Top 10 lists from 2001 to 1965

Here a list of the top 10 or so films from years 2001 to 1965 if there are a couple mess ups in the years I'm sorry but for the most part there in the right year.

2001
1.snatch
2.Ocean's 11
3.the score
4.Heist
5.Blow


2000
1.American Psycho
2.Memento
3.Requiem for a Dream
4.State and Main
5.Billy Elliot
6.The Contender
7.small time crooks
8.unbreakable
9.trixie
10.the ninth gate


1999
1.eyes wide shut
2.Fight Club
3.Magnolia
4.lock stock and two smoking barrels
5.The Insider
6.Bringing Out the Dead
7.The Sixth Sense
8.ghost dog
9.Three Kings
10.Where's Marlowe?

cookie's fortune
Ravenous
The Green Mile
The Straight Story
Go
The Limey

1998
1.Pi
2.Dark City
3.Hurlyburly
4.bulworth
5.Saving Private Ryan
6.The Big Lebowski
7.Monument Ave
8.The General
9.Ronin
10.Rounders

When Trumpets Fade
twilight


1997
1.The Game
2.Boogie Nights
3.Insomnia
4.The Spanish Prisoner
5.L.A. Confidential
6.u-turn
7.the saint
8.Donnie Brasco
9.Cube
10.The Assignment

Jackie Brown
starship troopers


1996
1.mission impossible
2.the ghost and the darkness
3.Sydney
4.12 monkeys
5.the arrival
6.beatiful girls
7.portiat of a lady
8.secrets and lies
9.fargo
10.mars attack


1995
1.Seven
2.heat
3.The Crossing Guard
4.the usual suspects
5.devil in a blue dress
6.Underneath
7.in the mouth of madness
8.dolores claiborne
9.Richard III
10.casino

apollo 13
get shorty


1994
1.Ed Wood
2.The Hudsucker Proxy
3.Pulp Fiction
4.the professional
5.Shawshank redemption
6.Natural Born Killers
7.Little Women
8.the paper
9.nobody's fool
10.Fresh

Stargate
my summer story

1993
1.The age of innocence
2.Searching for Bobby Fischer
3.Schindler's list
4.Army of Darkness
5.King of the Hill
6.Carlito's Way
7.sonatine
8.Falling down
9.Romeo is bleeding
10.Alive

Much ado about Nothing
Philadelphia
Jurrasic Park
in the line of fire
Geronimo: An American Legend
Tombstone


1992
1.Hard Boiled
2.Basic Instinct
3.Reservior Dogs
4.the player
5.Shadows and Fog
6.A few good men
7.The Crying game
8.Glengarry Glen Ross
9.unforgiven
10.zentrope
Orlando


1991
1.JFK
2.Homicide
3.Silence of the Lambs
4.Delicatessen
5.Liebestraum
6.Night on Earth
7.Cape Fear
8.Backdraft
9.Dead Again
10.Shattered
Robin Hood Prince Of thieves
Hudson hawk


1990
1.Memphis Belle
2.Miller's crossing
3.Jacob's Ladder
4.Goodfellas
5.The Grifters
6.Total recall
7.La Femme Nikita
8.Dick Tracy
9.The Hunt for Red October
10.Q&A

King of New York
Alice


1989
1.Say Anything
2.Sex, Lies, and Videotape
3.the burbs
4.the abyss
5.the killer
6.when harry meet sally
7.family buisness
8.Casualties of War
9.batman
10.Cohen and Tate

indiana jones and the last crusade
back to the future II
the Icicle thief
dead calm
Sea of Love

1988
1.the thin blue line
2.midnight run
3.married to the mob
4.die hard
5.the moderns
6.the great outdoors
7.dirty rotten scondrals
8.willow
9.Things Change
10.frantic

Bat*21
lady in white


1987
1.hope and glory
2.evil dead II
3.full metal jacket
4.House of Games
5.throw momma from the train
6.robocop
7.lethal weapon
8.the princess bride
9.the untouchables
10.empire of the sun

predator
Hamburger Hill


1986
1.big trouble in little china
2.power
3.ferris bueller's day off
4.blue velvet
5.the color of money
6.platoon
7.highlander
8.salvador
9.stand by me
10.The Hitcher

peggy sue got married
Manhunter


1985
1.back to the future
2.clue
3.crimewave
4.after hours
5.year of the dragon
6.spies like us
7.jackie chan's police story
8.brazil
9.to live and die in l.a.
10.prizzi's honor (tie) the goonies

Silver Bullet
King David
D?tective

1984
1.indiana jones and the temple of doom
2.paris,texas
3.against all odds
4.body double
5.beverly hills cop
6.romancing the stone
7.ghostbusters
8.repo man
9.the flamingo kid (tie) cloak and dagger
10.the cotten club (tie) mike's murder
Starman
City Heat
The Hit

1983
1.the right stuff
2.Dernier combat, Le
3.a christmas story
4.the king of comedy
5.scarface
6.evil dead
7.nation lampoon's vacation
8.flashdance
9.strange brew
10.of unknown origin


1982
1.the verdict
2.Hammett
3.blade runner
4.the thing
5.chan is missing
6.conan the barbarian
7.one from the heart
8.e.t.
9.still of the night
10.Tenebre

Tron
poltergiest
the escape artist


1981
1.blow out
2.das boot
3.indiana jones raiders of the lost ark
4.mad max 2 road warrior
5.excalibur
6.american werewolf in london
7.outland
8.rollover
9.Gallipoli
10.thief

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Death Hunt
Fort Apache the Bronx


1980
1.the shining
2.the big red one
3.Ordinary People
4.the stunt man
5.raging bull
6.the empire strikes back
7.the elephant man
8.used cars
9.bad timing: A sensual obsession
10.american gigolo

Borderline
Stir Crazy
popeye


1979
1.1941
2.manhattan
3.Breaking Away
4.hanover street
5.alien
6.escape from alcatraz
7.the china syndrome
8.the warriors
9.winter kills
10.tess


1978
1.superman
2.invasion of the body snatchers
3.capricorn one
4.coma
5.halloween
6.the cheap detective
7.the driver
8.the big fix
9.the silent partner
10.Semi-Tough



1977
1.the duellists
2.new york , new york
3.star wars
4.the choirboys
5.close encounter of the third kind
6.demond seed
7.high anxiety
8.rolling thunder
9.the late show
10.twilight's last gleaming

Julia
The Gauntlet

1976
1.the outlaw josey wales
2.taxi driver
3.all the president's men
4.Network
5.marathon man
6.the omen
7.the killer inside me
8.obsession
9.the bad news bears
10.Gator

carrie
the tenant
The Shootist
The Enforcer
St. Ives
Silent Movie


1975
1.jaws
4.rollerball
3.barry lyndon
4.one few over the cuckoo's nest
5.deep red
6.black christmas
7.french connection II
8.night moves
9.the wind and the lion
10.Three days of condor

Hard Times
The Killer Elite
Report to the Commissioner

1974
1.chinatown
2.freebie and the bean
3.the conversation
4.Young Frankenstein
5.murder on the orient express
6.the odessa file
7.the godfather part II
8.death wish
9.The Front Page
10.bring me the head of alfredo garcia

the parallax view
blazzing saddles
taking of the palham one two three
11 harrowhouse


1973
1.the long goodbye
2.the paper chase
3.the sting
4.american graffiti
5.my name is nobody
6.don't look now
7.serpico
8.papillion
9.mean streets
10.Enter The Dragon

The Last of Sheila
Shamus


1972
1.prime cut
2.sleuth
3.what's up doc
4.the godfather
5.slaughterhouse-five
6.the new centurions
7.Gumshoe
8.junior bonner
9.The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
10.The Groundstar Conspiracy

joe kidd
the getaway
discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
The Poseidon Adventure
The Mechanic
The Cowboys
Jeremiah Johnson
The Candidate


1971
1.A clockwork orange
2.dirty harry
3.Carnal Knowledge
4.straw dogs
5.The Anderson Tapes
6.the french connection
7.klute
8.mccabe and mrs miller
9.the andromeda strain
10.silent running

the omega man
play misty for me


1970
1.mash
2.Little Big Man
3.catch-22
4.kelly's heroes
5.Tora! Tora! Tora!
6.There was a Crooked man
7.hi,mom!
8.patton
9.two mules for sister sara
10.brewster mcCloud

getting straight
monte walsh


1969
1.once upon a time in the west
2.the wild bunch
3.where eagles dare
4.the bird with the crystal plumage
5.Z
6.butch cassidy and the sundance kid
7.battle of britain
8.that cold day in the park
9.on her majesty's secret service
10.support your local sheriff

Marlowe
Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Reivers

1968
1.2001:A space Odessey
2.hell in the pacific
3.bullitt
4.the thomas crown affair
5.The Producers
6.planet of the apes
7.rosemary's baby
8.coogan's bluff
9.the odd couple
10.The Boston Strangler

the scalphunters


1967
1.in the heat of the night
2.the fearless vampire killers
3.point blank
4.cool hand luke
5.dirty dozen
6.fahrenheit 451
7.the graduate
8.el dorado
9.wait until dark
10.casino royale

Bonnie and Clyde
The Naked Runner

1966
1.the good the bad and the ugly
1.blow up
2.harper
4.django
5.The Sand Pebbles
The Professionals

1965
1.the ipcress file
2.the bedford incident
3.hush....hush , sweet charlotte
4.the pawnbroker (tie) for a few dollars more
5.the cinncinnati kid

that's great how you remember all these films you've seen for the past 30 or so years! I could probably only give my top 10 from the past 6 years only

1960
1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), 2. Rocco & His Brothers (Luchino Visconti), 3. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell), 4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman), 5. The Apartment (Billy Wilder), 6. Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz), 7. Shadows (John Cassavetes), 8. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini), 9. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut), 10. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), 11. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges), 12. Purple Noon (Rene Clement), 13. The Entertainer (Tony Richardson), 14. The Concrete Jungle (Josephy Losey), 15. Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer), 16. The Unforgiven (John Huston), 17. Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks), 18. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), 19. Murder, Inc. (Balaban & Rosenberg), 20. Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla)

1961
1. Jules & Jim (Francois Truffaut), 2. The Hustler (Robert Rossen), 3. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), 4. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa), 5. The Innocents (Jack Clayton), 6. The Misfits (John Huston), 7. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando), 8. West Side Story (Robert Wise), 9. Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer), 10. The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson), 11. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan), 12. A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie), 13. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards), 14. Paris Blues (Martin Ritt), 15. Black Sunday (Mario Bava)

1962
1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean), 2. High & Low (Akira Kurosawa), 3. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer), 4. Lonley Are the Brave (David Miller), 5. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda), 6. Through A Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman), 7. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski), 8. Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson), 9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford), 10. To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan), 11. The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson), 12. Mutiny on the Bounty (Lewis Milestone), 13. Lolita (Kubrick), 14. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa), 15. The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn), 16. The Longest Day (Darryl F. Zanuck), 17. Dr. No (Terence Young), 18. Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov), 19. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich), 20. Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli), 21. Long Day's Journey into Night (Sidney Lumet), 22. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah), 23. Days of Wine & Roses (Blake Edwards), 24. The Children's Hour (William Wyler), 25. Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks)

1963
1. Hud (Martin Ritt), 2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini), 3. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard), 4. The Haunting (Robert Wise), 5. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti), 6. Charade (Stanley Donan), 7. The Trial (Orson Welles), 8. Tom Jones (Tony Richardson), 9. Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook), 10. The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston), 11. The Great Escape (John Sturges), 12. From Russia with Love (Terence Young), 13. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller), 14. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger), 15. The Girl-Hunters (Roy Rowland), 16. This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson), 17. The Ugly American (George Englund), 18. Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder), 19. Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson), 20. The Cardinal (Otto Preminger)

1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick), 2. The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller), 3. Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis), 4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), 5. Bande a Part (Jean-Luc Godard), 6. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone), 7. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester), 8. Topkapi (Jules Dassin), 9. The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton), 10. Kwaiden (Masaki Kobayashi), 11. Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer), 12. Becket (Peter Glenville), 13. My Fair Lady (George Cukor), 14. The Killers (Don Siegel), 15. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel), 16. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahrara), 17. A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards), 18. Lilith (Robert Rossen), 19. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet), 20. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), 21. The Naked Kiss, 22. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton), 23. The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), 24. Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman), 25. Zulu (Cy Endfield)

1965
1. A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe), 2. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa), 3. Replusion (Roman Polanski), 4. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard), 5. The Collector (William Wyler), 6. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone), 7. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard), 8. The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet), 9. The Hill (Sidney Lumet), 10.Ship of Fools (Stanley Kramer), 11. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman), 12. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini), 13. The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison), 14. The Bedford Incident (James B. Harris), 15. Darling (John Schlesinger), 16. Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger), 17. Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein), 18. The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie), 19. The Train (John Frakenheimer), 20. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)

1966
1. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), 2. King of Hearts (Phillippe de Broca), 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols), 4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman), 5. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone), 6. The Professionals (Richard Brooks), 7. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni), 8. Seconds (John Frankenheimer), 9. Cul-De-Sac (Roman Polanski), 10. The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), 11. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (Norman Jewison), 12. A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Fielder Cook), 13. Lord Love A Duck (George Axlerod), 14. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann), 15. Harper (Jack Smight), 16. Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano), 17. The Sand Pebble (Robert Wise), 18. Alfie (Lewis Gilbert), 19. Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut), 20. Arabesque (Stanley Donen)

1967
1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols), 2. Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn), 3. Point Blank (John Boorman), 4. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg), 5. Far From the Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger), 6. Hombre (Martin Ritt), 7. Two for the Road (Stanley Donan), 8. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison), 9. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard), 10. Wait Until Dark (Terence Young), 11. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel), 12. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks), 13. The President's Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker), 14. The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth are in My Neck (Roman Polanski), 15. Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni), 16. Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks), 17. The Comedians (Peter Glenville), 18. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer), 19. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), 20. The Jungle Book (DISNEY), 21. Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker), 22. A Bullet for the General (Damiano Damiani), 23. Poor Cow (Ken Loach), 24. The Flim-Flam Man (Irvin Kershner), 25. In Like Flint (Gordon Douglas)

1968
1. Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone), 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), 3. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanksi), 4. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Robert E. Miller), 5. Faces (John Cassavetes), 6. The Producers (Mel Brooks), 7. The Bride Wore Black (Francois Truffaut), 8. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero), 9. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut), 10. Bullitt (Peter Yates), 11. The Subject was Roses (Ulu Grosbard), 12. if... (Lindsay Anderson), 13. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey), 14. Yellow Submarine (George Dunning), 15. The Brotherhood (Martin Ritt), 16. Petulia (Richard Lester), 17. The Fixer (John Frankenheimer), 18. Rachel, Rachel (Paul Newman), 19. The Odd Couple (Gene Saks), 20. Charly (Ralph Nelson), 21. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Shaffner), 22. Coogan's Bluff (Don Siegel), 23. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog), 24. The Swimmer (Frank Perry), 25. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)

1969
1. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah), 2. Andrei Rublyov (Andrei Tarkovsky), 3. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger), 4. Z (Costa-Gavras), 5. Women in Love (Ken Russell), 6. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack), 7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill), 8. Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut), 9. That Cold Day in the Park (Robert Altman), 10. Anne of a Thousand Days (Charles Jarrott), 11. The Italian Job (Peter Collinson), 12. Medium Cool (Haxell Wexler), 13. Age of Consent (Michael Powell), 14. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), 15. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), 16. Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo), 17. Support Your Local Sheriff (Burt Kennedy), 18. Paint Your Wagon (Josh Logan), 19. Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (Abe Polonsky), 20. The Night of the Following Day (Hubert Cornfield)

1960 - 1969
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
3. Once Upon A Time in the West (1969)
4. Jules & Jim (1961)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. Chimes at Midnight (1966)
8. King of Hearts (1966)
9. The Wild Bunch (1969)
10. The Graduate (1967)


1970
1. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn), 2. MASH (Robert Altman), 3. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols), 4. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), 5. Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa), 6. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafleson), 7. Husbands (John Cassavetes), 8. Gimme Shelter (Mayseles Bros.), 9. Performance (Nic Roeg), 10. Where's Poppa? (Carl Reiner), 11. Joe (John Avildsen), 12. There Was A Crooked Man (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), 13. Patton (Franklin Schaffner), 14. Scrooge (Ronald Neame), 15. Woodstock (Mike Wadleigh), 16. Satyricon (Federico Fellini), 17. The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks), 18. The Molly Maguires (Martin Ritt), 19. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman), 20. Ryan's Daughter (David Lean), 21. The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), 22. Loving (Irvin Kershner), 23. Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel), 24. The Great White Hope (Martin Ritt), 25. Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg)

1971
1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick), 2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman), 3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci), 4. The French Connection (Willam Friedkin), 5. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich), 6. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel), 7. The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), 8. Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby), 9. Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood), 10. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer), 11. Get Carter (Mike Hodges), 12. The Beguiled (Clint Eastwood), 13. Walkabout (Nic Roeg), 14. Klute (Alan J. Pakula), 15. Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), 16. The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda), 17. Minnie & Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), 18. The Go-Between (Joseph Losey), 19. They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey), 20. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), 21. Macbeth (Roman Polanski), 22. Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafian), 23. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles), 24. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest), 25. THX-1138 (George Lucas)

1972
1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola), 2. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovski), 3. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), 4. Duck, You Sucker! a.k.a. A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone), 5. Images (Robert Altman), 6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunel), 7. Deliverance (John Boorman), 8. The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston), 9. Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie), 10. Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman), 11. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich), 12. The Ruling Class (Peter Medak), 13. The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet), 14. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill), 15. Cabaret (Bob Fosse), 16. The Candidate (Michael Ritchie), 17. And Now for Something Completely Different... (Ian McNaughton), 18. Fat City (John Huston), 19. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack), 20. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock), 21. Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah), 22. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson), 23. The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah), 24. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), 25. Bad Company (Robert Benton), 26. Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross), 27. Gumshoe (Stephen Frears), 28. The Mechanic (Michael Winner), 29. Cisco Pike (B.W.L. Norton), 30. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...*but were afraid to ask (Woody Allen)

1973
1. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman), 2. Don't Look Now (Nic Roeg), 3. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese), 4. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), 5. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich), 6. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut), 7. Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg), 8. Serpico (Sidney Lumet), 9. The Sting (George Roy Hill), 10. Badlands (Terry Malick), 11. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), 12. American Graffiti (George Lucas), 13. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel), 14. The Seven-Ups (Philip D'Antoni), 15. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy), 16. Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah), 17. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman), 18. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner), 19. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), 20. The Last of Shelia (Herbert Ross), 21. Breezy (Clint Eastwood), 22. Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guerico), 23. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), 24. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates), 25. Payday (Daryl Duke), 26. The Paper Chase (James Bridges), 27. Magnum Force (Ted Post), 28. The Exorcist (William Friedkin), 29. The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell), 30. Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock)

1974
1. Chinatown (Roman Polanksi), 2. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola), 3. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola), 4. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks), 5. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah), 6. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes), 7. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester), 8. Lenny (Bob Fosse), 9. The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg), 10. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese), 11. My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valeri), 12. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman), 13. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (Michael Cimino), 14. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent), 15. The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich), 16. California Split (Robert Altman), 17. Amarcord (Federico Fellini), 18. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), 19. The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani), 20. Hearts & Minds (Peter Davis), 21. The Laughing Policeman (Sturat Rosemberg), 22. The Gambler (Karel Reisz), 23. Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet), 24. Ali - Fear Eat the Soul (Fassbinder), 25. The Cars That Ate Paris (Peter Weir), 26. Cockfighter (Monte Hellman), 27. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper), 28. Freebie & the Bean (Richard Rush), 29. Death Wish (Michael Winner), 30. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian DePalma)

