With Witness for the Prosecution, 12 Angry Men, Paths of Glory, The Seventh Seal, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Wild Strawberries, A Face in the Crowd, and Sweet Smell of Success, is 1957 the best year for film ever? I believe it's up there.
shareI like 1962 and 1976 the best.
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Having only seen Witness for the Prosecution, 12 Angry Men and The Bridge on the River Kwai, I can say it was an amazing year and could easily tie with 1939, 1940, 1950 and 1976 as one of the best years in film.
shareIt's certainly one of MY favorite years.
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is also from this year.
And I must say that I adore Love in the Afternoon.
- "Your money's no good here, Mr. Torrance" -
"What about 1974?
The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
The Conversation
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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Young Frankenstein
Sandakan 8
Lacombe Lucien
The Deluge
Lenny
The Towering Inferno, among others."
Others like:
Blazing Saddles
Black Christmas
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Man with the Golden Gun
I was actually thinking about this some more, and I wanted to post a summary for a few more recent years. Check out 1999.
Fight Club
The Matrix
American Beauty
The Green Mile
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
The Straight Story
Toy Story 2
Office Space
Being John Malkovich
The Boondock Saints
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Sleepy Hollow
Princess Mononoke
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
American Psycho
Dogma
American Pie
Now how about 2006? Most underrated year?
The Departed
The Lives of Others
The Prestige
Pan's Labyrinth
Blood Diamond
Letters from Iwo Jima
Children of Men
Casino Royale
Little Miss Sunshine
Death Note
The Fall
The Pursuit of Happyness
Apocalypto
300
Lucky Number Slevin
The Last King of Scotland
Stranger Than Fiction
United 93
Inside Man
An Inconvenient Truth
Fearless
The Illusionist
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Departed or United 93 is proof for what again? Its impossible to compare todays content consumer trash with real film making of the past. You wont get good movies anymore. This is impossible cause of global marketing (avoids any base for good story telling and good jokes) and woke fascism. Movie making is history. There are now and then some miracles (like Joker) but they are just exceptions proofing the fact.
sharePossibly the best of the 1950´s - alongside 1950 which had to offer Sunset Blvd, Les Enfants Terribles, D.O.A., All About Eve, The Asphalt Jungle, Panic In The Streets, Rashomon, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Winchester ´73, Night And The City... However, pretty much every year from 1971 to 1976 (plus 1979) is better than each of these.
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Easily 1966, although a terrible year for Hollywood: Andrei Rublev, Persona, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Battle of Algiers, Blow-up, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Au Hasard Balthazar, Maculin Feminin. 1962 also very good.
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OP: 1957 was indeed a formidable year on the strength of the first three mentioned. Bridge impressed me less, and the others leave me no more than lukewarm. But just for the first three, 1957 is most definitely in the running.
1965 is a strong contender for me:
Doctor Zhivago, unquestionably one of the top 2 films of all time.
Cat Ballou
The Collector
The Flight of the Phoenix
In Harm's Way, the most underrated war movie ever made.
The Ipcress File
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Von Ryan's Express
1962 another contender for me:
Lawrence of Arabia, unquestionably one of the top 2 films of all time.
Advise and Consent
Billy Budd
How the West was Won
Lolita
The Longest Day
Requiem for a Heavyweight
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 marked the stunningly triumphant entry of each of two most excellent and durable actors, Peter O'Toole and Terence Stamp.
This brings back some memories. 8 years later I rank 1957 as my 9th favorite year, but for a lot of different reasons that I once did. Top 10:
1. Decision at Sundown
2. The Lonely Man
3. Paths of Glory
4. Le Notti Bianche
5. The Tin Star
6. The Seventh Seal
7. Il Grido
8. The Tall T
9. Sweet Smell of Success
10. 12 Angry Men
River Kwai, Wild Strawberries, and the whole reason for this post - Witness for the Prosecution - don't do nearly as much for me as they once did.
For what it's worth, my favorite year for film is now 1948:
1. Raw Deal
2. Yellow Sky
3. Louisiana Story
4. Blood on the Moon
5. Portrait of Jennie
6. Moonrise
7. Johnny Belinda
8. Hollow Triumph aka The Scar
9. Rope
10. He Walked by Night
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1957 is the best film year ever!! no doubt abt it
shareYeah, it was a good year.
shareHard to argue with that. Was an incredible year for films all round. Any of those films could've won Best Picture in another year. Especially when you consider Around The World In 80 Days and Gigi won the Oscar either side of it
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