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.Typically a film is filed under ther
year in which it made its North American premier, but exceptions apply to every
rule. In many cases these lists change as I see more and more. Every film listed
comes with my highest recommendation.
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2009
01. The Road (John Hillcoat)
02. Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
03. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
04. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
05. Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos)
06a. Embodiment of Evil (José Mojica
Marins)
06b. Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
06c. House of the Devil (Ti West)
07. Avatar (James Cameron)
08. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
09a. Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson)
09b. Yatterman (Takashi Miike) NEW!
10. Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Documentary: The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
I also value: [preferential] The
Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh), Beeswax (Andrew
Bujalski), Mother (Bong Joon-ho), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold),
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine), In the Electric Mist (Bertrand
Tavernier), Humpday (Lynn Shelton), Antichrist (Lars von Trier),
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders), Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Notable Shorts: Phantoms
of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Logorama (François
Alaux, Herve de Crecy, Ludovic Houplain)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2008
01. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
02.
WALL·E
(Andrew Stanton)
03. Let
the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
04. The
Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
05. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
06. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
07. Pontypool
(Bruce McDonald)
08. Red (Trygve Allister Diesen &
Lucky McKee)
09. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
10. [.Rec] (Jaume Balagueró &
Paco Plaza)
11. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
12. Redbelt (David Mamet)
13. Ballast (Lance Hammer)
14. Viva (Anna Biller)
15. Rachel Getting Married
(Jonathan Demme)
16. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
17. Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
18. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan
Coen)
19. The Silence of Lorna (Jean-Pierre
& Luc Dardenne)
20. Happy-Go-Lucky
(Mike Leigh)
Documentary: Man on Wire
(James Marsh)
I also value: The
Wrestler (Darren
Aronofsky), 35 Shots of Rum (Claire
Denis),
Julia (Erick Zonca),
Rogue (Greg
Mclean), Frozen River (Courtney Hunt), Changeling
(Clint Eastwood), Timecrimes (Nacho
Vigalondo), The Children (Tom Shankland), Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi
Kurosawa), Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman), CJ7
(Stephen Chow), Gran
Torino (Clint Eastwood), Jerichow (Christian
Petzold), In Bruges (Martin McDonagh),
Two Lovers (James
Gray)
Notable Shorts: Treevenge
(Jason Eisener) , Merde (Leos Carax),
The Facts in the Case of Mr. Hollow (Rodrigo Gudiño & Vincent
Marcone), Spanky To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin), SkateBang
(Damon Packard)
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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. Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
09. Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
10. Zodiac (David Fincher)
11. Inside (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien
Maury)
12. Encounters at the End of the World
(Werner Herzog)
13. The Man from London
(Béla Tarr)
14. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
15. Once (John Carney)
16. The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden)
17. Megane (Naoko Ogigami)
18. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian
Mungiu)
19. Fido (Andrew Currie)
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Tim Burton)
Documentary: The King of Kong (Seth
Gordon)
I also value: Quiet
City (Aaron
Katz),
Joshua (George
Ratliff),
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), Transformers (Michael Bay), The
Lost (Chris Sivertson), 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), Boat
(David Lynch)
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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),
Container (Lukas
Moodysson),
Taxidermia (György
Pálfi),
The Christmas Tale (Paco Plaza),
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), Seagull
Diner (Naoko
Ogigami)NEW!,
The Host (Bong
Joon-ho), Lassie (Charles Sturridge), S&Man (J.T.
