The notion occurred to me while glancing back at my attempt at a 100 favorite movies list, where c. 1994-2001 contributed disproportionately.
To my mind that's when a number of 'name' directors peaked:
Coens: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There Cronenberg: eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, perhaps Crash Lynch: Straight Story, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive Spielberg: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, AI Egoyan: Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter
Also there were great late entries from Kubrick, Polanski & Malick: Eyes Wide Shut, The Ninth Gate & The Thin Red Line
Others: Titus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slacker, Jesus' Son, Schizopolis, Quiz Show, Jackie Brown, Heavenly Creatures, The Edge, The Insider, The Ice Storm etc.
Whereas '70s movies in English that hold up for me are a pretty small number: Chinatown, O Lucky Man!, maybe Network and Badlands, a handful of others...
And there's a lot of entertaining '40s ones, but how many are more than entertaining?
You seem to get further out from the mainstream in your viewings. What's your take?
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To my mind that's when a number of 'name' directors peaked:
Coens: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There
Cronenberg: eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, perhaps Crash
Lynch: Straight Story, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive
Spielberg: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, AI
Egoyan: Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter
Also there were great late entries from Kubrick, Polanski & Malick: Eyes Wide Shut, The Ninth Gate & The Thin Red Line
Others: Titus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slacker, Jesus' Son, Schizopolis, Quiz Show, Jackie Brown, Heavenly Creatures, The Edge, The Insider, The Ice Storm etc.
Whereas '70s movies in English that hold up for me are a pretty small number: Chinatown, O Lucky Man!, maybe Network and Badlands, a handful of others...
And there's a lot of entertaining '40s ones, but how many are more than entertaining?
You seem to get further out from the mainstream in your viewings. What's your take?