18th (1980): “The Earth Strikes Back” Show Notes

Table of Contents: Description, Corrections/Clarifications, Housekeeping, General, Main Slate, Ephemera, Recurring Directors, Recurring Countries, One-Time Directors, Debuts/Final Features, Festivals/Oscar Nominees, Events/Shorts/Panels, Discussions By Length, Specifications

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Description
The eighteenth episode of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. This covers the eighteenth edition of the festival in 1980, and features special guest Shawn Glinis, host of the Wiseman Podcast.

0:00-16:20 – Opening
16:21-55:27 – Part One [Melvin and Howard to Special Treatment]
55:28-1:33:05 – Part Two [Confidence to Camera Buff]
1:33:06-2:27:51 – Part Three [Europa ’51 to Every Man for Himself]
2:27:52-3:20:37 – Part Four [Loulou to The Last Metro]
3:20:38-3:26:19 – Closing

Corrections/Clarifications

  • N/A

Housekeeping

  • Hosted by Ryan Swen
  • Special Guest Shawn Glinis
  • Conceived and Edited by Ryan Swen
  • Recorded in Roswell and Detroit on Sudotack Microphone and Audacity, Edited in Audacity
  • Podcast photograph from Yi Yi, Logo designed by Dan Molloy
  • Poster by Les Levine
  • Recorded July 4, 2021
  • Released September 23, 2021
  • Music (in order of appearance):
    • Melvin and Howard (opening night)
    • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (another favorite)
    • The Conductor (favorite of the first section)
    • And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (favorite of the second section)
    • Kagemusha (favorite of the third section)
    • Loulou (favorite of the fourth section)
    • The Last Metro (closing night)

General

  • Selection Committee: Richard Roud (program director), Richard Corliss, Molly Haskell, Susan Sontag, Tom Luddy (West Coast consultant), Mary Meerson (retrospective consultant)
  • Location: Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall
  • Prices: 4, 6; for opening and closing night 7.50 and 12
  • Films seen for the podcast:
    • Ryan
      • Seen before podcast watching period: N/A
      • Seen for the podcast: All available
      • Favorite films: Tih-Minh, Kagemusha, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Color of Pomegranates, Every Man for Himself, Loulou
      • Least favorite films: Nights at O’Rear’s
    • Shawn
      • Seen before podcast watching period: Melvin and Howard, Camera Buff, Once Upon a Time in the West
      • Seen for the podcast: The Conductor, Europa ’51, The Color of Pomegranates, Kagemusha, Every Man for Himself, Loulou, The Last Metro; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood rewatched
      • Favorite films: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Kagemusha, Loulou
      • Least favorite films: N/A
  • Discoveries of the festival: The Conductor, Bye Bye Brazil, And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
  • Unavailable films: The Handyman, Masoch, Quilts in Women’s Lives, Handicapped Love, Rush

Main Slate

Opening Night: Melvin and Howard (1980, Jonathan Demme)
September 26, 7:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1980
The Handyman [L’Homme à tout faire] (1980, Micheline Lanctôt)
September 27, 12:30
Never released
Masoch (1980, Franco Brogi Taviani)
September 27, 3:00
Never released
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980, Connie Field)
Also: Quilts in Women’s Lives (1980, Pat Ferrero)
September 27, 6:00
Released 1981/Never released
Bye Bye Brazil [Bye Bye Brasil] (1979, Carlos Diegues)
September 27, 9:00
Released 1980
The Conductor [Dyrygent] (1980, Andrzej Wajda)
September 28, 9:30
Released 1982
Special Treatment [Poseban tretman] (1980, Goran Paskaljević)
September 30, 6:15
Released 1982
Confidence [Bizalom] (1980, Szabó István)
September 30, 9:30
Released 1981
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn [Ek Din Pratidin/One Day Every Day] (1979, Mrinal Sen)
October 1, 9:30
Never released
Handicapped Love [Behinderte Liebe] (1979, Marlies Graf)
And: Here’s looking at you, kid. (1980, William Edgar Cohen)
October 2, 6:15
Never released/Never released
Sunday Daughters [Vasárnapi szülők/Sunday Parents] (1980, Rózsa János)
October 3, 6:15
Never released
Camera Buff [Amator/Amateur] (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
October 3, 9:30
Released 1983
Retrospective: Europa ’51 [Europe ’51] (1952, Roberto Rossellini)
October 4, 9:00
Released 1954
Retrospective: The Martin Scorsese Color Show
Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time the West] (1968, Sergio Leone)
October 5, 4:30
Released 1969
The Color of Pomegranates [Nřan guynə] (1969, Sergei Parajanov)
October 6, 6:15
Never released
Kagemusha [Shadow Warrior] (1980, Kurosawa Akira)
October 6, 9:30
Released 1980
Every Man for Himself [Sauve qui peut (la vie)/Save Whoever Can (Life)] (1980, Jean-Luc Godard)
October 8, 6:15
Released 1980
Loulou (1980, Maurice Pialat)
October 8, 9:30
Released 1980
“Americana”
New York Story (1980, Jackie Raynal)
Rush (1980, Evelyn Purcell)
Nights at O’Rear’s (1980, Robert Mandel)
October 9, 6:15
Never released/Never released/Never released
The Constant Factor [Constans/Constant] (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi)
October 9, 9:30
Released 1983
Retrospective: Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)
October 11, 10:30
Released 1920
Closing Night: The Last Metro [Le dernier métro] (1980, François Truffaut)
October 12, 8:30 {Avery Fisher Hall}
Released 1981

Ephemera

  • British Film Now: nine films representing several modes of production; $3 for each film

Recurring Directors
Key: films in this iteration excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films in this iteration including, films in the festival up to this point excluding, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable), number of festivals with more than one film shown (when applicable); † indicates their last appearance, fraction in parentheses indicates number of features shown from oeuvre, features released in the eligible timeframe, features in oeuvre

  • Jean-Luc Godard: 1/1/14/18/2/5
  • François Truffaut: 1/1/8/8/5
  • Krzysztof Zanussi: 1/1/5/5
  • Kurosawa Akira: 1/1/4/4/1
  • Andrzej Wajda: 1/1/4/4/0/1
  • Maurice Pialat: 1/1/3/3
  • Jonathan Demme: 1/1/2/2/1†(2/34/34)
  • Carlos Diegues: 1/1/2/2†(2/21/21)
  • Sergei Parajanov: 1/1/2/2
  • Szabó István: 1/1/2/2
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski: 1/1/1/1
  • Roberto Rossellini: 0/1/1/3
  • Louis Feuillade: 0/1/0/2†(2/0/22)
  • Sergio Leone: 0/1/0/1

Recurring Countries
Key: films in this iteration excluding shorts/retrospectives, films in this iteration including, films in the festival up to this point excluding, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable)

  • USA: 5/7/66/87/4
  • Poland: 3/3/16/16
  • France: 2/3/100/120/16
  • Hungary: 2/2/12/12
  • Switzerland: 2/2/6/6
  • Italy: 1/3/37/45/4
  • Japan: 1/1/14/17/1
  • USSR: 1/1/7/8/2
  • Canada: 1/1/7/8
  • India: 1/1/7/7/1
  • Yugoslavia: 1/1/6/6
  • Brazil: 1/1/5/5

One-Time Directors

  • William Edgar Cohen
  • Pat Ferrero (short)
  • Connie Field
  • Marlies Graf
  • Micheline Lanctôt
  • Robert Mandel
  • Goran Paskaljević
  • Evelyn Purcell
  • Jackie Raynal (short)
  • Rózsa János
  • Mrinal Sen
  • Franco Brogi Taviani

Feature Debuts

  • Connie Field
  • Micheline Lanctôt
  • Robert Mandel
  • Evelyn Purcell
  • Franco Brogi Taviani

Festivals

  • NYFF World Premiere
    • New York Story
    • Nights at O’Rear’s
    • Rush
  • Cannes
    • Kagemusha (Palme d’or)
    • The Constant Factor (Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
    • Special Treatment (Best Supporting Actress)
    • And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
    • Bye Bye Brazil
    • Every Man for Himself
    • Loulou
    • The Handyman (Directors’ Fortnight)
    • Sunday Daughters (Directors’ Fortnight)
  • Berlin
    • Confidence (Best Director)
    • The Conductor (Best Actor)
  • Venice
    • Europa ’51 (1952, International Award)
    • Melvin and Howard
    • Masoch (Officina veneziana)
  • Other
    • Camera Buff (Moscow, Golden Prize)
    • Handicapped Love (Solothurn)
  • N/A
    • The Color of Pomegranates
    • Here’s looking at you, kid.
    • The Last Metro
    • The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
    • Once Upon a Time in the West
    • Quilts in Women’s Lives
    • Tih-Minh

Oscar Nominees

  • Melvin and Howard: Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Supporting Actress (won), Best Supporting Actor
  • Kagemusha: Best Art Direction, Best Foreign Film
  • Confidence: Best Foreign Film
  • The Last Metro: Best Foreign Film

Events

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Discussions By Length (Approximate)

  • 14:05 Once Upon a Time in the West (1:43:31-1:57:36)
  • 13:46 Tih-Minh [One Person] (2:54:53-3:08:39)
  • 13:04 Kagemusha (2:05:21-2:18:25)
  • 12:26 Camera Buff (1:20:39-1:33:05)
  • 11:57 The Last Metro (3:08:40-3:20:37)
  • 11:52 Loulou (2:28:51-2:40:43)
  • 10:03 Melvin and Howard (17:21-27:24)
  • 9:25 Every Man for Himself (2:18:26-2:27:51)
  • 9:24 Europa ’51 (1:34:06-1:43:30)
  • 8:44 The Conductor (40:21-49:05)
  • 8:35 “Americana” [One Person] (2:40:44-2:49:19)
  • 7:43 The Color of Pomegranates (1:57:37-2:05:20)
  • 6:24 Confidence [One Person] (56:26-1:02:50)
  • 6:21 Special Treatment [One Person] (49:06-55:27)
  • 6:15 Sunday Daughters [One Person] (1:14:23-1:20:38)
  • 5:48 And Quiet Rolls the Dawn [One Person] (1:02:51-1:08:39)
  • 5:32 The Constant Factor [One Person] (2:49:20-2:54:52)
  • 4:46 Here’s looking at you, kid. [One Person] (1:09:36-1:14:22)
  • 4:42 Bye Bye Brazil [One Person] (35:38-40:20)
  • 4:34 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter [One Person] (30:35-35:09)
  • 3:09 Masoch [Unavailable] (27:25-30:34)
  • 1:06 The Handyman [Unavailable] (27:25-28:31)
  • 0:55 Handicapped Love [Unavailable] (1:08:40-1:09:35)
  • 0:27 Quilts in Women’s Lives [Unavailable] (35:10-35:37)

Specifications

  • Jonathan Demme, Melvin and Howard, 1980, 35 mm, color, stereo sound, 95 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Micheline Lanctôt, L’Homme à tout faire, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 99 minutes, 1.85:1, French, Canada.
  • Franco Brogi Taviani, Masoch, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 110 minutes, 1.85:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Connie Field, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980, 16 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 65 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Pat Ferrero, Quilts in Women’s Lives, 1980, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 28 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Carlos Diegues, Bye Bye Brasil, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.66:1, Portuguese, Brazil.
  • Andrzej Wajda, Dyrygent, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 101 minutes, 1.37:1, Polish and English and French, Poland.
  • Горан Паскаљевић, Посебан третман, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 94 minutes, 1.66:1, Serbo-Croatian, Yugoslavia.
  • Szabó István, Bizalom, 1980, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, Hungarian and German, Hungary.
  • মৃণাল সেন, এক দিন প্রতিদিন, 1979, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 95 minutes, 1.37:1, Bengali, India.
  • Marlies Graf, Behinderte Liebe, 1979, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 124 minutes, 1.37:1, German, Switzerland.
  • William Edgar Cohen, Here’s looking at you, kid., 1980, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 51 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Rózsa János, Vasárnapi szülők, 1980, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 100 minutes, 1.37:1, Hungarian, Hungary.
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski, Amator, 1979, 35 mm and 8 mm, color, mono sound, 112 minutes, 1.37:1, Polish, Poland.
  • Roberto Rossellini, Europa ’51, 1952, 35 mm, black-and-white, mono sound, 118 minutes, 1.37:1, Italian, Italy.
  • Sergio Leone, C’era una volta il West, 1968, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 165 minutes, 2.35:1, English, Italy.
  • Սերգեյ Փարաջանով, Նռան գույնը, 1969, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 79 minutes, 1.37:1, Armenian, USSR.
  • 黒澤明, 影武者, 1980, 35 mm, color, 4-track stereo sound, 180 minutes, 1.85:1, Japanese, Japan.
  • Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 87 minutes, 1.66:1, French, Switzerland.
  • Maurice Pialat, Loulou, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 105 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.
  • Jackie Raynal, New York Story, 1980, 16 mm, black-and-white and color, mono sound, 27 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA.
  • Evelyn Purcell, Rush, 1980, 16 mm, color, mono sound, 48 minutes, 1.37:1, English, USA. (?)
  • Robert Mandel, Nights at O’Rear’s, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 45 minutes, 1.85:1, English, USA.
  • Krzysztof Zanussi, Constans, 1980, 35 mm, color, mono sound, 87 minutes, 1.66:1, Polish and English, Poland.
  • Louis Feuillade, Tih-Minh, 1918, 35 mm, black-and-white, silent, 418 minutes, 1.33:1, French, France.
  • François Truffaut, Le dernier métro, 1980, 35 mm, color and black-and-white, mono sound, 131 minutes, 1.66:1, French, France.

