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What is your favorite or favorites films from each of the decades starting with the 1920's to today.

Feel free to expand the parameters.

I'll have to think about it myself.

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1920s - dunno if I've seen any

1930s - dunno if I've seen any

1940s - The Maltese Falcon

1950s - War of the Worlds

1960s - The Pink Panther

1970s - Star Wars

1980s - How am I supposed to pick between Empire, Indy 2, BTTF, Goonies, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Princess Bride, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, Die Hard, Predator, Spaceballs...... bah!

1990s - The Fifth Element

2000s - The Fellowship of the Ring

2010s - Under The Skin

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1920s I don't think I've seen any

1930s The Wizard of Oz

1940s Pinocchio

1950s Ben-Hur

1960s The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

1970s Jaws

1980s Raiders of the Lost Ark

1990s Gettysburg

2000s The Lord of the Rings

2010s I really don't have one yet.

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Good idea! I have to think about it too.

Ok I thought about it.

1920s: Metropolis

1930s: Toss up between Snow White and a couple Marx bros. installments.

1940s: Gah, good decade. Key Largo, Gaslight, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It's A Wonderful Life... but I think Fantasia has to be the winner.

1950s: Another big one. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Forbidden Planet, Stalag 17, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Seven Samurai, Sunset Boulevard, North By Northwest, Paths of Glory... The Seventh Seal wins.

1960s: Too many to list this time, but the winner is crystal clear. 2001: a space odyssey, which of course is my favorite of all time. The greatest comedy of all time was also released this year, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

1970s: Very hard to whittle this one down. Manhattan or Barry Lyndon.

1980s: Good decade for comedies and adventures, but none of those stand out. RAN wins.

1990s: This one is fairly impossible. Probably either The Shawshank Redemption or The Thin Red Line.

2000s: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring despite stiff competition, particularly from this Nolan guy.

2010s: It's been a good one so far, but I feel more than comfortable forecasting: Interstellar.

All of these triggered a massive flood of titles that I adore, except the 80s. Interesting....

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1920s Nosferatu


1930s Mutiny on the Bounty


1940s Ivan The Terrible


1950s Sunset Boulevard


1960s Lawrence of Arabia


1970s Barry Lyndon


1980s E.T


1990s Schindler's List


2000s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World


2010s Hard to say yet


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1920s: The General

1930s: Bringing Up Baby

1940s: Dumbo

1950s: Seven Samurai

1960s: 2001 / For a Few Dollars More / Mary Poppins

1970s: Star Wars / Godfather / Apocalypse Now

1980s: Empire Strikes Back / Raiders

1990s: The Matrix

2000s: Harry Potter 3

2010s: Thor

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1920's: The Gold Rush (1925)

1930's: King Kong (1933)

1940's: Casablanca (1942)

1950's: North by Northwest (1959)

1960's: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

1970's: Jaws (1975)

1980's: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1981)

1990's: Jurassic Park (1993)

2000's: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

2010's: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Hardest pick was the 1980's (Raiders of the Lost Ark! Ghostbusters! Back to the Future! Die Hard!), followed by the 1970's (The Godfather! Star Wars!).

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1920s: Man With a Movie Camera, just because it's so zany. Sunrise and The Passion of Joan of Arc were really big deals for me too. Eye-opening. Oh, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed!

1930s: The Wizard of Oz. Easy choice for me, though there are some very worthy second-placers.

1940s: Fantasia or Children of Paradise...basically a tie, though Fantasia speaks more to my overall interests.

1950s: The hardest one for me. My favorite movie decade. Just 1957 alone had Lean, Bergman (x2), Kurosawa, Lumet, Kubrick, Wilder, Kazan, Kalatozov with career-best work...seriously, damn! Probably best movie year ever...erm, pass.

1960s: 2001 seems like the obvious choice, but I might go for Dr. Strangelove over it, along with The Saragossa Manuscript and The Battle of Algiers. If we're really talking "desert island" movies, though, gotta be A Hard Day's Night.

