In our last installment, we talked about 1974, possibly the best year a single director has ever had: not just Francis Ford Coppola, who...

What’s the best year a single director has ever had? Victor Fleming had a pretty good 1939, co-directing Gone With The Wind and The...

Thus far in this project, one of our most consistent findings has been that the opinions of film critics and ordinary moviegoers don’t...

We started this project in 1930, so we’ve now covered more than 40 years of movie history - and one thing’s for sure: some years are...

As we’ve already seen, the late 60s and early 70s are a stark transition period in movie history. The studio system is in decline and...

We’ve reached the beginning of a new decade, and after all the tumult of the 1960s, the film world in 1970 is experiencing a sort of...

When the 1960s began, the French New Wave was only just emerging, Alfred Hitchcock was at his peak, the Hays Code was still very much in...

The late ‘60s were a tumultuous time in world history: the Vietnam War was at its peak, student protests were erupting around the world,...

Writing about Jacques Tati's Playtime, Philip Kemp argued that the film was about "how the curve comes to reassert itself over the...

The year 1966 was a tumultuous one, to say the least. The Cold War was at its peak and nuclear fears pervaded the globe; the war in...

When you talk about the 1960s in film, a couple trends rise quickly to the forefront. This was the golden age of movie musicals, with...

Some years, all the top movies all seem to come from the same genre. 1960 was a horror year, with Psycho and Peeping Tom and Eyes Without...

In 1960, we saw a three-way battle between a trio of legendary directors: Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the scene with Breathless; Federico...

The year is 1962, and the French New Wave is at its zenith. François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard lead the way with Jules et Jim and...

Through the first three decades of this project, we’ve found that the Oscars have rarely gotten it right when it comes to picking the...

Welcome to the swinging ‘60s, a time of revolution, transformation and turmoil - and also an era of great, great films. The decade kicked...

And here we arrive at the end of our third decade, and it’s a revolutionary moment to say the least. The year 1959 brings the full...

Every year tells a different story. We’ve just come out of 1957, a year with a deep bench of universally acclaimed classics, so many that...

What is the best year in movie history? The most common answer to that question is probably 1939, the year of Gone With The Wind and...

So far in our journey through film history, we’ve nominated quite a few “genre” films, but not many have won. 1935’s Bride of...