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Friday, February 5, 2010

What’s the best movie year ever?

By Ron Rollins | Friday, February 5, 2010, 08:17 PM

NPR.com raises that very fun question with this entry on a spin off of the new decision by the Academy to raise the number of top films to 10, from five…

Their vote: 1962.

A good year indeed, but how about 1973? Serpico, The Getaway, High Plains Drifter, Save the Tiger, Papillon, Paper Moon, The Exorcist, American Graffiti, Badlands, The Last Detail, Mean Streets, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Sting, The Way We Were, Sleeper, The Day of the Jackal … In that group you’ll find among the best movies ever, arguably, by Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford and others…

By ANY stretch, a hell of a movie year…

What’s your fave?

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