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Note to readers: I'm ~~finally finished~~ in the process of 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.

Also, a word on the “Ripe for re-appraisal” section of these lists. I’ve included films here that meet at least one of the following criteria:

a) Films that weren’t good enough to qualify for these lists on first viewing, but which would seem to benefit from multiple viewings,

b) Films by directors I generally love which didn’t necessarily rank among their best films but which might improve now that I’ve gotten past the initial disappointment,

c) Cult movies or otherwise semi-disreputable genre films that I initially enjoyed, but whose seeming disreputability may very well have led me to underrate them,

d) Highly-regarded films (usually Hollywood) that I saw so long ago (college, if not before) that my memory of them is too vague for me to have a solid opinion, or at least one I entirely trust, or

e) Highly-regarded films that I saw under less-than-ideal circumstances (crappy VHS transfer, watched when extremely tired, that screening of A Visit to the Louvre at Views ’05 with no subtitles, assisted only by a printed translation that was difficult to read in a darkened theatre, etc.).

In any case, I think any of these films will benefit from multiple viewings. Yes, even Crank. Just ask Steve C.

I’m also listing other major/semi-major awards and festival honors here, primarily for comparison’s sake and as a reference.

2010

2010-10-11T18:36:00.002-04:00

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop- Banksy
2. The Social Network- David Fincher
3. Winter’s Bone- Debra Granik
4. Inception- Christopher Nolan
5. The Ghost Writer- Roman Polanski
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World- Edgar Wright
7. Toy Story 3- Lee Unkrich
8. [jackass 3D- Jeff Tremaine]
9. Catfish- Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost
10. How to Train Your Dragon- Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders

Ripe for re-appraisal: None as yet

Need to see: Too many to mention

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: TBD
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: TBD
César Awards, Best Film: TBD
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Venice, Golden Lion: Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Honey (Semih Kaplanoglu)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Winter’s Bone
Toronto, Audience Award: The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
Skandies, Best Film: TBD
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: TBD

2009

2010-07-03T22:27:00.003-04:00

1. [Dogtooth- Yorgos Lanthimos]
2. Up- Pete Docter
3. Inglourious Basterds- Quentin Tarantino
4. Phantoms of Nabua- Apichatpong Weerasethakul [short]
5. Plastic Bag- Ramin Bahrani [short]
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox- Wes Anderson
7. Passing Strange: The Movie- Spike Lee
8. Duplicity- Tony Gilroy
9. Antichrist- Lars von Trier
10. Everyone Else- Maren Ade
11. Tetro- Francis Ford Coppola
12. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done- Werner Herzog
13. Stingray Sam- Cory McAbee
14. Father of My Children- Mia Hansen-Løve
15. Humpday- Lynn Shelton
16. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans- Werner Herzog

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh), In the Loop (Armando Iannucci), The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch), A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen), Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)

Need to see: Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette), Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski), Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat), Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira), Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe), The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray), Face (Tsai Ming-liang), Hadewjich (Bruno Dumont), I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino), Kinatay (Brilliante Ma. Mendoza), Lebanon (Samuel Maoz), Lourdes (Jessica Hausner), The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa), Min Ye… (Souleymane Cissé), Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa), Ondine (Neil Jordan), Police, Adjective (Corneliu Poromboiu), Red Riding trilogy (Julian Jarrold / James Marsh / Anand Tucker), The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore), The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman), White Material (Claire Denis), Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Hurt Locker
César Awards, Best Film: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Venice, Golden Lion: Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Toronto, Audience Award: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Skandies, Best Film: Inglourious Basterds
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: Inglourious Basterds

2008

2008-09-27T09:00:00.011-04:00

1. Synecdoche, New York- Charlie Kaufman
2. Lorna’s Silence- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
3. The Class- Laurent Cantet
4. Che- Steven Soderbergh
5. I Am So Proud of You- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
6. The Hurt Locker- Kathryn Bigelow
7. Rachel Getting Married- Jonathan Demme
8. A Christmas Tale- Arnaud Desplechin
9. Man on Wire- James Marsh
10. The Dark Knight- Christopher Nolan
11. When It Was Blue- Jennifer Reeves
12. [Still Walking- Hirokazu Kore-eda]
13. WALL*E- Andrew Stanton
14. 35 Shots of Rum- Claire Denis
15. Burn After Reading- Joel and Ethan Coen
16. Two Lovers- James Gray
17. Sita Sings the Blues- Nina Paley
18. Home- Ursula Meier
19. Julia- Erick Zonca
20. Summer Hours- Olivier Assayas
21. In Bruges- Martin McDonough
22. Me and Orson Welles- Richard Linklater
23. The Brothers Bloom- Rian Johnson
24. The Wrestler- Darren Aronofsky
25. Trouble the Water- Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
26. Speed Racer- Larry and Andy Wachowski

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel), Role Models (David Wain), The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)

Need to see: Ballast (Lance Hammer), Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino), I’m Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo), I’ve Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel), Jerichow (Christian Petzold), Serbis (Brilliante Mendoza), Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
César Awards, Best Film: Séraphine (Martin Provost)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Class
Venice, Golden Lion: The Wrestler
Berlin, Golden Bear: Elite Squad (José Padilha)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
Toronto, Audience Award: Slumdog Millionaire
Skandies, Best Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: WALL*E

2007

2007-08-05T19:38:00.011-04:00

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 / The Duchess of Langeais- 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- Abdel 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. [You, the Living- Roy Andersson]
18. My Winnipeg- Guy Maddin
19. Shotgun Stories- Jeff Nichols
20. I'm Not There- Todd Haynes
21. Madame Tutli-Putli- Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski [short]
22. Framing- Bert Gottschalk [short]
23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Julian Schnabel
24. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- Tim Burton
25. Hot Fuzz- Edgar Wright
26. Ratatouille- Brad Bird
27. A Girl Cut in Two- Claude Chabrol
28. We Own the Night- James Gray
29. Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037- Ben Niles
30. Michael Clayton- Tony Gilroy
31. Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon- Eric Rohmer
32. Don't- Edgar Wright [short]

Ripe for re-appraisal: Redacted (Brian DePalma), Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

Need to see: Angel (Francois Ozon), The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Atonement (Joe Wright)
César Awards, Best Film: The Secret of the Grain
Cannes, Palme d’Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Venice, Golden Lion: Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Tuya’s Marriage (Wang Quan’an)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Padre Nuestro (Christopher Zalla)
Toronto, Audience Award: Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Skandies, Best Film: There Will Be Blood
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: No Country for Old Men

2006

2007-08-05T19:37:00.002-04:00

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: Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Departed
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Queen (Stephen Frears)
César Awards, Best Film: Lady Chatterley
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
Venice, Golden Lion: Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Grbavica (Jasmila Žbanić)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Quinceañera (Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer)
Toronto, Audience Award: Bella (Alejandro Gomez Monteverde)
Skandies, Best Film: The Departed
Muriel Awards, Best Feature Film: The Departed

2005

2007-08-05T19:36:00.002-04:00

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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Crash (Paul Haggis)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
César Awards, Best Film: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: L’Enfant
Venice, Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain
Berlin, Golden Bear: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Mark Domford-May)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
Skandies, Best Film: Grizzly Man

2004

2007-08-05T19:35:00.004-04:00

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), Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby), Zebraman (Takashi Miike)

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

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
César Awards, Best Film: Games of Love and Chance (Abdel Kechiche)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Venice, Golden Lion: Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Head-On (Fatih Akin)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Primer
Toronto, Audience Award: Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Skandies, Best Film: Dogville (Lars Von Trier)

2003

2007-08-05T19:34:00.001-04:00

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/Games of Love and Chance- Abdellatif 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), A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon), Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki)

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

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
César Awards, Best Film: The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Berlin, Golden Bear: In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): American Splendor
Toronto, Audience Award: Zatoichi
Skandies, Best Film: Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)

2002

2007-08-05T19:33:00.001-04:00

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: Ana and the Others (Celina Murga), Blue Gate Crossing (Yee Chin-yen), Daughter From Danang (Gail Dolgin and Vincente Franco), Dead or Alive: Final (Takashi Miike), Ken Park (Larry Clark and Ed Lachman), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Chicago (Rob Marshall)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Pianist
César Awards, Best Film: The Pianist
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Pianist
Venice, Golden Lion: The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Spirited Away and Bloody Sunday
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (Rebecca Miller)
Toronto, Audience Award: Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
Skandies, Best Film: 25th Hour

2001

2007-08-05T19:32:00.001-04:00

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 Docter
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]
17. Va Savoir- Jacques Rivette
18. The Third Memory- Pierre Huyghe [short]
19. Ghost World- Terry Zwigoff
20. Things Behind the Sun- Allison Anders
21. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing- Jill Sprecher
22. 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), Roberto Succo (Cedric Kahn), ‘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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
César Awards, Best Film: Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti)
Venice, Golden Lion: Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): The Believer (Henry Bean)
Toronto, Audience Award: Amélie
Skandies, Best Film: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

2000

2007-08-05T19:31:00.001-04:00

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. Esther Kahn- Arnaud Desplechin
11. Requiem For a Dream- Darren Aronofsky
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), The Yards (James Gray)

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), The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage), Jung [War] In the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati), In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa), The Long Holiday (Johan Van Der Kreuken), Platform (Jia Zhang-ke), Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong), El Valley Centro (James Benning), Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo), Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi)

Other notable shorts: Engram Sepals (Lewis Klahr)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gladiator
César Awards, Best Film: The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) and You Can Count on Me
Toronto, Audience Award: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Skandies, Best Film: Yi Yi

1999

2007-08-05T19:30:00.001-04:00

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), Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: American Beauty
César Awards, Best Film: Venus Beauty Institute (Tonie Marshall)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Rosetta
Venice, Golden Lion: Not One Less (Zhang Yimou)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Three Seasons (Tony Bui)
Toronto, Audience Award: American Beauty
Skandies, Best Film: Being John Malkovich

1998

2007-08-05T19:29:00.002-04:00

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- Terrence 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. [Velvet Goldmine- Todd Haynes]
12. Autumn Tale- Eric Rohmer
13. The Lovers of the Arctic Circle- Julio Medem
14. The Big Lebowski- Joel Coen
15. The Dreamlife of Angels- Erick Zonca
16. Billy's Balloon- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
17. Alice and Martin- André Téchiné
18. Late August, Early September- Olivier Assayas
19. Last Night- Don McKellar
20. Croupier- Mike Hodges

Ripe for re-appraisal: Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci), John Carpenter’s Vampires, Ossos (Pedro Costa), 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), New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara), Praise (John Curran), Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Shakespeare in Love
César Awards, Best Film: The Dreamlife of Angels
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Way We Laughed (Gianni Amelio)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Central Station (Walter Salles)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Slam (Marc Levin)
Toronto, Audience Award: Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
Skandies, Best Film: Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)

1997

2007-08-05T19:28:00.002-04:00

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- Aleksandr 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: 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee), 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), Career Girls (Mike Leigh), 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)]

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Titanic (James Cameron)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
César Awards, Best Film: Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) A Taste of Cherry and The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
Venice, Golden Lion: Fireworks / Hana-bi
Berlin, Golden Bear: The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)
Skandies, Best Film: The Sweet Hereafter

1996

2007-08-05T19:27:00.001-04:00

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), The Funeral (Abel Ferrara), God’s Comedy (Joao Cesar Monteiro), Lilies (John Greyson), Mahjong (Edward Yang), A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Perfect Love (Catherine Breillat), 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)]

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The English Patient
César Awards, Best Film: Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
Venice, Golden Lion: Michael Collins (Neil Jordan)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
Toronto, Audience Award: Shine (Scott Hicks)
Skandies, Best Film: Breaking the Waves

1995

2007-08-05T19:26:00.001-04:00

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: Clueless (Amy Heckerling), Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Hate (Matthieu Kassovitz), A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron), The Neon Bible (Terence Davies), Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven), 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), The Blade (Tsui Hark), Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung), Deseret (James Benning), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rapaport), Institute Benjamenta (Quay bros.), Land and Freedom (Ken Loach), Rendez-vous in Paris (Eric Rohmer), Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto), Ulysses’ Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos), Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
César Awards, Best Film: La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Underground
Venice, Golden Lion: Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Bait (Bertrand Tavernier)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns)
Toronto, Audience Award: Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris)
Skandies, Best Film: Leaving Las Vegas

1994

2007-08-05T19:25:00.001-04:00

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), Little Odessa (James Gray), Vive l’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

Need to see: Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii), Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski), Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov), Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti), The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh), A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang), Faust (Jan Svankmajer), Fresh (Boaz Yakin), I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin), Lamerica (Gianni Amelio), Nadja (Michael Almereyda), Nobody Loves Me (Doris Dorrie), Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami), To Live (Zhang Yimou), An Unforgettable Summer (Lucien Pintilie)

Notable shorts: Altair (Lewis Klahr)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)
César Awards, Best Film: Wild Reeds
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Pulp Fiction
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Vive l’Amour and Before the Rain
Berlin, Golden Bear: In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): What Happened Was… (Tom Noonan)
Toronto, Audience Award: Priest (Antonia Bird)

1993

2007-08-05T19:24:00.001-04:00

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
23. Iron Monkey- Yuen Woo-Ping

Ripe for re-appraisal: Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica), M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg), Mad Dog and Glory (John MacNaughton), Matinee (Joe Dante), A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood), The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Romeo Is Bleeding (Peter Medak)

Need to see: The Baby of Macon (Peter Greenaway), The Bed You Sleep in (Jon Jost), Blue (Derek Jarman), 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), The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk (Corey Yuen), Raining Stones (Ken Loach), The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung), Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais), The Tree, the Mayor, and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer), The Valley of Abraham (Manoel de Oliveira), The War Room (D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus), The Young Girls at 25 (Agnes Varda)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Schindler's List
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Schindler's List
César Awards, Best Film: Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Farewell My Concubine and The Piano
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Short Cuts and Three Colors: Blue
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Woman Sesame Oil Maker (Xie Fei) and The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): (tie) Ruby in Paradise and Public Access (Bryan Singer)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Snapper (Stephen Frears)

1992

2007-08-05T19:23:00.001-04:00

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. [Hard Boiled- John Woo]
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: Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara), Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven), Howards End (James Ivory), 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), Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Careful (Guy Maddin), Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Dragon Inn (Raymond Lee), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To), Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), L. 627 (Bertrand Tavernier), The Last Bolshevik (Chris.Marker), Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez), The Living End (Gregg Araki), Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark), The Quince Tree of the Sun (Victor Erice), Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), Savage Nights (Cyril Collard), Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio), The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Unforgiven
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Howards End
César Awards, Best Film: Savage Nights (Cyril Collard)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Best Intentions
Venice, Golden Lion: The Story of Qiu Ju
Berlin, Golden Bear: Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell)
Toronto, Audience Award: Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)

1991

2007-08-05T19:22:00.001-04:00

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), Jungle Fever (Spike Lee), Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)

Need to see: Ambition (Hal Hartley), And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami), Begotten (E. Elias Merhige), Black Robe (Bruce Beresford), Bright Angel (Michael Fields), A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang), Edward II (Derek Jarman), Flirting (John Duigan), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), Let Him Have It (Peter Medak), A Little Stiff (Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins), Night and Day (Chantal Akerman), Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark), The Rapture (Michael Tolkin), Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr), Solo con tu pareja (Alfonso Cuaron), Swordsman II (Ching Siu-Tung), Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley), Toto le Heros (Jaco von Dormael), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)

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

Academy Awards, USA: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Commitments
César Awards, Best Film: Tous les matins du monde (Alain Corneau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Barton Fink
Venice, Golden Lion: Close to Eden (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The House of Smiles (Marco Ferreri)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Poison
Toronto, Audience Award: The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)

1990

2007-08-05T19:21:00.001-04:00

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: Darkman (Sam Raimi), The Freshman (Andrew Bergman), No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis), 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), Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano), 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), Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel), Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard), Once a Thief (John Woo), Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston), Quick Change (Howard Franklin and Bill Murray), Revenge (Tony Scott), Riff Raff (Ken Loach), Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis), Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich), Sure Fire (Jon Jost), To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett), Trust (Hal Hartley), The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley), Uranus (Claude Berri)

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

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Goodfellas
César Awards, Best Film: Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
Venice, Golden Lion: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Music Box (Costa-Gavras) and Larks on a String
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.)
Toronto, Audience Award: Cyrano de Bergerac

1989

2007-08-05T19:20:00.003-04:00

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. [City of Sadness- Hou Hsiao-hsien]
10. The Killer- John Woo
11. Mystery Train- Jim Jarmusch
12. The War of the Roses- Danny DeVito
13. The Seventh Continent- Michael Haneke
14. The Song of the Cloud Forest- Jim Henson
15. Baxter- Jérôme Boivin
16. Black Rain- Shohei Imamura
17. Henry V- Kenneth Branagh
18. Too Beautiful For You- Bertrand Blier
19. Say Anything...- Cameron Crowe
20. My Left Foot- Jim Sheridan

Ripe for re-appraisal: Casualties of War (Brian DePalma), Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), O Sangue (Pedro Costa)

Need to see: Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara), Elephant (Alan Clarke), For All Mankind (Al Reinert), Homework (Abbas Kiarostami), Life and Nothing But (Bertrand Tavernier), Miracle Mile (Steve DeJarnatt), Parents (Bob Balaban), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
César Awards, Best Film: Too Beautiful for You
Cannes, Palme d’Or: sex, lies and videotape
Venice, Golden Lion: A City of Sadness
Berlin, Golden Bear: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): True Love (Nancy Savoca)
Toronto, Audience Award: Roger and Me

1988

2007-08-05T19:19:00.001-04:00

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), Frantic (Roman Polanski), Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)

Need to see: Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan), Cane Toads (Mark Lewis), The Chocolate War (Keith Gordon), Damnnation (Bela Tarr), Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway), Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette), High Hopes (Mike Leigh), Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls), Iguana (Monte Hellmann), La Lectrice (Michel Deville), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi), Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber), Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme), The Moderns (Alan Rudolph), Monkey Shines (George A. Romero), The Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens and Maurice Loridan), Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto), 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
César Awards, Best Film: Camille Claudel
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Berlin, Golden Bear: Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Heat and Sunlight (Rob Nilsson)
Toronto, Audience Award: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)

1987

2007-08-05T19:18:00.002-04:00

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. Evil Dead II- Sam Raimi
14. The Last Emperor- Bernardo Bertolucci
15. Matewan- John Sayles
16. Babette's Feast- Gabriel Axel
17. Full Metal Jacket- Stanley Kubrick
18. Radio Days- Woody Allen
19. Roxanne- Fred Schepisi

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

Need to see: Border Radio (Anders/Voss/Lent), China Girl (Abel Ferrara), City on Fire (Ringo Lam), The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol), The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan), Four Adventures of Reinette and Isabelle (Eric Rohmer), Hotel Terminus (Marcel Ophuls), Intervista (Federico Fellini), King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard), King of the Children (Chen Kaige), Opera (Dario Argento), Personal Services (Terry Jones), Project A, Part II (Jackie Chan), Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Rouge (Stanley Kwan), The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben), A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami), Tin Men (Barry Levinson), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Last Emperor
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
César Awards, Best Film: Au revoir, les enfants
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Under the Sun of Satan
Venice, Golden Lion: Au revoir, les enfants
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Theme (Gleb Panfilov)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Waiting for the Moon (Jill Godmilow) and The Trouble with Dick (Gary Walkow)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Princess Bride

1986

2007-08-05T19:17:00.001-04:00

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. River's Edge- Tim Hunter
13. Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources- Claude Berri
14. Salvador- Oliver Stone
15. Little Shop of Horrors- Frank Oz

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

Need to see: 84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones), Big Trouble (John Cassavetes), Crime Story (Abel Ferrara), The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris), Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang), In a Glass Cage (Agustin Villaronga), Landscape Suicide (James Benning), Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela), Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax), Menage (Berri), My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Alexei Gherman), 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), The Terrorizer (Edward Yang), Two Friends (Jane Campion), Window Shopping (Chantal Akerman)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Platoon (Oliver Stone)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: A Room with a View (James Ivory)
César Awards, Best Film: Thérèse (Alain Cavalier)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Mission (Roland Joffé)
Venice, Golden Lion: Summer / The Green Ray
Berlin, Golden Bear: Stammheim (Rainhard Hauff)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)

1985

2007-08-05T19:16:00.001-04:00

1. Come and See- Elem Klimov
2. Back to the Future- Robert Zemeckis
3. Brazil- Terry Gilliam
4. Ran- Akira Kurosawa
5. After Hours- Martin Scorsese
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo- Woody Allen
7. Pee Wee's Big Adventure- Tim Burton
8. Vagabond- Agnès Varda
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: The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg), Lost in America (Albert Brooks), 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), Into the Night (John Landis), O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman), The Official Story (Luis Puenzo), Police Story (Jackie Chan), The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon), Static (Mark Romanek), The Stuff (Larry Cohen), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Purple Rose of Cairo
César Awards, Best Film: Three Men and a Cradle (Coline Serreau)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)
Venice, Golden Lion: Vagabond
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Die Frau und der Fremde (Rainer Simon) and Wetherby
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Official Story (Luis Puenzo)

1984

2007-08-05T19:15:00.001-04:00

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
19. The Terminator- James Cameron

Ripe for re-appraisal: Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Dune (David Lynch), Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford), Streets of Fire (Walter Hill), Top Secret! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker)

Need to see: Almanac of Fall (Bela Tarr), L’Amour a Mort (Alain Resnais), And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini), Another Country (Marek Kanievska), Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara), 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 Wannsee Conference (Heinz Schirk), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Amadeus
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
César Awards, Best Film: My New Partner (Claude Zidi)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Paris, Texas
Venice, Golden Lion: The Year of the Quiet Sun
Berlin, Golden Bear: Love Streams
Toronto, Audience Award: Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)

1983

2007-08-05T19:14:00.004-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal: Betrayal (David Jones), El Norte (Gregory Nava), Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)

Need to see: And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini), Breathless (Jim McBride), A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Christine (John Carpenter), The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-liang), The Eighties (Chantal Akerman), First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard), Get Crazy (Allan Arkush), Gorky Park (Michael Apted), Lianna (John Sayles), Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais), The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa), Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer), Project A (Jackie Chan), Risky Business (Paul Brickman), Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola), Streamers (Robert Altman), Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy), El Sur (Victor Erice), Utu (Geoff Murphy), Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert)
César Awards, Best Film: Le Bal (Ettore Scola) and À nos amours
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Venice, Golden Lion: First Name: Carmen
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Ascendancy (Edward Bennett) and The Beehive (Mario Camus)
Toronto, Audience Award: The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)

1982

2007-08-05T19:13:00.005-04:00

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. [White Dog- Sam Fuller]
10. Tootsie- Sydney Pollack
11. Vincent- Tim Burton [short]
12. The Verdict- Sidney Lumet
13. Star Trek: the Wrath of Khan- Nicholas Meyer
14. Burden of Dreams- Les Blank
15. The Year of Living Dangerously- Peter Weir
16. A Good Marriage- Eric Rohmer
17. Veronika Voss- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
18. Fitzcarraldo- Werner Herzog
19. Say Amen, Somebody- George T. Nierenberg
20. Victor/Victoria- Blake Edwards

Ripe for re-appraisal: Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), Diner (Barry Levinson), The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), One From the Heart (Francis Coppola), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), TRON (Steven Lisberger)

Need to see: The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura), Blind Chance (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-tung), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Missing (Costa-Gavras), Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski), On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz), 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), Ulysse (Agnes Varda), Yol (Yilmaz Guney/Serif Goren)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gandhi
César Awards, Best Film: La Balance (Bob Swaim)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Missing (Costa-Gavras) and Yol
Venice, Golden Lion: The State of Things
Berlin, Golden Bear: Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Toronto, Audience Award: Tempest (Paul Mazursky)

1981

2007-08-05T19:12:00.003-04:00

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), Scanners (David Cronenberg)

Need to see: Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins), Eijanaka (Shohei Imamura), Four Friends (Arthur Penn), Gently Down the Stream (Su Friedrich), Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler), Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Meantime (Mike Leigh), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev), Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara), Polyester (John Waters), Possession (Andrzej Zulawski), Rich and Famous (George Cukor), Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson), Too Early, Too Late (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet), Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Bernardo Bertolucci), True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard), The Woman Next Door (Francois Truffaut)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Chariots of Fire
César Awards, Best Film: Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
Venice, Golden Lion: Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Hurry, Hurry! (Carlos Saura)
Toronto, Audience Award: Chariots of Fire

1980

2007-08-05T19:11:00.003-04:00

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. The Long Good Friday- John MacKenzie
13. Atlantic City- Louis Malle
14. Melvin and Howard- Jonathan Demme
15. The Elephant Man- David Lynch
16. The Empire Strikes Back- Irvin Kershner

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Inferno (Dario Argento), Popeye (Robert Altman), Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles), Sauve qui peut [la vie] (Jean-Luc Godard)

Need to see: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood), 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), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Elephant Man
César Awards, Best Film: The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) All That Jazz (Bob Fosse) and Kagemusha
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Atlantic City and Gloria (John Cassavetes)
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Heartland (Richard Pearce) and Palermo or Wolfsburg (Werner Schroeter)
Toronto, Audience Award: Bad Timing

1979

2007-08-05T19:10:00.003-04:00

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. Vengeance Is Mine- Shohei Imamura
15. Real Life- Albert Brooks
16. Woyzeck- Werner Herzog
17. Mad Max- George Miller
18. The In-Laws- Arthur Hiller
19. Tess- Roman Polanski
20. Time After Time- Nicholas Meyer
21. Best Boy- Ira Wohl
22. The Jerk- Carl Reiner
23. The Black Stallion- Carroll Ballard
24. My Brilliant Career- Gillian Armstrong

Ripe for re-appraisal: Graduate First (Maurice Pialat), North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff), The Onion Field (Harold Becker), Rock’n’Roll High School (Allan Arkush)

Need to see: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer), Bloody Kids (Stephen Frears), Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki), Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver), 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), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Manhattan
César Awards, Best Film: Tess
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
Berlin, Golden Bear: David (Peter Lilienthal)
Toronto, Audience Award: Best Boy

1978

2007-08-05T19:09:00.002-04:00

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: Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), 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), 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), Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima), Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh), Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), The Green Room (François Truffaut), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Barbet Schroeder), Our Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg), Perceval (Eric Rohmer), Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph), Renaldo and Clara (Bob Dylan), Rendezvous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman), Snake in Eagle’s Shadow (Yuen Woo-ping), Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway), Watership Down (Martin Rosen), Who’ll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Deer Hunter
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
César Awards, Best Film: Other People's Money (Christian de Chalonge)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Trout (Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez), Ascensor (Tomas Munoz), and The Words of Max (Emilio Martinez Lazaro)
Toronto, Audience Award: Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)

1977

2007-08-05T19:08:00.001-04:00

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: The Duellists (Ridley Scott), 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), Abigail’s Party (Mike Leigh), Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver), 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), One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Providence (Alain Resnais), Un Sale Histoire (Jean Eustache), Untitled [1977] (Ernie Gehr), Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven), Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Annie Hall
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Annie Hall
César Awards, Best Film: Providence
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Padre Padrone
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Ascent

1976

2007-08-05T19:07:00.003-04:00

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. The Front- Martin Ritt
F17. Small Change- François Truffaut
18. Seven Beauties- Lina Wertmüller
19. All the President's Men- Alan J. Pakula

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Need to see: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie), 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), Casanova (Federico Fellini), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Coup de Grace (Volker Schlondorff), Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini), The Devil’s Playground (Fred Schepisi), 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), Noroit (Jacques Rivette), A Slave of Love (Nikita Mikhalkov), The Scar (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafaelson), Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner), Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
César Awards, Best Film: M. Klein
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Taxi Driver
Berlin, Golden Bear: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

1975

2007-08-05T19:06:00.002-04:00

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. [Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom- Pier Paolo Pasolini]
18. The Man Who Would Be King- John Huston
19. Love and Death- Woody Allen
20. The Magic Flute- Ingmar Bergman

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

Need to see: Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol), Female Trouble (John Waters), Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), 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), Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), Promise of the Flesh (Kim Ki-young), Race With the Devil (Jack Starrett), The Return of the Chinese Boxer (Wang Yu), The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos), Welfare (Frederick Wiseman), Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land), Xala (Ousmane Sembene)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
César Awards, Best Film: The Old Gun (Robert Enrico)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammad Lakhdar-Hamina)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Adoption (Marta Meszaros)

1974

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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. Fuji- Robert Breer [short]
20. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer- Thom Andersen
21. Blazing Saddles- Mel Brooks
22. Lancelot du Lac- Robert Bresson
23. The Phantom of Liberty- Luis Buñuel

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

Need to see: Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders), Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Blood for Dracula/Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey), Eureka (Ernie Gehr), A Film About a Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer), General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder), Going Places (Bertrand Blier), Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki), Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis), Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese), Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman), Macon County Line (Richard Compton), Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache), Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer), Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (William Klein), Nada (Claude Chabrol), The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani), Parade (Jacques Tati), Une Partie du Plaisir (Claude Chabrol), Stavisky… (Alain Resnais), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami), We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola), Wife to Be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II (Francis Coppola)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Lacombe, Lucien
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Conversation
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff)

1973

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1. The Mother and the Whore- Jean Eustache
2. The Spirit of the Beehive- Victor Erice
3. [The Long Goodbye- Robert Altman]
4. O Lucky Man!- Lindsay Anderson
5. Mean Streets- Martin Scorsese
6. Scenes From a Marriage [TV version]- Ingmar Bergman
7. Don't Look Now- Nicolas Roeg
8. Papillon- Franklin J. Schaffner
9. The Crazies- George A. Romero
10. The Day of the Jackal- Fred Zinnemann
11. Electra Glide in Blue- James William Guercio
12. Paper Moon- Peter Bogdanovich
13. Badlands- Terrence Malick
14. Sisters- Brian DePalma
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
20. The Last Detail- Hal Ashby

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), La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri), 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), Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmuller), Ludwig (Luchino Visconti), Maitresse (Barbet Schroeder), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents), Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer), Touki Bouki (Djiril Diop Mambety), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), The Wanderers (Kon Ichikawa), Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Sting (George Roy Hill)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Day for Night
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) The Hireling (Alan Bridges) and Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Distant Thunder

1972

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1. Last Tango in Paris- Bernardo Bertolucci
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- Luis Buñuel
3. Cries and Whispers- Ingmar Bergman
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. [Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance- Kenji Misumi]
11. The Ruling Class- Peter Medak
12. Frenzy- Alfred Hitchcock
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), We Will Not Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)

Need to see: Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Bad Company (Robert Benton), The Candidate (Michael Ritchie), Fellini’s Roma, Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah), The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders), Hickey and Boggs (Robert Culp), Images (Robert Altman), Jail Bait (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah), King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafaelson), Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart on the River Styx/Baby Cart to Hades/In Peril (all Kenji Misumi), Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette), Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi), Pink Flamingos (John Waters), Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry), Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie), The Professor (Valerio Zurlini), Raw Meat (Gary Sherman), Rocker (Klaus Lemke), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Godfather
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri) and The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1971

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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
28. Bananas- Woody Allen

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

Need to see: And Now for Something Completely Different (Ian McNaughton), Blaise Pascal (Robert Rossellini), The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Cat o’Nine Tales (Dario Argento), The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima), Clowns (Federico Fellini), Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog), The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper), Love (Karoly Makk), Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra), Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton), Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), La Region Centrale (Michael Snow), Twitch of the Death Nerve (Mario Bava), Vanishing Point (Richard C. Serafian)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The French Connection
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)

1970

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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. Necrology- Standish Lawder [short]
10. Donkey Skin- Jacques Demy
11. Claire's Knee- Eric Rohmer
12. Loving- Irvin Kershner
13. The Ballad of Cable Hogue- Sam Peckinpah
14. Wanda- Barbara Loden
15. Production Stills- Morgan Fisher [short]
16. El Topo- Alejandro Jodorowsky
17. [Little Big Man- Arthur Penn]
18. Original Cast Album: Company- D.A. Pennebaker
19. Tristana- Luis Buñuel
20. Production Stills- Morgan Fisher [short]
21. Patton- Franklin J. Schaffner
22. Serene Velocity- Ernie Gehr [short]
23. Let It Be- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
24. MASH- Robert Altman
25. Bed and Board- François Truffaut

Ripe for re-appraisal: Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman), Husbands (John Cassavetes)

Need to see: Bleu Shut (Robert Nelson), Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray), Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski), Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry), Equinox (Jack Woods and Dennis Muren), The Go-Between (Joseph Losey), Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Hart of London (Jack Chambers), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), 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), Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Patton
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
Cannes, Grand Prix: MASH

1969

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1. Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
2. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville
3. My Night at Maud's- Eric Rohmer
4. The Wild Bunch- Sam Peckinpah
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. The Wild Child- François Truffaut
19. Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger
20. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?- Sydney Pollack
21. Katzelmacher- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
22. The Cow- Dariush Mehrjui

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), Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha), The Bed-Sitting Room (Richard Lester), 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), Ice (Robert Kramer), Kes (Ken Loach), Love Is Colder Than Death (R.W. Fassbinder), Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker), Stereo (David Cronenberg), Suspect (Mike Hodges), This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol), Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (Ken Jacobs), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Midnight Cowboy
Cannes, Grand Prix: if… (Lindsay Anderson)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Early Works (Želimir Žilnik)

1968

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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
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
28. Vixen!- Russ Meyer
29. Greetings- Brian DePalma

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 Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet), The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves), Coogan’s Bluff (Don Siegel), Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima), Flesh (Paul Morrissey), The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci), Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman), The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas), Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev), Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime (Alain Resnais), Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto), 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), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Oliver! (Carol Reed)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
Venice, Golden Lion: Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Who Saw Him Die? (Jan Troell)

1967 (greatest movie year ever?)

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1. Belle de Jour- Luis Buñuel
2. Play Time- Jacques Tati
3. Weekend- Jean-Luc Godard
4. Point Blank- John Boorman
5. Privilege- Peter Watkins
6. Mouchette- Robert Bresson
7. Le Samouraï- Jean-Pierre Melville
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort- Jacques Demy
9. Two For the Road- Stanley Donen
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 Off-Handed Jape- Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley [short]
18. The Bride Wore Black- François Truffaut
19. The Fireman's Ball- Milos Forman
20. The Fearless Vampire Killers...- Roman Polanski
21. Heterodyne- Hollis Frampton [short]
22. Bonnie and Clyde- Arthur Penn
23. Two or Three Things I Know About Her- Jean-Luc Godard
24. Wait Until Dark- Terence Young
25. In Cold Blood- Richard Brooks

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), I Am Curious [Yellow] (Vilgot Sjöman), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Our Mother’s House (Jack Clayton), Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker), 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), Terra em Transe (Glauber Rocha), The Thief of Paris (Louis Malle), Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman), The Trip (Roger Corman), Up the Down Staircase (Robert Mulligan), Viy (Kropachyov/Yershov/Ptushko), Wavelength (Michael Snow)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: A Man For All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
Cannes, Grand Prix: Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Venice, Golden Lion: Belle de Jour
Berlin, Golden Bear: Le depart (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

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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. Castro Street- Bruce Baillie [short]
16. Georgy Girl- Silvio Narizzano
17. Fahrenheit 451- François Truffaut

Need to see again: Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), Daisies (Vera Chytilova), The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais), Lord Love a Duck (George Axelrod), Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)

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 Naked Prey (Cornel Wilde), The Nun (Jacques Rivette), Patriotism (Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), The Professionals (Richard Brooks), 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), Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock), Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka), Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge), Young Törless (Volker Schlondorff)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: A Man For All Seasons
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) A Man and a Woman and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Pietro Germi)
Venice, Golden Lion: Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Cul-de-Sac

1965

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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. [Simon of the Desert- Luis Bunuel]
14. Thunderball- Terence Young
15. Alphaville- Jean-Luc Godard
16. Darling- John Schlesinger
17. For a Few Dollars More- Sergio Leone

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), Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda), Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger), The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis), Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio), A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick), The Hill (Sidney Lumet), In Harm’s Way (Otto Preminger), 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), Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub), Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima), Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman), The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso), Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda), Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti), Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki), Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Knack… and How to Get It
Venice, Golden Lion: Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Alphaville

1964

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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. Night of the Iguana- John Huston
21. A Shot in the Dark- Blake Edwards
22. A Fistful of Dollars- Sergio Leone

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

Need to see: Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha), 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), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), The Man From Rio (Philippe De Broca), Manji (Yasuzo Masumura), A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo), The Patsy (Jerry Lewis), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin), Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi), Seven Days in May (John Frankeheimer), The Train (John Frankenheimer), Viva Las Vegas (George Sidney), The World of Henry Orient (George Roy Hill)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Venice, Golden Lion: Red Desert
Berlin, Golden Bear: Reflections (Metin Erksan)

1963

2007-08-05T18:54:00.003-04:00

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
21. The Haunting- Robert Wise

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), Barren Lives (Glauber Rocha), 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), Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi), 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), Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi), Suzanne’s Career (Eric Rohmer), El Verdugo (Luis Garcia Berlanga), X- The Thing With the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Tom Jones
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Leopard
Venice, Golden Lion: Hands Over the City
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Devil (Gian Luigi Polidoro)

1962

2007-08-05T18:53:00.001-04:00

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), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)