Petty)
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. A History of Violence
(David Cronenberg)
06. L’Enfant
(Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
07. The Proposition
(John Hillcoat)
08. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
09. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
10. The
Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
11. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
12. Tale of
Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
13. The Descent (Neil Marshall) [UK
Cut]
14. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
15. Homecoming
(Joe Dante)
16. Police Beat (Robinson
Devor)
17.4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
18. Caché
(Michael Haneke)
19. Princess
Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)
20. Izo (Takashi Miike)
Documentary: Grizzly Man & The White Diamond
(Werner Herzog)
I also value: Imprint (Takashi
Miike), 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), Lightning Bug (Robert Hall)
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), 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. The Brown Bunny (Vincent
Gallo)
02. Spider (David Cronenberg)
03. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
04. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
05. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
06a. Dogville (Lars
von Trier)
06b. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen
Leth & Lars von Trier)
07. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
08. Down With Love (Peyton Reed)
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. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
13. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
14. The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
15. demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
16. Come and Go
(João César Monteiro)
17. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Greene)
18. The Company (Robert Altman)
19. Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
20. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Special Award: The Cremaster Cycle (Matthew Barney)
'95-'03
Documentary: Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
Other films I valued [preferential]:
Time of the Wolf (Michael
Haneke), 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), Lost
in Translation (Sofia Coppola), PTU (Johnny To), A Talking
Picture (Manoel de Oliveira)
Notable Shorts: Lifeline (Victor Erice), Dogs
Have No Hell (Aki Kaurismäki), The Separation (Robert Morgan),
Terminal Bar (Stefan Nadelman)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 2002
01a. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
01b. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
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. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang ke)
12. 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
13. The Tracker (Rolf de
Heer)
14. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
15. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
16. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
17. May
(Lucky McKee)
18. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
19. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
20.Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
Documentary: To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
I also valued:
I'm Going Home
(Manoel de Oliveira), Heaven
(Tom Tykwer), 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), Porn Theater (Jacques Nolot)
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), Dagon (Stuart
Gordon), Lantana (Ray Lawerance), Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (Lee
Demarbe), Revolution #9 (Tim McCann), In the Bathtub of the World
(Caveh Zahedi), Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
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. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
11. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho)
12. Chunhyang (Im Kwon Taek)
13. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong
Sang-soo)
14. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
15. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
16. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
17. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
18. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
19. Durian, Durian (Fruit Chan)
20. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
Documentary: One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
(Chris Marker)
I also valued: Water Drops on
Burning Rocks (François Ozon),
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Peppermint Candy
(Lee Chang-dong), Brother (Takeshi Kitano), A Chronicle
of Corpses (Andrew Repasky McElhinney), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku),
Party 7 (Katsuhito Ishii), The Gleaners and I (Agnès
Varda), High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
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. L'humanite (Bruno Dumont)
03. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
04. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
05. Audition (Takashi Miike)
06. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
07. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
08. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
09. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10. Ravenous (Antonia Bird)
11. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
12. God's Wedding (João César
Monteiro)
13. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
14. Election (Alexander Payne)
15. julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine)
16. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
17. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
18. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)
19. Romance (Catherine Breillat)
20. Migrating Forms (James Fotopoulos)
Documentary: American Movie (Chris Smith)
I also valued: Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer), The
Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski), My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata),
6ixtynin9 (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Juha (Aki Kaurismäki), Holy Smoke (Jane Campion)
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. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
03. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
04. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
05. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Nöe)
06. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
07. Small Soldiers (Joe Dante)
08. Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
09. Affliction (Paul Schraeder)
10. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong
Sang-soo)
11. Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
12. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc
Godard)
13. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
14. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
15. Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
16. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
17. Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick
& Eduardo Sánchez)
18. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
19. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry
Gilliam)
20. Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura)
I also valued: April
Story (Shunji Iwai), The
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes), The
Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen), The Idiots (Lars von Trier),
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi), Lovers of the Arctic Circle
(Julio Medem), 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. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
03. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
04. Funny Games (Michael
Haneke)
05. In the Company of Men (Neil Labute)
06. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhang-ke)
07. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
08. The Eel (Shohei
Imamura)
09. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
10a. Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
10b. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10c. Gummo (Harmony Korine)
10d. See the Sea (François
Ozon)
10e. 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), Princess Mononoke
(Hayao Miyazaki), Ossos (Pedro Costa), The Second Civil War
(Joe Dante)
Notable Shorts: Cutting Moments (Douglas
Buck), Smack My Bitch Up [music video] (Jonas Ackerlund),
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),
The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
Notable Shorts: Lumière segment (David Lynch),
A Summer Dress (François Ozon), "Home"
(Kim Manners) [X-Files episode]
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), Premonition Following An Evil Deed (David Lynch), 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),
Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski) NEW!
