General Discussion : Best Older Movies You Saw for the First Time in 2010

[jeff_v]

I saw a lot of great older movies for the first time in 2010. Here were my top 40 feature-length movies (all T10 or T9):

1. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
2. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
3. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
4. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
5. Hotel Terminus (1988)
6. The Miracle Woman (1931)
7. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
8. Before the Revolution (1964)
9. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
10. The Last Command (1928)
11. Metropolitan (1990)
12. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
13. Providence (1977)
14. Stromboli (1950)
15. Forty Guns (1957)
16. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
17. Goyokin (1969)
18. Cria Cuervos (1976)
19. Floating Clouds (1955)
20. On Approval (1944)
21. Moonrise (1948)
22. Le Plaisir (1952)
23. Il Generale della Rovere (1959)
24. Casque d'or (1951)
25. Warlock (1959)
26. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
27. Le deuxieme souffle (1966)
28. Street Angel (1928)
29. Germany Year Zero (1948)
30. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
31. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
32. The Spider's Strategem (1970)
33. Billy Budd (1962)
34. The Exiles (1961)
35. The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
36. Rosetta (1999)
37. Napoleon (1927)
38. The Reckless Moment (1949)
39. Carmen Jones (1954)
40. Spring in a Small Town (1948)

That's four Rossellinis, three Borzages, and two each from Capra, Bertolucci, Pabst, Preminger, and Max Ophuls.

[FitFortDanga]

Fortunately, I just did this list for another forum. Note that some of these aren't very "older", they're just pre-2010.

1. Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959)
2. War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
3. The Lineup (Don Siegel, 1958)
4. Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
5. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 2008)
6. Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
7. Beyond the Forest (King Vidor, 1949)
8. Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958)
9. Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
10. Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952)
11. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955)
12. Tale of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1979)
13. The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957)
14. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)
15. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
16. Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa, 1964)
17. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierrre Melville, 1962)
18. Once (John Carney, 2006)
19. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
20. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, 1943)

Honorable mentions: The Saga of Gosta Berling, Cry of the City, Dames, The Lodger (1944), Human Desire, The Set-Up, Blast of Silence, They Made Me a Fugitive, The Big Parade, Naked Island, Cape Fear, The Docks of New York, Criss Cross, The Hitch-Hiker, Carnival in Flanders, La Grande Bouffe, Journey Into Fear, Edge of Doom, The Last Command, Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds, The Crimson Kimono, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Placido, Kes, Leave Her to Heaven, Three Resurrected Drunkards, Act of Violence, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, No Way Out, A Colt Is My Passport, Quince Tree of the Sun

[paulofilmo]

Pre 1970

Vampyr (1932)
M (1931)
Late Spring (1949)
Macbeth (1948)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Kes (1969)
Metropolis (1927)
Alfie (1966)
Madhumati (1958)


You can watch Vampyr, M, and much more on YouTube nowadays, you bastards.

Original cutoff was 1992, and O Lucky Man! (1973) drew the widest, wryest smile.


Very honorable mentions:

The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
The Open Road (1926)
Play Time (1967)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

[tomelce]

1. The Emerald Forest (John Boorman, 1985)
2. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
3. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
4. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
5. The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)
6. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
7. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
8. Les Mistons (Francois Truffaut, 1957)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)
10. The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921)

Honorable Mentions: Black Narcissus (Michael Powel and Emeric Pressburger, 1947), The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980), Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931), Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962), Kes (Ken Loach, 1969), La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954), The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960), Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1980), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) and Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse, 1987)

[kyle.loomis]

For fiction it would be Overlord by Stuart Cooper. Documentary; Forbidden Lie$

[jacobb1313]

These sidled their way into my breadth of cinema knowledge this year, and managed to make it into my T9-T10. Mostly what one would expect.

The Man Who Fell to Earth
Kagemusha
Django
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Gold Diggers of 1933
Klute
The Silence
The Magician
I Walked With a Zombie
The Merry Widow (1934)
My Childhood (1974)
Possession (1981)
Masque of the Red Death
Opium and the Kung Fu Master
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Aguirre the Wrath of God
The Innocents
Yakuza Graveyard

[theficionado]

Here's all my Tier 9 and 10 films made prior to 2008 that I saw for the first time this year.

Tier 10
The Birds (1961)
The Killer (1989)
Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Ratcatcher (1999)
Russian Ark (2002)
Vernon, Florida (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
What Time Is It There? (2001)

Tier 9
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Century of the Self (2002)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Dead Man (1995)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie (1972)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Morvern Callar (2002)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Our Daily Bread (2005)
Running Stumbled (2006)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
The Trap (2007)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

[Anomaly1]

Pre-2000 movies from top two tiers:
1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. Winter Light (1962)
3. Stop Making Sense (1984)
4. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
5. Stroszek (1977)
6. Ikiru (1952)
7. Videodrome (1983)
8. Cobra Verde (1987)
9. Chinatown (1974)
10. The Killing (1956)
11. Solaris (1972)
12. Happiness (1998)
13. Dial M for Murder (1954)

I didn't see too many older films this year, so in the last month I've been actively trying to watch more and rewatch and rate all the old shorts that I saw before in film classes and didn't rate.

[TheDenizen]

These are all the movies I saw for the first time in 2010 from pre-1990 that I rated in my top 2 tiers.

Southern Comfort 1981
Get Carter 1971
Girl Boss Guerrilla 1972
Lathe of Heaven 1980
Blood Simple 1984
The Heroic Trio 1970
Threads 1984
Strangers on a Train 1951
Lawrence of Arabia 1962

[movieboy]

Is there a way to filter out the movies one ranked based on year of ranking?