Need to see: Antoine et Colette (Francois Truffaut), An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), La Commare Secca (Bernardo Bertolucci), The Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards), Family Diary (Valerio Zurlini), I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi), 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), Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Mondo Cane (Cavara/Jacopetti/Prosperi), Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Lawrence of Arabia
Cannes, Palme d’Or: O Pagador de Promessas (Anselmo Duarte)
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) Family Diary and Ivan’s Childhood
Berlin, Golden Bear: A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger)

1961

2007-08-05T18:52:00.002-04:00

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. The Innocents- Jack Clayton
14. Victim- Joseph Losey
15. Judgment at Nuremberg- Stanley Kramer
16. 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), Blast of Silence (Allen Baron), Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch), Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner), Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi), Early Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), 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), Placido (Luis Garcia Berlanga), Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi), Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: West Side Story
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) The Long Absence (Henri Colpi) and Viridiana
Venice, Golden Lion: Last Year at Marienbad
Berlin, Golden Bear: La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1960

2007-08-05T18:51:00.001-04:00

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. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs- Mikio Naruse
14. Spartacus- Stanley Kubrick
15. 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), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)

Need to see: The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin), 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), The House of Usher (Roger Corman), Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer), Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), The Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky), Strangers When We Meet (Richard Quine), 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)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Apartment
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Apartment
Cannes, Palme d’Or: La Dolce Vita
Venice, Golden Lion: The Crossing of the Rhine (André Cayatte)
Berlin, Golden Bear: El Lazarillo de Tormes (César Ardavin)

1959

2007-08-05T18:50:00.002-04:00

1. The 400 Blows- François Truffaut
2. Rio Bravo- Howard Hawks
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour- Alain Resnais
4. The World of Apu- Satyajit Ray
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]
14. Good Morning- Yasujiro Ozu

Ripe for re-appraisal: Ben-Hur (William Wyler), Compulsion (Richard Fleischer)

Need to see: A Double Tour (Claude Chabrol), The Atomic Submarine (Spencer G. Bennet), Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai), Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus), Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman), Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol), Corridors of Blood/First Man Into Space (Robert Day), The Crimson Kimono (Sam Fuller), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa), Il Generale Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini), The Human Condition, Parts I and II (Masaki Kobayashi), I’m All Right, Jack (John Boulting), The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang), Kaagaz Ke Phool (Guru Dutt), Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon), Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher), Room at the Top (Jack Clayton), The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray), The Sign of Leo (Eric Rohmer), The Tingler (William Castle), Zazie Dans le Metro (Louis Malle)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Ben-Hur
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Ben-Hur
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Black Orpheus
Venice, Golden Lion: (tie) General della Rovere and The Great War (Mario Monicelli)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Les cousins

1958

2007-08-05T18:49:00.002-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher), Enjo (Kon Ichikawa), Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu), Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura), The Haunted Strangler (Robert Day), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame), I Want to Live! (Robert Wise), The Last Hurrah (John Ford), The Lineup (Don Siegel), The Magician (Ingmar Bergman), Man of the West (Anthony Mann), A Movie (Bruce Conner), Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray), Nazarin (Luis Bunuel), A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Party Girl (Nicholas Ray), Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli), The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk), Verboten! (Sam Fuller), Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gigi
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Venice, Golden Lion: Rickshaw Man (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

1957

2007-08-05T18:48:00.002-04:00

1. Sweet Smell of Success- Alexander Mackendrick
2. A Face in the Crowd- Elia Kazan
3. 12 Angry Men- Sidney Lumet
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. What’s Opera, Doc?- Chuck Jones [short]
12. Bridge on the River Kwai- David Lean
13. Witness for the Prosecution- Billy Wilder
14. Forty Guns- Sam Fuller
15. Funny Face- Stanley Donen
16. The Wide Blue Road- Gillo Pontecorvo

Ripe for re-appraisal: Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Need to see: 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves), All at Sea (Charles Frend), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni), Gunfight at the OK Corral (John Sturges), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (John Huston), Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Mambo Girl (Wen Yi), Men in War (Anthony Mann), Mister Cory (Blake Edwards), Les Mistons (Francois Truffaut), Mother India (Louis Malle), The Pajama Game (George Abbott and Stanley Donen), Pyaasa (Guru Dutt), Run of the Arrow (Sam Fuller), The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk), Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey), White Nights (Luchino Visconti), Wild Is the Wind (George Cukor), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin), The Wings of Eagles (John Ford)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)
Venice, Golden Lion: Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Berlin, Golden Bear: 12 Angry Men

1956

2007-08-05T18:47:00.004-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal: Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Need to see: And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim), Attack (Robert Aldrich), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), Carousel (Henry King), Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira), Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir), Flowing (Mikio Naruse), Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur), La Pointe Courte (Agnes Varda), Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk), War and Peace (King Vidor), While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gervaise (René Clément)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Invitation to the Dance (Gene Kelly)

1955

2007-08-05T18:46:00.003-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal: Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Need to see: Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin), Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), The Far Country (Anthony Mann), Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse), French Cancan (Jean Renoir), A Generation (Andrzej Wajda), Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), House of Bamboo (Sam Fuller), Il Bidone (Federico Fellini), It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), Land of the Pharaohs (Howard Hawks), The Long Gray Line (John Ford), The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann), Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson), Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi), Run For Cover (Nicholas Ray), Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki), Shin Heike Monogatarti (Kenji Mizoguchi), Summertime (David Lean), The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Marty
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Marty
Venice, Golden Lion: Ordet
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Rats (Robert Siodmak)

1954

2007-08-05T18:45:00.002-04:00

1. The Seven Samurai- Akira Kurosawa
2. Sansho the Bailiff- Kenji Mizoguchi
3. Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
4. On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
5. La Strada- Federico Fellini
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Richard Fleischer
7. Johnny Guitar- Nicholas Ray
8. A Star Is Born- George Cukor
9. [Magnificent Obsession- Douglas Sirk]
10. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers- Stanley Donen
11. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome- Kenneth Anger [short]
12. Sabrina- Billy Wilder
13. Desistfilm- Stan Brakhage [short]
14. Gojira- Ishiro Honda

Ripe for re-appraisal: Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger)

Need to see: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Chikamatsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi), Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine), Hobson’s Choice (David Lean), Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Long, Long Trailer (Vincente Minnelli), The Maggie (Alexander Mackendrick), Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel), River of No Return (Otto Preminger), Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel), Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman), Samurai I and II (Hiroshi Inagaki), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse), Suddenly (Lewis Allen), Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), The Wild One (Laslo Benedek), Young at Heart (Gordon Douglas)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: On the Waterfront
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Cannes, Grand Prix: Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Venice, Golden Lion: Romeo and Juliet (Renato Castellani)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Hobson’s Choice

1953

2007-08-05T18:44:00.002-04:00

1. M. Hulot's Holiday- Jacques Tati
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes- Howard Hawks
3. Duck Amuck- Chuck Jones [short]
4. [The Band Wagon- Vincente Minnelli]
5. Tokyo Story- Yasujiro Ozu
6. The Earrings of Madame De...- Max Ophüls
7. The Saga of Anatahan- Josef Von Sternberg
8. The Wages of Fear- Henri-Georges Clouzot
9. Pickup on South St.- Sam Fuller
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. Sawdust and Tinsel- Ingmar Bergman
16. Shane- George Stevens
17. From Here to Eternity- Fred Zinnemann

Ripe for re-appraisal: Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker), Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)

