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Note to readers: I'm finally finished overhauling the page. In my effort to spruce up my blogs, I decided to add to all of the yearly list an image from my favorite film of that year. I think you'll agree this lends some class to the proceedings. I tried to pick images with some character whenever possible. If there are any you particularly enjoy- and really, there ought to be considering some of the ones I've picked- let me know in the comments.

Thanks for understanding.

By the way... when a film is [bracketed like so], it means that it was the most recent addition/change to the list. Sorry for not being clear about that.

2008

(a work in progress)

1. Synecdoche, New York- Charlie Kaufman
2. The Class- Laurent Cantet
3. Che- Steven Soderbergh
4. Rachel Getting Married- Jonathan Demme
5. A Christmas Tale- Arnaud Desplechin
6. Man on Wire- James Marsh
7. The Dark Knight- Christopher Nolan
8. [When It Was Blue- Jennifer Reeves]
9. WALL*E- Andrew Stanton
10. Burn After Reading- Joel and Ethan Coen
11. Two Lovers- James Gray
12. Sita Sings the Blues- Nina Paley
13. [The Brothers Bloom- Rian Johnson]
14. In Bruges- Martin McDonough
15. The Wrestler- Darren Aronofsky
16. Trouble the Water- Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
17. Speed Racer- Larry and Andy Wachowski

Need to see again: Role Models (David Wain), The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)

2007

1. There Will Be Blood- Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Zodiac- David Fincher
3. No Country For Old Men- Joel and Ethan Coen
4. Silent Light- Carlos Reygadas C.
5. [In the City of Sylvia- Jose Luis Guerin]
6. Ne Touchez Pas la Hache- Jacques Rivette
7. Gone Baby Gone- Ben Affleck
8. Chicago 10- Brett Morgen
9. Rehearsals for Retirement- Phil Solomon [short]
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- Andrew Dominik
11. The Secret of the Grain- Abdellatif Kechiche
12. Joshua- George Ratliff
13. Stuck- Stuart Gordon
14. Profit motive and the whispering wind- John Gianvito
15. The Hunting Party- Richard Shepard
16. Paranoid Park- Gus Van Sant
17. My Winnipeg- Guy Maddin
18. Shotgun Stories- Jeff Nichols
19. I'm Not There- Todd Haynes
20. Madame Tutli-Putli- Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski [short]
21. Framing- Bert Gottschalk [short]
22. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Julian Schnabel
23. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- Tim Burton
24. Hot Fuzz- Edgar Wright
25. Ratatouille- Brad Bird
26. A Girl Cut in Two- Claude Chabrol
27. We Own the Night- James Gray
28. Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037- Ben Niles
29. Michael Clayton- Tony Gilroy
30. Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon- Eric Rohmer
31. Don't- Edgar Wright [short]

Need to see again: Redacted (Brian DePalma)

Need to see: Angel (Francois Ozon), The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev), Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog), Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl), It’s a Free World… (Ken Loach), The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase), Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway), The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen), You, the Living (Roy Andersson)

2006

1. Everything Will Be OK- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
2. The Prestige- Christopher Nolan
3. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts- Spike Lee
4. Children of Men- Alfonso Cuaron
5. [Lake of Fire- Tony Kaye]
6. The Host- Bong Joon-ho
7. The Departed- Martin Scorsese
8. Interkosmos- Jim Finn
9. Offside- Jafar Panahi
10. Syndromes and a Century- Apichatpong Weersethakul
11. Time- Kim Ki-duk
12. Once- John Carney
13. Day Night Day Night- Julia Loktev
14. Black Book- Paul Verhoeven
15. Requiem- Hans-Christian Schmid
16. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan- Larry Charles
17. Inside Man- Spike Lee
18. Private Fears in Public Places- Alain Resnais
19. Lady Chatterley- Pascale Ferran
20. The Black Dahlia- Brian DePalma

Ripe for re-appraisal: Crank (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor), Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

Need to see: Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira), Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Jasmila Zbanic), Poison Friends (Emmanuel Bourdieu), Private Property (Joachim Lafosse)

Notable shorts: More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (Scott Stark), Silk (Luther Price)

2005

1. The New World- Terrence Malick
2. Caché- Michael Haneke
3. A History of Violence- David Cronenberg
4. A Tale of Cinema- Hong Sang-soo
5. Dave Chappelle's Block Party- Michel Gondry
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu- Cristi Puiu
7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang- Shane Black
8. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story- Michael Winterbottom
9. Brick- Rian Johnson
10. [The Matador- Richard Shepard]
11. Who’s Camus Anyway?- Mitsuo Yanagimachi
12. The Proposition- John Hillcoat
13. Domino- Tony Scott
14. Grizzly Man- Werner Herzog
15. King Kong- Peter Jackson
16. L'Enfant- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
17. Through the Forest- Jean-Paul Civeyrac
18. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 ½- William Greaves

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)

Need to see: Duelist (Lee Myung-se), The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara), Mary (Abel Ferrara), Seven Swords (Tsui Hark), Shanghai Dreams (Wang Xiaoshuai), The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov), Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano)

Notable shorts: Instructions For a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky), Total Power- Dead Dead Dead (Stephanie Barber), [Dipping Sause (Luther Price)], 9 (Shane Acker), Rabbit (Run Wrake)

2004

1. Kings and Queen- Arnaud Desplechin
2. Before Sunset- Richard Linklater
3. Innocence- Lucile Hadzilhalilovic
4. KiLL BiLL: vol 2- Quentin Tarantino
5. Tropical Malady- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. Keane- Lodge Kerrigan
7. Primer- Shane Carruth
8. Birth- Jonathan Glazer
9. Gilles' Wife- Frederic Fonteyne
10. Tony Takitani- Jun Ichikawa
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- Michel Gondry
12. The Intruder- Claire Denis
13. Duck Season- Fernando Eimbcke
14. 2046- Wong Kar-wai
15. Tomorrow We Move- Chantal Akerman
16. [Valise- Lewis Klahr] [short]
17. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou- Wes Anderson
18. Nobody Knows- Hirokazu Kore-eda
19. Moolaadé- Ousmane Sembene
20. Kung Fu Hustle- Stephen Chow
21. The Incredibles- Brad Bird
22. The Manchurian Candidate- Jonathan Demme
23. Million Dollar Baby- Clint Eastwood
24. I Heart Huckabees- David O. Russell

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel), Last Life in the Universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang), Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard), A Visit to the Louvre (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)

Need to see: The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Pirjo Hongasalo), 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (Raymond Depardon), All the Ships at Sea (Dan Sallitt), Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper), Izo (Takashi Miike), Zebraman (Takashi Miike)

Notable shorts: Two Minutes to Zero (Lewis Klahr), Ryan (Chris Landreth), Overtime (Oury Atlan, Thibault Berland, Damien Ferrie)

2003

1. Dogville- Lars Von Trier
2. KiLL BiLL: vol. 1- Quentin Tarantino
3. Cowards Bend the Knee- Guy Maddin
4. The Five Obstructions- Jørgen Leth and Lars Von Trier
5. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King- Peter Jackson
6. Histoire de Marie et Julien- Jacques Rivette
7. Not on the Lips- Alain Resnais
8. Fast Film- Virgil Wildich [short]
9. [Stuck on You- Peter and Bobby Farrelly]
10. Los Angeles Plays Itself- Thom Andersen
11. The Company- Robert Altman
12. ( )- Morgan Fisher [short]
13. A Mighty Wind- Christopher Guest
14. Zatoichi- Takeshi Kitano
15. Capturing the Friedmans- Andrew Jarecki
16. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World- Peter Weir
17. L'Esquive- Abdel Kechiche
18. The Corporation- Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
19. All the Real Girls- David Gordon Green
20. Finding Nemo- Andrew Stanton
21. Mystic River- Clint Eastwood
22. Shattered Glass- Billy Ray
23. Oldboy- Chan-wook Park
24. American Splendor- Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo), Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi), Sexual Dependency (Rodrigo Bellott), Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke), Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)

Need to see: At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf), Raja (Jacques Doillon), Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki)

Other notable shorts: Das Rad (Chris Steiner/Arvid Uibel/Heidi Wittlinger)

2002

1. 8 Women- François Ozon
2. 25th Hour- Spike Lee
3. Le Fils (The Son)- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
4. Irreversible- Gaspar Noë
5. Punch-Drunk Love- Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Russian Ark- Aleksandr Sokurov
7. The Secret Lives of Dentists- Alan Rudolph
8. Talk to Her- Pedro Almodovar
9. [Spider- David Cronenberg]
10. Bus 174- José Padilha
11. Gerry- Gus Van Sant
12. The Good Thief- Neil Jordan
13. Turning Gate- Hong Sang-Soo
14. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers- Peter Jackson
15. Femme Fatale- Brian DePalma
16. Daylight Moon- Lewis Klahr [short]
17. Hero- Zhang Yimou
18. All or Nothing- Mike Leigh
19. Blissfully Yours- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
20. *Corpus Callosum- Michael Snow
21. May- Lucky McKee
22. Cherish- Finn Taylor
23. Far From Heaven- Todd Haynes
24. The Weather Underground- Sam Green and Bill Siegel
25. Gangs of New York- Martin Scorsese
26. Man on the Train- Patrice Leconte
27. The Pianist- Roman Polanski
28. Roger Dodger- Dylan Kidd
29. Bloody Sunday- Paul Greengrass

Ripe for re-appraisal: demonlover (Olivier Assayas)

Need to see: Blue Gate Crossing (Yee Chin-yen), Daughter From Danang (Gail Dolgin and Vincente Franco), Dead or Alive: Final (Takashi Miike), Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang), The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira), Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke)

Notable shorts: 31 (Lorna Simpson), Ten Thousand Years Older (Werner Herzog), Int. Trailer. Night (Jim Jarmusch)

2001

1. Waking Life- Richard Linklater
2. The Royal Tenenbaums- Wes Anderson
3. Mulholland Drive- David Lynch
4. The Man Who Wasn't There- Joel Coen
5. Gosford Park- Robert Altman
6. What Time Is It There?- Tsai Ming-liang
7. Spirited Away- Hayao Miyazaki
8. The Piano Teacher- Michael Haneke
9. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence- Steven Spielberg
10. Monsters, Inc.- Pete Decter
11. Trouble Every Day- Claire Denis
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien- Alfonso Cuaron
13. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner- Zacharias Kunuk
14. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring- Peter Jackson
15. Donnie Darko- Richard Kelly
16. [Pulse- Kiyoshi Kurosawa]
16. Va Savoir- Jacques Rivette
17. The Third Memory- Pierre Huyghe [short]
18. Ghost World- Terry Zwigoff
19. Things Behind the Sun- Allison Anders
20. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing- Jill Sprecher
21. In the Bedroom- Todd Field

Ripe for re-appraisal: Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green), In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard), Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)

Need to see: All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai), Bungee Jumping Of Their Own (Kim Dae-sung), Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota), I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira), Loin (Andre Techine), Oporto of My Childhood (Manoel de Oliveira), The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao), The Road (Darezhan Omirbaev), ‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Silence… We’re Rolling (Youssef Chahine), The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Munch), Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 PM (Claude Lanzmann), Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun), That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guirardie), Volcano High (Kim Tae-kyun)

