Author: Ryan Swen

Favorite Films (Films Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this with features only.
A version of this with mid-length films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

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. WHEN THE SUN IS EATEN (CHI’BAL K’IIN) (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  22. PREDATORS (David Osit, USA)
  23. MAGELLAN (Lav Diaz, Portugal)
  24. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—THE FINAL RECKONING (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  25. YES (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  26. SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  27. PETER HUJAR’S DAY (Ira Sachs, USA)
  28. VIDEOHEAVEN (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  29. THE FENCE (Claire Denis, France)
  30. THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie, USA)
  31. LATE FAME (Kent Jones, USA)
  32. IS THIS THING ON? (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  33. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (Pedro Pinho, Portugal)
  34. JAY KELLY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  35. SOUND OF FALLING (Mascha Schilinski, Germany)
  36. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Hlynur Pálmason, Iceland)
  37. EVIDENCE (Lee Anne Schmitt, USA)
  38. JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens, USA)
  39. BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (Danzuka Yuiga, Japan)
  40. NO OTHER CHOICE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  41. ROSE OF NEVADA (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  42. AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (James Cameron, USA)
  43. BLACK BAG (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  44. PREFACE TO THE LITTLE DIALOGUE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  45. AFTER THE HUNT (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  46. NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (Matt Johnson, Canada)
  47. YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE (Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka)
  48. WE ARE THE FRUITS OF THE FOREST (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  49. KOKUHO (Lee Sang-il, Japan)
  50. IN THE LOST LANDS (Paul W. S. Anderson, USA)
  51. A USEFUL GHOST (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand)
  52. LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou Shih-ching, Taiwan)
  53. THE LITTLE SISTER (Hafsia Herzi, France)
  54. DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  55. WILD FOXES (Valéry Carnoy, Belgium)
  56. 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. SCÉNARIOS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  7. YOUTH (HARD TIMES) (Wang Bing, France)
  8. THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  9. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra, Spain)
  10. IT’S NOT ME (Leos Carax, France)
  11. A TRAVELER’S NEEDS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. ANORA (Sean Baker, USA)
  13. BEING JOHN SMITH (John Smith, UK)
  14. BY THE STREAM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  15. WHO BY FIRE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  16. 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré, France)
  17. NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross, USA)
  18. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I—LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (Julia Loktev, USA)
  19. REVOLVING ROUNDS (Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf, Austria)
  20. HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh, UK)
  21. DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, France)
  22. THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  23. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia, India)
  24. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  25. THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  26. DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
  27. THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet, USA)
  28. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  29. CHIME (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  30. EEPHUS (Carson Lund, USA)
  31. A DIFFERENT MAN (Aaron Schimberg, USA)
  32. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
  33. BROKEN RAGE (Kitano Takeshi, Japan)
  34. LUMIÈRE, THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES (Thierry Frémaux, France)
  35. ABIDING NOWHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  36. THE SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, France)
  37. MATT AND MARA (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  38. REFUSE ROOM (Simon Liu, Hong Kong)
  39. THE COLORS WITHIN (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  40. HAPPYEND (Sora Neo, Japan)
  41. NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham, Palestine)
  42. JUROR #2 (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  43. CLOUD (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  44. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  45. OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader, USA)
  46. HERE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  47. EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM “SCÉNARIO” (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  48. MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  49. BLITZ (Steve McQueen, UK)
  50. THE LAND AT NIGHT (Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, Australia)
  51. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (George Miller, Australia)
  52. PAVEMENTS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  53. INVENTION (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  54. FAMILIAR TOUCH (Sarah Friedland, USA)
  55. SUBURBAN FURY (Robinson Devor, USA)
  56. FIRE OF WIND (Marta Mateus, Portugal)
  57. DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  58. ESP (Laura Kraning, USA)
  59. THE DAMNED (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  60. STRANGER EYES (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  61. DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  62. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  63. NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson, USA)
  64. CARRY-ON (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  65. A BLACK SCREEN TOO (Rhayne Vermette, Canada)
  66. ARCHIPELAGO OF EARTHEN BONES—TO BUNYA (Malena Szlam, Canada)
  67. GO BETWEEN (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  68. YOU BURN ME (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  69. LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR (Jem Cohen, USA)
  70. PRESENCE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  71. PEPE (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic)
  72. CENT MILLE MILLIARDS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  73. BOGANCLOCH (Ben Rivers, UK)
  74. EXTREMELY SHORT (Yamamura Koji, Japan)
  75. COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina)
  76. MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  77. SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT (Johan Grimonprez, Belgium)
  78. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)
  79. GOOD ONE (India Donaldson, USA)
  80. BLACK GLASS (Adam Piron, USA)
  81. MOON V. STATE (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  82. UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)
  83. THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA)
  84. BLACK BOX DIARIES (Ito Shiori, Japan)
  85. RE-ENGRAVED (Lei Lei, USA)
  86. TRAP (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  87. BLUE SUN PALACE (Constance Tsang, USA)
  88. EAT THE NIGHT (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, France)
  89. RUMOURS (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  90. I’M STILL HERE (Walter Salles, Brazil)
  91. SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (Paulo Carneiro, Portugal)
  92. A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg, USA)
  93. APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  94. SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE (Christopher Harris, USA)
  95. THE ORDER (Justin Kurzel, Canada)
  96. REBEL RIDGE (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)
  97. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Hernán Rosselli, Argentina)
  98. ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (Li Yang, China)
  99. QUEER (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  100. BREATHLESS (James Benning, USA)
  101. A FIDAI FILM (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine)
  102. SLEEP #2 (Radu Jude, Romania)
  103. 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. THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  23. WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  24. INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
  25. MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  26. HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  27. OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
  28. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  29. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  30. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
  31. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  32. STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  33. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  34. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  35. PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  36. PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  37. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  38. THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  39. ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh, UK)
  40. NOWHERE NEAR (Miko Revereza, Philippines)
  41. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  42. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (Sora Neo, Japan)
  43. SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  44. INCIDENT (Bill Morrison, USA)
  45. MAD FATE (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  46. THE PLOUGH (Philippe Garrel, France)
  47. TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  48. LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE AND LIGHT, NOISE, SMOKE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  49. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  50. THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
  51. THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
  52. THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
  53. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker, USA)
  54. AN EVENING SONG (FOR THREE VOICES) (Graham Swon, USA)
  55. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  56. MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
  57. PASSING TIME (Terence Davies, UK)
  58. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
  59. A PRINCE (Pierre Creton, France)
  60. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  61. FALSE EXPECTATIONS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  62. THE SOJOURN (Tiffany Sia, USA)
  63. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
  64. GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  65. THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
  66. FILM SCULPTURE (4) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  67. MAGNETIC POINT (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  68. PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
  69. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  70. FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  71. GREETINGS FROM CRÎNGAȘI! (Radu Jude, Romania)
  72. FOUR UNLOVED WOMEN, ADRIFT ON A PURPOSELESS SEA, EXPERIENCE THE ECSTASY OF DISSECTION (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  73. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  74. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  75. ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
  76. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
  77. THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  78. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  79. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT (Raven Jackson, USA)
  80. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
  81. QUIET AS IT’S KEPT (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
  82. NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (Sean Wang, USA)
  83. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  84. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  85. MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  86. RED ISLAND (Robin Campillo, France)
  87. ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
  88. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
  89. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)
  90. OUT OF JUNGLE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  91. SIREN’S LULLABY (Wu Tzu-an, Taiwan)
  92. HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  93. DEADENDZ (Jon Jost, USA)
  94. ALPHA KINGS (Enrique Pedráza Botero & Faye Tsakas, 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. A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, China)
  18. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  19. THE SOWER OF STARS (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  20. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  21. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
  22. COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  23. YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  24. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  25. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  26. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  27. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  28. THE POTEMKINISTS (Radu Jude, Romania)
  29. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  30. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  31. RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
  32. WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  33. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  34. THE KING OF WUXIA (Lin Jing-jie, Taiwan)
  35. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  36. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  37. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  38. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
  39. THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  40. NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  41. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  42. ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
  43. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
  44. MASTER GARDENER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  45. WHERE DO YOU STAND, TSAI MING-LIANG? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  46. SATURN BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
  47. MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
  48. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
  49. RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  50. WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal)
  51. REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  52. MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin, France)
  53. RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, China)
  54. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  55. LAST SCREENING (Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan)
  56. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  57. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  58. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  59. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  60. PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – AGNÈS VARDA – NEW YORK – 1967 (Agnès Varda, France)
  61. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  62. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell, USA)
  63. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  64. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  65. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  66. SUGAR GLASS BOTTLE (Sora Neo, Japan)
  67. IT FOLLOWS IT PASSES ON (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  68. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  69. A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
  70. FALL (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  71. THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
  72. FUR FILM VOL.2: MIRROR MIRROR (ЯeaRflex, Taiwan)
  73. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  74. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  75. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  76. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  77. DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
  78. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  79. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  80. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  81. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  82. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Mike Cheslik, USA)
  83. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  84. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  85. DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (Christian Avilés, Spain)
  86. WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (Huang Shuli, China)
  87. GINKO YELLOW (Amy Halpern, USA)
  88. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  89. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  90. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  91. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  92. IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)
  93. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale, USA)
  94. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Philippines)
  95. 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. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  13. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  14. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  15. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  16. TRAIN AGAIN (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  17. EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  18. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
  19. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  20. THE TSUGUA DIARIES (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  21. THE NIGHT (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  22. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  23. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  24. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  25. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  26. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  27. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  28. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  29. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  30. THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Wes Anderson, USA)
  31. BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  32. FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
  33. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
  34. MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
  35. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  36. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  37. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  38. TRAFIC (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  39. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  40. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  41. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  42. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  43. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  44. THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  45. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  46. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  47. FIRE BELLY (Amy Halpern, USA)
  48. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  49. RIPPLES OF LIFE (Wei Shujun, China)
  50. SYCORAX (Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro, Spain)
  51. ACTUAL PEOPLE (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  52. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  53. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  54. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  55. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  56. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  57. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  58. UNTITLED (34BSP) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  59. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  60. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  61. GRANDMA’S SCISSORS (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  62. SUMMER (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  63. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  64. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  65. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  66. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)
  67. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  68. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  69. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  70. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  71. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  72. AFTER THE RAIN (Fan Jian, China)
  73. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  74. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  75. BIRTHDAY SONG (SINGLE CHANNEL) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  76. DEVELOPING (Hsu Tsen-chu, Taiwan)
  77. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarmet, Brazil)
  78. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  79. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  80. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan, UK)
  81. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  82. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  83. A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
  84. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi, Spain)
  85. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  86. OFF (I DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP) (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  87. BIRDS IN THE WINDOW (Amy Halpern & David Lebrun, USA)
  88. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  89. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
  90. CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  91. 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. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  10. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler, USA)
  11. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany)
  12. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
  13. MINAMATA MANDALA (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  14. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  15. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
  16. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  17. ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  18. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  19. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  20. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  21. NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  22. CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  23. LOS CONDUCTOS (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia)
  24. RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  25. THE CALMING (Song Fang, China)
  26. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
  27. FIGURE MINUS FACT (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
  28. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
  29. EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
  30. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  31. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary, USA)
  32. MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  33. VISIT (Jia Zhangke, China)
  34. THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  35. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  36. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  37. ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  38. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  39. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  40. DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT (Christopher Harris, USA)
  41. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  42. ALFRED (Esther Urlus, Netherlands)
  43. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung, South Korea)
  44. NEWT LEADERS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  45. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  46. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  47. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  48. STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei Shujun, China)
  49. THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  50. MAɬNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  51. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong)
  52. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  53. STUMP THE GUESSER (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  54. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  55. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  56. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  57. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  58. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  59. IN THE AIR TONIGHT (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  60. FRENCH EXIT (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  61. I WISH YOU WOULD (Ryland Walker Knight, USA)
  62. LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  63. THE CHICKEN (Sora Neo, USA)
  64. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  65. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  66. HALPATE (Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, USA)
  67. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)

