What Is Your Favorite Movie for Each Year Since Your Birth?
This was originally posted on the seemingly defunct "Film General" board by another user, and it didn't gain much traction. I think it's a very clever question, and thought I'd repost it here. You can see the original post, and the original poster's selections, here:
https://moviechat.org/bd0000007/Film-General/60e3d7ef9fc7160f4b953b17/Whats-everyones-number-one-favorite-movie-of-each-year-since-birth
I found this very hard to do, and I couldn't always narrow it down to one film, but here's the best I could do. 1999 is a total toss-up.
1970 Patton
1971 Harold and Maude
1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1973 The Sting
1974 Chinatown
1975 Monty Python & the Holy Grail
1976 The Tenant
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Animal House
1979 The Jerk
1980 Hopscotch / The Blues Brothers
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 The Thing
1983 Trading Places
1984 Broadway Danny Rose / Repo Man
1985 My Life as a Dog
1986 Down By Law
1987 House of Games
1988 Die Hard / Midnight Run
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 Goodfellas / Miller’s Crossing
1991 Delicatessen
1992 Unforgiven
1993 True Romance
1994 Pulp Fiction (but The Hudsucker Proxy and Chungking Express are masterful)
1995 Heat / Get Shorty
1996 Trainspotting
1997 Jackie Brown
1998 Rushmore / The Last Days of Disco
1999 10 Things I Hate About You / Fight Club / Office Space / The Matrix / Galaxy Quest / Mystery Men / Dogma
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 Donnie Darko
2002 City of God / Adaptation / The Rules of Attraction
2003 Lost in Translation
2004 The Aviator
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2006 The Lives of Others
2007 The Darjeeling Limited / Zodiac
2008 In Bruges
2009 Inglourious Basterds
2010 Black Swan / Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2011 The Artist / Drive
2012 The Cabin in the Woods / The Avengers
2013 Gangster Squad / Nebraska
2014 Interstellar
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Hacksaw Ridge
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming / Baby Driver / Dunkirk
2018 The Death of Stalin
2019 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood / Midsommar
2020 Minari
2021 The Green Knight (but the year is not done!)