Best/Favorite Films of 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Lisa Frankenstein

Trap

——-still need to see:

Accidental Texan

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Bob Marley: One Love

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Free Time

The Greatest Hits

Here

Irish Wish

The Life of Chuck

Lousy Carter

Megalopolis

The Neon Highway

Nosferatu

Oh, Canada

A Real Pain

Saturday Night

The Shrouds

Snack Shack

Unfrosted

The Watchers

We Live in Time

What About Love

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Best/Favorite Films of 2022

1. Decision to Leave

2. Crimes of the Future

The Fabelmans

See How They Run

Ticket to Paradise

Watcher

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

short videos by Savanah Moss

——-still need to see:

Aftersun

Bardo

The Black Phone

Bullet Train

Canterbury Glass (Amsterdam)

Dead for a Dollar

Deep Water

EO

Empire of Light

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Living

Marry Me

The Northman

The Pale Blue Eye

Pinocchio (del Toro)

R.M.N.

Skinamarink

Tár

Where the Crawdads Sing

White Noise

The Wonder

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Best/Favorite Films of 2020

Rifkin’s Festival

Tenet

The Lovebirds

Mank

Undine

——–still need to see:

Made in Italy

Minari

The Nest

Nocturne

The White Tiger

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Best/Favorite Films of 2021

1. Licorice Pizza

2. The French Dispatch

3. C’mon C’mon

4. The Tragedy of Macbeth

5. Last Night in Soho

6. Nightmare Alley

7. No Time to Die

8. Old

Belfast

Coming 2 America

Dune (part one)

——still need to see:

The Hand of God

A Hero

The Last Duel

The Lost Daughter

Petite Maman

The Souvenir Part II

The Tender Bar

The Woman in the Window

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Best/Favorite Films of 2019

1. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

2. The Irishman

3. A Hidden Life

3. Marriage Story

5. Midsommar

6. The Goldfinch

7. A Rainy Day in New York

8. Glass

9. Greener Grass

10. Little Women

The Art of Racing in the Rain

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Doctor Sleep

Domino

Downton Abbey

Dumbo

Fighting with My Family

Ford v. Ferrari

Halston

The Lighthouse

Ms. Purple

Mr. Jones

Tolkien

Yesterday

——–still need to see:

The Aeronauts

Backdraft 2

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Burning Cane

Disappearance at Clifton Hill

Dolemite Is My Name

Earthquake Bird

The Farewell

Gemini Man

Harriet

The Hunt

The Last Full Measure

Murder Mystery

1917

Ode to Joy

An Officer and a Spy

The Painted Bird

Radioflash

The Rise of Skywalker

Robaix, a Light (Oh Mercy!)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

The Sound of Silence

The Truth

Waiting for the Barbarians

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1940s

1. Citizen Kane (1941)

2. The Red Shoes (1948)

3. Fantasia (1940)

4. Black Narcissus (1947)

4. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

6. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

8. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) 

9. Casablanca (1942)

10. Open City (1945)

11. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

12. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

13. Henry V (1944)

14. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

15. The Third Man (1949)

16. The Big Sleep (1946)

17. Stray Dog (1949)

18. Kings Row (1942)

19. The Great Dictator (1940)

20. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

20. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

22. Les Visiteurs de Soir (1942)

23. The Yearling (1946)

24. Beauty and the Beast (1946)

25. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

25. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

27. The Small Back Room (1949)

28. Children of Paradise (1945)

29. Since You Went Away (1944)

30. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

31. Germany – Year Zero (1948)

32. Odd Man Out (1947)

33. In Which We Serve (1942)

33. This Happy Breed (1944)

35. The Search (1948)

36. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

37. 49th Parallel (1941)

38. The Fallen Idol (1948)

39. The Stranger (1946)

40. State Fair (1945)

41. The Lost Weekend (1945)

42. The Uninvited (1944)

43. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

44. Passport to Pimlico (1949)

45. Christmas in July (1940)

also good:

1940: Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great McGinty, Rebecca, The Thief of Bagdad  

1941: Here Comes Mr. Jordan, How Green Was My Valley, The Lady Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Moon Over Miami, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Sergeant York 