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. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  15. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
  16. THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  17. ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  18. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  19. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  20. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant, USA)
  21. AUSTRIAN PAVILION (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  22. CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  23. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  24. MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  25. THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  26. GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  27. LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  28. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  29. THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  30. THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER (Jessica Sarah Rinland, UK)
  31. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
  32. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  33. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  34. LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
  35. BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  36. AMUSEMENT RIDE (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  37. A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  38. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
  39. SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
  40. CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
  41. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  42. BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
  43. GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
  44. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  45. (TOURISM STUDIES) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  46. CAVALCADE (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  47. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  48. RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  49. YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  50. ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
  51. HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  52. BILLY (Zachary Epcar, USA)
  53. EQUINOX (Margaret Honda, USA)
  54. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
  55. DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
  56. A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
  57. THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
  58. FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  59. HELLHOLE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  60. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  61. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
  62. THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  63. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  64. THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  65. LOOK THEN BELOW (Ben Rivers, UK)
  66. US (Jordan Peele, USA)
  67. HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  68. DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
  69. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)
  70. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
  71. TRANSCRIPT (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  72. CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND (Abby Sun & Daniel Garber, USA)
  73. COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
  74. LAYING OUT (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  75. FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph, USA)
  76. GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
  77. CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  78. ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  79. 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. THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  17. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  18. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  19. SAND (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  20. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  21. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  22. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  23. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  24. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  25. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  26. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  27. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  28. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  29. PARSI (Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt, Guineau-Bisseau)
  30. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  31. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  32. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  33. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  34. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  35. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  36. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  37. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  38. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  39. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  40. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  41. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  42. GENÈSE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  43. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  44. A LAND IMAGINED (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  45. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  46. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  47. THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  48. INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  49. A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
  50. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  51. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  52. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  53. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  54. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
  55. DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
  56. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  57. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  58. FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
  59. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  60. A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
  61. YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  62. SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  63. THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
  64. THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
  65. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers, USA)
  66. SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
  67. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  68. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  69. DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  70. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  71. SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  72. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
  73. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
  74. POLLY TWO (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  75. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)
  76. TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  77. GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
  78. THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  79. READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  80. RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  81. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  82. DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
  83. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
  84. KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
  85. MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  86. PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, France)
  87. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  88. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
  89. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)
  90. THREE ATLAS (Miryam Charles, Haïti)
  91. 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. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  6. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Scharader, USA)
  7. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  8. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  9. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. ★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  11. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  12. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  13. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  14. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  15. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  16. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  17. THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
  18. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
  19. BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  20. BEFORE WE VANISH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  21. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
  22. FANTASY SENTENCES (Dane Komljen, Germany)
  23. GOLDEN EXITS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  24. LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  25. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  26. 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Robin Campillo, France)
  27. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  28. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  29. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  30. SCAFFOLD (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  31. THE POST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  32. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, USA)
  33. MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
  34. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  35. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  36. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  37. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
  38. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  39. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  40. GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
  41. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack, USA)
  42. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  43. EX LIBRIS—THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  44. WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
  45. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  46. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  47. GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
  48. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  49. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  50. PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  51. LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
  52. OUR HOUSE (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  53. GO, TOTO! (Pierre Creton, France)
  54. THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
  55. THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  56. THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
  57. GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
  58. LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
  59. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers, USA)
  60. COMMON CARRIER (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  61. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  62. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  63. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  64. THE FOOLISH BIRD (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, China)
  65. AMIKO (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  66. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  67. MEDIUMS (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  68. A SHORT HISTORY (Erica Sheu, Taiwan)
  69. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch, USA)
  70. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  71. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  72. CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  73. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, USA)
  74. MUMOK KINO (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  75. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
  76. THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)
  77. 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. TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  8. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  9. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  10. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
  11. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  13. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  14. A SILENT VOICE (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  15. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  17. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  18. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  19. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  20. BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  21. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  22. THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  23. BITTER MONEY (Wang Bing, China)
  24. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  25. CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  26. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  27. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  28. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  29. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan, China)
  30. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  31. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
  32. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  33. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  34. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  35. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  36. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  37. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  38. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  39. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  40. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  41. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  42. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  43. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  44. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  45. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  46. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  47. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
  48. SINGLE BELIEF (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  49. LUNA E SANTUR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  50. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  51. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  52. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  53. SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
  54. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  55. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  56. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  57. SARAH WINCHESTER: GHOST OPERA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  58. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  59. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  60. LUMINOUS VEIL (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  61. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  62. MAN IN THE WELL (Hu Bo, China)
  63. HALIMUHFACK (Christopher Harris, USA)
  64. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  65. URTH (Ben Rivers, UK)
  66. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  67. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  68. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  69. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  70. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  71. YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
  72. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant, UK)
  73. OSCAR AT 8903 EMPIRE (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  74. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  75. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  76. TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  77. POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
  78. KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
  79. RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
  80. BAGATELLE II (Jerome Hiler, USA)
  81. MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  82. THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
  83. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
  84. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  85. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
  86. 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. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  13. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  14. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  15. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  16. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
  17. BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  18. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño, Portugal)
  19. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  20. HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone, USA)
  21. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  22. GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  23. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  24. ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
  25. EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  26. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  27. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  28. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  29. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  30. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  31. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
  32. DESPITE THE NIGHT (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  33. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  34. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  35. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  36. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  37. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack, USA)
  38. EVENT FOR A STAGE (Tacita Dean, UK)
  39. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  40. NAVIGATOR (Björn Kämmerer, Austria)
  41. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  42. GOING OUT (Ted Fendt, USA)
  43. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  44. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  45. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  46. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  47. STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
  48. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  49. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  50. BLUE STRAIT (Jon Jost, USA)
  51. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  52. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  53. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  54. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  55. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  56. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
  57. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  58. 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. SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND SUNS (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  10. GONE GIRL (David Fincher, USA)
  11. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  12. LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  13. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  14. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  15. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee, USA)
  16. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda, USA)
  17. BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  18. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  19. NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
  20. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  21. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  22. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  23. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  24. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  25. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  26. LI’L QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  27. I FORGOT! (Eduardo Williams, France)
  28. THE TONY LONGO TRILOGY (Thom Andersen, USA)
  29. CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (Charles Poekel, USA)
  30. MANHATTAN ONE TWO THREE FOUR (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  31. THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  32. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  33. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  34. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN-MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle, USA)
  35. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  36. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  37. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  38. I WASN’T THERE (Sky Hirschkron, USA)
  39. SPECIAL FEATURES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  40. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  41. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel, USA)
  42. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  43. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  44. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  45. ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)
  46. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal)
  47. VIOLET (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  48. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)
  49. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs, USA)
  50. AGAINST LANDSCAPE (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)

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. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  12. THE THREE DISASTERS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  13. 45 7 BROADWAY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  14. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  15. MISS AND THE DOCTORS (Axelle Ropert, France)
  16. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  17. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  18. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  19. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  20. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  21. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  22. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  23. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  24. WALKING ON WATER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  25. TRAVEL PLANS (Ted Fendt, USA)
  26. COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
  27. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  28. (IT’S NOT A PRISON IF YOU NEVER TRY THE DOOR) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  29. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers, USA)
  30. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  31. THAT I’M FALLING? (Eduardo Williams, France)
  32. MAIN HALL (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  33. I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  34. COMING TO TERMS (Jon Jost, USA)
  35. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  36. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  37. TOUCHING THE SKIN OF EERINESS (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  38. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  39. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  40. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  41. JG (Tacita Dean, UK)
  42. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  43. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  44. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)
  45. CASTELLO CAVALCANTI (Wes Anderson, 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. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  22. NO FORM (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  23. DIAMOND SUTRA (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  24. SLEEPWALK (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  25. CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  26. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  27. BROKEN SPECS (Ted Fendt, USA)
  28. EGG AND STONE (Huang Ji, China)
  29. EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  30. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  31. THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  32. MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  33. BY HALVES (Amy Halpern, USA)
  34. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  35. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
  36. A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  37. NEVER A FOOT TOO FAR, EVEN (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  38. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan, China)
  39. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano, USA)

