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What’s the best movie year ever?
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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By Mike
February 6, 2010 9:06 AM | Link to this
1939 is my pick with classics such as: Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Young Mr. Lincoln, Destry Rides again, Gungha Din, and so many others,back when Hollywood knew how to make really entertaining movies.
By Old Guy
February 6, 2010 8:49 AM | Link to this
I’ve always been partial to 1939 as the best year. Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz are the blockbusters. Then you have 2 by Jimmy Stewart: Mr Smith Goes to Washinbgton and Destry Rides Again. The actresses give you Ninotchka, Dark Victory, and Maureen O’Hara in Hunchback of Notre Dame.Rathbone appears in Hound of the Baskervilles and Son of Frankenstein, Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln and some guy named Wayne rides in on Stagecoach. Throw in Flynn ( Dodge City w/greatest saloon fight in cinema), Cagney, Cary Grant,The Marx Brothers and Tyrone Power as Jesse James. For pathos end it with Goodbye Mr. Chips.
By barbara
February 6, 2010 7:09 AM | Link to this
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