Since the “Year of Death” thread is popular, and the alphabetical movies one we did a while ago was pretty popular, I thought we could do a movie list by year. We’ll start with 1916, name a movie released that year, and go to 2016. If the thread is popular, we can start again.
Any movie goes, as long as it was released in some fashion. Any country is fine, TV movies are fine, serials are fine, and go with the year of the first episode if the serial is released over a year. Shorts are fine.
The year of release counts. If a movie was three years in filming, two years in post-production, and then another year trying to edit to an “R” rating, and not NC-17, the year of release counts, even though it’s six years from the time filming began. Queen Kelly was filmed in the 1920s, but it wasn’t released until 1985, so for this game, it would count as a 1985 film.
If the movie has the same title as a more popular film, you can provide a summary, or list the main actors. Or let people wonder. Up to you.
And I have to own up to a mistake: Griffith’s 1916 big-budget film wasn’t Birth of a Nation, it was Intolerance. I knew that when I started the thread, but I had a brain cramp.
1923: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lon Chaney version)