About the Lists, and Index

Hi, my name is Adam, and I am a total list fiend.

In an attempt to consolidate my favorite films and such, this companion blog to Film at 11 will house my Top 11 movies of each year, along with Honorable Mentions, possibly a Least Favorite, and a select list of films I have yet to see from that year that I would like to. Films I've reviewed will get linked from here to F@11. If I have not seen enough from a given year to make a Top 11, I shall post what I have seen and liked. Dates are according to the IMDb.

If there are less than 11 flicks listed in a year, that's all I've seen or can usefully remember. And this is far from everything I've seen from every year, so there are a good amount of middling movies not listed. And a short is considered 60 minutes or less.

In addition, I will include directly below any new entries if and when they are added.

NEWEST ADDITIONS: 3/8 - Goodbye South, Goodbye (96, Hou), Dreams (90, Kurosawa), To Sleep with Anger (90, Burnett), The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (87, Hara), Paris, Texas (84, Wenders), The Driver (78, Hill), Cul-de-sac (66, Polanski), One, Two, Three (61, Wilder), Ace in the Hole (51, Wilder), The Naked City (48, Dassin), Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (33, Milestone), The Song of Songs (33, Mamoulian).

UPDATE: Danny Glover in To Sleep with Anger (1990).

2007

1. Zodiac (David Fincher)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
4. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
5. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
6. The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
7. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)
8. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, et al.)
9. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
10. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
11. The Mist (Frank Darabont)

Almost There: The King of Kong (Seth Gordon), Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (Julien Temple), Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck), Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi), Superbad (Greg Mottola), We Own the Night (James Gray), White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steve Okazaki), Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano), Sunshine (Danny Boyle), The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman).

Least Favorite: 300 (Zack Snyder).

Have Yet to See: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik).

2006

1. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
2. Borat (Larry Charles)
3. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
4. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
5. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
6. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
7. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
9. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
10. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
11. Slither (James Gunn)

Almost There: A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater), Steel City (Brian Jun), Block Party (Michel Gondry), Inside Man (Spike Lee), The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden), Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola), This is England (Shane Meadows), Infamous (Douglas McGrath), Bug (William Friedkin), Exiled (Johnny To).

Least Favorite: The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard).

Have Yet to See: Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck), Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell), Inland Empire (David Lynch), Happy Feet (George Miller).

2005

1. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
2. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box)
3. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
4. 49 Up (Michael Apted)
5. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
6. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
7. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
8. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
9. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
10. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
11. Capote (Bennett Miller)

Almost There: The Descent (Neil Marshall), Caché (Michael Haneke), L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne), The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg), Schultze Gets the Blues (Michael Schorr), Serenity (Joss Whedon), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones).

Least Favorite: The Longest Yard (Peter Segal).

Have Yet to See: Junebug (Phil Morrison), Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Marc Rothemund), Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright), Bubble (Steven Soderbergh), The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang).

2004

1. Primer (Shane Carruth)
2. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
3. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
4. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
5. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
9. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
10. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
11. Kinsey (Bill Condon)

Almost There: Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson), The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), Team America: World Police (Trey Parker), Collateral (Michael Mann), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner), Cellular (David Ellis), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron), The Ladykillers (Joel Coen).

Least Favorite: Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach).

Have Yet to See: 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk), Palindromes (Todd Solondz), Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa), 2046 (Wong Kar Wai), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Millions (Danny Boyle).

2003

1. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
3. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
4. Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon)
5. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
6. A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
7. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
9. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
10. American Splendor (Shari Springer Bergman, Robert Pulcini)
11. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)

Almost There: The Company (Robert Altman), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino), Zatôichi (Takeshi Kitano), Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin), School of Rock (Richard Linklater), Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang), Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki), Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir).

Least Favorite: Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt).

Have Yet to See: Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk), All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green), Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan), A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon).

2002

1. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
2. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle)
3. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
4. Spider (David Cronenberg)
5. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
6. Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli)
7. Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
8. The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
9. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
10. About a Boy (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)

Almost There: Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore), Hero (Zhang Yimou), Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chanda), Standing in the Shadows of Motown (Paul Justman).

Least Favorite: The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan).

Have Yet to See: Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass), Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma), May (Lucky McKee), Sunshine State (John Sayles).

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
3. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
5. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
9. Frailty (Bill Paxton)
10. Y tu mama, tambien (Alfonso Cuarón)
11. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang)

Almost There: Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow), Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann), Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson), Ali (Michael Mann), Gosford Park (Robert Altman).

Least Favorite: Jurassic Park III (Jim Johnston).

Have Yet to See: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke), L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta), Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff).

2000

1. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
4. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
5. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
6. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
7. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
8. The Big Animal (Jerzy Stuhr)
9. The Heart of the World [short] (Guy Maddin)
10. Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
11. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)

Almost There: The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda), High Fidelity (Stephen Frears), The Legend of Rita (Volker Schlöndorff), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park), Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan).

Least Favorite: Pay it Forward (Mimi Leder).

Have Yet to See: The House of Mirth (Terence Davies), You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan), Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett), Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier).

Best of the 90s

Female Performances



Kerry Fox in An Angel at My Table (1990)
Anne Parillaud in Nikita (1990)
Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Irène Jacob in The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Gong Li in Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Juliette Binoche in Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Julianne Moore in Safe (1995)
Pam Grier in Jackie Brown (1997)
Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta (1999)
Cecilia Roth in All About My Mother (1999)
Reese Witherspoon in Election (1999)

Male Performances



Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Danny Glover in To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Leslie Cheung in Days of Being Wild (1991)
River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Hugo Weaving in Proof (1991)
Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Bill Murray in Groundhog Day (1993)
Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket (1996)
Kôji Yakusho in Cure (1997)
Russell Crowe in The Insider (1999)
Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)

1999

1. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
2. Audition (Takashi Miike)
3. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
4. American Movie (Chris Smith)
5. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
6. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (Errol Morris)
7. The King of Comedy (Stephen Chow)
8. Election (Alexander Payne)
9. The Insider (Michael Mann)
10. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
11. Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Almost There: Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen), Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot), The Straight Story (David Lynch), Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne), The Limey (Steven Soderbergh), The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski), eXistenZ (David Cronenberg).

Least Favorite: Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld).

Have Yet to See: Go (Doug Liman), Titus (Julie Taymor), Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay), Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce).

1998

1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
3. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
6. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
7. Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker)
8. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
9. 42 Up (Michael Apted)
10. Pleasantvillle (Gary Ross)
11. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)

Almost There: Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh), Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan), Run, Lola, Run (Tom Tykwer), Little Voice (Mark Herman), Dark City (Alex Proyas).

Least Favorite: Godzilla (Roland Emmerich).

Have Yet to See: The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg), Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur), The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes).

1997

1. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
4. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
5. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
6. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
8. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
9. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
10. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
11. LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson)

Almost There: Lost Highway (David Lynch), Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld), Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith), The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo), The Fifth Element (Luc Besson), Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan).

Least Favorite: Batman and Robin (Joel Schumacher).

Have Yet to See: Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), Henry Fool (Hal Hartley).

1996

1. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2. Crash (David Cronenberg)
3. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
4. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
5. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
6. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
7. Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
8. God of Cookery (Stephen Chow and Lik-Chi Lee)
9. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
10. Forbidden City Cop (Stephen Chow and Vincent Kok)
11. The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)

Almost There: Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), Fargo (Joel Coen), Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton), Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes), Lone Star (John Sayles), Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh), From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez), Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien).

Have Yet to See: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier), Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh), Kansas City (Robert Altman), Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci).

1995

1. Safe (Todd Haynes)
2. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
4. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
5. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
6. A Close Shave [short] (Nick Park)
7. Se7en (David Fincher)
8. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
9. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
10. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
11. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)

Almost There: Sixty Million Dollar Man (Jing Wong and Wai Man Yip), Babe (Chris Noonan), Clueless (Amy Heckerling), Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan), The Addiction (Abel Ferrera), Heat (Michael Mann), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai).

Have Yet to See: Underground (Emir Kusturica), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo).

1994

1. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Clerks (Kevin Smith)
5. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6. Drunken Master II (Liu Chia-Liang)
7. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
8. From Beijing with Love (Stephen Chow and Lik-Chi Lee)
9. Love on Delivery (Stephen Chow and Lik-Chi Lee)
10. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
11. The Lion King (Roger Allers and Ron Minkoff)

Almost There: Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders), Quiz Show (Robert Redford), Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan), New Nightmare (Wes Craven), True Lies (James Cameron), Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen).

Have Yet to See: Satantango (Bela Tarr), Crumb (Terry Zwigoff), Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone), Faust (Jan Svankmajer).

1993

1. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
2. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. The Wrong Trousers [short] (Nick Park)
4. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
5. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
7. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
8. Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
9. Much ado about Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
10. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
11. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Muller)

Almost There: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg), Matinee (Joe Dante), In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen), The Fugitive (Andrew Davis), Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-ping).

Have Yet to See: Naked (Mike Leigh), King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh), Fearless (Peter Weir), Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa).

1992

1. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
3. The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
6. Hard Boiled (John Woo)
7. The Player (Robert Altman)
8. Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
9. One False Move (Carl Franklin)
10. Minbo (Juzo Itami)
11. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

Almost There: Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch), Man Bites Dog (Remy Belveaux, Andre Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde), El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez), Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley), Batman Returns (Tim Burton), Visions of Light (Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels), Benny's Video (Michael Haneke), Un coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet).

Have Yet to See: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), Howard's End (James Ivory), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene).

1991

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
3. The Commitments (Alan Parker)
4. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
6. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
7. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
9. Sólo con tu pareja (Alfonso Cuarón)
10. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
11. 35 Up (Michael Apted)

Almost There: Slacker (Richard Linklater), Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg), Barton Fink (Joel Coen), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron), A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris).

Have Yet to See: JFK (Oliver Stone), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders), The Rapture (Michael Tolkin).

1990

1. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett
3. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
4. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
5. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
6. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
7. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
8. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
9. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Nikita (Luc Besson)
11. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)

Almost There: Darkman (Sam Raimi), Wild at Heart (David Lynch), The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan), The Witches (Nicolas Roeg), Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty).

Have Yet to See: Metropolitan (Whit Stillman), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Bullet in the Head (John Woo).

Best of the 80s

Female Performances



Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard (1980)
Jessica Lange in Tootsie (1982)
Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Mieko Harada in Ran (1985)
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986)
Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona (1987)
Christine Lahti in Housekeeping (1987)
Nobuko Miyamoto in A Taxing Woman (1987)
Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Laura San Giacomo in sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Winona Ryder in Heathers (1989)

Male Performances




Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner (1982)
Robert De Niro in The King of Comedy (1983)
David Byrne in Stop Making Sense (1984)
Philip Baker Hall in Secret Honor (1984)
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (1986)
Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa (1986)
Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead II (1987)
Bruno Ganz in Wings of Desire (1987)
Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers (1988)
Michael Keaton in Beetle Juice (1988)

1989

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
3. The Killer (John Woo)
4. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
5. The Abyss (James Cameron)
6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
5. Creature Comforts [short] (Nick Park)
8. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
10. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
11. Roger & Me (Michael Moore)

Almost There: Batman (Tim Burton), Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson), The Tall Guy (Mel Smith), Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog), A Grand Day Out [short] (Nick Park), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki).

Have Yet to See: Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson).

1988

1. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Beetle Juice (Tim Burton)
4. The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
7. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
8. A Taxing Woman's Return (Juzo Itami)
9. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
10. As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai)
11. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)

Almost There: Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker), Die Hard (John McTiernan), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman), They Live (John Carpenter), Hairspray (John Waters), A Short Film about Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski), A Short Film about Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Medea (Lars von Trier).

Have Yet to See: Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar), Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears), Talk Radio (Oliver Stone).

1987

1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
2. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
3. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
4. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Housekeeping (John Forsyth)
6. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
7. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
8. A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)
9. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
10. Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)
11. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)

Almost There: Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Au revoir, les enfants (Louis Malle), RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven), Hope and Glory (John Boorman), The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway), Where is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami), Missile (Frederick Wiseman), Straight to Hell (Alex Cox), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme), Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story [short] (Todd Haynes).

Have Yet to See: Barfly (Barbet Schroeder).

1986

1. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
4. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
6. The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
7. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
9. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
10. Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
11. Aliens (James Cameron)

Almost There: The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir), She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy), Scene of the Crime (André Téchiné).

Have Yet to See: Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), At Close Range (James Foley), Something Wild (Jonathan Demme), 'Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier), Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri).

1985

1. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
2. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
3. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
5. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
6. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
7. Day of the Dead (George Romero)
8. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
9. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
10. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
11. A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)

Almost There: Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), Police Story (Jackie Chan), Witness (Peter Weir), Fright Night (Tom Holland), The Breakfast Club (John Hughes), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard).

Have Yet to See: Come and See (Elem Klimov), Shoah (Claude Lanzmann), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears).

1984

Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
The Funeral (Juzo Itami)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
Repo Man (Alex Cox)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)

Almost There: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer [short] (Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, and Timothy Quay), After the Rehearsal (Ingmar Bergman), Secret Honor (Robert Altman), A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven), Sixteen Candles (John Hughes), All of Me (Carl Reiner), Amadeus (Milos Forman).

Have Yet to See: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen), Body Double (Brian De Palma), Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone).

1983

The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Zelig (Woody Allen)

Almost There: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), L'Argent (Robert Bresson), Project A (Jackie Chan), The Dresser (Peter Yates), Christine (John Carpenter), The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan), The Man with Two Brains (Carl Reiner), Twilight Zone: The Movie [segment four] (George Miller), The Store (Frederick Wiseman).

Have Yet to See: A Christmas Story (Bob Clark), The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman), Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola).

1982

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Diner (Barry Levinson)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicolas Meyer)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller)

Almost There: Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel), Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling), Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris), Tenebre (Dario Argento), Dimensions of Dialogue [short] (Jan Svankmajer), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), First Blood (Ted Kotcheff).

Have Yet to See: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani).

1981

An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
Tango [short] (Zbigniew Rybczynski)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)

Almost There: Outland (Peter Hyams), Stripes (Ivan Reitman).

Have Yet to See: Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Blow Out (Brian De Palma), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet), Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen), Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross), Polyester (John Waters), Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara).

1980

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)

Almost There: Altered States (Ken Russell), The Fog (John Carpenter), Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty), Inferno (Dario Argento), Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [short] (Les Blank), Lightning over Water (Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame).

Have Yet to See: Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa), The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais).

Best of the 70s

Female Performances



Barbara Loden in Wanda (1970)
Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1971)
Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier in Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
Brigitte Mira in Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Diane Keaton in Love and Death (1975)
Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver (1976)
Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)
Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Shelley Duvall in 3 Women (1977)

Male Performances



Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Stacey Keach in Fat City (1972)
Donald Sutherland in Don't Look Now (1973)
Elliott Gould and George Segal in California Split (1974)
Gene Hackman in The Conversation (1974)
Al Pacino in The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Jack Nicholson in The Passenger (1975)
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Bruno S. in Stroszek (1977)
Roy Scheider in All That Jazz (1979)

1979

Alien (Ridley Scott)
The Brood (David Cronenberg)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller)
The Kids are Alright (Jeff Stein)
Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam)
Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Almost There: Breaking Away (Peter Yates), Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola), The Warriors (Walter Hill), Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton), Fast Company (David Cronenberg), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog), Being There (Hal Ashby), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark).

Have Yet to See: Real Life (Albert Brooks), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley), Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog).

1978

Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash)
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh)
The Fury (Brian De Palma)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
Who'll Stop the Rain? (Karol Reisz)

Almost There: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), Superman (Richard Donner), Revenge of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), Grease (Randal Kleiser), Interiors (Woody Allen), The Driver (Walter Hill).

Have Yet to See: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), Watership Down (Martin Rosen), Midnight Express (Alan Parker).

1977

The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
Eraserhead (David Lynch)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
Star Wars (George Lucas)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
3 Women (Robert Altman)

Almost There: Rabid (David Cronenberg), The Spy who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert), 21 Up (Michael Apted), The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Slap Shot (George Roy Hill), One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnes Varda).

Have Yet to See: Opening Night (John Cassavetes), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), Sorcerer (William Friedkin), Providence (Alain Resnais).

1976

All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
Mikey and Nickey (Elaine May)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski)

Almost There: The Front (Herbert Ross), Network (Sidney Lumet), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Blake Edwards).

Have Yet to See: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman), Small Change (Francois Truffaut), The Shootist (Don Siegel), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafelson).

1975

Deep Red (Dario Argento)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Nashville (Robert Altman)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
Xala (Ousmane Sembene)

Almost There: Shivers (David Cronenberg), Two Solutions for One Problem [short] (Abbas Kiarostami), Grey Gardens (Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Ellen Hovde), The Man who Would Be King (John Huston), French Connection II (John Frankenheimer).

Have Yet to See: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa).

1974

California Split (Robert Altman)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

Almost There: The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg), F for Fake (Orson Welles), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah), Black Christmas (Bob Clark), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), Every Man for Himself and God against All (Werner Herzog), Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson).

Have Yet to See: Hearts and Minds (Peter David), Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman), Cockfighter (Monte Hellman), Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle).

1973

American Graffiti (George Lucas)
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)

Almost There: Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse), Serpico (Sidney Lumet), The Sting (George Roy Hill), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson).

Have Yet to See: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut), Amarcord (Federico Fellini), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby).

1972

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
Fat City (John Huston)
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
Images (Robert Altman)
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
Last House on the Left (Wes Craven)
Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Almost There: Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Ruling Class (Peter Medak), Heat (Paul Morrissey), Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill), Roma (Federico Fellini).

Have Yet to See: Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich), The Merchant of Four Seasons and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Pink Flamingos (John Waters).

1971

A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The French Connection (William Friedkin)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
THX-1138 (George Lucas)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

Almost There: Trafic (Jacques Tati), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Klute (Alan J. Pakula), And Now for Something Completely Different (Ian McNaughton), Dirty Harry (Don Siegel), Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart), W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev), Duel (Steven Spielberg), Punishment Park (Peter Watkins).

Have Yet to See: Macbeth (Roman Polanski), Duck You Sucker (Sergio Leone).

1970

Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
Hospital (Fredrick Wiseman)
MASH (Robert Altman)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Ranier Werner Fassbinder)
Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)

Almost There: Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni), Patton (Franklin Schaffner), Little Big Man (Arthur Penn), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento), Catch-22 (Mike Nichols), Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin), Wanda (Barbara Loden), The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci).

Have Yet to See: Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg), El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky).

Best of the 60s

Female Performances



Harriet Andersson in Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Piper Laurie in The Hustler (1961)
Corinne Marchand in Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961)
Sylvia Pinal in Viridiana (1961)
Anna Karina in My Life to Live (1962)
Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim (1962)
Anouk Aimee in 8 1/2 (1963)
Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965)
Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman in Persona (1966)
Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)
Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Male Performances



Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
Gunnar Björnstrand in Winter Light (1962)
Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 (1963)
Toshiro Mifune in High and Low (1963)
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Michael Caine in Alfie (1966)
Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
Alain Delon in Le Samourai (1967)
David Bradley in Kes (1969)
Robert Ryan in The Wild Bunch (1969)

1969

Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Kes (Ken Loach)
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Z (Costa-Gavras)

Almost There: Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), Stereo (David Cronenberg), The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel), The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, Cynthia Munroe), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson).

Have Yet to See: Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer), The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls), The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda), Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo).