Top 11s

About the Lists, and Index

2012-01-03T09:00:00.001-05:00

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.

YEAR ADDED: 1/3/12 - 2011.

2011

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1. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
2. The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
3. Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
4. Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
5. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
6. I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda)
7. Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold)
8. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
9. The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)
10. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
11. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)

Almost There: Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai), Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev), 50/50 (Jonathan Levine), Fright Night (Craig Gillespie), George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese), Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin), Mildred Pierce [TV miniseries] (Todd Haynes), Rango (Gore Verbinski), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt), The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar), Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols).

Have Yet to See: Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman), Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman), The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies), Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki), Life without Principle (Johnnie To), Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan), Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo), Shame (Steve McQueen), This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb).

2010

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1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
5. Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
7. The Social Network (David Fincher)
8. The Oath (Laura Poitras)
9. Four Lions (Chris Morris)
10. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
11. Exit through the Gift Shop (Banksy)

Almost There: The Art of the Steal (Don Argott), Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky), Carlos [TV miniseries] (Olivier Assayas), Greenberg (Noah Baumbach), Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan), I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke), The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet), Poetry (Lee Chang-dong), The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg), Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese), True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen).

Have Yet to See: Another Year (Mike Leigh).

2009

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1. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
5. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
6. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
8. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
9. Coraline (Henry Selick)
10. Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
11. Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)

Almost There: Adventureland (Greg Mottola), The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog), Bright Star (Jane Campion), It Felt Like a Kiss [short] (Adam Curtis), A Letter to Uncle Boonme [short] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch), The Maid (Sebastian Silva), A Prophet (Jacques Audiard), The Road (John Hillcoat), Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton), Vincere (Marco Bellochio).

Have Yet to See: La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (Frederick Wiseman).

2008

2009-01-17T16:53:00.009-05:00

1. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
3. Two Lovers (James Gray)
4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
6. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7. CJ7 (Stephen Chow)
8. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
9. The Beaches of Agnes (Agnes Varda)
10. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
11. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

Almost There: The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson), Departures (Yojiro Takita), Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani), The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro), Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green), Redbelt (David Mamet), Sparrow (Johnnie To), Splinter (Toby Wilkins), Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt).

Have Yet to See: Che (Steven Soderbergh), Miracle at St. Anna's (Spike Lee).

2007

2007-04-12T15:53:00.003-04:00

1. Zodiac (David Fincher)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
4. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
5. The Band’s Visit (Eran Kolirin)
6. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
8. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
9. The Mist (Frank Darabont)
10. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
11. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

Almost There: Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu), Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck), Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie), In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin), The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat), Mad Detective (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai), My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin), Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings), Stuck (Stuart Gordon), We Own the Night (James Gray).

Least Favorite: 300 (Zack Snyder).

2006

2007-04-12T15:52:00.003-04:00

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. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
11. Slither (James Gunn)

Almost There: Bug (William Friedkin), Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry), Exiled (Johnnie To), Infamous (Douglas McGrath), Inside Man (Spike Lee), The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden), A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater), Steel City (Brian Jun), Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), United 93 (Paul Greengrass), Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo).

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

Have Yet to See: Happy Feet (George Miller), Reprise (Joachim Trier), Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell).

2005

2007-04-12T15:51:00.003-04:00

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

Least Favorite: The Longest Yard (Peter Segal).

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

2004

2007-04-12T15:50:00.009-04:00

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. Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
10. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
11. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Almost There: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), The Case of the Grinning Cat [short] (Chris Marker), Dumplings (Fruit Chan), The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel), Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki), Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin), Kinsey (Bill Condon), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson), The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis), The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii), 2046 (Wong Kar Wai).

Least Favorite: Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach).

Have Yet to See: Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), Millions (Danny Boyle), Palindromes (Todd Solondz).

2003

2007-04-12T15:49:00.002-04:00

1. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
3. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
4. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
5. American Splendor (Shari Springer Bergman, Robert Pulcini)
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
6. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
8. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
9. A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
10. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)

Almost There: BAADASSSSS! (Mario Van Peebles), Big Fish (Tim Burton), Dogville (Lars von Trier), End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia), Hulk (Ang Lee), Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino), School of Rock (Richard Linklater), Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon), The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet), X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer), Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano).

Least Favorite: Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt).

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

2002

2007-04-12T15:48:00.008-04:00

1. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
2. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle)
3. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
4. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
5. Spider (David Cronenberg)
6. The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis)
7. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
8. Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
9. Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli)
10. The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)

Almost There: Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore), Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma), Hero (Zhang Yimou), The Pianist (Roman Polanski), Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar).

Least Favorite: The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan).

