Tuesday, May 24, 2022

A BIRTHDAY MOVIE LIST

woke up a week before my 80th birthday with the first decades of an eight decade list of movies that impacted my life (and not always positively) and finished it the day before:

1942 CASABLANCA
1943 GOING MY  WAY
1944 LAURA
1945 THE BELLS OF SAINT MARY'S
1946 THE BLUE DHALIA
1947 OUT OF THE PAST
1948 I REMEMBER MOMMA
1949 THE THIRD MAN
1950 CINDERELLA
1951 STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
1952 THE QUIET MAN
1953 STALAG 17
1954 ON THE WATERFRONT
1955 MARTY
1956 THE SEARCHERS
1957 SAYANORA
1958 SOUTH PACIFIC
1959 BLACK ORPHEUS and SHADOWS
1960 SPARTACUS
1961 WEST SIDE STORY
1962 DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES and DAVID AND LISA
1963 81/2
1964 DR. STRANGELOVE and AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MAN
1965 A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
1966 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
1967 MARAT/SADE
1968 MONTEREY POP
1969 BURN
1970 THE BOYS IN THE BAND
1971 THE CONFORMIST
1972 THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
1973 THE WAY WE WERE
1974 THE GODFATHER PART II
1975 THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
1976 THE MISSOURI BREAKS
1977 ERASERHEAD
1978 ANIMAL HOUSE
1980 COMING HOME and LAST RITES (AKA DRACULA'S LAST RITES)
1981 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and THE NESTING
1982 BLADE RUNNER and TOOTSIE
1983 A CHRISTMAS STORY
1984 STARMAN
1985 DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
1986 CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
1987 PRINCESS BRIDE and FULL METAL JACKET and MOONSTRUCK
1988 BEETLEJUICE
1989 MY LEFT FOOT and LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN
1990 THE FIELD
1991 THE COMMITMENTS and WHITE FANG and RAMONA!
1992 BASIC INSTINCT and COOL WORLD
1993 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
1994 THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH
1995 EMPIRE RECORDS and 12 MONKEYS
1996 SWINGERS
1997 GROSSE POINTE BLANK and IN & OUT
1998 OUT OF SIGHT
1999 ELECTION
2000 REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
2001 THE OTHERS
2002 GANGS OF NEW YORK
2003 AMERICAN SPLENDOR
2004 NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
2005 BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
2006 THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
2007 ONCE
2008 IN BRUGES and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
2009 UP IN THE AIR
2010 THE FIGHTER
2011 THE GUARD
2012 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
2013 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2014 BOYHOOD
2015 THE DANISH GIRL
2016 MOONLIGHT
2017 GET OUT
2018 BLACK 47 and BLACK PANTHER
2019 PARASITE
2020 MA RAINY'S BLACK BOTTOM
2021 CODA
2022 we'll see

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