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. Naked (Mike Leigh)
06. Matinee (Joe
Dante)
07. Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
08. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
09. Boxing Helena (Jennifer Chambers Lynch)
10. Kika (Pedro
Almodovar)
I also valued: Blue
(Derek
Jarman), 32 Short Films About
Glen Gould (Francois Girard),
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), A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
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. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
04. Rebels
of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang)
05. La Belle Noisusse (Jacques Rivette)
06. Dream of Light (Victor Erice)
07. Careful
(Guy Maddin)
08. Lessons
of Darkness (Werner
Herzog)
09. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
10. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Documentary: Brother's
Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
I also valued: Simple
Men (Hal
Hartley),
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven), Innocent Blood (John
Landis), The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann),
Kaïrat (Darezhan Omirbayev),
Dead Again (Kenneth Brannagh),
One False Move (Carl Franklin), Bitter
Moon (Roman Polanski), In the Land of the Deaf (Nicolas
Philibert), Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
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. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
08. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
09. Miami Blues (George Armitage)
10a. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
10b. Pump Up the Volume
(Allan Moyle)
I also valued: Edward
Scissorhands (Tim
Burton), 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), The Bear (Jean-Jacques Annaud),
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),
Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen), Withnail and I (Bruce
Robinson), Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill), 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),
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson)
Notable Shorts:
Family Dog (Brad Bird) NEW!
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. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
Documentary: Forest of Bliss
(Robert Gardner)
I also valued:
Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton),
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo), Two Friends (Jane
Campion), She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Aliens (James Cameron),
Gothic (Ken Russell), 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)
07a. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
07b. The Goonies (Richard Donner)
08. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
09a. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
09b. Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon)
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), Into the Night (John Landis),
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), Explorers (Joe Dante)
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 Hit (Stephen Frears),
The Toxic Avenger (Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman), The Company of
Wolves (Neil Jordan), La Femme Publique (Andrzej Zulawski), Starman
(John Carpenter)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1983
01. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
02. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
03. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
04. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
05. Christine (John Carpenter)
06. The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven)
07. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
08. Unknown Chaplin (Kevin Brownlow and
David Gill)
09. Le Dernier Combat (Luc Besson)
10. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu
Chia-Liang)
I also valued: À
nos amours (Maurice
Pialat), Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar),
Psycho II (Richard Franklin), First
Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc
Godard), Zelig
(Woody Allen), Scarface (Brian De Palma), Return of the Jedi
(Richard Marquand), Vigilante (William Lustig), Fire
and Ice (Ralph Bakshi)
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. White Dog (Samuel
Fuller)
03. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
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), Turkey Shoot (Brian Trenchard-Smith)
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)
10e. Roadgames (Richard Franklin)
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), Cruising (William Friedkin), Berlin
Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Blues Brothers
(John Landis) NEW!
, The
Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty),
Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry
Zucker), The Changeling (Peter Medak), The House
at the Edge of the Park (Ruggero Deodato)
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. Zombie
(Lucio Fulci)
08. Being There
(Hal Ashby)
09. Wise Blood (John Huston)
10. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Documentary: Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
I also valued
[preferential]:
Marriage
of Maria Braun (Rainer
Werner Fassbinder),
Escape From Alcatraz (Don
Siegel), Alien
(Ridley Scott), A Perfect Couple (Robert
Altman), Phantasm (Don Cascarelli),
Fascination (Jean Rollin), Over the
Edge (Jonathan Kaplan), The Magnificant Butcher
(Yuen Woo-ping), Prophecy (John
Frankenheimer), Nosferatu
the Vampyre (Werner Herzog),
Salem's Lot (Tobe Hooper),
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura),
Mad Max (George Miller), The China Syndrome (James Bridges),
Hardcore (Paul Schrader)
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. Days of Heaven (Terence Malick)
04. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
05. The Driver (Walter Hill)
06. Halloween (John Carpenter)
07. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
08. A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway)
09. Piranha (Joe Dante)
10. Family Nest (Béla Tarr)
Documentary: Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
I also valued: A
Wedding (Robert
Altman), Long
Weekend (Colin
Eggleston),
Patrick
(Richard Franklin),
Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ
Meyer), 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang),
Someone's Watching Me! [tv] (John Carpenter),
The Deer Hunter
(Michael Cimino),
Midnight Express (Alan
Parker), Magic (Richard Attenborough)
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)
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),
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg),
Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 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), Parade (Jacques Tati),
The Flying Guillotine (Ho Meng-Hwa), Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer),
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (John Hough)
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. Don't Look Now (Nicholas
Roeg)
03. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
04. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
05. Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
06. Sisters (Brian DePalma)
07a. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
07b. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter
Yates)
08a. Some Call it Loving (James B. Harris)
08b. Score
(Radley Metzger)
09a. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
09b. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
10. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
I also valued:
The
Spirit of the Beehive (Victor
Erice), Boachi Bushido:
Code of the Forgotten Eight (Teruo Ishii), Pat Garrett &
Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah [director's cut]), The Norliss
Tapes (Dan Curtis), The Three Musketeers (Richard
Lester), WR-Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan
Makavejev), Touki
Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty),
Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita), High Plains Drifter
(Clint Eastwood), Emperor
of the North (Robert Aldrich), Roma (Federico Fellini),
The Paper Chase (James Bridges),
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), Westworld
(Michael Crichton)
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),
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah), Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard
& Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Notable Shorts: La Cabina (Antonio
Mercero), 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. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
04. Traffic (Jacques Tati)
05. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
06. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
07. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
08. Love (Károly Makk)
09. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
11. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
12. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
13. Vanishing
Point (Richard
C. Sarafian)
14. The New One-Armed Swordsman (Chang
Cheh)
15. The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
Documentary: Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner
Herzog)
I also valued: 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),
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)
10a. Companeros (Sergio Corbucci)
10b. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
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), Awakening of the Beast (José Mojica Marins)
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)
06a. Venus in Furs (Jess
Franco)
06b. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura)
07. Stereo
(David Cronenberg)
08. Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr.)
09. Pit Stop (Jack Hill)
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), The Sorcerers (Michael Reeves)
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: Paddle
to the Sea (Bill Mason),
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. The War Game (Peter
Watkins)
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. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
05. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
06. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
07. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
08. Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
09. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
10. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
Documentary: Happy Mother's Day (Richard Leacock)
I also value: The Leopard
(Luchino Visconti), These are the Damned (Joseph
Losey), Whip and the Body (Mario
Bava), Black Sabbath (Mario Bava), The Pink Panther
(Blake Edwards), Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (Ishirô
Honda), Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook), X: The Man with the X-Ray
Eyes (Roger Corman), The Sadist (James Landis)
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)
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), Ivan's
Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky),
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), Lonely are the Brave (David Miller)
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: Blast
of Silence (Allen
Baron), Taste of Fear (Seth Holt), 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), Erik the Conqueror (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)
, Le Trou (Jacques
Becker),
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)
03a. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
03b. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
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), The Tingler
(William Castle)
Notable Shorts: The Astronautes (Walerian Borowczyk)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1958
01. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
02. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
03. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
04. Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
05. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
06. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
07. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
08. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran)
09. Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree)
10. I Bury the Living
(Albert Band)
11. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
12. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
I Also Valued: Hondo
(John Farrow), High School Confidential! (Jack Arnold), Party Girl
(Nicholas Ray), The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa),
, Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph
H. Lewis), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), Giants
and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura), Big Deal on
Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
Notable Shorts: Schwechater
(Peter Kubelka)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1957
01. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
02. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
03. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
04a. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
04b. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
05. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander
Mackendrick)
06. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
07. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
08. Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller)
09. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy
Wilder)
10a. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank
Tashlin)
10b. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
I also valued: The
Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack
Arnold),
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar
Bergman), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), The
River's Edge (Allan
Dwan), 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer
Daves), Bridge
on the River Kwai (David
Lean), And God Created Woman... (Roger Vadim), The
Vampire (Paul Landres)
Notable Shorts: What's Opera
Doc? (Chuck Jones), A Man and His Dog Out For Air (Robert Breer),
Recreation (Robert Breer)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1956
01. The Searchers (John Ford)
02. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
03. Written on the Wind (Douglas
Sirk)
04. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
05. Seven Men From Now
(Budd Boetticher)
06. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(Don Siegel)
07. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
08. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
09. The Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
10. Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
I Also Valued: La
Strada (Federico Fellini),
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Wrong Man (Alfred
Hitchcock), Aparajito (Satyajit Ray),
Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin), While the City Sleeps (Fritz
Lang), The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin), The Bad Seed
(Mervyn LeRoy)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1955
01. Ordet (Carl Dreyer)
01. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
02. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
03. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
04. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
05. The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
06. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
07. Bob le flambeur (Jean Pierre Melville)
08. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
09. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
10a. East
of Eden (Elia Kazan)
10b. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
10c. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
Documentary: Night and Fog
(Alain Resnais)
I also valued: House
of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller),
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo
de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel), French
Cancan (Jean Renoir), The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann),
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson), This Island Earth
(Joseph M. Newmar), Diabolique (Henri-Georges
Clouzot), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), Tarantula (Jack
Arnold), Revenge of the Creature (Jack Arnold)
Notable Shorts: The Mechanics of Love (Willard Maas
and Ben Moore)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1954
01. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
02. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
03. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
04. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
05. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
06. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas
Sirk)
07. Silver Lode (Alan Dwan)
08. Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)
09. Creature From the Black Lagoon (Jack
Arnold)
10a. The River
of No Return (Otto Preminger)
10b. Track
of the Cat (William A. Wellman)
I also valued: Seven
Brides for Seven Brothers (Stanley
Donen),
Crime Wave (André
De Toth), The
High and the Mighty (William
A. Wellman), Riot in Cell Block 11
(Don Siegel), Illusions
Travel by Streetcar (Luis
Buñuel), Red Garters (George
Marshall), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewiecz),
Dial M for Murder (Alfred
Hitchcock), Them! (Gordon Douglas),
World For Ransom (Robert Aldrich), Godzilla (Ishirô
Honda)
Notable Shorts: Form Phases IV (Robert Breer),
The Way to the Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1953
01. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
02. El (Luis
Buñuel)
03. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
04. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
05. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
06. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
07. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
08. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
09. Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
10a. Invaders From
Mars (William Cameron Menzies)
10b. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
10c. The Wages of Fear (Henri Georges
Clouzot)
10d.5,000 Fingers of Dr.T (Roy Rowland)
I also valued:
99 River Street
(Phil Karlson), Angel
Face (Otto Preminger), House of Wax
(Andre De Toth), The Band
Wagon (Vincente Minnelli), I Love Melvin (Don Weis), Glen
or Glenda? (Edward D. Wood Jr.), Roman
Holiday (William Wyler), Shane (George Stevens), How to Marry
a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco)
Notable Shorts: Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger), Daybreaker
Express (D.A. Pennebaker)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1952
01. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
02. Rancho Notorious
(Fritz Lang)
03. The Lusty Men
(Nicholas Ray)
04a. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
04b. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
05a. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
05b. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
06a. Bend in the River (Anthony Mann)
06b. The Big Sky (Howard Hawks)
07a. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
07b. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
08. Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
09. Ascent to Heaven (Luis Buñuel)
10. Monkey Business (Howard
Hawks)
I also valued:
Singin' in the Rain
(Stanley
Donen/Gene Kelly),
El Bruto (Luis Buñuel),
The Quiet Man
(John Ford), On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Clash
By Night (Fritz Lang), High Noon
(Fred Zinnemann)
Notable Shorts: Interim (Stan Brakhage)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1951
01. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
02. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
03. The African Queen (John Huston)
04. The River (Jean Renoir)
05. Repast (Mikio Naruse)
06. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
07. The Thing
From Another World (Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks)
08. The Day
the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
09. Early Summer
(Yasujiro Ozu)
10. His Kind of Woman (John Farrow)
Comments: A Streetcar Named Desire
(Elia Kazan), Susana (Luis Buñuel),
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson) , Pandora and the Flying
Dutchman (Albert Lewin)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1950
01. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
02. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
03. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
04. Try and Get Me! (Cy Endfield)
05. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz)
06. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
07. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
08. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
09. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
10. Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller)
I Also Value: La
Ronde (Max Ophüls),
Where the
Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger),
Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli), The Gunfighter
(Henry King)
Notable Shorts: Un
Chant D’amour (Jean Genet),
Rabbit’s Moon (Kenneth Anger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1949
01. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
02. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
03. Jour de fête (Jacques Tati)
04. Late Spring (Yasujiro
Ozu)
05. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
06. A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L.
Mankiewicz)
07. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
08. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
09. The Set-Up (Robert
Wise)
10. The Fountainhead (King Vidor)
I also value: White
Heat (Raoul Walsh), The Window
(Ted Tetzlaff), Riso Amaro (Giuseppe
De Santis), Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa), The Big Steal (Don
Siegel), Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick), Whirlpool
(Otto Preminger), They Live By Night (Nicholas
Ray), D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté), Criss
Cross (Robert Siodmak), I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller), Colorado
Territory (Raoul Walsh)
Notable shorts:
Le Sang des bêtes
(Georges Franju), Puce Moment
(Kenneth Anger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1948
01. Red River (Howard Hawks)
02. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
03. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John
Huston)
04. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
05. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell / Emeric
Pressburger)
06. Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang)
07. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max
Ophüls)
08. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
09. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)
10. Pitfall (Andre de Toth)
I also value: Hamlet
(Laurence
Olivier),
The Naked City (Jules
Dassin), Fort Apache
(John Ford),
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges),
The Big Clock (John Farrow), The
Street with No Name (William Keighley), Act of Violence (Fred
Zinnemann)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1947
01. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
02. Quai des Orfèvres
(Henri-Georges Clouzot)
03. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
04. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)
05. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
06. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
07. Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger)
08. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro
Ozu)
09. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)
10. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
I also valued: The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz),
Born to Kill (Robert Wise), Daisy
Kenyon (Otto Preminger), Pursued (Raoul
Walsh), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway),
T-Men (Anthony Mann), Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery)
Notable Shorts: Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1946
01. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
02. La Belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
03. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
04. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell &
Emerich Pressburger)
05. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
06. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
07. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay
Garnett)
08. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis
Milestone)
09. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael
Powell, Emerich Pressburger)
10. The Chase (Arthur Ripley)
I also valued: My
Darling Clementine (John Ford),
Great Expectations (David Lean),
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor), The Killers (Robert Siodmak), Ziegfeld
Follies (Vincente Minnelli)
Special Award: Ivan the Terrible parts I, II (Sergei
Eisenstein) '44-'46
Notable Shorts: The Potted Psalm (James Broughton
and Sidney Peterson)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1945
01. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
02. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
03. Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
04. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert
Bresson)
05. Leave Her to Heaven
(John M. Stahl)
06. Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)
07. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
08. Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer)
09. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
10. The Great Flamarion (Anthony Mann)
I also valued: The
Body Snatcher (Robert
Wise),
Hangover Square (John Brahm),
The Clock (Vincente Minnelli),
Dead of Night (Cavalcanti,
Crichton, Dearden, & Hamer),
Yolanda and the Thief (Vincente
Minnelli), The
Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak),
And Then There Were None (René
Clair), The Lost Weekend (Billy
Wilder)
Notable Shorts: A Study in Choreography for Camera
(Maya Deren), Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1944
01. Laura (Otto Preminger)
02. Meet Me in St. Louis
(Vincente Minnelli)
03. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
04. The Miracle of Morgan’s
Creek (Preston Sturges)
05. At Land (Maya Deren)
06. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
07. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
08. Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak)
09. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston
Sturges)
10. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
I also valued: To
Have and Have Not (Howard
Hawks),
Betrayed (William
Castle), Murder,
My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk), Curse
of the Cat People (Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch), A Canterbury
Tale (Powell & Pressburger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1943
01. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael
Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
02. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
03. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
04. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
05. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
06. Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
07. Five Graves to Cairo
(Billy Wilder)
08. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
09. Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)
10. The Ox-Box
Incident (William A. Wellman)
I also valued: The Ghost Ship
(Mark Robson), The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson),
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti), Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli),
The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley)
Notable Shorts: Geography of the Body (Willard Maas)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1942
01. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
02. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
03. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
04. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
05. The Major and the Minor (Billy
Wilder)
06. Now, Voyager
(Irving Rapper)
07. Bambi (David Hand)
08. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
09. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1941
01. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
02. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
03. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
04. The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)
05. Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
06. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
07. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
08. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
09. The Wolf Man (George Waggoner)
10. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
I Also Value: How
Green Was My Valley (John Ford),
Western Union (Fritz Lang), High Sierra
(Raoul Walsh), The Sea Wolf
(Michael Curtiz), The Blood of Jesus (Spencer Wiliams)
Notable shorts: Hollywood
Steps Out (Tex Avery)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1940
01. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst
Lubitsch)
02. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
03. The Mortal Storm (Frank Bogzage)
04. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
05. The Bank Dick (W.C. Fields)
06. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
07. The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
08. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
09. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
10. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
I also valued: Foreign
Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock),
Fantasia
(Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske), Dr. Cyclops
(Ernest B. Schoedsack), My Little Chickadee
(Edward F. Cline), Pinocchio (Ben
Sharpsteen)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1939
01. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
02. Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
03. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
04. Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
05. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
06. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
07. Stagecoach (John Ford)
08. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
09. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
10.Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley)
I also valued: Destry
Rides Again (George
Marshall), Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington (John Capra),
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
(George Marshall)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1938
01. Holiday (George Cukor)
02. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
03. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael
Curtiz)
04. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
05. La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir)
06. Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
07. Porky in Wackyland (Robert Clampett)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1937
01. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
02. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
03. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
04. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
05. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao
Yamanaka)
06. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
07. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David
Hand)
08.Even -- As You and I
(Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1936
01. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
02. Fury (Fritz Lang)
03. The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)
04. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean
Renoir)
05. Partie de Campagne (Jean Renoir)
06. Swing Time (George Stevens)
07. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
08. The Petrified Forest
(Archie Mayo)
09. Night Mail (Harry Watt &
Basil Wright) w/ John Grierson commentary
10. The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)
I also valued: The Invisible Ray (Lambert Hillyer)
Notable Shorts: Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1935
01. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
02. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
03. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
04. Mad Love (Karl Freund)
05. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
06. The Raven (Lew Landers)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1934
01. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
02. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
03. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
04. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
05. Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
06. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred
Hitchcock)
07. It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
08. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
09. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
10. The Hearts of Age (Orson Welles and
William Vance)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1933
01. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
02. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz
Lang)
03. Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
04. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy
& Busby Berkeley)
05. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! (Lewis
Milestone)
06. Sons of the Desert
(William A. Seiter)
07. King Kong (Ernest B. Schoedsack)
08. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
09. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank
Capra)
10. Zéro de conduite (Jean Vigo)
I also valued: She
Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman),
Kreise (Circles) (Oskar Fischinger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1932
01. Freaks (Tod Browning)
02. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
03. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
04. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
05. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir)
06. The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B.
Schoedsack & Irving Pichel)
07. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
08. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
09. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
(Mervyn LeRoy)
10. Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
I also valued: I
Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu),
Doctor X (Michael Curtiz),
Number 17 (Alfred Hitchcock), Horse Feathers (Norman Z.