1975
1. Nashville (Robert Altman), 2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg), 3. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston), 4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), 5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman), 6. Night Moves (Arthur penn), 7. A Boy & His Dog (L.Q. Jones), 8. Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terrys Jones & Gilliam), 9. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet), 10. The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack), 11. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), 12. Swept Away... (Lina Wertmuller), 13. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir), 14. Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack), 15. The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester), 16. The Story of Adele H (Francois Truffaut), 17. Hard Times (Walter Hill), 18. Love & Death (Woody Allen), 19. Bite the Bullet (Richard brooks), 20. Day of the Locust (John Schlessinger), 21. The Wind & The Lion (John Milius), 22. The French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), 23. The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes), 24. The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross), 25. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman), 26. Posse (Kirk Douglas), 27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (Gene Wilder), 28. Cousin, Cousine (Jean-Charles Tacchella), 29. Smile (Michael Ritchie), 30. The Great Waldo Pepper (George Roy Hill)

1976
1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese), 2. Network (Sidney Lumet), 3. Marathon Man (John Schlessinger), 4. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula), 5. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby), 6. Grey Gardens (Maysles Bros.), 7. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes), 8. The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie), 9. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), 10. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg), 11. The Front (Martin Ritt), 12. The Drowning Pool (Stuart Rosenberg), 13. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), 14. Murder by Death (Robert Moore), 15. The Seven-per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross), 16. Buffalo Bill & the Indians or: Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), 17. Small Change(Francois Trufaut), 18. Carrie (Brian DePalma), 19. Robin & Marian (Richard Lester), 20. The Omen (Richard Donner), 21. The Shootist (Don Siegel), 22. Harry & Walter Go To New York (Mark Rydell), 23. Silent Movie (Mel Brooks), 24. The Tenant (Roman Polanski), 25. Casanova (Federico Fellini), 26. Mikey & Nicky (Elaine May), 27. The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan), 28. The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn), 29. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (John Badham), 30. Obsession (Brian DePalma)

1977
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg), 2. Star Wars (George Lucas), 3. The American Friend (Wim Wenders), 4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel), 5. The Duellists (Ridley Scott), 6. New York, New York (Marty Scorsese), 7. The Man Who Loved Women (Francois Truffaut), 8. The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross), 9. Julia (Fred Zinnemann), 10. Annie Hall (Woddy Allen), 11. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood), 12. Jabberwocky (Terry Gilliam), 13. The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert), 14. The Turning Point (Herbert Ross), 15. Sorcerer (William Friedkin), 16. The Late Show (Robert Benton), 17. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham), 18. The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), 19. A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough), 20. Smokey & the Bandit (Hal Needham), 21. The Last Wave (Peter Weir), 22. Fun with Dick & Jane (Ted Kotcheff), 23. Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph), 24. Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah), 25. The Sentinel (Michael Winner)

1978
1. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese), 2. Midnight Express (Alan Parker), 3. A Wedding (Robert Altman), 4. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman), 5. Coming Home (Hal Ashby), 6. Days of Heaven (Terry Malick), 7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phil Kaufman), 8. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), 9. Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard), 10. Superman: The Movie (Richard Donner). 11. The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke), 12. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), 13. Pretty Baby (Louis Malle), 14. Animal House (John Landis), 15. Goin' South (Jack Nicholson), 16. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky), 17. California Suite (Herbert Ross), 18. The Brink's Job (William Friedkin), 19. Foul Play (Colin Higgins), 20. Same Time, Next Year (Robert Mulligan), 21. Comes A Horseman (Alan J. Pakula), 22. Grease (Randal Kleiser), 23. The Cheap Detective (Robert Moore), 24. The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash), 25. Death on the Nile (John Guillermin)

1979
1. Breaking Away (Peter Yates), 2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola), 3. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones), 4. Alien (Ridley Scott), 5. Being There (Hal Ashby), 6. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton), 7. Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel), 8. The China Syndrome (James Bridges), 9. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff), 10. The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), 11. The Onion Field (Harold Becker), 12. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse), 13. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog), 14. ...And Justice For All (Norman Jewison), 15. Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer), 16. Hardcore (Paul Schrader), 17. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky), 18. Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven), 19. Real Life (Albert Brooks), 20. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt), 21. Manhattan (Woody Allen), 22. Murder by Decree (Bob Clark), 23. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard), 24. Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), 25. Winter Kills (William Richert), 26. Love at First Bite (Stan Dragoti), 27. The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack), 28. Hair (Milos Forman), 29. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford), 30. The Great Santini (Lewis Carlino), 31. A Little Romance (George Roy Hill), 32. The Changeling (Peter Medak), 33. Starting Over (Alan J. Pakula), 34. Last Embrace (Jonathan Demme), 35. The Great Train Robbery (Michael Crichton)

1970 - 1979
1. Chinatown (1974)
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
3. Nashville (1975)
4. The Godfather (1972)
5. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
6. Jaws (1975)
7. Little Big Man (1970)
8. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
9. Breaking Away (1979)
10. Solaris (1972)


1980s, 1990s, and 2000+ coming....

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Man L.B. & Holden, you've got some list there. I'm with Guy on this one. I can only give you the top 10 more recent films better than I can give you those that I've never seen.

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"I was walking down the street with my friend and he said, "I hear music", as if there is any other way you can take it in. You're not special, that's how I receive it too. I tried to taste it but it did not work." - Mitch Hedberg

spudracer & Guy you Guys should go for it I'd love to hear what some of your favorite movies are put um down tell me those lists.

I watch Croupier today and that would be in my list for sure plus since Mr. Pike went to the begining of the 60's I'll put down those lists to '60 to '64

1980
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese), 2. Tess (Roman Polanski), 3. The Elephant Man (David Lynch), 4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner), 5. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), 6. Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker & Zucker), 7. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush), 8. Melvin & Howard (Jonathan Demme), 9. The Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles), 10. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut), 11. Atlantic City (Louis Malle), 12. Kegamusha: the Shadow Warrior (Akira Kurosawa), 13. The Blues Brothers (John Landis), 14. Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood), 15. Inside Moves (Richard Donner), 16. Gloria (John Cassavetes), 17. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis), 18. The Long Riders (Walter Hill), 19. Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff), 20. Ordinary People (Robert Redford), 21. My Bodyguard (Tony Bill), 22. Resurrection (Daniel Petrie), 23. Coal Miner's Daughter (Micheal Apted), 24. The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), 25. Altered States (Ken Russell), 26. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), 27. American Gigolo (Paul Schrader), 28. Popeye (Robert Altman), 29. The Competition (Joel Oliansky), 30. Brubaker (Stuart Rosenberg)

1981
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg), 2. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks), 3. Pennies From Heaven (Herbert Ross), 4. Blow Out (Brian DePalma), 5. Reds (Warren Beatty), 6. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam), 7. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie), 8. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle), 9. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen), 10. They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich), 11. Ragtime (Milos Forman), 12. Arthur (Steve Gordon), 13. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis), 14. Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack), 15. Excalibur (John Boorman), 16. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan), 17. Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev), 18. Thief (Michael Mann), 19. Coup de Torchon (Bernard Tavernier), 20. History of the World Part I (Mel Brooks), 21. Gallipoli (Peter Weir), 22. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson), 23. Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth), 24. All Night Long (Jean-Claude Tramont), 25. Stripes (Ivan Reitman), 26. Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), 27. On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell), 28. Eye of the Needle (Richard Marquand), 29. Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins), 30. Sharky's Machine (Burt Reynolds)

