Thursday, April 12, 2007

1966



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: A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura).

1965



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).

1964



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



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: Charade (Stanley Donen), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura).

1962



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), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa).

1961



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



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).

1959



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), The Tingler (William Castle), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray).

1958



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: Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher), Separate Tables (Delbert Mann).

1957



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), Funny Face (Stanley Donen), Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder).

1956



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: Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson).

1955



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: Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse), The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Summertime (David Lean).

1954



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: A Star is Born (George Cukor).

1953



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).

1952



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



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



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).

1949



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



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: Oliver Twist (David Lean), Red River (Howard Hawks), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti).

1947



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



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).

1945



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



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), Henry V (Laurence Olivier).

1943



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: 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



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: The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), My Favorite Blonde (Sidney Lanfield), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper), Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy).

1941



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



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



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



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



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



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).

1935



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



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



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: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy), Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu).

1932



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



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



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



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



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



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).