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That post sure is giving me a memorable moment.

 

The Oscar discussion has me wondering... have we done a “Chorus favorite films of [year]” list before?

 

Steve Mnuchin’s wife made a movie

 

That is a fun idea. We can start maybe in the 80s or so so more people can meaningfully participate.

 

I'd be down, would be a fun way to talk about older films and pick up new recommendations.

 

yeah starting in the 60s or 70s and working forward sounds fun. are we just submitting our personal lists?

 

I'm not sure what the best approach would be. Maybe a thread for each year, & give each year/thread a week? Depends on what those interested in the idea would be most into.

 

we did a similar thing for music in that forum, where you just ranked 50 albums. if we picked a starting year and everyone just cataloged their favorites, it shouldn't be too hard to throw in an excel sheet to track

 

I don't know whether that's supposed to be a joke or not.

 

60 - Psycho (Hitchcock)
61 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards)
62 - Harakiri (Kobayashi)
63 - Cleopatra (Mankiewicz)
64 - From Russia With Love (Young)
65 - For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
66 - The Good the Bad the Ugly (Leone)
67 - The Graduate (Nichols)
68 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
69 - Easy Rider (Hopper)

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70 - M*A*S*H* (Altman)
71 - Harold and Maude (Ashby)
72 - The Godfather (F. Coppola)
73 - The Exorcist (Friedkin)
74 - The Godfather II (F. Coppola)
75 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam)
76 - Mikey and Nicky (May)
77 - Slap Shot (Hill)
78 - The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
79 - Alien (Scott)

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80 - The Shining (Kubrick)
81 - Thief (Mann)
82 - Blade Runner (Scott)
83 - Terms of Endearment (Brooks)
84 - Blood Simple (Coen/Coen)
85 - Rocky IV (Stallone)
86 - The Color of Money (Scorsese)
87 - Raising Arizona (Coen/Coen)
88 - Die Hard (McTiernan)
89 - Do the Right Thing (Lee)

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90 - Goodfellas (Scorsese)
91 - The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
92 - Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
93 - Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
94 - Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
95 - Heat (Mann)
96 - Fargo (Coen/Coen)
97 - Boogie Nights (P. Anderson)
98 - The Big Lebowski (Coen/Coen)
99 - The Insider (Mann)

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00 - Gladiator (Scott)
01 - The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
02 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson)
03 - Lost in Translation (S. Coppola)
04 - Before Sunset (Linklater)
05 - Munich (Spielberg)
06 - Children of Men (Cuaron)
07 - There Will Be Blood (P. Anderson)
08 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller)
09 - Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)

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10 - The Social Network (Fincher)
11 - Moneyball (B. Miller)
12 - The Master (P. Anderson)
13 - Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen/Coen)
14 - Inherent Vice (P. Anderson)
15 - Mad Max Fury Road (G. Miller)
16 -
17 - Phantom Thread (P. Anderson)
18 - A Star is Born (Cooper)
19 - Marriage Story (Baumbach)

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20 - Mank (Fincher)

 

1960 - Breathless/La Dolce Vita
1961 - One-Eyed Jacks
1962 - To Kill a Mockingbird/Jules and Jim
1963 - The Bad Sleep Well/Contempt
1964 - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg/Dr. Strangelove
1965 - Le Bonheur/Pierrot le Fou
1966 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
1967 - The Graduate/Reflections in a Golden Eye
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - Easy Rider/Women in Love
1970 - El Topo/Wanda
1971 - The Last Picture Show
1972 - Solaris/The Godfather
1973 - Badlands/The Long Goodbye
1974 - The Godfather Pt. II/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975 - Jeanne Dielman/Jaws/Dog Day Afternoon
1976 - Taxi Driver
1977 - Eraserhead
1978 - Killer of Sheep
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1980 - Raging Bull/The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Smithereens/The King of Comedy
1983 - Sans Soleil
1984 - Paris, Texas
1985 - The Breakfast Club
1986 - Mauvais Sang/Blue Velvet
1987 - Broadcast News
1988 - The Last Temptation of Christ
1989 - Do the Right Thing/Black Rain
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - A Brighter Summer Day
1992 - Malcolm X
1993 - Dazed and Confused/Three Colors: Blue
1994 - Pulp Fiction/Hoop Dreams
1995 - Before Sunrise/Heat
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Boogie Nights
1998 - The Big Lebowski/The Thin Red Line
1999 - Eyes Wide Shut
2000 - Yi Yi
2001 - The Royal Tenenbaums/Mulholland Drive/Y Tu Mama Tambien/Ocean’s Eleven
2002 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - Spider-Man 2
2005 - Brokeback Mountain
2006 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2007 - There Will Be Blood/Zodiac/No Country for Old Men
2008 - Synecdoche, New York
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2010 - Somewhere/The Social Network
2011 - The Tree of Life
2012 - The Master
2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street/Under the Skin
2014 - Boyhood
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road/Magic Mike XXL
2016 - Moonlight/Paterson
2017 - Get Out/A Ghost Story
2018 - Minding the Gap
2019 - Parasite
2020 - First Cow

 

If you are going to just do it for the money, own it. Trying to pretend that you are changing cinema is going to make you look foolish.

 

Cherry is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Honestly.

 

Yeah tried to watch it earlier thinking it’s been over exaggerated how bad it is. But sheesh y’all weren’t lying. Impressively bad

 

I wonder to what extent these mega-franchises are doing more than just poaching young directors but are instead actively teaching them the wrong lessons which permanently alters their career. Colin Trevorrow is a punchline now, but Safety Not Guaranteed had a lot of critical success. The Russo brothers had never directed a film before being swallowed up, but they were veterans of well-respected TV shows. Having a film you directed make a billion dollars probably makes someone think they know what they are doing and could very well inhibit their ability to learn and grow as directors when they don't have everything laid out for them by producers and a script that requires continuity with the eighteen other properties that require a serialized story.

 

“What we’re doing on Gray Man that’s different [is]… we’re not gonna answer every question in the first movie," explained Joe Russo. "This is being conceived as a series of films, and again, potentially branching out, we could follow other characters, but we’re not gonna answer every question in the movie. So you’re gonna finish the movie, [and] have a complete story, but you’re still gonna have questions about the wider universe. And I think that’s one way to break the model a little bit, is to not give the audience everything in one film. Don’t have a close-ended narrative. Have an open-ended narrative that’s [like] a chapter in a book.”

 

Made my damn list


1960-Psycho
1961-Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1962-...
1963-The Birds
1964-Mary Poppins
1965-The Sound of Music
1966-...
1967-Wait Until Dark
1968-2001 a space odyssey
1969-...
1970-...
1971-Dirty Harry
1972-...
1973-Robin Hood
1974-Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975-Jaws
1976-Carrie
1977-Star Wars
1978-Halloween
1979-Alien
1980-The Shining
1981-Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982-E.T.
1983-A Christmas Story
1984-This is Spinal Tap
1985-Back to the Future
1986-Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
1987-The Princess Bride
1988-Die Hard
1989-Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
1990-Home Alone
1991-Beauty and the Beast
1992-Home Alone 2
1993-Jurassic Park
1994-Dumb and Dumber
1995-Toy Story
1996-Scream
1997-Good Will Hunting
1998-The Big Lebowski
1999-Notting Hill
2000-Best in Show
2001-Wet Hot American Summer
2002-The Ring
2003-Love Actually
2004-Before Sunset
2005-King Kong
2006-Little Miss Sunshine
2007-Superbad
2008-The Dark Knight
2009-The Hangover
2010-Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2011-Drive
2012-Django Unchained
2013-This is the End
2014-Gone Girl
2015-What We Do in the Shadows
2016-Sing Street
2017-I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2018-Mandy
2019-Toy Story 4
2020-Miss Americana

 

they have no directorial voice to speak of. what a surprise that when you strip away the big machine of the MCU they fall flat.

it’s a shame. the book is great and the film could have been in the right hands.

 

50 - Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
51 - A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
52 - Ikiru (Ozu)
53 - Tokyo Story (Ozu)
54 - Rear Window (Hitchcock)
55 - Night and Fog (Resnais)
56 - Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
57 - Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
58 - The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
59 - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)

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60 - The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
61 - The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
62 - Harakiri (Kobayashi)
63 - Winter Light (Bergman)
64 - A Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
65 - Le Bonheur (Varda)
66 - Persona (Bergman)
67 - The Graduate (Nichols)
68 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
69 - The Passion of Anna (Bergman)

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70 - El Topo (Jodorowsky)
71 - A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
72 - The Godfather (Coppola)
73 - The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
74 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
75 - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Forman)
76 - Rocky (Avildsen)
77 - Eraserhead (Lynch)
78 - The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
79 - Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

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80 - The Shining (Kubrick)
81 - Possession (Żuławski)
82 - Blade Runner (Scott)
83 - Scarface (De Palma)
84 - Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven)
85 - Come and See (Klimov)
86 - Blue Velvet (Lynch)
87 - Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
88 - Vampire's Kiss (Bierman)
89 - Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky)

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90 - Edward Scissorhands (Burton)
91 - The Lovers on the Bridge (Carax)
92 - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
93 - Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
94 - Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
95 - Braveheart (Gibson)
96 - Trainspotting (Boyle)
97 - End of Evangelion (Anno)
98 - Happiness (Solondz)
99 - Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)

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00 - Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
01 - Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
02 - Punch-Drunk Love (Thomas Anderson)
03 - Oldboy (Chan-wook)
04 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
05 - A Bittersweet Life (Jee-woon)
06 - Pans Labyrinth (Del Toro)
07 - Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie)
08 - Synecdoche New York (Kaufman)
09 - Enter the Void (Noe)

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10 - Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
11 - Drive (Winding Refn)
12 - It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt)
13 - Her (Jonze)
14 - The Raid 2 (Evans)
15 - The Lobster (Lanthimos)
16 - The Neon Demon (Winding Refn)
17 - La La Land (Chazelle)
18 - Eighth Grade (Burnham)
19 - Midsommar (Aster)
20 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman)

Still think it would be fun to do a weekly discussion on each year, kinda like the Director/Actor Spotlight threads but I can't resist a list lol.

 

Damn the Russos invented sequel bait

 

That is what I thought we were going to do but then all these people jumped the gun.

 

That would absolutely be preferable but I enjoyed compiling a starting list

 

that can still happen lol. the lists don’t prevent that.