1982
1. BladeRunner (Ridley Scott), 2. Missing (Costa-Gavras), 3. The Thing (John Carpenter), 4. Honkytonk Man (Clint Eastwood), 5. Diner (Barry Levinson), 6. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack), 7. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet), 8. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner), 9. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog), 10. Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), 11. The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill), 12. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank), 13. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling), 14. Frances (Graeme Clifford), 15. Personal Best (Robert Towne), 16. The Atomic Cafe (Rafferty, Loader & Rafferty), 17. The Return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne), 18. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg), 19. My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin), 20. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough), 21. Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker), 22. Night Shift (Ron Howard), 23. Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula), 24. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), 25. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg), 26. Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards), 27. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (Nicholas Meyer), 28. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola), 29. The Border (Tony Richardson), 30. Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)

1983
1. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese), 2. Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), 3. Silkwood (Mike Nichols), 4. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), 5. Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Terry Jones), 6. Streamers (Robert Altman), 7. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman), 8. Reuben, Reuben (Robert Ellis Miller), 9. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark), 10. Heat & Dust (James Ivory), 11. The Survivors, 12. Local Hero (Bill Forsyth), 13. WarGames (John Badham), 14. Hammett (Wim Wenders), 15. Lianna (John Sayles), 16. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks), 17. Cross Creek (Martin Ritt), 18. Never Cry Wolf (Carroll Ballard), 19. The Dresser (Peter Yates), 20. Something Wicked This Way Comes, 21. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir), 22. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford), 23. Baby it's You (John Sayles), 24. Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode), 25. Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), 26. Tales of Ordinary Madness (Marco Ferreri), 27. Blue Thunder (John Badham), 28. Star 80 (Bob Fosse), 29. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), 30. Trading Places (John Landis)

1984
1. Amadeus (Milos Forman), 2. Once Upon A Time in America (Sergio Leone), 3. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe), 4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), 5. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner), 6. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman), 7. The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein), 8. A Soldier's Story (Norman Jewison), 9. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch), 10. Under the Volcano (John Huston), 11. Blood Simple (Coen Bros.), 12. Birdy (Alan Parker), 13. Secret Honor (Robert Altman), 14. Tightrope (Clint Eastwood), 15. All of Me (Carl Reiner), 16. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest), 17. The Pope of Greenwich Village (Stuart Rosenberg), 18. The Terminator (Jim Cameron), 19. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis), 20. Starman (John Carpenter), 21. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), 22. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg), 23. A Passage to India (David Lean), 24. le Dernier Combat (Luc Besson), 25. The Bounty (Roger Donaldson), 26. Garbo Talks (Sidney Lumet), 27. Gremlins (Joe Dante), 28. American Dreamer (Rick Rosenthal), 29. The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola), 30. The Flamingo Kid (Garry Marshall)

1985
1. After Hours (Martin Scorsese), 2. Brazil (Terry Gilliam), 3. RAN (Akira Kurosawa), 4. Lost in America (Albert Brooks), 5. To Live & Die in L.A. (William Friedkin), 6. Witness (Peter Weir), 7. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston), 8. Shoa (Claude Lanzmann), 9. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis), 10. The Falcon & the Snowman (John Schlesinger), 11. Fletch (Michael Ritchie), 12. Mishima (Paul Schrader), 13. The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner), 14. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood), 15. The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev), 16. Clue (Jonathan Lynne), 17. Agnes of God (Norman Jewison), 18. Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven), 19. Dance with a Stranger (Mike Newell), 20. Fright Night (Tom Holland), 21. Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), 22. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), 23. Mask (Peter Bogdanovich), 24. Subway (Luc Besson), 25. Silverado (Lawrence Kasdan), 26. Twice in a Lifetime (Bud Yorkin), 27. Cocoon (Ron Howard), 28. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes), 29. Fandango (Kevin Reynolds), 30. Heaven Help Us (Michael Dinner)

1986
1. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir), 2. Platoon (Oliver Stone), 3. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch), 4. Hannah & Her Sisters (Woody Allen), 5. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri), 6. Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri), 7. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier), 8. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner), 9. Aliens (Jim Cameron), 10. Blue Velvet (David Lynch), 11. The Mission (Roland Joffé) , 12. Salvador (Oliver Stone), 13. The Color of Money (Marty Scorsese), 14. Manhunter (Michael Mann), 15. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh), 16. The Hitcher (Robert Harmon), 17. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), 18. [i]The Decline of the AmericanEmpire (Denys Arcand), 19. The Fly (David Cronenberg), 20. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan), 21. Down & Out in Beverly Hills (Paul Mazursky), 22. Labyrinth (Jim Henson), 23. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme), 24. Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz), 25. True Stories (David Byrne), 26. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes), 27. Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines), 28. Desert Bloom (Euegne Corr), 29. Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox), 30. Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks)

1987
1. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks), 2. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kunrick), 3. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen), 4. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner), 5. Tin Men (Barry Levinson), 6. Angel Heart (Alan Parker), 7. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson), 8. Roxanne (Fred Schepisi), 9. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), 10. Barfly (Barbet Schreoder), 11. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle), 12. Matewan (John Sayles), 13. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven), 14. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow), 15. The Dead (John Huston), 16. The Hidden (Jack Shoulder), 17. Hope & Glory (John Boorman), 18. Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel), 19. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes), 20. The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller), 21. Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway), 22. The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson), 23. The Big Easy (Jim McBride), 24. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci), 25. The Untouchables (Brian DePalma), 26. Hamburger Hill (John Irvin), 27. Stakeout (John Badham), 28. Extreme Predjudice (Walter Hill), 29. Blind Date (Blake Edwards), 30. Hollywood Shuffle (Robert Townsend)

1988
1. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese), 2. Bird (Clint Eastwood), 3. Rain Man (Barry Levinson), 4. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders), 5. Midnight Run (Martin Brest), 6. Clean & Sober (Glenn Gordon Caron), 7. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), 8. Die Hard (John McTeirnan), 9. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton & John Cleese), 10. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), 11. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo), 12. Eight Men Out (John Sayles), 13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis), 14. Biloxi Blues (Mike Nichols), 15. Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted), 16. Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker), 17. Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten), 18. Working Girl (Mike Nichols), 19. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton), 20. Women on the Verge of a Nrevous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar), 21. The Chocolate War (Keith Gordon), 22. Thelonious Monk (Charlotte Zwerin), 23. The Vansihing (George Sluizer), 24. Big (Penny Marshall), 25. The Beast (Kevin Reynolds), 26. Five Corners (Tony Bill), 27. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton), 28. Frantic (Roman Polanski), 29. The Accused (Jonathan Kaplan), 30. Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan), 31. Tucker: The Man & His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola), 32. Things Change (David Mamet), 33. Without A Clue (Tom Eberhardt), 34. The Milagro Beanfield War (Robert Redford), 35. The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)