1942: Cat People, Jungle Book, Now Voyager, To Be Or Not To Be 

1943: Day of Wrath, Jane Eyre, The Ox-Bow Incident 

1944: Arsenic and Old Lace, Double Indemnity, Going My Way, Laura, Lifeboat, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ministry of Fear, Murder My Sweet, The Story of Dr. Wassell, To Have and Have Not, The Woman in the Window 

1945: Anchors Aweigh, Blithe Spirit, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, Fallen Angel, Leave Her to Heaven, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound, They Were Expendable, Wonder Man 

1946: Great Expectations, Green for Danger, Humoresque, The Killers, Notorious, Somewhere in the Night 

1947: Boomerang, Gentleman’s Agreement, Good News, Miracle on 34th Street, Monsieur Vincent, Out of the Past, The Paradine Case, La Perla, 

1948: Act of Violence, Bicycle Thieves, The Boy with Green Hair, Drunken Angel, Easter Parade, Hamlet, Johnny Belinda, The Pirate, Red River, Rope, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Unfaithfully Yours  

1949: The Fountainhead, The Heiress, Jour de Fete, Kind Hearts and Cornets, A Letter to Three Wives, Madame Bovary, On the Town 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1950s

1. Seven Samurai (1954)

2. The River (1951)

3. Vertigo (1958)

4. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

5. I Vitelloni (1953)

6. The 400 Blows (1959)

7. North by Northwest (1959)

8. Giant (1956)

9. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

10. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

10. La Strada (1954)

12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

13. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

14. Paths of Glory (1957)

15. A Place in the Sun (1951)

16. On the Waterfront (1954)

17. Ikiru (1952)

17. Umberto D. (1952)

19. Black Orpheus (1959)

20. An American in Paris (1951)

20. Strangers on a Train (1951)

22. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

23. A Face in the Crowd (1957)

24. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

25. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

26. Pickpocket (1959)

27. The Horse’s Mouth (1958)

28. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)

29. Rear Window (1954)

30. Rashomon (1950)

31. Gone to Earth (1950)

32. Orphee (1950)

33. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

34. Shane (1953)

35. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

35. The Seventh Seal (1957)

37. Il Grido (1957)

38. Touch of Evil (1958)

39. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)

40. East of Eden (1955)

41. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

42. The Apu trilogy (1955-59)

42. The Music Room (1958)

44. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

45. Tokyo Story (1953)

46. Floating Weeds (1959)

47. A Man Escaped (1956)

48. In a Lonely Place (1950)

49. Ace in the Hole (1951)

49. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

49. Quo Vadis (1951)

also good:

1950: All About Eve, The Breaking Point, D.O.A., Father of the Bride, Story of a Love Affair

1951: The African Queen, The Lavender Hill Mob, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer Interlude

1952: The Bad and the Beautiful, Casque d’or, The Golden Coach, On Dangerous Ground, The Quiet Man, This is Cinerama, Viva Zapata, The White Sheik 

1953: The Band Wagon, I Confess, Man on a Tightrope, Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, The Titfield Thunderbolt, Ugetsu Monogatari  

1954: Brigadoon, Carmen Jones, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, Executive Suite, French Cancan, Hobson’s Choice, The Maggie, Sabrina, Senso, A Star is Born, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Viaggio in Italia  

1955: Il Bidone, It’s Always Fair Weather, The Ladykillers, Oklahoma!, Picnic, Summertime, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry  

1956: Around the World in 80 Days, The Burmese Harp, Carousel, Jubal, The Killing, The King and I, Lust for Life, The Searchers

1957: Funny Face, The Pajama Game, Sayonara, Silk Stockings, The Smallest Show on Eart, Throne of Blood, 12 Angry Men, Wild Strawberries, The Wrong Man 

1958: The Brothers Karamazov, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Damn Yankees, Elevator to the Gallows, The Face (The Magician), Gigi, The Last Hurrah, The Lovers, Mon Oncle, Some Came Running, South Pacific  

1959: Anatomy of a Murder, Ben-Hur, Il Generale della Rovere, I’m Alright Jack,  Some Like It Hot

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1960s

1. La Dolce Vita (1960)

2. Andrei Rublev (1966)

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

5. America America (1963)

6. The Leopard (1963)

7. Persona (1966)

8. L’Avventura (1960)

9. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

10. Jules et Jim (1962)

11. Seconds (1966)

12. My Night at Maud’s (1969)

13. La notte (1961)

14. The Innocents (1961)

15. Blow-Up (1966)

16. Au hasard, Balthazar (1966)

17. The Swimmer (1968)

18. Petulia (1968)

19. Zorba the Greek (1964)

20. Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)

