I'm bored so without further adieu here's a list of films according to me are the best films of their years starting from 1927 (I thought 80 years was a nice round number). So here are the best films as I see it (Remember I haven't seen everything and when it comes to my favorite I'm biased.) I guess what I'm just trying to do as with all lists is show you my tastes and showing you what films I think you should all see. So here we go.
1927: The General (Keaton/Bruckman)
1928: Pandora's Box (Pabst)
1929: The Cocoanuts (Santley)
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
1931: City Lights (Chaplin)
1932: Horse Feathers (McLeod)
1933: Duck Soup (McCary)
1934: The Thin Man (Van Dyke)
1935: Top Hat (Sandrich)
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra)
1937: Grand Illusion (Renoir)
1938: Bringing Up Baby (Hawks)
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)
1940: His Girl Friday (Hawks)
1941: Citizen Kane (Welles)
1942: Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)
1943: Casablanca (Curtiz)
1944: Double Indemnity (Wilder)
1945: Brief Encounter (Lean)
1946: It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
1947: Black Narcissus (Powell)
1948: Red River (Hawks)
1949: Late Spring (Ozu)
1950: Sunset BLVD. (Wilder)
1951: Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
1952: The Quiet Man (Ford)
1953: Tokyo Story (Ozu)
1954: Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
1955: Pather Panchali (Ray)
1956: The Searchers (Ford)
1957: The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
1958: Vertigo (Hitchcock)
1959: The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
1960: The Apartment (Wilder)
1961: Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
1963: 8 and Half (Fellini)
1964: Mary Poppins (Stevenson)
1965: Doctor Zhivago (Lean)
1966: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Leone)
1967: Play Time (Tati)
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
1969: The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
1970: MASH (Altman)
1971: Bananas (Allen)
1972: The Godfather (Coppola)
1973: Mean Streets (Scorsese)
1974: The Godfather Part 2 (Coppola)
1975: Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
1976: Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
1978: Superman (Donner)
1979: Manhattan (Allen)
1980: Raging Bull (Scorsese)
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
1982: E.T. The Extraterrestrial (Spielberg)
1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Jones)
1984: This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
1987: The Untouchables (De Palma)
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
1989: Do the Right Thing (Lee)
1990: Miller's Crossing (The Coens)
1991: JFK (Stone)
1992: Malcolm X (Lee)
1993: Schindler's List (Spielberg)
1994: Red (Kieslowski)
1995: Toy Story (Lasseter)
1996: Fargo (The Coens)
1997: As Good as it Gets (Brooks)
1998: Shakespeare in Love (Madden)
1999: Magnolia (Anderson)
2000: O Brother Where Art Thou (The Coens)
2001: Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
2002: The Pianist (Polanski)
2003: Lost in Translation (Coppola)
2004: The Terminal (Spielberg)
2005: Crash (Haggis)
2006: Pan's Labyrinth (Del Torro)
2007: Stay Tuned.....
Anyway that's it. I'm sure I left a lot out and some years were difficult to think of what was good but in my opinion all these films deserve a look at if you haven't already seen them.
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