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. LIST (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  13. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  14. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
  15. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  16. COULD SEE A PUMA. (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  17. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  18. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval, France)
  19. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  20. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  21. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  22. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  23. THE PASSAGE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  24. BURNING STAR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  25. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  26. 28.IV.81 (DESCENDING FIGURES) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  27. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  28. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  29. 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. SHIBUYA – TOKYO (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  9. TOKYO – EBISU (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  10. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)
  11. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  12. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański, Germany)
  13. THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
  14. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright, UK)
  15. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
  16. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch, China)
  17. UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott, USA)
  18. I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, China)
  19. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  20. 607 (Liu Jiayin, China)
  21. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  22. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  23. TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  24. OH SUPREME LIGHT (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  25. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)
  26. THIS IS MY KINGDOM (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
  27. INFINITE DOORS (Murata Takeshi, USA)
  28. THE UNNAMED (Huang Ya-li, Taiwan)
  29. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers, USA)

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. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  10. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  11. MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  12. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  13. FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  14. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  15. EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. MUNDANE HISTORY (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  17. LUMPHINI 2552 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Thailand)
  18. TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA)
  19. WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis, France)
  20. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  21. A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  22. MADAM BUTTERFLY (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  23. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  24. THEY ALL LIE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  25. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  26. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  27. STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  28. 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. 16-18-4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, Japan)
  11. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
  12. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  14. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
  15. A LAKE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  16. PARKING (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan)
  17. GREEN FUSE (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  18. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  20. PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  21. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  22. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  23. FILM PERDUTO (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy)
  24. 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. SKETCH FILM #4 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  13. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  14. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  15. SKETCH FILM #5 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  16. INTO THE MASS (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  17. HELP ME EROS (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  18. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  19. HOTEL CHEVALIER (Wes Anderson, USA)
  20. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  21. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  22. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary, USA)
  23. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  24. SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  25. PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
  26. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
  27. LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)
  28. 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. SKETCH FILM #3 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  15. CLEAR BLUE SKY (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  16. DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev, USA)
  17. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, UK)
  18. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar, USA)
  19. DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)
  20. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva, USA)
  21. 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. MARKET STREET (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  7. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France)
  8. THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  9. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
  10. SKETCH FILM #1 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  11. ELECTION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  12. SKETCH FILM #2 (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  13. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  14. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  15. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee, USA)
  16. LADY VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  17. STAR WARS: EPISODE III—REVENGE OF THE SITH (George Lucas, USA)
  18. LAST DAYS (Gus Van Sant, USA)
  19. 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. RECKLESS EYEBALLING (Christopher Harris, USA)
  29. 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. APOLLO (Nishikawa Tomonari, USA)
  9. ( ) (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  10. LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  11. THE MISSING (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  12. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  13. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  14. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu, Japan)
  15. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  16. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  17. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  18. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  19. LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)
  20. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  21. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  22. CHIASMUS (Saito Daichi, Canada)
  23. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  24. 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. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  14. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  15. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  16. FROM THE OTHER SIDE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  17. JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  18. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)
  19. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  20. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  21. STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES (George Lucas, USA)
  22. RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
  23. A NEW LIFE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  24. MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  25. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  26. RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  27. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
  28. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  29. 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 FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  20. IN PUBLIC (Jia Zhangke, China)
  21. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  22. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  23. COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
  24. A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
  25. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  26. IN THE DARKNESS OF TIME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  27. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  28. SHREK (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, USA)
  29. 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. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin, Canada)
  8. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
  9. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
  10. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  11. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  13. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  14. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  15. BATTLE ROYALE (Fukasaku Kinji, Japan)
  16. MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
  17. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  18. HUA YANG DE NIAN HUA (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  19. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
  20. DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  21. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
  22. JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

  1. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
  2. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  3. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  4. TABOO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  5. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  6. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. TEMPTING HEART (Sylvia Chang, Hong Kong)
  8. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  9. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  10. COMPENSATION (Zeinabu irene Davis, USA)
  11. LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  12. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  13. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  14. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  15. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  16. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  17. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  18. STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
  19. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  20. SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  21. 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. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano, Brazil)
  12. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  13. KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
  14. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. EYES OF THE SPIDER (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  16. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar, USA)
  17. DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)
  18. 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. SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
  18. GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
  19. THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  20. FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (Errol Morris, USA)
  21. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  22. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson, USA)
  23. MR. NICE GUY (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  24. DOUBLE TEAM (Tsui Hark, USA)
  25. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  26. TITANIC (James Cameron, USA)
  27. 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. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch, USA)
  11. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA)
  12. SE7EN (David Fincher, USA)
  13. AM MEER (Ute Aurand, Germany)
  14. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
  15. ZONE (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  16. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
  17. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  18. THE SNOWMAN (Phil Solomon, USA)
  19. DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (John McTiernan, USA)
  20. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)
  21. VAN GOGH’S EAR (Wu Mi-sen, Taiwan)

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. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  14. NADJA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  15. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  16. ED WOOD (Tim Burton, USA)
  17. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  18. THE MOON (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  19. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  20. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)
  21. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1993

  1. NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
  2. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  3. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  4. MOVING (Somai Shinji, Japan)
  5. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma, USA)
  6. FROM THE EAST (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  7. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  8. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, USA)
  9. SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  10. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France)
  11. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  12. THE PIANO (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  13. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  14. THE HEROIC TRIO (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  15. 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. GIRL POWER (Sadie Benning, USA)
  18. FALLING LESSONS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  19. RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  20. RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
  21. 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. AMBITION (Hal Hartley, USA)
  10. A PLACE CALLED LOVELY (Sadie Benning, USA)
  11. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
  12. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  13. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)
  14. DIRTY LIKE AN ANGEL (Catherine Breillat, France)
  15. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, USA)
  16. SOME DIVINE WIND (Roddy Bogawa, USA)
  17. 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. IF EVERY GIRL HAD A DIARY (Sadie Benning, USA)
  11. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
  12. ME AND RUBYFRUIT (Sadie Benning, USA)
  13. JOLLIES (Sadie Benning, USA)
  14. VENUS (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  15. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
  16. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
  17. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  18. PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, USA)
  19. NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, France)
  20. 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. LIVING INSIDE (Sadie Benning, USA)
  19. THE MUMMY’S DREAM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  20. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
  21. A NEW YEAR (Sadie Benning, USA)
  22. MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
  23. 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. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker, France)
  7. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
  8. DEVIL’S CIRCUIT (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  9. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
  10. THE CAT (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  11. THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris, USA)
  12. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  13. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  14. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  15. RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
  16. 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. WALL (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  11. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  12. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  13. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
  14. THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
  15. A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  16. 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. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  14. A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  15. ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
  16. ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
  17. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  18. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  19. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  20. 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. GRIM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  11. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
  12. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  13. KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN (Chang Yi, Taiwan)
  14. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
  15. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  16. 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. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  6. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  7. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  8. LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
  9. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  10. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  11. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  12. GHOST (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  13. CLASS RELATIONS (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany)
  14. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  16. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  17. 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. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki, West Germany)
  8. THE KEEP (Michael Mann, USA)
  9. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA)
  10. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  11. ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  12. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, USA)
  13. RETURN OF THE JEDI (Richard Marquand, USA)
  14. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  15. THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA (Nina Menkes, USA)
  16. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)
  17. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar, USA)
  18. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit, USA)

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. THUNDER (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  7. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  8. THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
  9. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  10. VERONIKA VOSS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. BOX (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  12. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
  13. EN RACHÂCHANT (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France)
  14. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi, Taiwan)
  15. HAMLET ACT (Robert Nelson, USA)

1981

  1. SPACY (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
  5. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  6. KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  7. THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. MODERN ROMANCE (Albert Brooks, USA)
  9. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
  10. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, USA)
  11. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
  12. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  13. NIGHTSHIFT (Robina Rose, UK)
  14. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
  15. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  16. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
  17. RICH AND FAMOUS (George Cukor, USA)
  18. 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. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  12. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  13. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma, USA)
  14. THE LAST METRO (François Truffaut, France)
  15. THE CONDUCTOR (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  16. CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
  17. MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  18. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal, USA)
  19. AMERICAN GIGOLO (Paul Schrader, USA)
  20. SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
  21. TIMES SQUARE (Allan Moyle, USA)
  22. AMOR (Robert Beavers, USA)
  23. 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. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  10. WISE BLOOD (John Huston, USA)
  11. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard, USA)
  12. SHORT MEMORY (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  13. FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  14. ALEXANDRIA… WHY? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)
  15. LE NAVIRE NIGHT (Marguerite Duras, France)
  16. ARREBATO (Iván Zulueta, Spain)
  17. BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
  18. AND QUIET ROLLS THE DAWN (Mrinal Sen, India)
  19. A SCREAM FROM SILENCE (Anne Claire Poirier, Canada)
  20. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  21. CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  22. HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  23. THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, USA)
  24. BLACK JACK (Ken Loach, UK)
  25. LA LUNA (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  26. 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. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  27. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  28. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  29. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
  30. 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. VENICE PIER (Gary Beydler, USA)
  13. MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, USA)
  14. HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, USA)
  15. SMALL CHANGE (François Truffaut, France)
  16. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  17. JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  18. THE MIDDLEMAN (Satyajit Ray, India)
  19. FORTINI/CANI (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  20. THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (Marcel Ophuls, USA)
  21. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  22. CAR WASH (Michael Schultz, USA)
  23. THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN (Radley Metzger, USA)
  24. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  25. 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. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith, USA)
  12. XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  13. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  14. THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
  15. GREY GARDENS (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
  16. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, UK)
  17. THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
  18. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning & Bette Gordon, USA)
  19. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (Thom Andersen, USA)
  20. HAND HELD DAY (Gary Beydler, USA)
  21. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
  22. FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  23. SMILE (Michael Ritchie, USA)
  24. 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. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, USA)
  17. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
  18. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  19. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  20. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  21. DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  22. THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  23. YUDIE (Mirra Bank, USA)
  24. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  25. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  26. THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
  27. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  28. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)
  29. CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
  30. LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
  31. THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino, USA)
  32. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
  33. 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. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  13. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  14. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  15. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  16. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  17. 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. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  8. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  9. GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  10. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
  11. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  12. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
  13. HISTORY LESSONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  14. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  15. CHUNG KUO—CINA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  16. RED PSALM (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  17. JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  18. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
  19. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)
  20. ULZANA’S RAID (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  21. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  22. A SENSE OF LOSS (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
  23. CABARET (Bob Fosse, USA)
  24. IMAGES (Robert Altman, UK)
  25. SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  26. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  27. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  28. MATRIX III (John Whitney Sr., USA)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  2. OUT 1 (Jacques Rivette, France)
  3. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  4. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut, France)
  5. LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  6. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May, USA)
  7. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins, USA)
  8. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, UK)
  9. THE CEREMONY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  10. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson, France)
  11. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol, France)
  12. UFOS (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
  13. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel, USA)
  14. THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  15. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  16. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  17. OLYMPIAD (Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton, USA)
  18. PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  19. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, USA)
  20. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  21. THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  22. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong, USA)
  23. A GIRL IS A GUN (Luc Moullet, France)
  24. KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  25. DUEL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  26. LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
  27. W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  28. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
  29. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  30. LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  31. FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  32. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  33. 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. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr, USA)
  5. THE BUTCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  6. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
  7. THE BREACH (Claude Chabrol, France)
  8. ANGER (King Hu, Taiwan)
  9. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  10. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
  11. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  12. DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  13. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  14. WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA)
  15. WIND FROM THE EAST (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  16. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  17. THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  18. THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  19. THE DEBUT (Gleb Panfilov, USSR)
  20. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)
  21. FOUR MOODS (Pai Ching-jui/King Hu/Lee Hsing/Li Han-hsiang, Taiwan)
  22. BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut, France)
  23. 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. LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  7. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  8. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  9. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére, France)
  10. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  11. A GENTLE WOMAN (Robert Bresson, France)
  12. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  13. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  14. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. SIDE PHASE DRIFT (John Whitney Jr., USA)
  16. MOMENTUM (Jordan Belson, USA)
  17. LAW AND ORDER (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  18. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough, UK)
  19. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  20. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  21. KES (Ken Loach, UK)
  22. BINARY BIT PATTERNS (Michael Whitney, USA)