Reviews by Year

This will only include reviews I have written for established outlets on the occasion of a new theatrical (or streaming) release, and for Taipei Mansions in the New Release column. Reviews will be placed in the premiere section until their film receives a theatrical release announcement, after which the review will be placed in the appropriate theatrical release section, regardless of the review’s original context. Capsules, festival overviews, and entries as part of larger pieces will generally not be included, but films that are the impetus for pieces about larger, related subjects are included. Retrospective pieces are listed in the bottom section.

General

My defense of lists.
My attempted text reconstruction of Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Gift.

2026

Theatrical Release
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)

2025

Theatrical Release
Top 10
The Actor (Duke Johnson)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
Cloud (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Colors Within (Yamada Naoko)
Desert of Namibia (Yamanaka Yoko)
Dracula (Radu Jude)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
7 Walks With Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré)
Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage)

Premiere
AFI Fest
Double Happiness (Joseph Hsu)
Los Angeles Festival of Movies
We Are the Fruits of the Forest (Panh Rithy)

2024

Theatrical Release
Top 10
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
Here (Bas Devos)
Here (Robert Zemeckis)
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann)
Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
Music (Angela Schanelec)
Only the River Flows (Wei Shujun)
Red Island (Robin Campillo)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)

Premiere
Chime/The Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Los Angeles Festival of Movies
Mongrel (Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao)
Slamdance
Sundance Part 1 2

Other
REFORM! (Jon Bois)

2023

Theatrical Release
Top 10
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
Ferrari (Michael Mann)
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina)
Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
in water (Hong Sang-soo)
Mad Fate (Soi Cheang)
Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui)
Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Premiere
Murderess (Eva Nathena)
Sundance

2022

Theatrical Release
End-of-Year Catch-Up Capsules
Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)
Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)
Los conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) [#3]
Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
Free Chol Soo Lee (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher)
God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
El gran movimiento (Kiro Russo)
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)
Mija (Isabel Castro)
A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)

Premiere
The City and the City (Syllas Tzoumerkas & Christos Passalis)
Don Juan (Serge Bozon)
Every Day in Kaimukī (Alika Tengan)
The Mission (Tania Anderson)

Other
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas) Part 1 2 3

2021

Theatrical Release
The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
Annette (Leos Carax)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
France (Bruno Dumont)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
Labyrinth of Cinema (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Life in a Day 2020 (Kevin Macdonald)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Procession (Robert Greene)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
Titane (Julia Ducournau)
Two Lottery Tickets (Paul Negoescu)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)

Premiere
“The Capacity for Adequate Anger” (Vika Kirchenbauer)
Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
“Dear Chantal” (Nicolás Pereda)
“Inner Outer Space” (Laida Lertxundi)
Limbo (Soi Cheang)
Pebbles (PS Vinothraj)
Radiograph of a Family (Firouzeh Khosrovani)
“‘The red filter is withdrawn.'” (Kim Min-jung)
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
Singing in the Wilderness (Chen Dongnan)
Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies)
Virgin Blue (Niu Xiaoyu)

Other
The Beatles: Get Back

2020

Theatrical Release
Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)

2019

Theatrical Release
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
The Competition (Claire Simon)
The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
Two Plains & a Fancy (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)

Premiere
Belonging (Burak Çevik)
Cenote (Oda Kaori)
Long Way Home (André Novais Oliveira)

2018

Theatrical Release
Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D’Ambrose)
Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)
The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)

2017

Theatrical Release
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
Bronx Gothic (Andrew Rossi)
Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green)
Cézanne and I (Danièle Thompson)
Close Relations (Vitaly Mansky)
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland)
Escapes (Michael Almereyda)
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
Graduation (Christian Mungiu)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen)
Harmonium (Fukada Kōji)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello) 2
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté)
Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)

Premiere
Local Sightings Shorts Program: Natural Experiments
Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges)
“Let Your Heart Be Light” (Deragh Campbell & Sophy Romvari)
“Scaffold” (Kazik Radwanski)

2016

Theatrical Release
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
Assassin’s Creed (Justin Kurzel)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
Fences (Denzel Washington)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
Live by Night (Ben Affleck)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
Tower (Keith Maitland)

Premiere
Bad Black (Nabwana IGG)
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)

Retrospective
Barbara (2012, Christian Petzold) [2021]
Back to the Future Trilogy (1985-1990, Robert Zemeckis) [2022]
Classical Period (2018, Ted Fendt) [2023]
Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski) [2021]
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang) [2020]
Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryusuke) [2024]

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais) [2022]
Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick) [2022]
Lost in the Mountains (2009, Hong Sang-soo) [2018]
The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang) [2020]
David Lynch Retrospective [2017]

Merry-Go-Round (1981, Jacques Rivette) [2021]
Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello) [2024]
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002, Hong Sang-soo) [2022]
Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark) [2022]
Our House (2017, Kiyohara Yui) [2023]
Oxhide I & II (2005-2009, Liu Jiayin) [2021]

Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) [2021]
Police Story 1 & 2 (1985-1988, Jackie Chan) [2019]

Some Divine Wind (1991, Roddy Bogawa) [2020]
The State I Am In (2000, Christian Petzold) [2021]
Trust (1990, Hal Hartley) [2021]
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch) [2017]

The Walk (2015, Robert Zemeckis) [2022]
Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden) [2018]
What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang) [2022]
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy) [2021]

Human After All [ANNETTE]

Annette

Rating *** A must-see

Directed by Leos Carax

Yes, that opening. But not just “So May We Start,” which is as rousing, cheeky, and entrancing a first song as a film such as this could ask for. The film properly opens — after the far sillier spoken introduction — with a brief snatch of the French folk song “Au clair de la lune,” which leads into a shot of the outside of a Los Angeles studio at night. This image is rapidly overtaken by feedback manifested visually by red soundwaves, a motif carried into the studio itself, where musicians prepare to record, each burst of noise causing the camera to flicker, as shots are briefly overlaid on each other. This finally leads to Leos Carax calling over his daughter Nastya in French before introducing the first of many proper Sparks recordings.

Leaving aside the obvious narrative implications of a song called “By the light of the moon,” the credits specify that this is the “first recording of a human voice,” and that collision of traditions within a given medium course through Annette‘s veins. French and American, primitive paper recordings and high-tech digital audio, silent and sound cinema: these are the terms on which Carax is working, in which material reality coexists side-by-side with the unreal. In that sense, Annette’s central puppet deftly straddles the line between the two: a physical object that always feels uncanny.

The same could very much be said of Sparks’s music: I’ve listened to very little of their work otherwise, but the music on its own, while frequently catchy or at the very least an earworm, works here in large part because of its slipperiness, its integration with the dialogue. Henry’s first, abrasive show is a perfect introduction: slipping into no less than three, perhaps four songs over the course of about ten minutes, all moving with such abandon that it’s difficult to tell whether the songs are part of the act or part of the musical component. Of course, that slipperiness is inherent to the confrontations, arguments, and declarations of affections that speckle this film in musical form. But even more disorientingly, the actors’ intonations and recitations of dialogue often land in a phantom zone between speech and song, where it is throughly muddled whether a given line is meant to be part of a song or not.

Such ambiguity often doesn’t extend to the level of narrative, however, for better or worse. Despite its often extravagant scale, what with its globe-hopping scale, constant media intrusion, and apparently years-spanning timeline, Annette is ultimately a small, intimate film, detailing the fallout of the relationships of four broken people, though this is doled out in fits and spurts. Even with all the ruptures and dreamlike moments, there’s a fidelity to emotion that remains paramount, a belief in the tragedy of bonds ruptured by the strength of personal histories and forceful personalities.

Of course, that’s where Adam Driver comes in. The effect of his final scenes, hollowed out and eaten alive by his own actions, is at once startling and entirely in keeping with the arc of his performance. Throughout, he remains prowling and magnetic, and Carax’s camera responds in kind, circling him with the same intent watchfulness that Driver never lets up on. His voice is equally as implacable: sometimes rumbling and portentous, other times high and quavering, in a way wholly unpredictable.

Implicit in this willful disorientation of viewer’s expectations, at least with something that chooses not to establish a baseline aesthetic or reality, is a certain unevenness, only exacerbated by the fragmentation caused by some musical sequences as the film proceeds towards its last trajectory. Some of the treatment of the media, for example, feels straight out of the more parodic moments of Clouds of Sils Maria, and at certain points it’s difficult to ascertain exactly how far the musical concept can be pushed. But more often, Carax lands on images and moments that stun: operatic deaths overlaid on a rushing motorcycle ride, unusually restive shots of a house slowly decaying, and above all the central storm, which combines the thoroughly artificial and archaic rear-projection with water spilling out across the set. Such dichotomies are the lifeblood of Annette: the sacred and the profane, the violent and the tender; Carax incorporates all of these into sequences that stubbornly refuse to remain one or the other, and the finale, which openly confronts the devices that had powered the film prior by stripping them away to just two voices singing, feels pitch perfect.

Daughter of the Good Earth [THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN)]

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Rating **** Masterpiece

Directed by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

Of course, the conception of an extended film like The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is inseparable from the experience of watching it, and that is true to an immense degree here, but one of the first things that comes to mind when I think about this film came immediately following the film, during the Q&A given by co-director C.W. Winter. He described the conception of the film as stemming from a documentary that he and co-director Anders Edström had been planning to make chronicling the last stretch of time in the life of Shiojiri Junji, the eponymous Tayoko’s husband and Edström’s father-in-law, who passed away roughly a week before they were planning to fly to Japan. After the funeral — shot and included in the film — Winter and Edström came up with the idea to make this film over the next year of theirs, Tayoko’s, and the village’s lives. The process was essentially conceived to act as both catharsis and do-over for Tayoko, who deeply regretted that the last year of Junji’s life was one of the only times that they had ever fought; Winter and Edström would give her the space to say the words she never had the chance to say, do the things she wished she could have done.

This information is present in substantive reviews and interviews of the film (like Lawrence Garcia’s review for Reverse Shot and Mark Peranson’s interview for Cinema Scope), but I hadn’t read them and so I experienced the peculiar feeling of recontextualizing close to an entire day of experience in the moment and yet, any worry about misinterpreting the film without this crucial information almost seems to fade away when confronted by the particulars of this mammoth work of intimacy, so concerned it is with operating according to its own drumbeat, sans annotation or inflection outside of what can be conveyed with film grammar, performance, structure, and other such cinematic devices.

There are a great deal of those in The Works and Days, which runs eight hours across five chapters of unequal length, each devoted to a season (beginning in winter), and designed to be shown in four parts with two fifteen-minute intermissions and one hour-long lunch break, in emulation of the work day. Within this span, aside from the slow death of Junji, which comes more and more to the fore as the film moves through its second half, attempts at establishing narrative or concrete throughlines are almost completely elided, so much so that the relationships of the forty-some characters within this are astonishingly tenuous and difficult to grasp. But this is very much part of Winter and Edström’s project, a kind of deep immersion founded upon the hybrid documentary-fiction form so en vogue in the current festival trends.

What quickly becomes apparent is that the film manages to downplay even those elements: each part begins with a black screen accompanied by a dense soundscape of natural sounds; Winter says that such a conceit is designed to acclimate the viewer to the change in season heralded by these interludes, and which additionally serves as magnificent breathers, pauses that feel compelling in the darkness of the theater. But the lack of human presence in what may very well be the majority of this film arises not long afterwards; what initially begins as seemingly standard establishing shots of nature reveals itself as a vital leg on which The Works and Days stands. The images of trees, skies, horizons, plants, streams, mountains, and exteriors are themselves not long: the film itself relies little on extended takes — which when they do appear are focused on conversation and storytelling — and the nature shots are even shorter, typically lasting in rhythmic fashion around five or six seconds. However, the sheer volume of them is impressed upon, though it isn’t applied in a punishing fashion, varying and interweaving with the actors’ performances.

