40 films | 40 years

Having just turned 40 I thought I'd look back at the last 40 years and some key films released each of those 40 years that have shaped my appreciation for cinema in some way, shape or form. And so...here you have it..."40 films 40 years."

1968: George Dunning, Yellow Submarine

1969: Jean-Pierre Melville, L’ Armée des ombres/Army of Shadows

1970: Robert Altman, M*A*S*H

1971: Sam Peckinpah, Straw Dogs

1972: Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather

1973: William Friedkin, The Exorcist

1974: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali: Fear Eats The Soul

1975: Milos Forman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

1976: Sidney Lumet, Network

1977: George Lucas, Star Wars

1978: Alan Parker, Midnight Express

1979: Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now

1980: Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull

1981: Stephen Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982: Richard Attenborough, Ghandi

1983: David Cronenberg, Videodrome

1984: Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise

1985: Terry Gilliam, Brazil

1986: Brothers Quay, Street of Crocodiles

1987: Barbet Schroeder, Barfly

1988: Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay!

1989: Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal

1990: Luc Besson, La Femme Nikita

1991: Jonathan Demme, Silence of the Lambs

1992: Neil Jordan, The Crying Game

1993: Jim Sheridan, In The Name of the Father

1994: Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

1995: Michael Radford, Il Postino (The Postman)

1996: Joel Coen, Fargo

1997: Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful

1998: Wes Anderson, Rushmore

1999: Andy & Larry Wachowski, The Matrix

2000: Steven Soderbergh, Traffic

2001: Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind

2002: Fernando Meirelles, Cidade de Deus/City of God

2003: Mikael Håfström, Ondscan/Evil

2004: Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2005: Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener

2006: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel

2007: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

2008: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight