Seattle critic says best movie year ever was..... 1959

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/m ... ine13.html

[Marlow]

there must be something about decade ends, cuz I always thought that 1969 was the best:

Anne of the Thousand Days
Battle of Britain
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cactus Flower
Easy Rider
Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Hello, Dolly!
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
The Italian Job
Midnight Cowboy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paint Your Wagon
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Reivers
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Sterile Cuckoo
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Sweet Charity
Take the Money and Run
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
True Grit
Where Eagles Dare
The Wild Bunch

and who could forget?

Bambi Meets Godzilla !!!!

[SQUACKEE]

1939

(1) Rules of the Game
(2) The Wizard of Oz
(3) Ninotchka
(4) The Young Mr. Lincoln
(5) Destry Rides Again
(6) Love Affair
(7) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(8) Juarez
(9) Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(10) Gone with the Wind
(11) Dark Victory

[bijanc]

1959 Changed Everything

Cassius Clay at the Pan Am Games in Chicago (w/ Oscar Robertson and Lou Brock). Robertson and Jerry West become college seniors. Lakers to L.A. with the graceful Baylor. '59 changed the world in ways beyond cinema (Black Muslims in the national consciousness, the pill, Cuban revolution, cool jazz):

http://www.slate.com/id/2220751/