ten.
After Hours
Ran
Brazil
Year of the Dragon
Rock IV
THE LAST DRAGON
1985 wasn’t so bad:
Brazil (Gilliam)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)
Come and See (Klimov)
Taipei Story (Yang)
When Father was away on Business (Kusturica)
Witness (Weir)
A Room with a View (Ivory)
Ran (Kurosawa)
Death in a French Garden (Deville)
oh and i forgot from 1983 i’d like to see A Nos Amours
I was born in 1982 and there was a bunch of great cult cinema that was made that year (I am still deciding on the order):
1. The State of Things
2. Blade Runner
3. Fanny and Alexandra
4. Liquid Sky
5. Forbidden Zone
6. The World According to Garp
7. First Blood
8. Smithereens
9. Atomic Cafe
10. White Dog
Are there some big ones I am forgetting?
1947
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Good News
Black Narcissus
I Know Where I’m Going
Desert Fury
Nightmare Alley
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Out of the Past
Monsiur Verdoux
Duel in the Sun
1977, in no particular order…
eraserhead
star wars
annie hall
kentucky fried movie
close encounters
saturday night fever
slap shot
stroszek
suspiria
opening night
actually, a pretty good mix of high and low art, just how i like it.
Eighty-eight represent! In alphabetical order:
Akira
Beetlejuice
Cinema Paradiso
Dead Ringers
Die Hard
Fish Called Wanda, A
My Neighbour Totoro
Rain Man
Thin Blue Line, The
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Mayor From Hell , It’s 1982 correct?
@Chris Knudson
Yeah, there are a couple big ones from ‘82 you’re missing. You’ll find them on my list towards the beginning of the thread.
I liove figuring the ones with no year posed. Justin Vicari 1968 ? 1987
Ozufan – 1960?
Arron Dumont -1994?
Samantha -1985
Alex-1986
T -1971 ?
Major Tom -1977
Petronius-1967
Dan
i can only find 3 that i’ve seen and enjoyed, but they each count for at 3.333
Tremors
Miller’s Crossing
Goodfellas
1990
Christopher, you still have some work to do on your figuring out!
Anybody else from this year?
Stranger Than Paradise
Paris, Texas
The Hit
Repo Man
Love Streams
1. Disney’s The Aristocats – actually my favourite Disney movie ever too!!!!
2. MASH
3. The honeymoon Killers
4. El Topo
5. Five Easy Pieces
6. Patton
7. Catch-22
8. Performance
9. The Conformist
10. Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970!!
I never realized how many good films came out the year of my birth…guess the year?
Time Bandits
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Mad Max 2
Heavy Metal
The Evil Dead
Arthur
The Cannonball Run
The Great Muppet Caper
Reds
Scanners
Everyone born in 1990 seem to like Goodfellas.
1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Akira
Dead Ringers
Willow?
I’m stuck
@Ben
1988:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Cinema Paradiso
Frantic
Grave of the Fireflies
The Last Temptation of Christ
My Neighbor Totoro
The Thin Blue Line
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1989 —
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Henry V
The Killer
My Left Foot
Do the Right Thing
Batman
The Abyss
Dead Poets Society
@Rich Uncle Skeleton
Cheers! Haven’t seen Cinema Paradiso, Frantic, or Last Temptation of Christ though.
1966
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Hunger
3. Au hasard Balthazar
4. Masculin, féminin
5. A Man and a Woman
6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
7. The Battle of Algiers
8. Blowup
9. It
10. Closely Watched Trains
Honorable mention: Born Free,The Ghost and Mr.Chicken, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Glad to see some people on here born prior to 1980. ‘77 has already been mentioned so I’ll choose films he didn’t use.
The Last Wave
New York, New York
The Duellists
Hardcore
Rabid
The Obscure Object of Desire
Killer of Sheep
Sorcerer (way underrated)
Kingdom of the Spiders
Pete’s Dragon
Kifah Foutah
You really can’t mess with 59-60 probably the best movie year ever.
1985
The Horse Thief
Shoah
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Vagabond
Day of the Dead
Rambo First Blood: Part 2
Back To the Future
Commando
Weird Science
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome