One Film Per Year, Any Year!!!!

You can pick one film from any year, any decade that's your favourite film from that year.

1968: Planet Of The Apes
1994: Pulp Fiction



The more the merrier ....

 

1947: Miracle on 34th Street
1954: Rear Window
1985: Back To The Future
1987: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
1988: Bull Durham
1989: When Harry Met Sally
1992: A Few Good Men
1994: Shawshank Redemption
1998: Saving Private Ryan

 

Agree on 1954.

 

1963-Billy Liar
1972-The Offence
1985-Back To The Future
1987-Withnail and I
1995-Blue Juice (1)
2000-Memento
2001-Ghost World
2002-Mulholland Drive
2013-Under The Skin

(1) A bit of kitsch fun but I came of age in the 1990s and the obvious choices are particularly obvious.

DOI: Not really a film person.

 

Can't argue with that 1994.

Apes vs Hal9000? Oohhh .... I don't know...

 

2007 – Zodiac
2015 – Love & Mercy

 

Just a handful that have always remained my "best" film of their given year...

1960: La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
1966: The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown)
1973: The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
2001: Mulholland Dr (David Lynch)

And my offering of a year where there is too many damn good ones to even try to decide!

1970
Woodstock
Gimme Shelter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Elvis Presley: That's The Way It Is
Patton
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

Just flip a five or six sided coin and enjoy!

 

I'm also extremely torn with a year like 1979, thanks to Apocalypse Now and Manhattan.

First of all, they are apples to oranges films. One an art-piece of black and white, the other a surreal epic rich in color hues.

Both are in my Top 10 films ever made.

I think more when I watch Apocalypse Now (and think more afterwards). But I enjoy (and rewatch) Manhattan more.

If all else fails, I just call it a draw and watch Rocky II (also from 1979).

 

We lived in a part of the midwest where we couldn't even get the big releases, until the Cinerama screen in Indianapolis was done with them...even though we didn't have Cinerama in our town! Some bizarre sort of weird exclusivity contract kept us from seeing anything big unless it ran in the Circle Theater first! I know this can't be correct, I but I remember somehow not getting Mary Poppins on schedule when it was out here, because The Circle was holding over Sound of Music, 70 miles down the road. Somethin' really weird going on there.

Later on, the long wait for them to give up their hold on 2001, so Central Indiana could have a taste, was excruciating...

(Oh, but polyester sci-fi like Logan's Run and Soylent Green, nooooo problem...)

 

2018 - The Favourite

 

2009: The Hurt Locker

 

1987 pick

 

1947: Dark Passsage

 

Eclectic esoteric. 2013

 

Zodiac.

 

2013-Under The Skin


LOVED IT!!!

 

Don't think Glasgow tourist board are going to use the film to promote advertising the city.

 

Ending was horrifying, too.

 

The best was deflated skin underwater. I almost went crazy.

 

1987: Predator

 

Notable films released in 1976[edit]
U.S.A. unless stated #

• 7-Man Army (Ba dao lou zi), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
• 1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland - (Italy/France)

A

• A Queda (The Fall) - (Brazil)
• All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
• The Anchorite (El anacoreta) - (Spain)
• Any Day Now (Vandaag of morgen) - (Netherlands)
• The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) - (U.S.S.R.) - Golden Bear winner
• Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter, starring Austin Stoker
• The Astral Factor, starring Stefanie Powers
• At the Earth's Core, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure - (U.K.)

B

• Baby Blue Marine, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
• The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley
• Beach Guard in Winter (Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu) - (Yugoslavia)
• The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher) - (France)
• The Big Bus, starring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
• Black and White in Color (La Victoire en chantant), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - (France) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film
• The Blank Generation, with Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones and Talking Heads
• Blue Puppy (Goluboy shchenok) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter
• Bound for Glory, a biopic of Woody Guthrie directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine
• Breaking Point, starring Bo Svenson, Robert Culp, John Colicos
• The Bricklayers (Los albañiles) - (Mexico)
• Brother and Sister (Ani Imouto) - (Japan)
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster - Golden Bear winner
• Bugsy Malone, directed by Alan Parker, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster - (U.K.)
• Burnt Offerings, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis

C

• Caddie, starring Helen Morse - (Australia)
• Canoa (Canoe) - (Mexico)
• Car Wash, starring Franklyn Ajaye and Richard Pryor
• The Career of a Chambermaid (Telefoni bianchi), directed by Dino Risi - (Italy)
• Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)
• Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
• The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen, O. J. Simpson - (U.K.)
• A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) - (France)
• Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• Chitchor (Heart Stealer) - (India)
• The Clown Murders
• Cop (Strømer) - (Denmark)
• Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß), directed by Volker Schlöndorff - (West Germany/France)
• A Cricket in the Ear (Shturets v uhoto), directed by Georgi K. Stoyanov, starring Pavel Popandov, Tatyana Lolova, Itzhak Fintzi - (Bulgaria)

D

• Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray and James Earl Jones
• The Desert of the Tartars (Il deserto dei Tartari), starring Vittorio Gassman - (Italy/France/West Germany)
• The Devil's Playground, directed by Fred Schepisi - (Australia)
• Diary of the Dead, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Héctor Elizondo
• The Divine Nymph (Divina creatura), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Terence Stamp - (Italy)
• Dixie Dynamite, starring Warren Oates
• Dogs, starring David McCallum, George Wyner and Linda Gray
• Don's Party, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves and Pat Bishop - (Australia)
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos), starring Sônia Braga - (Brazil)
• Les douze travaux d'Asterix (The Twelve Trials of Asterix) - (France)
• Drum , starring Warren Oates and Yaphet Kotto

E-F

• The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Eat My Dust, starring Ron Howard and Christopher Norris
• Embryo, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Carrera
• The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
• Escape from the Dark, starring Alastair Sim - (U.K.)
• F comme Fairbanks (F Like Fairbanks), starring Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou - (France)
• Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson - (Sweden)
• Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (his final film), starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
• Farsighted for Two Diopters (Dva Dioptara Dalekogledstvo), directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Partsalev - (Bulgaria)
• Fellini's Casanova, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Donald Sutherland - (Italy)
• The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét), directed by Zoltán Fábri - (Hungary)
• The First Nudie Musical, directed by Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova
• The Food of the Gods, starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino
• Freaky Friday, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster
• From Noon till Three, starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
• The Front, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
• Fumō Chitai (Wasted Land) - (Japan)
• Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner

G-H

• Gable and Lombard, starring James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh
• Gator, starring Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed
• Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer) - (Israel)
• God Told Me To, starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
• Griffin and Phoenix, starring Peter Falk and Jill Clayburgh
• Grizzly, starring Christopher George
• The Gumball Rally, starring Michael Sarrazin
• Gus, starring Don Knotts and Ed Asner
• Harlan County, USA - a documentary film
• Harry and Walter Go to New York, starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine
• Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) - (Italy)

I-K

• Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura - (Italy)
• The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti), starring Anthony Quinn and Dominique Sanda - (Italy)
• In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
• The Inugamis (Inugami-ke no ichizoku), directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• I Will, I Will... for Now, directed by Norman Panama, starring Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Victoria Principal
• Jackson County Jail, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Yvette Mimieux
• J. D.'s Revenge, starring Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett Jr.
• Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You...Me Neither), directed by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Jane Birkin and Joe Dallesandro - (France)
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) - (Switzerland/France)
• The Judge and the Assassin (Le Juge et l'assassin), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
• Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes), starring Shashi Kapoor - (India)
• Kalicharan - (India)
• The Killer Inside Me, starring Stacy Keach
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel
• King Kong, directed by John Guillermin, starring Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin
• King Kung Fu, directed by and starring Lance D. Hayes
• Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), directed by Wim Wenders - (West Germany)

L

• The Last Hard Men, starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
• The Last Supper (La Última Cena) - (Cuba)
• The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Ray Milland, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
• Leadbelly, a biopic directed by Gordon Parks
• Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen
• Logan's Run, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter

 

M

• Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
• The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark - (U.K.)
• Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Marečku, podejte mi pero!) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller, William Devane
• Mark of Zorro
• The Marquise of O, directed by Éric Rohmer - (West Germany/France)
• Massacre at Central High, directed by Rene Daalder
• Master of the Flying Guillotine (a.k.a. One-Armed Boxer 2), starring Jimmy Wang - (Taiwan/Hong Kong)
• A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini - (U.S.A./Italy)
• Max Havelaar, directed by Fons Rademakers - (Netherlands)
• The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophüls - (France/West Germany/U.K./U.S.A.)
• Midway, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshiro Mifune, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook
• Mikey and Nicky, directed by Elaine May, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
• The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson
• Mohammad, Messenger of God, directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn - (Morocco/Libya)
• Mother, Jugs & Speed, directed by Peter Yates, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
• Mr. Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Murder by Death, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco, Truman Capote
• The Mysterious Monsters, starring Peter Graves and Peter Hurkos