2000

1. La Commune (Paris, 1871)- Peter Watkins
2. Songs From the Second Floor- Roy Andersson
3. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys- Michael Haneke
4. Yi Yi: a One and a Two- Edward Yang
5. The Heart of the World- Guy Maddin [short]
6. [Eureka- Shinji Aoyama]
7. George Washington- David Gordon Green
8. Werckmeister Harmonies- Bela Tarr
9. Rejected- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
10. Requiem For a Dream- Darren Aronofsky
11. Esther Kahn- Arnaud Desplechin
12. ivansxtc.- Bernard Rose
12. Before Night Falls- Julian Schnabel
13. The House of Mirth- Terence Davies
14. Together- Lukas Moodysson
15. Devils on the Doorstep- Jiang Wen
16. Wonder Boys- Curtis Hanson
17. You Can Count on Me- Kenneth Lonergan
18. Under the Sand- François Ozon
19. Play- Anthony Minghella [short]
20. High Fidelity- Stephen Frears
21. Nurse Betty- Neil LaBute
22. Tully- Hilary Birmingham
23. Amores Perros- Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu

Ripe for re-appraisal: Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima)

Need to see: Baise-moi (Coralie and Virginie Despentes), The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike), The Foul King (Kim Ji Woon), Jung [War] In the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati), The Long Holiday (Johan Van Der Kreuken), Platform (Jia Zhang-ke), Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo), Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi)

Other notable shorts: Engram Sepals (Lewis Klahr)

1999

1. Audition- Takashi Miike
2. The War Zone- Tim Roth
3. Beau Travail- Claire Denis
4. Three Kings- David O. Russell
5. Topsy-Turvy- Mike Leigh
6. Bringing Out the Dead- Martin Scorsese
7. Eyes Wide Shut- Stanley Kubrick
8. Magnolia- P.T. Anderson
9. The Iron Giant- Brad Bird
10. [The Blair Witch Project- Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick]
11. Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai- Jim Jarmusch
12. Rosetta- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
13. Toy Story 2- John Lasseter et al
14. Humanité- Bruno Dumont
15. Jesus' Son- Alison Maclean
16. The Wind Will Carry Us- Abbas Kiarostami
17. Being John Malkovich- Spike Jonze
18. The Limey- Steven Soderbergh
19. Wonderland- Michael Winterbottom
20. The Insider- Michael Mann
21. Mr. Death- Errol Morris
22. Juha- Aki Kaurismäki
23. The Straight Story- David Lynch
24. American Movie- Chris Smith
25. Girl on the Bridge- Patrice Leconte

Ripe for re-appraisal: An Affair of Love (Frederic Fonteyne), Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay), The Woman Chaser (Robinson Devor)

Need to see: Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike), Genghis Blues (Roko Belic), Human Resources (Laurent Cantet), Kadosh (Amos Gitai), Il Mio Viaggio in Italia (Martin Scorsese), Moloch (Aleksandr Sokurov), My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog)

Notable shorts: Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky), Elsa Kirk (Lewis Klahr)

1998

1. After Life- Hirokazu Kore-Eda
2. Buffalo '66- Vincent Gallo
3. The Celebration- Thomas Vinterberg
4. Rushmore- Wes Anderson
5. Show Me Love- Lukas Moodysson
6. Dark City- Alex Proyas
7. The Thin Red Line- Terence Malick
8. Babe: Pig in the City- George Miller
9. [Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train- Patrice Chéreau]
10. Bulworth- Warren Beatty
11. Autumn Tale- Eric Rohmer
12. The Lovers of the Arctic Circle- Julio Medem
13. The Big Lebowski- Joel Coen
14. The Dreamlife of Angels- Erick Zonca
15. Billy's Balloon- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
16. Alice and Martin- André Téchiné
17. Late August, Early September- Olivier Assayas
18. Last Night- Don McKellar
18. Croupier- Mike Hodges

Ripe for re-appraisal: Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci), Small Soldiers (Joe Dante)

Need to see: The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), Divine [El Evangelio de las Maravillas] (Arturo Ripstein), L’Ennui (Cedric Kahn), Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos), A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To), Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard), Inquietude (Manoel de Oliveira), Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei Guerman), Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot), Praise (John Curran)

1997

1. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control- Errol Morris
2. Love and Death on Long Island- Richard Kwietniowski
3. Jackie Brown- Quentin Tarantino
4. In the Company of Men- Neil LaBute
5. The River- Tsai Ming-liang
6. Boogie Nights- Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Starship Troopers- Paul Verhoeven
8. Mother and Son- Alexander Sokurov
9. [Lost Highway- David Lynch]
10. A Taste of Cherry- Abbas Kiarostami
11. Henry Fool- Hal Hartley
12. The Sweet Hereafter- Atom Egoyan
13. The Game- David Fincher
14. The Apostle- Robert Duvall
15. The Spanish Prisoner- David Mamet
16. L.A. Confidential- Curtis Hanson
17. Fireworks- Takeshi Kitano
18. Insomnia- Erik Skjoldbjærg
19. Deconstructing Harry- Woody Allen

Ripe for re-appraisal: Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai), Kundun (Martin Scorsese), My Best Friend’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan)

Need to see: The Blackout (Abel Ferrara), Dry Cleaning (Anne Fontaine), The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont), Same Old Song (Alain Resnais), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliveira), Waco: The Rules of Engagement (William Gazecki), Western (Manuel Poirier), Xiao Wu (Jia Zhang-ke)

Notable shorts: [Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold)]

1996

1. Drifting Clouds- Aki Kaurismäki
2. Irma Vep- Olivier Assayas
3. Breaking the Waves- Lars Von Trier
4. Fargo- Joel Coen
5. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument- Arnaud Desplechin
6. Crash- David Cronenberg
7. Nightjohn- Charles Burnett
8. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
9. La Promesse- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
10. Mission: Impossible- Brian DePalma
11. Lone Star- John Sayles
12. Everyone Says I Love You- Woody Allen
13. Hamlet- Kenneth Branagh
14. A Summer's Tale- Eric Rohmer
15. Big Night- Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott
16. Leila- Dariush Mehrjui
17. Sling Blade- Billy Bob Thornton

Ripe for re-appraisal: Beavis and Butthead Do America (Mike Judge), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Need to see: L’Appartement (Gilles Mimouni), Capitaine Conan (Bertrand Tavernier), Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan), Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer), Dadetown (Russ Hexter), The Day a Pig Fell Into a Well (Hong Sang-soo), Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein), Lilies (John Greyson), Mahjong (Edward Yang), A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic), The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer), Three Lives and Only One Death (Raul Ruiz), Un Air de Famille (Cedric Klapisch), When the Cat’s Away (Cedric Klapisch), Will It Snow For Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset)

Notable shorts: [Happy-End (Peter Tscherkassky)]

1995

1. Dead Man- Jim Jarmusch
2. Maborosi- Hirokazu Kore-Eda
3. La Cérémonie- Claude Chabrol
4. Before Sunrise- Richard Linklater
5. Se7en- David Fincher
6. Underground- Emir Kusturica
7. Up/Down/Fragile- Jacques Rivette
8. Funny Bones- Peter Chelsom
9. A Close Shave- Nick Park [short]
10. Clockers- Spike Lee
11. Safe- Todd Haynes
12. Fallen Angels- Wong Kar-Wai
13. Dead Man Walking- Tim Robbins
14. Heat- Michael Mann
15. Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud- Claude Sautet
16. Promenade- Raul Ruiz [short]
17. Toy Story- John Lasseter
18. Twelve Monkeys- Terry Gilliam
19. Babe- Chris Noonan
20. Ah, l'Amour- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
21. Leaving Las Vegas- Mike Figgis
22. Forgotten Silver- Peter Jackson and Costa Botes

Ripe for re-appraisal: Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz), The Neon Bible (Terence Davies), The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh)

Need to see: 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville), American Job (Chris Smith), Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski), Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rapaport), Institute Benjamenta (Quay bros.), Land and Freedom (Ken Loach), Rendez-vous in Paris (Eric Rohmer), Ulysses’ Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)

1994

1. [Satantango- Bela Tarr]
2. Three Colors: Red- Krzystzof Kieslowski
3. Heavenly Creatures- Peter Jackson
4. Joan the Maid: The Battles/The Prisons- Jacques Rivette
5. Exotica- Atom Egoyan
6. Hoop Dreams- Steve James
7. Pulp Fiction- Quentin Tarantino
8. Crumb- Terry Zwigoff
9. Cold Water- Olivier Assayas
10. Chungking Express- Wong Kar-Wai
11. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana- Aki Kaurismäki
12. Ed Wood- Tim Burton
13. Wild Reeds- André Téchiné
14. The Secret of Roan Inish- John Sayles
15. Vanya on 42nd Street- Louis Malle
16. Ladybird Ladybird- Ken Loach
17. The Kingdom- Lars Von Trier and Morten Arnfred
18. Nobody's Fool- Robert Benton
19. U.S. Go Home- Claire Denis
20. Bullets Over Broadway- Woody Allen
21. Three Colors: White- Krzystzof Kieslowski
22. Once Were Warriors- Lee Tamahori

Ripe for re-appraisal: Clean, Shaven (Lodge H. Kerrigan)

Need to see: Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii), Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai), Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti), A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang), Faust (Jan Svankmajer), I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin), Lamerica (Gianni Amelio), Nobody Loves Me (Doris Dorrie), Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami), To Live (Zhang Yimou)

Notable shorts: Altair (Lewis Klahr)

1993

1. The Age of Innocence- Martin Scorsese
2. Naked- Mike Leigh
3. Three Colors: Blue- Krzystzof Kieslowski
4. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould- François Girard
5. Short Cuts- Robert Altman
6. The Blue Kite- Tian Zhuangzhuang
7. The Wrong Trousers- Nick Park [short]
8. Dazed and Confused- Richard Linklater
9. Groundhog Day- Harold Ramis
10. Carlito's Way- Brian DePalma
11. A New Life- Olivier Assayas
12. Schindler's List- Steven Spielberg
13. The Piano- Jane Campion
14. Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas- Henry Selick
15. Malice- Harold Becker
16. [Sonatine- Takeshi Kitano]
17. Farewell My Concubine- Chen Kaige
18. Arrowhead- Peter Lynch [short]
19. King of the Hill- Steven Soderbergh
20. Household Saints- Nancy Savoca
21. Orlando- Sally Potter
22. Ruby in Paradise- Victor Nuñez

Ripe for re-appraisal: Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica), Matinee (Joe Dante), The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Need to see: The Valley of Abraham (Manoel de Oliveira), The Baby of Macon (Peter Greenaway), The Bed You Sleep in (Jon Jost), The Bride With White Hair (Ronny Yu), Calendar (Atom Egoyan), The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin), D’Est (Chantal Akerman), Green Snake (Tsui Hark), Helas Pour Moi (Jean-Luc Godard), Kika (Pedro Almodovar), Raining Stones (Ken Loach), Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais), The Tree, the Mayor, and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer), The Young Girls at 25 (Agnes Varda)

1992

1. Glengarry Glen Ross- James Foley
2. Unforgiven- Clint Eastwood
3. Malcolm X- Spike Lee
4. Un Coeur en Hiver- Claude Sautet
5. Raising Cain- Brian DePalma
6. Reservoir Dogs- Quentin Tarantino
7. Lorenzo’s Oil- George Miller
8. The Long Day Closes- Terence Davies
9. [The Crying Game- Neil Jordan]
10. Lessons of Darkness- Werner Herzog
11. A Tale of Winter- Eric Rohmer
12. The Player- Robert Altman
13. It Wasn't Love- Sadie Benning [short]
14. Brother's Keeper- Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
15. Dead Alive- Peter Jackson
16. Porco Rosso- Hayao Miyazaki
17. Husbands and Wives- Woody Allen
18. Red Rock West- John Dahl

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

Need to see: Actress (Stanley Kwan), Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda), The Best Intentions (Bille August), Careful (Guy Maddin), Cousin Bobby (Jonathan Demme), Crush (Alison Maclean), Dragon Inn (Raymond Lee), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), L. 627 (Bertrand Tavernier), The Last Bolshevik (Chris.Marker), Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez), The Quince Tree of the Sun (Victor Erice), Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rapaport), Savage Nights (Cyril Collard), The Second Heimat (Edgar Reitz), Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin), La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)

Other notable shorts: These Boots (Aki Kaurismäki); Those Were the Days (Aki Kaurismäki)

1991

1. [Barton Fink- Joel Coen]
2. La Belle Noiseuse- Jacques Rivette
3. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf- Léos Carax
4. JFK- Oliver Stone
5. A Grand Day Out- Nick Park [short]
6. Jacquot de Nantes- Agnes Varda
7. The Double Life of Veronique- Krzystzof Kieslowski
8. One False Move- Carl Franklin
9. Van Gogh- Maurice Pialat
10. Slacker- Richard Linklater
11. Poison- Todd Haynes
12. Dead Again- Kenneth Branagh
13. Defending Your Life- Albert Brooks
14. Naked Lunch- David Cronenberg
15. Hearts of Darkness- Fax Bahr/George Hickenlooper/Eleanor Coppola
16. Delicatessen- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
17. Hear My Song- Peter Chelsom
18. Dogfight- Nancy Savoca

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan), Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)

Need to see: Ambition (Hal Hartley), And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami), Begotten (E. Elias Merhige), Bright Angel (Martin Arnold), A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang), Edward II (Derek Jarman), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), Let Him Have It (Peter Medak), Night and Day (Chantal Akerman), Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr), Swordsman II (Ching Siu-Tung), Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)

Other notable shorts: A Place Called Lovely (Sadie Benning), Rear Window (Ernie Gehr)

1990

1. GoodFellas- Martin Scorsese
2. Close-Up- Abbas Kiarostami
3. Life Is Sweet- Mike Leigh
4. Miami Blues- George Armitage
5. The Match Factory Girl- Aki Kaurismäki
6. [The Grifters- Stephen Frears]
7. The Nasty Girl- Michael Verhoeven
8. After Dark, My Sweet- James Foley
9. American Dream- Barbara Kopple
10. Miller's Crossing- Joel Coen
11. Edward Scissorhands- Tim Burton
12. An Angel at My Table- Jane Campion
13. Reversal of Fortune- Barbet Schroeder

Ripe for re-appraisal: Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci), Tremors (Ron Underwood), White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)

Need to see: All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost), Branches of the Tree (Satyajit Ray), Daddy Nostalgia (Bertrand Tavernier), The Disenchanted (Benoit Jacquot), Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (David Lynch), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel), Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard), Once a Thief (John Woo), Riff Raff (Ken Loach), To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett), Trust (Hal Hartley), Uranus (Claude Berri)

Notable shorts: If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning); Me and Rubyfruit (Sadie Benning); Jollies (Sadie Benning)

1989

1. Do the Right Thing- Spike Lee
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors- Woody Allen
3. Monsieur Hire- Patrice Leconte
4. My Twentieth Century- Ildiko Enyedi
5. The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover- Peter Greenaway
6. sex, lies and videotape- Steven Soderbergh
7. Drugstore Cowboy- Gus Van Sant
8. Roger and Me- Michael Moore
9. Mystery Train- Jim Jarmusch
10. The Killer- John Woo
11. The War of the Roses- Danny DeVito
12. The Seventh Continent- Michael Haneke
13. The Song of the Cloud Forest- Jim Henson
14. [Baxter- Jérôme Boivin]
15. Black Rain- Shohei Imamura
16. Henry V- Kenneth Branagh
17. Too Beautiful For You- Bertrand Blier
18. Say Anything...- Cameron Crowe
19. My Left Foot- Jim Sheridan

Ripe for re-appraisal: Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)

Need to see: City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Elephant (Alan Clarke), Homework (Abbas Kiarostami), Life and Nothing But (Bertrand Tavernier), Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel), Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan), Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica), Why Did Bodhi-Dharma Leave For the East? (Bae Yong-kyun)

Notable shorts: Living Inside (Sadie Benning); A New Year (Sadie Benning)

1988

1. Decalogue- Krzystzof Kieslowski
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit- Robert Zemeckis
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Philip Kaufman
4. Tanner '88- Robert Altman
5. Grave of the Fireflies- Isao Takahata
6. Dead Ringers- David Cronenberg
7. Chocolat- Claire Denis
8. A Fish Called Wanda- Charles Crichton
9. My Neighbor Totoro- Hayao Miyazaki
10. [Track 29- Nicolas Roeg]
11. Story of Women- Claude Chabrol
12. Bird- Clint Eastwood
13. The Last Temptation of Christ- Martin Scorsese
14. Midnight Run- Martin Brest
15. Landscape in the Mist- Theo Angelopoulos
16. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen- Terry Gilliam
17. They Live- John Carpenter
18. The Thin Blue Line- Errol Morris
19. The Vanishing- George Sluzier
20. Distant Voices, Still Lives- Terence Davies
21. Another Woman- Woody Allen
22. Talk Radio- Oliver Stone

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)

Need to see: Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan), Cane Toads (Mark Lewis), Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway), Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette), High Hopes (Mike Leigh), Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi), Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber), The Moderns (Alan Rudolph), The Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens and Maurice Loridan), Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto), 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)

1987

1. Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story- Todd Haynes
2. Wings of Desire- Wim Wenders
3. Withnail and I- Bruce Robinson
4. [Under the Sun of Satan- Maurice Pialat]
5. Au Revoir Les Enfants- Louis Malle
6. RoboCop- Paul Verhoeven
7. The Princess Bride- Rob Reiner
8. Broadcast News- James L. Brooks
9. Prick Up Your Ears- Stephen Frears
10. Moonstruck- Norman Jewison
11. Boyfriends and Girlfriends- Eric Rohmer
12. House of Games- David Mamet
13. The Last Emperor- Bernardo Bertolucci
14. Matewan- John Sayles
15. Babette's Feast- Gabriel Axel
16. Full Metal Jacket- Stanley Kubrick
17. Radio Days- Woody Allen

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Dead (John Huston), Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)

Need to see: China Girl (Abel Ferrara), The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol), The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan), Four Adventures of Reinette and Isabelle (Eric Rohmer), King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard), Opera (Dario Argento), Personal Services (Terry Jones), Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Rouge (Stanley Kwan), A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami), Where Is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami), White of the Eye (Donald Cammell), The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan), Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)

Notable shorts: Her Fragrant Emulsion (Lewis Klahr), Thru the Wire (Aki Kaurismäki)

1986

1. The Singing Detective- Jon Amiel
2. The Sacrifice- Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Blue Velvet- David Lynch
4. Hannah and Her Sisters- Woody Allen
5. The Fly- David Cronenberg
6. [Something Wild- Jonathan Demme]
7. Sid and Nancy- Alex Cox
8. Manhunter- Michael Mann
9. Down by Law- Jim Jarmusch
10. Aliens- James Cameron
11. Summer/ The Green Ray- Eric Rohmer
12. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer- John MacNaughton
13. River's Edge- Tim Hunter
14. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources- Claude Berri
15. Salvador- Oliver Stone
16. Tampopo- Juzo Itami

Ripe for re-appraisal: Mélo (Alain Resnais), The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)

Need to see: 84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones), Big Trouble (John Cassavetes), The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris), Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang), In a Glass Cage (Agustin Villaronga), Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela), Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax), Menage (Berri), Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark), The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company As Revealed Through the Casting of a State Television Film (Jean-Luc Godard), Scene of the Crime (Andre Techine), Two Friends (Jane Campion), Window Shopping (Chantal Akerman)

1985

1. Come and See- Elem Klimov
2. Brazil- Terry Gilliam
3. Back to the Future- Robert Zemeckis
4. Ran- Akira Kurosawa
5. After Hours- Martin Scorsese
6. Vagabond- Agnès Varda
7. The Purple Rose of Cairo- Woody Allen
8. Pee Wee's Big Adventure- Tim Burton
9. [Insignificance- Nicolas Roeg]
10. To Live and Die in L.A.- William Friedkin
11. Mishima- Paul Schrader
12. Prizzi's Honor- John Huston
13. My Life As a Dog- Lasse Hallstrom

Ripe for re-appraisal: Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)

Need to see: A.K. (Chris.Marker), Flesh + Blood (Paul Verhoeven), Fool for Love (Robert Altman), Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard), O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman), The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy), Static (Mark Romanek), Taipei Story (Edward Yang), A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Wetherby (David Hare), Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino), A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)

1984

1. Once Upon a Time in America [227 minute version]- Sergio Leone
2. This Is Spinal Tap- Rob Reiner
3. Stranger Than Paradise- Jim Jarmusch
4. Paris, Texas- Wim Wenders
5. Standard Gauge- Morgan Fisher
6. A Sunday in the Country- Bertrand Tavernier
7. [The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension- W.D. Richter]
8. Body Double- Brian DePalma
9. Love Streams- John Cassavetes
10. Blood Simple- Joel Coen
11. A Year of the Quiet Sun- Krzystzof Zanussi
12. Amadeus- Milos Forman
13. Gremlins- Joe Dante
14. Stop Making Sense- Jonathan Demme
15. Secret Honor- Robert Altman
16. Repo Man- Alex Cox
17. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom- Steven Spielberg
18. Broadway Danny Rose- Woody Allen

Ripe for re-appraisal: Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Dune (David Lynch)

Need to see: Almanac of Fall (Bela Tarr), Another Country (Marek Kanievska), Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax), Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth), The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan), Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell), Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer), Heimat (Edgar Reitz), The Hit (Stephen Frears), Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki), Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan), Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark), A Soldier’s Story (Norman Jewison), Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Terence Davies Trilogy, The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein), The Wannsee Conference (Heinz Schirk), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar)

1983

1. L'Argent- Robert Bresson
2. Entre Nous- Diane Kurys
3. The Right Stuff- Philip Kaufman
4. The King of Comedy- Martin Scorsese
5. The Fourth Man- Paul Verhoeven
6. Á Nos Amours- Maurice Pialat
7. Local Hero- Bill Forsyth
8. Zelig- Woody Allen
9. Nostalghia- Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life- Terry Jones
11. Videodrome- David Cronenberg
12. The Man With Two Brains- Carl Reiner
13. [Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence- Nagisa Oshima]
14. The Dead Zone- David Cronenberg
15. Koyaanisqatsi- Godfrey Reggio
16. Silkwood- Mike Nichols

Ripe for re-appraisal: Betrayal (David Jones)

Need to see: And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini), A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-liang), The Eighties (Chantal Akerman), First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard), Get Crazy (Allan Arkush), Lianna (John Sayles), The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa), Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer), Project A (Jackie Chan), Risky Business (Paul Brickman), Streamers (Robert Altman), Utu (Geoff Murphy), Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

1982

1. Sans Soleil- Chris.Marker
2. Blade Runner- Ridley Scott
3. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman
4. The Thing- John Carpenter
5. Tenebrae- Dario Argento
6. Night of the Shooting Stars- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
7. Pink Floyd: the Wall- Alan Parker
8. [So Is This- Michael Snow]
9. Tootsie- Sydney Pollack
10. Vincent- Tim Burton [short]
11. The Verdict- Sidney Lumet
12. Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan- Nicholas Meyer
13. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank
14. The Year of Living Dangerously- Peter Weir
15. A Good Marriage- Eric Rohmer
16. Fitzcarroldo- Werner Herzog
17. Say Amen, Somebody- George T. Nierenberg

Ripe for re-appraisal: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), One From the Heart (Francis Coppola)
Need to see: The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura), Blind Chance (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang), Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-tung), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen), The State of Things (Wim Wenders), Tex (Tim Hunter), Toute une Nuit (Chantal Akerman), La Truite (Joseph Losey), White Dog (Sam Fuller), Yol (Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)

1981

1. Blow Out- Brian DePalma
2. My Dinner With André- Louis Malle
3. They All Laughed- Peter Bogdanovich
4. Lola- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
5. The Road Warrior- George Miller
6. Pennies From Heaven- Herbert Ross
7. Reds- Warren Beatty
8. Cutter's Way- Ivan Passer
9. [Knightriders- George A. Romero]
10. Modern Romance- Albert Brooks
11. Diva- Jean-Jacques Beineix
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark- Steven Spielberg
13. Who Am I This Time?- Jonathan Demme
14. Das Boot- Wolfgang Petersen
15. Prince of the City- Sidney Lumet
16. Coup de Torchon- Bertrand Tavernier
17. Pixote- Hector Babenco
18. Vernon, Florida- Errol Morris
19. The Garden of Earthly Delights- Stan Brakhage [short]
20. Time Bandits- Terry Gilliam
21. Body Heat- Lawrence Kasdan

Ripe for re-appraisal: Gregory’s Girl (Bill Forsyth)

Need to see: Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Meantime (Mike Leigh), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev), Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara), Possession (Andrzej Zulawski), Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson), Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Bernardo Bertolucci), True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard), The Woman Next Door (Francois Truffaut)

1980

1. The Shining- Stanley Kubrick
2. Out of the Blue- Dennis Hopper
3. The Stunt Man- Richard Rush
4. Raging Bull- Martin Scorsese
5. The Aviator's Wife- Eric Rohmer
6. Dressed to Kill- Brian DePalma
7. Airplane!- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker
8. [The Ninth Configuration- William Peter Blatty]
9. Kagemusha- Akira Kurosawa
10. Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession- Nicolas Roeg
11. Stardust Memories- Woody Allen
12. Atlantic City- Louis Malle
13. Melvin and Howard- Jonathan Demme
14. The Elephant Man- David Lynch
15. The Empire Strikes Back- Irvin Kershner

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Inferno (Dario Argento), Sauve qui peut [la vie] (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: The Competition (Joel Oliansky), Deathwatch (Bertrand Tavernier), The Falls (Peter Greenaway), Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (Julien Temple), Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh), Hardly Working (Jerry Lewis), Loulou (Maurice Pialat), Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger), Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais), Pepi, Luci, Bom… and Other Girls Like Mom (Pedro Almodovar), Shogun Assassin (Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston), Spetters (Paul Verhoeven)

1979

1. Monty Python's Life of Brian- Terry Jones
2. Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola
3. Alien- Ridley Scott
4. Stalker- Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Being There- Hal Ashby
6. Nosferatu the Vampyre- Werner Herzog
7. Manhattan- Woody Allen
8. Breaking Away- Peter Yates
9. The Brood- David Cronenberg
10. The Marriage of Maria Braun- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
11. All That Jazz- Bob Fosse
12. [Camera Buff- Krzystzsof Kieslowski]
13. The Warriors- Walter Hill
14. The Long Good Friday- John McKenzie
15. Vengeance Is Mine- Shohei Imamura
16. Real Life- Albert Brooks
17. Woyzeck- Werner Herzog
18. Mad Max- George Miller
19. The In-Laws- Arthur Hiller
20. Tess- Roman Polanski
21. Time After Time- Nicholas Meyer
22. Best Boy- Ira Wohl
23. The Black Stallion- Carroll Ballard
24. My Brilliant Career- Gillian Armstrong

Ripe for re-appraisal: North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff), Rock’n’Roll High School (Allan Arkush)

Need to see: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki), Demon Lover Diary (Joel DeMott), Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara), Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel), Home Movies (Brian DePalma), La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci), On the Marriage Broker Joke As Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (Owen Land), Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan), Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich), Scum (Alan Clarke), That Sinking Feeling (Bill Forsyth), The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman), Winter Kills (William Reichert), Wise Blood (John Huston)

1978

1. Gates of Heaven- Errol Morris
2. Dawn of the Dead- George A. Romero
3. Days of Heaven- Terrence Malick
4. 36th Chamber of Shaolin- Lau Kar-Leung
5. The Deer Hunter- Michael Cimino
6. Don- Chandra Barot
7. The Fury- Brian DePalma
8. Straight Time- Ulu Grosbard
9. The Tree of Wooden Clogs- Ermanno Olmi
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Philip Kaufman
11. [Violette- Claude Chabrol]
12. Superman: the Movie- Richard Donner
13. A Wedding- Robert Altman
14. Filming Othello- Orson Welles
15. The Last Waltz- Martin Scorsese
16. Halloween- John Carpenter

Ripe for re-appraisal: Coming Home (Hal Ashby), Fingers (James Toback), Piranha (Joe Dante)

Need to see: Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine), American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi), China 9 Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman), Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville), The Driver (Walter Hill), Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh), Go Tell the Spartans (Ted Post), The Green Room (François Truffaut), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Insiang (Lino Brocka), Newsfront (Philip Noyce), Our Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg), Perceval (Eric Rohmer), Renaldo and Clara (Bob Dylan), Who’ll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz)

1977

1. Annie Hall- Woody Allen
2. Eraserhead- David Lynch
3. Stroszek- Werner Herzog
4. Killer of Sheep- Charles Burnett
5. The Devil, Probably- Robert Bresson
6. Martin- George A. Romero
7. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas- Jim Henson
8. 3 Women- Robert Altman
9. Sorcerer- William Friedkin
10. La Soufriere- Werner Herzog [short]
11. Cross of Iron- Sam Peckinpah
12. Amar Akbar Anthony- Manmohan Desai
13. Harlan County USA- Barbara Kopple
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind- Steven Spielberg
15. Rabid- David Cronenberg
16. Opening Night- John Cassavetes
17. That Obscure Object of Desire- Luis Buñuel
18. [Smokey and the Bandit- Hal Needham]
19. Suspiria- Dario Argento
20. The American Friend- Wim Wenders
21. The Perfumed Nightmare- Kidlat Tahimik
22. The Late Show- Robert Benton
23. Peppermint Soda- Diane Kurys

Ripe for re-appraisal: Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames), The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)

Need to see: 11x14 (James Benning), ABBA: The Movie (Lasse Hallstrom), Blood Relatives (Claude Chabrol), Bolweiser (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray), Desperate Living (John Waters), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker), Iodo (Kim Ki-young), The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta), Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost), The Last Wave (Peter Weir), Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda), News From Home (Chantal Akerman), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Providence (Alain Resnais), Un Sale Histoire (Jean Eustache), Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven), Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)

1976

1. Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese
2. Assault on Precinct 13- John Carpenter
3. The Man Who Fell to Earth- Nicolas Roeg
4. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie- John Cassavetes
5. Mikey and Nicky- Elaine May
6. In the Realm of the Senses- Nagisa Oshima
7. Obsession- Brian DePalma
8. Up!- Russ Meyer
9. [The Tenant- Roman Polanski]
10. Cria Cuervos- Carlos Saura
11. 1900- Bernardo Bertolucci
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales- Clint Eastwood
13. Gravity- Michael Nankin and David Wechter [short]
14. Carrie- Brian DePalma
15. Projection Instructions- Morgan Fisher [short]
16. Small Change- François Truffaut
17. Seven Beauties- Lina Wertmüller
18. All the President's Men- Alan J. Pakula

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Need to see: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (John Badham), Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Robert Altman), Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini), Duelle (Jacques Rivette), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi), The Innocent (Luchino Visconti), I Only Want You to Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders), The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer), The Middleman (Satyajit Ray), Monsieur Klein (Joseph Losey), Murder by Death (Robert Moore), Noroit (Jacques Rivette), The Scar (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph)

1975

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles- Chantal Akerman
2. Nashville- Robert Altman
3. Barry Lyndon- Stanley Kubrick
4. Jaws- Steven Spielberg
5. The Holy Mountain- Alejandro Jodorowsky
6. The Passenger- Michelangelo Antonioni
7. F for Fake- Orson Welles
8. Night Moves- Arthur Penn
9. Grey Gardens- Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
10. The Mirror- Andrei Tarkovsky
11. [The Friends of Eddie Coyle- Peter Yates]
12. Dog Day Afternoon- Sidney Lumet
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
14. Overlord- Stuart Cooper
15. The Story of Adèle H.- François Truffaut
16. Shampoo- Hal Ashby
17. The Man Who Would Be King- John Huston
18. Love and Death- Woody Allen
19. The Magic Flute- Ingmar Bergman

Ripe for re-appraisal: Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel), The Fortune (Mike Nichols)

Need to see: Female Trouble (John Waters), Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Giliap (Roy Andersson), Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukasaku), Hard Times (Walter Hill), Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver), I Am a Cat (Kon Ichikawa), India Song (Marguerite Duras), Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Margaretha Von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), Promise of the Flesh (Kim Ki-young), The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos), Race With the Devil (Jack Starrett), Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Welfare (Frederick Wiseman), Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land), Xala (Ousmane Sembene)

1974

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating- Jacques Rivette
2. Chinatown- Roman Polanski
3. A Woman Under the Influence- John Cassavetes
4. Phantom of the Paradise- Brian DePalma
5. Young Frankenstein- Mel Brooks
6. California Split- Robert Altman
7. The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner- Werner Herzog
8. The Conversation- Francis Ford Coppola
9. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia- Sam Peckinpah
10. Thieves Like Us- Robert Altman
11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre- Tobe Hooper
12. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
13. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three- Joseph Sargent
14. Juggernaut- Richard Lester
15. Dersu Uzala- Akira Kurosawa
16. [Cockfighter- Monte Hellman]
17. Lenny- Bob Fosse
18. Every Man For Himself and God Against All- Werner Herzog
19. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer- Thom Andersen
20. Blazing Saddles- Mel Brooks
21. Lancelot du Lac- Robert Bresson
22. The Phantom of Liberty- Luis Buñuel

Ripe for re-appraisal: Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins), The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester), The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula), The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)

Need to see: Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders), Eureka (Ernie Gehr), A Film About a Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer), Going Places (Bertrand Blier), Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki), Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder), Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese), Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman), Macon County Line (Richard Compton), Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer), Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (William Klein), Nada (Claude Chabrol), Parade (Jacques Tati), Une Partie du Plaisir (Claude Chabrol), Stavisky… (Alain Resnais), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami), We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola), Wife to Be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma)

1973

1. The Mother and the Whore- Jean Eustache
2. The Spirit of the Beehive- Victor Erice
3. O Lucky Man!- Lindsay Anderson
4. Mean Streets- Martin Scorsese
5. Scenes From a Marriage [TV version]- Ingmar Bergman
6. Don't Look Now- Nicolas Roeg
7. Papillon- Franklin J. Schaffner
8. The Crazies- George A. Romero
9. The Day of the Jackal- Fred Zinnemann
10. Electra Glide in Blue- James William Guercio
11. Paper Moon- Peter Bogdanovich
12. Badlands- Terrence Malick
13. Sisters- Brian DePalma
14. The Long Goodbye- Robert Altman
15. [Sex and Fury- Norifumi Suzuki]
16. Day For Night- François Truffaut
17. Sleeper- Woody Allen
18. Amarcord- Federico Fellini
19. Enter the Dragon- Robert Clouse

Ripe for re-appraisal: Lady Snowblood (Toshiyo Fujita), Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox), The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)

Need to see: Allonsanfan (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani). Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky), Charley Varrick (Don Siegel), The Clockmaker (Bertrand Tavernier), Coffy (Jack Hill), Day of the Dolphin (Mike Nichols), The Devil’s Cleavage (George Kuchar), Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray), Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich), The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell), The Last American Hero (Lamont Johnson), Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall), Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (Kenji Misumi), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), The Wanderers (Kon Ichikawa), Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)

1972

1. Cries and Whispers- Ingmar Bergman
2. Last Tango in Paris- Bernardo Bertolucci
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- Luis Buñuel
4. Solaris- Andrei Tarkovsky
5. The Godfather- Francis Ford Coppola
6. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
7. Fat City- John Huston
8. Female Convict "Scorpion": Jailhouse 41- Shunya Ito
9. Aguirre: the Wrath of God- Werner Herzog
10. The Ruling Class- Peter Medak
11. Frenzy- Alfred Hitchcock
12. [Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance- Kenji Misumi]
13. The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid- Philip Kaufman
14. Chloe in the Afternoon- Eric Rohmer
15. Sleuth- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
16. Deliverance- John Boorman

Ripe for re-appraisal: Deathdream (Bob Clark), The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafaelson), We Will Not Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)

Need to see: Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Bad Company (Robert Benton), Fellini’s Roma, Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders), Images (Robert Altman), Jail Bait (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah), Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart on the River Styx/Baby Cart to Hades/In Peril (all Kenji Misumi), Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette), Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry), Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie), The Professor (Valerio Zurlini), Raw Meat (Gary Sherman), Savage Messiah (Ken Russell), Score (Radley Metzger), Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin), Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich), What? (Roman Polanski)

1971

1. Walkabout- Nicolas Roeg
2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller- Robert Altman
3. Two English Girls- François Truffaut
4. Out 1- Jacques Rivette
5. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes- Stan Brakhage [short]
6. Macbeth- Roman Polanski
7. The French Connection- William Friedkin
8. The Last Picture Show- Peter Bogdanovich
9. Four Nights of a Dreamer- Robert Bresson
10. A New Leaf- Elaine May
11. Carnal Knowledge- Mike Nichols
12. Punishment Park- Peter Watkins
13. Two-Lane Blacktop- Monte Hellman
14. Duck, You Sucker- Sergio Leone
15. Get Carter- Mike Hodges
16. Little Murders- Alan Arkin
17. [The Andromeda Strain- Robert Wise]
18. Minnie and Moskowitz- John Cassavetes
19. WR: Mysteries of the Orga{ni}sm- Dusan Makavejev
20. Murmur of the Heart- Louis Malle
21. The Beguiled- Don Siegel
22. Taking Off- Milos Forman
23. Living- Frans Zwartjes [short]
24. Klute- Alan J. Pakula
25. The Sorrow and the Pity- Marcel Ophüls
26. Dirty Harry- Don Siegel
27. Sunday Bloody Sunday- John Schlesinger

Ripe for re-appraisal: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti), Duel (Steven Spielberg), Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)

Need to see: Blaise Pascal (Robert Rossellini), The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Cat o’Nine Tales (Dario Argento), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper), Love (Karoly Makk), Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton), Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), La Region Centrale (Michael Snow), Traffic (Jacques Tati), Twitch of the Death Nerve (Mario Bava), Vanishing Point (Richard C. Serafian)

1970

1. Woodstock- Michael Wadleigh
2. Gimme Shelter- David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
3. Le Cercle Rouge- Jean-Pierre Melville
4. Five Easy Pieces- Bob Rafaelson
5. The Conformist- Bernardo Bertolucci
6. Performance- Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
7. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls- Russ Meyer
8. Catch-22- Mike Nichols
9. Claire's Knee- Eric Rohmer
10. Donkey Skin- Jacques Demy
11. Loving- Irvin Kershner
12. The Ballad of Cable Hogue- Sam Peckinpah
13. Wanda- Barbara Loden
14. El Topo- Alejandro Jodorowsky
15. [Little Big Man- Arthur Penn]
16. Original Cast Album: Company- D.A. Pennebaker
17. Tristana- Luis Buñuel
18. Production Stills- Morgan Fisher [short]
19. Patton- Franklin J. Schaffner
20. Serene Velocity- Ernie Gehr [short]
21. Let It Be- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
22. MASH- Robert Altman
23. Bed and Board- François Truffaut

Ripe for re-appraisal: Husbands (John Cassavetes)

Need to see: Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray), Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski), Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Hospital (Frederick Wiseman), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri), The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder), Rio Lobo (Howard Hawks), La Rupture (Claude Chabrol), The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci), Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin), A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson), Trash (Paul Morrissey), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1969

1. Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
2. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville
3. The Wild Bunch- Sam Peckinpah
4. My Night at Maud's- Eric Rohmer
5. Medium Cool- Haskell Wexler
6. Andrei Rublev- Andrei Tarkovsky
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Peter R. Hunt
8. Model Shop- Jacques Demy
9. [Hi, Mom!- Brian DePalma]
10. The Milky Way- Luis Buñuel
11. La Femme Infidèle- Claude Chabrol
12. Le Boucher- Claude Chabrol
13. Salesman- David and Albert Maysles
14. Mississippi Mermaid- François Truffaut
15. The Plot Against Harry- Michael Roemer
16. Take the Money and Run- Woody Allen
17. The Passion of Anna- Ingmar Bergman
18. Easy Rider- Dennis Hopper
19. The Wild Child- François Truffaut
20. Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger

Need to see again: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Putney Swope (Robert Downey)

Need to see: Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (Les Blank), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo), Cherry, Harry and Raquel! (Russ Meyer), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Fuego (Armando Bo), Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu), The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), Kes (Ken Loach), Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker), Stereo (David Cronenberg), Suspect (Mike Hodges), This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanley Kubrick
2. Shame- Ingmar Bergman
3. The Producers- Mel Brooks
4. Faces- John Cassavetes
5. L'Amour Fou- Jacques Rivette
6. War and Peace- Sergei Bondarchuk
7. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One- William Greaves
8. The Sixth Face of the Pentagon- Chris Marker and François Reichenbach [short]
9. Yellow Submarine- George Dunning
10. Who's That Knocking at My Door?- Martin Scorsese
11. Night of the Living Dead- George A. Romero
12. David Holzman's Diary- Jim McBride
13. The Immortal Story- Orson Welles
14. High School- Frederick Wiseman
15. Stolen Kisses- François Truffaut
16. [Romeo and Juliet- Franco Zeffirelli]
17. if...- Lindsay Anderson
18. Hour of the Wolf- Ingmar Bergman
19. Planet of the Apes- Franklin J. Schaffner
20. The Bride Wore Black- François Truffaut
21. Golden Swallow- Chang Cheh
22. Petulia- Richard Lester
23. Where Eagles Dare- Brian G. Hutton
24. Saute ma ville- Chantal Akerman [short]
25. Rosemary's Baby- Roman Polanski
26. Bullitt- Peter Yates
27. The Lion in Winter- Anthony Harvey

Need to see again: Barbarella (Roger Vadim), Head (Bob Rafaelson), The Party (Blake Edwards), Sympathy For the Devil/One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: Les Biches (Claude Chabrol), The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves), Coogan’s Bluff (Don Siegel), Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima), The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci), Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman), Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime (Alain Resnais), The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich), Madigan (Don Siegel), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea), Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci), Pretty Poison (Noel Black), The Profound Desire of the Gods (Shohei Imamura), Signs of Life (Werner Herzog), Spirits of the Dead (Roger Vadim/Louis Malle/Federico Fellini), The Swimmer (Frank Perry), Targets (Peter Bogdanovich), Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger)

1967

1. Belle de Jour- Luis Buñuel
2. Play Time- Jacques Tati
3. Weekend- Jean-Luc Godard
4. Two For the Road- Stanley Donen
5. Point Blank- John Boorman
6. Privilege- Peter Watkins
7. Mouchette- Robert Bresson
8. Le Samouraï- Jean-Pierre Melville
9. The Young Girls of Rochefort- Jacques Demy
10. The President's Analyst- Theodore J. Flicker
11. Branded to Kill- Seijun Suzuki
12. Eye Myth- Stan Brakhage [short]
13. The Shooting- Monte Hellman
14. The Red and the White- Miklos Jancso
15. The Big Shave- Martin Scorsese [short]
16. La Chinoise- Jean-Luc Godard
17. The Fireman's Ball- Milos Forman
18. The Fearless Vampire Killers...- Roman Polanski
19. Heterodyne- Hollis Frampton [short]
20. Bonnie and Clyde- Arthur Penn
21. Two or Three Things I Know About Her- Jean-Luc Godard
22. Wait Until Dark- Terence Young

Need to see again: Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)

Need to see: Accident (Joseph Losey), La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), EPCOT (No Director Credited), Fando and Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Hell’s Angels on Wheels (Richard Rush), How I Won the War (Richard Lester), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Our Mother’s House (Jack Clayton), The Red Mantle (Gabriel Axel), Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston), Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi), Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse), The Stranger (Luchino Visconti), The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli), The Thief of Paris (Louis Malle), Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman), Viy (Kropachyov/Yershov/Ptushko), Wavelength (Michael Snow)

