Top 10 lists from 2001 to 1965

If you'd like to add it, there is a thread devoted specifically to 2001 lists, HERE.

And Bullet, have you still not seen The Royal Tenenbaums, The Man Who Wasn't There, Waking Life, In the Bedroom or The Pledge (all made my list)? And what about Memento, how did that get left off?

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Imagine where you live. Move it to Australia. Take away all traces of artistic integrity. Take away any cinema that shows anything that wasn't made by Bruckhiemer. Take away any cinema with over three screens. Add ignorance into the community. Remove the city. Add rural people. And cattle, add cattle. Now. Take away reasonable waiting dates for DVDs. Thanks.

You should know from many a previous post, albeit old ones, that I have wanted to see The Man Who Wasn't There and Waking Life with such passion, but no available means to do so. The Royal Tenenbaums and In The Bedroom follow them slightly. Granted, I haven't seen The Pledge.

As for Memento, I watched that in terrible conditions. I'm talking a crowded room of drunk people. For that reason, I had mixed opinions about it. As a film I can't judge it too much, I shouldn't think, but I must also say I don't find the manner in which it was told strikingly special. Not confusing, mind you, just not special to me personally. I didn't see what the fuss was about from that. I agree with you in saying that the performance in it from Pearce was outstanding and is enough to get it into my top fifteen. I'd have to see it again before I can judge it properly. But it's lower on my list. Surely the fact that I hunted down Amelie means something, adn surely you'd suggest that I don't cease in my efforts to find your precious Chinatown and other such classics to see Memento straight away?

Don't for a second think that I'm happy with number five down on my list. I'm not. But I stand by my top four. I truly loved each of them [none of them as much as Amelie, of course].

I'm done.
Good day.

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Yeah, it sucks being you. Seriously, I love movies so much, I couldn't live anywhere other than a major metropolitan area here in The States. It's like The Wolf told Jules & Vincent: move out of the sticks, fella.

But hey, I know a movie from last year that you did get to see and you raved and raved about (though I remain unimpressed), but you somehow forgot to add it to your list: A Beautiful Mind. Or has seeing Amelie and Gosford Park finally put Ronnie Howard's movie in perspective a bit?

I would recommend seeing Memento again sometime in better surroundings, it's worth it. And yes, the fact that you haven't seen Chinatown is depressing in its own right.

You must now be cursing extra loud for not having had the opportunity to see Amelie on the big screen. Man, what an experience that is! I only got to see it six times theatrically, and that wasn't nearly enough for me.

I did rave about A Beautiful Mind and I still believe that it was a good film, and I'd still stand up for it if heated debate started up, and I can see why the Academy would give such a film Best Picture, I just don't happen to think it was the best picture of the year. I'm not sure I ever said it was the year's best picture. I still think Crowe's performance was the best out of those nominated too. But yes, seeing Gosford Park and Amelie put many a film back in its place. Amelie did this especially. I can't stress that enough.

I could watch that film all day.
Not seeing it on the big screen doesn't phase me.
I still smile and laugh and [almost] cry in all the same places.
She's still Amelie.

Silver Bullet...hon, where the hell do you live? You really need to move to Sydney away from those cows...there are arthouse cinemas galore, multiplexes in every shopping centre and Blockbuster rules the world. I wouldn't want the world thinking Australia was all backwater!

You'd be being naive...

I want off this rock.

Ha! Well good for you then...I'm certainly not going to dampen your youthful idealism with any smart arse remarks. Off the rock you should go! I sincerely hope you find that wonderful place to realise all your artistic aspirations.

As for the naive part... I must tell you I used to have your attitude to Australia but at the risk of sounding like a complete tosser I have now travelled, lived and studied all over the world - London, LA, New York, Toronto, Nairobi, Paris, Jakarta... (obviously I'm a fair bit older than you I suspect!!) Once you come back home you realise Australia aint so bad artistically or culturally ... well Sydney isn't anyway. I tend to stick inner city...cows freak me out!

