Many cinephiles consider 1939 to be the best year for
movies, though that largely depends on your tolerance for Gone with the Wind (I have none). Last year, Brian Rafferty made a
pretty good case for 1999 despite that being the year of American Pie and The Phantom
Menace. Now Stephen Farber and Michael McCellan are tossing another year’s
hat into the ring with their new book Cinema
’62: The Greatest Year at the Movies.