Need to see: All I Desire (Douglas Sirk), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), Calamity Jane (David Butler), The Caddy (Norman Taurog), The End (Christopher Maclaine), Genevieve (Henry Cornelius), Glen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood, Jr.), How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco), Jeopardy (John Sturges), Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney), The Little Fugitive (Ashley/Engel/Orkin), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), Older Brother, Younger Sister (Mikio Naruse), The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford), Terminal Station/Indiscretion of an American Wife (Vittorio De Sica), Welcome Mr. Marshall (Luis Garcia Berlanga), Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: From Here to Eternity
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Forbidden Games (René Clément)
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Wages of Fear
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Wages of Fear

1952

2007-08-05T18:43:00.002-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)

Need to see: Angel Face (Otto Preminger), Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), The Big Sky (Howard Hawks), Clash By Night (Fritz Lang), The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak), El (Luis Bunuel), Fanfan la Tulipe (Christian-Jacque), Five Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu), The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir), Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson), The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), Moulin Rouge (John Huston), My Son John (Leo McCarey), The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer), Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed), Park Row (Sam Fuller), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls), Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang), Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson), Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin), The White Sheik (Federico Fellini)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. De Mille)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Sound Barrier (David Lean)
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) Othello and Two Cents Worth of Hope (Renato Castellani)
Venice, Golden Lion: Forbidden Games
Berlin, Golden Bear: One Summer of Happiness (Arne Mattsson)

1951

2007-08-05T18:42:00.003-04:00

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. The River- Jean Renoir
6. Miracle in Milan- Vittorio De Sica
7. Ace in the Hole- Billy Wilder
8. Strangers on a Train- Alfred Hitchcock
9. The Lady of Musashino- Kenji Mizoguchi
10. The African Queen- John Huston
11. The Thing From Another World- Christian Nyby
12. An American in Paris- Vincente Minnelli

Ripe for re-appraisal: Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg), Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen)

Need to see: Awara (Raj Kapoor), Bellissima (Luchino Visconti), The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith), Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker), Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini), Fixed Bayonets (Sam Fuller), He Ran All the Way (John Berry), His Kind of Woman (John Farrow), The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton), M (Joseph Losey), On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin), People Will Talk (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), A Place in the Sun (George Stevens), The Prowler (Joseph Losey), The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston), Repast (Mikio Naruse), The Sinner (Willi Forst), The Steel Helmet (Sam Fuller), Susana (Luis Bunuel), The Tall Target (Anthony Mann), Three Guys Named Mike (Charles Walters), Westward the Women (William A. Wellman)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: An American in Paris
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) Miss Julie and Miracle in Milan
Venice, Golden Lion: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)

1950

2007-08-05T18:41:00.002-04:00

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

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)

Need to see: Adventurera (Alberto Gout), Annie Get Your Gun (George Sidney), Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer), Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray), Caged (John Cromwell), Un Chant d’Amour (Jean Genet), D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté), Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli), The Furies (Anthony Mann), Gone to Earth (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Gunfighter (Henry King), The Men (Fred Zinnemann), The Munekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu), Night and the City (Jules Dassin), Outrage (Joseph Losey), Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan), Rio Grande (John Ford), Scandal (Akira Kurosawa), Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur), Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni), Variety Lights (Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada), Wagon Master (John Ford), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: All About Eve
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: All About Eve
Venice, Golden Lion: Justice Is Done (André Cayatte)

1949

2007-08-05T18:40:00.002-04:00

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. Puce Moment- Kenneth Anger [short]
9. Gun Crazy- Joseph H. Lewis
10. White Heat- Raoul Walsh
11. Adam's Rib- George Cukor
12. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon- John Ford
13. The Blood of Beasts- Georges Franju [short]

Ripe for re-appraisal: Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius)

Need to see: 12 O’Clock High (Henry King), Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart), The Big Steal (Don Siegel), Caught (Max Ophuls), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer), The Fountainhead (King Vidor), The Heiress (William Wyler), Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown), I Shot Jesse James (Sam Fuller), I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), My Love Has Been Burning (Kenji Mizoguchi), Only a Mother (Alf Sjoberg), The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls), Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. DeMille), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini), Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin), They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray), Whisky Galore (Alexander Mackendrick), The Window (Ted Tetzlaff)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Third Man
Venice, Golden Lion: Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1948

2007-08-05T18:39:00.003-04:00

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. It Always Rains on Sunday- Robert Hamer
6. Force of Evil- Abraham Polonsky
7. Treasure of the Sierra Madre- John Huston
8. Unfaithfully Yours- Preston Sturges
9. The Lady From Shanghai- Orson Welles
10. Fort Apache- John Ford
11. The Fallen Idol- Carol Reed
12. Rope- Alfred Hitchcock

Ripe for re-appraisal: Easter Parade (Charles Walters), Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati), Key Largo (John Huston), Three Godfathers (John Ford)

Need to see: Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann), Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur), The Big Clock (John Farrow), Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway), Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa), A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder), Good Sam (Leo McCarey), A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu), Macbeth (Orson Welles), Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty), Moonrise (Frank Borzage), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), Oliver Twist (David Lean), The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli), Pitfall (Andre de Toth), Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle), Raw Deal (Anthony Mann), A Song Is Born (Howard Hawks), Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu), State of the Union (Frank Capra), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Hamlet

1947

2007-08-05T18:38:00.004-04:00

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. Quai des Orfèvres- Henri-Georges Clouzot
6. Fireworks- Kenneth Anger [short]
7. Dark Passage- Delmer Daves
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Ripe for re-appraisal: The Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery)

Need to see: Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant), Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker), The Bishop’s Wife (Henry Koster), Body and Soul (Robert Rossen), Born to Kill (Robert Wise), Brute Force (Jules Dassin), Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk), Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger), A Double Life (George Cukor), Fiddle-De-Dee (Norman McLaren), Gentleman’s Agreement (Elia Kazan), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini), Good News (Charles Walters), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding), Odd Man Out (Carol Reed), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock), Pursued (Raoul Walsh), Record of a Tenant Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu), La Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), T-Men (Anthony Mann)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gentleman’s Agreement
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)

1946

2007-08-05T18:37:00.003-04:00

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. [Great Expectations- David Lean]
9. Gilda- Charles Vidor
10. Rome, Open City- Roberto Rossellini
11. It's a Wonderful Life- Frank Capra
12. The Murderers Are Among Us- Wolfgang Staudte
13. The Killers- Robert Siodmak

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: La Bataille du Rail (Rene Clement), Bedlam (Mark Robson), Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur), Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch), Devil in the Flesh (Claude Autant-Lara), Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir), Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington), Green For Danger (Sidney Gilliat), The Harvey Girls (George Sidney), Hoppity Pop (Norman McLaren), Humoresque (Jean Negulesco), Iris and the Lieutenant (Alf Sjoberg), The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh), My Reputation (Curtis Bernhardt), No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa), Paisan (Roberto Rossellini), The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett), Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren), A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk), Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica), The Stone Flower (Aleksandr Ptushko), The Stranger (Orson Welles), Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi),

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) Torment (Alf Sjöberg), The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), The Red Meadows (Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.), Brief Encounter, Portrait of Maria (Emilio Fernández), Neecha Nagar (Chetan Anand), The Turning Point (Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler), La symphonie pastorale (Jean Delannoy), The Last Chance (Leopold Lindtberg), Men Without Wings (František Čáp), Rome, Open City

1945

2007-08-05T18:36:00.003-04:00

1. Children of Paradise- Marcel Carne
2. Detour- Edgar G. Ulmer
3. Dead of Night- Cavalcanti / Basil Dearden / Robert Hamer / Charles Crichton
4. [Ivan the Terrible, Part I- Sergei Eisenstein]
5. Les Dames du Bois du Boulogne- Robert Bresson
6. I Know Where I'm Going!- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
7. The Lost Weekend- Billy Wilder
8. Leave Her to Heaven- John M. Stahl
9. The Clock- Vincente Minnelli
10. Mildred Pierce- Michael Curtiz

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: And Then There Were None (Rene Clair), Blithe Spirit (David Lean), Blood on the Sun (Frank Lloyd), The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise), Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings), Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger), Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson), Know Your Enemy: Japan (Frank Capra and Joris Ivens), Murder, He Says (George Marshall), Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Roy Rowland), Paris Frills (Jacques Becker), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin), Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang), The Southerner (Jean Renoir), The Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman), Study in Choreography For Camera (Maya Deren), They Were Expendable (John Ford), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan), A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone), The White Gorilla (Harry L. Fraser), Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Lost Weekend

1944

2007-08-05T18:35:00.002-04:00

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. Henry V- Laurence Olivier
7. Torment- Alf Sjöberg
8. Meet Me In St. Louis- Vincente Minnelli
9. To Have and Have Not- Howard Hawks
10. [The Great Moment- Preston Sturges]
11. A Canterbury Tale- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
12. Murder, My Sweet- Edward Dmytryk

Ripe for re-appraisal: Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)

Need to see: At Land (Maya Deren), Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra), Bon Voyage (Alfred Hitchcock), C’est L’Aviron (Norman McLaren), The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica), The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch), Going My Way (Leo McCarey), Home in Indiana (Henry Hathaway), The Immortal Battalion (Carol Reed), Jammin’ the Blues (Gjon Mili), The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco), Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang), On Approval (Clive Brook), Summer Storm (Douglas Sirk), The Three Caballeros (Norman Ferguson), Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner), The Uninvited (Lewis Allen), The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang),

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Going My Way

1943

2007-08-05T18:34:00.003-04:00

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. Douce- Claude Autant-Lara

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: Above Suspicion (Richard Thorpe), Air Force (Howard Hawks), Bataan (Tay Garnett), Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli), Crazy House (Eddie Cline), December 7th (John Ford and Gregg Toland), Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder), Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang), Hi Diddle Diddle (Andrew L. Stone), Holy Matrimony (John M. Stahl), The Human Comedy (Clarence Brown), Lady of Burlesque (William A. Wellman), The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur), The More the Merrier (George Stevens), Munchhausen (Josef von Baky), My Learned Friend (Basil Dearden and Will Hay), Northern Pursuit (Raoul Walsh), The Ox-Bow Incident (Sam Wood), The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson), This Land Is Mine (Jean Renoir), Victory Through Air Power (Various), Willoughby’s Magic Hat (Ub Iwerks and Bob Wickersham)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)

1942

2007-08-05T18:33:00.002-04:00

1. Casablanca- Michael Curtiz
2. The Palm Beach Story- Preston Sturges
3. The Magnificent Ambersons- Orson Welles
4. Ossessione- Luchino Visconti
5. To be or Not to Be- Ernst Lubitsch
6. Cat People- Jacques Tourneur
7. Listen to Britain- Humphrey Jennings [short]
8. Bambi- David Hand
9. [Yankee Doodle Dandy- Michael Curtiz]
10. Sullivan's Travels- Preston Sturges

Ripe for re-appraisal: Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler), La Nuit Fantastique (Marcel L’Herbier)

Need to see: The 47 Ronin, Part II (Kenji Mizoguchi), Across the Pacific (John Huston), Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh), The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler), In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster), Kings Row (Sam Wood), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), The Man Who Came to Dinner (William Keighley), The Murderer Lives at Twenty-One (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Once Upon a Honeymoon (Leo McCarey), Pip-Eye, Pup-Eye, Poop-Eye an’ Peep-Eye (Dave Flesicher), The Pride of the Yankees (Sam Wood), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy), Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock), Talk of the Town (George Stevens), This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle), Les Visiteurs du Soir (Marcel Carne), Went the Day Well? (Cavalcanti), Woman of the Year (George Stevens)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Mrs. Miniver

1941

2007-08-05T18:32:00.003-04:00

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. An Airman’s Letter to His Mother- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger [short]
9. [How Green Was My Valley- John Ford]
10. Sergeant York- Howard Hawks

Ripe for re-appraisal:

Need to see: The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle), Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall), High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), The Little Foxes (William Wyler), Look Who’s Laughing (Allan Dwan), Major Barbara (Gabriel Pascal), Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock), Never Give a Sucker An Even Break (Eddie Cline), Penny Serenade (George Stevens), The Road to Zanzibar (Victor Schertzinger), The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg), The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh), The Tell-Tale Heart (Jules Dassin), That Hamilton Woman (Alexander Korda), That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch), They Died With Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh), Tobacco Road (John Ford), Western Union (Fritz Lang), A Woman’s Face (George Cukor)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley

1940

2007-08-05T18:31:00.002-04:00

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. [The Thief of Bagdad- Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan]
7. Foreign Correspondent- Alfred Hitchcock
8. The Bank Dick- Edward Cline
9. The Sea Hawk- Michael Curtiz
10. The Letter- William Wyler
11. The Grapes of Wrath- John Ford
12. The Philadelphia Story- George Cukor
13. The Long Voyage Home- John Ford
14. The Great Dictator- Charlie Chaplin

Ripe for re-appraisal: Christmas in July (Preston Sturges), Fantasia (Various)

Need to see: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell), Flight Command (Frank Borzage), Gaslight (Thorald Dickinson), The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian), The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage), My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin), Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage), They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh), Travelling Actors (Mikio Naruse), Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy), The Westerner (William Wyler)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rebecca

1939

2007-08-05T18:30:00.001-04:00

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
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1938

2007-08-05T18:29:00.001-04:00

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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1937

2007-08-05T18:28:00.001-04:00

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
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1936

2007-08-05T18:27:00.001-04:00

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
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1935

2007-08-05T18:26:00.001-04:00

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
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1934

2007-08-05T18:25:00.001-04:00

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
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1933

2007-08-05T18:24:00.001-04:00

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

2007-08-05T18:23:00.001-04:00

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
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1931

2007-08-05T18:22:00.001-04:00

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
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1930

2007-08-05T18:21:00.001-04:00

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
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Best of the 2000s

2007-08-05T18:20:00.004-04:00

1. The New World- Terrence Malick
2. Everything Will Be OK- Don Hertzfeldt
3. Waking Life- Richard Linklater
4. 8 Women- Francois Ozon
5. Dogville- Lars von Trier
6. There Will Be Blood- Paul Thomas Anderson
7. 25th Hour- Spike Lee
8. The Son- Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
9. Synecdoche, New York- Charlie Kaufman
10. La Commune (Paris, 1871)- Peter Watkins
11. The Heart of the World- Guy Maddin
12. Zodiac- David Fincher
13. Songs From the Second Floor- Roy Andersson
14. The Prestige- Christopher Nolan
15. Kings and Queen- Arnaud Desplechin
16. The Royal Tenenbaums- Wes Anderson
17. Code Unknown- Michael Haneke
18. Punch-Drunk Love- Paul Thomas Anderson
19. Irreversible- Gaspar Noe
20. Up- Pete Docter
21. Before Sunset- Richard Linklater
22. Russian Ark- Aleksandr Sokurov
23. Mulholland Dr.- David Lynch
24. Yi Yi- Edward Yang
25. No Country for Old Men- Joel and Ethan Coen

TBA: Dogtooth- Yorgos Lanthimos

Best of the 1990s

2007-08-05T18:13:00.004-04:00

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

2007-08-05T18:05:00.001-04:00

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

2007-08-05T17:57:00.002-04:00

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

2007-08-05T17:49:00.003-04:00

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

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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

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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

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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

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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