Have Yet to See: May (Lucky McKee), Sunshine State (John Sayles).

2001

2007-04-12T15:47:00.005-04:00

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
3. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
4. Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
7. Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg)
8. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
11. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)

Almost There: Ali (Michael Mann), Frailty (Bill Paxton), Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai), I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira), Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao Hsien), Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich), Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki), Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis), Y tu mama, tambien (Alfonso Cuarón).

Least Favorite: Jurassic Park III (Jim Johnston).

Have Yet to See: Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta).

2000

2007-04-12T15:46:00.007-04:00

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

Almost There: Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda), The Legend of Rita (Volker Schlöndorff), Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer), Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen), Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson), Suzhou River (Lou Ye), Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), The Yards (James Gray).

Least Favorite: Pay it Forward (Mimi Leder).

Have Yet to See: Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier), Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett).

1999

2007-04-12T15:45:00.008-04:00

1. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
2. American Movie (Chris Smith)
3. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
6. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
7. The Insider (Michael Mann)
8. My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese)
9. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (Errol Morris)
10. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
11. Audition (Takashi Miike)

Almost There: Dogma (Kevin Smith), Election (Alexander Payne), eXistenZ (David Cronenberg), Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot), The King of Comedy (Stephen Chow), The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski), The Mission (Johnnie To), Office Space (Mike Judge), Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay), The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola), The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami).

Least Favorite: Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld).

Have Yet to See: Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce), Beau Travail (Claire Denis), Go (Doug Liman), Titus (Julie Taymor).

1998

2007-04-12T15:44:00.004-04:00

1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
3. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
4. 42 Up (Michael Apted)
5. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
6. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
8. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
9. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
10. Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker)
11. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

Almost There: Dark City (Alex Proyas), The General (John Boorman), Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon), The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman), The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (Aviva Kempner), Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Pleasantvillle (Gary Ross), Run, Lola, Run (Tom Tykwer), There's Something about Mary (Peter and Bobby Farrelly), Three Businessmen (Alex Cox), The Truman Show (Peter Weir).

Least Favorite: Godzilla (Roland Emmerich).

Have Yet to See: The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca), Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur).

1997

2007-04-12T15:43:00.007-04:00

1. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
4. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
5. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
6. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
9. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
11. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Almost There: Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons), The Fifth Element (Luc Besson), The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo), Funny Games (Michael Haneke), LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson), Lost Highway (David Lynch), Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski), Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld), The Second Civil War (Joe Dante), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan).

Least Favorite: Batman and Robin (Joel Schumacher).

Have Yet to See: Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), Henry Fool (Hal Hartley), The River (Tsai Ming-liang).

1996

2007-04-12T15:42:00.001-04:00

1. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2. Crash (David Cronenberg)
3. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
4. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
5. God of Cookery (Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee)
6. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
7. Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
8. Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
9. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
10. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
11. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)

Almost There: Bound (The Wachowski Brothers), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), Fargo (Joel Coen), The Frighteners (Peter Jackson), Habit (Larry Fessenden), Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson), Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (Jim Mallon), Saint Clara (Ari Folman and Ori Sivan), Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes), Trainspotting (Danny Boyle).

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

1995

2007-04-12T15:41:00.006-04:00

1. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
2. Safe (Todd Haynes)
3. Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave [short] (Nick Park)
4. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
6. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
7. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
9. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
10. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
11. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Almost There: Babe (Chris Noonan), Clueless (Amy Heckerling), Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan), Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii), La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz), Heat (Michael Mann), The Living Dead (Adam Curtis), Se7en (David Fincher), Sixty Million Dollar Man (Jing Wong and Wai Man Yip), Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam), Welcome to the Doll House (Todd Solondz).

Have Yet to See: Clockers (Spike Lee), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Underground (Emir Kusturica), The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi).

1994

2007-04-12T15:40:00.003-04:00

1. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
5. Clerks (Kevin Smith)
6. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
7. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
8. High School II (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
10. Drunken Master II (Liu Chia-Liang)
11. Little Odessa (James Gray)

Almost There: Barcelona (Whit Stillman), Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen), Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan), From Beijing with Love (Stephen Chow and Lik-Chi Lee), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), The Lion King (Roger Allers and Ron Minkoff), Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders), Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan), New Nightmare (Wes Craven), Quiz Show (Robert Redford), True Lies (James Cameron).

Have Yet to See: Faust (Jan Svankmajer), Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone), Satantango (Bela Tarr), Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami).

1993

2007-04-12T15:39:00.006-04:00

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. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
7. Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
8. Naked (Mike Leigh)
9. Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
10. Matinee (Joe Dante)
11. King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)

Almost There: Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life [short] (Peter Capaldi), The Fugitive (Andrew Davis), In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen), Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-ping), Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg), Much ado about Nothing (Kenneth Branagh), Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Muller).