No, Sydney isn't, I know.
But I ain't in Sydney. I can't see myself growing anywhere but here, but I can't see myself living the rest of my life anywhere but in a number of places all over the world. So be it, I guess...

Whenever I look back on such posts as these I realise just how much I hate myself...

Yeah, I'm in the process of going through and revising my own lists. Not majorly in most cases, but sometimes I look at a given year and think, 'Why is that way up there? And where is this one at all?'. Such is the joy of painstakingly making such lists, that on any given day, and certainly years later, your tastes will change in major and minor ways. Plus you catch up with more films.

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2001: No Such Thing; The Pledge; Sex and Lucia; Monsters, Inc. ; Millennium Actress; Gosford Park; Scary Movie 2; Warm Water Under a Red Bridge; Mulholland Drive; Ghost World.
2000: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; The Heart of the World; Time and Tide; The Claim; O Brother, Where Art Thou? ; The Princess and the Warrior; Memento; In the Mood For Love; Cast Away; State and Main; Yi Yi; Vatel.
1999: Limbo; The Ninth Gate; The Straight Story; Mystery Men; Taboo; Fight Club; Wonderland; eXistenZ; The Limey; The Iron Giant; Sweet and Lowdown; Cookie’s Fortune; The Winslow Boy; Ghost Dog; Cradle Will Rock.
1998: The Thin Red Line; Knock Off; Snake Eyes; Black Cat White Cat; Dr. Akagi; Buffalo '66; Rushmore; Gods and Monsters; The Bird People of China; Lola Rennt; The Big Lebowski.
1997: Too Many Ways to Be No. 1; The Eel; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control; Cube; Princess Mononoke; Men With Guns; The House of Yes; L.A. Confidential; Oscar and Lucinda; Affliction; Fireworks; The Designated Mourner.
1996: Lone Star; Don't Be a Mennace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood; Microcosmos; Comrades: Almost a Love Story; Hamlet; The King of Masks; Schitzopolis; Fargo; The Stunt Woman; Scream.
1995: The Blade; The Crossing Guard; Memories; Fallen Angels; Twelve Monkeys; Toy Story; Forgotten Silver; Lord of Illusions; Sense and Sensibility; Safe; Whisper of the Heart.
1994: Eat Drink Man Woman; Amateur; The Hudsucker Proxy; To Live; The Legend of the Drunken Master; Vanya on 42nd Street; Bottle Rocket; Chungking Express; Pulp Fiction; Heavenly Creatures.
1993: Sonatine; Arizona Dream; Ninja Scroll; Naked; Short Cuts; The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl; Manhattan Murder Mystery; Fearless; The Wrong Trousers; Oedipus Rex; Much Ado About Nothing; Iron Monkey; Can’t go Wrong Without You.
1992: Police Story 3; Minbo; Naked Killer; The Player; Unforgiven; Vacas; Passion Fish; Careful!; Glengarry Glen Ross; Romper Stomper.
1991: Once Upon a Time in China; Prospero's Books; Kyoto, My Mother's Place; Zodiac Killers; Silence of the Lambs; Raise the Red Lantern; Tricky Brains; Soapdish; Thelma & Louise; City of Hope.
1990: The Decade of Destruction Part 1: In the Ashes of the Forest; Vincent & Theo; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Miller’s Crossing; Ju Dou; Trust; The Reflecting Skin; Shadow of China; Goodfellas; Nikita.
1989: Casualties of War; Pedicab Driver; Do the Right Thing; Rikyu; Tetsuo: the Iron Man; Gremlins 2; The Shocker; Kuroi Ame; The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover; The War of the Roses.
1988: Akira; Die Hard; Time of the Gypsies; Dead Ringers; The Thin Blue Line; Drowning by Numbers; Eight Men Out; A Taxing Woman's Return; My Neighbor Totoro; Dragons Forever.
1987: The Untouchables; Throw Momma From the Train; A Taxing Woman; Full Metal Jacket; The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On; High Tide; Matewan; A Chinese Ghost Story; Evil Dead 2; Project A 2.
1986: Peking Opera Blues; The Fly; The Singing Detective; Max mon amour; The Mosquito Coast; Fist of the North Star; Ferris Beuller's Day Off; Aliens; Blue Velvet; The Color of Money.
1985: A Zed & Two Noughts; Tampopo; Mishima; Ran; After Hours; Himatsuri; Fright Night; Alamo Bay; Mr. Vampire; Re-Animator.
1984: Repo Man; Gremlins; Ghostbusters; Body Double; Stranger Than Paradise; A Nightmare on Elm Street; Shanghai Blues; Stop Making Sense; Macross: Do You Remember Love?; Terminator; Wheels on Meals.
1983: Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain; Three Crowns of the Sailor; Nostalghia; The Ballad of Narayama; Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence; Winners and Sinners; Videodrome; The King of Comedy; Project A; The Professional: Golgio 13.
1982: The Draughtsman's Contract; Blade Runner; Boat People; Fanny and Alexander; The Snowman; Cat People; Fitzcarraldo; White Dog; Arcadia of My Youth; Gundam 3; Dragon Lord; My Favorite Year.
1981: My Dinner With Andre; Eijanaika; The Prodigal Son; Blow Out; The French Lieutenant's Woman; The Raiders of the Lost Ark; Gundam; Gundam 2; The Howling; The Great Muppet Caper.
1980: Popeye; The Empire Strikes Back; Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind; The Shining; Encounters of the Spooky Kind; Atlantic City; The Stunt Man; Hopscotch; The Spooky Bunch; The Big Red One.
1979: The Muppet Movie; Vengeance is Mine; Alien; Dirty Ho; The Butterfly Murders; My Brilliant Career; Tale of Tales; Magnificent Butcher; Apocalypse Now; Ninja Checkmate.
1978: Days of Heaven; Future Boy Conan; The Deullists; Dawn of the Dead; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Warriors Two; Comes a Horseman; Snake in the Eagle's Shadow; Drunken Master; A Walk Through H.
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Suspiria; Amar Akbar Anthony; Annie Hall; Star Wars; House; 3 Women; Eraserhead; Rabid; Stroszek.
1976: The Tenant; Carrie; Taxi Driver; F for Fake; In the Realm of Senses; Harlan County U.S.A. ; Network; Heart of Glass; The Private Eyes; Tracks.
1975: Picnic at Hanging Rock; Jaws; Deep Red; Barry Lyndon; They Came From Within; Nashville; Dog Day Afternoon; Seven Beauties; Dersu Uzala; Yozik in the Fog; Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS.
1974: Chinatown; The Godfather Part 2; Phantom of the Paradise; Black Belt Jones; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Andy Warhol's Dracula; Young Frankenstein; Thieves Like Us; Murder on the Orient Express; The Conversation.
1973: The Long Goodbye; Don't Look Now; The Last of Sheila; The Exorcist; Badlands; Sisters; Love and Anarchy; Fantastic Planet; The Holy Mountain; Serpico.
1972: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes; The Seduction of Mimi; The Godfather; Deliverance; Images; The Ruling Class; Frenzy; Pink Flamingos; Sleuth; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Battle of Kerzhenets; Straw Dogs; The Ceremony; A Clockwork Orange; Little Murders; The Last Movie; Carnal Knowledge; Duck You Sucker; How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman.
1970: Brewster McCloud; Le Cercle Rouge; Little Big Man; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion; Catch 22; Hi, Mom! ; The man who left his will on film; El Topo; The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess; M*A*S*H.
1969: Easy Rider; Boy; Z; Funeral Parade of Roses; Army of Shadows; Double Suicide; Midnight Cowboy; The Wild Bunch; Fellini: A Director's Notebook; A Touch of Zen.
1968: The Adventures of Horus: Prince of the Sun; 2001; The Profound Desire of the Gods; Inferno of First Love; Death by Hanging; Rosemary’s Baby; Once Upon a Time in the West; The Man Without a Map; Three Resurrected Drunkards; If.
1967: The Fearless Vampire Killers; Manual of Ninja Martial Arts; The Graduate; Japanese Summer: Double Suicide; The One-Armed Swordsman; Branded to Kill; Le Samouraï; The Jungle Book; Dragon Inn; Point Blank.
1966: The Good the Bad and the Ugly; Andrei Rublev; Come Drink With Me; King of Hearts; The Face of Another; Blowup; Fighting Elegy; Persona; Seconds; Report on the Party and the Guests.
1965: Kaidan; The Saragossa Manuscript; The 10th Victim; How to Murder Your Wife; For a Few Dollars More; Doctor Zhivago; The Chimes at Midnight; Pleasures of the Flesh; Red Beard; The Ipcress File; Repulsion.
1964: Soy Cuba; Woman in the Dunes; My Fair Lady; Red Desert; Pale Flower; Gate of Flesh; Dr. Strangelove; A Shot in the Dark; Intentions of Murder; Onibaba.
1963: High and Low; The Boids; Charade; 8½; The Pink Panther; Shock Corridor; The Little Soldier; Youth of the Beast; The Sword in the Stone; The Fire Within.
1962: Lawrence of Arabia; The Jetty; Pitfall; The Trial; An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge; Knife in the Water; Seppuku; The Manchurian Candidate; Lolita; Cape Fear.
1961: The Innocents; Pigs and Battleships; Yojimbo; The Hustler; Last Year at Marienbad; One Hundred and One Dalmations; One, Two, Three; One-eyed Jack's; Mothra; The Misfits.

