Top10lists

Please note that changes are frequent. The five most recent changes are marked with a NEW! symbol.
These lists represent my favorite films from each of the given years, films that I feel defined that year. In many cases these lists change as I see more and more. Every film listed comes with my highest recommendation.

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2007
01. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
02. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
03. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
04. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
05. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
06. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
07. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
08. Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
09. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
10. Zodiac (David Fincher)
11. Inside (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury)
12. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
13. The Man from London (Béla Tarr)
14. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
15. Once (John Carney)
16. The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden)
17. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
18. Fido (Andrew Currie)
19. Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
20. Joshua (George Ratliff)
Documentary: The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)
I also value: The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien), Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang), EXTE: Hair Extensions (Sion Sono), You, the Living (Roy Andersson), Love Songs (Christophe Honoré), Control (Anton Corbijn), The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson), I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Park Chan-wook), Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma), Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez), Trigger Man (Ti West) , Ratatoullie (Brad Bird), Bug (William Friedkin), Strawberry Shortcakes (Hitoshi Yazaki)
Notable Shorts: Death to the Tinman (Ray Tintori), Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson), It's a Dream (Tsai Ming-liang), At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (David Cronenberg), I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You (Wong Kar Wai), Don't (Edgar Wright)
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BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2006
01. Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina)
02. Still Life (Jia Zhang-Ke)
03. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
04. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
05. Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
06. Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
07. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
08. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
09. Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
10. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
11. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
12. Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer)
13. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
14. Princess (Anders Morgenthaler)
15. Slither (James Gunn)
16. The Free Will (Matthias Glasner)
17. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
18. Dance Party USA (Aaron Katz)
19. This is England (Shane Meadows)
20. Cœurs (Alain Resnais)
Documentary: The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
I also value: A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman), Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan), Taxidermia (György Pálfi), Brick (Rian Johnson), Mongolian Ping Pong (Ning Hao), Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck), Volver (Pedro Almodóvar), Down in the Valley (David Jacobson), Sheitan (Kim Chapiron), Edmond (Stuart Gordon), I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang), Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas), The Host (Bong Joon-ho), I Am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi), Inside Man (Spike Lee), Lassie (Charles Sturridge)
Notable Shorts: 14th arrondissement (Alexander Payne), The Eyes of Edward James (Rodrigo Gudiño), Impaled (Larry Clark), We Fuck Alone (Gaspar Noe)
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BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2005
01a. The New World (Terrence Malick)
01b. Mary (Abel Ferrara)
02. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
03. The World (Jia Zhang Ke)
04. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
05. L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
06. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
07. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
08. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
09. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
10. Police Beat (Robinson Devor)
11. The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
12. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
13. The Descent (Neil Marshall) [UK Cut]
14. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
15. Homecoming (Joe Dante)
16. 4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
17. Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)
18. Caché (Michael Haneke)
19. Izo (Takashi Miike)
20. Imprint (Takashi Miike)
Documentary: Grizzly Man & The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
I also value: La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère), Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel), Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic), Isolation (Billy O'Brian), Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch), Mysterious Skin (Greg Araki), Junebug (Phil Morrisson), Jenifer (Dario Argento)
Notable Shorts: Rubber Johnny (Chris Cunningham), Penny Dreadful (Bryan Norton)
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BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2004
01. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
02. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
03. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
04. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
05. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
06. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
07. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
08. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
09. Head-On (Fatih Akin)
10. Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
11. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
12. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
13. Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat)
14. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
15. The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
16. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
17. The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)
18. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
19. Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
20. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Special Award: Paranoia Agent (Satoshi Kon) - 13 episode TV series
Documentary: DiG! (Ondi Timone)
I also value: Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso), Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows), The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), 2046 (Wong Kar Wai), Or (My Treasure) (Karen Yedaya), Æ Fond Kiss (Ken Loach), Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais), Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll), Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai), Gozu (Takashi Miike), Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes), Dogville (Lars von Trier), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Primer (Shane Carruth), Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
Notable Shorts: The Hand (Wong Kar Wai), Michelangelo Eye to Eye (Michelangelo Antonioni), Box (Takashi Miike), Anaconda Targets (Dominic Angerame), Sink & Rise (Bong Joon-ho)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2003
01. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
02. Spider (David Cronenberg)
03. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
04. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
05. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
06. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
07. Down With Love (Peyton Reed)
08. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
09. In My Skin (Marina de Van)
10. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
11. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
12. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
13. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
14. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
15. demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
16. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Greene)
17. Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
18. Come and Go (João César Monteiro)
19. The Company (Robert Altman)
20. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
Special Award: The Cremaster Cycle (Matthew Barney) '95-'03
Documentary: The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
Other films I valued [preferential]: Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke), Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson), Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki), Love Object (Robert Parigi), Since Otar Left (Julie Burtucelli), The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy), Decasia (Bill Morrison), The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin), Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay), Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki), Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl), Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff), No Rest For the Brave (Alain Guiraudie), PTU (Johnny To)
Notable Shorts: Lifeline (Victor Erice), Dogs Have No Hell (Aki Kaurismäki), The Separation (Robert Morgan), Terminal Bar (Stefan Nadelman)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2002
01. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
02. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
03. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
04. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
05. Chekhov's Motifs (Kira Muratova)
06. La Vie Nouvelle (Philip Grandrieux)
07. Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
08. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
09. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
10. Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
11. 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
13. The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
14. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
15. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
16. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
17. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
18. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
19. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
20. Heaven (Tom Tykwer)
Documentary: To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
I also valued: May (Lucky McKee), Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau), Jealousy is My Middle Name (Park Chan-ok), Japón (Carlos Reygadas), The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki), Monday Morning (Otar Iosseliani), Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park), Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat), Time Out (Laurent Cantet), Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener) Adaptation (Spike Jonze), Auto Focus (Paul Schrader), Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar), Ken Park (Larry Clark)
Notable Shorts: The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang), Love From Mother Only (Dennison Ramalho), Rabbits (David Lynch), 11'09''01 segment "Japan" (Shohei Imamura), Love is a Treasure (Eija-Liisa Ahtila)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2001
01. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
02. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
03. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
04. The Circle (Jahfar Panahi)
05. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
06. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
07. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
08. Trouble Everyday (Claire Denis)
09. Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
10. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
11. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)
12. Bully (Larry Clark)
13. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
14. Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota)
15. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem)
16. Happy Times (Zhang Yimou)
17. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
18. Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat)
19. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
20. Session 9 (Brad Anderson)
Documentary: ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami)
I also valued: Under the Sand (François Ozon), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel), Gohatto (Nagisha Oshima), Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow), Little Otik (Jan Svankmajar), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), 'R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer), Dagon (Stuart Gordon), Lantana (Ray Lawerance), Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (Lee Demarbe), Revolution #9 (Tim McCann), In the Bathtub of the World (Caveh Zahedi)
Notable Shorts: Paperboys (Mike Mills), Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky), You Owe Me One (Carlos Cuarón),

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2000
01. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
02. Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
03. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai)
04. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonnergan)
05. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
06. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
07. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
08. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
09. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
10. Audition (Takashi Miike)
11. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
12. Chunhyang (Im Kwon Taek)
13. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho)
14. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
15. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
16. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
17. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
18. Durian, Durian (Fruit Chan)
19. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
20. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (François Ozon)
Documentary: One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker)
I also valued: Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong), Brother (Takeshi Kitano), Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier), A Chronicle of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett), The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
Notable Shorts: The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin), Camera (David Cronenberg), In Absentia (The Brothers Quay), My Skin! (Christopher Alan Broadstone), Nest of Tens (Miranda July)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1999
01. Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
02. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
03. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
04. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
05. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Nöe)
06. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
07. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
08. L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
09. God's Wedding (João César Monteiro)
10. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
11. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
12. julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine)
13. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
14. Ravenous (Antonia Bird)
15. Election (Alexander Payne)
16. Migrating Forms (James Fotopoulos)
17. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
18. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
19. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)
20. 6ixtynin9 (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Documentary: American Movie (Chris Smith)
I also valued: Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer), Magnolia (P.T. Anderson), Juha (Aki Kaurismäki), Splendor (Gregg Araki)
Notable Shorts: Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky), All Is Full of Love [music video] (Chris Cunningham), Get Ready (Peter Tscherkassky), Windowlicker [music video] (Chris Cunningham)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1998
01. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
02. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
03. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
04. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
05. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
06. Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
07. Affliction (Paul Schraeder)
08. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
09. Small Soldiers (Joe Dante)
10. Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
11. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
12. Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
13. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
15. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
16. Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez)
17. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
19. April Story (Shunji Iwai)
20. The Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
I also valued: Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem), Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura), The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), L'Ennui (Cédric Kahn), Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller), Vampires (John Carpenter), The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman), The Birdcage Inn (Kim Ki-duk)
Documentary: Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Notable Shorts: Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold), Only You [music video](Chris Cunningham), L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky), Footprints (Bill Morrison)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1997
01. The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
02. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
03. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
04. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
05. In the Company of Men (Neil Labute)
06. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhang-ke)
07. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
08. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
09. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
10a. Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
10b. See the Sea (François Ozon)
10c. Gummo (Harmony Korine)
10d. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Documentary: Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
I also valued: Uncle Sam (William Lustig), Sick (Kirby Dick), Titanic (James Cameron), The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson), Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan), Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer), The Second Civil War (Joe Dante), The Sticky Fingers of Time (Hilary Brougher)
Notable Shorts: Cutting Moments (Douglas Buck), Come to Daddy [music video] (Chris Cunningham), Gasman (Lynne Ramsay)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1996
01. Crash (David Cronenberg)
02. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
03. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
04. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
05. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
06. Tierra (Julio Medem)
07. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
08. Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
09. Fudoh: The New Generation (Takashi Miike)
10a. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
10b. L'Appartement (Gilles Mimouni)
10c. Thieves (André Téchiné)
Documentary: Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou)
I Also Valued: The Day a Pig Fell in the Well (Hong Sang-soo), Parfait Amour! (Catherine Breillat), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky), The Funeral (Abel Ferrara), Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen), Slingblade (Billy Bob Thornton), The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola), Swingers (Doug Liman), Basquiat (Julien Schnabel), From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez), Habit (Larry Fessenden), Nennette and Boni (Claire Denis), Nico Icon (Suzanne Ofteringer), Noboody's Business (Alan Berliner)
Notable Shorts: Lumière segment (David Lynch), A Summer Dress (François Ozon)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1995
01. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
02. Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung)
02. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
03. [safe] (Todd Haynes)
04. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
05. Desolation Angels (Tim McCann)
06. God's Comedy (João César Monteiro)
07. Kids (Larry Clark)
08. Clockers (Spike Lee)
09. Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
10. Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
I Also Valued: Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis), Nadja (Michael Almeryda), The Doom Generation (Greg Araki), La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport), The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer), Smoke (Wayne Wang), To Die For (Gus Van Sant), Sonic Outlaws (Craig Baldwin), Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
