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)
[Click
for current Blind Spots]
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)
[Click
for current Blind
Spots]
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)
[click for current Blind Spots]
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)