Roger Ebert's Best Films of the Year (1967-2012)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013, compiled forty-six 'best movies of the year' lists; here are the films that topped each one.
Over time, he sometimes changed his opinions - notice that 2001, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull & E.T. did not initially place at #1 on his end-of-year lists.
The music that plays over each decade comes from the score of the film he consider to be the best of that decade; credit for the scores goes to their respective composers. The images are the theatrical release posters of each film. No copyright infringement is intended for either.
Link to Gene Siskel's #1 films of each year: • Gene Siskel's Best Fil...
Got to hand it to Ebert, he called them like he saw them, regardless of popular opinion. He also judged every movie on it's own merit, not in comparison with others. Though I disagree with several of his choices, I always looked forward to his reviews. The best film critic of all time.
I didn’t know he liked Dark City that much. It’s a great movie.
He tended to like Alex Proyas' work quite a bit (The Crow, Dark City, Knowing).
I remember watching the episode of Siskel and Ebert where Ebert named Dark City as his favorite of that year. Siskel said he didn't like the movie but now he was going to watch it again out of respect for Robert, which was very sweet, I thought. :)
@The Man in Orange He originally gave it a (marginally) positive review; don't know if he ever got a chance to re-watch it.
@@distinguishedflyer Yeah, "didn't like" is maybe too strong. I think he just said that he was surprised by the choice, and he wanted to watch the movie again to see what Ebert saw in it.
Ebert recorded a commentary track for the Dark City DVD, which is quite an enjoyable listen.
Hollywood must have figured out they didn't have to make good films anymore without Roger around. 2012 lines up just about right.
If only Wallace Shawn did a behind-the-sences doc while filming The Princess Bride
Mississippi burning fallowed by Do The Right Thing definitely is a range, hahaha
I was a little surprised 1971 was The Last Picture Show and not Last Tango in Paris but it was probably in the top ten
Last Tango in Paris was his #2 film of 1973.
Got the best films of the year as chosen by Richard Schickel?
I don't, but that's a good idea. (I do have a list for Peter Travers but will wait until he retires.)
How do you know what his best films were for 2008 and 2009, when his list went alphabetically those years?
His 'best-movies-of-the-2000s' list had Synecdoche New York at #1 and The Hurt Locker at #2, so I felt pretty safe in specifying those two titles.
A great teacher of film. He was indulgent, seeing excellence in a film few other critics saw. He was harsh on the classic Midnight Express and the French masterpiece of bourgeois iconoclasm, Going Places, with Gérard Depardieu, a film still beloved in France,at least online. He was Hollywoodish,at times, and sanctimonious in tastes. He praised as one of greatest movies the interesting,though boring, Tokyo Story (from the otherwise poetical, Yasujiro ).
I didn't always agree with Roger. Like, 1987: House of Games over Full Metal Jacket, Broadcast News, Wall Street, Hope & Glory... But he was convicted. If I remember right, he declared Goodfellas "best film of the year" despite there still being 3-4 months left in 1990, and I think Gene agreed.
Gene Siskel did the same thing for Fargo (which came out in March) and for Crumb (January).
Questionable choices in other years maybe but Million Dollar Baby and Crash - Ebert must have lost his mind in 2004 and 2005
i did see million dollar baby, it was a made up plot to jerk tears- blame than on the original short story author though. did not like it for that and a couple other reasons.
Dark City? Monster's Ball? Minority Report? Definitely some questionable choices in here.
Not a fan of Dark City myself either, but I quite liked the other two.
How about The Black Stallion over Raging Bull in 1980? And some of these choices I'm thinking the popcorn fumes were affecting his brain that year.
@@sha11235 He often called Taxi Driver the best movie of the 1970s & Raging Bull the best of the 1980s, yet both movies originally came in at #2 on his end-of-year lists. So did 2001, for that matter.
Argo ?
Maybe he thought he was watching Fargo again.
"This film takes first place on my best movie list because it is above all else a movie -- pure, strong and sound. It has the classic values of a Hollywood thriller."
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That was Roger's assessment,I assume.
In my opinion,2012 was an extremely weak year of film.
Like most of the 2000's.
I looked up some top 50 lists from 2012.
2 films intrigue me: Damsels in Distress. Monsieur Lazhar.
As far as The Academy nominations. I didn't see Rust and Bone but will eventually.
I appreciate the video.
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@@davec484 My favorite of that year was Looper; Rust and Bone was great too.
Argo was a very good film.
Crash over Brokeback
Brokeback Mountain came in at #5 on his list for that year; Syriana, Munich & Junebug were his #2-4 choices.
Richard Roeper had Crash at #3 (behind Syriana & The New World), and Brokeback Mountain at #7 (behind Munich, Nine Lives & Capote).
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I respect the guy but "Crash"? "Almost Famous"? Yikes! And "Scenes from a Marriage" better than Godfather Part 2? Double Yikes.
I'm partly with him there in that Almost Famous was one of my favorites of that year, as was Scenes from a Marriage.
My top film of 1974 was The Conversation, so at least we're agreed that that year's best movie was made by Coppola.
Didn't get $50 and a case of Heineken, I take it
ALMOST FAMOUS is an EXTRAORDINARY film. Yikes to YOU if you didn't like it. Anyone who dislikes that film must have wretched taste in film. 🤦♂️