I'm starting a new feature here detailing some of my favorite years in the history of cinema. These are not necessarily historic years a la1969 (Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar, Wild Bunch introduces slo-mo violence, etc.). These are also not necessarily critically lauded years a la1939 (Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, etc.). These will simply be years containing films that had a profound impact on me or just a year where a lot of really great movies were released.
I've always found it interesting what films occupy the same time period and the glut some years have of just one great classic after another. This process is always done more accurately in hindsight, once the passage of years has allowed someone the chance to view enough films to get a feel for that time frame.
Also, a caveat that for every great year there are an equal number of terrible films released within the same period. Hollywood is a numbers game and during a few decades there was a lot of crap getting thrown out into the world to see what would stick. Thankfully this meant that a number of films that would usually never see the light of day, got made, distributed and found an audience. These are usually the films that "make" a year once the expectations have been met for the larger releases, which is another key factor in having a good year at the theater.
I'll discuss all this and more in my next post talking about 1994.
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