Your Favorite movies made the year you where Born

^ Haha, that happy birthday for me? xD Thanks! I turned 13 a couple of months ago, though.

Of course, My Dear.

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Well Okay. This is going to really date me but here goes:

1948

This was a great year for film noir, a few classic westerns, and some really important films on the list of greatest films of all times:

The Big Clock - great noir with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein - need I say more?
Call Northside 777 - one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart films also starring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb
The Fallen Idol - directed by Carol Reed, a must see film
Force of Evil - noir with John Garfield and directed by Abraham Polonsky
A Foreign Affair - comedy with a touch of post war commentary directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marlene Dietrich, both refugees from Hitler's Germany
Fort Apache - John Ford and John Wayne
Hamlet - Olivier's classic, Best Picture 1949
I Walk Alone - classic noir with Burt Lancaster
Joan of Arc - starring Ingrid Bergman
Key Largo - directed by John Huston starring Bogart, Bacall and Edward G.
Kidnapped - Stevenson's tale with a young Roddy McDowell
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands - again classic noir with Lancaster and Joan Fontaine
Letter from an Unknown Woman - a classic directed by Max Ophüls starring Joan Fontaine
Macbeth - one of Qrson Wells masterpieces
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Mryna Loy
The Naked City - classic noir by the great Jules Dassin
Oliver Twist - David Lean's moody take on Dickens wth Alec Guinness as Fagin
Red River - one of greatest westerns ever made, directed by Howard Hawks starring Wayne and Montgomery Clift
The Red Shoes - the classic fairy tale
Superman - yes there was a Superman before Christopher Reeves
They Live by Night - noir again, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Farley Granger
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Huston and Bogart again, IMO one of the 5 greatest films ever made
Wake of the Red Witch - a classic for John Wayne fans

1948 - a great year for film (and birthdays).

And Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai, Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, Anthony Mann's Raw Deal, Sorry, Wrong Number and The Snake Pit from Anatole Litvak, Hitchcock's Rope, Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express, Jean Cocteau & Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terribles, Wild Bill Wellman's The Yellow Sky, George Sidney's The Three Musketeers with Gene Kelly as D'Artangnan, Gene again in Vincente Minnelli's The Pirate, and the Bob Hope Western spoof The Paleface.

For me The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the best of that amazing year, but you can't go wrong with any of 'em.


I've dated myself. And it's not true what they say: I haven't gone blind or grown hair on my palms.

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Wow, yeah, 1975 got stiffed, comparatively.... (Luckily i was busy doing my Winston Churchill impression and didn't notice )


Seen:

Jaws
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Rollerball
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Three Days of the Condor


Notable Haven't Seens:

Barry Lyndon
The Man Who Would Be King
Nashville
Love and Death
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Tommy (partially seen)


**EDIT** Notable Haven't Seens Reco'd by His Esteemed Holden-ness :

Night Moves
A Boy & His Dog
Dersu Uzala
The Yakuza
Swept Away
The Story of Adele H
Hard Times
Bite the Bullet
The French Connection II
The Sunshine Boys


List of Shame:

Supervixens

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1992

Gladiator
Basic Instinct
Lethal Weapon 3
Alien 3
Patriot Games
Unforgiven
Hellraiser III
The Last of the Mohicans
Of Mice and Men
Reservoir Dogs
A Few Good Men

Yes.

You are just my age group

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Films from 1987 that I've seen and liked...

Full Metal Jacket
The Princess Bride
Broadcast News
Lethal Weapon
Raising Arizona
Evil Dead II
Eddie Murphy: RAW
Withnail & I
Overboard
Roxanne
The Untouchables
RoboCop

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1979

Apocalypse Now
Life of Brian
Manhattan

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Three of my favourite movies.

Mine too.

An above average year in my opinion. There are still probably a whole lotta '89 flicks I haven't seen but need to watch though.

1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Do the Right Thing
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Heathers
5. Field of Dreams

Well, typically "movies" were crude cuneiform glyphs chiseled into stone, back in the dim pre-historical era when I first drew breath... but, be that as it may, and in no particular order:

Thunder Road

Vertigo

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Terror in a Texas Town

The Big Country

A Touch of Evil

The Magician

Looking at everyone else's lists in this thread just makes my arthritis flare up, out of sheer spitefulness.

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1941? Really?

1. Magnolia
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Being John Malkovich
4. American Movie
5. The Wind Will Carry Us
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Audition
9. Rosetta
10. Ratcatcher

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1. Vertigo
2. Touch Of Evil
3. The Old Man and the Sea
4. The Blob
5. The Defiant Ones
6. The Fly
7. A Night to Remember
8.The Brothers Karamazov
9.Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
10. Corridors of Blood

Same age.

Very interesting thread that's been going for over 20 years!

Phantom of the Paradise
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Chinatown
Blazing Saddles
The Conversation
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
California Split
Thieves Like Us
And what the hell Zardoz

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