Favorite Movie For Each Decade

[nycgirl84]

Okay, this may require a bit too much thinking about dates and stuff, but I was wondering, if you had to pick a favorite movie for each decade, what would they be?

For example:

30's: Gone With the Wind
40's: I have no idea
50's: Some Like It Hot
60's: The Gradute
70's: Rocky Horror Picture Show; Harold and Maude (toss-up)
80's: Labyrinth
90's: Dazed and Confused
00's: Almost Famous

Please share more!

 

[purplelucrezia]

Pandora's Box (borderline 30's)
Mildred Pierce
Funny Face
My Fair Lady
Fame (although it's '79)
I can't think of one
Elizabeth

There- that took me about a total of two seconds.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by nycgirl84@Oct 9 2004, 10:21 PM
40's: I have no idea

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Oh- the 40's are the best period ever...!

 

[SCBlondie]

30's:Gone with the Wind
40's:It's a Wonderful Life
50'sn the Waterfront
60's:Breakfast at Tiffany's
70's:The Godfather
80'snce Upon a Time in America/Cinema Paradiso/The Breakfast Club
90's:Forest Gump/Titanic
00's:Mystic River/Moulin Rouge!

 

[nycgirl84]

Originally posted by purplelucrezia@Oct 9 2004, 10:28 PM
Oh- the 40's are the best period ever...!

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I know - sadly my knowledge of 40s cinema is quite lacking.

 

[meowmix]

ahhh so difficult to choose just one!!

30s it happened one night !
40s philadelphia story
50s rear window
60s breakfast at tiffanys
70s chinatown
80s say anything
90s clueless
00s amelie

 

[jennifer~]

I love this idea!! I'm a movie buff...

I tried to pick a film that was not only one of my favorites, but also important to is respective decade. Well, I tried to do that.

20s: Metropolis
30s: All Quiet on the Western Front
40s: Casablanca
50s: On the Waterfront
60s: Midnight Cowboy
70s: Taxi Driver
80s: Blue Velvet...?
90s: Fargo!!
00s: The decade isn't over, yet.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by nycgirl84@Oct 9 2004, 10:37 PM
I know - sadly my knowledge of 40s cinema is quite lacking.

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Just some of my favourites, for starters. Mildred Pierce, The Women ('39), Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, Shanghei Express, and- Bambi... Alright, umm, basically anything with either Joan Crawford or Humphrey Bogart. I still need to see Adam's Rib though.

 

[meowmix]

for forties..i'd highly recommend Notorious, Philadelphia Story, Bringing up Baby, Gilda, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, The Portrait of Jennie, Rebecca, and Laura...anything with Katharine Hepburn or Irene Dunne...the Thin Man movies are great too.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by meowmix@Oct 9 2004, 11:15 PM
for forties..i'd highly recommend Notorious, Philadelphia Story, Bringing up Baby, Gilda, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, The Portrait of Jennie, Rebecca, and Laura...anything with Katharine Hepburn or Irene Dunne...the Thin Man movies are great too.

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The Thin Man definately! And, for fashion people like us they're especially good. Since they go to bed fully and properly clothed in the movies, Myrna Loy's always outfitted in these full sleeved, exceedingly fancy dressing gowns. Hilarious too... Notorious of course is awesome, but I personally really disliked Bringing Up Baby. It seriously just kept stretching on and on and gave me the most awful headache. Gilda is very cool too, I developed a slight crush on Glenn Ford after seeing it. Another good one is the Blackboard Jungle with him in it, by the way.

We very badly need a movie section here.

 

[ignitioned32]

Great topic!

50s: Singin' In The Rain
70s: Chinatown
80s: Blue Velvet
90s: Pulp Fiction
00s (so far Lost In Translation

More to come...

 

[ignitioned32]

I'm not sure for choices in the 1900's, 1920's, 30's, 40's and 60's.

I recommend for the 1940's: His Girl Friday, The Red Shoes (the movie which was also the inspiration for Viktor and Rolf), Day of Wrath, The Shop Around the Corner (which modern re-made was You've Got Mail) and any Tourneur film. Also, the choices given here so far are good.

 

[Josephine]

^oh i really want to see the shop around the corner but i can never find it

30s wizard of oz
40s ahhh so many:cover girl,easter parade - any musical in fact
50s sabrina, gigi
60s west side story
70s love story
80s ferris bueller's day off
90s sleepless in seatle
00s - yet to find this one

 

[scblonndie]

30's : city lights
40's : casablanca
50's : on the waterfront
60's : a bout de souffle
70's : manhattan
80's : wings of desire / dead poets society
90's : american beauty
00's : the royal tennenbaums

ps i miss nycgirl!

 

[drexl]

1920's - Nosferatu, eine Symphonie der Grauens
1930's - M
1940's - Citizen Kane
1950's - Rashomon
1960's - Bande A Part / Dr. Strangelove
1970's - Monty Python & The Holy Grail / Taxi Driver
1980's - Beetlejuice
1990's - Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai) / Pulp Fiction
2000's - In The Mood For Love

 

[DreamsAreMade]

30's - Gone with the Wind , The Women
40's - It's a Wonderful Life
50's - Imitation of Life, Giant, many others....
60's - Splendor in the Grass
70's - Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver.....I know there's many others, can't think!
80's - Back to the Future, Urban Cowboy, Falling in Love....
90's - Titanic, Forrest Gump, Dumb and Dumber...plenty more
00's - so far The Notebook, Almost Famous,.....yet to come