{"id":306,"date":"2010-07-11T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-07-11T23:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T23:06:18","slug":"80-years-of-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/11\/80-years-of-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Years of Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here follows a personal list of favourite, significant or just thoroughly entertaining movies, one for each year from 1930 to 2010. I reiterate, this is a personal<\/strong> list, so it is unashamedly Anglo-American for the most part, but I’ve also tried to keep an eye on cinema as a developing art form and include movies which cast longer shadows at the expense of quirkier choices whose appeal to me might be harder to fathom (for example, my absolute favourite movie of 1986 is Little Shop of Horrors<\/em> but I couldn’t leave out Withnail & I<\/em>). I’ve also tried to include as many different genres as I can – musicals, comedies, thrillers, police procedurals, westerns and space operas – you’ll find them all here. Finally, when faced with really tough choices, I’ve picked movies which are most typical of their era, which seemed appropriate under the one-film-per-year constraint.<\/p>\n

Lists like these tend to generate outraged debate. Good! Let me know what gems I have omitted. If you can be bothered – compile your own list, and fill it full of Kurosawa, Bunel, Bergman, Truffaut and show me up of the Anglo-centric philistine I no doubt am.<\/p>\n

1930\tFeet First
\n1931\tCity Lights
\n1932\tThe Music Box
\n1933\tDuck Soup
\n1934\tIt Happened One Night
\n1935\tThe 39 Steps
\n1936\tThe Great Zeigfeld
\n1937\tSnow White and the Seven Dwarves
\n1938\tThe Lady Vanishes
\n1939\tThe Wizard of Oz
\n1940\tThe Philadelphia Story
\n1941\tCitizen Kane
\n1942\tRoad to Morocco
\n1943\tCasablanca
\n1944\tDouble Indemnity
\n1945\tBrief Encounter
\n1946\tIt’s a Wonderful Life
\n1947\tThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
\n1948\tRope
\n1949\tThe Third Man
\n1950\tSunset Boulevard
\n1951\tThe Lavender Hill Mob
\n1952\tSingin’ In The Rain
\n1953\tGentlemen Prefer Blondes
\n1954\tOn The Waterfront
\n1955\tThe Ladykillers
\n1956\tForbidden Planet
\n1957\t12 Angry Men
\n1958\tVertigo
\n1959\tSome Like it Hot
\n1960\tSpartacus
\n1961\tBreakfast at Tiffany’s
\n1962\tDr No
\n1963\t8\u00bd
\n1964\tCarry on Cleo
\n1965\tThe Sound of Music
\n1966\tThe Fortune Cookie
\n1967\tThe Graduate
\n1968\t2001: A Space Odyssey
\n1969\tButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
\n1970\tMASH
\n1971\tDirty Harry
\n1972\tThe Godfather
\n1973\tThe Exorcist
\n1974\tThe Godfather Part II
\n1975\tJaws
\n1976\tThe Pink Panther Strikes Again
\n1977\tAnnie Hall
\n1978\tGrease
\n1979\tAlien
\n1980\tThe Blues Brothers
\n1981\tRaiders of the Lost Ark
\n1982\tStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
\n1983\tTrading Places
\n1984\tGremlins
\n1985\tBack to the Future
\n1986\tWithnail and I
\n1987\tThe Untouchables
\n1988\tDie Hard
\n1989\tThe Little Mermaid
\n1990\tGoodfellas
\n1991\tThe Silence of the Lambs
\n1992\tUnforgiven
\n1993\tJurassic Park
\n1994\tPulp Fiction
\n1995\tSense and Sensibility
\n1996\tShine
\n1997\tLA Confidential
\n1998\tSaving Private Ryan
\n1999\tThe Matrix
\n2000\tBilly Elliot
\n2001\tAm\u00e9lie
\n2002\tChicago
\n2003\tFinding Nemo
\n2004\tEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
\n2005\tThe 40 Year Old Virgin
\n2006\tLittle Miss Sunshine
\n2007\tMichael Clayton
\n2008\tThe Dark Knight
\n2009\tThe Hangover
\n2010 …. to early to say. I hear Inception<\/em> is good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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