1970s: American Graffiti, Jaws, Nashville, and All That Jazz are among my all-time favorites, but there's just something about CE3K.

1980s: Hard not to say Back to the Future. The Decalogue would be right up there (if it counts) and Ran too, but yeah BTTF really hits the spot.

1990s: The Three Colors trilogy. Not even hard. I'll pick Blue out of the three.

2000s: The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Again, not that hard...actually more difficult to pick the one that stands out most, but that Christmas when Fellowship was unleashed on the world was really something.

2010s: Gravity, for now.

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I picked five from each decade; I forbade myself from choosing more than one from any given director.

 

1920s: Metropolis, Sunrise, The Battleship Potemkin, The General and Underground

1930s: Oh, Mr Porter!, The Informer, The 39 Steps, Duck Soup and Boudu, Saved from Drowning

1940s: Citizen Kane, A Matter of Life and Death, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ox-Bow Incident and Double Indemnity

1950s: The Wages of Fear, Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, The Seventh Seal and 12 Angry Men

1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Planet of the Apes, Z and Last Year at Marienbad

1970s: Taxi Driver, MASH, The Wicker Man, Jaws and Picnic at Hanging Rock

1980s: Amadeus, Ran, Heaven's Gate, Midnight Run and This Is Spinal Tap

1990s: Unforgiven, The Remains of the Day, Deconstructing Harry, The Big Lebowski and Gettysburg

2000s: There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Caché, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A History of Violence

2010s: Black Swan, Four Lions, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Inception and Django Unchained

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I picked five from each decade; I forbade myself from choosing more than one from any given director.

1920s: Metropolis, Sunrise, The Battleship Potemkin, The General and Underground

1930s: Oh, Mr Porter!, The Informer, The 39 Steps, Duck Soup and Boudu, Saved from Drowning

1940s: Citizen Kane, A Matter of Life and Death, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ox-Bow Incident and Double Indemnity

1950s: The Wages of Fear, Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, The Seventh Seal and 12 Angry Men

1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Planet of the Apes, Z and Last Year at Marienbad

1970s: Taxi Driver, MASH, The Wicker Man, Jaws and Picnic at Hanging Rock

1980S: Amadeus, Ran, Heaven's Gate, Midnight Run and This Is Spinal Tap

1990s: Unforgiven, The Remains of the Day, Deconstructing Harry, The Big Lebowski and Gettysburg

2000s: There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Caché, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A History of Violence

2010s: Black Swan, Four Lions, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Inception and Django Unchained

This is the list of a gentleman and a scholar. :up:

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I've only seen eight from that list. I used to consider myself a gentleman and a scholar. Fuck.

Those eight are: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Planet of the Apes; MASH, Jaws; Unforgiven, The Big Lebowski; and Gettysburg.

I bought There Will Be Blood but haven't watched it yet. It is on Netflix too, so that's no excuse.

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1920's????

1930's: Dracula, Frankenstein

1940's???

1950's???

1960's: Connery James Bond (especially You Only Live Twice)

1970's:Jaws/ Star Wars/Alien

1980's: Raiders/Empire Strikes Back/Poltergeist/ E.T./ Temple of Doom

1990's:JP (by default since I can't think of anything else)

2000's: Harry Potter SS and PoA, LotR to an extent

2010's :Kick Ass, Hunger Games

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1920's Dr. Caligari, Metropolis

1930's M, A Night at the Opera, The Adventures of Robin Hood

1940's The Sea Hawk, The Great Dictator, Fantasia, Tobacco Road, Citizen Kane, To Have and Have Not, Rope, Bicycle Thief, Bambi, Pinocchio

1950's Forbidden Games, The Beast from 20000 Fathoms, Rear Window, La Strada, Twelve Angry Men, Sweet Smell of Success

1960's La Dolce Vita, The Man who shot Liberty Valance, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sword in the Stone, Dr. Strangelove, A High Wind in Jamaica, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Uccellacci e Uccelini, The Jungle Book, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, 2001, Midnight Cowboy, Once Upon a Time in the West, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Great Silence

1970's Five Easy Pieces, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Valdez is Coming, Fiddler on the Roof, A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather, Giu la Testa, Deliverance, The Sting, The Long Goodbye, The Conversation, My Name is Nobody, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, Juan Moreira, Jaws, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, Dersu Uzala, Annie Hall, Close Encounters, Alien, Apocalypse Now, Life of Brian, Being There

1980's The Shining, Airplane!, Raging Bull, Dragonslayer, Evil Dead, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Fitzcarraldo, Stalker, Scarface, Never Cry Wolf, Once Upon a Time in America, Amadeus, The Mission, An American Tail, Where is my Friend's House?, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Fish Called Wanda, Naked Gun, Dead Poet's Society, The Bear, All Dogs go to Heaven, Cinema Paradiso

1990's Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves, Barton Fink, Cape Fear, Rhapsody in August, Scent of a Woman, Chaplin, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, Baraka, Carlito's Way, Schindler's List, In the Name of the Father, The Lion King, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Ed Wood, Felidae, Casino, Mr Holland's Opus, Branagh's Hamlet, Boogie Nights, As Good as it Gets, The Big Lebowski, The Truman Show, The Prince of Egypt, The Legend of 1900, Following, The Red Violin, Eyes Wide Shut, The Iron Giant, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,

2000's Gladiator, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Lost in La Mancha, About Schmidt, Gangs of New York, Catch me if you can, Big Fish, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Kill Bill II, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Terminal, Shaun of the Dead, Ray, The Incredibles, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Ratatouille, There Will be Blood, Gran Torino, Coraline, Inglorious Basterds, The White Ribbon

2010's How to Train Your Dragon, The Black Swan, Rango, The Tree of Life, The Master, Wadjda, Life of Pi, Wreck-it Ralph, Gravity, The Wind Rises, Nebraska, The Best Offer

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I picked five from each decade; I forbade myself from choosing more than one from any given director.

1920s: Metropolis, Sunrise, The Battleship Potemkin, The General and Underground

1930s: Oh, Mr Porter!, The Informer, The 39 Steps, Duck Soup and Boudu, Saved from Drowning

1940s: Citizen Kane, A Matter of Life and Death, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ox-Bow Incident and Double Indemnity

1950s: The Wages of Fear, Night of the Hunter, On the Waterfront, The Seventh Seal and 12 Angry Men

1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Planet of the Apes, Z and Last Year at Marienbad

1970s: Taxi Driver, MASH, The Wicker Man, Jaws and Picnic at Hanging Rock

1980S: Amadeus, Ran, Heaven's Gate, Midnight Run and This Is Spinal Tap

1990s: Unforgiven, The Remains of the Day, Deconstructing Harry, The Big Lebowski and Gettysburg

2000s: There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Caché, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A History of Violence

2010s: Black Swan, Four Lions, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Inception and Django Unchained

This is the list of a gentleman and a scholar. :up:

pff, probably not his "real" list. there's not even a JW scored movie in there

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yeah, but I figure most of our lists wouldn't look like one of a snotty movie critic

and on hindsight E.T., Jaws and Star Wars SHOULD have won best picture in their respective years

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On 10/24/2014 at 3:46 AM, king mark said:

...probably not his "real" list.

 

My real list is

 

1990s: Spice World: The Movie

2000s: The Hottie & the Nottie

2010s: Transformers: Transformation of the Transformers

1980s back: can't remember

 

but I'm hardly going to admit that to anyone.

 

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there's not even a JW scored movie in there

 

Nonsense! (Or conspiracy theory!)

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Ok, you said favourites, so this list includes some favourites from my childhood which remained till today.

I had started individual threads about 10 favourites from each decade in a Greek forum, so I will repeat those (updated a bit). (i hadn't started one for 2000s or 2010s, so I will think of it now).

Didn't include animation, because i love way too many!

Favourite decades: 80s, 90s, 50s

In red my favourite film from that decade. From 1990s and on, I couldn't pick a single one.

Also a trivia: 14 JW scored films in my list! :)

1920s:

I've seen only The Gold Rush so far. (planning to see more Chaplin and Metropolis for starters)

1930s:

-The Adventures of Robin Hood
-Bringing Up Baby
-Gone with the wind
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
-King kong
-The Lady Vanishes
-The Wizard of Oz
-Jamaica Inn

-Captain Blood

-Top Hat

1940s:

-Casablanca
-The Uninvited
-Μeet me in St. Louis
-Penny Serenade
-The Bishop's Wife
-Notorious
-The Pirate
-Rebecca
-The Sea Hawk
-Christmas in Connecticut

1950s:

-The Ten Commandments
-Sissi trilogy
-Raintree County
-Ben Hur
-Giant
-North by Northwest
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-Vertigo
-Rear Window
-Giant

1960s:
-The Sound of Music
-Planet of the Apes
-Cleopatra
-Doctor Zhivago
-Dr. No (James Bond)
-Funny Girl
-Jason and the Argonauts
-2001
-Psycho
-The Bible

1970s:

-Star Wars
-Jaws
-Alien
-Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
-Superman
-Death on the Nile
-King Kong

-French Connection

-Rocky

-The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (Waltons TV Pilot)

1980s:

-Ε.Τ
-Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
-Empire Strikes Back
-Amadeus
-Batman
-Aliens
-Labyrinth
-Predator
-Spacecamp
-Legend

1990s:

-Jurassic Park
-Terminator 2
-Batman Returns
-The Thin Red line
-Home Alone
-Titanic
-Braveheart
-Bram Stoker's Dracula
-Hook
-Schindler's List

2000s:

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

-A.I.

-The Passion of Christ

-Moulin Rouge

-The Others

-La Mome

-The Lord of the Rings trilogy

-Gladiator

-The Fountain

-Avatar (well I included it mostly because it's Cameron)

2010s:

-The Tree of Life

-Black Swan

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On 10/23/2014 at 7:34 PM, TheGreyPilgrim said:

1990s: This one is fairly impossible.

 

Yeah, I found the 90s toughest as well. Not sure why. I can easily come up with as many films I love from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s; it's the business of choosing from amongst the contenders that was most difficult for the 90s.

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1920s: Ben-Hur

1930s: Captain Blood

1940s: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

1950s: Scaramouche, North by Northwest, Some Like it Hot

1960s: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Planet of the Apes, The Sword in the Stone

1970s: Walt Disney's Robin Hood, The Great Train Robbery

1980s: Back to the Future, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

1990s: The Girl on the Bridge, Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh), Carlito's Way, The Legend of 1900, Heavenly Creatures, Contact, Fight Club, Sneakers, Pride and Prejudice

2000s: Femme Fatale, Moulin Rouge, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings, Inglourious Basterds, Chicken Run, Children of Man, Stardust, Cloverfield, Love Actually

2010s: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Black Swan, Frozen

That leaves out a lot of near favourites. The reason that the 90s and 00s are so populated is partly that I just can't pick one (or a few) above the others, which seems easier in earlier decades. The 10s were also surprisingly hard - and I probably simply forgot about some I've seen. I'm pretty sure my list has bad holes.

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2000s: There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Caché, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A History of Violence

I forgot about The Master!

1970s: Walt Disney's Robin Hood, The Great Train Robbery

Love the Disney version of Robin Hood :)

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Ok, you said favourites, so this list includes some favourites from my childhood which remained till today.

I had started individual threads about 10 favourites from each decade in a Greek forum, so I will repeat those (updated a bit). (i hadn't started one for 2000s or 2010s, so I will think of it now).

Didn't include animation, because i love way too many!

Favourite decades: 80s, 90s, 50s

In red my favourite film from that decade. From 1990s and on, I couldn't pick a single one.

Also a trivia: 14 JW scored films in my list! :)

1920s:

I've seen only The Gold Rush so far. (planning to see more Chaplin and Metropolis for starters)

1930s:

-The Adventures of Robin Hood

-Bringing Up Baby

-Gone with the wind

-The Hound of the Baskervilles

-King kong

-The Lady Vanishes

-The Wizard of Oz

-Jamaica Inn

-Captain Blood

-Top Hat

1940s:

-Casablanca

-The Uninvited

-Μeet me in St. Louis

-Penny Serenade

-The Bishop's Wife

-Notorious

-The Pirate

-Rebecca

-The Sea Hawk

-Christmas in Connecticut

1950s:

-The Ten Commandments

-Sissi trilogy

-Raintree County

-Ben Hur

-Giant

-North by Northwest

-A Streetcar Named Desire

-Vertigo

-Rear Window

-The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad

1960s:

-The Sound of Music

-Planet of the Apes

-Cleopatra

-Doctor Zhivago

-Dr. No (James Bond)

-Funny Girl

-Jason and the Argonauts

-2001

-Psycho

-The Bible

1970s:

-Star Wars

-Jaws

-Alien

-Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

-Superman

-Death on the Nile

-King Kong

-French Connection

-Rocky

-The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (Waltons TV Pilot)

1980s:

-Ε.Τ

-Indiana Jones and the temple of doom

-Empire Strikes Back

-Amadeus

-Batman

-Aliens

-Labyrinth

-Predator

-Spacecamp

-Legend

1990s:

-Jurassic Park

-Terminator 2

-Batman Returns

-The Thin Red line

-Home Alone

-Titanic

-Braveheart

-Bram Stoker's Dracula

-Hook

-Schindler's List

2000s:

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

-A.I.

-The Passion of Christ

-Moulin Rouge

-The Others

-La Mome

-The Lord of the Rings trilogy

-Gladiator

-The Fountain

-Avatar (well I included it mostly because it's Cameron)

2010s:

-The Tree of Life

-Black Swan

You've only seen one film from the 1920s? I'm not sure I can take your opinion seriously.

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Speaking of films from the 20s, has anyone seen Abel Gance's Napoleon? It's been on my to-see list for two decades, but has proved elusive...

 

On 10/24/2014 at 1:43 PM, Smeltington said:

I forgot about The Master!

 

Possibly my favourite film of the current decade, but I was working on a one-film-per-director basis to simplify the decisions. My Paul Thomas Anderson vote had to go to There Will Be Blood.

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Speaking of films from the 20s, has anyone seen Abel Gance's Napoleon? It's been on my to-see list for two decades, but has proved elusive...

I've seen the Francis Coppola VHS (with a great Carmine Coppola score) and yeah, it's pretty great even in that format. Would love to see it in a theatrical release someday. Part One detailing Napoleon's childhood and the onset of the Revolution had most of my favorite sections, actually. Especially the snowball and pillow fights at the boarding school, as well as the justifiably legendary sequence of Napoleon at sea intercut with a brawl between the Girondists and Montagnards at the National Assembly.

JW has scored some great films, but none of which are the best of any decade.

You can mount a serious argument for Schindler's List as the film of the 1990s. JFK and Saving Private Ryan to a lesser extent. And really, there may be noticeably "worthier" films in the 70s/80s, but you can easily do the same for Star Wars and Spielberg's big four (that is Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, and ET.) I don't see how those films would be at all out of place in a credible top five of those decades. They are as singular in American cinema as anything by Coppola or Scorsese, in form if not in content.

(disclaimer for Gloin: he liked my post before my response to Koray...I have no idea if he agrees with that part or not ;))

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Haha! To clarify: Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are all films I considered for my own list. E.T. is probably a worthy contender, but I haven't seen it in over twenty years and don't have any strong feelings about it. My interest in the Star Wars films is close to zero...

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You've only seen one film from the 1920s? I'm not sure I can take your opinion seriously.

Especially since it wasn't scored by John Williams. . . .

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1920s - Metropolis

1930s - The Wizard of Oz

1940s - It's a Wonderful Life

1950s - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1960s - The Time Machine

1970s - Star Wars

1980s - Back to the Future

1990s - Jurassic Park

2000s - The Dark Knight

2010s - (Haven't Decided Yet)

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Hardest thing ever. But here you go:

1920s - The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)

1930s - Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)

1940s - Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)

1950s - All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

1960s - À Bout de Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

1970s - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)

1980s - Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)

1990s - Le Huitième Jour (Jaco Van Dormael, 1996)

2000s - Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009)

2010s - The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)

PS: Very nice list, Glóin in the Dark! :)

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Haha! To clarify: Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are all films I considered for my own list. E.T. is probably a worthy contender, but I haven't seen it in over twenty years and don't have any strong feelings about it. My interest in the Star Wars films is close to zero...

I did consider CE3K as well, and Star Wars and ESB would probably also qualify for my list if I wasn't so frustrated with the SEs. Comparing different decades from my list, I don't quite understand why some decades list stuff that I consider on the same level as other stuff that I omitted from another decade.

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1910s - INTOLERANCE

1920s - THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
1930s - THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
1940s - THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
1950s - RASHOMON
1960s - CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
1970s - NASHVILLE
1980s - THE COLOR PURPLE
1990s - SHORT CUTS
2000s - A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2010s - BYZANTIUM

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Good idea! I have to think about it too.

Ok I thought about it.

1920s: Metropolis

1930s: Toss up between Snow White and a couple Marx bros. installments.

1940s: Gah, good decade. Key Largo, Gaslight, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, It's A Wonderful Life... but I think Fantasia has to be the winner.

1950s: Another big one. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Forbidden Planet, Stalag 17, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Seven Samurai, Sunset Boulevard, North By Northwest, Paths of Glory... The Seventh Seal wins.

1960s: Too many to list this time, but the winner is crystal clear. 2001: a space odyssey, which of course is my favorite of all time. The greatest comedy of all time was also released this year, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

1970s: Very hard to whittle this one down. Manhattan or Barry Lyndon.

1980s: Good decade for comedies and adventures, but none of those stand out. RAN wins.

1990s: This one is fairly impossible. Probably either The Shawshank Redemption or The Thin Red Line.

2000s: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring despite stiff competition, particularly from this Nolan guy.

2010s: It's been a good one so far, but I feel more than comfortable forecasting: Interstellar.

All of these triggered a massive flood of titles that I adore, except the 80s. Interesting....

This list is not in keeping with my recent forum behavior. Revision:

1890s: Interstellar

1900s: Interstellar

1910s: Interstellar

1920s: Interstellar

1930s: Interstellar

1940s: Interstellar

1950s: Interstellar

1960s: Interstellar

1970s: Interstellar

1980s: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1990s: Interstellar

2000s: Interstellar

2010s: Interstellar

2020s: Interstellar 2: Interstellar Into Darkness

2030s: Interstellar 3: Age Of Interstellar

2040s: Interstellar 3.5: Dawn Of The Planet Of Interstellar

2050s: Interstellar 4: Battle Of The Five Interstellars

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20's....The Phantom of the Opera.

30's....The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein.

40's....Rebecca

50's....The Thing from Another World, War of the Worlds.

60's....Psycho

70's....Jaws and Superman

80's....E.T. and Aliens

90's....Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, and Titanic.

00's and 10's still in flux, maybe Signs and Hugo.

Some of these lists do seem disingenuous as if they are designed to impress rather than enjoy as your favorite.

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A single film per decade is probably an impossible choice for me to make. My idea, like someone else earlier, was to do 10 films per decade without repeating directors more than once per decade. So far I've gone through the 20s, 30s, 00s, and 10s. Don't even want to think about the 90s right now.

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I misread the title, thought it was for best films.

1920s - THE CABINET OF DR. CALGARI

1930s - METROPOLIS

1940s - THE THIRD MAN

1950s - TOUCH OF EVIL

196Os - THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

1970s - CARRIE

1980s - DRESSED TO KILL

1990s - HAPPINESS

2000s - TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

2010s - MAN OF STEEL

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I am planning to watch Carrie today. Though it didn't make my list it's still among my favorites. I can quote so much of it. It could not be made today, no filmmaker would dare. and if someone says they just remade it thank you for proving my point

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