1966

1. Seconds- John Frankenheimer
2. Blowup- Michelangelo Antonioni
3. Au Hasard Balthasar- Robert Bresson
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- Sergio Leone
5. The Face of Another- Hiroshi Teshigahara
6. Persona- Ingmar Bergman
7. War of the Gargantuas- Ishiro Honda
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- Mike Nichols
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!- Chuck Jones [short]
10. [Chelsea Girls- Andy Warhol]
11. Masculin-Feminin- Jean-Luc Godard
12. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade- Peter Brook
13. Come Drink With Me- King Hu
14. Sword of Doom- Kihachi Okamoto
15. Georgy Girl- Silvio Narizzano
16. Fahrenheit 451- François Truffaut

Need to see again: Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), Lord Love a Duck (George Axelrod)

Need to see: 7 Women (John Ford), Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene), The Chase (Arthur Penn), Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski), La Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville), Dragon Inn (King Hu), The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown), Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer), The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Hold Me While I’m Naked (George Kuchar), Kill, Baby… Kill! (Mario Bava), A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch), The Nun (Jacques Rivette), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Robert Rosselini), Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Jean Eustache), They’re a Weird Mob (Michael Powell), Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki), Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka)

1965

1. The War Game- Peter Watkins
2. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold- Martin Ritt
3. Repulsion- Roman Polanski
4. Chimes at Midnight- Orson Welles
5. Pierrot le Fou- Jean-Luc Godard
6. The Saragossa Manuscript- Wojciech Has
7. Faster, Pussycat... Kill! Kill!- Russ Meyer
8. [Red Beard- Akira Kurosawa]
9. Time Piece- Jim Henson [short]
10. Battle of Algiers- Gillo Pontecorvo
11. The Dot and the Line- Chuck Jones [short]
12. Help!- Richard Lester
13. Thunderball- Terence Young
14. Alphaville- Jean-Luc Godard
15. Darling- John Schlesinger

Ripe for re-appraisal: Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein), The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison), Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)

Need to see: The 10th Victim (Elio Petri), Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger), Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio), The Great Race (Blake Edwards), A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick), The Hill (Sidney Lumet), The Knack, and How to Get It (Richard Lester), The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker), Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah), Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev), Mickey One (Arthur Penn), Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima), Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman), The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso), Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel), Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

1964

1. Woman in the Dunes- Hiroshi Teshigahara
2. A Hard Day's Night!- Richard Lester
3. Band of Outsiders- Jean-Luc Godard
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg- Jacques Demy
5. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- Stanley Kubrick
6. Red Desert- Michelangelo Antonioni
7. Gertrud- Carl Theodor Dreyer
8. Kiss Me, Stupid- Billy Wilder
9. Man's Favorite Sport?- Howard Hawks
10. Culloden- Peter Watkins
11. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors- Sergei Paradjanov
12. Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte- Robert Aldrich
13. Becket- Peter Glenville
14. Goldfinger- Guy Hamilton
15. The Naked Kiss- Sam Fuller
16. [Zulu- Cy Endfield]
17. Ingreen- Nathaniel Dorsky [short]
18. Diary of a Chambermaid- Luis Buñuel
19. The Soft Skin- François Truffaut
20. A Shot in the Dark- Blake Edwards

Need to see again: The Killers (Don Siegel), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda), Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)

Need to see: Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava), Charulata (Satyajit Ray), Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford), The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin), Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage), Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozishvili), Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura), A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo), The Patsy (Jerry Lewis), Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi), The Train (John Frankenheimer), Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney), The World of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill)

1963

1. 8 1/2- Federico Fellini
2. The Trial- Orson Welles
3. High and Low- Akira Kurosawa
4. The Silence- Ingmar Bergman
5. Contempt- Jean-Luc Godard
6. The Leopard- Luchino Visconti
7. Charade- Stanley Donen
8. Muriel- Alain Resnais
9. [The Birds- Alfred Hitchcock]
10. Flaming Creatures- Jack Smith [short]
11. From Russia With Love- Terence Young
12. Hud- Martin Ritt
13. Shock Corridor- Sam Fuller
14. This Sporting Life- Lindsay Anderson
15. An Actor's Revenge- Kon Ichikawa
16. Little Stabs at Happiness- Jack Smith [short]
17. Winter Light- Ingmar Bergman
18. Mothlight- Stan Brakhage [short]
19. Jason and the Argonauts-Don Chaffey
20. Billy Liar- John Schlesinger

Need to see again: Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)

Need to see: 4 For Texas (Robert Aldrich), America, America (Elia Kazan), The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer), The Big City (Satyajit Ray), Black Sabbath (Mario Bava), Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard), Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin), The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Vincente Minnelli), Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola), Eva (Joseph Losey), The Fire Within (Louis Malle), The House Is Black (Furough Farrohkzad), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura), Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker), Judex (Georges Franju), Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), The Servant (Joseph Losey), Tom Jones (Tony Richardson), X- The Thing With the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)

1962

1. Lawrence of Arabia- David Lean
2. La Jetée- Chris.Marker [short]
3. Advise and Consent- Otto Preminger
4. Vivre Sa Vie- Jean-Luc Godard
5. The Exterminating Angel- Luis Buñuel
6. Lolita- Stanley Kubrick
7. The Manchurian Candidate- John Frankenheimer
8. The Trial of Joan of Arc- Robert Bresson
9. Blonde Cobra- Ken Jacobs and Bob Fleischner [short]
10. Cleo From 5 to 7- Agnès Varda
11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance- John Ford
12. Ride the High Country- Sam Peckinpah
13. [Le Doulos- Jean-Pierre Melville]
14. Knife in the Water- Roman Polanski
15. Carnival of Souls- Henry "Herk" Harvey
16. Sanjuro- Akira Kurosawa
17. Dr. No- Terence Young
18. Cape Fear- J. Lee Thompson
19. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner- Tony Richardson
20. To Kill a Mockingbird- Robert Mulligan

Need to see again: L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni), Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky), The Music Man (Morton Da Costa)

Need to see: Antoine et Colette (Francois Truffaut), An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), The Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards), Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini), I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi), Freud (John Huston), Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi), Hatari! (Howard Hawks), Hell Is For Heroes (Don Siegel), I Am Two (Kon Ichikawa), Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller), Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada), Mondo Cane (Cavara/Jacopetti/Prosperi), Requiem For a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson), Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon), The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli), The World’s Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey)

1961

1. West Side Story- Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
2. The Hustler- Robert Rossen
3. Lola- Jacques Demy
4. Yojimbo- Akira Kurosawa
5. [One, Two, Three- Billy Wilder]
6. Viridiana- Luis Buñuel
7. Last Year at Marienbad- Alain Resnais
8. The Ladies' Man- Jerry Lewis
9. A Woman Is a Woman- Jean-Luc Godard
10. The Gleiwitz Case- Gerhard Klein
11. Through a Glass Darkly- Ingmar Bergman
12. Shadows- John Cassavetes
13. Judgment at Nuremberg- Stanley Kramer
14. The Misfits- John Huston

Need to see again: El Cid (Anthony Mann), King of Kings (Nicholas Ray), Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)

Need to see: Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch), Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner), Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi), The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu), The Human Condition, Part III (Masaki Kobayashi), Homicidal (William Castle), Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico), One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando), Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura), Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi), A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson), Ten Dark Women (Kon Ichikawa), Two Rode Together (John Ford), Underworld USA (Sam Fuller), Vanina Vanini (Roberto Rossellini), Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes)

1960

1. Les Bonnes Femmes- Claude Chabrol
2. Peeping Tom- Michael Powell
3. The Apartment- Billy Wilder
4. L'Avventura- Michelangelo Antonioni
5. Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock
6. Breathless- Jean-Luc Godard
7. La Dolce Vita- Federico Fellini
8. Purple Noon- René Clement
9. Classe Tous Risques- Claude Sautet
10. The Truth- Henri-Georges Clouzot
11. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning- Karel Reisz
12. Shoot the Piano Player- François Truffaut
13. Spartacus- Stanley Kubrick
14. The Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman

Need to see again: The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda), Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman), The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)

Need to see: The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), The Cloud Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima), Devi (Satyajit Ray), Home From the Hill (Vincente Minnelli), The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young), Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky), The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang), Le Trou (Jacques Becker), Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame), Wild River (Elia Kazan), The Young One (Luis Bunuel)

1959

1. The 400 Blows- François Truffaut
2. Hiroshima Mon Amour- Alain Resnais
3. The World of Apu- Satyajit Ray
4. [Rio Bravo- Howard Hawks]
5. North by Northwest- Alfred Hitchcock
6. Pickpocket- Robert Bresson
7. Imitation of Life- Douglas Sirk
8. Some Like It Hot- Billy Wilder
9. Window Water Baby Moving- Stan Brakhage [short]
10. Floating Weeds- Yasujiro Ozu
11. Eyes Without a Face- Georges Franju
12. Anatomy of a Murder- Otto Preminger
13. Wedlock House: An Intercourse- Stan Brakhage [short]

1958

1. Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock
2. Touch of Evil- Orson Welles
3. Ivan the Terrible, Part II- Sergei Eisenstein
4. [The Fountain of Youth- Orson Welles] [short]
5. Mon Oncle- Jacques Tati
6. The Hidden Fortress- Akira Kurosawa
7. Gigi- Vincente Minnelli
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- Richard Brooks
9. The Defiant Ones- Stanley Kramer
10.

1957

1. Sweet Smell of Success- Alexander Mackendrick
2. [12 Angry Men- Sidney Lumet]
3. A Face in the Crowd- Elia Kazan
4. Paths of Glory- Stanley Kubrick
5. Nights of Cabiria- Federico Fellini
6. The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman
7. Throne of Blood- Akira Kurosawa
8. Wild Strawberries- Ingmar Bergman
9. The Incredible Shrinking Man- Jack Arnold
10. The Cranes Are Flying- Mikhail Kalatozov
11. Bridge on the River Kwai- David Lean
12. Witness for the Prosecution- Billy Wilder
13. Funny Face- Stanley Donen
14. The Wide Blue Road- Gillo Pontecorvo

1956

1. Written on the Wind- Douglas Sirk
2. Aparajito- Satyajit Ray
3. A Man Escaped- Robert Bresson
4. [Bigger Than Life- Nicholas Ray]
5. The Girl Can't Help It- Frank Tashlin
6. The Court Jester- Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
7. Forbidden Planet- Fred M. Wilcox
8. The Killing- Stanley Kubrick
9. The Wrong Man- Alfred Hitchcock
10. The Harp of Burma- Kon Ichikawa
11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Don Siegel
12. Hollywood or Bust- Frank Tashlin
13. Baby Doll- Elia Kazan
14. The Red Balloon- Albert Lamorisse [short]
15. The Mystery of Picasso- Henri-Georges Clouzot
16. The Searchers- John Ford
17. The Man Who Knew Too Much- Alfred Hitchcock

1955

1. Smiles of a Summer Night- Ingmar Bergman
2. Ordet- Carl Theodor Dreyer
3. Pather Panchali- Satyajit Ray
4. Rififi- Jules Dassin
5. Rebel Without a Cause- Nicholas Ray
6. Night of the Hunter- Charles Laughton
7. Lola Montes- Max Ophuls
8. Night and Fog- Alain Resnais
9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown- Alfred Hitchcock [short]
10. Diabolique- Henri-Georges Clouzot
11. All That Heaven Allows- Douglas Sirk
12. Kiss Me Deadly- Robert Aldrich
13. [Killer's Kiss- Stanley Kubrick]
14. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz- Luis Buñuel
15. Bob le Flambeur- Jean-Pierre Melville
16. Marty- Delbert Mann

1954

1. The Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa
2. Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
3. On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
4. Sansho the Bailiff- Kenji Mizoguchi
5. La Strada- Federico Fellini
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Richard Fleischer
7. Johnny Guitar- Nicholas Ray
8. [Blinkety-Blank- Norman McLaren] [short]
9. A Star Is Born- George Cukor
10. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers- Stanley Donen
11. Sabrina- Billy Wilder
12. Desistfilm- Stan Brakhage [short]
13. Carmen Jones- Otto Preminger

1953

1. M. Hulot's Holiday- Jacques Tati
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes- Howard Hawks
3. [The Band Wagon- Vincente Minnelli]
4. Tokyo Story- Yasujiro Ozu
5. The Earrings of Madame De...- Max Ophüls
6. The Wages of Fear- Henri-Georges Clouzot
7. The Saga of Anatahan- Josef Von Sternberg
8. Pickup on South St.- Sam Fuller
9. Duck Amuck- Chuck Jones [short]
10. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T- Roy Rowland
11. Roman Holiday- William Wyler
12. Beat the Devil- John Huston
13. The Big Heat- Fritz Lang
14. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century- Chuck Jones [short]
15. Julius Caesar- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
16. Sawdust and Tinsel- Ingmar Bergman
17. Shane- George Stevens
18. From Here to Eternity- Fred Zinnemann

1952

1. Singin' in the Rain- Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
2. Ikiru- Akira Kurosawa
3. The River- Jean Renoir
4. Forbidden Games- René Clement
5. [The Life of Oharu- Kenji Mizoguchi]
6. Umberto D- Vittorio De Sica
7. Othello- Orson Welles
8. Limelight- Charlie Chaplin
9. The Bad and the Beautiful- Vincente Minnelli
10. The Quiet Man- John Ford

1951

1. A Streetcar Named Desire- Elia Kazan
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still- Robert Wise
3. Early Summer- Yasujiro Ozu
4. [The Tales of Hoffmann- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger]
5. Miracle in Milan- Vittorio De Sica
6. Ace in the Hole- Billy Wilder
7. Strangers on a Train- Alfred Hitchcock
8. The Lady of Musashino- Kenji Mizoguchi
9. The African Queen- John Huston
10. The Thing From Another World- Christian Nyby
11. An American in Paris- Vincente Minnelli

1950

1. In a Lonely Place- Nicholas Ray
2. Sunset Blvd.- Billy Wilder
3. Rashomon- Akira Kurosawa
4. All About Eve- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5. The Asphalt Jungle- John Huston
6. Winchester '73- Anthony Mann
7. [Les Enfants Terribles- Jean-Pierre Melville]
8. Diary of a Country Priest- Robert Bresson
9. Los Olvidados- Luis Bunuel
10. La Ronde- Max Ophuls
11. Gerald McBoing-Boing- Robert Cannon [short]
12. Harvey- Henry Koster

1949

1. Orpheus- Jean Cocteau
2. The Third Man- Carol Reed
3. Late Spring- Yasujiro Ozu
4. The Set-Up- Robert Wise
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets- Robert Hamer
6. On the Town- Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
7. Stray Dog- Akira Kurosawa
8. [Gun Crazy- Joseph H. Lewis]
9. White Heat- Raoul Walsh
10. Adam's Rib- George Cukor
11. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon- John Ford
12. The Blood of Beasts- Georges Franju [short]

1948

1. The Red Shoes- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
2. [Letter From An Unknown Woman- Max Ophüls]
3. Red River- Howard Hawks
4. The Bicycle Thief- Vittorio de Sica
5. Force of Evil- Abraham Polonsky
6. Treasure of the Sierra Madre- John Huston
7. Unfaithfully Yours- Preston Sturges
8. The Lady From Shanghai- Orson Welles
9. Fort Apache- John Ford
10. The Fallen Idol- Carol Reed

1947

1. Monsieur Verdoux- Charlie Chaplin
2. Black Narcissus- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
3. Out of the Past- Jacques Tourneur
4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
5. [Great Expectations- David Lean]
6. It Always Rains on Sunday- Robert Hamer
7. Quai des Orfèvres- Henri-Georges Clouzot
8. Fireworks- Kenneth Anger [short]
9. Dark Passage- Delmer Daves
10.

1946

1. Notorious- Alfred Hitchcock
2. The Big Sleep- Howard Hawks
3. Beauty and the Beast- Jean Cocteau
4. Stairway to Heaven- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
5. Brief Encounter- David Lean
6. [The Best Years of Our Lives- William Wyler]
7. My Darling Clementine- John Ford
8. Gilda- Charles Vidor
9. Rome, Open City- Roberto Rossellini
10. It's a Wonderful Life- Frank Capra
11. The Murderers Are Among Us- Wolfgang Staudte
12. The Killers- Robert Siodmak

1945

1. Children of Paradise- Marcel Carne
2. Detour- Edgar G. Ulmer
3. Dead of Night- Cavalcanti / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Charles Crichton
4. Henry V- Laurence Olivier
5. [Ivan the Terrible, Part I- Sergei Eisenstein]
6. Les Dames du Bois du Boulogne- Robert Bresson
7. I Know Where I'm Going!- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
8. The Lost Weekend- Billy Wilder
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10.

1944

1. Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder
2. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek- Preston Sturges
3. Laura- Otto Preminger
4. Hail the Conquering Hero- Preston Sturges
5. Phantom Lady- Robert Siodmak
6. Torment- Alf Sjöberg
7. Meet Me In St. Louis- Vincente Minnelli
8. To Have and Have Not- Howard Hawks
9. [The Great Moment- Preston Sturges]
10.

1943

1. Day of Wrath- Carl Theodor Dreyer
2. Les Anges du Péché- Robert Bresson
3. Shadow of a Doubt- Alfred Hitchcock
4. Meshes of the Afternoon- Maya Deren
5. Le Corbeau- Henri-Georges Clouzot
6. [Fires Were Started...- Humphrey Jennings]
7. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
8. I Walked With a Zombie- Jacques Tourneur
9. Heaven Can Wait- Ernst Lubitsch
10.

1942

1. Casablanca- Michael Curtiz
2. [The Palm Beach Story- Preston Sturges]
3. The Magnificent Ambersons- Orson Welles
4. Ossessione- Luchino Visconti
5. Cat People- Jacques Tourneur
6. Bambi- David Hand
7. Sullivan's Travels- Preston Sturges
8.
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10.

1941

1. Citizen Kane- Orson Welles
2. The Lady Eve- Preston Sturges
3. The Maltese Falcon- John Huston
4. 49th Parallel- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
5. Ball of Fire- Howard Hawks
6. Suspicion- Alfred Hitchcock
7. Dumbo- Ben Sharpsteen
8. [How Green Was My Valley- John Ford]
9. Sergeant York- Howard Hawks
10.

1940

1. The Shop Around the Corner- Ernst Lubitsch
2. Rebecca- Alfred Hitchcock
3. Pinocchio- Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske
4. His Girl Friday- Howard Hawks
5. [The Great McGinty- Preston Sturges]
6. Foreign Correspondent- Alfred Hitchcock
7. The Bank Dick- Edward Cline
8. The Sea Hawk- Michael Curtiz
9. The Letter- William Wyler
10. The Grapes of Wrath- John Ford
11. The Philadelphia Story- George Cukor
12. [The Long Voyage Home- John Ford]

1939

1. The Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir
2. Stagecoach- John Ford
3. Only Angels Have Wings- Howard Hawks
4. [Ninotchka- Ernst Lubitsch]
5. Destry Rides Again- George Marshall
6. The Wizard of Oz- Victor Fleming
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- Frank Capra
8.
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10.

1938

1. Alexander Nevsky- Sergei Eisenstein
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood- William Keighley and Michael Curtiz
3. [Le Quai des Brumes- Marcel Carné]
4. La Bête Humaine- Jean Renoir
5. The Lady Vanishes- Alfred Hitchcock
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10.

1937

1. Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir
2. [Make Way For Tomorrow- Leo McCarey]
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs- David Hand
4. A Day at the Races- Sam Wood
5. The Awful Truth- Leo McCarey
6. A Star Is Born- William Wellman
7. The Edge of the World- Michael Powell
8.
9.
10.

1936

1. Dodsworth- William Wyler
2. Swing Time- George Stevens
3. Modern Times- Charlie Chaplin
4. Sisters of the Gion- Kenji Mizoguchi
5. Fury- Fritz Lang
6. The Devil Doll- Tod Browning
7. [Libeled Lady- Jack Conway]
8. The Road to Glory- Howard Hawks
9.
10.

1935

1. Bride of Frankenstein- James Whale
2. The 39 Steps- Alfred Hitchcock
3. A Night at the Opera- Sam Wood
4. Top Hat- Mark Sandrich
5.
6.
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10.

1934

1. L'Atalante- Jean Vigo
2. [It's a Gift- Norman Z. MacLeod]
3. It Happened One Night- Frank Capra
4. The Story of Floating Weeds- Yasujiro Ozu
5. The Scarlet Empress- Josef von Sternberg
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much- Alfred Hitchcock
7.
8.
9.
10.

1933

1. Duck Soup- Leo McCarey
2. Night on Bald Mountain- Alexander Alexieff and Claire Parker [short]
3. King Kong- Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper
4. The Fatal Glass of Beer- Clyde Bruckman [short]
5. Baby Face- Alfred E. Green
6. Zero de Conduite- Jean Vigo [short]
7. [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse- Fritz Lang]
8. 42nd Street- Lloyd Bacon
9. Blood Money- Rowland Brown
10. I'm No Angel- Wesley Ruggles

1932

1. Freaks- Tod Browning
2. Trouble in Paradise- Ernst Lubitsch
3. Scarface: The Shame of the Nation- Howard Hawks
4. Vampyr- Carl Theodor Dreyer
5. Shanghai Express- Josef Von Sternberg
6. I Was Born, But...- Yasujiro Ozu
7. [Red Dust- Victor Fleming]
8. Boudu Saved From Drowning- Jean Renoir
9. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang- Mervyn LeRoy
10.

1931

1. M- Fritz Lang
2. City Lights- Charlie Chaplin
3. Enthusiasm- Dziga Vertov
4. Le Million- René Clair
5. [Tabu- F.W. Murnau]
6. Frankenstein- James Whale
7. À Nous la Liberté- René Clair
8. Dracula- Tod Browning
9.
10.

1930

1. Un Chien Andalou- Luis Bunuel [short]
2. Blood of a Poet- Jean Cocteau [short]
3. The Blue Angel- Josef von Sternberg
4. L'Age d'Or- Luis Bunuel
5. Earth- Alexander Dovzhenko
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Best of the 2000s

1. The New World- Terrence Malick
2. [Everything Will Be OK- Don Hertzfeldt]
3. Waking Life- Richard Linklater
4. 8 Women- François Ozon
5. Dogville- Lars Von Trier
6. 25th Hour- Spike Lee
7. Zodiac- David Fincher
8. The Son- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
9. Kings and Queen- Arnaud Desplechin
10. La Commune [Paris, 1871]- Peter Watkins
11. Songs From the Second Floor- Roy Andersson
12. The Prestige- Christopher Nolan
13. The Royal Tenenbaums- Wes Anderson
14. Yi Yi: A One and a Two- Edward Yang
15. Mulholland Dr.- David Lynch
16. Before Sunset- Richard Linklater
17. Irreversible- Gaspar Noé
18. Punch-Drunk Love- Paul Thomas Anderson
19. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys- Michael Haneke
20. The Heart of the World- Guy Maddin
21. Russian Ark- Aleksandr Sokurov
22. The Secret Lives of Dentists- Alan Rudolph
23. Innocence- Lucile Hadzihalilovic
24. Kill Bill vols. 1 and 2- Quentin Tarantino
25. Lord of the Rings trilogy- Peter Jackson

Best of the 1990s

1. Satantango- Bela Tarr
2. Dead Man- Jim Jarmusch
3. Three Colors trilogy- Krzystzof Kieslowski
4. The Age of Innocence- Martin Scorsese
5. Heavenly Creatures- Peter Jackson
6. Joan the Maid- Jacques Rivette
7. Glengarry Glen Ross- James Foley
8. After Life- Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. Naked- Mike Leigh
10. Audition- Takashi Miike
11. Drifting Clouds- Aki Kaurismäki
12. Buffalo '66- Vincent Gallo
13. The War Zone- Tim Roth
14. La Belle Noiseuse- Jacques Rivette
15. Unforgiven- Clint Eastwood
16. Beau Travail- Claire Denis
17. Irma Vep- Olivier Assayas
18. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf- Leos Carax
19. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould- François Girard
20. GoodFellas- Martin Scorsese
21. Maborosi- Hirokazu Kore-eda
22. Exotica- Atom Egoyan
23. Close-Up- Abbas Kiarostami
24. Pulp Fiction- Quentin Tarantino
25. Short Cuts- Robert Altman

Best of the 1980s

1. Decalogue- Krzystzof Kieslowski
2. Come and See- Elem Klimov
3. The Singing Detective- Jon Amiel
4. Sans Soleil- Chris Marker
5. Do the Right Thing- Spike Lee
6. Once Upon a Time in America- Sergio Leone
7. Blow Out- Brian DePalma
8. The Sacrifice- Andrei Tarkovsky
9. L’Argent- Robert Bresson
10. Wings of Desire- Wim Wenders
11. This Is Spinal Tap- Rob Reiner
12. My Dinner With André- Louis Malle
13. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?- Robert Zemeckis
14. Brazil- Terry Gilliam
15. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story- Todd Haynes
16. Blue Velvet- David Lynch
17. The Shining- Stanley Kubrick
18. Stranger Than Paradise- Jim Jarmusch
19. Paris, Texas- Wim Wenders
20. Blade Runner- Ridley Scott
21. Back to the Future- Robert Zemeckis
22. Out of the Blue- Dennis Hopper
23. Monsieur Hire- Patrice Leconte
24. Fanny and Alexander- Ingmar Bergman
25. Crimes and Misdemeanors- Woody Allen

Best of the 1970s

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles- Chantal Akerman
2. Gates of Heaven- Errol Morris
3. Nashville- Robert Altman
4. Celine and Julie Go Boating- Jacques Rivette
5. Annie Hall- Woody Allen
6. The Mother and the Whore- Jean Eustache
7. Chinatown- Roman Polanski
8. The Spirit of the Beehive- Victor Erice
9. Eraserhead- David Lynch
10. Dawn of the Dead- George A. Romero
11. Walkabout- Nicolas Roeg
12. McCabe & Mrs. Miller- Robert Altman
13. Gimme Shelter- David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
14. Stroszek- Werner Herzog
15. Barry Lyndon- Stanley Kubrick
16. Two English Girls- François Truffaut
17. Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese
18. O Lucky Man!- Lindsay Anderson
19. Last Tango in Paris- Bernardo Bertolucci
20. Monty Python’s Life of Brian- Terry Jones
21. Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola
22. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- Luis Buñuel
23. Alien- Ridley Scott
24. Jaws- Steven Spielberg
25. Le Cercle Rouge- Jean-Pierre Melville
26. Cries and Whispers- Ingmar Bergman
27. Days of Heaven- Terrence Malick
28. Out 1- Jacques Rivette
29. Solaris- Andrei Tarkovsky
30. A Woman Under the Influence- John Cassavetes
31. The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
32. Stalker- Andrei Takovsky
33. The Godfather- Francis Ford Coppola
34. The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes- Stan Brakhage
35. Mean Streets- Martin Scorsese
36. Phantom of the Paradise- Brian DePalma
37. Scenes From a Marriage- Ingmar Bergman
38. The Man Who Fell to Earth- Nicolas Roeg
39. The Devil Probably- Robert Bresson
40. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie- John Cassavetes

Best of the 1960s

1. Belle de Jour- Luis Buñuel
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanley Kubrick
3. Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
4. Play Time- Jacques Tati
5. Woman in the Dunes- Hiroshi Teshgahara
6. Week End- Jean-Luc Godard
7. 8 ½- Federico Fellini
8. Les Bonnes Femmes- Claude Chabrol
9. Shame- Ingmar Bergman
10. A Hard Day’s Night!- Richard Lester
11. Lawrence of Arabia- David Lean
12. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville
13. Band of Outsiders- Jean-Luc Godard
14. Seconds- John Frankenheimer
15. Peeping Tom- Michael Powell
16. The Producers- Mel Brooks
17. The Wild Bunch- Sam Peckinpah
18. Blowup- Michelangelo Antonioni
19. Faces- John Cassavetes
20. West Side Story- Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
21. My Night at Maud’s- Eric Rohmer
22. The Trial- Orson Welles
23. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg- Jacques Demy
24. High and Low- Akira Kurosawa
25. The Hustler- Robert Rossen
26. Two For the Road- Stanley Donen
27. Mouchette- Jean-Luc Godard
28. Point Blank- John Boorman
29. La Jetée- Chris Marker
30. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold- Martin Ritt
31. Vivre Sa Vie- Jean-Luc Godard
32. Lola- Jacques Demy
33. Advise and Consent- Otto Preminger
34. The Apartment- Billy Wilder
35. Le Samouraï- Jean-Pierre Melville
36. Yojimbo- Akira Kurosawa
37. Pierrot le Fou- Jean-Luc Godard
38. Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- Stanley Kubrick
39. Viridiana- Luis Buñuel
40. The Silence- Ingmar Bergman

Best of the 1950s

1. The 400 Blows- François Truffaut
2. The Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa
3. M. Hulot’s Holiday- Jacques Tati
4. Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcock
5. Sweet Smell of Success- Alexander Mackendrick
6. Singin’ in the Rain- Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen
7. Hiroshima Mon Amour- Alain Resnais
8. Smiles of a Summer Night- Ingmar Bergman
9. The Apu trilogy- Satyajit Ray
10. Rififi- Jules Dassin
11. On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
12. Ordet- Carl Theodor Dreyer
13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes- Howard Hawks
14. Sansho the Bailiff- Kenji Mizoguchi
15. Touch of Evil- Orson Welles
16. In a Lonely Place- Nicholas Ray
17. Paths of Glory- Stanley Kubrick
18. Written on the Wind- Douglas Sirk
19. A Face in the Crowd- Elia Kazan
20. Tokyo Story- Yasujiro Ozu
21. Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
22. Pickpocket- Robert Bresson
23. Sunset Boulevard- Billy Wilder
24. Night of the Hunter- Charles Laughton
25. Ikiru- Akira Kurosawa

Best of the 1940s

1. Orpheus- Jean Cocteau
2. Citizen Kane- Orson Welles
3. The Third Man- Carol Reed
4. Notorious- Alfred Hitchcock
5. The Lady Eve- Preston Sturges
6. The Red Shoes- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
7. Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder
8. Children of Paradise- Marcel Carné
9. Casablanca- Michael Curtiz
10. The Big Sleep- Howard Hawks
11. Late Spring- Yasujiro Ozu
12. Monsieur Verdoux- Charlie Chaplin
13. Detour- Edgar G. Ulmer
14. The Shop Around the Corner- Ernst Lubitsch
15. Day of Wrath- Carl Theodor Dreyer
16. Letter From An Unknown Woman- Max Ophüls
17. Laura- Otto Preminger
18. Shadow of a Doubt- Alfred Hitchcock
19. Beauty and the Beast- Jean Cocteau
20. Rebecca- Alfred Hitchcock
21. Red River- Howard Hawks
22. Brief Encounter- David Lean
23. The Magnificent Ambersons- Orson Welles
24. Pinocchio- Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske
25. His Girl Friday- Howard Hawks
26. Black Narcissus- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Best of the 1930s

1. L’Atalante- Jean Vigo
2. M- Fritz Lang
3. Rules of the Game- Jean Renoir
4. Duck Soup- Leo McCarey
5. Dodsworth- William Wyler
6. Freaks- Tod Browning
7. Grand Illusion- Jean Renoir
8. Bride of Frankenstein- James Whale
9. Stagecoach- John Ford
10. Only Angels Have Wings- Howard Hawks
11. The 39 Steps- Alfred Hitchcock
12. Un Chien Andalou- Luis Buñuel
13. Modern Times- Charlie Chaplin
14. Trouble in Paradise- Ernst Lubitsch
15. Blood of a Poet- Jean Cocteau
16. Alexander Nevsky- Sergei Eisenstein
17. Enthusiasm- Dziga Vertov
18. The Blue Angel- Josef von Sternberg
19. Swing Time- George Stevens
20. Scarface: the Shame of a Nation- Howard Hawks
21. A Night at the Opera- Sam Wood
22. L’Age d’Or- Luis Buñuel
23. City Lights- Charlie Chaplin
24. Vampyr- Carl Theodor Dreyer
25. It’s a Gift- Norman Z. MacLeod

Best of the Silent Era

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc- Carl Theodor Dreyer
2. The General- Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
3. Sunrise- F.W. Murnau
4. Pandora’s Box- G.W. Pabst
5. Broken Blossoms- D W. Griffith
6. The Scarecrow- Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline
7. Seven Chances- Buster Keaton
8. The Last Laugh- F.W. Murnau
9. The Man With the Movie Camera- Dziga Vertov
10. Les Vampires- Louis Feuillade
11. Sherlock Jr- Buster Keaton
12. Ménilmontant- Dmitri Kirsanoff
13. Battleship Potemkin- Sergei Eisenstein
14. Greed- Erich von Stroheim
15. Napoléon- Abel Gance
16. Way Down East- D.W. Griffith
17. Metropolis- Fritz Lang
18. Our Hospitality- Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone
19. Nosferatu- F.W. Murnau
20. The Gold Rush- Charlie Chaplin
21. The Wind- Victor Sjöström
22. Faust- F.W. Murnau
23. The Last Command- Josef von Sternberg
24. Paris Qui Dort- René Clair
25. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks- Lev Kuleshov