And it is important that these be recognized as performances, and as a narrative, albeit one constructed with much the same process as a Hong Sang-soo film, if he was inclined to shoot thousands of shots of nature: scenes were written the night before or the day of their shooting, various obstacles were incorporated in the narrative, though the scattered, open, and almost improvisatory process of filming meant that the scenes ended up being filmed entirely achronologically. Of course, Pedro Costa might be a better comparison point: Edström had been regularly visiting the village for 21 years as a family member prior to beginning filming, and the process was undertaken in close collaboration with Shiojiri herself, along with her family and fellow inhabitants; it’s worth noting that Winter and Edström themselves have a fairly significant presence onscreen as family members, not as directors.

Still, Costa’s work, wedded at the hip to his intense chiaroscuro and desolate settings as it is, feels far different from what Winter and Edström are achieving here, and thus the length returns to the fore. At such a length, what is intended as a fictionalized recreation of the previous year of a woman’s life metamorphosizes into a near-documentary telling of the processes of living and cultivating, in a manner not dissimilar at all from the use of time (if not shot) duration as Jeanne Dielman, or, more perversely, The Mother and the Whore. What is, as in Rivette and Godard’s famous quotes, implicit in each film’s document of its creation and its actors becomes in the viewer’s mind explicit.

This isn’t to say that an uninflected non-fiction retelling was Winter and Edström’s goal at all. Indeed, The Works and Days is replete with devices that are intended to, if not break the viewer’s experience, then to question it, to augment the sense of a created world with blatant fictions and interventions. The casting of Kase Ryō, one of the preeminent cineastes’ actors of the past two decades, is certainly prominent, though he apparently plays a character with a different surname. But the more pervasive and fascinating break stems from Winter and Edström’s penchant for shooting in near-total darkness, where they trust that the Blackmagic’s digital sensor will pick up something that varies the black expanse. This often results in some truly stunning moments of abstraction, where a few pinpricks of light are all that can be seen, which hover in extended shots. Such moments could function in a similar way to the proliferation of images of nature, but they pop out of the texture with their sheer uniqueness.

Such openness to experimentation and variety is what makes The Works and Days such a rewarding and surprising experience. This even extends to the dedication to a single location, heralded by the title, which is disrupted by a train trip to Kyoto and, in one of the wildest production stories I’ve ever heard, a phone call to Sweden, in which two cameras rolling simultaneously capture an actual phone call taking place nearly 5000 miles apart. Two moments, one involving a sublimely uncanny dissolve effect and the other telling a story only in subtitles, come and go without acknowledgment. And of course, there is that soundtrack, whose dense, enveloping nature-based sounds belie the thorough mixing and sculpting done in post-production.

Winter and Edström’s use of these sequences doesn’t disrupt the astonishing mood sculpted throughout the film. Though they have disavowed the slow cinema label, it might be more accurate to say that the concept doesn’t rely solely on long takes and is more about a certain ethos, for which the emphasis on nature and work surely applies. Indeed, one scene early in the second part feels illustrative of what is so entrancing about The Works and Days, in which Tayoko walks through a series of rooms, as the film cuts to a different shot on each door closing. The artifice of the film is revealed in a moment as mundane as the rest of the film’s actions; though the film was frequently shot with two cameras, there are too many rooms for it to be a continuous action. The two impulses within the film are evoked simultaneously: the almost iconoclastic tendency to show the rhythm of the scene, aesthetic be damned, and the contemplative style, focusing in on one action and how it can say so much about its subject.

I realize now that I’ve said little about that subject, and suffice it to say that Tayoko is remarkable, in large part because of, even under such emotional circumstances, how willing she is to be part of the ensemble, which ranges from the quiet to the rowdy in a way that feels utterly true. Some of her most emotional moments come when she reads some of the diary entries she had actually written during the prior year; her reading is off-the-cuff, as if she is coming up with them in the moment. It is in the pauses of thinking, just before the stream of thoughts resume, that The Works and Days finds its focus, its reason for being, and it is glorious.

Simple Top Tens (Mid-Lengths Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

Main list.
A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with feature films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

Ten Favorite Films

  1. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  2. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  3. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  4. ZORNS LEMMA (Michael Snow)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  7. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  8. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  9. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)

2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  2. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  5. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
  6. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen)
  7. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
  8. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh)
  9. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues)
  10. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen)

2022

  1. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  2. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  3. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
  4. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh)
  5. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  6. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens)

2020

  1. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
  2. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen)
  3. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen)
  4. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)
  4. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori)
  6. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack)
  8. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac)
  10. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt)

2019

  1. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony)

2018

  1. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack)
  3. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt)
  4. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas)
  5. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  6. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas)

2017

  1. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy)
  3. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
  4. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)

2016

  1. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri)
  3. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori)
  3. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah)

2014

  1. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)
  3. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez)

2012

  1. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt)
  2. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro)

2011

  1. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac)
  2. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr)
  3. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  2. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  4. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  5. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon)
  6. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)
  8. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff)
  9. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower)
  10. DONG (Jia Zhangke)

2009

  1. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  2. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  3. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)

2008

  1. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon)

2007

  1. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)

2006

  1. DONG (Jia Zhangke)

2005

  1. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)

2004

  1. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)

2002

  1. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff)

2000

  1. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  2. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
  3. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  4. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)
  5. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer)
  6. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke)

1995

  1. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke)

1994

  1. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
  2. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)

1992

  1. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer)

1991

  1. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  2. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  2. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
  3. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
  4. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning)

1989

  1. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)

1985

  1. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  2. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  2. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  3. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
  4. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  5. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  6. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver)
  7. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese)
  8. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves)
  9. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse)
  10. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel)

1978

  1. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)

1977

  1. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog)

1976

  1. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver)

1974

  1. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  2. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese)
  3. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  2. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse)
  3. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  2. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  2. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
  3. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  5. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  6. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  7. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  8. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas)
  9. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson)
  10. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)

1968

  1. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)

1967

  1. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)

1966

  1. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  2. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover)

1965

  1. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  2. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  3. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  4. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  5. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman)

1964

  1. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas)

1963

  1. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)
  2. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer)
  3. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)

1962

  1. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson)
  2. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  2. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)
  3. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun)

1959

  1. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)

1953

  1. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  3. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)

1945

  1. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)

1943

  1. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  2. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)

1932

  1. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin)

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  2. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  3. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)
  5. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

1927

  1. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)

1924

  1. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
  2. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)

Favorite Films (Mid-Lengths Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

Main list.
A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with feature films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

2009

  1. WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN) (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)

2024

  1. IT’S NOT ME (Leos Carax, France)
  2. DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, France)
  3. CHIME (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  4. BROKEN RAGE (Kitano Takeshi, Japan)
  5. EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM “SCÉNARIO” (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  6. YOU BURN ME (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  7. SLEEP #2 (Radu Jude, Romania)

2023

  1. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  3. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  4. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  5. THE SOJOURN (Tiffany Sia, USA)
  6. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  7. DEADENDZ (Jon Jost, USA)

2022

  1. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
  2. YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  3. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  4. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
  5. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  6. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  7. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  8. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  9. DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
  10. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  11. IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  2. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  4. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  5. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  6. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)

2020

  1. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  2. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
  3. THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  4. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  5. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)

2019

  1. THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER (Jessica Sarah Rinland, UK)
  2. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)

2018

  1. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  3. THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  4. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  5. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  6. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  7. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)

2017

  1. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  3. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  4. AMIKO (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  5. MEDIUMS (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  6. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, USA)

2016

  1. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  2. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
  3. SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
  4. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  3. EVENT FOR A STAGE (Tacita Dean, UK)
  4. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)

2014

  1. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  2. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  4. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  5. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)

2013

  1. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  2. I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  3. TOUCHING THE SKIN OF EERINESS (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)

2012

  1. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  2. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)

2011

  1. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  2. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  3. ROSALINDA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)

2010

  1. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)

2009

  1. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis, UK)
  2. DISORDER (Huang Weikai, China)
  3. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  5. MADAM BUTTERFLY (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

2008

  1. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)

2007

  1. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)

2006

  1. DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)

2005

  1. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France)

2004

  1. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  2. MY STINKING KID (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

2003

  1. LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)

2002

  1. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)

2001

  1. THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  2. IN PUBLIC (Jia Zhangke, China)

2000

  1. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)

1997

  1. SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)

1995

  1. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)

1994

  1. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  2. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1992

  1. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  2. FALLING LESSONS (Amy Halpern, USA)

1991

  1. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. THE LIFE OF THE DEAD (Arnaud Desplechin, France)

1989

  1. WATER AND POWER (Pat O’Neill, USA)
  2. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
  3. TONGUES UNTIED (Marlon Riggs, USA)

1985

  1. CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  2. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)

1983

  1. THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (Nina Menkes, USA)

1981

  1. NIGHTSHIFT (Robina Rose, UK)

1978

  1. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz, France)

1977

  1. ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
  2. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1976

  1. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)

1975

  1. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (Thom Andersen, USA)

1974

  1. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  2. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  3. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
  3. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)

1968

  1. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)

1967

  1. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada)

1966

  1. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
  2. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  3. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)

1965

  1. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  2. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  3. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
  4. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)

1964

  1. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  2. NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL (Michael Snow, USA)

1963

  1. PASSENGER (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  2. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)

1962

  1. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut, France)

1959

  1. A SIMPLE STORY (Marcel Hanoun, France)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)

1953

  1. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)

1946

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)

1945

  1. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)

1943

  1. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  2. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)

1934

  1. THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)

1933

  1. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo, France)

1932

  1. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin, USA)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)

1928

  1. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

  1. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton, USA)

1924

  1. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton, USA)

Films by Release Year (Ineligible Films Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

Main list.
A version of this without films released more than two years after their premiere year.
The feature films I have seen that are not listed in the main list.

2026

  1. Serpent’s Path (1998, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

2025

  1. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  2. Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986, Paul Vecchiali)
  3. Compensation (1999, Zeinabu irene Davis)
  4. Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji)
  5. A Girl Is a Gun (1971, Luc Moullet)

2024

  1. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  2. The End of Evangelion (1997, Anno Hideaki)
  3. Moving (1993, Somai Shinji)

2023

  1. Passion (2008, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Our House (2017, Kiyohara Yui)

2022

  1. Rouge (1987, Stanley Kwan)
  2. Hanagatami (2017, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  5. Electra, My Love (1974, Jancsó Miklós)
  6. The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To)
  7. Seven Weeks (2014, Obayashi Nobuhiko)

2021

  1. Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta)
  6. Two Lottery Tickets (2016, Paul Negoescu)

2020

  1. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Made in Hong Kong (1997, Fruit Chan)
  5. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  6. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
  7. Mercury in Retrograde (2017, Michael Glover Smith)

2019

  1. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
  2. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
  3. Equation to an Unknown (1980, Dietrich de Velsa)
  4. The Competition (2016, Claire Simon)
  5. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan)
  6. Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Takahata Isao)

2018

  1. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  2. Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
  3. The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci)
  4. The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard)

2017

  1. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
  2. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Chung Kuo—China (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. i hate myself 🙂 (2013, Joanna Arnow)

2016

  1. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  2. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  3. Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
  4. Only Yesterday (1991, Takahata Isao)
  5. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Yamamoto Eiichi)
  6. Down There (2006, Chantal Akerman)
  7. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria)
  8. Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  9. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Żuławski)

2015

  1. Out 1 (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. Archipelago (2010, Joanna Hogg)
  2. Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
  3. Unrelated (2007, Joanna Hogg)

2012

  1. Pom Poko (1994, Takahata Isao)
  2. We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972, Maurice Pialat)
  3. Battle Royale (2000, Fukasaku Kinji)

2011

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  2. Extraordinary Stories (2008, Mariano Llinás)

2010

  1. World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. House (1977, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2006, Jean-Marc Vallée)

2008

  1. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai)
  2. The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie)

2007

  1. TEN SKIES (2004, James Benning)
  2. Los muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)

2006

  1. Sátántangó (1994, Tarr Béla)
  2. Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)

2005

  1. Pulse (2001, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  2. The Century of the Self (2002, Adam Curtis)
  3. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook)
  4. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook)
  5. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)

