Greatest Films by Year

[Tim]

2024 is up now.

[Dubrow555]

TY - Tim

[Dubrow555]

I hate to be that guy again....but "A Room With a View" should be on the 1985 list...not 1986.

[ManPerson]

It's first theatrical release was in 86 which is probably why it's listed under that year.

[Dubrow555]

IMDB, Letterboxd, and wiki all consider it a 1985 film.

[Tim]

So if we go through Dubrow's change.

1986 (update)
1. Blue Velvet - David Lynch
2. Aliens - James Cameron
3. Platoon - Oliver Stone
4. Stand by Me - Rob Reiner
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off - John Hughes
6. The Fly - David Cronenberg
7. Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
8. The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky
9. Down by Law - Jim Jarmusch
10. Castle in the Sky - Hayao Miyazaki
11. A Better Tomorrow - John Woo
12. Jean de Florette - Claude Berri
13. Top Gun - Tony Scott
14. She's Gotta Have It - Spike Lee
15. The Mission - Roland Joffé
16. Manon of the Spring - Claude Berri
17. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton
18. Manhunter - Michael Mann
19. Hoosiers - David Anspaugh
20. Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter

1985 (update)
1. Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis
2. Ran - Akira Kurosawa
3. Brazil - Terry Gilliam
4. Shoah - Claude Lanzmann
5. The Breakfast Club - John Hughes
6. Come and See - Elem Klimov
7. Police Story - Jackie Chan
8. The Color Purple - Steven Spielberg
9. A Room with a View - James Ivory
10. The Goonies - Richard Donner
11. Out of Africa - Sydney Pollack
12. Witness - Peter Weir
13. The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen
14. My Life as a Dog - Lasse Hallström
15. Tampopo - Jûzô Itami
16. After Hours - Martin Scorsese
17. Vagabond - Agnès Varda
18. The Return of the Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon
19. Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon
20. Kiss of the Spider Woman - Hector Babenco

[Dubrow555]

Yes, that would make sense.

[pauldrach]

For determining a year, we generally go with the first public screening of a film, meaning a screening that could theoretically be attended by anybody given they purchase a ticket. The one 1985 screening of "A Room with a View" was a Royal Command Performance. I remember this was discussed back when we made the yearly lists but we agreed that Royal Command Performances probably should not count as public screenings. So, I'd object to the changes proposed above.

[Dubrow555]

Huh...I did not know that. Then I guess we should keep it that way.

[Tim]

Sorry I forgot about that discourse, paul.

[pauldrach]

No problem. It's one of these really borderline cases. "V for Vendetta" is the only one I remember being even harder to decide, since it was screened in 2005 only at the Butt-Numb-A-Thon, which was a rather exclusive festival. Generally, if you have differing release years across multiple sources, you should always check where the confusion springs from.

[Dubrow555]

Personally, I'm just amazed that there is something called: "Butt-Numb-A-Thon"

[ManPerson]

2010s yearly updates

2019
1. Parasite - Bong Joon-Ho
2. Joker - Todd Phillips
3. Avengers: Endgame - Anthony & Joe Russo
4. The Irishman - Martin Scorsese
5. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino
6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Céline Sciamma
7. 1917 - Sam Mendes
8. Marriage Story - Noah Baumbach
9. Little Women - Greta Gerwig
10. Knives Out - Rian Johnson
11. Uncut Gems - Benny & Josh Safdie
12. Pain and Glory - Pedro Almodovar
13. The Farewell - Lulu Wang
14. Us - Jordan Peele
15. Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waiti
16. Ford V Ferrari - James Mangold
17. Midsommar - Ari Aster
18. The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers
19. Sound of Metal - Darius Marder
20. Booksmart - Olivia Wilde

2018
1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman
2. Roma - Alfonso Cuarón
3. Black Panther - Ryan Coogler
4. Shoplifters - Hirokazu Koreeda
5. The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos
6. A Star is Born - Bradley Cooper
7. Avengers: Infinity War - Anthony & Joe Russo
8. BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee
9. Hereditary - Ari Aster
10. Burning - Lee Chang Dong
11. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Christopher McQuarrie
12. Cold War - Pawel Pawlikowski
13. A Quiet Place - John Krasinski
14. Bohemian Rhapsody - Bryan Singer
15. Crazy Rich Asians - Jon M. Chu
16. Eighth Grade - Bo Burnham
17. Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson
18. Green Book - Peter Farrelly
19. Sorry to Bother You - Boots Riley
20. If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins

2017
1. Get Out - Jordan Peele
2. Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino
3. Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig
4. Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan
5. The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh
7. Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve
8. Coco - Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina
9. Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Paddington 2 - Paul King
11. Logan - James Mangold
12. Wonder Woman - Patty Jenkins
13. Baby Driver - Edgar Wright
14. The Florida Project - Sean Baker
15. Thor: Ragnarok - Taika Waititi
16. Spider-Man: Homecoming - Jon Watts
17. Good Time - Benny & Josh Safdie
18. I, Tonya - Craig Gillespie
19. First Reformed - Paul Schrader
20. It - Andy Muschietti

2016
1. Moonlight - Barry Jenkins
2. La La Land - Damien Chazelle
3. Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
4. Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
5. Your Name. - Makoto Shinkai
6. Deadpool - Tim Miller
7. The Handmaiden - Park Chan-Wook
8. Zootopia - Byron Howard & Rich Moore
9. Captain America: Civil War - Anthony & Joe Russo
10. Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade
11. Hacksaw Ridge - Mel Gibson
12. OJ: Made in America - Ezra Edelman
13. Hell Or High Water - David MacKenzie
14. Train to Busan - Yeon Sang-Ho
15. Moana - Ron Clements & John Musker
16. Hidden Figures - Theodore Melfi
17. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Gareth Edwards
18. Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi
19. Lion - Garth Davis
20. Kubo & the Two Strings - Travis Knight

2015
1. Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller
2. Inside Out - Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen
3. The Revenant - Alejandro González Iñárritu
4. Spotlight - Tom McCarthy
5. Carol - Todd Haynes
6. Son of Saul - László Nemes
7. The Martian - Ridley Scott
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - J.J. Abrams
9. Room - Lenny Abrahamson
10. The Big Short - Adam McKay
11. Creed - Ryan Coogler
12. Sicario - Denis Villeneuve
13. Tangerine - Sean Baker
14. Brooklyn - John Crowley
15. The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino
16. The Witch - Robert Eggers
17. The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos
18. Furious 7 - James Wan
19. Straight Outta Compton - F. Gary Gray
20. Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman

2014
1. Boyhood - Richard Linklater
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtus of Ignorance) - Alejandro González Iñárritu
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson
4. Whiplash - Damien Chazelle
5. Interstellar - Christopher Nolan
6. Gone Girl - David Fincher
7. Guardians of the Galaxy - James Gunn
8. Leviathan - Andrey Zvyagintsev
9. Ex Machina - Alex Garland
10. The Lego Movie - Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
11. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Anthony & Joe Russo
12. The Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum
13. Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
14. Edge of Tomorrow - Doug Liman
15. X-Men: Days of Future Past - Bryan Singer
16. John Wick - Chad Stahelski
17. Big Hero 6 - Chris Williams & Don Hall
18. It Follows - David Robert Mitchell
19. The Babadook - Jennifer Kent
20. American Sniper - Clint Eastwood

2013
1. Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón
2. 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen
3. The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese
4. Her - Spike Jonze
5. Frozen - Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee
6. Blue Is the Warmest Colour - Abdellatif Kechiche
7. Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen
8. The Great Beauty - Paolo Sorrentino
9. Before Midnight - Richard Linklater
10. Ida - Pawel Pawlikowski
11. The Conjuring - James Wan
12. Captain Phillips - Paul Greengrass
13. American Hustle - David O. Russell
14. The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki
15. Prisoners - Denis Villeneuve
16. Under the Skin - Jonathan Glazer
17. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata
18. Dallas Buyers Club - Jean-Marc Vallee
19. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Francis Lawrence
20. Nebraska - Alexander Payne

2012
1. The Avengers - Joss Whedon
2. Amour - Michael Haneke
3. Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino
4. Skyfall - Sam Mendes
5. Argo - Ben Affleck
6. Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
7. Life of Pi - Ang Lee
8. The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer
9. Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson
10. The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan
11. Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow
12. The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson
13. Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
14. The Hunt - Thomas Vinterberg
15. Holy Motors - Leos Carax
16. Looper - Rian Johnson
17. The Hunger Games - Francis Lawrence
18. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
19. Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach
20. Les Miserables - Tom Hooper

2011
1. A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
2. The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
3. Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
4. Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
5. Hugo - Martin Scorsese
6. The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - David Yates
8. Melancholia - Lars von Trier
9. Bridesmaids - Paul Feig
10. The Intouchables - Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache
11. Moneyball - Bennett Miller
12. The Descendants - Alexander Payne
13. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Blige Ceylan
14. The Turin Horse - Bela Tarr
15. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Rupert Wyatt
16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Fincher
17. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Brad Bird
18. Rango - Gore Verbinski
19. The Help - Tate Taylor
20. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsey

2010
1. Inception - Christopher Nolan
2. The Social Network - David Fincher
3. Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich
4. Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky
5. The King's Speech - Tom Hooper
6. Incendies - Denis Villeneuve
7. How to Train Your Dragon - Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders
8. True Grit - Joel & Ethan Coen
9. Winter's Bone - Debra Granik
10. Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese
11. The Fighter - David O. Russell
12. Scott Pilgrim vs the World - Edgar Wright
13. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
14. Tangled - Byron Howard & Nathan Greno
15. 127 Hours - Danny Boyle
16. Despicable Me - Chris Renaud & Pierre Coffin
17. The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko
18. Blue Valentine - Derek Cianfrance
19. Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami
20. Poetry - Lee Chang-Dong

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