Originally Posted by
mortalterror
For film, it shouldn't even be a contest. Hollywood crushes all of it's closest rivals. Bollywood and Nollywood have produced more films in recent decades, but I don't think they've brought their standards up to the polished level of the big Hollywood studios. Italy brought us neorealism and the directors: Fellini, Rossellini, De Sica, Antonioni, Leone, Bertolucci, and Visconti. France gave us The New Wave and Jean Renoir, Godard, Truffaut, Bresson. Japan gave us Akira Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ichikawa, Ozu, Oshima, Imamura and samurai movies. Sweden gave us Ingmar Bergman, and Carl Dreyer. Germany gave us Expressionism and Fritz Lang. Russia gave us Eisenstein and Tarkovsky and Britain gave us Hitchcock and David Lean. Poland is responsible for Kieslowski and Polanski. But America is where Kubrick, Scorsese, Welles, Spielberg, Hawks, Capra, Ford, Griffith, Coppola, Tarantino, Kazan, Peckinpah, Lumet, Cameron, the Coen Brothers, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, De Palma, Zemeckis, etc. were born. South Korea and Hong Kong have had a really good 21st century so far, but we're only talking 20th century right now.
2000 Battle Royale, Memento, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Requiem For a Dream, Traffic
1999 The Matrix, American Beauty, One Day in September, The Boondock Saints, Dogma
1998 The Big Lebowski, Saving Private Ryan, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Thin Red Line
1997 L.A. Confidential, Character, Boogie Nights, Life is Beautiful, Gattaca, Taste of Cherry,
1996 Hamlet, Trainspotting, Pretty Village Pretty Flame, Fargo
1995 The Usual Suspects, Shanghai Triad, Mallrats, Se7en, Ghost in the Shell, Day of the Beast
1994 Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, To Live, Forest Gump, The Professional, Natural Born Killers, Three Colors Red,
1993 Schindler's List, Farewell My Concubine, The Fugitive, Sonatine, Stalingrad, Tombstone,
1992 Reservoir Dogs, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Few Good Men
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Raise the Red Lantern, Terminator 2, JFK
1990 Goodfellas, Total Recall, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Dances With Wolves, Cyrano de Bergerac, Europa Europa, Dreams,
1989 Do the Right Thing, Lonesome Dove, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Henry V, When Harry Met Sally, Field of Dreams, Driving Miss Daisy
1988 Die Hard, Heathers, Akira, Cinema Paradiso, A Short Film About Killing, Dangerous Liasons, Rain Man
1987 Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, The Princess Bride, Predator, The Last Emperor, Wings of Desire, Au Revoir Les Enfants
1986 Aliens, Platoon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Big Trouble in Little China, Jean de Florette, Ginger and Fred
1985 Brazil, Ran, Back to the Future, Come and See
1984 The Terminator, Amadeus, Once Upon a Time in America, The Killing Fields
1983 Scarface, The Right Stuff, And the Ship Sailed On
1982 Fanny and Alexander, Blade Runner, The Thing, Ghandi, The Wrath of Khan, First Blood, Conan the Barbarian
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Das Boot, Chariots of Fire
1980 Raging Bull, Kagemusha, The Shining, The Empire Strikes Back, Ordinary People, Breaker Morant
1979 Apocalypse Now, Alien, Stalker,
1978 The Deer Hunter, Autumn Sonata, Dawn of the Dead
1977 Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever
1976 Rocky, Network, Taxi Driver, All the President's Men
1975 Jaws, Barry Lyndon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dersu Uzala
1974 Hearts and Minds, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II
1973 Amarcord, Mean Streets
1972 The Godfather, Solaris
1971 A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, Dirty Harry
1970 Patton, The Conformist, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1969 The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Z
1968 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Lion in Winter, Hour of the Wolf
1967 In the Heat of the Night, Samurai Rebellion, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Marat/Sade
1966 The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Andrei Rublev, Sword of Doom, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Battle of Algiers, Closely Watched Trains, Persona
1965 Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Shop on Main Street, For A Few Dollars More, The Flight of the Phoenix, Juliet of the Spirits
1964 Dr. Strangelove, A Fistful of Dollars, Zulu, Zorba the Greek
1963 8 1/2, High and Low, The Leopard, The Great Escape
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, Harakiri, The Longest Day, The Miracle Worker, Sanjuro
1961 Yojimbo, Through a Glass Darkly
1960 La Dolce Vita, Spartacus, The Virgin Spring, Inherit the Wind
1959 Anatomy of a Murder, 400 Blows, Fires on the Plain, Some Like it Hot
1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hidden Fortress
1957 Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Paths of Glory, Nights of Cabiria, Throne of Blood, The Bridge on the River Kwai, 12 Angry Men, Witness For the Prosecution, Kanal
1956 The Searchers, A Man Escaped
1955 Smiles of a Summer Night, Night of the Hunter
1954 Seven Samurai, La Strada, On the Waterfront
1953 Julius Caesar, The Wages of Fear, From Here to Eternity, I Vitelloni,
1952 High Noon, Ikiru, Umberto D., Singin' in the Rain, Forbidden Games, The White Sheik
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, The African Queen
1950 Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Asphalt Jungle, Harvey
1949 All the King's Men, Stray Dog, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1948 The Bicycle Thief, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Drunken Angel, Red River, Rope, The Red Shoes
1947 Out of the Past, The Lady From Shanghai
1946 The Big Sleep, It's a Wonderful Life
1945 Rome, Open City, Children of Paradise, Scarlet Street
1944 Double Indemnity, Arsenic and Old Lace
1943 Ossessione
1942 Casablanca
1941 Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, How Green Was My Valley
1940 The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday
1939 Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz
1938 Pygmalion
1937 The Grand Illusion
1936 My Man Godfry
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1934 The Scarlet Empress
1933 Gold Diggers of 1933
1932 Trouble in Paradise
1931 M, City Lights
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 Living Russia, or The Man With A Camera
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927 Metropolis
1926 The General
1925 The Gold Rush
1924 Sherlock Jr.
1923 Safety Last!
1922 Nosferatu
1921 The Kid
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1919 Sunnyside
1918 A Dog's Life
1917 The Immigrant
1916 Intolerance
1915 The Birth of a Nation
1903 The Great Train Robbery
1902 A Trip to the Moon
Reply With Quote