2004

  1. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Shaolin Soccer (2001, Stephen Chow)

2003

  1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)

2002

  1. A Grin Without a Cat (1977, Chris Marker)

2001

  1. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  2. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)

2000

  1. Drunken Master II (1994, Lau Kar-leung)

1999

  1. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

1998

  1. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)

1995

  1. I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
  2. Hyenas (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  3. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  4. Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)
  5. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee)

1994

  1. The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)

1993

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)

1992

  1. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  2. La Paloma (1974, Daniel Schmid)

1990

  1. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (1978, Martin Scorsese)

1989

  1. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  2. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki Hayao)

1988

  1. The Meetings of Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman)
  2. Violence at Noon (1966, Oshima Nagisa)

1987

  1. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978, Raúl Ruiz)
  2. Class Relations (1984, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
  3. Barravento (1962, Glauber Rocha)

1985

  1. Night and Fog in Japan (1960, Oshima Nagisa)

1984

  1. Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Oshima Nagisa)
  2. A Bigger Splash (1973, Jack Hazan)

1983

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  2. The Traveling Players (1975, Theodoros Angelopoulos)
  3. Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg)
  5. The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi)

1982

  1. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  2. Without Anesthesia (1978, Andrzej Wajda)
  3. La commare secca (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci)

1981

  1. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  2. Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978, Luc Béraud)
  3. Made in U.S.A (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Lady Without Camelias (1953, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog)
  6. Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi)
  7. Illustrious Corpses (1976, Francesco Rosi)

1980

  1. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  2. Floating Clouds (1955, Naruse Mikio)
  3. Arabian Nights (1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  4. The Middleman (1976, Satyajit Ray)
  5. L’Âge d’or (1930, Luis Buñuel)
  6. The Apple Game (1977, Věra Chytilová)

1979

  1. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
  2. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)

1978

  1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  2. A Geisha (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese)
  4. A Doll’s House (1973, Joseph Losey)

1977

  1. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
  2. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)
  3. Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)
  4. Conversation Piece (1974, Luchino Visconti)
  5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

1976

  1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Víctor Erice)
  3. La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir)
  4. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

1975

  1. The Breach (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  2. Just Before Nightfall (1971, Claude Chabrol)

1974

  1. Death by Hanging (1968, Oshima Nagisa)
  2. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
  3. The Ceremony (1971, Oshima Nagisa)
  4. Dodes’ka-den (1970, Kurosawa Akira)
  5. Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás)
  6. Partner. (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  7. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, André Delvaux)

1973

  1. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati)
  3. Late Autumn (1960, Ozu Yasujiro)
  4. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  5. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  6. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  7. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
  8. The Spider’s Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  9. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)

1972

  1. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu Yasujiro)
  3. L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
  5. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophuls)
  6. Le Samouräi (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)

1971

  1. La Collectionneuse (1967, Éric Rohmer)
  2. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. The Nun (1966, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Black Peter (1964, Miloš Forman)

1970

  1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
  2. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
  3. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
  4. The End of Summer (1961, Ozu Yasujiro)
  5. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Passenger (1963, Andrzej Munk)
  7. Raven’s End (1963, Bo Widerberg)

1969

  1. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Lola Montès (1955, Max Ophuls)
  4. Not Reconciled (1965, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  6. Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel)
  7. The Round-Up (1966, Jancsó Miklós)
  8. Walkover (1965, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  9. Six in Paris (1964, Omnibus)
  10. Intimate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer)

1968

  1. Red Beard (1965, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Carabineers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Accattone (1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  4. Identification Marks: None (1964, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. Fists in the Pocket (1965, Marco Bellocchio)

1967

  1. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
  2. The Burmese Harp (1956, Ichikawa Kon)
  3. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
  4. The Little Soldier (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. She and He (1963, Hani Susumu)

1966

  1. Good Morning (1959, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. Le Joli Mai (1962, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)

1965

  1. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson)
  2. Chronicle of a Summer (1961, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)

1964

  1. Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
  2. Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
  3. A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir)

1963

  1. Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
  2. The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Kurosawa Akira)

1962

  1. Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles)

1961

  1. Throne of Blood (1957, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)

1960

  1. Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa Akira)

1959

  1. Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray)

1958

  1. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

1956

  1. Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)

1955

  1. Othello (1951, Orson Welles)

1954

  1. Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
  2. La Ronde (1950, Max Ophuls)

1951

  1. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947, Preston Sturges)

1950

  1. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  2. A Day in the Country (1946, Jean Renoir)
  3. Angels of Sin (1943, Robert Bresson)

1949

  1. Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández)

1948

  1. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer)

1947

  1. L’Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
  2. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

1943

  1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)

1929

  1. Nosferatu (1922, F. W. Murnau)

Simple Top Tens (Shorts Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

Main list.
A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with feature films only.
A version of this with mid-length films only.

Ten Favorite Films

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  3. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  5. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  6. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  7. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  8. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  9. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  10. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  3. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  4. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  5. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  6. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary)
  7. VISIT (Jia Zhangke)
  8. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi)
  9. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik)
  10. ALFRED (Esther Urlus)

2022

  1. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  2. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale)
  3. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer)
  3. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka)
  4. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  5. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarnet)
  6. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan)
  7. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda)
  8. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi)

2020

  1. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  2. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  3. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  4. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary)
  5. VISIT (Jia Zhangke)
  6. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi)
  7. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik)
  8. ALFRED (Esther Urlus)
  9. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung)
  10. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  4. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee)
  5. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)
  7. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)
  8. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes)
  9. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack)
  10. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño)

2019

  1. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)
  2. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow)
  3. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant)
  4. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  5. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  6. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt)
  7. BILLY (Zachary Epcar)
  8. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  9. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony)
  10. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera)

2018

  1. PARSI (Eduardo Williams)
  2. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  3. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  4. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  5. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka)
  6. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers)
  7. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  8. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  9. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas)
  10. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann)

2017

  1. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  2. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher)
  3. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  4. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy)
  5. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar)
  6. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo)
  7. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers)
  8. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  9. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch)
  10. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack)

2016

  1. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)
  2. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
  3. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan)
  4. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  5. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  6. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri)
  7. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo)
  8. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  9. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  10. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño)
  4. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt)
  5. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow)
  6. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  7. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  8. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack)

2014

  1. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee)
  2. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda)
  3. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN–MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle)
  4. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel)
  5. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz)
  6. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf)
  7. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes)
  8. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez)
  9. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs)

2013

  1. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes)
  2. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack)
  3. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose)
  4. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers)
  6. JG (Tacita Dean)
  7. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt)

2012

  1. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan)
  3. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano)

2011

  1. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt)

2010

  1. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch)
  2. 607 (Liu Jiayin)
  3. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi)
  4. INFINITE DOORS (Takeshi Murata)
  5. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  2. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  8. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke)
  9. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)
  10. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi)

2009

  1. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)

2008

  1. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke)
  2. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. FILM PERDUTO (Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Giankian)

2007

  1. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose)
  2. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary)

2006

  1. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar)
  2. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva)

2003

  1. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  2. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)
  3. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt)

2002

  1. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)

2001

  1. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. DANS LE NOIR DU TEMPS (Jean-Luc Godard)

2000

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  2. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  2. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  4. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)
  5. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)
  6. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  7. AM MEER (Ute Aurand)
  8. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)
  9. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley)
  10. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt)

1999

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)

1998

  1. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano)
  2. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar)

1997

  1. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage)
  2. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage)

1995

  1. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  2. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)
  3. AM MEER (Ute Aurand)
  4. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt)

1994

  1. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  2. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)

1993

  1. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage)

1991

  1. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)
  2. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  2. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage)
  3. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  4. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  5. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)
  6. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  7. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)
  8. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN I: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)
  9. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal)

1988

  1. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)

1986

  1. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)

1983

  1. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  2. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar)
  3. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit)

1982

  1. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  2. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

1981

  1. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)

1980

  1. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)
  2. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal)
  3. AMOR (Robert Beavers)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  2. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  3. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  4. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)
  5. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
  6. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith)
  7. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  8. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher)
  9. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog)
  10. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong)

1979

  1. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)

1977

  1. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog)

1976

  1. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher)

1975

  1. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith)

1974

  1. YUDIE (Mirra Bank)
  2. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer)
  3. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves)
  4. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler)

1973

  1. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  2. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  2. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
  3. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong)

1970

  1. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  2. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher)
  3. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  3. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  4. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  5. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)
  6. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  7. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)
  8. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  9. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  10. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie)

1969

  1. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  2. LEMON (Hollis Frampton)

1968

  1. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

1967

  1. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton)
  2. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  2. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie)
  3. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar)
  4. MEET MARLON BRANDO (Albert & David Maysles)

1965

  1. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol)
  2. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger)

1964

  1. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)

1963

  1. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  2. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  3. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer)
  5. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène)
  7. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens)
  8. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  3. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut)

1961

  1. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)

1960

  1. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  3. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  4. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  5. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  6. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  7. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)
  8. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  9. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)
  10. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)

1959

  1. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  2. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage)
  3. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta)

1958

  1. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  2. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  3. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones)
  4. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  5. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones)

1957

  1. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones)
  2. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  2. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais)

1955

  1. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)
  2. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage)
  3. PARABOLA D’ORO (Vittorio De Seta)
  4. CONTADINI DEL MARE (Vittorio De Seta)
  5. PASQUA IN SICILIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones)

1954

  1. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta)
  2. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  3. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones)
  4. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones)
  5. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)

1952

  1. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  2. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)
  3. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones)

1951

  1. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones)

1950

  1. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  2. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)
  3. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1947

  1. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)

1942

  1. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)

1936

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  3. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  4. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
  5. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  7. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)
  8. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  9. TOKYO MARCH (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1929

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  3. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  4. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  5. TOKYO MARCH (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1928

  1. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  2. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)

1924

  1. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  2. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)

Pre-1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  2. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)
  3. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  5. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)
  6. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)
  7. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)
  8. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  9. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  10. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

Favorite Films (Shorts Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

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2025

  1. WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN) (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  2. PREFACE TO THE LITTLE DIALOGUE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)

2024

  1. SCÉNARIOS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  2. BEING JOHN SMITH (John Smith, UK)
  3. REVOLVING ROUNDS (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf, Austria)
  4. REFUSE ROOM (Simon Liu, Hong Kong)
  5. EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM “SCÉNARIO” (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  6. THE LAND AT NIGHT (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, Australia)
  7. ESP (Laura Kraning, USA)
  8. A BLACK SCREEN TOO (Rhayne Vermette, Canada)
  9. ARCHIPELAGO OF EARTHEN BONES—TO BUNYA (Malena Szlam, Canada)
  10. GO BETWEEN (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  11. EXTREMELY SHORT (Yamamura Koji, Japan)
  12. BLACK GLASS (Adam Piron, USA)
  13. MOON V. STATE (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  14. RE-ENGRAVED (Lei Lei, USA)
  15. SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE (Christopher Harris, USA)

2023

  1. THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  2. WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  3. INCIDENT (Bill Morrison, USA)
  4. TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  5. LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  6. PASSING TIME (Terence Davies, UK)
  7. FALSE EXPECTATIONS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  8. THE SOJOURN (Tiffany Sia, USA)
  9. FILM SCULPTURE (4) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  10. MAGNETIC POINT (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  11. GREETINGS FROM CRÎNGAȘI! (Radu Jude, Romania)
  12. FOUR UNLOVED WOMEN, ADRIFT ON A PURPOSELESS SEA, EXPERIENCE THE ECSTASY OF DISSECTION (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  13. QUIET AS IT’S KEPT (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
  14. NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (Sean Wang, USA)
  15. OUT OF JUNGLE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. SIREN’S LULLABY (Wu Tzu-an, Taiwan)
  17. ALPHA KINGS (Enrique Pedráza Botero & Faye Tsakas, USA)

