Directors best movie grid (1 Viewer)

[Walter Kittel]

60s animated
One Hundred and One Dalmations
Yellow Submarine
The Jungle Book

50s comedy
Some Like It Hot
Harvey
Mister Roberts

30s musical
Top Hat
42nd Street
Swing Time

80s mystery
Blood Simple
Blue Velvet
House of Games

90s SF
The Matrix
Dark City
Abre Los Ojos

70s Western
The Outlaw Josey Wales
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Jeremiah Johnson

- Walter.

 

[SteveGon]

60s animated

Yellow Submarine
One Hundred and One Dalmations


50s comedy

I'm All Right Jack
Some Like it Hot
The Man in the White Suit


30s musical

The Wizard of Oz


80s mystery

Blue Velvet
Blood Simple


90s science fiction

Cube
Dark City
Total Recall


70s western

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Outlaw Josey Wales

 

[Brook K]

60s animated
Yellow Submarine
101 Dalmatians
Jungle Book

50s comedy
Some Like It Hot
Smiles Of A Summer Night
The White Sheik

30s musical
42nd Street
Le Million
The Wizard Of Oz

80s mystery
Blue Velvet
Tenebre
House Of Games

90s science fiction
The City Of Lost Children
T2
Tetsuo Iron Man

70s western
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Once Upon A Time In The West
Rooster Cogburn

 

[SteveGon]

My third addition to 70s westerns:

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

 

[Kirk Tsai]

60s animated
Yellow Submarine

50s comedy
Stalag 17 (obviously more than just a comedy, but it's got bite)
Some Like It Hot
Sabrina

30s musical
Top Hat
Wizard of Oz

80s mystery
Amadeus
Body Heat
The Vanishing

90s science fiction
Gattaca
Delicatessen
Dark City

70s western
High Plains Drifter

 

[Walter Kittel]

Brook - Once Upon A Time In The West is indeed a great Western, but it was released in the '60s.

- Walter.

 

[Brook K]

Thanks Walter,

70's Western

The Outlaw Josey Whales
Rooster Cogburn
Jeremiah Johnson (tough choice between this and High Plains Drifter)

 

[Rand]

60s animated
One Hundred and One Dalmations

50s comedy
Some Like It Hot
Roman Holiday
Pillow Talk

30s musical
Swing Time
Top Hat
The Wizard of Oz

80s mystery
Blue Velvet
Body Heat
Blood Simple

90s science fiction
The Matrix
Dark City
Gattaca

70s western
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Little Big Man
The Shootist

 

[Lew Crippen]

60s animated:

One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Little Prince
Yellow Submarine


50s comedy:

Mister Roberts
Some Like it Hot
Mr. Hulot's Holiday


30s musical:

The Wizard of Oz
42nd Street
Top Hat


80s mystery:

Blood Simple
The Big Easy
The Element of Crime


90s science fiction:

The Matrix
Twelve Monkeys
Terminator 2


70s western:

The Shootist
Little Big Man
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

 

[george kaplan]

Here are the results. Sorry for the formatting. I'll be setting up some follow-up voting in the near future.

A lot of these, I agree with completely. A lot, I disagree with, but fully understand why the voting went the way it did. But some of these, I just plain found baffling. For instance, the best comedy of the 80s by far, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, didn't get a single vote, even for third place (except for my vote), and instead a film I've seen twice without so much as smiling, much less laughing won by a landslide. Oh well, the voters have spoken, and these are the results.