Anybody know a good site which lists films from each year? Tried IMDB but the lists get clogged up with tv shows and porn films.

Imdb. is pretty good. For example go here, and click on the 2003 after the title of the movie. Then it lists from A-B the movies of that particular year.

I think I'm going to gradually try working on my as well.

Thanks!

I'll go back as far as I can...

2007

1. Atonement
2. Knocked Up
3. Gone Baby Gone
4. Zodiac
5. Juno
6. No Country For Old Men
7. Michael Clayton
8. American Gangster
9. The Lookout
10. The Darjeeling Limited

2006

1. The Departed
2. Casino Royale
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Letters From Iwo Jima
5. Little Children
6. United 93
7. Inside Man
8. Children of Men
9. V for Vendetta
10. The Illusionist

2005

1. Sin City
2. The 40 Year Old Virgin
3. Batman Begins
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. Hustle & Flow
6. Crash
7. Wedding Crashers
8. Madagascar
9. Junebug
10. King Kong

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Collateral
3. Garden State
4. Super-Size Me
5. The Incredibles
6. Downfall
7. Kill Bill Vol. II
8. Hotel Rwanda
9. The Butterfly Effect
10. Spider-Man 2
I'll do more later...gotta run now.

Very interesting thread. Keep 'em coming!

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Top 10 since 1990 (IMO):

1. GoodFellas (1990)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4. Forrest Gump (1994)
5. The Departed (2006)
6. The Social Network (2010)
7. The Godfather Part III (1990)
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
9. Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
10. Inception (2010)

Top 10 of the 80s:

1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. The Terminator (1984)
5. First Blood (1982)
6. Raging Bull (1980)
7. Return of the Jedi (1983)
8. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
9. A Christmas Story (1983)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Top 10 of the 70s:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Chinatown (1974)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
4. Play Misty For Me (1971)
5. Alien (1979)
6. Dirty Harry (1971)
7. Jaws (1975)
8. Halloween (1978)
9. Star Wars (1977)
10. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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UPDATE:

Top 10 From 1990-Present

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Goodfellas
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. The Dark Knight
6. Forrest Gump
7. Scream
8. Casino
9. Cape Fear
10. Zodiac

Top 10 of the 80s:

1. Blue Velvet
2. Blade Runner
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Shining
5. The Terminator
6. Airplane!
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. First Blood
9. Aliens
10. A Christmas Story

Top 10 of the 70s:

1. The Godfather
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Chinatown
5. Dirty Harry
6. Halloween
7. Play Misty For Me
8. Star Wars
9. Apocalypse Now
10. A Clockwork Orange

Why 90 to present? Why not the 90's seperately and then 2000 to present?