2022

  1. A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, China)
  2. THE SOWER OF STARS (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  3. THE POTEMKINISTS (Radu Jude, Romania)
  4. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
  5. NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  6. WHERE DO YOU STAND, TSAI MING-LIANG? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin, France)
  8. LAST SCREENING (Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan)
  9. PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – AGNÈS VARDA – NEW YORK – 1967 (Agnès Varda, France)
  10. SUGAR GLASS BOTTLE (Sora Neo, Japan)
  11. IT FOLLOWS IT PASSES ON (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  12. FUR FILM VOL.2: MIRROR MIRROR (ЯeaRflex, Taiwan)
  13. DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
  14. DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (Christian Avilés, Spain)
  15. WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (Huang Shuli, China)
  16. GINKO YELLOW (Amy Halpern, USA)
  17. IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)
  18. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale, USA)
  19. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Philippines)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  2. TRAIN AGAIN (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  3. THE NIGHT (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  4. TRAFIC (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  5. FIRE BELLY (Amy Halpern, USA)
  6. SYCORAX (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro, Spain)
  7. UNTITLED (34BSP) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  8. GRANDMA’S SCISSORS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  9. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)
  10. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  11. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  12. BIRTHDAY SONG (SINGLE CHANNEL) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  13. DEVELOPING (Hsu Tsen-chu, Taiwan)
  14. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarnet, Brazil)
  15. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan, UK)
  16. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  17. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi, Spain)
  18. OFF (I DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  19. BIRDS IN THE WINDOW (Amy Halpern & David Lebrun)

2020

  1. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  2. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler, USA)
  3. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany)
  4. FIGURE MINUS FACT (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
  5. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary, USA)
  6. VISIT (Jia Zhangke, China)
  7. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  8. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  9. DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT (Christopher Harris, USA)
  10. ALFRED (Esther Urlus, Netherlands)
  11. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung, South Korea)
  12. NEWT LEADERS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  13. THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  14. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong)
  15. STUMP THE GUESSER (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  16. IN THE AIR TONIGHT (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  17. I WISH YOU WOULD (Ryland Walker Knight, USA)
  18. LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  19. THE CHICKEN (Sora Neo, USA)
  20. HALPATE (Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, USA)
  21. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)

2019

  1. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  2. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  3. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant, USA)
  4. AUSTRIAN PAVILION (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  5. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  6. AMUSEMENT RIDE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  7. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  8. (TOURISM STUDIES) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  9. CAVALCADE (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  10. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  11. BILLY (Zachary Epcar, USA)
  12. EQUINOX (Margaret Honda, USA)
  13. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  14. LOOK THEN BELOW (Ben Rivers, UK)
  15. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)
  16. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
  17. TRANSCRIPT (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  18. CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND (Abby Sun & Daniel Garber, USA)
  19. LAYING OUT (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  20. FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph, USA)

2018

  1. THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  2. PARSI (Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt, Guinea-Bisseau)
  3. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  5. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  6. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  7. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  8. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers, USA)
  9. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  10. POLLY TWO (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  11. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)
  12. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  13. THREE ATLAS (Miryam Charles, Haïti)

2017

  1. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  2. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  3. FANTASY SENTENCES (Dane Komljen, Germany)
  4. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  5. SCAFFOLD (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  6. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  7. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack, USA)
  8. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  9. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  10. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers, USA)
  11. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  12. MEDIUMS (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  13. A SHORT HISTORY (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  14. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch, USA)
  15. MUMOK KINO (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)

2016

  1. TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  2. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  3. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  4. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan, China)
  5. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  6. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  7. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
  8. SINGLE BELIEF (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  9. LUNA E SANTUR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  10. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  11. SARAH WINCHESTER: GHOST OPERA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  12. LUMINOUS VEIL (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  13. MAN IN THE WELL (Hu Bo, China)
  14. HALIMUHFACK (Christopher Harris, USA)
  15. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  16. URTH (Ben Rivers, UK)
  17. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  18. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant, UK)
  19. OSCAR AT 8903 EMPIRE (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  20. BAGATELLE II (Jerome Hiler, USA)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  3. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño, Portugal)
  4. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  5. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  6. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  7. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack, USA)
  8. NAVIGATOR (Björn Kämmerer, Austria)
  9. GOING OUT (Ted Fendt, USA)
  10. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)

2014

  1. SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  2. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee, USA)
  3. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda, USA)
  4. I FORGOT! (Eduardo Williams, France)
  5. THE TONY LONGO TRILOGY (Thom Andersen, USA)
  6. MANHATTAN ONE TWO THREE FOUR (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  7. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN—MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle, USA)
  8. I WASN’T THERE (Sky Hirschkron, USA)
  9. SPECIAL FEATURES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  10. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel, USA)
  11. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  12. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  13. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal)
  14. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)
  15. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs, USA)
  16. AGAINST LANDSCAPE (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)

2013

  1. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  2. THE THREE DISASTERS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  3. 45 7 BROADWAY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  4. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  5. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  6. WALKING ON WATER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. TRAVEL PLANS (Ted Fendt, USA)
  8. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. (IT’S NOT A PRISON IF YOU NEVER TRY THE DOOR) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  10. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers, USA)
  11. THAT I’M FALLING? (Eduardo Williams, France)
  12. MAIN HALL (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  13. JG (Tacita Dean, UK)
  14. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  15. CASTELLO CAVALCANTI (Wes Anderson, USA)

2012

  1. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. NO FORM (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  3. DIAMOND SUTRA (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  4. SLEEPWALK (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  5. BROKEN SPECS (Ted Fendt, USA)
  6. BY HALVES (Amy Halpern, USA)
  7. NEVER A FOOT TOO FAR, EVEN (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  8. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan, China)
  9. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano, USA)

2011

  1. LIST (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. COULD SEE A PUMA. (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  3. BURNING STAR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  4. 28.IV.81 (DESCENDING FIGURES) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  5. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2010

  1. SHIBUYA – TOKYO (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  2. TOKYO – EBISU (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  3. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch, France)
  4. 607 (Liu Jiayin, China)
  5. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  6. OH SUPREME LIGHT (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  7. THIS IS MY KINGDOM (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
  8. INFINITE DOORS (Murata Takeshi, USA)
  9. THE UNNAMED (Huang Ya-li, Taiwan)
  10. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers, USA)

2009

  1. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  2. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. LUMPHINI 2552 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Thailand)
  4. A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. MADAM BUTTERFLY (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

2008

  1. 16-18-4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  2. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke, China)
  3. GREEN FUSE (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  4. FILM PERDUTO (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy)

2007

  1. SKETCH FILM #4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  2. SKETCH FILM #5 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  3. INTO THE MASS (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  4. HOTEL CHEVALIER (Wes Anderson, USA)
  5. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  6. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary, USA)
  7. SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) (Christopher Harris, USA)

2006

  1. SKETCH FILM #3 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  2. CLEAR BLUE SKY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  3. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar, USA)
  4. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva, USA)

2005

  1. MARKET STREET (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  2. SKETCH FILM #1 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  3. SKETCH FILM #2 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)

2004

  1. RECKLESS EYEBALLING (Christopher Harris, USA)

2003

  1. APOLLO (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  2. ( ) (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  3. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu, Japan)
  4. CHIASMUS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  5. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2002

  1. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

2001

  1. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  2. IN PUBLIC (Jia Zhangke, China)
  3. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. IN THE DARKNESS OF TIME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)

2000

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin, Canada)
  2. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  3. HUA YANG DE NIAN HUA (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)

1999

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)

1998

  1. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano, Brazil)
  2. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar, USA)

1997

  1. SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
  2. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1995

  1. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch, USA)
  2. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA)
  3. AM MEER (Ute Aurand, Germany)
  4. ZONE (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  5. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  6. THE SNOWMAN (Phil Solomon, USA)
  7. VAN GOGH’S EAR (Wu Mi-sen, Taiwan)

1994

  1. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  2. THE MOON (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  3. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1993

  1. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  2. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1992

  1. GIRL POWER (Sadie Benning, USA)

1991

  1. AMBITION (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. A PLACE CALLED LOVELY (Sadie Benning, USA)
  3. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)

1990

  1. IF EVERY GIRL HAD A DIARY (Sadie Benning, USA)
  2. ME AND RUBYFRUIT (Sadie Benning, USA)
  3. JOLLIES (Sadie Benning, USA)
  4. VENUS (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1989

  1. LIVING INSIDE (Sadie Benning, USA)
  2. THE MUMMY’S DREAM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  3. A NEW YEAR (Sadie Benning, USA)

1988

  1. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker, France)
  2. DEVIL’S CIRCUIT (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1987

  1. WALL (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1986

  1. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1985

  1. GRIM (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  2. GHOST (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1983

  1. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki, West Germany)
  2. THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (Nina Menkes, USA)
  3. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar, USA)
  4. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit, USA)

1982

  1. THUNDER (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  3. BOX (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  4. EN RACHÂCHANT (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France)
  5. HAMLET ACT (Robert Nelson, USA)

1981

  1. SPACY (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  3. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1980

  1. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal, France)
  3. AMOR (Robert Beavers, USA)

1979

  1. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt, USA)

1977

  1. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1976

  1. VENICE PIER (Gary Beydler, USA)
  2. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher, USA)

1975

  1. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith, USA)
  2. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning & Bette Gordon, USA)
  3. HAND HELD DAY (Gary Beydler, USA)

1974

  1. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, USA)
  2. YUDIE (Mirra Bank, USA)
  3. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  4. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)

1973

  1. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  2. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt, USA)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. MATRIX III (John Whitney Sr., USA)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. UFOS (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
  3. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  4. OLYMPIAD (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
  5. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong, USA)

1970

  1. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr, USA)
  2. ANGER (King Hu, Taiwan)
  3. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  4. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)

1969

  1. LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére, France)
  3. SIDE PHASE DRIFT (John Whitney Jr., USA)
  4. MOMENTUM (Jordan Belson, USA)
  5. BINARY BIT PATTERNS (Michael Whitney, USA)

1968

  1. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  2. ABSTRACT FILM NO. 1 (Valie Export, Austria)
  3. POEMFIELD 7 (Stan VanDerBeek & Ken Knowlton, USA)

1967

  1. SAMADHI (Jordan Belson, USA)
  2. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  3. NIVEA (Peter Weibel, Austria)
  4. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  5. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch, USA)
  6. — ——- (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, USA)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  2. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  3. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar, USA)
  4. D. M. T. (Jud Yalkut, USA)
  5. MEET MARLON BRANDO (David & Albert Maysles, USA)
  6. LAPIS (James Whitney, USA)
  7. BYJINA FLORES (John Whitney Jr., USA)

1965

  1. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  2. PHENOMENA (Jordan Belson, USA)
  3. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  4. MELTING (Thom Andersen, USA)

1964

  1. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  2. NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL (Michael Snow, USA)

1963

  1. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
  2. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard, Italy)
  4. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer, France)
  5. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  6. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  7. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens, France)
  8. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, France)
  2. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
  3. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut, France)
  4. SENSELESS (Ron Rice, USA)

1961

  1. ALLURES (Jordan Belson, USA)
  2. THE WHIRLED (Ken Jacobs, USA)

1960

  1. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)

1959

  1. THE SONG OF STYRENE (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. THE FORGOTTEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)

1958

  1. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner, USA)
  2. FISHING BOATS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  3. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  4. A DAY IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  5. ORGOSOLO’S SHEPHERDS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones, USA)

1957

  1. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. ALL THE WORLD’S MEMORY (Alain Resnais, France)

1955

  1. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  2. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. GOLDEN PARABLE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  4. SEA COUNTRYMEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  5. EASTER IN SICILY (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones, USA)

1954

  1. THE AGE OF THE SWORDFISH (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  2. ISLANDS OF FIRE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones, USA)
  4. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  5. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)
  6. EAUX D’ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1952

  1. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. A PORTRAIT OF GA (Margaret Tait, UK)
  4. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  5. BEEP, BEEP (Chuck Jones, USA)

1951

  1. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1950

  1. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1947

  1. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  2. BRIDELESS GROOM (Edward Bernds, USA)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, USA)
  2. RED HOT RIDING HOOD (Tex Avery, USA)

1942

  1. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

1936

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell, USA)

1931

  1. TARIS (Jean Vigo, France)

1930

  1. À PROPOS DE NICE (Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman)

1929

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel, France)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, Netherlands)
  3. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey, USA)
  4. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
  5. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1928

  1. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
  2. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

  1. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

1924

  1. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, USA)

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman, USA)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès, France)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès, France)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès, France)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès, France)

1900

  1. HOW IT FEELS TO BE RUN OVER (Cecil M. Hepworth, UK)

1898

  1. THE FOUR TROUBLESOME HEADS (Georges Méliès, France)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis Lumière, France)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis Lumière, France)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis Lumière, France)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis Lumière, France)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis Lumière, France)
  5. DEMOLITION OF A WALL (Louis Lumière, France)

Favorite Films (Features Only)

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

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2026

  1. BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS (Yuen Woo-ping, China)

2025

  1. SIRĀT (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  2. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  3. RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, China)
  4. BLUE MOON (Richard Linklater, USA)
  5. THE SECRET AGENT (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  6. KONTINENTAL ’25 (Radu Jude, Romania)
  7. THE CURRENTS (Milagros Mumenthaler, Argentina)
  8. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. MARTY SUPREME (Josh Safdie, USA)
  10. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  11. FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  12. BELOW THE CLOUDS (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  13. THE MASTERMIND (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  14. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (Wes Anderson, USA)
  15. NOUVELLE VAGUE (Richard Linklater, France)
  16. MIROIRS NO. 3 (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  17. PIN DE FARTIE (Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina)
  18. DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED (Julian Castronovo, USA)
  19. DRACULA (Radu Jude, Romania)
  20. IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (Mary Bronstein, USA)
  21. PREDATORS (David Osit, USA)
  22. MAGELLAN (Lav Diaz, Portugal)
  23. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—THE FINAL RECKONING (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  24. YES (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  25. SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  26. PETER HUJAR’S DAY (Ira Sachs, USA)
  27. VIDEOHEAVEN (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  28. THE FENCE (Claire Denis, France)
  29. THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie, USA)
  30. LATE FAME (Kent Jones, USA)
  31. IS THIS THING ON? (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  32. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (Pedro Pinho, Portugal)
  33. JAY KELLY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  34. SOUND OF FALLING (Mascha Schilinski, Germany)
  35. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland)
  36. EVIDENCE (Lee Anne Schmitt, USA)
  37. JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens, USA)
  38. BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (Danzuka Yuiga, Japan)
  39. NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  40. ROSE OF NEVADA (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  41. AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (James Cameron, USA)
  42. BLACK BAG (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  43. AFTER THE HUNT (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  44. NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (Matt Johnson, Canada)
  45. YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka)
  46. WE ARE THE FRUITS OF THE FOREST (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  47. KOKUHO (Lee Sang-il, Japan)
  48. IN THE LOST LANDS (Paul W. S. Anderson, USA)
  49. A USEFUL GHOST (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand)
  50. LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou Shih-ching, Taiwan)
  51. THE LITTLE SISTER (Hafsia Herzi, France)
  52. DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  53. WILD FOXES (Valéry Carnoy, Belgium)
  54. PILLION (Harry Lighton, UK)

2024

  1. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  3. MISERICORDIA (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  4. YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang Bing, France)
  5. HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT (Alexander Horwath, Austria)
  6. YOUTH (HARD TIMES) (Wang Bing, France)
  7. THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  8. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra, Spain)
  9. IT’S NOT ME (Leos Carax, France)
  10. A TRAVELER’S NEEDS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. ANORA (Sean Baker, USA)
  12. BY THE STREAM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  13. WHO BY FIRE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  14. 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré, France)
  15. NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross, USA)
  16. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I—LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (Julia Loktev, USA)
  17. HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh, UK)
  18. DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, France)
  19. THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  20. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia, India)
  21. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  22. THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  23. DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
  24. THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet, USA)
  25. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  26. CHIME (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  27. EEPHUS (Carson Lund, USA)
  28. A DIFFERENT MAN (Aaron Schimberg, USA)
  29. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
  30. BROKEN RAGE (Kitano Takeshi, Japan)
  31. LUMIÈRE, THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES (Thierry Frémaux, France)
  32. ABIDING NOWHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  33. THE SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, France)
  34. MATT AND MARA (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  35. THE COLORS WITHIN (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  36. HAPPYEND (Sora Neo, Japan)
  37. NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham, Palestine)
  38. JUROR #2 (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  39. CLOUD (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  40. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  41. OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader, USA)
  42. HERE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  43. MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  44. BLITZ (Steve McQueen, UK)
  45. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (George Miller, Australia)
  46. PAVEMENTS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  47. INVENTION (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  48. FAMILIAR TOUCH (Sarah Friedland, USA)
  49. SUBURBAN FURY (Robinson Devor, USA)
  50. FIRE OF WIND (Marta Mateus, Portugal)
  51. DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  52. THE DAMNED (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  53. STRANGER EYES (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  54. DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  55. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  56. NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson, USA)
  57. CARRY-ON (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  58. YOU BURN ME (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  59. LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR (Jem Cohen, USA)
  60. PRESENCE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  61. PEPE (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic)
  62. CENT MILLE MILLIARDS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  63. BOGANCLOCH (Ben Rivers, UK)
  64. COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina)
  65. MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  66. SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT (Johan Grimonprez, Belgium)
  67. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)
  68. GOOD ONE (India Donaldson, USA)
  69. UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)
  70. THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA)
  71. BLACK BOX DIARIES (Ito Shiori, Japan)
  72. TRAP (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  73. BLUE SUN PALACE (Constance Tsang, USA)
  74. EAT THE NIGHT (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, France)
  75. RUMOURS (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  76. I’M STILL HERE (Walter Salles, Brazil)
  77. SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (Paulo Carneiro, Portugal)
  78. A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg, USA)
  79. APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  80. THE ORDER (Justin Kurzel, Canada)
  81. REBEL RIDGE (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)
  82. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Hernán Rosselli, Argentina)
  83. ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (Li Yang, China)
  84. QUEER (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  85. BREATHLESS (James Benning, USA)
  86. A FIDAI FILM (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine)
  87. SLEEP #2 (Radu Jude, Romania)
  88. EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)

2023

  1. THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  2. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania)
  3. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  4. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  5. MUSIC (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  6. MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes, USA)
  7. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, France)
  8. AFIRE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  9. IN OUR DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. LAST SUMMER (Catherine Breillat, France)
  11. FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
  12. YOUTH (SPRING) (Wang Bing, France)
  13. GIFT (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  14. ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson, USA)
  15. THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu, China)
  16. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  17. CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  18. EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  19. HERE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  20. THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)
  21. FERRARI (Michael Mann, USA)
  22. INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
  23. MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  24. HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  25. OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
  26. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  27. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  28. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
  29. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  30. STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  31. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  32. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  33. PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  34. PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  35. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  36. THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  37. ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh, UK)
  38. NOWHERE NEAR (Miko Revereza, Philippines)
  39. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  40. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (Sora Neo, Japan)
  41. SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  42. MAD FATE (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  43. THE PLOUGH (Philippe Garrel, France)
  44. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  45. THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
  46. THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
  47. THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
  48. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker, USA)
  49. AN EVENING SONG (FOR THREE VOICES) (Graham Swon, USA)
  50. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  51. MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
  52. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
  53. A PRINCE (Pierre Creton, France)
  54. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  55. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
  56. GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  57. THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
  58. PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
  59. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  60. FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  61. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  62. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  63. ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
  64. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
  65. THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  66. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  67. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT (Raven Jackson, USA)
  68. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
  69. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  70. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  71. MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  72. RED ISLAND (Robin Campillo, France)
  73. ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
  74. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
  75. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)
  76. HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  77. DEADENDZ (Jon Jost, USA)

2022

  1. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra, France)
  2. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  5. NO BEARS (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  6. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  8. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  10. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois, USA)
  11. THE PLAINS (David Easteal, Australia)
  12. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
  13. UNREST (Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland)
  14. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  15. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  16. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  17. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  18. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  19. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
  20. COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  21. YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  22. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  23. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  24. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  25. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  26. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  27. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  28. RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
  29. WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  30. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  31. THE KING OF WUXIA (Lin Jing-jie, Taiwan)
  32. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  33. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  34. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  35. THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  36. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  37. ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
  38. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
  39. MASTER GARDENER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  40. SATURN BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
  41. MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
  42. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
  43. RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  44. WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal)
  45. REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  46. RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, China)
  47. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  48. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  49. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  50. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  51. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  52. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  53. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell, USA)
  54. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  55. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  56. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  57. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  58. A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
  59. FALL (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  60. THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
  61. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  62. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  63. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  64. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  65. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  66. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  67. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  68. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  69. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Mike Cheslik, USA)
  70. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  71. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  72. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  73. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  74. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  75. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  76. TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  2. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia)
  3. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia)
  4. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
  5. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  6. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (Adam Curtis, UK)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong, Hong Kong)
  9. LIMBO (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. ANNETTE (Leos Carax, France)
  11. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, Romania)
  12. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  13. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  14. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  15. EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
  17. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  18. THE TSUGUA DIARIES (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  19. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  20. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  21. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  22. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  23. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  24. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  25. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  26. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  27. THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Wes Anderson, USA)
  28. BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  29. FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
  30. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
  31. MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
  32. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  33. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  34. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  35. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  36. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  37. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  38. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  39. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  40. THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  41. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  42. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  43. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  44. RIPPLES OF LIFE (Wei Shujun, China)
  45. ACTUAL PEOPLE (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  46. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  47. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  48. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  49. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  50. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  51. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  52. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  53. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  54. SUMMER (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  55. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  56. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  57. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  58. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  59. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  60. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  61. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  62. AFTER THE RAIN (Fan Jian, China)
  63. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  64. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  65. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  66. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  67. A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
  68. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  69. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  70. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
  71. CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  72. NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström, USA)
  3. LOVE AFFAIR(S) (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  4. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
  6. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  7. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  8. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  9. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
  10. MINAMATA MANDALA (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  11. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  12. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
  13. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  14. ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  15. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  16. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  17. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  18. NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  19. CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  20. LOS CONDUCTOS (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia)
  21. RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  22. THE CALMING (Song Fang, China)
  23. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
  24. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
  25. EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
  26. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  27. MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  28. THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  29. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  30. ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  31. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  32. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  33. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  34. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  35. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  36. STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei Shujun, China)
  37. MAɬNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  38. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  39. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  40. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  41. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  42. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  43. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  44. FRENCH EXIT (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  45. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  46. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)

2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  2. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  4. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  5. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  6. SYNONYMS (Nadav Lapid, France)
  7. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  8. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  9. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  10. HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Thomas Heise, Germany)
  11. THE PLAGIARISTS (Peter Parlow and James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, USA)
  12. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  13. VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  14. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
  15. THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  16. ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  17. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  18. CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  19. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  20. MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  21. THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  22. GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  23. LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  24. THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  25. THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER (Jessica Sarah Rinland, UK)
  26. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
  27. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  28. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  29. LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
  30. BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  31. A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  32. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
  33. SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
  34. CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
  35. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  36. BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
  37. GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
  38. RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  39. YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  40. ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
  41. HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  42. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
  43. DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
  44. A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
  45. THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
  46. FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  47. HELLHOLE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  48. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
  49. THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  50. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  51. THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  52. US (Jordan Peele, USA)
  53. HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  54. DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
  55. COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
  56. GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
  57. CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  58. ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  59. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, China)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers, France)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis, France)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles, USA)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo, China)
  11. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  12. IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
  13. LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  14. HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  15. THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  16. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  17. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  18. SAND (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  19. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  20. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  21. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  22. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  23. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  24. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  25. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  26. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  27. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  28. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  29. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  30. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  31. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  32. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  33. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  34. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  35. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  36. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  37. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  38. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  39. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  40. GENÈSE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  41. A LAND IMAGINED (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  42. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  43. THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  44. INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  45. A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
  46. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  47. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  48. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  49. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
  50. DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
  51. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  52. FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
  53. A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
  54. YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  55. SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  56. THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
  57. THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
  58. SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
  59. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  60. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  61. DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  62. SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  63. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
  64. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
  65. TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  66. GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
  67. THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  68. READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  69. RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  70. DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
  71. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
  72. KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
  73. MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  74. PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, France)
  75. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  76. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
  77. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)
  78. THE NIGHT COMES FOR US (Timo Tjahjanto, Indonesia)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, USA)
  2. HANAGATAMI (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Scharader, USA)
  6. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  7. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  8. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. ★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  10. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  11. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  12. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  13. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  14. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  15. THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
  16. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
  17. BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  18. BEFORE WE VANISH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  19. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
  20. GOLDEN EXITS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  21. LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  22. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  23. 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Robin Campillo, France)
  24. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  25. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  26. THE POST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  27. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, USA)
  28. MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
  29. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  30. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  31. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
  32. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  33. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  34. GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
  35. EX LIBRIS—THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  36. WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
  37. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  38. GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
  39. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  40. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  41. PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  42. LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
  43. OUR HOUSE (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  44. GO, TOTO! (Pierre Creton, France)
  45. THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
  46. THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  47. THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
  48. GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
  49. LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
  50. COMMON CARRIER (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  51. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  52. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  53. THE FOOLISH BIRD (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, China)
  54. AMIKO (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  55. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  56. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  57. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  58. CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  59. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, USA)
  60. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
  61. THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)
  62. THE SQUARE (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  3. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  4. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, Germany)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  6. ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  7. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  8. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  9. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
  10. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  11. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  12. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  13. A SILENT VOICE (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  14. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  15. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  16. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  17. BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  18. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  19. THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  20. BITTER MONEY (Wang Bing, China)
  21. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  22. CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  23. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  24. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  25. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  26. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  27. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
  28. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  29. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  30. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  31. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  32. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  33. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  34. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  35. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  36. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  37. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  38. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  39. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  40. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  41. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  42. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  43. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  44. SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
  45. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  46. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  47. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  48. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  49. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  50. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  51. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  52. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  53. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  54. YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
  55. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  56. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  57. TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  58. POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
  59. KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
  60. RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
  61. MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  62. THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
  63. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
  64. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  65. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
  66. DARK SKULL (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes, USA)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  8. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  9. SPL II: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, China)
  11. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  13. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  14. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
  15. BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  16. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  17. HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone, USA)
  18. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  19. GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  20. ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
  21. EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  22. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  23. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  24. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  25. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  26. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
  27. DESPITE THE NIGHT (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  28. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  29. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  30. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  31. EVENT FOR A STAGE (Tacita Dean, UK)
  32. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  33. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  34. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  35. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  36. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  37. STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
  38. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  39. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  40. BLUE STRAIT (Jon Jost, USA)
  41. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  42. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  43. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  44. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  45. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  46. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
  47. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  48. INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter, USA)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  2. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  3. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  4. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  6. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher, USA)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  11. LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  12. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  13. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  14. BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  15. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  16. NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
  17. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  18. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  19. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  20. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  21. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  22. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  23. LI’L QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  24. CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (Charles Poekel, USA)
  25. THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  26. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  27. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  28. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  29. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  30. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  31. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  32. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  33. ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)
  34. VIOLET (Bas Devos, Belgium)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, USA)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater, USA)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis, France)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  9. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  10. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  11. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. MISS AND THE DOCTORS (Axelle Ropert, France)
  13. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  14. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  15. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  17. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  18. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  19. COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
  20. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  21. I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  22. COMING TO TERMS (Jon Jost, USA)
  23. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  24. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  25. TOUCHING THE SKIN OF EERINESS (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  26. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  27. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  28. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  29. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  30. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan)
  2. TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  3. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
  7. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson, USA)
  10. PASSION (Brian De Palma, Germany)
  11. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey, France)
  12. HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, France)
  13. TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, USA)
  14. RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  15. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  16. NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  17. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  18. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais, France)
  19. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  20. BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  21. CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  22. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  23. EGG AND STONE (Huang Ji, China)
  24. EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  25. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  26. THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  27. MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  28. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  29. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
  30. A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
  6. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  7. THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  8. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher, USA)
  9. MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  10. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  11. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  12. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  13. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
  14. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  15. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  16. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval, France)
  17. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  19. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  20. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  21. THE PASSAGE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  22. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  23. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  24. ROSALINDA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz, Portugal)
  2. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  3. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
  8. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)
  9. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański, Germany)
  11. THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
  12. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright, UK)
  13. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
  14. UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott, USA)
  15. I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  17. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  18. TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)

2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin, China)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis, UK)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai, China)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  6. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, USA)
  7. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  9. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  10. MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  11. FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  13. EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  14. MUNDANE HISTORY (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  15. TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA)
  16. WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis, France)
  17. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  19. THEY ALL LIE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  20. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  21. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  22. STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  23. UP (Pete Docter, USA)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis, France)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  7. EXTRAORDINARY STORIES (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  8. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. LIVERPOOL (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  10. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
  11. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
  13. A LAKE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  14. PARKING (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan)
  15. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  17. PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  18. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  19. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  20. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)

2007

  1. THE TRAP (Adam Curtis, UK)
  2. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon, France)
  3. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  4. ZODIAC (David Fincher, USA)
  5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  6. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  7. I’M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  8. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  9. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  10. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
  11. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
  12. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  13. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  14. HELP ME EROS (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  15. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  17. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
  19. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
  20. LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)
  21. RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird, USA)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann, USA)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, USA)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  6. EXILED (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. DEJA VU (Tony Scott, USA)
  8. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  9. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  11. OLD JOY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. THE HOST (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  13. JACKASS NUMBER TWO (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  14. DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev, USA)
  15. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, UK)
  16. DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)
  17. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel, USA)

2005

  1. THE CHILD (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  2. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin, China)
  4. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  6. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France)
  7. THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  8. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
  9. ELECTION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  10. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  11. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  12. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee, USA)
  13. LADY VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  14. STAR WARS: EPISODE III—REVENGE OF THE SITH (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  15. LAST DAYS (Gus Van Sant, USA)
  16. HOUSE OF WAX (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater, USA)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  6. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  7. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
  10. LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  11. KILL BILL (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  12. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
  13. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
  14. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
  15. SIDEWAYS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  16. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
  17. VÉNUS AND FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  18. TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
  19. THE INTRUDER (Claire Denis, France)
  20. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  21. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
  22. BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  23. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  24. PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
  25. MR. 3000 (Charles Stone III, USA)
  26. MY STINKING KID (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  27. EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  28. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright, UK)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen, USA)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan)
  5. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  6. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  8. LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  9. THE MISSING (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  10. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  11. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  12. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  13. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  14. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  15. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  16. LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)
  17. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  18. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton, USA)

2002

  1. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  2. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma, France)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. FAT CHOI SPIRIT (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  6. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong)
  7. HERO (Zhang Yimou, China)
  8. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  9. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, UK)
  10. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, France)
  11. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  12. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes, USA)
  13. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  14. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  15. FROM THE OTHER SIDE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  16. JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  17. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)
  18. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  19. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  20. STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES (George Lucas, USA)
  21. RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
  22. A NEW LIFE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  23. MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  24. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  26. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
  27. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  28. FUNNY HA HA (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch, USA)
  2. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  7. FAT GIRL (Catherine Breillat, France)
  8. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  9. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  10. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  11. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
  12. WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  13. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  14. ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
  15. TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
  16. HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
  17. LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  18. SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  19. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  20. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  21. COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
  22. A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
  23. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  24. SHREK (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, USA)
  25. MONSTERS, INC. (Pete Docter, USA)

2000

  1. A ONE AND A TWO… (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke, China)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
  5. IN VANDA’S ROOM (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  6. DURIAN DURIAN (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  7. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
  8. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
  9. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  10. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  12. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  13. BATTLE ROYALE (Fukasaku Kinji, Japan)
  14. MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  16. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
  17. DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
  19. JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

  1. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
  2. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  3. TABOO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. TEMPTING HEART (Sylvia Chang, Hong Kong)
  7. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  8. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  9. COMPENSATION (Zeinabu irene Davis, USA)
  10. LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  11. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  12. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  13. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  14. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  15. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  16. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  17. STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
  18. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  19. SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, USA)
  20. THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird, USA)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  5. THE LONGEST SUMMER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  8. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  10. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
  11. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  12. KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
  13. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  14. EYES OF THE SPIDER (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  15. DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)
  16. SOMBRE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)

1997

  1. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  2. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  3. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  5. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  6. MADE IN HONG KONG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  7. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch, USA)
  8. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  9. JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  10. FACE/OFF (John Woo, USA)
  11. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
  12. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  13. XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke, China)
  14. PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  15. BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  16. THE ODD ONE DIES (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  17. GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
  18. THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  19. FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (Errol Morris, USA)
  20. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson, USA)
  21. MR. NICE GUY (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  22. DOUBLE TEAM (Tsui Hark, USA)
  23. TITANIC (James Cameron, USA)
  24. THE ASSIGNMENT (Christian Duguay, Canada)

1996

  1. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  2. MAHJONG (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, France)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh, UK)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung, Hong Kong)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. BOUND (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  12. ESCAPE FROM L.A. (John Carpenter, USA)
  13. BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, USA)
  14. NÉNETTE AND BONI (Claire Denis, France)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  2. THE CEREMONY (Claude Chabrol, France)
  3. SAFE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  4. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  5. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  6. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  7. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  8. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling, USA)
  9. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  10. SE7EN (David Fincher, USA)
  11. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
  12. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
  13. DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (John McTiernan, USA)
  14. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen, China)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla, Hungary)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  8. DRUNKEN MASTER II (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  9. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  10. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  11. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  12. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  13. NADJA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  14. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  15. ED WOOD (Tim Burton, USA)
  16. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  17. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  18. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)

1993

  1. NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
  2. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. MOVING (Somai Shinji, Japan)
  4. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma, USA)
  5. FROM THE EAST (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  6. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, USA)
  7. SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France)
  9. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  10. THE PIANO (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  11. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  12. THE HEROIC TRIO (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  13. TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott, USA)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, USA)
  2. HARD-BOILED (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  3. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies, UK)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  7. FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  8. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee, USA)
  9. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann, USA)
  10. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke, USA)
  11. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley, USA)
  13. BASIC INSTINCT (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  14. ONE FALSE MOVE (Carl Franklin, USA)
  15. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  16. HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
  17. FALLING LESSONS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  18. RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  19. RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
  20. CANDYMAN (Bernard Rose, USA)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley, USA)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. POINT BREAK (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  6. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  7. THE LIFE OF THE DEAD (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  8. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  9. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
  10. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  11. DIRTY LIKE AN ANGEL (Catherine Breillat, France)
  12. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, USA)
  13. SOME DIVINE WIND (Roddy Bogawa, USA)
  14. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch, USA)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  8. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Joe Dante, USA)
  9. PUMP UP THE VOLUME (Allan Moyle, USA)
  10. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
  11. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
  12. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
  13. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  14. PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, USA)
  15. NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, France)
  16. EUROPA EUROPA (Agnieszka Holland, France)

1989

  1. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  2. THE KILLER (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, USA)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley, USA)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  8. WATER AND POWER (Pat O’Neill, USA)
  9. THE ABYSS (James Cameron, USA)
  10. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Woody Allen, USA)
  11. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma, USA)
  12. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
  13. TONGUES UNTIED (Marlon Riggs, USA)
  14. AMERICAN STORIES: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  15. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  16. ROAD HOUSE (Rowdy Herrington, USA)
  17. SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  18. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
  19. MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
  20. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  2. THE DISCARNATES (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  4. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  5. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat, France)
  6. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
  7. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
  8. THE CAT (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  9. THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris, USA)
  10. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  11. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  12. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  13. RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
  14. POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

1987

  1. ROUGE (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)
  2. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  3. THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  4. ISHTAR (Elaine May, USA)
  5. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  6. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  8. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong)
  10. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  11. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  12. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
  13. THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
  14. A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  15. A CHINESE GHOST STORY (Ching Siu-tung, Hong Kong)

1986

  1. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, USA)
  4. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann, USA)
  5. TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  6. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  8. FAUBOURG SAINT-MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet, France)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  10. LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (James Benning, USA)
  11. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  12. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  13. A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  14. ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
  15. ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
  16. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  17. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  18. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  19. THE MISSION (Roland Joffé, UK)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)
  4. VAGABOND (Agnès Varda, France)
  5. CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)
  6. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  7. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  8. LOST IN AMERICA (Albert Brooks, USA)
  9. LOVE HOTEL (Somai Shinji, Japan)
  10. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
  11. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN (Chang Yi, Taiwan)
  13. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
  14. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  15. WITNESS (Peter Weir, USA)

1984

  1. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  3. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  6. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  7. LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
  8. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  9. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  10. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  11. CLASS RELATIONS (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
  12. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  14. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  15. REPO MAN (Alex Cox, USA)

1983

  1. SUNLESS (Chris Marker, France)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman, USA)
  7. THE KEEP (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA)
  9. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  10. ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  11. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, USA)
  12. RETURN OF THE JEDI (Richard Marquand, USA)
  13. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  14. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, USA)
  2. NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
  3. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France)
  5. BOAT PEOPLE (Ann Hui, Hong Kong)
  6. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  7. THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
  8. VERONIKA VOSS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  9. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
  10. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi, Taiwan)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  5. KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. MODERN ROMANCE (Albert Brooks, USA)
  8. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
  9. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, USA)
  10. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
  11. NIGHTSHIFT (Robina Rose, UK)
  12. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
  13. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
  14. RICH AND FAMOUS (George Cukor, USA)
  15. MAD MAX 2 (George Miller, Australia)