1920's action/adventure - the thief of bagdad (beau geste / wings)
1930's action/adventure - the adventures of robin hood (king kong / gunga din)
1940's action/adventure - to have & have not (the mark of zorro / the treasure of the sierra madre)
1950's action/adventure - seven samurai (north by northwest / bridge on the river kwai)
1960's action/adventure - yojimbo (from russia with love / goldfinger)
1970's action/adventure - apocalypse now (jaws / aguirre: the wrath of god)
1980's action/adventure - raiders of the lost ark (die hard / the road warrior)
1990's action/adventure - braveheart (hard boiled / terminator 2)
1920's animated - steamboat willie (plane crazy / trolley troubles )
1930's animated - snow white & the seven dwarfs (mickey's trailer / the mascot)
1940's animated - fantasia (dumbo / pinocchio)
1950's animated - lady & the tramp (cinderella / sleeping beauty)
1960's animated - 101 dalmatians (yellow submarine / the jungle book)
1970's animated - watership down (castle of cagliostro / the many adventures of winnie the pooh)
1980's animated - akira (grave of the fireflies / who framed roger rabbit?)
1990's animated - toy story (the iron giant / the nightmare before christmas)
1920's comedy - sherlock, jr. (the general / the gold rush)
1930's comedy - duck soup (modern times / bringing up baby)
1940's comedy - the lady eve (sullivan's travels / arsenic & old lace)
1950's comedy - some like it hot (pillow talk / mister roberts)
1960's comedy - dr. strangelove (the apartment / the producers)
1970's comedy - monty python & the holy grail (young frankenstein / annie hall)
1980's comedy - raising arizona (the princess bride / a christmas story)
1990's comedy - groundhog day (the big lebowski / fargo)
1920's drama - battleship potemkin (sunrise / metropolis)
1930's drama - rules of the game (grand illusion / mr. Smith goes to washington)
1940's drama - casablanca (citizen kane / the bicycle thief)
1950's drama - 12 angry men (ikiru / paths of glory)
1960's drama - spartacus (to kill a mockingbird / lawrence of arabia)
1970's drama - the godfather (the godfather, part 2 / taxi driver)
1980's drama - raging bull (do the right thing / das boot)
1990's drama - goodfellas (the shawshank redemption / the sweet hereafter)
1920's horror - nosferatu (the cabinet of dr. caligari / the phantom of the opera)
1930's horror - bride of frankenstein (frankenstein / freaks)
1940's horror - the wolf man (cat people / rebecca)
1950's horror - night of the demon (horror of dracula / the thing from another world)
1960's horror - psycho (rosemary's baby / the haunting)
1970's horror - halloween (the exorcist / jaws)
1980's horror - the shining (near dark / the thing)
1990's horror - sleepy hollow (silence of the lambs / cronos)
1920's musical - the jazz singer (the broadway melody / show boat)
1930's musical - the wizard of oz (top hat / swing time)
1940's musical - meet me in st. louis (easter parade / on the town)
1950's musical - singin' in the rain (an american in paris / cinderella)
1960's musical - west side story (the sound of music / my fair lady)
1970's musical - grease (the kids are alright / fiddler on the roof)
1980's musical - the blues brothers (pink floyd: the wall / little shop of horrors)
1990's musical - south park: bigger, longer & uncut (the commitments / topsy-turvy)
1920's mystery - blackmail (the lodger / dr. mabuse: the gambler)
1930's mystery - the 39 steps (the thin man / m)
1940's mystery - the maltese falcon (double indemnity / rebecca)
1950's mystery - rear window (vertigo / touch of evil)
1960's mystery - high & low (charade / the manchurian candidate)
1970's mystery - chinatown (the conversation / the french connection )
1980's mystery - blue velvet (blood simple / body heat)
1990's mystery - seven (l.a. confidential / the silence of the lambs)
1920's sci-fi - metropolis (the lost world / the mysterious island)
1930's sci-fi - the invisible man (island of lost souls / frankenstein)
1940's sci-fi - a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court (it happens every spring / flash gordon)
1950's sci-fi - invasion of the body snatchers (the day the earth stood still / godzilla)
1960's sci-fi - 2001 (planet of the apes / the time machine)
1970's sci-fi - star wars (close encounters of the third kind / a clockwork orange)
1980's sci-fi - blade runner (the empire strikes back / the terminator)
1990's sci-fi - the matrix (terminator 2 / dark city)
1920's western - the iron horse (the virginian / the covered wagon)
1930's western - stagecoach (way out west / destry rides again)
1940's western - red river (my darling clementine / the ox-bow incident)
1950's western - the searchers (high noon / son of paleface)
1960's western - the good, the bad & the ugly (the man who shot liberty valance / once upon a time in the west)
1970's western - the outlaw josey wales (high plains drifter / the shootist)
1980's western - pale rider (silverado / the man from snowy river)
1990's western - unforgiven (tombstone / dances with wolves)

 

[SteveGon]

George, thanks for the effort put into this.

P.S. I think Raising Arizona is hilarious.

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Very cool. This format could work even better with actors/directors since genre considerations wouldn't cloud some of the choices we've made. Just imagine, Hitchcock's 50s films versus Kurosawa's!

 

[george kaplan]

For the following, vote for one film only in each category:

Best film of the 1920s:

the thief of bagdad
steamboat willie
sherlock, jr.
battleship potemkin
nosferatu
the jazz singer
blackmail
metropolis
the iron horse

Best film of the 1960s:

yojimbo
101 dalmatians
dr. strangelove
spartacus
psycho
west side story
high & low
2001
the good, the bad & the ugly

Best action/adventure:

the thief of bagdad
the adventures of robin hood
to have & have not
seven samurai
yojimbo
apocalypse now
raiders of the lost ark
braveheart

Best drama:

battleship potemkin
rules of the game
casablanca
12 angry men
spartacus
the godfather
raging bull
goodfellas

Best mystery:

blackmail
the 39 steps
the maltese falcon
rear window
high & low
chinatown
blue velvet
seven

 

[Jim_K]

Best film of the 1920s:
Metropolis

Best film of the 1960s:
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Best action/adventure:
Seven Samurai

Best drama:
The Godfather

Best mystery:
Rear Window

 

[Lew Crippen]

Best Film of the 1920s: Metropolis

Best film of the 1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Best action/adventure: Seven Samurai

Best drama: Rules of the Game

Best mystery: Rear Window


Most of these were very hard—as one would expect.


BTW, thanks for thinking of this and all of the organizing, George.

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Sherlock, Jr.
Dr. Strangelove
Seven Samurai
The Godfather
The Maltese Falcon

 

[Rand]

Best film of the 1920s:
Nosferatu

Best film of the 1960s:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Best action/adventure:
Seven Samurai

Best drama:
The Godfather

Best mystery:
Rear Window

 

[Brook K]

Thanks George for your work. I laugh at virtually every line in Raising Arizona and can quote 75% of the dialogue. It's even funnier now that I have kids.

I knew most of my picks had no chance but I'm very glad to see Blackmail as the best 20's mystery. Might be Hitch's best pre-Hollywood film. Really wish it had a better DVD.

Best film of the 1920s:
Nosferatu

Best film of the 1960s:
2001: A Space Odyssey

Best action/adventure:
Apocalypse Now

Best drama:
The Godfather

Best mystery:
The Maltese Falcon

 

[george kaplan]

I agree with you about this film, Brook. I only wish I had a dvd of it period. I've been trying to get this (the one with Juno & the Paycock) for ages, and can't find it anywhere. :frowning:

 

[SteveGon]

best film of the 60s: 2001: A Space Odyssey

best action/adventure: Seven Samurai

best drama: Rules of the Game

best mystery: Chinatown