A Film A Year
Going through an old hard drive today I found this almost-completed list from 2015 in which I'd set myself the task of choosing a single film for each year of the preceding hundred. It was interesting to see in what ways my tastes had changed and just how many more films I'd discovered and fallen in love with in the meantime.
Anyways, I thought I'd finish it off and update it to the present: I very much tried to keep it to just one film per year, but the competition some years was just too high so they've had to share joint first places:
1915 A Night In The Show
1916 The Vagabond
1917 Easy Street
1918 A Dog's Life
1919 Sunnyside
1920 One Week
1921 The Kid
1922 Dr Mabuse, The Gambler
1923 Safety Last / Why Worry?
1924 Sherlock Jr / The Last Laugh
1925 The Gold Rush
1926 The General
1927 Sunrise / Seventh Heaven
1928 The Last Command / Steamboat Jr. / The Man Who Laughs / The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 The Love Parade / Un Chien Andalou / Lucky Star
1930 All Quiet On The Western Front
1931 City Lights/ The Smiling Lieutenant
1932 Horse Feathers / Love Me Tonight
1933 Duck Soup / The Invisible Man
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 The 39 Steps
1936 My Man Godfrey
1937 Nothing Sacred
1938 Adventures Of Robin Hood / Pygmalion
1939 The Cat And The Canary / The Wizard of Oz / The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1940 His Girl Friday / Pinocchio
1941 Citizen Kane / The Maltese Falcon / Dumbo / Sullivan's Travels
1942 Casablanca
1943 Le Corbeau
1944 Arsenic & Old Lace
1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / And Then There Were None
1946 A Matter of Life and Death
1947 Black Narcissus
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 The Third Man / Kind Hearts & Coronets
1950 Sunset Blvd. / La Ronde
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 Singin' In The Rain / Le Plaisir
1953 Calamity Jane
1954 Hobson's Choice
1955 The Night Of The Hunter /The Ladykillers
1956 The Searchers
1957 The Seventh Seal
1958 Vertigo
1959 North By Northwest / Ballad of A Soldier
1960 Psycho / The Virgin Spring / Two Women
1961 Breakfast At Tiffanys
1962 Le Doulos
1963 The Great Escape / The Birds
1964 Onibaba
1965 For A Few Dollars More
1966 Blow Up
1967 Le Samourai / Cool Hand Luke
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
1970 Le Cercle Rouge
1971 Get Carter / Harold & Maude
1972 The Godfather
1973 Don't Look Now
1974 The Godfather Part II / Chinatown
1975 Jaws / The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Network
1977 Star Wars / Annie Hall
1978 Halloween / Superman
1979 Apocalypse Now / Alien / Life Of Brian / Manhattan
1980 Stardust Memories / Raging Bull
1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982 Blade Runner / The Thing
1983 The Dead Zone / Zelig
1984 Ghostbusters / The Terminator / Blood Simple
1985 Back To The Future
1986 Hannah & Her Sisters / The Fly
1987 Withnail & I / Wings of Desire
1988 Dangerous Liaisons
1989 Crimes & Misdemeanors / Dead Poets Society
1990 Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of The Lambs / Terminator 2
1992 Reservoir Dogs / The Player
1993 Schindler's List / Groundhog Day
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Se7en / Casino / The Usual Suspects
1996 Fargo
1997 LA Confidential / Grosse Point Blank / Boogie Nights
1998 The Truman Show / Happiness / Buffalo '66
1999 American Beauty / Magnolia / Being John Malkovich / Fight Club
2000 Memento
2001 Mulholland Drive / The Royal Tennenbaums / The Piano Teacher
2002 Adaptation / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 Lost In Translation
2004 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Life Aquatic
2005 Me & You & Everyone We Know
2006 The Prestige / Perfume
2007 No Country For Old Men / There Will Be Blood
2008 The Dark Knight / Let The Right One In / Tropic Thunder
2009 Cold Souls / Up / Zombieland
2010 I Saw The Devil / The Ghost Writer
2011 The Hidden Face
2012 The Avengers
2013 Her
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Winter Soldier
2015 The Survivalist / The Lobster
2016 Like Crazy
2017 Coco
2018 Deadpool 2
2019 The Irishman
2020 Kajillionaire
2021 The French Dispatch
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin
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Filmography to Love and Adore (1900 - 2022 AD)
1900:
-Joan of Arc
-The One-Man Band
1901:
-History Of A Crime
1902:
-The Coronation of Edward VII
1903:
-Life of An American Fireman
1904:
-The Impossible Voyage
1905:
-Esmerelda
1906:
-The Story of The Kelly Gang
1907:
-L'Enfant Prodigue
1908:
-Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
-Fantasmagorie
1909:
-Princess Nicotine/The Smoke Fairy
-The Golden Louis
1910:
-Frankenstein
1911:
-Little Nemo
1912:
-The Beautiful Leukanida
1913:
-The Adventures of Kathlyn
1914:
-The Squaw Man
1915:
-Are You A Mason?
-Carmen
-Barnaby Rudge
1916:
-Civilization
-The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1917:
-Charlie Chaplin: The Cure
1918:
-The Tenth Symphony
1919:
-Intoxication
1920:
-The Saphead
1921:
-L'Atlantide
-Charlie Chaplin: The Kid
1922:
-The Toll of The Sea
1923:
-The Unknown Tomorrow
-The Man in The Iron Mask
1924:
-Dante's Inferno
1925:
-Alfred Hitchcock: The Pleasure Garden
-The Phantom of the Opera
1926:
-The Great Gatsby
-The Devil's Wheel
-The Devil's Circus
-The Golden Butterfly
1927:
-The Jazz Singer
-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger (The Story of the London Fog)
-Metropolis
1928:
-Noah's Ark
1929:
-Alfred Hitchcock: Blackmail
-The Broadway Melody
1930:
-Hell's Angels
-Young Man of Manhattan
1931:
-The Man Who Came Back
-Bad Girl
1932:
-Smilin' Through
-Tarzan The Ape Man
-Strange Interlude
1933:
-Little Women
-Gold Diggers of 1933
1934:
-The Lost Patrol
-Riptide
1935:
-Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps
1936:
-Reefer Madness
1937:
-Walt Disney: Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
-The Good Earth
1938:
-Jezebel
-Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes
1939:
-The Wizard of Oz
1940:
-Walt Disney: Pinocchio
-Alfred Hitchcock: Correspondent
-Walt Disney: Fantasia
-Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator
-Boom Town
1941:
-Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion
-Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
1942:
-Casablanca
-Road To Morocco
1943:
-For Whom The Bell Tolls
-Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of A Doubt
1944:
-Gaslight
-Double Indemnity
-Laura
-National Velvet
1945:
-Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound
1946:
-The Best Years of Our Lives
-Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious
1947:
-Forever Amber
-The Egg And I
1948:
-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
-The Search
1949:
-I Married A Communist
-The Man From Colorado
-The Heiress
1950:
-Walt Disney: Cinderella
1951:
-Quo Vadis
-Awaara
-That's My Boy
-The Thirteenth Letter
1952:
-The Big Sky
1953:
-The Robe
-Walt Disney: Peter Pan
1954:
-Magnificent Obsession
-Godzilla
1955:
-Sissi
-The Man With The Golden Arm
1956:
-Francis In The Haunted House
-And God Created Woman
-Anastasia
-The Rainmaker
1957:
-The Bridge on the River Kwai
-Yellow Crow
1958:
-Gigi
-The Defiant Ones
-I Want To Live!
1959:
-Ben-Hur
-The 400 Blows
1960:
-Mughal-E-Azam
1961:
-The Misfits
1962:
-The Manchurian Candidate
-Sundays and Cybéle
-Francis Ford Coppola: The Bellboy & The Playgirls
1963:
-Nurse On Wheels
-Shock Corridor
1964:
-The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
-Mary Poppins
-Becket
-My Fair Lady
-Seven Days in May
-The Time Travelers
1965:
-The Sound of Music
-The Beatles: Help!
-The Spy Who Came in From The Cold
-The Shop on Main Street
1966:
-A Man for All Seasons
-Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac
-La Battaglia di Algeri
1967:
-The Graduate
-The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
1968:
-Psych-Out!
-Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey
-The Girl on A Motorcycle
-Roman Polanski: Rosemary's Baby
-Candy
-Wild In The Streets
1969:
-The Night of the Following Day
-Psychout for Murder
-Medium Cool
-The Arrangement
-Easy Rider
1970:
-Donkey Skin
-I Drink Your Blood
-Night Slaves
-Patton
1971:
-Harold and Maude
-Billy Jack
-Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange
-Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
-Dirty Harry
1972:
-Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather
-Slaughterhouse-Five
1973:
-The Hourglass Sanatorium
-The Crazies
-American Graffiti
1974:
-Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation
1975:
-Satanico Pandemonium
1976:
-Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver
1977:
-Rituals
-Blue Sunshine
1978:
-Deathsport
1979:
-Mad Max
-Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
1980:
-Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
-The Exterminator
-Stanley Kubrick: The Shining
-Altered States
-The Octagon
1981:
-Christiane F.
1982:
-Silent Rage
1983:
-Star Wars VI: Return of The Jedi
1984:
-This is Spinal Tap
-Dune
-The Killing Fields
-Red Dawn
1985:
-The Emerald Forest
-Invasion U.S.A.
1986:
-Gus Van Sant: Mala Noche
-What Every Frenchwoman Wants
-Platoon
1987:
-The Girl
1988:
-Zombi 3
-Brain Damage
1989:
-Drugstore Cowboy
1990:
-Hardware
-Jacob's Ladder
-Les 1001 Nuits
1991:
-Oliver Stone: The Doors
-Richard Linklater: Slacker
1992:
-Batman Returns
1993:
-In The Name of The Father
-12:01
1994:
-The Stand
-The Crow
-Leon The Professional
-Pulp Fiction
1995:
-Before Sunrise
-The Basketball Diaries
-Billy Madison
1996:
-Mike Judge: Beavis And Butthead Do America
-Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket
-Beautiful Girls
-Mission Impossible
1997:
-Conspiracy Theory
-Harmony Korine: Gummo
-Lost Highway
1998:
-The Truman Show
-Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
-The Big Lebowski
-Wes Anderson: Rushmore
-Vincent Gallo: Buffalo 66
1999:
-Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut
-Fight Club
-The Matrix
-American Beauty
-The Blair Witch Project
2000:
-American Psycho
-Mission Impossible II
-Scary Movie
2001:
-Studio Ghibli: Spirited Away
-Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums
2002:
-Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
-Damon Packard: Reflections of Evil
-Demonlover
-Equilibrium
-Panic Room
-Spun
2003:
-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
-Oldboy
-Just Married
-Vincent Gallo: The Brown Bunny
-Party Monster
-Gus Van Sant: Elephant
2004:
-Before Sunset
-Fahrenheit 9/11
-The Day After Tomorrow
2005:
-Gus Van Sant: Last Days
2006:
-Jet Li: Fearless
-Candy
-Children of Men
-Little Miss Sunshine
-The Science of Sleep
2007:
-Hot Rod
2008:
-Tropic Thunder
-Batman: The Dark Knight
-Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
-The Love Guru
-Be Kind Rewind
-Gonzo: The Life And Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2009:
-The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
-Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers
-Enter The Void
-Zombieland
-District 9
-We Live In Public
2010:
-My Joy
2011:
-The Sitter
-Drive
2012:
-Dredd
-Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus
-Jim Gaffigan: Mr Universe Standup Comedy
-Artificial Paradises
-Cloud Atlas
-Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
2013:
-A Field In England
-3096 Days
2014:
-Saint Laurent
2015:
-The Road
2016:
-The Love Witch
-Dernieres Nouvelles Du Cosmos (Latest News From The Cosmos)
2017:
-Low Life
2018:
-Mandy
-Waco
-Climax
2019:
-Joker
-1917
-Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
2020:
-Borealis
2021:
-Fear And Loathing in Aspen
-The Beatles/Peter Jackson: Get Back
-Juice WRLD: Into The Abyss
2022:
-Everything Everywhere All At Once
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