1980

  1. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou, France)
  2. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS—1ST KIND (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa, France)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin, USA)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat, France)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, USA)
  10. THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch, USA)
  11. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. THE LAST METRO (François Truffaut, France)
  14. THE CONDUCTOR (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  15. CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
  16. MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  17. AMERICAN GIGOLO (Paul Schrader, USA)
  18. SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
  19. TIMES SQUARE (Allan Moyle, USA)
  20. THE CONSTANT FACTOR (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)

1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones, USA)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott, USA)
  9. WISE BLOOD (John Huston, USA)
  10. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard, USA)
  11. SHORT MEMORY (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  12. FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  13. ALEXANDRIA… WHY? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)
  14. LE NAVIRE NIGHT (Marguerite Duras, France)
  15. ARREBATO (Iván Zulueta, Spain)
  16. BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
  17. AND QUIET ROLLS THE DAWN (Mrinal Sen, India)
  18. A SCREAM FROM SILENCE (Anne Claire Poirier, Canada)
  19. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  20. CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  21. HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  22. THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, USA)
  23. BLACK JACK (Ken Loach, UK)
  24. LA LUNA (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  25. LOVE ON THE RUN (François Truffaut, France)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier, France)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz, France)
  8. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut, France)
  9. BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader, USA)
  10. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
  11. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  12. THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  13. DRUNKEN MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  14. LE DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
  15. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
  16. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
  17. LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
  18. VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  19. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
  20. DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  21. GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
  22. THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  23. WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  24. AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. MOLIÈRE (Ariane Mnouchkine, France)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. 11 X 14 (James Benning, USA)
  6. LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE (Jon Jost, USA)
  7. ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
  8. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
  9. HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  10. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  11. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (John Badham, USA)
  12. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  13. STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
  14. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
  15. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
  16. THE TRUCK (Marguerite Duras, France)
  17. ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
  18. THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
  19. PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
  20. BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  21. OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
  22. A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
  23. TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
  24. SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
  25. ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
  26. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  27. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  28. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
  29. CITIZENS BAND (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1976

  1. NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  2. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter, USA)
  3. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  4. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer, West Germany)
  5. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  6. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  7. INSIANG (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
  8. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  9. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  10. CARRIE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  11. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  12. MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, USA)
  13. HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, USA)
  14. SMALL CHANGE (François Truffaut, France)
  15. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  16. JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  17. THE MIDDLEMAN (Satyajit Ray, India)
  18. FORTINI/CANI (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  19. THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (Marcel Ophuls, USA)
  20. CAR WASH (Michael Schultz, USA)
  21. THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN (Radley Metzger, USA)
  22. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  23. KINGS OF THE ROAD (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras, France)
  2. MOSES AND AARON (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Austria)
  3. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  4. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, USA)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  6. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, USSR)
  7. JAWS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  12. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  13. THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
  14. GREY GARDENS (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
  15. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, UK)
  16. THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
  17. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (Thom Andersen, USA)
  18. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
  19. FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  20. SMILE (Michael Ritchie, USA)
  21. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, USA)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  3. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  4. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. CHINATOWN (Roman Polański, USA)
  7. EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  8. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  9. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  10. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais, France)
  11. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  12. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes, USA)
  13. FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, USA)
  14. ARABIAN NIGHTS (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  15. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  16. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
  17. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  18. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  19. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  20. DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  21. THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  22. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  23. THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
  24. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
  26. LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
  27. THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino, USA)
  28. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
  29. THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, France)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, France)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  5. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)
  6. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  7. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  8. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Iran)
  9. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  10. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
  11. PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  12. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  13. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  14. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  15. DISTANT THUNDER (Satyajit Ray, India)

1972

  1. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  2. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May, USA)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat, France)
  7. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  8. GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  9. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
  10. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  11. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
  12. HISTORY LESSONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  13. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  14. CHUNG KUO—CINA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  15. RED PSALM (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  16. JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  17. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
  18. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)
  19. ULZANA’S RAID (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  20. A SENSE OF LOSS (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
  21. CABARET (Bob Fosse, USA)
  22. IMAGES (Robert Altman, UK)
  23. SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  24. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  25. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  2. OUT 1 (Jacques Rivette, France)
  3. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut, France)
  4. LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  5. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May, USA)
  6. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins, USA)
  7. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, UK)
  8. THE CEREMONY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  9. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol, France)
  11. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel, USA)
  12. THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  13. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  14. PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  15. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, USA)
  16. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  17. THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  18. A GIRL IS A GUN (Luc Moullet, France)
  19. KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  20. DUEL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  21. LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
  22. W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  23. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
  24. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  25. LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  26. FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  27. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  28. WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, UK)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  4. THE BUTCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  5. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
  6. THE BREACH (Claude Chabrol, France)
  7. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  8. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
  9. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  10. DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  11. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  12. WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA)
  13. WIND FROM THE EAST (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  14. THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  15. THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  16. THE DEBUT (Gleb Panfilov, USSR)
  17. FOUR MOODS (Pai Ching-jui/King Hu/Lee Hsing/Li Han-hsiang, Taiwan)
  18. BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut, France)
  19. EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1969

  1. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  4. ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  5. BOY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  6. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  7. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  8. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  9. A GENTLE WOMAN (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  11. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  12. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  13. LAW AND ORDER (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  14. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough, UK)
  15. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  16. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  17. KES (Ken Loach, UK)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  2. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  7. HEARTBEAT (Alain Cavalier, France)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
  10. TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  11. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański, USA)
  12. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
  13. ONE PLUS ONE (Jean-Luc Godard, UK)
  14. THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer, USA)
  15. L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  16. MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  17. LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, Cuba)
  18. THE GREAT SILENCE (Sergio Corbucci, Italy)
  19. LES BICHES (Claude Chabrol, France)
  20. THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  21. 24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN (Dominique Delouche, France)
  22. ONE FINE DAY (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  23. ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
  24. PARTNER. (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  25. STOLEN KISSES (François Truffaut, France)
  26. FACES (John Cassavetes, USA)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada)
  4. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, France)
  5. WEEK-END (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  7. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  9. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  10. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
  11. PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  12. THE DEPARTURE (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium)
  13. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  14. FAR FROM VIETNAM (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda, France)
  15. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France)
  16. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  17. DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, USA)
  18. SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  19. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. THE FIREMEN’S BALL (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  21. LA MUSICA (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, France)
  22. LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  23. BRANDED TO KILL (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  24. ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  25. LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  26. JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1966

  1. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
  2. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  4. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  5. TOKYO DRIFTER (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
  7. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  8. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  9. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
  10. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  11. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  12. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  13. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  14. THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
  15. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  16. THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  17. MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  18. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  19. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  20. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  22. YESTERDAY GIRL (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  3. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  5. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  6. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  7. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda, France)
  8. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
  9. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  10. ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Russ Meyer, USA)
  12. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  13. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  14. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  15. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
  16. SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
  17. THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
  18. MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, France)
  4. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  5. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi, Japan)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, India)
  8. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
  9. A MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  11. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  12. RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  13. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
  14. BRICK AND MIRROR (Ebrahim Golestan, Iran)
  15. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  16. THE ENCHANTED DESNA (Yuliya Solntseva, USSR)
  17. HAMLET (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
  18. LIFE UPSIDE DOWN (Alain Jessua, France)
  19. BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang, Hong Kong)
  3. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
  6. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy, France)
  7. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, France)
  8. PASSENGER (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  9. THE CARABINEERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  12. THE FIANCÉS (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  13. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  14. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. THE LITTLE SOLDIER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  16. RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  17. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)
  18. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

1962

  1. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  2. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  3. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, France)
  4. JULES AND JIM (François Truffaut, France)
  5. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  6. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  7. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, USA)
  8. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  9. HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  10. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
  11. THE SEA (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italy)
  12. THE SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer, France)
  13. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polański, Poland)
  14. IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  15. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean, UK)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. LOLA (Jacques Demy, France)
  3. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy)
  4. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette, France)
  5. THE END OF SUMMER (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  6. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie, USA)
  7. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, USA)
  9. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  10. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
  3. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  4. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, West Germany)
  5. LATE AUTUMN (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  6. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
  8. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
  9. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  10. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  11. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  12. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  13. CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  14. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
  15. THE GIANTS OF THESSALY (Riccardo Freda, Italy)

1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  3. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, France)
  4. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger, USA)
  6. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  8. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  9. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  10. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. A SIMPLE STORY (Marcel Hanoun, France)
  12. THE HUMAN CONDITION I: NO GREATER LOVE (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, USA)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  4. CONFLAGRATION (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
  3. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
  4. NIGHT OF THE DEMON (Jacques Tourneur, UK)
  5. 8 HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  7. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  3. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  4. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  5. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, USA)
  6. APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray, India)

1955

  1. ORDET (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, USA)
  3. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  4. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls, France)
  6. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford, USA)
  7. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang, USA)
  8. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles, Spain)
  9. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  10. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin, USA)
  11. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  12. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
  13. SHIN HEIKE MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  3. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  4. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor, USA)
  6. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. GODZILLA (Honda Ishiro, Japan)
  8. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  9. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  10. ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, USA)

1953

  1. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  3. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg, Japan)
  4. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  5. MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls, France)
  6. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  7. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
  8. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir, Italy)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford, USA)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, USA)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. EUROPE ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor, India)
  4. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann, USA)
  5. OTHELLO (Orson Welles, Morocco)
  6. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls, France)
  2. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  3. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  5. THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  6. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  7. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler, USA)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, UK)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  5. I SHOT JESSE JAMES (Samuel Fuller, USA)

1948

  1. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls, USA)
  2. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu, China)
  3. FORT APACHE (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
  5. GERMANY YEAR ZERO (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  7. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  8. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  9. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
  4. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges, USA)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  4. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)
  5. PAISAN (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, USA)
  7. THE LOCKET (John Brahm, USA)
  8. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau, France)
  9. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández, Mexico)

1945

  1. THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, UK)
  3. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  4. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
  5. LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. GREAT FREEDOM NO. 7 (Helmut Käutner, Germany)
  4. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Preston Sturges, USA)
  5. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, USA)
  6. LAURA (Otto Preminger, USA)

1943

  1. DAY OF WRATH (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, USA)
  3. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  4. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley, USA)
  5. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  6. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  7. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  9. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, USA)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, USA)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. FANTASIA (Ben Sharpsteen/Samuel Armstrong/James Algar/Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield/Ford Beebe, Jr. & Jim Handley & Hamilton Luske/Norm Ferguson & T. Hee/Wilfred Jackson, USA)
  3. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1939

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, France)
  3. STAGECOACH (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming, USA)
  5. THE WOMEN (George Cukor, USA)

1938

  1. HOLIDAY (George Cukor, USA)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, USA)
  3. EASY LIVING (Mitchell Leisen, USA)
  4. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, France)
  5. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman, USA)

1936

  1. FURY (Fritz Lang, USA)
  2. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry, France)
  3. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  4. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir, France)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE! (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Sam Wood, USA)
  4. SYLVIA SCARLETT (George Cukor, USA)
  5. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  6. TONI (Jean Renoir, France)

1934

  1. THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
  2. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang, China)
  3. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, France)
  4. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Frank Capra, USA)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  3. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl, USA)
  4. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  5. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls, Germany)
  6. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  7. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo, France)

1932

  1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  3. WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. SCARFACE (Howard Hawks, USA)
  5. BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  6. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin, USA)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin, USA)
  4. TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir, France)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, USA)
  7. MONKEY BUSINESS (Norman Z. McLeod, USA)
  8. MARIUS (Alexander Korda, France)

1930

  1. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
  3. THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
  3. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

1928

  1. SPIES (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Th. Dreyer, France)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton, USA)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  6. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)
  7. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, USA)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance, France)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton, USA)
  2. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
  3. THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton, USA)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström, USA)

1923

  1. SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, USA)

1922

  1. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. NOSFERATU (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
  3. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty, USA)

1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade, France)

1915

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade, France)
  2. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade, France)