Notable Shorts: When it Rains (Charles Burnett), If 6 Was 9 (Eija-Liisa Ahtila), O Bestiário (João César Monteiro), Walk With Johnny Guitar (João César Monteiro), Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin), The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (Guy Maddin)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1994
01. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
02. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
03. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
04. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
05. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
06. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
07. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismäki)
08. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
09. Three Colors Trilogy (Krystof Kieslowski)
10. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
I also valued: Hoop Dreams (Steve James), Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung), The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang), L'Enfer (Claude Chabrol), Dellamorte Dellamore (Michele Soavi), Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Notable Shorts: Aftermath (Nacho Cerdà)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1993
01. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
02. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
03. The Piano (Jane Campion)
04. Hard Boiled (John Woo)
05. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
06. Blue (Derek Jarman)
07. Naked (Mike Leigh)
08. Matinee (Joe Dante)
09. Kika (Pedro Almodovar)
10. 32 Short Films About Glen Gould (Francois Girard)
I also valued: True Romance (Tony Scott), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), Raining Stones (Ken Loach), Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara), Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer), Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara), Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater), Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian), Green Snake (Tsui Hark), Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
Notable Shorts: Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes), Passage à l'acte (Martin Arnold)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1992
01. Life and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami)
02. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
03. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang)
04. La Belle Noisusse (Jacques Rivette)
05. Dream of Light (Victor Erice)
06. Careful (Guy Maddin)
07. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
08. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
09. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
10. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Documentary: Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
I also valued: Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven), Kaïrat (Darezhan Omirbayev), Dead Again (Kenneth Brannagh), One False Move (Carl Franklin), Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), In the Land of the Deaf (Nicolas Philibert)
Notable Shorts: Food (Jan Svankmajer), For Marilyn (Stan Brakahge)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1991
1a. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
1b. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
1c. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
02. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
03. Poison (Todd Haynes)
04. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
05. The Double Life of Veronique (Krystof Kieslowski)
06. Archangel (Guy Maddin)
07. A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano)
08. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
09. Begotten (E. Elias Mehrige)
10. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
Documentary: Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
I also valued: Body Parts (Eric Red), High Heels (Pedro Almodovar), An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion), Dogfight (Nancy Savoca), Motorama (Barry Shils), Barton Fink (Joel Coen), The Sect (Michele Soavi), Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax), The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan), Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
Notable Shorts: Ambition (Hal Hartley), Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1990
1a. Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano)
1b. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
02. Trust (Hal Hartley)
03. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
04. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
05. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
06. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
07. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
08. Miami Blues (George Armitage)
09. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
10. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
I also valued: Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Bullet in the Head (John Woo), Baby Blood (Alain Bobak), The Black Cat (Dario Argento), Sonny Boy (Robert Martin Carroll), Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen), The Grifters (Stephen Frears), Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne), Twister (Michael Almeryda), Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
Notable Shorts: Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs), Cutting Cards (Walter Hill), Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (Jonas Mekas), Made in Hollywood (Norman Yonemoto)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1989
01. Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro)
02. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
03. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
04. The Killer (John Woo)
05. The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
06. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
07. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
08. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
09. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
Documentary: Homework (Abbas Kiarostami)
I also valued: Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), The 'burbs (Joe Dante), Society (Brian Yuzna), Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke), Batman (Tim Burton), The Church (Michele Soavi), Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan), Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), Parents (Bob Balaban)
Notable Shorts: Elephant (Alan Clarke), Pièce touchée (Martin Arnold), Kitchen Sink (Alison Maclean), Tales From the Crypt - "The Man Who Was Death" [tv episode] (Walter Hill), He Was Once (Mary Hestand)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1988
01. The Decalogue (Krystof Kieslowski)
02. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
03. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
04. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
05. Damantion (Béla Tarr)
06. Tetsuo: The Ironman (Shinya Tsukomoto)
07. Medea (Lars von Trier)
08. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
9a. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
9b. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
10. Monkey Shines (George A. Romero)
Documentary: The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
I Also Valued: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman), Ariel (Aki Kaurismaki), Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (Mark Lewis), The Grave of Fireflies (Isao Takahata), My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki), Maniac Cop (William Lustig), Hairspray (John Waters), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis), Tales From the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Notable Shorts: The Cowboy and the Frenchman (David Lynch)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1987
01. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
02. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
03. Where is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami)
04. Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé)
05. House of Games (David Mamet)
06. Opera (Dario Argento)
07. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
08. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
09. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
10. Tough Guys Don't Dance (Norman Mailer)
Documentary: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena)
I also valued: Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow), Hellraiser (Clive Barker), Anguish (Bigas Luna), Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter), Bad Blood (Leos Carax), Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner), The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben), Stage Fright (Michele Soavi), White of the Eye (Donald Cammell), The Monster Squad (Fred Dekker)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1986
01. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
02. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
03. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
04. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
05. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
06. Max mon amour (Nagisa Oshima)
07. Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismaki)
08. Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
09. From Beyond (Stuart Gordon)
10a. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
10b. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
Documentary: Forest of Bliss (Robert Gardner)
I also valued: A Better Tomorrow (John Woo), Two Friends (Jane Campion), She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Aliens (James Cameron), Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki), Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan), River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
Notable Shorts: Street of Crocodiles (Brothers Quay), Queen is Dead (Derek Jarman)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1985
01. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
02. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
03. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
4a. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
4b. Crime Wave (John Paizs)
05. A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
06. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
07. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
08. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
09. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
10a. Witness (Peter Weir)
10b. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
10c. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
Documentary: Tokyo Ga (Wim Wenders)
I also valued: Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant), Lost in America (Albert Brooks), The Stuff (Larry Cohen), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodovar), To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin), Streetwise (Bell, Mark, and McCall), Mishima (Paul Schrader), Demons (Lamberto Bava), Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Notable Shorts: Manufraktur (Peter Tscherkassky), The Right Side of My Brain (Richard Kern)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1984
01. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
02. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
03. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
04. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
05. Dune (David Lynch)
06. Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan)
07. A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
08. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
09. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
10. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
Documentary: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
I Also Valued: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki), Repo Man (Alex Cox), The Terminator (James Cameron), The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen), Gremlins (Joe Dante), The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1983
01. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
02. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
03. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
04. Christine (John Carpenter)
05. The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven)
06. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
07. Unknown Chaplin (Kevin Brownlow and David Gill)
08. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang)
09. Le Dernier Combat (Luc Besson)
10. À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
I also valued: Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar), First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard), Zelig (Woody Allen), Scarface (Brian De Palma), Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), Vigilante (William Lustig)
Notable Shorts: It's a Good Life (Joe Dante), Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (George Miller)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1982
01. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
02. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
03. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
04. The Thing (John Carpenter)
05. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
06. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) [5-hr cut]
07. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
08. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
09. Café Flesh (Stephen Sayadian)
10. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Documentary: Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
I also valued: Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman), On Top of the Whale (Raul Ruiz), Diva (Jean-Jacques Beinex), Prefab People (Béla Tarr), Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), Creepshow (George A. Romero), Atomic Café (Kevin Rafferty), Slumber Party Massacre, Q: The Winged Serpent (Larry Cohen), Made in Britain (Alan Clarke), Halloween III (Tommy Lee Wallace), Tron, Duel to the Death (Chang Cheh)
Notable Shorts: Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajar), The Discipline Of D.E. (Gus Van Sant), Vincent (Tim Burton), The Chorus (Abbas Kiarostami)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1981
01. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
02. The Road Warrior (George Miller)
03. Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
04. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
05. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
06. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
07. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
08. Knightriders (George A. Romero)
09. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
10a. Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry)
10b. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
10c. Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
I also valued: Scanners (David Cronenberg), Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam), Blow Out (Brian De Palma), Presents (Michael Snow), Body Heat (Lawrence Kasden), Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Funhouse (Tober Hooper), Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
Notable Shorts: Springtime in Greenland (John Paizs), Crac (Frédéric Back)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1980
01. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
02. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller) [2004 Reconstruction]
03. Inferno (Dario Argento)
04. Dressed to Kill (Brian DePalma)
05. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
06. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
07. Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman)
08. The Fog (John Carpenter)
09. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
10. Maniac (William Lustig)
Documentary: Huie's Sermon (Werner Herzog)
I Also Valued: Superman II (Richard Lester), Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), The Changeling (Peter Medak), Shogun Assassin (Kenji Misumi)
Notable Shorts: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank), Swiss Army Knife With Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer), God's Angry Man (Werner Herzog)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1979
01. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
02. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
03. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
04. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
05a. The Brood (David Cronenberg)
05b. Fast Company (David Cronenberg)
06. "10" (Blake Edwards)
07. Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
08. Being There (Hal Ashby)
09. Zombie (Lucio Fulci)
10. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Documentary: Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
I also valued [preferential]: Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel), Alien (Ridley Scott), A Perfect Couple (Robert Altman), Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan), The Magnificant Butcher (Yuen Woo-ping), Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura), Phantasm (Don Cascarelli), Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog), Salem's Lot (Tobe Hooper), Mad Max (George Miller), The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
Notable Shorts: On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed ? (Owen Land) [formerly known as George Landow], Tale of Tales (Yuri Nortstein)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1978
01. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
02. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. Halloween (John Carpenter)
04. Days of Heaven (Terence Malick)
05. The Driver (Walter Hill)
06. A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway)
07. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
08. Family Nest (Béla Tarr)
09. Piranha (Joe Dante)
10. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
Documentary: Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
I also valued: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer), 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang), Someone's Watching Me! [tv] (John Carpenter), Five Venoms (Chang Cheh), Warriors Two (Sammo Hung), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
Notable Shorts: LMNO (Robert Breer), Solution (Abbas Kiarostami)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1977
01. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
02. Star Wars (George Lucas)
03. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
04. Desperate Living (John Waters)
05. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
06. Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost)
07. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
08. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
09. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
10a. God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
10b. Rituals (Peter Carter)
Documentary: Harlan County:USA (Barbara Kopple)
I also valued: Rabid (David Cronenberg), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) , Scum (Alan Clarke), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg), Martin (George A. Romero), Seven Notes in Black (Lucio Fulci), The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven)
Notable Shorts: La Soufrière (Werner Herzog), Dogs' Dialogue (Raoul Ruiz)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1976
01. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
02. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
03. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
04. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
05. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
06. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
07. F is for Fake (Orson Welles)
08. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Casavettes)
09. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima)
10. The Shootist (Don Siegel)
Documentary: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Werner Herzog)
I also valued: Carrie (Brian De Palma), A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat), Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Obsession (Brian De Palma), Massacre at Central High (Rene Daalder), Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador), Network (Sidney Lumet), Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis), Salon Kitty (Tinto Brass)
Notable Shorts: Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway), New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops (Owen Land) [formerly known as George Landow]

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1975
01. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
02. Nashville (Robert Altman)
03. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
04. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
05. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
06. Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
07. Shivers (David Cronenberg)
08. Hustle (Robert Aldrich)
09. Female Trouble (John Waters)
10. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
I also valued: Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones), The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir), Hard Times (Walter Hill), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman), Night Moves (Arthur Penn), Xala (Ousmane Sembene), Trilogy of Terror (Dan Curtis), Abigail Leslie is Back in Town (Joseph W. Sarno)
Notable shorts: “No Sir, Orison!” (Owen Land) [formerly known as George Landow], Windows (Peter Greenaway), Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land [formerly known as George Landow]

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1974
01. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
02. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
04. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
05. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
06. California Split (Robert Altman)
07. Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava)
08. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
09. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
10. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
Documentary: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog)
I also valued: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette), Cockfighter (Monte Hellman), Amarcord (Federico Fellini), Black Christmas (Bob Clark), Thriller: A Cruel Picture (Bo Arne Vibenius), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent), The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola), Foxy Brown (Jack Hill), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), It's Alive (Larry Cohen), The Flying Guillotine (Ho Meng-Hwa), Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer)
Notable Shorts: The Haunted Mouth (American Dental Association, dir. uncredited), Fuji (Robert Breer), Butterfly (Shuji Terayama)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1973
01. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
02. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
03. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
04. Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)
05. Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
06. Sisters (Brian DePalma)
07. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
08a. Some Call it Loving (James B. Harris)
08b. Score (Radley Metzger)
09. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
I also valued: The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah [director's cut]), WR-Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev), Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty), Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), Giovannona Long-Thigh (Sergio Martino), Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Norifumi Suzuki), Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich), Roma (Federico Fellini), The Paper Chase (James Bridges), Black Caesar (Larry Cohen), Return of the Evil Dead (Amando de Ossorio), Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (John Newland [tv]), Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
Notable Shorts: Frank Film (Frank Mouris), The Horse (Charles Burnett)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1972
01a. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
01b. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
01c. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
02a. La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel)
02b. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
03. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
04. Deliverance (John Boorman)
05. Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó)
06. Fat City (John Huston)
07. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
08. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
09. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
10. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Documentary: Winter Soldier (Winter Collective)
I also valued: Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras), Deathdream (Bob Clark), The Godfather (Francis Coppola), Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr.), The Horror Express (Eugenio Martín), The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May), Images (Robert Altman), Last House on the Left (Wes Craven), Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin), Raw Meat (Gary Sherman), Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr.), Girl Boss Guerilla (Norifumi Suzuki), Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Notable Shorts: Two Solutions For One Problem (Abbas Kiarostami), Fragments of an Alms-Film (João César Monteiro), Recess (Abbas Kiarostami)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1971
01. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
02. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
03. Traffic (Jacques Tati)
04. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
05. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
06. The New One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
07. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
08. Love (Károly Makk)
09. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
10a. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
10b. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
10c. The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
Documentary: Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
I also valued: Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian), The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles), A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick), Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), Case of the Scorpion's Tail (Sergio Martino), Bay of Blood (Mario Bava), Bone (Larry Cohen), Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood), Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Dario Argento), Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi), The Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento), She Killed in Ecstasy (Jess Franco), What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington)
Notable Shorts: Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton), Necrology (Standish Lawder), The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage), Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shuji Terayama)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1970
01. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
02. Trash (Paul Morrissey)
03. El Topo (Alejandro Jodowsky)
04. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
05. Zorn’s Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
06. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
07. The Lickerish Quartet (Radley Metzger)
08. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
09. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
10. Companeros (Sergio Corbucci)
I also value: Tristana (Luis Buñuel), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer), Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni), Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson), Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires), M*A*S*H (Robert Altman), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (R.W. Fassbinder), Multiple Maniacs (John Waters), Trog (Freddie Francis)- for its camp value, Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol), Hatchet for the Honeymoon ( Mario Bava), The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker)
Notable Shorts: The Grandmother (David Lynch), Bread and Alley (Abbas Kiarostami), He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes (João César Monteiro)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1969
01. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
02. Kes (Ken Loach)
03. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
04. Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
05. La Femme infidèle (Claude Chabrol)
06. Venus in Furs (Jess Franco)
07. Stereo (David Cronenberg)
08. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura)
09. Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr.)
10. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
Documentary: Salesman (Albert & David Maysles)
I also valued: Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu), Un Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Dragon Swamp (Lo Wei), Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger), Succubus (Jess Franco)
Notable Shorts: T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits), Several Friends (Charles Burnett),We (Artavazed Peleshyan), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (João César Monteiro)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1968
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
02. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
03. Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh)
04. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
05. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
06. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
07. The Party (Blake Edwards)
08a. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
08b. Le Révélateur (Philippe Garrel)
09. Faces (John Cassavetes)
10. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
Documentary: High School (Frederick Wiseman)
I also value (preferential): Targets (Peter Bogdanovich), If.... (Lindsay Anderson), Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger), The Cremator (Juraj Herz), Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk), Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves), Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo), Vixen! (Russ Meyer), The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel), Skidoo (Otto Preminger), Yellow Submarine (George Dunning), Z (Costa-Gravas), Greetings (Brian De Palma)
Notable Shorts: The Alphabet (David Lynch), Psych-Burn (J.X. Williams), 69 (Robert Breer)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1967
01. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
02. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
03. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
04. El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
05a. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
05b. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
06. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
07. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
08. Point Blank (John Boorman)
09. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
10a. The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman)
10b. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
10c. David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride)
Documentary: Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
I also valued: Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville), One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh), Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn), Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke), Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker), The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), The Graduate (Mike Nichols), Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski), Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker), La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard), Hellbenders (Sergio Corbucci)
Notable Shorts: Fuses (Carolee Schneemann), Report (Bruce Conner)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1966
01a. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
01b. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
02. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
03. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
04. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
05. Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
06. Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
07. Masculin, Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
08. Hawks and Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
09. Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
10. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
I also value: Kill, Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene), Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen), Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut), The Professionals (Richard Brooks), Island of Terror (Terence Fisher)
Notable Shorts: Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (Owen Land) [formerly known as George Landow], Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar), Breakaway (Bruce Conner), The Flat (Jan Svankmajar), Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (David lynch), The Secret of Wendel Samson (Mike Kuchar)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1965
01. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
01. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
01. The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has)
01. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
05. Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
06. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
07. Vinyl (Andy Warhol)
08. Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava)
09. Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki)
10. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Freddie Francis)
I also value: Motor Psycho (Russ Meyer), Tattooed Life (Seijun Suzuki)
Notable Shorts: A Game With Stones (Jan Svankmajar)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1964
01. Gertrud (Carl Dreyer)
01. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
02. Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
03. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
04. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
05. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
06. The Killers (Don Siegel)
07a. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
07b. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
08. Culloden (Peter Watkins)
09a. Kiss Me Stupid (Billy Wilder)
10a. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
10b. Zulu (Cy Endfield)
10c. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
I also valued: Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel), A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô), The Patsy (Jerry Lewis), Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard), My Fair Lady (George Cukor), Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava), The Masque of Red Death (Roger Corman), Spider Baby (Jack Hill), Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton), The Flesh Eaters (Jack Curtis), Lady in a Cage (Walter Grauman), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Bryon Haskin), Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
Notable Shorts: La Jetée (Chris Marker), Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger), The Cage (Shuji Terayama)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1963
01. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
02. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
03. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
04. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
05. Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
06. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
07. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
08. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
09. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
10. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Documentary: Happy Mother's Day (Richard Leacock)
I also value: Whip and the Body (Mario Bava), Black Sabbath (Mario Bava), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (Ishirô Honda), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman), The Sadist (James Landis), The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Mario Bava)
Notable Shorts: The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad), Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith), Blonde Cobra (Ken Jacobs), Blow Job (Andy Warhol), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage), La Ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer), Scotch Tape (Jack Smith)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1962
01. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
02. Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
03. Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith)
04. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
05. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini) NEW!
06. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
07. The Trial (Orson Welles)
08. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
09. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
10. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
I also valued: An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), Night of the Eagle (Sidney Hayers), My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), Mondo Cane (P. Cavara, G. Jacopetti, F. Prosperi), Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey), Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah), La Commare Secca (Bernardo Bertolucci), Nude on the Moon (Doris Wishman), To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan), Panic in Year Zero (Ray Milland)
Notable Shorts: Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage), Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage), Herakles (Werner Herzog), Moonplay (Mary Menkin)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1961
01. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
02. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
03. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
04. The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
05. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
06. Night Tide (Curtis Harrington)
07. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
08. Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
09. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
10. The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
I also value: La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini), A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards), Curse of the Doll People (Paul Nagel), Viridiana (Luis Buñuel), Hercules in the Haunted World (Mario Bava)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1960
01. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
02. The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
03. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
04. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
05. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
06. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
07. The Young One (Luis Buñuel)
08. The Cloud-capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
09a. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
09b. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
I also valued: Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla), 13 Ghosts (William Castle) , Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Let's Make Love (George Cukor), Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)

BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1959
01a. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
01b. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
02. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
03. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
04. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
05. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
06. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
07. Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
08. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
09. The Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth)
10. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
I also valued: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder), 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut), Verboten! (Samuel Fuller), Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju), Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon), Plan 9 From Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr.), A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)