Have Yet to See: Fearless (Peter Weir), Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa), A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood).

1992

2007-04-12T15:38:00.001-04:00

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

Have Yet to See: Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara), Baraka (Ron Fricke), The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), Howard's End (James Ivory).

1991

2007-04-12T15:37:00.007-04:00

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. The Commitments (Alan Parker)
4. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
5. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
6. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
7. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
8. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
9. Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
10. Homicide (David Mamet)
11. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)

Almost There: Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper), The Hours and Times (Christopher Munch), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Slacker (Richard Linklater).

Have Yet to See: Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel), JFK (Oliver Stone), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders).

1990

2007-04-12T15:36:00.001-04:00

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

Almost There: Darkman (Sam Raimi), Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven), Wild at Heart (David Lynch).

Have Yet to See: Bullet in the Head (John Woo), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich), Trust (Hal Hartley).

1989

2007-04-12T15:35:00.006-04:00

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr.)
3. Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
4. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
6. The Abyss (James Cameron)
7. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
8. The Killer (John Woo)
9. The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti)
10. Mr. Hoover & I (Emile de Antonio)
11. Roger & Me (Michael Moore)

Almost There: Batman (Tim Burton), Creature Comforts [short] (Nick Park), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), A Grand Day Out [short] (Nick Park), Homework (Abbas Kiarostami), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki), sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh), The Tall Guy (Mel Smith), Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog).

Have Yet to See: Black Rain (Shohei Imamura), Casualties of War (Brian De Palma), The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano).

1988

2007-04-12T15:34:00.003-04:00

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. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
11. On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski)

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

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

1987

2007-04-12T15:33:00.002-04:00

1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
2. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
3. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
4. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
5. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
6. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Where is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
9. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
10. A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)
11. Walker (Alex Cox)

Almost There: Au revoir, les enfants (Louis Malle), The Dead (John Huston), Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), Ishtar (Elaine May), The Man who Planted Trees [short] (Frederic Back), Missile (Frederick Wiseman), Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Straight to Hell (Alex Cox), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme), The Untouchables (Brian De Palma), Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse).

Have Yet to See: Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar), OC & Stiggs (Robert Altman), Radio Days (Woody Allen).

1986

2007-04-12T15:32:00.001-04:00

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

Have Yet to See: At Close Range (James Foley), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox), Something Wild (Jonathan Demme).

1985

2007-04-12T15:31:00.007-04:00

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. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
8. Day of the Dead (George Romero)
9. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
10. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
11. Mix-up (Francoise Romand)

Almost There: Come and See (Elim Klimov), Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant), No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Phenomena (Dario Argento), Police (Maurice Pialat), Police Story (Jackie Chan), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), Witness (Peter Weir), A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway).

Have Yet to See: Caravaggio (Derek Jarman), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears), Shoah (Claude Lanzmann), Vagabond (Agnes Varda).

1984

2007-04-12T15:30:00.004-04:00

1. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
2. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
3. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
5. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
6. The Funeral (Juzo Itami)
7. The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
8. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
9. The Terminator (James Cameron)
10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
11. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter)

Almost There: All of Me (Carl Reiner), Amadeus (Milos Forman), Blood Simple (Joel Coen), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer [short] (Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, and Timothy Quay), Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven), Sixteen Candles (John Hughes), A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige).

Have Yet to See: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen), The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola), Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone).

1983

2007-04-12T15:29:00.003-04:00

1. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
3. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
4. Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
5. A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
6. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7. The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
8. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
9. The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
10. Zelig (Woody Allen)
11. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

Almost There: The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien), The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven), The Hunger (Tony Scott), My Brother's Wedding [director's cut] (Charles Burnett), Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky), Project A (Jackie Chan), The Store (Frederick Wiseman), Twilight Zone: The Movie [segment four] (George Miller).

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

1982

2007-04-12T15:28:00.001-04:00

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter)
3. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
4. Diner (Barry Levinson)
5. Chan is Missing (Wayne Wang)
6. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
7. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
8. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
9. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
10. Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)
11. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicolas Meyer)

Almost There: The Atomic Café (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty), Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi), The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling), First Blood (Ted Kotcheff), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), Tenebre (Dario Argento), Tootsie (Sydney Pollack), The Verdict (Sidney Lumet), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris).

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

1981

2007-04-12T15:27:00.006-04:00

1. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
3. Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
4. Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
5. Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
6. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
7. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
8. Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
9. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
10. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
11. Escape from New York (John Carpenter)

Almost There: The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), Gallipoli (Peter Weir), Outland (Peter Hyams), Stripes (Ivan Reitman), Tango [short] (Zbigniew Rybczynski), Thief (Michael Mann), Two Portraits [short] (Peter Thompson).

Have Yet to See: Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet).

1980

2007-04-12T15:26:00.003-04:00

1. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
2. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
6. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
7. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
8. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
9. Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
10. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
11. Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)

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

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

1979

2007-04-12T15:25:00.005-04:00

1. Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
2. The Brood (David Cronenberg)
3. Alien (Ridley Scott)
4. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam)
6. The Kids are Alright (Jeff Stein)
7. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
8. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Real Life (Albert Brooks)
10. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
11. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)

Almost There: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola), Being There (Hal Ashby), Breaking Away (Peter Yates), The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton), Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush), The Warriors (Walter Hill), Wise Blood (John Huston), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog).

Have Yet to See: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley), Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog).

1978

2007-04-12T15:24:00.001-04:00

1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
2. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
4. National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)
5. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
6. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
8. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
9. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh)
11. Who'll Stop the Rain? (Karol Reisz)

Almost There: The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash), Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), The Driver (Walter Hill), Interiors (Woody Allen), Revenge of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski), Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard), Superman (Richard Donner).

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

1977

2007-04-12T15:23:00.001-04:00

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
2. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
3. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
5. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
6. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
7. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
8. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
9. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
10. Martin (George A. Romero)
11. Star Wars (George Lucas)

Almost There: The American Friend (Wim Wenders), The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson), The Duellists (Ridley Scott), The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), The Last Wave (Peter Weir), One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnes Varda), Rabid (David Cronenberg), Slap Shot (George Roy Hill), The Spy who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert), 21 Up (Michael Apted).

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

1976

2007-04-12T15:22:00.002-04:00

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

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

Have Yet to See: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Small Change (Francois Truffaut), The Shootist (Don Siegel), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafelson).

1975

2007-04-12T15:21:00.003-04:00

1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
6. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
7. Love and Death (Woody Allen)
8. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
10. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
11. Deep Red (Dario Argento)

Almost There: French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), Grey Gardens (Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Ellen Hovde), The Man who Would Be King (John Huston), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman), Shivers (David Cronenberg), Two Solutions for One Problem [short] (Abbas Kiarostami).

Have Yet to See: The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger), Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta), Mandingo (Richard Fleischer).

1974

2007-04-12T15:20:00.003-04:00

1. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
3. California Split (Robert Altman)
4. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
6. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
7. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
8. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
10. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
11. Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Almost There: Black Christmas (Bob Clark), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah), Cockfighter (Monte Hellman), Dark Star (John Carpenter), F for Fake (Orson Welles), Parade (Jacques Tati), Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma), The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent).

Have Yet to See: Hearts and Minds (Peter David), Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Stavisky (Alain Resnais).

1973

2007-04-12T15:19:00.005-04:00

1. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
4. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
5. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
6. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
7. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
8. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
9. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
10. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
11. Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)

Almost There: Battles without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann), Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates), Lady Snowblood (Fujita Toshiya), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich), Serpico (Sidney Lumet), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven).

Have Yet to See: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut), The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache).

1972

2007-04-12T15:18:00.001-04:00

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

Almost There: Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese), Heat (Paul Morrissey), Roma (Federico Fellini), The Ruling Class (Peter Medak), Season of the Witch (George A. Romero), Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill), Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz).

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

1971

2007-04-12T15:17:00.003-04:00

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
3. Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman)
4. THX-1138 (George Lucas)
5. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
6. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
7. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
8. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
9. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
10. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
11. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)

Almost There: Duel (Steven Spielberg), Get Carter (Mike Hodges), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Klute (Alan J. Pakula), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), A New Leaf (Elaine May), (nostalgia) [short] (Hollis Frampton), Shaft (Gordon Parks), Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), Trafic (Jacques Tati), W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev).

Have Yet to See: Bay of Blood (Mario Bava), Duck You Sucker (Sergio Leone), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Macbeth (Roman Polanski).

1970

2007-04-12T15:16:00.002-04:00

1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. MASH (Robert Altman)
3. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
4. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
5. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
6. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
7. Hospital (Fredrick Wiseman)
8. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
9. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
10. Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)
11. Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Almost There: The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), Catch-22 (Mike Nichols), Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin), Little Big Man (Arthur Penn), The Little Theater of Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir), Patton (Franklin Schaffner), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder), Wanda (Barbara Loden), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Ranier Werner Fassbinder).

Have Yet to See: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray), The Garden of the Fitzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica), El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Trash (Paul Morrissey).

1969

2007-04-12T15:15:00.003-04:00

1. Kes (Ken Loach)
2. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
5. La femme infidele (Claude Chabrol)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
7. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
8. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
9. Putney Swope (Robert Downey)
10. Z (Costa-Gavras)
11. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)

Almost There: Age of Consent (Michael Powell), Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman), The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, Cynthia Munroe).

Have Yet to See: Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda), The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman), The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls).

1968

2007-04-12T15:14:00.002-04:00

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
3. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
4. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene)
6. The Plot against Harry (Michael Roemer, release in 1989)
7. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
8. Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
9. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
10. Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
11. The Producers (Mel Brooks)

Almost There: Les Biches (Claude Chabrol), Bullitt (Peter Yates), If... (Lindsay Anderson), Offon [short] (Scott Bartlett), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), Petulia (Richard Lester), Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner), Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin), Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves).

Have Yet to See: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey), Rachel, Rachel (Paul Newman), Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves).

1967

2007-04-12T15:13:00.006-04:00

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
3. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
4. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
6. The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman)
7. Point Blank (John Boorman)
8. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
9. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda)
10. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
11. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)

Almost There: Anticipation [short] (Jean-Luc Godard), David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride), The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski), The Flim-Flam Man (Irvin Kershner), The Graduate (Mike Nichols), Mouchette (Robert Bresson), The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker), Privilege (Peter Watkins), Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard), You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert).

Have Yet to See: Accident (Joseph Losey), La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer), Marat/Sade (Peter Brook), The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó).

1966

2007-04-12T15:12:00.001-04:00

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
5. Masculin feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Black Girl [short] (Ousmane Sembene)
9. Wings (Larisa Sheptiko)
10. Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
11. King of Hearts (Philippe de Broca)

Almost There: Borom sarret [short] (Ousmane Sembene), Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! [short] (Chuck Jones), Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), Seven Women (John Ford), The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto), Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki), What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen).

Have Yet to See: Kill, Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava), A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura).

1965

2007-04-12T15:11:00.002-04:00

1. The War Game [short] (Peter Watkins)
2. Simon of the Desert [short] (Luis Bunuel)
3. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
5. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
6. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
7. Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)
8. It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo)
9. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [short] (Chuck Jones)
11. The Man who Had His Hair Cut Short (Andre Delvaux)

Almost There: Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger), Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein), Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), Help! (Richard Lester), Kustom Kar Kommandos [short] (Kenneth Anger), Le Mystère Koumiko [short] (Chris Marker), The Spy who came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt), Thunderball (Terence Young).

Have Yet to See: Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda), Darling (John Schlesinger), The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa).

1964

2007-04-12T15:10:00.008-04:00

1. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
2. Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
5. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
6. Culloden [short] (Peter Watkins)
7. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
8. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
9. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
10. Manji (Yasuzo Masumura)
11. Point of Order (Emile de Antonio)

Almost There: Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha), The Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel), A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone), The Flower and the Angry Waves (Seijun Suzuki), Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki), Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson), Seven Up! [short] (Paul Almond), A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards), The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut).

Have Yet to See: The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), I am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô), Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara).

1963

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1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
4. The House is Black [short] (Forugh Farrokhzad)
5. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
6. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
7. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
8. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
10. La ricotta [short] (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
11. From Russia with Love (Terence Young)

Almost There: Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy), Hud (Martin Ritt), The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis), La petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), The Servant (Joseph Losey), The Silence (Ingmar Bergman), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki).

Have Yet to See: Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard), Charade (Stanley Donen), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura).

1962

2007-04-12T15:08:00.006-04:00

1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
3. La Jetée [short] (Chris Marker)
4. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
5. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
6. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
7. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
8. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
9. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Black Test Car (Yasuzo Masumura)
11. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

Almost There: Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville), Dr. No (Terence Young), Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky), Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut), Lonely Boy [short] (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor), Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada), My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard), To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan), The Trial (Orson Welles), The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson).

Have Yet to See: Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger), L'Ecclise (Michelangelo Antonioni), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa).

1961

2007-04-12T15:07:00.004-04:00

1. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
2. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
3. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
4. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
5. The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
6. Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes)
7. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
8. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
9. The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis)
10. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
11. A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

Almost There: Chronicle of a Summer (Paris 1960) (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch), Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi), The Fat and the Lean [short] (Roman Polanski), The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson), Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman), Two Rode Together (John Ford).

Have Yet to See: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards), El Cid (Anthony Mann), King of Kings (Nicolas Ray), The Misfits (John Huston), One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando), .

1960

2007-04-12T15:06:00.009-04:00

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
6. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
7. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
9. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. Wild River (Elia Kazan)
11. The Steamroller and the Violin [short] (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Almost There: Afraid to Die (Yasuzo Masumura), The Apartment (Billy Wilder), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), The Devil's Eye (Ingmar Bergman), Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa), The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges), Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut), Zazie dans le metro (Louis Malle).

Have Yet to See: The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), Late Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti), The Young One (Luis Buñuel).

1959

2007-04-12T15:05:00.005-04:00

1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. The Four Hundred Blows (Francois Truffaut)
3. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
5. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
6. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
7. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. La Testament du Docteur Cordelier (Jean Renoir)
9. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
10. The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
11. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)

Almost There: Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus), Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson), The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi).

Have Yet to See: Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger), Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk), The Tingler (William Castle), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray).

1958

2007-04-12T15:04:00.005-04:00

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
4. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
5. Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)
7. Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
8. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
9. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
11. The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame)

Almost There: Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman), The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), Gigi (Vincente Minnelli), A Movie [short] (Bruce Conner), The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk).

Have Yet to See: Man of the West (Anthony Mann), Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher), Separate Tables (Delbert Mann).

1957

2007-04-12T15:03:00.003-04:00

1. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
4. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6. What’s Opera, Doc? [short] (Chuck Jones)
7. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
8. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
9. Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura)
10. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
11. Les mistons [short] (Francois Truffaut)

Almost There: Charlotte and Veronique, or All the Boys are Called Patrick [short] (Jean-Luc Godard), A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan), A King in New York (Charles Chaplin), Lured (Douglas Sirk), Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller), 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), White Night (Luchino Visconti), Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman).

Have Yet to See: Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), Funny Face (Stanley Donen), Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder).

1956

2007-04-12T15:02:00.003-04:00

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
10. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
11. Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)

Almost There: Attack! (Robert Aldrich), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Court Jester (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank), Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), The Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang).

Have Yet to See: The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa), Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson).

1955

2007-04-12T15:01:00.002-04:00

1. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. French Cancan(Jean Renoir)
5. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
6. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
7. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
9. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
10. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
11. One Froggy Evening [short] (Chuck Jones)

Almost There: Dreams (Ingmar Bergman), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller), Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske), The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick), Lola Montes (Max Ophüls), Les Maitres Fous (Jean Rouch), Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), Night and Fog [short] (Alain Resnais), Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi), Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray).

Have Yet to See: Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin), Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse), The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Summertime (David Lean).

1954

2007-04-12T15:00:00.007-04:00

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
5. Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
7. Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
8. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
9. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
10. La Pointe-courte (Agnes Varda)
11. Track of the Cat (William Wellman)

Almost There: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk), Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Godzilla (Ishiro Honda), Human Desire (Fritz Lang), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome [short] (Kenneth Anger), Them! (Gordon Douglas), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer).

Have Yet to See: Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk), A Star is Born (George Cukor).

1953

2007-04-12T14:59:00.003-04:00

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
5. Duck Amuck [short] (Chuck Jones)
6. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
7. Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
8. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
9. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
10. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
11. A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Almost There: Beat the Devil (John Huston), Bully for Bugs [short] (Chuck Jones), Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century [short] (Chuck Jones), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock), The Lady without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), The Saga of Anatahan (Josef Von Sternberg), Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman), The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot).

Have Yet to See: The Actress (George Cukor), The Brute and El (Luis Buñuel), Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman).

1952

2007-04-12T14:58:00.003-04:00

1. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
2. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Casque d’or (Jacques Becker)
4. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
5. The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
7. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
8. Feed the Kitty [short] (Chuck Jones)
9. The White Sheik (Federico Fellini)
10. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
11. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)

Almost There: Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), The Big Sky (Howard Hawks), Clash by Night (Fritz Lang), Forbidden Games (Rene Clement), High Noon (Fred Zinnemann), Park Row (Samuel Fuller), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Rabbit Seasoning [short] (Chuck Jones), Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang).

Have Yet to See: Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Ruby Gentry (King Vidor).

1951

2007-04-12T14:57:00.003-04:00

1. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
3. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
5. Repast (Mikio Naruse)
6. The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby)
7. The River (Jean Renoir)
8. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
9. Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa)
11. The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith)

Almost There: Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder), The African Queen (John Huston), Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske), An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin), Rabbit Fire [short] (Chuck Jones), A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan).

Have Yet to See: Detective Story (William Wyler), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), The Prowler (Joseph Losey).

