Movie Year Draft Selection Thread

[billyireland]

OK, so being the first choice of the draft I am afraid I am going to go with the dull and obvious:

1939
The Rules of the Game
Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Stagecoach
Only Angels Have Wings
Destry Rides Again
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Love Affair

I was juggling with two other years, but there was simply too much for me to pass up on here.

[Via_Chicago]

As I mentioned in the other thread, we should probably just keep discussion here since it'll get confusing otherwise.

That said, my thoughts on 1939:

- Gone with the Wind
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Goodbye Mr. Chips
- Stagecoach
- Destry Rides Again

+ Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
+ Union Pacific
+ Young Mr. Lincoln
+ Ninotchka
+ The Roaring Twenties

That's half I guess, but you grabbed some unsung great ones, and you get major props for having Love Affair, which is an out and out masterpiece.

Erm...looking again at your list, you only have 9 (!) movies, not 10!

[GringoTex]

The only out-and-out masterpiece you missed in my book is Young Mr. Lincoln. I also would have had Ninotchka, 20th Century and Wuthering Heights.

[billyireland]

Ugh, throw in Ninotchka to make it the 10. My brain is entirely turned off, I forgot we needed to list our movies there-and-then, as opposed to the year as a whole being judged. I am dying for the bed.

Given what I just said above I would like to request switching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for The Roaring Twenties, if that's acceptable.

(I haven't actually seen Young Mr Lincoln yet. :o

[Via_Chicago]

The only out-and-out masterpiece you missed in my book is Young Mr. Lincoln. I also would have had Ninotchka, 20th Century and Wuthering Heights.

20th Century? The Hawks? That's 1934.

[oman]

screw you guys, I don't even get a pm?

Although this would be a one of the more difficult ones for me...

[Via_Chicago]

screw you guys, I don't even get a pm?

Although this would be a one of the more difficult ones for me...

I think you could join. Demosthenes has this hair-brained scheme to select films only from the years 1895-1912(3). Similarly, MLSNHTOWN wanted to do it with a partner only. Maybe you want to shoot him a PM to see what's up. Or, alternatively, we could just add you...

[oman]

Hey all, someone pm me when you guys are done with this draft and I will try to moderate the Top 50 Final Thread.

And I figured you guys would add me if I begged, but I need to concentrate on my Palin hate and trying to sit through Pyassa and A Woman Under the Influence.

Pray for me.

[SirManchester]

My first selection

1960
- L'avventura
- Le Trou
- Breathless
- La Dolce Vita
- Shoot the Piano Player
- When a Woman ascends the Stairs
- Peeping Tom
- Psycho
- Les Bonnes Femmes
- Le Petit Soldat

[Via_Chicago]

Wow. Great pick. No qualms with those selections.

1967

I thought I'd get my post-1960 pick out of the way early. I can take any year from 1919-1959 and be happy, so I'm content for now.

Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)

Playtime (Jacques Tati)

Point Blank (John Boorman)

The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso)

Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)

Wavelength (Michael Snow)

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)

[Matrim55]

I haven't seen most of the 1967 films, so I can't really comment. Love the 1960 pick, and obviously the 1939 pick. Though billyi is now in my doghouse for omitting Wyler's Wuthering Heights.

EDIT: I just realized the only Godard film that I've really liked was from 1967, and you didn't even pick it. Sadistic bastard!

1975

Nashville (Altman)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Jaws (Spielberg)
Rollerball (Jewison)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam, Jones)
The Story of Adele H (Truffaut)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
The One Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine (Yu)

[GringoTex]

My first selection

1960
- L'avventura
- Le Trou
- Breathless
- La Dolce Vita
- Shoot the Piano Player
- When a Woman ascends the Stairs
- Peeping Tom
- Psycho
- Les Bonnes Femmes
- Le Petit Soldat


You pretty much nailed that. You even included Le Trou (the best French film of year was NOT a New Wave film)

[GringoTex]

1967


Great year, great picks. I hate Marketa Lazarova and would have replaced it with Monte Hellman's The Shooting, but that's my only quibble.

[billyireland]

Given what I just said above [I was unaware we had to pick a set 10 films there-and-then, and rushed my pick a bit as I was half-asleep] I would like to request switching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for The Roaring Twenties, if that's acceptable.Yay? Nay?

[GringoTex]

1975


First year taken from my Top 5 draft board. You also came dangerously close to the top year on my draft board. I worship your balls for including Story of Adele H. But your omission of Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles is sacrilege and you didn't include any of the Chabrol masterpieces from that year (Innocents with Dirty Hands, Pleasure Party).

And to demonstrate the hopelessness of everybody's cause, The One Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine is the first movie taken I haven't seen.

[GringoTex]

1974

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
Cockfighter (Hellman)
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Polanski)
California Split (Altman)
The Godfather: Part II (Coppola)
Lacombe Lucien (Malle)

Two Warren Oates films = this draft is my bitch

There's two other years I value slightly more, but I though this one was in danger of going first.

[billyireland]

...and there is one of the other years I was thinking of taking along with 1939. Although I would have put in The Conversation for Cockfighter (which I admittedly have not seen), and would have wanted to find space somewhere for Blazing Saddles. Hopefully the other year slips down to me.

[Matrim55]

First year taken from my Top 5 draft board. You also came dangerously close to the top year on my draft board. I worship your balls for including Story of Adele H. But your omission of Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles is sacrilege and you didn't include any of the Chabrol masterpieces from that year (Innocents with Dirty Hands, Pleasure Party).
I've never seen any Chabrol. And my wife hasn't been able to taint me with her love of Chantal Ackerman (though I am in a world of hurt for picking Cuckoo's Next, which is really a misogynist shitpile but a great film nonetheless).

1974

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
Cockfighter (Hellman)
Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Polanski)
California Split (Altman)
The Godfather: Part II (Coppola)
Lacombe Lucien (Malle)

Two Warren Oates films = this draft is my bitch

There's two other years I value slightly more, but I though this one was in danger of going first.
Yet you managed to omit three of the four best films of that year: The Conversation, Blazing Saddles and F for Fake, which might be the best film of any year.

1974 was second on my list, btw.

EDIT: And to highlight just how great these two years were, you could very easily make a "second ten" list for each that would be arguably strong enough to fit in this draft. I mean, I left out Dog Day Afternoon, The Passenger, and a half dozen other great films from 1975. Just as Gringo did from 74.

[billyireland]

F For Fake? Haven't heard of it and I've been out of the loop of watching a lot of films for the last year or so... care to fill me in on it? I tend to need a little nudge before going out of my way to find and watch something. :o

[Matrim55]

F For Sake? Haven't heard of it and I've been out of the loop of watching a lot of films for the last year or so... care to fill me in on it? I tend to need a little nudge before going out of my way to find and watch something. :o
Orson Welles spills the contents of his brain onto celluloid for 90 minutes and reveals every other filmmaker in the history of the medium is/was a rank amateur in comparison.