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. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  24. ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
  25. ABSTRACT FILM NO. 1 (Valie Export, Austria)
  26. PARTNER. (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  27. STOLEN KISSES (François Truffaut, France)
  28. FACES (John Cassavetes, USA)
  29. POEMFIELD 7 (Stan VanDerBeek & Ken Knowlton, 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. SAMADHI (Jordan Belson, USA)
  14. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. FAR FROM VIETNAM (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda, France)
  16. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France)
  17. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  18. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  19. DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, USA)
  20. SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  21. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  22. THE FIREMEN’S BALL (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  23. LA MUSICA (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, France)
  24. NIVEA (Peter Weibel, Austria)
  25. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  26. LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  27. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch, USA)
  28. BRANDED TO KILL (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  29. ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  30. — ——- (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, USA)
  31. LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  32. JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  2. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
  3. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
  4. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  5. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  6. TOKYO DRIFTER (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  7. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
  8. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  9. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  10. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
  11. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  12. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  13. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  14. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  15. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  16. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar, USA)
  17. THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
  18. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  19. THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  20. MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. D. M. T. (Jud Yalkut, USA)
  22. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  23. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  24. MEET MARLON BRANDO (David & Albert Maysles, USA)
  25. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  26. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  27. YESTERDAY GIRL (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
  28. LAPIS (James Whitney, USA)
  29. BYJINA FLORES (John Whitney Jr., USA)

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. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  12. FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Russ Meyer, USA)
  13. PHENOMENA (Jordan Belson, USA)
  14. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  15. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  16. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  17. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  18. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
  19. SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
  20. THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
  21. MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)
  22. MELTING (Thom Andersen, 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. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
  10. A MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  12. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  13. RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  14. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
  15. BRICK AND MIRROR (Ebrahim Golestan, Iran)
  16. NEW YORK EYE AND EAR CONTROL (Michael Snow, USA)
  17. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  18. THE ENCHANTED DESNA (Yuliya Solntseva, USSR)
  19. HAMLET (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
  20. LIFE UPSIDE DOWN (Alain Jessua, France)
  21. BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  22. 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 HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
  6. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  7. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
  8. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy, France)
  9. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, France)
  10. PASSENGER (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  11. THE CARABINEERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  13. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  14. THE FIANCÉS (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  15. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard, Italy)
  16. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer, France)
  17. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  18. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  19. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  20. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens, France)
  22. THE LITTLE SOLDIER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  23. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)
  24. RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  25. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)
  26. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

1962

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

1961

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

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. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
  10. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  11. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  12. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  13. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  14. CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  15. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
  16. 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. THE SONG OF STYRENE (Alain Resnais, France)
  8. GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  9. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  11. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  12. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  13. THE FORGOTTEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  14. A SIMPLE STORY (Marcel Hanoun, France)
  15. 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. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner, USA)
  5. FISHING BOATS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  7. A DAY IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  8. ORGOSOLO’S SHEPHERDS (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  9. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  10. CONFLAGRATION (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
  2. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
  4. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
  5. NIGHT OF THE DEMON (Jacques Tourneur, UK)
  6. 8 HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  7. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
  9. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)
  3. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  4. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  6. ALL THE WORLD’S MEMORY (Alain Resnais, France)
  7. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, USA)
  8. 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. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  12. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  13. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
  14. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  15. GOLDEN PARABLE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  16. SEA COUNTRYMEN (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  17. SHIN HEIKE MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  18. EASTER IN SICILIY (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  19. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones, USA)

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. THE AGE OF THE SWORDFISH (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  11. ISLANDS OF FIRE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  12. ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, USA)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg, Japan)
  5. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  6. MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls, France)
  7. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  8. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  9. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones, USA)
  10. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  11. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
  12. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)
  13. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  14. EAUX D’ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, USA)

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. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones, USA)
  6. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones, USA)
  7. A PORTRAIT OF GA (Margaret Tait, UK)
  8. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  9. EUROPE ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  10. BEEP, BEEP (Chuck Jones, USA)
  11. 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)
  7. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls, France)
  2. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  4. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, USA)
  5. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  6. THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  7. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  8. 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. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  5. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges, USA)
  6. BRIDELESS GROOM (Edward Bernds, 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. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, USA)
  3. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, USA)
  4. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  5. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley, USA)
  6. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  7. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  8. RED HOT RIDING HOOD (Tex Avery, USA)
  9. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  11. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, USA)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  4. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger, 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. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell, USA)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang, USA)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry, France)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  5. 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. TARIS (Jean Vigo, France)
  9. 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)
  5. À PROPOS DE NICE (Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman, France)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
  2. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel, France)
  3. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
  4. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, Netherlands)
  5. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey, USA)
  7. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
  8. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

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. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
  8. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac, France)
  9. 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)
  2. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

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. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, USA)
  5. 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)

1914

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

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade, France)

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)

Simple Top Tens (Features Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

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Ten Favorite Films

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  6. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  7. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  8. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  9. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  10. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  6. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  8. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  10. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)

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2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  6. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  7. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)
  8. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)
  9. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  10. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  9. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)
  10. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
  5. BEGINNING (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  6. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
  8. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
  9. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke)
  10. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  5. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  6. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  7. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

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2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
  2. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
  3. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  4. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
  5. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze)
  6. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
  7. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  8. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
  9. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler)
  10. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  2. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
  3. HANAGATAMI (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  7. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. ★ (Johann Lurf)
  9. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
  10. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
  4. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
  6. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
  7. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams)
  9. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
  10. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
  8. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  10. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao)
  9. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. PASSION (Brian De Palma)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
  4. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
  5. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
  7. TABU (Miguel Gomes)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  10. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  6. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold)
  7. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf)
  8. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry)
  9. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
  10. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler)
  8. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  6. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  7. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  8. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  9. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  10. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
  6. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
  7. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
  10. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  7. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
  8. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
  9. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)
  10. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
  2. ZODIAC (David Fincher)
  3. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
  5. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
  6. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg)
  7. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai)
  8. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)
  10. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To)

2005

  1. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
  2. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin)
  3. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  5. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
  6. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
  7. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. ELECTION (Johnnie To)
  9. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan)
  10. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
  5. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis)
  7. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
  9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To)
  4. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
  5. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  6. KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
  9. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy)
  10. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
  8. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
  9. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
  10. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  3. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  4. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso)
  7. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji)
  10. ALI (Michael Mann)

2000

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  5. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
  6. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
  7. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
  8. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)
  10. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  4. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  6. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  7. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  8. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  9. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  10. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)

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1999

  1. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
  3. GOHATTO (Ōshima Nagisa)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao)
  5. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
  6. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  7. POLA X (Leos Carax)
  8. THE MISSION (Johnnie To)
  9. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman)
  10. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  4. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
  5. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
  6. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
  9. BELLY (Hype Williams)
  10. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma)

1997

  1. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki)
  2. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
  5. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
  7. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. FACE/OFF (John Woo)
  9. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  10. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)

1996

  1. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  2. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  2. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
  3. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
  4. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. SAFE (Todd Haynes)
  6. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  7. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
  8. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf)
  9. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kursturica)
  10. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao)
  8. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping)
  9. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
  10. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou)

1993

  1. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
  2. NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  3. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
  4. D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
  5. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  6. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  7. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping)
  8. THE PIANO (Jane Campion)
  9. TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott)
  10. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  7. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
  8. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
  9. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
  10. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao)
  5. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  7. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
  8. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou)
  9. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  10. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  2. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
  7. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett)
  8. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese)
  9. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  10. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  4. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  5. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  8. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  9. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  10. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)

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1989

  1. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  2. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
  10. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  3. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
  5. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
  6. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt)
  7. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf)
  8. AKIRA (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  9. DIE HARD (John McTiernan)
  10. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  6. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
  7. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung)
  10. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince)

