What was the best year for movies?

[movieDUDE68686]

My pick is 1999:

Favorites:
1. Magnolia
2. Election
3. The Sixth Sense
4. Toy Story 2
5. American Beauty
6. Fight Club
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
8. Austin Powers 2
9. Cruel Intentions
10. Dogma


other really good ones
South Park
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Matrix
Sleepy Hollow
American Pie

[sanshodayu]

A good topic,i think.Yes,1999 had many excellent films,-a worthy contender-and i also liked 1993.1939 is often considered Hollywood's best(not for me,though).1959 had 3 very significant international films,Breathless,The 400 Blows,Hiroshima Mon Amour and two personal favourites,North by North West and Some Like it Hot(not forgetting Ben Hur,too).There were several very strong years that decade,like 1953 and 55.But my choice for best year is:1946.
It's a Wonderful Life
The Big Sleep
The Best Years of our Lives
My Darling Clementine
Notorious
The Killers
Gilda
The Postman always Rings Twice(all Hollywood classics)
A Matter of Life and Death/aka Stairway to Heaven
Great Expectations(two perennial British favourites)
Paisa
Ivan the Terrible 2
Shoeshine(international classics)

[sanshodayu]

Sorry,i knew there was one missing from 46-the French fantasy Beauty and the Beast.

[bankholdup]

1994:
Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Dumb and Dumber
The Crow

Those are ones that I've seen and liked alot.

I want to see:
Quiz Show
Ed Wood

[bskutle]

Unfortunately, I'm not as familiar as early landmark years like '39, '46, or '59, so I'll have to go with 1999. I have a ton of films I admired from that year (my best and favorites lists for that year have been constantly in flux since), and it had many groundbreakers and innovators.

My Top 10 of 1999:
1. "American Beauty"
2. "Princess Mononoke"
3. "Eyes Wide Shut"
4. "South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut"
5. "Fight Club"
6. "The Sixth Sense"
7. "Being John Malkovich"
8. "Three Kings"
9. "The Green Mile"
10. "Cookie's Fortune"

My 10 Favorites of 1999:
1. "Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace"
2. "Office Space"
3. "Fight Club"
4. "Cruel Intentions"
5. "Simply Irresistible"
6. "Dogma"
7. "Princess Mononoke"
8. "South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut"
9. "Eyes Wide Shut"
10. "American Pie"

Also:
"Toy Story 2"
"The Blair Witch Project"
"The Insider"
"EDtv"
"Election"
"Bowfinger"
"Man on the Moon"
"The Limey"

1998 was also a favorite year.

[This message has been edited by bskutle (edited 04-27-2002).]

[QUENTIN]

My 10 Favorite Years:

1997

1.) Chasing Amy
2.) Jackie Brown
3.) Boogie Nights
4.) The Ice Storm
5.) L.A. Confidential
6.) Good Will Hunting
7.) In The Company of Men
8.) The Sweet Hereafter
9.) Donnie Brasco
10.) Abre Los Ojos

1994

1.) Pulp Fiction
2.) Clerks
3.) Fresh
4.) The Shawshank Redemption
5.) Hoop Dreams
6.) Ed Wood
7.) The Last Seduction & Red Rock West
8.) The Crow
9.) Quiz Show
10.) Natural Born Killers

1989

1.) Do The Right Thing
2.) sex, lies, and videotape
3.) Drugstore Cowboy
4.) Born On The Fourth of July
5.) Crimes and Misdemeanors
6.) Say Anything...
7.) Roger & Me
8.) Glory
9.) My Left Foot
10.) Henry V

1972

1.) The Godfather
2.) Aguirre: The Wrath of God
3.) Cries and Whispers
4.) Last Tango in Paris
5.) The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie
6.) Deliverance
7.) Chloe in The Afternoon
8.) The Day of The Jackal
9.) Sleuth
10.) The King of Marvin Gardens

1971

1.) A Clockwork Orange
2.) The Last Picture Show
3.) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4.) Claire's Knee
5.) The French Connection
6.) The Emigrants
7.) The Garden of Finzi-Continis
8.) Straw Dogs
9.) Walkabout
10.) Sunday, Bloody Sunday