1989
1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee), 2. Roger & Me (Michael Moore), 3. "Lonesome Dove" (Simon Wincer), 4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway), 5. The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito), 6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam), 7. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus van Sant), 8. sex, lies & videotape (Steven Soderbergh), 9. When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner), 10. Crimes & Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), 11. Black Rain (Shohei Imamura), 12. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), 13. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson), 14. Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe), 15. Parents (Bob Balaban), 16. Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand), 17. Glory (Ed Zwick), 18. Batman (Tim Burton), 19. Valmont (Milos Forman), 20. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), 21. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg), 22. Vampires Kiss (Robert Bierman), 23. Let it Ride (Joe Pytka), 24. Breaking In (Bill Forsyth), 25. The Big Picture (Christopher Guest), 26. Always (Steven Spielberg), 27. The 'burbs (Joe Dante), 28. Parenthood (Ron Howard), 29. Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill), 30. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Laconte), 31. Heathers (Michael Lehmann), 32. Jacknife (David Jones), 33. Miracle Mile (Steve DeJarnatt), 34. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone), 35. Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten)


1980 - 1989
1. BladeRunner (1982)
2. Do the Right Thing (1989)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
5. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
6. Amadeus (1984)
7. The Mosquito Coast (1986)
8. After Hous (1985)
9. Bird (1988)
10. Brazil (1985)


1990
1. GoodFellas (Marty Scorsese), 2. Miller's Crossing (The Coen Brothers), 3. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne), 4. The Grifters (Stephen Frears), 5. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood), 6. la femme Nikita (Luc Besson), 7. Joe versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley), 8. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa), 9. The Freshman (Andrew Bergman), 10. After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley), 11. Avalon (Barry Levinson), 12. The Two Jakes (Jack Nicholson), 13. Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau), 14. The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper), 15. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty), 16. Quick Change (Howard Franklin & Bill Murray), 17. Misery (Rob Reiner), 18. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman), 19. Q&A (Sidney Lumet), 20. Miami Blues (George Armiatge), 21. State of Grace (Phil Joanou), 22. Wild at Heart (David Lynch), 23. Tremors (Ron Underwood), 24. Exorcist III: Legion (William Peter Blatty), 25. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)

1991
1. Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen), 2. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam), 3. Delicatessen (Caro & Jeunet), 4. The Commitments (Alan Parker), 5. L.A. Story (Mick Jackson), 6. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), 7. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Barr & Hickenlooper), 8. Cape Fear (Marty Scorsese), 9. Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks), 10. Bugsy (Barry Levinson), 11. Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), 12. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), 13. Truly, Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella), 14. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin), 15. City of Hope (John Sayles), 16. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott), 17. Blood & Concrete: a love story (Jeffrey Reiner), 18. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg), 19. Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch), 20. Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom), 21. Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang), 22. The Indian Runner (Sean Penn), 23. Men of Respect (William Reilly), 24. Hudson Hawk (Michael Lehmann), 25. Beauty & the Beast (DISNEY)

1992
1. Unforgiven (Clint Eatswood), 2. The Player (Robert Altman), 3. The Waterdance (Neal Jiminez), 4. One False Move (Carl Franklin), 5. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley), 6. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara), 7. Brother's Keeper (Berlinger, Sinofsky & Sinofsky), 8. Man Bites Dog (Belvaux, Bonzel & Poelvoorde), 9. Reservior Dogs (Quentin Tarantino), 10. Night & the City (Irwin Winkler), 11. Indochine (Regis Wargnier), 12. Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins), 13. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), 14. Hero (Stephen Frears), 15. Malcolm X (Spike Lee), 16. BARAKA (Ron Fricke), 17. White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton), 18. Passion Fish (John Sayles), 19. Mississippi Massala (Mira Nair), 20. The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte)

1993
1. Fearless (Peter Weir), 2. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood), 3. Short Cuts (Robert Altman), 4. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese), 5. The Music of Chance (Philip Haas), 6. Three Colours: Blue (Kieslowski), 7. Carlito's Way (Brian DePalma), 8. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), 9. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh), 10. Naked (Mike Leigh), 11. Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme), 12. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), 13. Orlando (Sally Potter), 14. A Bronx Tale (Robert DeNiro), 15. The Ballad of Little Jo (Maggie Greenwald), 16. King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh), 17. In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan), 18. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Gerard), 19. In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen), 20. Where the Rivers Flow North (Jay Craven), 21. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis), 22. Mad Dog & Glory (John McNaughton), 23. Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders), 24. Kalifornia (Dominic Sena), 25. Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez), 26. Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steve Zaillian), 27. The Firm (Sydney Pollack), 28. Matinee (Joe Dante), 29. True Romance (Tony Scott), 30. Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)

1994
1. Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle), 2. Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson), 3. The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen Brothers) 4. Ed Wood (Tim Burton) 5. Fresh (Boaz Yakin), 6. Death & the Maiden (Roman Polanksi), 7. Hoop Dreams (Steve James), 8. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino), 9. Nattevagen (Ole Bornedal), 10. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson), 11. Barcelona (Whit Stillman), 12. Three Colours: Red (Kieslowski), 13. Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott), 14. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen), 15. Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori), 16. Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton), 17. The Secret of Roan Inish (John Sayles), 18. The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh), 19. Exotica (Atom Egoyan), 20. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis), 21. Three Colours: White (Kieslowski), 22. Amateur (Hal Hartley), 23. Four Weddings & A Funeral (Mike Newell), 24. Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak), 25. True Lies (James Cameron)

1995
1. SE7EN (David Fincher), 2. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam), 3. Casino (Martin Scorsese), 4. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch), 5. The City of Lost Children (Caro & Jeunet), 6. To Die For (Gus van Sant), 7. Heat (Michael Mann), 8. Smoke (Wayne Wang), 9. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer), 10. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood), 11. Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld), 12. Toy Story (John Lasseter), 13. Blue in the Face (Wang & Auster), 14. The Crossing Guard (Sean Penn), 15. Swimming with Sharks (George Huang), 16. Richard III (Richard Loncraine), 17. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin), 18. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard), 19. Funny Bones (Peter Chelsom), 20. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)

1996
1. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), 2. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh), 3. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen), 4. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson), 5. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier), 6. Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest), 7. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz), 8. Lonestar (John Sayles), 9. Normal Life (John McNaughton), 10. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle), 11. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton), 12. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (Benjamin Ross), 13. Box of Moonlight (Tom DiCillo), 14. Big Night (Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci), 15. Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh), 16. White Squall (Ridley Scott), 17. Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell), 18. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Kelly Makin), 19. Shine (Scott Hicks), 20. Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard)

1997
1. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson), 2. As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks), 3. Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbearg), 4. Men with Guns (John Sayles), 5. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), 6. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute), 7. Touch (Paul Schrader), 8. Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson), 9. Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage), 10. Kundun (Martin Scorsese), 11. CopLand (James Mangold), 12. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino), 13. The House of Yes (Mark Waters), 14. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan), 15. Men In Black (Berry Sonnenfeld), 16. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), 17. Afterglow (Alan Rudolph), 18. The Edge (Lee Tamahouri), 19. Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne), 20. The Man Who Knew Too Little (Jon Amiel), 21. Blood & Wine (Bob Rafelson), 22. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris), 23. The Apostle (Robert Duvall), 24. Gummo (Harmonie Korine), 25. The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)

1998
1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson), 2. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen), 3. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam), 4. The Thin Red Line (Terry Malick), 5. The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan), 6. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh), 7. Happiness (Todd Solondz), 8. Chinese Box (Wayne Wang), 9. Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute), 10. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi), 11. The Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins), 12. The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet), 13. Six-String Samurai (Lance Mungia), 14. Taxi (Gerard Pires), 15. The Red Violin (Francios Girard), 16. Lawn Dogs (John Duigan), 17. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley), 18. Dark City (Alex Proyas), 19. Pi (Darren Aronofsky), 20. Bulworth (Warren Beatty), 21. The Impostors (Stanley Tucci), 22. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo), 23. Affliction (Paul Schrader), 24. Gods & Monsters (Bill Condon), 25. The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos), 26. Twilight (Robert Benton), 27. Nightwatch (Ole Borendal), 28. Rounders (John Dahl), 29. Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher), 30. Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan)

1999
1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick), 2. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze), 3. Fight Club (David Fincher), 4. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh), 5. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer), 6. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese), 7. The Straight Story (David Lynch), 8. Election (Alexander Payne), 9. The Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders), 10. The Blair Witch Project (Sanchez & Myrick), 11. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar), 12. Snow Falling on Cedars (Scott Hicks), 13. Last Night (Don McKellar), 14. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Stone & Parker), 15. The Minus Man (Hampton Fancher), 16. Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenabar), 17. Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman), 18. Titus (Julie Taymor), 19. Stir of Echoes (David Koepp), 20. American Movie (Chris Smith), 21. The Winslow Boy (David Mamet), 22. Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot), 23. Office Space (Mike Judge), 24. Go (Doug Liman), 25. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)

1990 - 1999
1. GoodFellas (1990)
2. Unforgiven (1992)
3. Miller's Crossing (1990)
4. Fearless (1993)
5. A Perfect World (1993)
6. Rushmore (1998)
7. Eyes Wide Shut (1991)
8. Hamlet (1996)
9. SE7EN (1995)
10. Shallow Grave (1994)


2000
1. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier), 2. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson), 3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen), 4. Shadow of the Vampire (Elias Merhige), 5. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky), 6. Love's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh), 7. Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), 8. Snatch (Guy Ritchie), 9. Quills (Philip Kaufman), 10. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh), 11. Best in Show (Christopher Guest), 12. State & Main (David Mamet), 13. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh), 14. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears), 15. Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt), 16. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe), 17. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean), 18. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan), 19. The Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte), 20. Waking the Dead (Keith Gordon), 21. What Planet Are You From? (Mike Nichols), 22. Croupier (Mike Hodges), 23. The Tao of Steve (Jenniphr Goodman), 24. Bossa Nova (Bruno Barreto), 25. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)

2001
1. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), 2. Memento (Christopher Nolan), 3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson), 4. Gosford Park (Robert Altman), 5. The Pledge (Sean Penn), 6. The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson), 7. The Princess & the Warrior (Tom Tykwer), 8. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen), 9. Waking Life (Richard Linklater), 10. Monsters, Inc. (PIXAR), 11. Under the Sand (François Ozon), 12. In the Bedroom (Todd Field), 13. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu), 14. Lantana (Ray Lawrence), 15. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai), 16. No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic), 17. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe), 18. Mullholland Drive (David Lynch), 19. Made (Jon Favreau), 20. The Others (Alejandro Amenábar), 21. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff), 22. The Caveman's Valentine (Kasi Lemmons), 23. The Claim (Michael Winterbottom), 24. The Mexican (Gore Verbinski), 25. Lamumba (Raoul Peck)

2002
1. Adaptation (Spike Jonze), 2. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar), 3. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese), 4. Bowling for Columbine (MIchael Moore), 5. Chicago (Rob Marshall), 6. Frida (Julie Taymor), 7. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Philip Noyce), 8. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney), 9. Last Orders (Fred Schepisi), 10. The Pianist (Roman Polanski), 11. Sunshine State (John Sayles), 12. Tadpole (Gary Winick), 13. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh), 14. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jaxkson), 15. 13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher), 16. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (Zacharias Kunuk), 17. The Quiet American (Philip Noyce), 18. The Hours (Stephen Daldry), 19. Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld), 20. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)

2003
1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola), 2. City of God (Fernando Meirelles), 3. The Fog of War (Erroll Morris), 4. House of Sand & Fog (Vadim Perelman), 5. City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon), 6. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Bob Pulcini), 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson), 8. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen), 9. A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest), 10. Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers), 11. The Good Thief (Neil Jordan), 12. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki), 13. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears), 14. The Last Samurai (Ed Zwick), 15. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy), 16. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood), 17. Finding Nemo (PIXAR), 18. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle), 19. The Cooler (Wayne Kramer), 20. The School of Rock (Richard Linllater), 21. The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand), 22. The Tripletes of Bellville (Sylvain Chomet), 23. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski), 24. The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte), 25. 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu)

2004
1. Dogville (Lars von Trier), 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), 3. Hotel Rwanda (Terry George), 4. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), 5. The Corporation (Abbott & Achbar), 6. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood), 7. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), 8. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore), 9. The Incredibles (Brad Bird), 10. Closer (Mike Nichols), 11. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright), 12. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles), 13. I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell), 14. I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores), 15. Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald), 16. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson), 17. Maria Full of Grace (Jashua Marston), 18. Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), 19. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin), 20. Young Adam (David Mackenzie), 21. Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles), 22. Incident at Loch Ness (Werner Herzog), 23. Super-Size Me (Morgan Spurlock), 24. Goodbye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker), 25. Silver City (John Sayles)

2005
1. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones), 2. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog), 3. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund), 4. Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer), 5. Proof (John Madden), 6. Crash (Paul Haggis), 7. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch), 8. Munich (Steven Spielberg), 9. Good Night, And Good Luck, 10. SIN CITY (Rodriguez & Miller), 11. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney), 12. The New World (Terrence Malick), 13. The Squid & the Whale (Noah Baumbach), 14. Mua len Trau - Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vo), 15. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan), 16. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman), 17. The Producers (Susan Stroman), 18. Nine Lives (Rodrigo García), 19. Serenity (Joss Whedon), 20. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), 21. Capote (Bennett Miller), 22. Junebug (Phil Morrison), 23. Match Point (Woody Allen), 24. In the Realm of the Unreal (Jessica Yu), 25. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)

Holden, you put Joe Vs. The Volcano as a Top 10!?