1986

  1. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  2. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  4. THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  10. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
  5. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  6. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
  7. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
  8. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
  9. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)

1984

  1. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
  3. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
  5. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
  6. DUNE (David Lynch)
  7. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron)
  8. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  9. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma)
  10. GREMLINS (Joe Dante)

1983

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman)
  7. THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
  8. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden)
  9. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali)
  10. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam)
  4. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper)
  5. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. THE THING (John Carpenter)
  7. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
  8. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer)
  2. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
  5. THIEF (Michael Mann)
  6. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
  7. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi)
  8. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski)
  9. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette)
  10. MAD MAX 2 (George Miller)

1980

  1. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
  10. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  3. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  4. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  5. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  6. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  7. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  8. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  9. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  10. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)

—

1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
  9. WISE BLOOD (John Huston)
  10. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
  5. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
  6. HOUSE (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
  9. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
  10. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)

1976

  1. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
  2. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer)
  4. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
  5. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. INSIANG (Lino Brocka)
  7. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
  8. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette)
  9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
  10. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  2. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
  4. MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
  7. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
  8. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
  7. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
  8. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
  9. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  10. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
  7. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras)
  9. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  10. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  3. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
  4. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
  5. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
  6. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
  7. THE CEREMONY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  8. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
  9. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)
  10. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
  5. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
  6. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  7. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
  8. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
  9. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  10. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  3. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  4. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  5. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  6. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  7. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  9. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)

—

1969

  1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer)
  2. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov)
  4. BOY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
  6. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
  7. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
  8. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)
  9. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky)
  10. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Ōshima Nagisa)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone)
  3. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  10. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  4. WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer)
  6. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
  7. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
  8. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
  10. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

  1. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  3. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
  4. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  5. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  6. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda)
  7. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
  8. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
  9. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette)
  10. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
  3. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  3. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
  8. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
  10. UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  2. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
  6. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
  7. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
  8. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)
  9. LES CARABINIERS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray)

1962

  1. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
  4. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
  5. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey)
  8. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)
  9. HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki)
  10. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson)

1961

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

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  3. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
  6. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
  7. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Ōshima Nagisa)
  8. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
  9. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
  10. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  4. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  5. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  7. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  8. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  10. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)

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1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
  3. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
  4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
  6. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
  7. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
  8. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
  4. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
  3. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun)
  4. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  2. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon)
  5. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin)
  10. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  5. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. GODZILLA (Honda Ishirō)
  7. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)

1953

  1. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  2. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  3. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  5. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)
  7. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1952

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

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
  2. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
  4. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
  6. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  3. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  5. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
  6. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  7. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  8. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  10. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)

—

1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

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

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
  3. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)

1945

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

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger)

1943

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

1942

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

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  4. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  5. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  6. M (Fritz Lang)
  7. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  9. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  10. FURY (Fritz Lang)

—

1939

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

1938

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

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  2. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. TONI (Jean Renoir)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)

1932

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

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
  4. TABU (F.W. Murnau)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda)

1930

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

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  4. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  5. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
  6. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  7. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  9. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  10. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

—

1929

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

1928

  1. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
  6. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)

1925

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

1924

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

1923

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

1922

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

Pre-1920s

Best Before 1920

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)
  3. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
  4. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)

—

1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)

1915

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

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)

2021 Reading Log

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1. The Crying of Lot 49 (1965, Thomas Pynchon): 5/1/21-6/7/21
The structure threw me off, and while I’m not attributing my repeated failed attempts to begin reading this book to anything except my current living situation, it only became more inexplicable the further I read. The central enigma of the muted post horn and the Tristero only truly emerges around the halfway mark, and a great deal of this is spent in the weeds, the minutiae — not only Pynchon’s numerous historical and literary inventions, but the actual interactions. Indeed, that totally remarkable aspect will stick with me as much as the frightful paranoia that Oedipa eventually undergoes, and the two are inextricably intertwined after a certain point, especially in that nocturnal series of encounters in San Francisco, so utterly dreamlike, yet initially launched into with such a sudden lurch. The irresolution was maybe expected after a certain point, but the way it’s carried out, especially after maybe an overabundance of syntactical curlicues, is unbelievably impactful.

The Chinese Cinema (Plain Text)

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Main list.

  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  3. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  4. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  5. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  7. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  9. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
  10. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  11. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  12. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  13. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  14. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  15. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  16. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  17. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
  18. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  19. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  20. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  21. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
  22. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
  23. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  24. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  25. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
  26. Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung)
  27. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
  28. Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  29. Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
  30. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
  31. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
  32. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Lau Kar-leung)
  33. A Confucian Confusion (1994, Edward Yang)
  34. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
  35. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
  36. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  37. Election 2 (2006, Johnnie To)
  38. PTU (2003, Johnnie To)
  39. Flowers of Shanghai (1998, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  40. Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark)
  41. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
  42. Café Lumière (2003, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  43. Wheels on Meals (1984, Sammo Hung)
  44. Throw Down (2004, Johnnie To)
  45. Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai)
  46. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)
  47. That Day, on the Beach (1983, Edward Yang)
  48. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
  49. Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (2008, Zhang Yimou)
  50. In the Heat of the Sun (1994, Jiang Wen)
  51. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
  52. Bullet in the Head (1990, John Woo)
  53. Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To)
  54. The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
  55. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)
  56. Green Snake (1993, Tsui Hark)
  57. Made in Hong Kong (1997, Fruit Chan)
  58. Durian Durian (2000, Fruit Chan)
  59. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
  60. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  61. Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, Tsui Hark)
  62. What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)
  63. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
  64. Nomad (1982, Patrick Tam)
  65. Vive L’Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang)
  66. Oxhide (2005, Liu Jiayin)
  67. Eastern Condors (1987, Sammo Hung)
  68. Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997, Wai Ka-fai)
  69. The Hand (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
  70. Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai)
  71. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
  72. Full Contact (1992, Ringo Lam)
  73. Running on Karma (2003, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  74. Afternoon (2015, Tsai Ming-liang)
  75. Present.Perfect. (2019, Zhu Shengze)
  76. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
  77. Long Arm of the Law (1984, Johnny Mak)
  78. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)
  79. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  80. My Young Auntie (1981, Lau Kar-leung)
  81. The Longest Summer (1998, Fruit Chan)
  82. Sons of the Good Earth (1965, King Hu)
  83. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
  84. Dangerous Encounters–1st Kind (1980, Tsui Hark)
  85. No No Sleep (2015, Tsai Ming-liang)
  86. Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002, Jeffrey Lau)
  87. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  88. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang)
  89. Youth (Spring) (2023, Wang Bing)
  90. Accident (2009, Soi Cheang)
  91. Love in a Puff (2010, Pang Ho-cheung)
  92. A New Old Play (2021, Qiu Jiongjiong)
  93. Golden Swallow (1968, Chang Cheh)
  94. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
  95. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
  96. Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
  97. Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang)
  98. Face/Off (1997, John Woo)
  99. Hero (2002, Zhang Yimou)
  100. The Valiant Ones (1975, King Hu)
  101. 24 City (2008, Jia Zhangke)
  102. Viva Erotica (1996, Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
  103. A Short Story (2022, Bi Gan)
  104. A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021, Zhu Shengze)
  105. School on Fire (1988, Ringo Lam)
  106. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai)
  107. The Hedonists (2016, Jia Zhangke)
  108. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang)
  109. A Touch of Sin (2013, Jia Zhangke)
  110. One-Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheh)
  111. The Midnight After (2014, Fruit Chan)
  112. The Goddess (1934, Wu Yonggang)
  113. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  114. The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)
  115. Man in Black (2023, Wang Bing)
  116. Wing Chun (1994, Yuen Woo-ping)
  117. Little Cheung (1999, Fruit Chan)
  118. Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang)
  119. Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
  120. To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)
  121. Blind Detective (2013, Johnnie To)
  122. Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke)
  123. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  124. Come Drink With Me (1966, King Hu)
  125. Xiao Wu (1997, Jia Zhangke)
  126. The Wayward Cloud (2005, Tsai Ming-liang)
  127. City on Fire (1987, Ringo Lam)
  128. The Story of Sue San (1964, King Hu)
  129. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)
  130. Love on a Diet (2001, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  131. Expectations (1982, Edward Yang)
  132. Shaolin Soccer (2001, Stephen Chow)
  133. Walker (2012, Tsai Ming-liang)
  134. My Blueberry Nights (2007, Wong Kar-wai)
  135. Where (2022, Tsai Ming-liang)
  136. The Skywalk Is Gone (2002, Tsai Ming-liang)
  137. A Better Tomorrow (1986, John Woo)
  138. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020, Jia Zhangke)
  139. A Hero Never Dies (1998, Johnnie To)
  140. Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  141. The Odd One Dies (1997, Patrick Yau and Johnnie To)
  142. The Follow (2001, Wong Kar-wai)
  143. Secret Goldfish (2016, Bi Gan)
  144. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
  145. Election (2005, Johnnie To)
  146. House of Flying Daggers (2004, Zhang Yimou)
  147. Office (2015, Johnnie To)
  148. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogong)
  149. The Wild Goose Lake (2019, Diao Yinan)
  150. Chasing Dream (2019, Johnnie To)
  151. Mad Fate (2023, Soi Cheang)
  152. Useless (2007, Jia Zhangke)
  153. Cry Me a River (2008, Jia Zhangke)
  154. Perhaps Love (2005, Peter Chan)
  155. An Autumn’s Tale (1987, Mabel Cheung)
  156. Breaking News (2004, Johnnie To)
  157. The Calming (2020, Song Fang)
  158. Better Days (2019, Derek Tsang)
  159. Motorway (2012, Soi Cheang)
  160. Tai-Chi Master (1993, Yuen Woo-ping)
  161. Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang? (2022, Tsai Ming-liang)
  162. Visit (2020, Jia Zhangke)
  163. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
  164. 607 (2010, Liu Jiayin)
  165. Return to Dust (2022, Li Ruijun)
  166. Knock Off (1998, Tsui Hark)
  167. Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou)
  168. A Family Tour (2018, Ying Liang)
  169. Another Year (2016, Zhu Shengze)
  170. Virgin Blue (2021, Niu Xiaoyu)
  171. In Our Time (1982, Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)
  172. Never Rest/Unrest (2020, Tiffany Sia)
  173. Your Face (2018, Tsai Ming-liang)
  174. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019, Herman Yau)
  175. A Better Tomorrow II (1987, John Woo)
  176. Full River Red (2023, Zhang Yimou)
  177. Double Team (1997, Tsui Hark)
  178. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-tung)
  179. Daughter and Son (2022, Cheng Yu)
  180. The Great Buddha+ (2017, Huang Hsin-yao)
  181. Infernal Affairs (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  182. SPL: Paradox (2017, Wilson Yip)
  183. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan)
  184. Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee)
  185. The Poet and Singer (2012, Bi Gan)
  186. Dong (2006, Jia Zhangke)
  187. Three (2016, Johnnie To)
  188. Will You Look at Me (2022, Huang Shuli)
  189. Absence (2023, Wu Lang)
  190. Singing in the Wilderness (2021, Chen Dongnan)
  191. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping)
  192. The Mermaid (2016, Stephen Chow)
  193. A Marble Travelogue (2021, Sean Wang)
  194. Xiao Shan Going Home (1995, Jia Zhangke)
  195. Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo)
  196. Life Without Principle (2011, Johnnie To)
  197. Cliff Walkers (2021, Zhang Yimou)
  198. Is There a Pine on the Mountain (2022, Liu Chongyan)
  199. Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou)
  200. The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee)
  201. Turn Left, Turn Right (2003, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  202. Somewhere (2022, Li Jiahe)
  203. Red Cliff (2008, John Woo)
  204. Red Cliff Part II (2009, John Woo)
  205. Dear Ex (2018, Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen)
  206. The Eight Hundred (2020, Guan Hu)
  207. The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou)
  208. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006, Zhang Yimou)
  209. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)
  210. The Mountains Sing (2021, Yang Xiao)
  211. SPL: Kill Zone (2005, Wilson Yip)
  212. The Fadings (2022, You Wenhu)
  213. This Woman (2023, Alan Zhang)
  214. Warriors of Future (2022, Ng Yuen-fai)
  215. Helios (2015, Longman Leung & Sunny Luk)
  216. China PK Queen (2021, Wei Xiaogang)
  217. A Taste of Killing and Romance (1994, Veronica Chan)
  218. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee)
  219. Children’s Corner (2021, Guan Haotian)
  220. Be Concerned (2021, Li Jia)
  221. Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  222. Ip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
  223. Shower (1997, Zhang Yang)
  224. The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost (2021, Lei Qinyuan)
  225. Ip Man 2 (2010, Wilson Yip)
  226. Cape No. 7 (2008, Wei Te-Sheng)
  227. Secret (2007, Jay Chou)
  228. Flash Point (2007, Wilson Yip)
  229. Happy Times (2000, Zhang Yimou)
  230. The Road Home (1999, Zhang Yimou)
  231. Hao Hao Wan Wan (2022, Em Yue)
  232. The Soul (2021, Cheng Wei-hao)
  233. One Second (2020, Zhang Yimou)
  234. Outside the Glass Jar (2023, Zhang Xitong)
  235. Olympic (2022, Zhu Xin)
  236. De Closin Night (2022, Zhu Shicong)
  237. Gong Shou Dao (2017, Wen Zhang)
  238. Shadow (2018, Zhang Yimou)
  239. In the Morning of La Petite Mort (2021, Wang Yu-lin)
  240. Home Sweet Home (2021, Leste Chen)
  241. The Way of the Dragon (1972, Bruce Lee)
  242. A City Called Macau (2019, Li Shaohong)
  243. People’s Republic of Desire (2018, Wu Hao)
  244. The Woman From Myanmar (2022, Wang Xiuyue)
  245. Forever Young (2018, Li Fangfang)
  246. The Bucket (2019, Jia Zhangke)
  247. Game of Death (1978, Robert Clouse)

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Index

Berlin Competition
Berlin Encounters
Cannes Competition
Cannes Critics’ Week
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
Cannes Un certain regard
Chinese Cast/Crew
The Chinese Cinema
Festival Award Winners
Golden Horse Best Features
Locarno Competition
New York Film Festival Main Slates
New York Film Festival Projections/Currents Features
Non-Chinese Film Producers
Oscar Best Pictures
Production Companies/Studios
Rotterdam Competition
Sight & Sound 2022 Top 250
U.S. Distributors
Venice Competition
Venice Orizzonti

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Robert Aldrich
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodóvar
Lisandro Alonso
Robert Altman
Thom Andersen
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson
Wes Anderson
Kenneth Anger
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Michelangelo Antonioni
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Andrea Arnold
Joanna Arnow
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster

Bruce Baillie
Sean Baker
Noah Baumbach
Michael Bay
Robert Beavers
Marco Bellocchio
Jordan Belson
James Benning
Sadie Benning
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Gary Beydler
Bi Gan
Kathryn Bigelow
Peter Bogdanovich
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Jon Bois
Bertrand Bonello
Bong Joon-ho
Serge Bozon
Stan Brakhage
Catherine Breillat
Júlio Bressane
Robert Bresson
Albert Brooks
Andrew Bujalski
Luis Buñuel
Charles Burnett
Tim Burton

James Cameron
Robin Campillo
Jane Campion
Frank Capra
Leos Carax
John Carpenter
John Cassavetes
Burak Çevik
Claude Chabrol
Fruit Chan
Jackie Chan
Peter Chan
Miryam Charles
Chang Cheh
Charles Chaplin
Damien Chazelle
Soi Cheang
Stephen Chow
Věra Chytilová
Michael Cimino
Joel & Ethan Coen
Jaume Collet-Sera
Stephen Cone
Ryan Coogler
Bradley Cooper
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Brady Corbet
Pedro Costa
Pierre Creton
David Cronenberg
George Cukor
Adam Curtis
Michael Curtiz

Ricky D’Ambrose
Joe Dante
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Terence Davies
Brian De Palma
Vittorio De Seta
Tacita Dean
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Jacques Demy
Claire Denis
Arnaud Desplechin
Bas Devos
Lav Diaz
Mati Diop
Nathaniel Dorsky
Carl Th. Dreyer
Germaine Dulac
Bruno Dumont
Marguerite Duras

Clint Eastwood
Robert Eggers
Heinz Emigholz
Víctor Erice
Kevin Jerome Everson

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Mona Fastvold
Federico Fellini
Ted Fendt
Abel Ferrara
Louis Feuillade
David Fincher
Morgan Fisher
Philipp Fleischmann
John Ford
Miloš Forman
Bob Fosse
Hollis Frampton
John Frankenheimer
Carl Franklin
Riccardo Freda
Kelly Fremon Craig
William Friedkin
Fukada Koji
Samuel Fuller

Alex Garland
Philippe Garrel
Greta Gerwig
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
John Gianvito
Mel Gibson
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
Jean-Luc Godard
Miguel Gomes
Alain Gomis
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Dominik Graf
Philippe Grandrieux
James Gray
Robert Greene
Paul Greengrass
D. W. Griffith
Luca Guadagnino
Alain Guiraudie

Andrew Haigh
Amy Halpern
Hamaguchi Ryusuke
Barbara Hammer
Michael Haneke
Mia Hansen-Løve
Hara Kazuo
Christopher Harris
Hal Hartley
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Don Hertzfeldt
Werner Herzog
Jerome Hiler
Alfred Hitchcock
Joanna Hogg
Margaret Honda
Hong Sang-soo
Tobe Hooper
Sky Hopinka
Hosoda Mamoru
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Ron Howard
King Hu
John Hughes
Sammo Hung
John Huston

Ichikawa Kon
Ito Takashi
James Ivory

Peter Jackson
Azazel Jacobs
Ken Jacobs
Jancsó Miklós
Jim Jarmusch
Mark Jenkin
Barry Jenkins
Jia Zhangke
Rian Johnson
Chuck Jones
Kent Jones
Spike Jonze
Jon Jost
Radu Jude

Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Payal Kapadia
Charlie Kaufman
Aki Kaurismäki
Buster Keaton
Abbas Kiarostami
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Kitano Takeshi
Kiyohara Yui
Lewis Klahr
Alexander Kluge
Kobayashi Masaki
Ulrich Köhler
Koreeda Hirokazu
Harmony Korine
Stanley Kubrick
George Kuchar
Mike Kuchar
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Ringo Lam
Fritz Lang
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Pablo Larraín
Lau Kar-leung
Óliver Laxe
David Lean
Ang Lee
Lee Kang-sheng
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sergio Leone
Laida Lertxundi
Philippe Lesage
Richard Linklater
Liu Jiayin
Mariano Llinás
Ken Loach
Julia Loktev
Kenneth Lonergan
Luis López Carrasco
Joseph Losey
David Lowery
Ernst Lubitsch
George Lucas
Baz Luhrmann
Sidney Lumet
Louis Lumière
Johann Lurf
David Lynch

Jodie Mack
Guy Maddin
Dušan Makavejev
Terrence Malick
Louis Malle
James Mangold
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Michael Mann
Pietro Marcello
Chris Marker
Lucrecia Martel
Elaine May
David & Albert Maysles
Leo McCarey
Martin McDonagh
Adam McKay
Ashley McKenzie
Christopher McQuarrie
Steve McQueen
John McTiernan
Jonas Mekas
Georges Méliès
Jean-Pierre Melville
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Bennett Miller
George Miller
Roberto Minervini
Vincente Minnelli
David Robert Mitchell
Miyazaki Hayao
Mizoguchi Kenji
Errol Morris
Bill Morrison
Luc Moullet
Emmanuel Mouret
Cristian Mungiu
F. W. Murnau

Naruse Mikio
Paul Negoescu
Robert Nelson
Nemes László
Jeff Nichols
Nishikawa Tomonari
Christopher Nolan