1950

2007-04-12T14:56:00.001-04:00

1. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
3. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
4. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
5. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
6. Rabbit of Seville [short] (Chuck Jones)
7. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
8. Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
9. The Furies (Anthony Mann)
10. Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
11. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)

Almost There: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller), Born Yesterday (George Cukor), Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi), D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate), The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur), Guernica [short] (Alan Resnais and Robert Hessens), Harvey (Henry Koster), House by the River (Fritz Lang).

Have Yet to See: The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz), Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Wincester ‘73 (Anthony Mann).

1949

2007-04-12T14:55:00.003-04:00

1. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
4. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati)
5. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
8. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
9. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
10. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
11. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)

Almost There: Caught (Max Ophuls), Crows and Sparrows (Junli Zheng), I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller), Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), La Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), Twelve O’Clock High (Henry King), White Heat (Raoul Walsh).

1948

2007-04-12T14:54:00.001-04:00

1. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
2. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
4. Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
5. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
6. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
8. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
10. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
11. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)

Almost There: Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), Port of Call (Ingmar Bergman), Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang), Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock), Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges).

Have Yet to See: Moonrise (Frank Borzage), Oliver Twist (David Lean), Red River (Howard Hawks), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti), They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray).

1947

2007-04-12T14:53:00.001-04:00

1. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
2. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Born to Kill (Robert Wise)
5. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
6. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
8. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
9. Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
10. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
11. Fireworks [short] (Kenneth Anger)

Almost There: Desperate (Anthony Mann), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: Body and Soul (Robert Rossen), Gentlemen’s Agreement (Elia Kazan), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway).

1946

2007-04-12T14:52:00.005-04:00

1. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
2. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
5. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
6. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
7. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
8. Great Expectations (David Lean)
9. Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery [short](Bob Clampett)
11. Crisis (Ingmar Bergman)

Almost There: Book Revue [short] (Bob Clampett), Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir), Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat), Paisan (Roberto Rossellini).

Have Yet to See: Duel in the Sun (King Vidor), Gilda (Charles Vidor), No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa).

1945

2007-04-12T14:51:00.001-04:00

1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
2. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
3. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
5. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
6. I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
7. Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
8. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
9. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
10. Hare Tonic [short] (Chuck Jones)
11. Draftee Daffy [short] (Bob Clampett)

Almost There: Hare Conditioned [short] (Chuck Jones), Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz), Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh), The Southerner (Jean Renoir), They Were Expendable (John Ford).

1944

2007-04-12T14:50:00.004-04:00

1. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
3. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
4. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
5. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
6. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
7. Laura (Otto Preminger)
8. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
9. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
10. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
11. The Great Moment (Preston Sturges)

Almost There: Phantom Lady (Robert Sidomak).

Have Yet to See: A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise), Henry V (Laurence Olivier).

1943

2007-04-12T14:49:00.003-04:00

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
4. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
6. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7. I Was a Fireman (Humphrey Jennings)
8. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
9. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
10. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
11. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)

Almost There: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs [short] (Bob Clampett), The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur), Meshes of the Afternoon [short] (Maya Deren), Sugata Sanshiro (Akira Kurosawa), Super-Rabbit [short] (Chuck Jones), Who Killed Who [short] (Tex Avery).

Have Yet to See: Air Force (Howard Hawks), The Human Comedy (Clarence Brown), The More the Merrier (George Stevens), A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace).

1942

2007-04-12T14:48:00.002-04:00

1. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
3. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
4. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
6. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
7. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Listen to Britain [short] (Humphrey Jennings)
9. A Tale of Two Kitties [short] (Bob Clampett)
10. Bambi (David Hand)
11. The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall [short] (Chuck Jones)

Almost There: Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz).

Have Yet to See: In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), My Favorite Blonde (Sidney Lanfield), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy).

1941

2007-04-12T14:47:00.003-04:00

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
5. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
6. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
7. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
7. Tortoise Beats Hare [short] (Tex Avery)
10. Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
11. San Pietro [short] (John Huston)

Almost There: The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle), Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock), The Wolf Man (George Waggner).

Have Yet to See: The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi), How Green was My Valley (John Ford), The Little Foxes (William Wyler), Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz).

1940

2007-04-12T14:46:00.003-04:00

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
3. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
4. The Shop around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
6. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske)
7. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
9. Fantasia (various)
10. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
11. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)

Almost There: Contraband (Michael Powell), Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), The Letter (William Wyler), The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian), My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang), The Thief of Baghdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan).

Have Yet to See: Kitty Foyle (Sam Wood), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford), Northwest Passage (King Vidor), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh).

1939

2007-04-12T14:45:00.005-04:00

1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
6. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
7. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
8. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
9. Daybreak (Marcel Carne)
10. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
11. Destry Rides Again (George Stevens)

Have Yet to See: Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding), Gunga Din (George Stevens), The Spy in Black (Michael Powell), The Women (George Cukor).

1938

2007-04-12T14:44:00.002-04:00

1. La bete humaine (Jean Renoir)
2. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
3. Holiday (George Cukor)
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz and William Keighley)
5. Jezebel (William Wyler)
6. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
8. Porky in Wackyland [short] (Bob Clampett)

Have Yet to See: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev), The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason), Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl), You Can’t Take it with You (Frank Capra).

1937

2007-04-12T14:43:00.001-04:00

1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
3. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
4. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (various)
6. Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
7. The Great Garrick (James Whale)
8. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
9. Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)
10. The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
11. Mannequin (Frank Borzage)

Almost There: Lost Horizon (Frank Capra), Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: Angel (Ernst Lubitsch), Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming), Nothing Sacred (William Wellman), Stella Dallas (King Vidor), Topper (Norman Z. McLeod).

1936

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1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
3. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. A Day in the Country [short] (Jean Renoir)
5. Swing Time (George Stevens)
6. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
7. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
8. Desire (Frank Borzage)
9. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler)
11. Rose Hobart [short] (Joseph Cornell)

Almost There: The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir).

Have Yet to See: Camille (George Cukor), Dodsworth (William Wyler), Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich), Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi), Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies).

1935

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1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding and Sam Wood)
3. The Devil is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
4. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
5. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
6. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Crime and Punishment (Josef Von Sternberg)
8. Mad Love (Carl Freund)
9. Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown)
10. Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)

Have Yet to See: The Informer (John Ford), Roberta (William A. Seiter).

1934

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1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
5. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
6. The Lost Patrol (John Ford)
7. The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
8. Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
9. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
10. Judge Priest (John Ford)
11. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Almost There: The Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin), Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl), Liliom (Fritz Lang), Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown).

1933

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1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
3. Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
4. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schodessack)
5. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
6. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)
7. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
8. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor)
9. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
10. Land without Bread [short] (Luis Bunuel)
11. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)

Almost There: The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy), The Fatal Glass of Beer [short] (Clyde Bruckman).

Have Yet to See: Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch), Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy), Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu).

1932

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1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
4. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
6. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
8. The Music Box (James Parrott)
9. Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)
10. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
11. Happiness (Alekandr Medvedkin)

Almost There: Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg), Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch), Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding), Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh), Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg).

Have Yet to See: A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage), One Hour with You (Ernst Lubitsch), Red Dust (Victor Fleming).

1931

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1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
3. Le Million (René Clair)
4. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
8. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
10. Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
11. Arrowsmith (John Ford)

Almost There: À nous la liberté (René Clair), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice), Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock), Susan Lenox (Her Rise and Fall) (Robert Z. Leonard).

Have Yet to See: The Champ (King Vidor), The Front Page (Lewis Milestone), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra).

1930

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1. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
2. A propos de Nice [short] (Jean Vigo)
3. Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
5. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
6. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
8. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
9. L’age D’or (Luis Buñuel)
10. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
11. Anna Christie (Clarence Brown)

Have Yet to See: The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh), City Girl (F.W. Murnau), Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes).

1929

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1. Un Chien Andalou [short] (Luis Bunuel)
2. Queen Kelly [restored version] (Erich Von Stroheim)
3. The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
4. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Hallelujah (King Vidor)
6. The River [extant version] (Frank Borzage)
7. Big Business [short] (James W. Horne and Leo McCarey)
8. I Graduated, But... [extant version] (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. Tokyo March [extant version] (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
11. Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang)

Have Yet to See: Applause (Rouben Mamoulian), Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst), Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst).

1928

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1. The Crowd (King Vidor)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
4. The Man who Laughs (Paul Leni)
5. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
6. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner)
7. The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
8. The Italian Straw Hat (Rene Clair)
9. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
10. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
11. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra [short] (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich)

Almost There: Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko), The Fall of the House of Usher [short] (James Sibley Watson, Jr.), A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks), The Little Match Girl [short] (Jean Renoir).

Have Yet to See: Show People (King Vidor), Spies (Fritz Lang), Street Angel (Frank Borzage), The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim).

1927

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1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
2. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
3. Napoleon (Abel Gance)
4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
5. The Love of Jeanne Ney (G.W. Pabst)
6. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
7. Charleston [short] (Jean Renoir)
8. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Red Mill (Roscoe Arbuckle)
10. October (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov)
11. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)

Have Yet to See: Berlin: Symphony of a City (Walter Ruttmann), Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey), The Kid Brother (J.A. Howe and Ted Wilde), Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage), Underworld (Josef Von Sternberg).