SISKEL AND EBERT TOP TEN LISTS for the years 1969 to 1998

Thanks for posting, OP! Definitely an interesting read.

I adored Ebert 😰

Neither of them thought The Godfather Part II was one of the best films of 1974? One of them left Chinatown off his list, and the other didn’t include Cabaret two years earlier.

Ebert left Midnight Cowboy off 1969.

They definitely seemed to swing towards "European Arthouse" in the 70s.

Hey !!!! OP an unmarried woman is a good movie and Alan was NEVER SEXIER

I know R6, but BEST MOVIE OF THE WHOLE '70s?

Any movie with Alan Bates in it is the Best movie of that year

An Unmarried Woman is the best movie of the '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, and '10s.

Thanks R9. There.

This is supposed to be a serious movie discussion thread. Not dial-a-joke.

Well OP. The list is dated. Scorcese is toxic, Allen and Polanski are cancelled, and all the French movies are flavor of the Day, now irrelevant and dull. The rest is OK. Nice to see Natalie Wood make the list.

The lists reminded me that I had recorded The Emigrants and The New Land off TCM a few months ago. I think I’ll watch them this week.

I didn't like the movie version of Looking for Mr. Goodbar much. I can't say I thought about it even once between seeing it when it came out (1977) and joining DL in 2013.

A lot of people forgot about it after it went, R14. The DL did NOT.

Young people who can't appreciate the past are as loathsome as old people who can't appreciate the present. Excep young people have their inexperience to excuse their stupidity.

R16, you needn't worry, nobody's young here.

Back when Siskel and Ebert first became big I asked Owen Gleiberman (now of Variety) if he'd seen their year end list and he dismissed them as a couple of whores. Owen got his start as a critic thanks to Pauline Kael so

Day Of The Dolphin? The Last Of Sheila? Really, Gene?

Ebert was pretty good about gay content in films. Not great, but much better than insecure Gene.

Both of them just adored any movie that represented an idealized version of the era of their childhoods (late 50s and early 60s). If a movie showed happy kids in sunlit ballfields in the 60s, they fell over themselves to give it 5 thumbs up or whatever.

And what movies, exactly, would you have us appreciate this year, r16? Besides OUATIH and Marriage Story, I found little that was worth seeing, other than music documentaries, in 2019.

Who was it who used to spoof these two? Was it SNL?

Interesting that Ebert's list goes from skewing Euro to skewing Black in about the early 80s.

I like Ebert's choices far more. "3 Women" IS not only the best movie of 1977 (and that was a pretty strong year) but a true masterpiece of modern American cinema.

R17 I AM, you fucking cunt

There was someone born in 1993! posting here yesterday.

Sure Jan..

If you look a the bottom of their Top Movies of the Decade OP, it says "[There wasn't any ranking so the movies are listed in the order they were presented in the show.]".

R24, Siskel was generally clueless and showed little interest in foreign movies.

The Best movie I've seen on the 10's, was by far ' To the wonder' by Terence Malick

Just googled that - Ben Affleck is a big turn off for me, so was the priest with the heavy accent.

It's a spiritual movie. The cinematography is breathtaking. The actors are just portemanteaux.

That priest with the heavy accent does a lot of shouting - HARD pass.

Two homely film geeks who wouldn't shut up with all the critical perception of door knobs.

I agree with them that The Right Stuff was a better movie than Terms of Endearment.