Obayashi Nobuhiko
Oda Kaori
Ermanno Olmi
Marcel Ophuls
Max Ophuls
Joshua Oppenheimer
Oshima Nagisa
Ruben Östlund
Ozu Yasujiro

Alan J. Pakula
Jafar Panahi
Sergei Parajanov
Park Chan-wook
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Lois Patiño
Alexander Payne
Raoul Peck
Sam Peckinpah
Jordan Peele
Nicolás Pereda
Alex Ross Perry
Christian Petzold
Maurice Pialat
Matías Piñeiro
Suzan Pitt
Roman Polański
Corneliu Porumboiu
Joel Potrykus
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Otto Preminger
Cristi Puiu

Kazik Radwanski
Bob Rafelson
Sam Raimi
S. S. Rajamouli
Lynne Ramsay
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Peyton Reed
Nicholas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
Martín Reitman
Jean Renoir
Alain Resnais
Camilo Restrepo
Jessica Sarah Rinland
Michael Ritchie
Panh Rithy
Ben Rivers
Jacques Rivette
João Pedro Rodrigues
Éric Rohmer
Alice Rohrwacher
George A. Romero
Axelle Ropert
Francesco Rosi
Gianfranco Rosi
Bill & Turner Ross
RaMell Ross
Roberto Rossellini
Jean Rouch
Alan Rudolph
Raúl Ruiz
Ben Russell
David O. Russell
Kiro Russo

Ira Sachs
Josh & Benny Safdie
Saito Daichi
Dan Sallitt
Carlos Saura
Angela Schanelec
Volker Schlöndorff
Paul Schrader
Joel Schumacher
Céline Sciamma
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Ousmane Sembène
Albert Serra
Erica Sheu
M. Night Shyamalan
Tiffany Sia
Don Siegel
Joan Micklin Silver
Nathan Silver
Douglas Sirk
Jerzy Skolimowski
John Smith
Michael Snow
Steven Soderbergh
Alexander Sokurov
Yuliya Solntseva
Joshua Gen Solondz
Somai Shinji
Celine Song
Sora Neo
Steven Spielberg
Chad Stahelski
Courtney Stephens
Josef von Sternberg
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Peter Strickland
Erich von Stroheim
Preston Sturges
Elisabeth Subrin
Sugita Kyoshi
Suzuki Seijun
Graham Swon
Szabó István

Takahata Isao
Alain Tanner
Tyler Taormina
Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Teshigahara Hiroshi
Johnnie To
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Tremaine
Joachim Trier
Lars von Trier
Justine Triet
Jonás Trueba
François Truffaut
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsui Hark

Amalia Ulman
Edgar G. Ulmer

Gus Van Sant
Agnès Varda
Paul Vecchiali
Pacho Velez
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Virgil Vernier
Jean Vigo
Denis Villeneuve
Luchino Visconti

Lana & Lilly Wachowski
Wai Ka-fai
Andrzej Wajda
Raoul Walsh
Wang Bing
John Waters
Peter Watkins
Wei Shujun
Orson Welles
William A. Wellman
Wim Wenders
Bo Widerberg
Billy Wilder
Blake Williams
Eduardo Williams
Andrew Norman Wilson
Robert Wise
Frederick Wiseman
Wong Kar-wai
John Woo
Edgar Wright

Yamada Naoko
Yamanaka Yoko
Edward Yang
Yeo Siew Hua
Wilson Yip
Yuen Woo-ping

Krzysztof Zanussi
Kit Zauhar
Robert Zemeckis
Zhang Yimou
Chloé Zhao
Zhu Shengze
Fred Zinnemann
Andrzej Żuławski
Ramon Zürcher

Simple Top Tens (Films Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this with features only.
A version of this with mid-length films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

Ten Favorite Films

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  6. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  7. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  8. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  9. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  10. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  6. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  8. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  10. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)

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2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella)
  6. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  7. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)
  8. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)
  9. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  10. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  9. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  10. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
  5. BEGINNING (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  6. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
  8. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  9. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  10. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  5. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  6. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  7. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

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2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
  2. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
  3. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  4. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
  5. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze)
  6. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
  7. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  8. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
  9. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)
  10. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  2. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
  3. HANAGATAMI (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  7. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. ★ (Johann Lurf)
  9. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
  10. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
  4. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
  6. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
  7. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams)
  9. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
  10. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
  8. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  10. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao)
  9. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. PASSION (Brian De Palma)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
  4. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
  5. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
  7. TABU (Miguel Gomes)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  10. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  6. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold)
  7. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf)
  9. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry)
  10. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler)
  8. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  6. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  7. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  8. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  9. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  10. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
  6. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
  7. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
  10. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  7. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
  8. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
  9. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)
  10. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
  2. ZODIAC (David Fincher)
  3. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
  5. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
  6. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg)
  7. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai)
  8. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)
  10. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To)

2005

  1. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
  2. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin)
  3. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  5. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
  6. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
  7. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. ELECTION (Johnnie To)
  9. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan)
  10. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
  5. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis)
  7. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
  9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To)
  4. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
  5. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  6. KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  9. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
  10. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
  8. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
  9. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
  10. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  3. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  4. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso)
  7. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji)
  10. ALI (Michael Mann)

2000

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  5. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  6. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
  7. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
  8. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
  9. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  4. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  6. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  7. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  8. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  9. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  10. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)

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1999

  1. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  3. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
  4. GOHATTO (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao)
  6. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
  7. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  8. POLA X (Leos Carax)
  9. THE MISSION (Johnnie To)
  10. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  4. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
  5. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
  6. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
  9. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano)
  10. BELLY (Hype Williams)

1997

  1. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki)
  2. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
  5. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
  7. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. FACE/OFF (John Woo)
  9. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  10. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)

1996

  1. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  2. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  2. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
  3. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
  4. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. SAFE (Todd Haynes)
  6. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  7. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
  8. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf)
  9. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  10. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao)
  8. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping)
  9. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  10. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)

1993

  1. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
  2. NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  3. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
  5. D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
  6. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage)
  7. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  8. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  9. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping)
  10. THE PIANO (Jane Campion)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  7. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
  8. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
  9. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
  10. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao)
  5. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  7. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
  8. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)
  9. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou)
  10. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  2. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
  7. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett)
  8. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese)
  9. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  10. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  4. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  5. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  8. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  9. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  10. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)

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1989

  1. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  2. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
  10. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  3. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
  5. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)
  6. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
  7. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt)
  8. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf)
  9. AKIRA (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  10. DIE HARD (John McTiernan)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  6. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
  7. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung)
  10. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince)

1986

  1. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  2. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  4. THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  10. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
  5. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  6. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
  7. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
  8. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
  9. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)

1984

  1. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
  3. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
  5. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  6. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
  7. DUNE (David Lynch)
  8. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron)
  9. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma)

1983

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman)
  7. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  8. THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
  9. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden)
  10. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam)
  4. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper)
  5. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. THE THING (John Carpenter)
  7. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  8. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
  9. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer)
  2. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
  5. THIEF (Michael Mann)
  6. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
  7. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi)
  8. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  9. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski)
  10. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)

1980

  1. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
  10. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  3. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  4. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  5. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  6. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  7. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  8. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  9. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  10. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)

—

1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
  9. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)
  10. WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
  5. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
  6. HOUSE (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
  9. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
  10. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)

1976

  1. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
  2. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer)
  4. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
  5. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. INSIANG (Lino Brocka)
  7. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
  8. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette)
  9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
  10. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  2. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
  4. MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
  7. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
  8. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
  7. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
  8. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  9. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
  10. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
  7. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  8. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
  9. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras)
  10. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  3. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  4. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
  5. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
  6. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
  7. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
  8. THE CEREMONY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  9. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
  10. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  5. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
  6. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
  7. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
  9. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
  10. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  3. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  4. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  5. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  6. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  7. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  8. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  10. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)

—

1969

  1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer)
  2. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov)
  4. BOY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
  6. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  7. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
  8. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
  9. LEMON (Hollis Frampton)
  10. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Ōshima Nagisa)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone)
  3. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  10. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  4. WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer)
  6. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
  7. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
  8. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
  10. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  2. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  4. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
  5. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  7. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda)
  8. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
  9. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
  10. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
  3. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  3. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
  8. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
  10. UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  2. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  6. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  7. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
  8. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
  9. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
  10. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujirō)
  3. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  4. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
  6. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
  7. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey)
  10. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  2. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)
  3. LOLA (Jacques Demy)
  4. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi)
  5. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
  6. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie)
  7. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  9. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  3. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
  6. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
  7. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)
  8. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Ōshima Nagisa)
  9. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
  10. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  4. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  5. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  6. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  8. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  9. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  10. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)

—

1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
  3. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
  4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  6. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
  7. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
  8. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
  9. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage)
  10. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
  4. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  5. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones)
  7. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  8. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta)
  9. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones)
  10. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
  3. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun)
  4. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones)
  5. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira)
  6. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  3. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon)
  6. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais)
  7. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin)
  10. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  5. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. GODZILLA (Honda Ishirō)
  7. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)
  9. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta)
  10. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  3. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  7. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones)
  9. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones)
  10. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
  5. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  6. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)
  7. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones)
  8. EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  9. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  6. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
  2. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)
  3. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  4. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
  5. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira)
  6. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
  7. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  3. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  5. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
  6. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  7. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  8. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  10. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)

—

1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

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

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
  3. FIREWORKDS (Kenneth Anger)
  4. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)

1945

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

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  2. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson)
  3. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
  5. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
  7. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson)
  8. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
  4. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  4. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  5. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  6. M (Fritz Lang)
  7. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  9. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  10. FURY (Fritz Lang)

—

1939

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

1938

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

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)
  6. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  2. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. TONI (Jean Renoir)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)

1932

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

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
  4. TABU (F.W. Murnau)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda)

1930

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

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  4. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  5. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
  6. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  7. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  9. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  10. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

—

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
  3. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  4. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  5. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  7. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  8. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji)

1928

  1. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
  6. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  7. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)
  8. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)

1925

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

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
  4. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  5. BALLET MÉCANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
  6. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)

1923

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

1922

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

Pre-1920s

Best Before 1920

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  3. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)
  4. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
  5. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)
  6. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  7. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  8. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)
  9. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)
  10. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

—

1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)

1915

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

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)

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)

A Top 100 Films of All-Time (Text Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

Main list.
One-per-director.

