Stats post: The best year in film?

It has often been argued that 1939 is the best year in film.  Such gems as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, Wuthering Heights (with Laurence Olivier), Ninotchka, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gunga Din, and so many  more were released that year.   So it would seem to be good reason to assume that 1939 would be a year that was well represented on the list, and at 9 films it is;.  But.  1942, and 1982 both top the list for most films at 11 each.

Does this make those 2 years the greatest?  I'm not sure, but it does mean they have a lot of films that appeal to a lot of people.

Here are the films for each year on the list:

1939	1942	1982
Dark Victory	Bambi	An Officer and a Gentleman
Gone With the Wind	Casablanca	Blade Runner
Gunga Din	Mrs. Miniver	Diner
Hunchback of Notre Dame	Now, Voyager	E.T.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	The Palm Beach Story	Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ninotchka	Pride of the Yankees	Gandhi
Stagecoach	Random Harvest	Poltergeist
Wizard of Oz	Road to Morocco	Sophie’s Choice
Wuthering Heights	To Be or Not To Be	Tootsie
	Woman of the Year	The Verdict
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Victor/Victoria

Of those 31 films, so far I've seen 15 of them, and they were all pretty fabulous.

I think trying to decide what the best year in film was is too hard of a task. There were so many good films released in the last 100 years, with so much talent.  And these particular films cover such a variety of genres and audiences, from animated, to romance, to comedies, and action adventure fantasy films.  How could you possibly say one year was the absolute best?

So, in conclusion, I need to watch more films from the list and blog more often.  Please accept this post as an apology, and you are hopefully sticking with me as I'm slow to post things :-)