Here's what I noticed:
Greed - 1924
L'Atalante - 1934
Brief Encounter - 1945
Late Spring - 1949
Stromboli - 1950
The River - 1951
Life of Oharu - 1952
El - 1953
Tokyo Story - 1953
Sansho the Bailiff - 1954
The Searchers - 1956
A Man Escaped - 1956
Pickpocket - 1959
Viridiana - 1961
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 1962
Charulata - 1964
Husbands - 1970
Are the 1950s the golden age of film or what?!
Aren't there any good films shot after 1970? I bet there are, but this is a personal list and I can't think of any which impacted me as much as these ones.
Even worse than that. Here's an alternative list:
Sunrise - Murnau - 1927
The Wedding March - Stroheim - 1928
Queen Kelly - Stroheim - 1929
Young Mister Lincoln - John Ford - 1939
Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio de Sica- 1948
Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa - 1950
Ikiru - Kurosawa - 1952
Europe 51 - Rossellini - 1952
Ana-Ta-Han - Sternberg - 1953
Sound of the Mountain - Naruse - 1954
Ordet - C. Th. Dreyer - 1955
The Apu Trilogy - Satyajit Ray - 1955, 1956, 1959
The Apartment - Billy Wilder - 1960
Persona - Ingmar Bergman - 1966
See? More of the same...
I like Theo Angelopoulos, Abbas Kiarostami, Nuri Bilge Ceilan, and maybe, just maybe, I could think of some film made by these like Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami) 1997, even if I prefer the Kiarostami photographer to the Kiarostami filmmaker, or The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) 1975, or Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders) 1976, but that's about it. Some Rohmer, I guess...I can't also forget two consecutive films by Martin Scorcese: the absolute delight that is the Proustian The Age of Innocence (1993) and the great Casino (1995).
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