1969

1.) The Wild Bunch
2.) If...
3.) Z
4.) Medium Cool
5.) Midnight Cowboy
6.) Last Summer
7.) Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
8.) Once Upon A Time in The West
9.) My Night At Maud's
10. The Wild Child

1967

1.) The Graduate
2.) Bonnie & Clyde
3.) Le Samourai
4.) Cool Hand Luke
5.) In Cold Blood
6.) Belle De Jour
7.) Weekend
8.) In The Heat of The Night
9.) Don't Look Back
10.) Point Blank

1960

1.) La Dolce Vita
2.) Breathless
3.) The Apartment
4.) Shoot The Piano Player
5.) L'Avventura
6.) Peeping Tom
7.) Psycho
8.) The Hole
9.) Purple Noon
10.) The Virgin Spring

1957

1.) Bridge On The River Kwai
2.) Wild Strawberries
3.) The Seventh Seal
4.) 12 Angry Men
5.) Paths of Glory
6.) Sweet Smell of Success
7.) Nights of Cabiria
8.) A Face in The Crowd
9.) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
10.) Witness For The Prosecution

1949

1.) The Third Man
2.) Nora Inu
3.) The Bicycle Thief
4.) White Heat
5.) Orphee
6.) All The King's Men
7.) The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad
8.) Kind Hearts and Coronets
9.) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
10.) Lost Boundaries

[charliebobo]

90s:

1995: Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Braveheart, Casino, Heat, Leaving Las Vegas, Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, Apollo 13, Brothers McMullen, Land And Freedom

Also 1994 and 1999

80s:

1989: Do The Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Born On The Fourth Of July, Crimes And Misdemeanours, Say Anything, Dead Poets' Society, The Little Mermaid, Glory, sex lies and videotape

Also 1980

70s:

1979: Apocalypse Now, Manhattan, Life Of Brian, Being There, The China Syndrome, Kramer vs Kramer, All That Jazz, Alien, And Justice For All...,

Also 1977, 1976, 1974, 1972 and 1971

60s, 50s, 40s, 30s:

1960, 1957, 1942, 1939

[VicVega]

Originally posted by bankholdup
1994:
Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Dumb and Dumber
The Crow

Those are ones that I've seen and liked alot.

I want to see:
Quiz Show
Ed Wood

Yeah definately 1994. Don't forget the amazing Léon: The Professional was made in 1994 too. :D

[Cosimo]

Top 10 of 1999
American Beauty
Fight Club
THe Matrix
The Insider
Magnolia
Eyes Wide Shut
Office Space
Ghost Dog
The 6th Sense
Three Kings

Guilty Pleasure's of 99
Payback,8mm,Galaxy Quest,South Park,Bringing Out The Dead,Deuce Bigalow,Summer Of Sam,End Of Days

Top 10 of 1997
La Confidential
Good Will Hunting
Affliction
The Game
Donnie Brasco
The Ice Storm
Copland
The Sweet Hereafter
Grosse Point Blank
U-Turn

[Jerk Shapiro]

I think '97 was a good year for film. With movies like:

L.A Confidential
The Game
Contact
Men In Black
Titanic
Gattaca
Boogie Nights
Jackie Brown
As Good As It Gets
Good Will Hunting ( I don't like it, but some people on the board do )
Face/Off
Amistad
The Full Monty
Ulee's Gold
Wag The Dog

The last good year for movies, 1997.

[notchreturns]

Probably not the best, but my favorite, no doubt about it...

1995
Dead Man Walking
Seven
Leaving Las Vegas
Braveheart
Devil in a Blue Dress
Toy Story
The American President
Heat
Clockers
12 Monkeys
To Die For
The Usual Suspects
Casino
Get Shorty
Apollo 13
Crimson Tide
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Basketball Diaries
Strange Days
From Dusk Till Dawn
Nixon
Rob Roy
Unstrung Heros

... and more I'm sure...