21. Lord Jim (1965)

22. 8 1/2 (1963)

23. Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

24. Il posto (1961)

25. Shame (1968)

25. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

27. The Pawnbroker (1964)

28. Point Blank (1967)

29. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)

30. The Apartment (1960)

31. Accident (1967)

32. La collectionneuse (1967)

33. Psycho (1960)

34. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

36. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 

37. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

38. Downhill Racer (1969)

39. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

40. Women in Love (1969)

41. The Wild Bunch (1969)

42. The Cardinal (1963)

43. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

44. The Sand Pebbles (1966) 

45. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) 

46. Peeping Tom (1960) 

47. Zazie dans le metro (1960)

48. Hud (1963)

49. Knife in the Water (1962)

50. The Great Escape (1963)

also good:

1960: The Bad Sleep Well, The Bellboy, Bells are Ringing, The Entertainer, Eyes Without a Face, High Time, Jigoku, Purple Noon, Le testament d’Orphee, The Virgin Spring, Wild River 

1961: The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Lola, The Misfits, One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story 

1962: David and Lisa, L’eclisse, Experiment in Terror, Il sorpasso, Lolita, Mafioso, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ride the High Country, Sundays and Cybele, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 

1963: Bay of Angels, The Big City, The Birds, The Fire Within, High and Low, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Servant, This Sporting Life, Winter Light 

1964: Charulata, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day’s Night, Marnie, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Pumpkin Eater, Red Desert, Sallah, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, A Shot in the Dark, The Soft Skin, The Train, The World of Henry Orient, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 

1965: The Hill, In Harm’s Way, Red Beard, Repulsion, Shakespeare Wallah, Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, The Sound of Music, A Thousand Clowns, Yo Yo 

1966: Closely Watched Trains, Cul-de-Sac, The Fortune Cookie, The Trouble with Angels 

1967: Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Mouchette, Playtime, The Producers, The Young Ladies of Rochefort 

1968: The Bride Wore Black, Capricious Summer, The Color of Pomegranates, Finian’s Rainbow, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Oliver!, The Party, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary’s Baby, Stolen Kisses 

1969: The Arrangement, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Joke, Mississippi Mermaid, A Passion, The Reivers, The Spider’s Stratagem, Sweet Charity 

and the James Bond series, the “Dollars” trilogy, and several Ken Russell television films including The Debussy Film, Isadora Duncan, Song of Summer

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1970s

1. Savage Messiah (1972)

2. Solaris (1972)

3. All That Jazz (1979)

4. The Deer Hunter (1978)

4. The Devils (1971)

6. The Conversation (1974)

7. Days of Heaven (1978)

8. The Godfather (1972)

8. The Godfather, Part II (1974)

10. The Mirror (1975)

11. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

11. Nashville (1975)

13. Chinatown (1974)

14. Apocalypse Now (1979)

15. The Music Lovers (1971)

16. American Graffiti (1973)

16. Day for Night (1973)

18. Badlands (1973)

19. Barry Lyndon (1975)

20. The Last Picture Show (1971)

21. Dersu Uzala (1975)

22. Lisztomania (1975)

23. Tommy (1975)

24. All the President’s Men (1976)

25. The Conformist (1970)

26. Breaking Away (1979)

27. Star Wars (1977)

28. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

29. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

30. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

31. Straw Dogs (1971)

32. The American Friend (1977)

33. Jaws (1975)

34. Rocky (1976) 

35. Network (1976)

36. Five Easy Pieces (1970)

37. The Boy Friend (1971)

38. The French Connection (1971)

39. Claire’s Knee (1970)

40. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)

41. Stalker (1979)

42. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

43. Sorcerer (1977)

44. Annie Hall (1977)

45. Manhattan (1979)

46. 3 Women (1977)

