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My Favorite Films from Every Year I’ve Been Alive (Part One: 1966–1979)
I did it with albums, so why not movies?
I recently completed a series on my favorite albums from every year I’ve been alive. It was a lot of fun, and I’ve especially enjoyed seeing the articles by other writers who took up the prompt. Sadly, no articles have been forthcoming from my good friends Simon Dillon and Eric Pierce, probably because they write about movies far more often than about music. Which got me thinking…
If I could do such an insane, decades-spanning compilation of my favorite albums, why could I not do the same with my favorite movies? Surely that would draw a response from Simon and Eric; it might throw Simon into an existential crisis, having to choose just one favorite from some of these years, but no guts, no glory.
As with that series on my favorite albums, I am breaking this into multiple parts mainly because of the stupid number of years I’ve been wandering this big blue rock. This is also not a list of the “greatest” film from each of these years, but rather my own personal favorite. There will be times the two are the same (1972 comes immediately comes to mind), but usually my favorite will not be the critics’ choice. And you will surely disagree with some of them; that’s half the fun.