Yes. Yes I did, Spud. I think Joe Versus the Volcano is a brilliant movie, a darkly comic romantic fantasy satire, misunderstood and very underrated. It's one of my very favorites. I've sung its praises elsewhere on the board, including the "Top Comedies of the '90s" thread HERE.


Where's your list, Spudster. Go back as far as you can, top fives, top threes, whatever you can muster.

I'm with you Holden Joe Vs The Volcano rocks I bought it a little while ago and I watched it a fell in love with it I then convince my brother who was like I've seen the movie it's not that good I just told him I was very impressed by "JOE" and that I thought he should definatly give the movie another try so he borrowed it from me when I asked him what he thought he said it was great. I think it's one of those word of mouth movies were someone says it's bad but it really isn't you just have to give the movie a chance and have your own opinion about it. Rent that puppy again spudracer I think you'll love it.

The moon shot were he stands up is incredible I love love love that shot it's a wet dream shot for me HA ! HA ! HA !
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You should see Joe vs. the Volcano letterboxed, Jeffries. I can't stand to watch that one cropped, it hurts my eyes. Thank the Movie Gods for LaserDisc!

Ok, sorry for jumping on you for having Joe listed.

1990 - Present(in no order, cause I hate putting these in order)

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. The Matrix
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Usual Suspects
6. Memento
7. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
8. Jurassic Park
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

You have no idea how hard this list was to make.

This is the best you could do for movies in 1990? GoodFellas in the same boat as Jacob's Ladder? Joe vs. the Volcano? Tremors?

What about: Reversal of Fortune
Misery was better than Tremors!
Postcards From the Edge
Greencard was great! A much better performance from Gerard Depardieu.
The Hunt for Red October came out in 1990.

Holden, your list is incomplete.

Quick Change, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Misery, Awakenings, Dick Tracy, Miami Blues, The Hunt For Red October, Metropolitan, Q&A, and I Love You to Death would have filled out my 16 through 25 spots for 1990, but I was trying to keep 'em to a fifteen maximum on years with lots of favorites, already bending the rules from a "top ten".

Reversal of Fortune had two great central performances by Irons and Silver, but I didn't think the movie was spectacular overall. Green Card is a piece of ***** (and I happen to be in love with Andie MacDowell), far and away my least favorite Peter Weir movie. You think Depardieu's performance is much better than what exactly? And while I like a lot of Mike Nichols' work, I found Postcards from the Edge very overrated, despite an amazing cast. Carrie Fisher's book is much better than the adaptation.

Do you want a list of movies I didn't like from 1990? Young Guns 2, Loose Cannons, The Rookie, The Desperate Hours, The First Power, Graffiti Bridge, Revenge, Days of Thunder, Rocky V and Bonfire of the Vanities were the pits. The Godfather Part III was a big disappointment. I thought Ghost was horrible, I actually fell asleep in the theater watching Edward Scissorhands, and the most overrated movie of the year by far was Dances with Wolves.

And yes, I love Jacob's Ladder, Joe vs. the Volcano, Tremors and everything else on that list: that's why they're there. I don't think any of those are as good as GoodFellas, which is why that movie holds the number one position (and number one for the whole decade too).


My list isn't incomplete, just different from yours (apparently). Where ARE your lists, Sades?


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Green Card is SO not a piece of sh*t. It was funny, witty, sweet, endearing...and if you are in love with Andie MacDowell, then this is her best showcase. You have another movie she was in that featured her better?

My list is coming when I'm ready to do it. It's a long excersise, I'm not willing to put anything less than 100% into it. Besides, I'm having more fun disecting your choices.

Since I'm thinking about it, I'll do the year 1990
1. Goodfellas
2. Godfather: Part 3
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Grifters
5. Misery
6. Post Cards From the Edge
7. Reversal of Fortune
8. Edward Scissorhands
9. Green Card
10. Home Alone

Personally I thought McDowell looked particularly attractive in "The Muse." She's not "showy" beautiful...which I can't help but appreciate. She sure has aged gracefully (she's 43, in case any of you were wondering).

And too old for you there TWT.

It's amazing how well people in Hollywood hide their age. I mean Ah-nuld and Sly are up there almost 60, and they look like late 40s early 50s.

Oopsie...sorry to get this off subject.

1991

1. Silence of the Lambs
2. The Commitments
3. Cape Fear
4. Bugsy
5. Thelma and Louise
6. Backdraft
7. City Slickers
8. Fried Green Tomatoes
9. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
10. L.A. Story

Andie MacDowell's best acting is still Soderbergh's sex, lies & videotape, followed by her work in Altman's Short Cuts, Wim Wender's The End of Violence, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg's The Object of Beauty. She also turned in a very strong dramatic performance in "Dinner with Friends", which premiered on HBO earlier this year. I thought she was very funny in Hudson Hawk (the "you must talk to the dolphins" bit always puts me on the floor), just right in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and absolutely perfect in Groundhog Day. Also, I would have been very "obsessed, thank you very much" with her in St. Elmo's Fire too.

All of those are I think beter showcases for Andie MacDowell. She wasn't bad in Green Card, definitely my favorite thing about the movie, but the script was tedious and obvious, and from a filmmaker like Weir it was a huge step backward. You can disagree of course, but for me Green Card was a crushing disappointment, considering the talent involved. This was the same year Depardieu was so spectaculr as Cyrano, and you prefer the garbled would-be light romantic fluff in this flick? OK. We definitely differ on that.

I knew you were going to say that. I hated this movie. It was well acted, I'll give it credit for that, but it was talky and slow moving with no payoff. Soderbergh's weakest work.

And I knew you were going to say that. "Talky" was the design and rather the point, "slow moving" isn't a negative here but the best way to unfold a small character study (what did you want, a car chase?), and it had a fantastic, perfect pay-off. Peter Gallagher's hypocritical character having to watch helplessly as his wife opens up and is about to experience real intimacy with Graham is great stuff.

And how many of Soderbergh's movies have you even seen? I'll wager you likely haven't seen at least three of the following: Kafka, King of the Hill, Schizopolis, Gray's Anatomy, The Underneath and The Limey.


Isn't that what you were asking for? It is Andie MacDowell's best work. You want to see her act, look at sex, lies and videotape, not Green Card.