47. Mean Streets (1973)

48. Taxi Driver (1976)

49. The Tenant (1976)

50. What’s Up, Doc (1972)

51. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

52. L’argent de poche (1976)

52. Bad Company (1972)

52. Cabaret (1972)

52. Cesar et Rosalie (1972)

52. Deliverance (1972)

52. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

52. Frenzy (1972)

52. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

52. The Go-Between (1970)

52. Hearts of the West (1975)

52. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

52. The Last Detail (1973)

52. The Last of Sheila (1973)

52. Logan’s Run (1976)

52. Luna (1979)

52. Mahler (1974)

52. Marathon Man (1976)

52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

52. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

52. Night Moves (1975)

52. Obsession (1976)

52. The Onion Field (1979)

52. The Parallax View (1974)

52. Saint Jack (1979)

52. Shampoo (1975)

52. Sleuth (1972)

52. Smile (1975)

52. The Story of Adele H. (1975)

52. An Unmarried Woman (1978)

52. Valentino (1977)

52. Wise Blood (1979)

also good: Alice in the Cities, The Ascent, Big Wednesday, The Black Stallion, The Boys in the Band, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, California Split, Death in Venice, Dodes’ka-den, Donkey Skin, Don’t Look Now, The Emigrants, Eraserhead, Eyes of Laura Mars, Farewell My Lovely, The Fury, The Gambler, The Green Room, Hustle, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Kramer vs. Kramer, Lancelot du Lac, The Late Show, Lenny, The Long Goodbye, M*A*S*H, Macbeth, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Magic, The Man Who Loved Women, The Man Who Would Be King, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Mr. Klein, Murmur of the Heart, My Name is Nobody, The Nickel Ride, Nickelodeon, O Lucky Man, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Padre Padrone, The Paper Chase, Paper Moon, Phantom of the Paradise, Play it Again Sam, Posse, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, Ryan’s Daughter, Serpico, Sisters, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Spirit of the Beehive, Stay Hungry, The Sting, Superman, Tess, Thieves Like Us, Two English Girls, Vincent Francois Paul et les autres, A Wedding, The Yakuza, Zardoz

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1980s

1. Nostalghia (1983)

2. The Right Stuff (1983)

3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

4. Brazil (1985)

5. Excalibur (1981)

5. The Stunt Man (1980)

7. Gallipoli (1981)

8. Paris, Texas (1984)

9. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

10. Down by Law (1986)

11. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

12. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

12. A Passage to India (1984)

14. Prince of the City (1981)

15. Altered States (1980)

16. Babette’s Feast (1987)

17. Hope and Glory (1987)

18. And the Ship Sails On (1983)

19. Field of Dreams (1989)

20. Raging Bull (1980)

21. The Mission (1986)

22. After Hours (1985)

23. A Cry in the Dark (1988)

24. Ran (1985)

25. The Emerald Forest (1985)

26. The Makioka Sisters (1983)

27. Blow Out (1981)

27. Cutter’s Way (1981)

29. Raising Arizona (1987)

30. Mystery Train (1989)

31. Blue Velvet (1986)

32. Atlantic City (1980)

33. The Sacrifice (1986)

34. Come and See (1985)

35. Kaos (1984)

36. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

37. Wings of Desire (1987)

38. Local Hero (1983)

39. Au revoir, les enfants (1987)

40. S.O.B. (1981)

also good: The Accidental Tourist, The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, An American Werewolf in London, Angel Heart, Another Woman, The Black Marble, Blade Runner, Blood Simple, Born on the Fourth of July, Breaker Morant, Casualties of War, Chariots of Fire, The Color of Money, Cruising, Desert Bloom, Diner, Diva, Do the Right Thing, Dressed to Kill, Eight Men Out, The Elephant Man, Empire of the Sun, Fanny and Alexander, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Ginger and Fred, Glory, Greystoke, A Handful of Dust, Hannah and Her Sisters, Henry V, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring, The King of Comedy, The Last Emperor, Losing Ground, Married to the Mob, Melvin and Howard, Mona Lisa, Moonstruck, My Dinner with Andre, My Life as a Dog, New York Stories, One From the Heart, Ordinary People, Pauline at the Beach, Pennies from Heaven, Places in the Heart, Plenty, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Rainbow, Roxanne, Say Anything, School Daze, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stranger Than Paradise, Tempest, Testimony, That Championship Season, Therese, They All Laughed, Tootsie, Under Satan’s Sun, Under the Volcano, Veronika Voss, Vivement dimanche!, When Father Was Away on Business, Year of the Dragon, Zelig

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