McLeod)
Notable Shorts: Land
Without Bread (Luis Buñuel)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1931
01. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
02. M (Fritz Lang)
03. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
04. Frankenstein (James Whale)
05. Le Million (René Clair)
06. Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu)
07. À nous la liberté (René
Clair)
08. Dracula (Tod Browning)
09. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
10. Little Caesar
(Mervyn LeRoy)
I also valued: Dishonored
(Josef von
Sternberg),
Monkey Business (Norman Z McLeod),
Taris (Jean Vigo)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1930
01. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
02. L’Age d’or (Luis Buñuel)
03. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
04. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
05. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
06. Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock)
07. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
08. Animal Crackers (Victor Herman)
09. Under the Roofs of Paris (René
Clair)
10. Studie Nr. 6 (Oskar Fischinger)
I also valued: À
propos de Nice (Jean
Vigo)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1929
01. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
02. Pandora’s Box (G.W. Pabst)
03. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga
Vertov)
04. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
05. Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst)
06. Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick &
Buster Keaton)
07. H2O (Ralph Steiner)
08. The River (Frank Borzage)
09. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
10. Rain (Joris Ivens)
I also valued: The
Cocoanuts
(Robert Florey & Joseph Santley)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1928
01. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
02. The Crowd (King Vidor)
03. The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
04. A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
05. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
06. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
(Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkpich)
07. Überfall (Ernö
Metzner)
08. Spies
(Fritz Lang)
09. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean
Epstein)
10. Seashell and the Clergyman
(Germaine Dulac)
I also valued: Steamboat
Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton),
Brumes d’Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff), L'Étoile de
mer (Man Ray)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1927
01. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
02. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
03. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde
Bruckman)
04. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
05. It (Clarence G. Badger)
06. La Glace à trois faces (Jean
Epstein)
07. The Girl With the Hatbox (Boris Barnet)
08. The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock)
09. Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
10. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1926
01. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
02. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
03. Anémic Cinéma (Marcel
Duchamp)
04. Spirals (Oskar Fischinger)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1925
01. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
02. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
03. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
04. Lazybones (Frank Borzage)
05. Paris qui dort (Rene Clair)
06. Faces of Children (Jacques Feyder)
07. Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ernst
Lubitsch)
08. Go West
(Buster Keaton)
09. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
(Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
10. The Lost World (Harvey O. Hoyt)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1924
01. Greed (Erich von Stroheim) [4hr version]
02. The Navigator (Buster Keaton &
Donald Crisp)
03. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
04. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
05. He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
06. Entr’acte (Rene Clair)
07. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
08. Girl Shy (Fred
C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
09. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
10. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the
Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov)
Notable Shorts: Ballet Mécanique
(Fernand Léger), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1923
01. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer &
Sam Taylor)
02. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton &
Jack Blystone)
03. The Three Ages (Buster Keaton &
Edward F. Cline)
04. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace
Worsley)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1922
01. Foolish Wives (Eric von Stroheim)
02. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (F.W.
Murnau)
03. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
04. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)
05. Cops (Buster Keaton & Edward F.
Cline)
06. Häxen (Benjamin Christensen)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1921
01. The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
02. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström)
02. Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter)
03. Manhatta (Paul Strand & Charles
Sheeler)
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1920
01. Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux)
02. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
03. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley)
04. The Spiders (Fritz Lang) 1919-1920
BEST THEATRICAL FILMS OF 1910’s
01. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
02. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith. 1919)
03. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert
Weine, 1919)
04. The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
05. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade, 1913)
06. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith,
1915)
07. The Rink (Charles Chaplin, 1916)
08. Traffic in Souls (George Loane Tucker,
1913)
09. His New Job (Charles Chaplin, 1915)
10. The Pilgrim (Frank Borzage, 1916)
11. The Champion (Charles Chaplin, 1915)
REPRESENITIVE FILMS PRE-1910
01. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès,
1902)
02. Electrocution of an Elephant (Thomas
Alva Edison, 1903)
03. The Astronomer's Dream (Georges Méliès,
1898)
04. The Kiss (Thomas Alva Edison, 1896)
05. The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S.
Porter, 1903)
06. The Magic Lantern (Georges Méliès,
1903)
07. After the Ball (Georges Méliès,
1897)
08. L'Arrivée d'un train en gare (Lumière
Bros, 1895)
09. Life of an American Fireman (Edwin
S. Porter, 1903)
10. Suicide of Colonel Henry (Georges
Méliès, 1899)
11. The Haunted Castle (Georges Méliès,
1896)
12. Four Troublesome Heads (Georges Méliès,
1898)
13. The One Man Band (Georges Méliès,
1900)
14. The Magic Book (Georges Méliès,
1900)
15. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
(Lumière Bros, 1895)