N

• Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
• The Next Man, starring Sean Connery
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village, starring Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene
• Nickelodeon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, John Ritter, Stella Stevens
• Nightmare in Badham County, starring Deborah Raffin and Chuck Connors
• No Deposit, No Return, starring David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon, Kim Richards

O-P-Q

• Obsession, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
• Ode to Billy Joe, directed by Max Baer Jr., starring Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, James Best
• The Omen, directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• One Summer Love, aka Dragonfly, directed by Gilbert Cates, starring Susan Sarandon and Beau Bridges
• The Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Chief Dan George, Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, John Vernon
• Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan - (Australia)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down - (U.K.)

R

• Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
• The Rat Savior (Izbavitelj) - (Yugoslavia)
• Rich Man, Poor Man, television mini-series, starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss
• The Ritz, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Jack Weston
• Robin and Marian, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burt Young
• Rogue Male, starring Peter O'Toole - (U.K.)

S

• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles
• Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass, starring Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin - (Italy/West Germany/France)
• The Scar (film), directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman - (U.K.)
• Seclusion Near a Forest (Na samotě u lesa), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Sell Out, starring Richard Widmark
• Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), starring Fernando Rey - (Italy)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Shadow of Angels (Schatten der Engel), starring Ingrid Caven and Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (Switzerland)
• The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
• The Shootist, directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne (his final film), Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Harry Morgan, James Stewart
• Shout at the Devil, starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore - (U.K.)
• Silent Movie, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
• Silver Streak, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Patrick McGoohan
• Sister Street Fighter – Fifth Level Fist (Onna hissatsu godan ken) - (Japan)
• Sky Riders, starring James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp
• The Slipper and the Rose, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain - (U.K.)
• Small Change (L'Argent de poche), directed by François Truffaut - (France)
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La Flûte à six schtroumpfs) - (Belgium)
• Snuff - (Argentina/U.S.A.)
• The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Soy un delincuente (I Am a Criminal) - (Venezuela)
• Sparkle, starring Irene Cara
• A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
• Stay Hungry, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
• St. Ives, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
• Storm Boy, starring David Gulpilil - (Australia)
• Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw
• The Swiss Conspiracy, starring David Janssen and Elke Sommer
• Sybil, starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field

T

• Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster
• The Tenant (Le Locataire), directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas - (France)
• That's Entertainment, Part II, documentary featuring Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly
• Tatlong taong walang Diyos (Three Godless Years) - (Philippines)
• To Fly!, a documentary film
• To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski - (U.K.)
• Todo modo, starring Gian Maria Volontè and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Tosun Paşa - (Turkey)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown, starring Ben Johnson and Dawn Wells
• Trackdown, starring James Mitchum
• Tracks, directed by Henry Jaglom, starring Dennis Hopper
• Treasure of Matecumbe, starring Joan Hackett, Robert Foxworth, Peter Ustinov
• The Twist, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Ann-Margret - (France)
• Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Gena Rowlands, Walter Pidgeon, Beau Bridges

U-V

• Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
• Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven De La Croix
• Vigilante Force, starring Kris Kristofferson and Victoria Principal
• Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner - (U.K.)

W-Z

• W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, Jack Cassidy
• Wan Pipel (One People) - (Suriname/Netherlands)
• Welcome to L.A., directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Sally Kellerman, Harvey Keitel
• The White Ship (Belyy parokhod) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Who Can Kill a Child? (¿Quién puede matar a un niño?) - (Spain)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, starring Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr, Bruce Dern, Art Carney

 

A-L

Assault On Precinct 13.
Score's great as well.

 

in 1976:

It's tough. for me:
Marathon Man
All the President's Men
Taxi Driver.


Well, you can keep "Network."

I vote best film of 1976 (year I graduated from High School) would be:

Taxi Driver: A Michael and Julia Philips Production

 

M-Z

Taxi Driver