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"