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MacSwell
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Re: Top five for each decade

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1910s (7 films)
1. Posle smerti
2. Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
3. Shoulder Arms
4. Die Puppe
5. The Cheat

1920s (37 films)
1. Sherlock Jr.
2. The Kid
3. Sunrise
4. The Gold Rush
5. Safety Last!

1930s (75 films)
1. Le Roman de Renard
2. Pygmalion
3. Duck Soup
4. The Invisible Man
5. Horse Feathers

1940s (66 films)
1. The Third Man
2. Casablanca
3. The Lady Eve
4. Double Indemnity
5. The Ox-Bow Incident

1950s (94 films)
1. Seven Samurai
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Sunset Blvd.
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. Touchez pas au grisbi

1960s (103 films)
1. Happy End
2. Divorce, Italian Style
3. The Apartment
4. For a Few Dollars More
5. Once Upon the Time in the West

1970s (116 films)
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Paper Moon
3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
4. Straw Dogs
5. Cabaret

1980s (179 films)
1. The Thing
2. Ghostbusters
3. The Elephant Man
4. Airplane!
5. Repo Man

1990s (271 films)
1. Toy Story
2. Goodfellas
3. Rushmore
4. The Big Lebowski
5. The Silence of the Lambs

2000s (394 films)
1. Memento
2. The Squid and the Whale
3. In Bruges
4. The Pianist
5. Almost Famous

2010s (thus far) (230 films)
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. The Artist
3. The Raid 1 & 2
4. The Social Network
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
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MacSwell
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Re: Top five for each decade

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Stewball wrote:the Golden Age of Cinema started at 2000

:lol:

3dRevelation
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Re: Top five for each decade

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I'll have to omit the 20s and 30s as well as a top 5 won't mean much, here's the rest:

1940s (45 films, unsurprisingly noir heavy):
1. Double Indemnity
2. Gilda
3. Out of the Past
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Crossfire

1950s (65 films):
1. Vertigo
2. On the Waterfront
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Kiss Me Deadly

1960s (also 65 films):
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Elmer Gantry

1970s (99 films, hello Coppola):
1. The Godfather
2. Network
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Chinatown

1980s (110 films):
1. Amadeus
2. The Shining
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. The Fly
5. Gremlins

1990s (173 films):
1. Magnolia
2. Goodfellas
3. Jurassic Park
4. Misery
5. Forrest Gump

2000s (387 films):
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. A History of Violence
4. The Departed
5. LOTR: The Return of the King

2010s (147 films):
1. Inception
2. Black Swan
3. Moneyball
4. Barney's Version
5. Arrival

I'm sure there are films on here many would agree with and also some on here that make me look crazy.

BillyShears
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Re: Top five for each decade

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They're numbered but they don't mean anything. Starting in the 50s, sorry Grandpas. Only films I've given 100 too which is code for pretty, pretty, pretty good.

1950s (115 watched)
1. Paths of Glory
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Sunset Blvd
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. Some Like it Hot

1960s (138 watched)
1. Yojimbo
2. In Cold Blood
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
5. Psycho

1970s - THIS WAS HARD (247 watched)
1. Annie Hall
2. The Sting
3. Days of Heaven
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1980s - THIS WAS HARDER (594 watched)
1. The Shining
2. The Thing
3. Robocop
4. The Princess Bride
5. To Live and Die in LA

1990s THIS WAS HARDEST (845 watched)
1. American Movie
2. Fargo
3. Dumb and Dumber
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Waiting for Guffman

2000s (910 watched)
1. Gladiator
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
5. THE BROTHERS SOLOMON

2010s THUS FAR (876 watched)
1. Drive

Movies SUCK post 2000

TheDenizen
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Re: Top five for each decade

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Glad I'm not the only one with Dawn of the Dead and Robocop on his list. 8-)

FrancoGonzo
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Re: Top five for each decade

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1920s
The Cameraman
Novyy Vavilon
Le lion des Mogols
The Crowd
Street Angel

1930s
Only Angels Have Wings
The Scarlet Empress
Earth
Bride of Frankenstein
Love Me Tonight

1940s
The Gang's All Here
Children of Paradise
The Palm Beach Story
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

1950s
Window Water Baby Moving
The Girl Can't Help It
Some Came Running
Kaagaz Ke Phool
The Golden Coach

1960s
Donovan's Reef
L'Eclisse
Birds, Orphans and Fools
Tobenai Chinmoku
Zazie Rides The Metro

1970s
The Holy Mountain
In a Year of 13 Moons
Sweet Movie
Roma
Sanatorium pod klepsydra

1980s
Possession
The Age of the Earth
Landscape in the Mist
La Ville des pirates
They Live

1990s
Showgirls
The Lovers on the Bridge
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Sátántangó
Green Snake

2000s
The Wayward Cloud
Inland Empire
Melancholia (Diaz)
Punch-Drunk Love
Ai no mukidashi

2010s
Moonrise Kingdom
Drive
Under the Skin
Tangled
Spring Breakers

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Anomaly
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Re: Top five for each decade

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Somehow I've ended up with more ranked films from the 1900s than the 1910s, but neither of them have enough to fill out a top 5 of tier 8 or above. For interest, the best from each decade ends up being A Trip to the Moon (1900s), and The Immigrant (1910s). Progressing from there...

1920s
    Sherlock Jr.
    The Circus
    The Man With a Movie Camera
    The General
    The Navigator

1930s
    Modern Times
    M
    City Lights
    The Lady Vanishes
    The Adventures of Robin Hood

1940s
    Casablanca
    Bicycle Thieves
    The Third Man
    Shadow of a Doubt
    Citizen Kane

1950s
    Vertigo
    Seven Samurai
    The Seventh Seal
    Rear Window
    12 Angry Men

1960s
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Psycho
    Winter Light
    Harakiri

1970s
    A Clockwork Orange
    The Godfather
    Taxi Driver
    Aguirre: The Wrath of God
    Stalker

1980s
    Fanny and Alexander
    Brazil
    The Shining
    Stop Making Sense
    Raging Bull

1990s
    Goodfellas
    The Big Lebowski
    Sátántangó
    Underground
    Eyes Wide Shut

2000s
    There Will Be Blood
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    No Country for Old Men
    Let the Right One In
    The Royal Tenenbaums

2010s so far
    The Tree of Life
    Inception
    Django Unchained
    Gravity
    Moonrise Kingdom

Overall, seems to be a pretty accurate reflection of my taste and interests.

AFlickering
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Re: Top five for each decade

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1910s
1) Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Bauer)
2) The Painted Lady (Griffith)
3) After Death (Bauer)
4) Easy Street (Chaplin)
5) The Land Beyond the Sunset (Shaw)

1920s
1) The Last Laugh (Murnau)
2) The Kid (Chaplin)
3) Ménilmontant (Kirsanoff)
4) Sherlock Jr. (Keaton)
5) The Phantom Carriage (Sjostrom)

1930s
1) Modern Times (Chaplin)
2) City Lights (Chaplin)
3) M (Lang)
4) L'Atalante (Vigo)
5) The Grand Illusion (Renoir)

1940s
1) My Darling Clementine (Ford)
2) Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
3) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
4) I Walked With A Zombie (Tourneur, Lewton)
5) Notorious (Hitchcock)

1950s
1) Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2) Rear Window (Hitchcock)
3) In a Lonely Place (N. Ray)
4) North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
5) Bigger than Life (N. Ray)

1960s
1) Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
2) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
4) The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
5) Seconds (Frankenheimer)

1970s
1) Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog)
2) Stalker (Tarkovsky)
3) McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman)
4) Days of Heaven (Malick)
5) A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)

1980s
1) The Fly (Cronenberg)
2) Love Streams (Cassavetes)
3) Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
4) Ran (Kurosawa)
5) Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)

1990s
1) Perfect Blue (Kon)
2) Naked (Leigh)
3) Miller's Crossing (Coens)
4) A Moment of Innocence (Makhmalbaf)
5) The Thin Red Line (Malick)

2000s
1) Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
2) Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
3) Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
4) Two Lovers (Gray)
5) Keane (Kerrigan)

2010s
1) Margaret (Lonergan)
2) Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
3) Romancing in Thin Air (To)
4) Tabu (Gomes)
5) The Grand Budapest Hotel (W. Anderson)

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Re: Top five for each decade

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djross wrote:
Stewball wrote:Are you counting Black Swan and 2001 as musicals.


No.


Then you probably wouldn't be able to figure out which 14 of these I consider musicals:

30s:
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz


40s:
Dumbo
Fantasia


50s:
All About Eve
High Noon


60s:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Inherit the Wind
Bullitt
Dr. Strangelove
The Lion in Winter


70s:
Fiddler on the Roof
Jesus Christ Superstar
Rollerball
A Clockwork Orange
Emperor of the North


80s:
Streets of Fire
Footloose
Moonstruck
A Soldier's Story
Little Shop of Horrors


90s:
Braveheart
Fight Club
The Silence of the Lambs
Evita
The Devil's Advocate


00s:
Gladiator
O Brother Where Art Thou
Undisputed
(500) Days of Summer
Blacksnake Moan

10s:
Her (10+)
The Accountant (10+)
Inception
Like Sunday, Like Rain
The Counselor


And there are tons of honorable mentions from the 21st century.

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