  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
  3. Sunless (1983, Chris Marker)
  4. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  5. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  6. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  7. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  8. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Out 1 (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  11. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
  12. Meet Me in St. Louis (1945, Vincente Minnelli)
  13. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  14. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  15. (nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
  16. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  18. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
  19. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
  20. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  21. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
  22. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
  23. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
  24. La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
  25. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  26. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
  27. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  28. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  29. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  30. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
  31. Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
  32. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
  33. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  34. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
  35. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
  36. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  37. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  38. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
  39. All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
  40. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  41. Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  42. L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
  43. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  44. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  45. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
  46. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  47. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  48. The Green Ray (1986, Éric Rohmer)
  49. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
  50. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
  51. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  52. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis Lumière)
  53. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  54. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F. W. Murnau)
  55. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  56. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  57. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
  58. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  59. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  60. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
  61. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  62. Rose Hobart (1936, Joseph Cornell)
  63. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  64. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
  65. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  66. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
  67. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  68. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  69. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
  70. Spies (1928, Fritz Lang)
  71. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  72. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  73. Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
  74. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
  75. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
  76. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  77. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
  78. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
  79. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
  80. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
  81. Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  82. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
  83. Yearning (1964, Naruse Mikio)
  84. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
  85. La Région centrale (1971, Michael Snow)
  86. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  87. Moses and Aaron (1975, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
  88. High and Low (1963, Kurosawa Akira)
  89. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
  90. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  91. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Anno Hideaki)
  92. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)
  93. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
  94. INLAND EMPIRE (2006, David Lynch)
  95. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  96. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  97. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  98. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
  99. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  100. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Films by Release Year (Eligible Films Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this with only 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. Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)*
  2. The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)*
  3. What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
  5. Chime (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)*
  6. Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)*
  7. Lumière, the Adventure Continues (Thierry Frémaux)*
  8. Magellan (Lav Diaz)
  9. Yes (Nadav Lapid)*
  10. Blades of the Guardians (Yuen Woo-ping)
  11. Late Fame (Kent Jones)*
  12. The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
  13. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens)*
  14. Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)*
  15. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
  16. A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
  17. The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)*
  18. Pillion (Harry Lighton)
  19. Romería (Carla Simón)*
  20. Her Will Be Done (Julia Kowalski)*

2025

  1. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
  2. Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
  3. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
  4. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
  5. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. Resurrection (Bi Gan)
  7. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
  8. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
  9. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
  10. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
  11. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  12. By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage)
  14. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
  15. 7 Walks With Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré)
  16. My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)
  17. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
  18. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
  19. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
  20. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
  21. DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell)
  22. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
  23. Eephus (Carson Lund)
  24. The Colors Within (Yamada Naoko)
  25. Happyend (Sora Neo)
  26. Cloud (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  27. Dracula (Radu Jude)
  28. Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
  29. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
  30. Predators (David Osit)
  31. Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
  32. Invention (Courtney Stephens)
  33. Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland)
  34. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
  35. Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor)
  36. Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus)
  37. Desert of Namibia (Yamanaka Yoko)
  38. The Damned (Roberto Minervini)
  39. Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
  40. Stranger Eyes (Yeo Siew Hua)
  41. Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
  42. No Sleep Till (Alexandra Simpson)
  43. The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
  44. Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
  45. Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
  46. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
  47. You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
  48. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
  49. Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen)
  50. Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
  51. Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron)
  52. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
  53. Bogancloch (Ben Rivers)
  54. Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)
  55. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
  56. The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)
  57. Kokuho (Lee Sang-il)
  58. Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)
  59. In the Lost Lands (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  60. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  61. Left-Handed Girl (Tsou Shih-ching)
  62. Den of Thieves: Pantera (Christian Gudegast)
  63. Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel)
  64. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
  65. This Woman (Alan Zhang)
  66. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni)
  67. Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson)
  68. The Things You Kill (Alireza Khatami)
  69. Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
  70. A Private Life (Rebecca Zlotowski)
  71. Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
  72. Magic Farm (Amalia Ulman)
  73. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  74. Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
  75. Daughter’s Daughter (Huang Xi)
  76. The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
  77. Zodiac Killer Project (Charlie Shackleton)
  78. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
  79. Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor)
  80. Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis)
  81. Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
  82. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper)
  83. F1 (Joseph Kosinski)
  84. Ballerina (Len Wiseman)
  85. Materialists (Celine Song)
  86. Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan)
  87. Eddington (Ari Aster)
  88. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
  89. The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
  90. The Friend (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
  91. The Actor (Duke Johnson)
  92. Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
  93. Preparation for the Next Life (Liu Bing)
  94. A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
  95. Ballad of a Small Player (Edward Berger)
  96. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
  97. Honey Don’t! (Ethan Coen)
  98. The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

2024

  1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
  2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
  3. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  4. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
  5. Music (Angela Schanelec)
  6. Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)
  7. Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
  8. In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
  10. A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo)
  11. The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
  12. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
  13. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
  14. Here (Bas Devos)
  15. Anora (Sean Baker)
  16. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
  17. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm Thiên Ân)
  18. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
  19. You Have to Come and See It (Jonás Trueba)
  20. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
  21. Dahomey (Mati Diop)
  22. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
  23. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar)
  24. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
  25. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
  26. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow)
  27. Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
  28. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
  29. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  30. Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)
  31. This Closeness (Kit Zauhar)
  32. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (Sora Neo)
  33. Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
  34. No Other Land (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
  35. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
  36. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (Tyler Taormina)
  37. Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
  38. Here (Robert Zemeckis)
  39. Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
  40. Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam)
  41. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
  42. Blitz (Steve McQueen)
  43. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
  44. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine)
  45. A Prince (Pierre Creton)
  46. Dream Team (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  47. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
  48. Gasoline Rainbow (Bill & Turner Ross)
  49. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (Johan Grimonprez)
  50. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
  51. Good One (India Donaldson)
  52. Only the River Flows (Wei Shujun)
  53. Last Things (Deborah Stratman)
  54. Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing)
  55. Black Box Diaries (Ito Shiori)
  56. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
  57. Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)
  58. Rumours (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson)
  59. I’m Still Here (Walter Salles)
  60. Red Island (Robin Campillo)
  61. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
  62. The Order (Justin Kurzel)
  63. His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs)
  64. Queer (Luca Guadagnino)
  65. A Fidai Film (Kamal Aljafari)
  66. Coconut Head Generation (Alain Kassanda)
  67. Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  68. Red Rooms (Pascal Plante)
  69. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
  70. Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
  71. Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
  72. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
  73. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
  74. Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann)
  75. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
  76. The Tuba Thieves (Alison O’Daniel)
  77. Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants)
  78. Fairytale (Alexander Sokurov)
  79. Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
  80. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
  81. Maria (Pablo Larraín)
  82. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
  83. Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
  84. Babygirl (Halina Reijn)
  85. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
  86. Sujo (Astrid Rondero & Fernanda Valadez)
  87. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
  88. Hummingbirds (Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras)
  89. The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols)
  90. Kiss the Future (Nenad Cicin-Sain)
  91. Conclave (Edward Berger)
  92. The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  93. The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
  94. A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
  95. New Wave (Elizabeth Ai)
  96. Starring Jerry as Himself (Law Chen)
  97. Gladiator II (Ridley Scott)
  98. The People’s Joker (Vera Drew)
  99. Drive-Away Dykes (Ethan Coen)
  100. Dìdi (Sean Wang)
  101. September 5 (Tim Fehlbaum)
  102. Wicked: Part I (Jon M. Chu)
  103. Civil War (Alex Garland)
  104. Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar)
  105. Patrice: The Movie (Ted Passon)
  106. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
  107. Bird (Andrea Arnold)
  108. Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
  109. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
  110. Mufasa: The Lion King (Barry Jenkins)

2023

  1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  2. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. May December (Todd Haynes)
  5. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  6. Afire (Christian Petzold)
  7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  8. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  9. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
  10. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
  11. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
  12. in water (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
  14. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
  15. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
  16. Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
  17. How Do You Live? (Miyazaki Hayao)
  18. Occupied City (Steve McQueen)
  19. The Adults (Dustin Guy Defa)
  20. Still Film (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
  21. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
  22. Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)
  23. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
  24. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
  25. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
  26. Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  27. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  28. Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
  29. Mad Fate (Soi Cheang)
  30. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
  31. The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams)
  32. The Killer (David Fincher)
  33. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
  34. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
  35. Saturn Bowling (Patricia Mazuy)
  36. Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
  37. Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui)
  38. Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
  39. Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
  40. Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
  41. Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
  42. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
  43. Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
  44. Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)
  45. Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert)
  46. Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina)
  47. Past Lives (Celine Song)
  48. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
  49. A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)
  50. Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)
  51. Full River Red (Zhang Yimou)
  52. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar)
  53. The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng)
  54. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
  55. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  56. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)
  57. Passages (Ira Sachs)
  58. Maestro (Bradley Cooper)
  59. Fremont (Babak Jalali)
  60. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
  61. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
  62. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
  63. Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball)
  64. Anselm (Wim Wenders)
  65. Tótem (Lila Avilés)
  66. Bottoms (Emma Seligman)
  67. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
  68. A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell)
  69. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
  70. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold)
  71. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)
  72. Retribution (Antal Nimród)
  73. Talk to Me (Danny & Michael Philippou)
  74. El conde (Pablo Larraín)

2022

  1. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
  3. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  4. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
  5. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  7. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
  9. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  10. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
  11. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
  12. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. TÁR (Todd Field)
  14. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
  15. The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
  16. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
  17. Nope (Jordan Peele)
  18. Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)
  19. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
  20. El gran movimiento (Kiro Russo)
  21. The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  22. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Domink Graf)
  23. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
  24. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
  25. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
  26. Benediction (Terence Davies)
  27. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
  28. Los conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
  29. Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
  30. Onoda (Arthur Harari)
  31. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
  32. Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
  33. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
  34. Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
  35. Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
  36. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
  37. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
  38. Actual People (Kit Zauhar)
  39. