Way back in 1971…sound film was still a novelty…
Billy Jack
Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange
Touch of Satan
Two Lane Black Top
Harold and Maude
The French Connection
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Omega Man
Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie
The Andromeda Strain
1960
L’avventura
Psycho
Breathless
13 Ghosts
The Apartment
Black Sunday
La Dolce Vita
Peeping Tom
Tunes Of Glory
Spartacus
The Decalogue I-X
1993:
Schindler’s List
Jurassic Park
The Piano
Groundhog Day
The Remains of the Day
The Fugitive
Philadelphia
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sleepless in Seattle
In the Name of the Father
1987: (films are in no particular order, only the first one is my no.1 fave from that year)
Nekromantik
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam
Hellraiser
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Angel Heart
Prince Of Darkness
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Spaceballs
The Cure For Insomnia (although i’ve never seen it, certainly one of the top film of that year)
x, y, g, r, w, o. a, f, u and z
Wait – can I change my list? Yes? Alrighty.
10. Fallen Angels
9. The Addiction
8. Maborosi
7. Ulysses’ Gaze
6. Good Men, Good Women
5. Safe
4. Showgirls
3. Underground
2. Dead Man
1. I Am Cuba
NINETEEN EIGHTY-THREE:
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Sans Soleil (Chris. Marker)
The South (Víctor Erice)
L´Argent (Robert Bresson)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz)
Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
That Day, On the Beach (Edward Yang)
And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
The Godfather
Cabaret (is there a creepier scene than the Tomorrow Belongs to Me number? At least creepiest in a MUSICAL)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Asylum (Peter Cushing, Amicus anthology)
Boxcar Bertha
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Child’s Play (Lumet)
Un flic (I love this Melville film despite the miniature helicopter/moving train heist)
Fat City (it has to be one of the very best acted films ever made)
I have to throw in The Posiedon Adventure. I saw it years later and have seen it many time since.
Tout va Bien & Letter to Jane were released this year as well, but I didn’t really like Tout va Bien and I with Letter to Jane, I question Godard’s motives on a lot of levels.
1957 – alpha order
12 Angry Men
3:10 To Yuma
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cranes Are Flying
Desk Set
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
The Seventh Seal
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberries
Witness For The Prosecution
’94, no particular order:
- Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
- Ed Wood (Burton)
- Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
- Natural Born Killers (Stone)
- Interview with the Vampire (Jordan)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (Nichols)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
- True Lies (Cameron)
- Quiz Show (Redford)
- Nell (Apted)
A few from 1970:
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Deep End (Skolimowski)
MASH (Altman)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
Honeymoon Killers (Kastle)
Patton (Schaffner)
Catch-22 (Nichols)
Little Big Man (Penn)
So I pulled some truly iconic films from my birth year. I can’t vouch for their artistic merit but they still resonate today.
Cooley High
Dolemite
Death Race 2000
Trilogy of Terror
Rocky Horror Picture show
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Three days of the Condor
Return of the Pink Panther
For the tenth I chose 3. Because people will still seek out the above 9 movies with little prompting. But these 3 I think are just as iconic, maybe just not as appreciated?
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother / Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / The Apple Dumpling Gang
I don’t usually make lists, but I’ll indulge in a few today. Five personal favourites from 1986, in no particular order:
Éric Rohmer’s The Green Ray
Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice
Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Horse Thief
Edward Yang’s The Terrorizer
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Dust in the Wind
1959.
No particular order.
Preminger’s ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Dmytryk’s WARLOCK
Truffauts’ 400 BLOWS
Sirk’s IMITATION OF LIFE
Wises’s ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW
Hawks’s RIO BRAVO
Clayton’s ROOM AT THE TOP
Mankiewicz’s SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
Chabrol’s THE COUSINS
Chabrol’s LE BEAU SERGE
1987
(from what i’ve seen)
Barfly – Schroeder
Yeelen – Cisse
Monanieba – Abuladze
Sous le Soleil de Satan – Pialat
Blind Chance – Kieslowski
Motherland Hotel – Kavur
Evil Dead II – Raimi
Morning Patrol – Nikolaidis
The Cyclist – Makhmalbaf
A Chinese Ghost Story – Ching
Wings of Desire – Wenders
i miss a lot more,i’ll get back later on…
very sadly, Forrest Gump. :(
1970
1) MASH
2) Woodstock
3) Hi Mom!
4) Patton
5) Let It Be
6) Claire’s Knee
7) Five Easy Pieces
8) Brewster McCloud
9) Burn!
10) Performance
From the top of my head (and in no particular order):
PASSION / Jean-Luc Godard
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH / Amy Heckerling
L’ENFANT SECRET / Philippe Garrel
MADE IN BRITAIN / Alan Clarke
HEART, BEATING IN THE DARK / Nagasaki Shunichi
THE CASE IS CLOSED / Mrinal Sen
THE EYES, THE MOUTH / Marco Bellocchio
WHITE DOG / Samuel Fuller
IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN / Michelangelo Antonioni
DINER / Barry Levinson
1985
Taipei Story – Yang
A Time to Live and a Time to Die – Hou
Back to the future – R.Zemeckis
The Purple Rose of Cairo – W.Allen
Ran – A.Kurosawa
Almanac of Fall – B.Tarr
A Zed & Two Noughts – P.Greenaway
Brazil – T.Gilliam
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure- T.Burton
Kiss of the Spider Woman – H.Babenco
Not in order… apart from Taipei Story
man you people are old :P
1983
el norte, king of comedy return of jedi scarface tender mercies zelig. And I thought 80’s films were bad
1982:
Fanny & Alexander
Tron
Tenebre
The Wall
Ghandi
E.T.
The Thing
Blade Runner
The Dark Crystal
Tootsie
73
Mean Streets
Jesus Christ Superstar
Exorcist
Disney’s Robin Hood
American Graffiti
Badlands
Serpico
Godspell
Save the Tiger (great Jack Lemmon performance)
Soylent Green ;-}
1984:
Amadeus
Stranger than Paradise
¿Qué he Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto?!! (What Have I Done to Deserve This?)
The Neverending Story
This is Spinal Tap
Dune
Brother From Another Planet
Blood Simple
Paris, Texas
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
[honorable mentions: Ghostbusters, Gremlins, 1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Karate Kid, Splash, Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Purple Rain]
1975
The Mirror
The Passenger
Deep Red
Grey Gardens
Jeanne Dielman
Night Moves
Race with the Devil
Supervixens
The Travelling Players
Day of the Locust
1951
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Hakuchi (Kurosawa)
Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
Early Summer (Ozu)
Repast (Naruse)
The River (Renoir)
A Strretcar Named Desire (Kazan)
Summer Interlude (Bergman)
Bellissima (Visconti)
Strangers On a Train (Hitchcock)
Moderated
1987
I second Phil’s and Dimitris’ lists, and add to them The Princess Bride (one of my favorites)
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1992 in no order (except 1st one):
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Favorite film in general)
Aladdin
Alien 3
Batman Returns
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Reservoir Dogs
Scent Of A Woman
Braindead
Home Alone 2
And if it counts… Blade Runner Director’s Cut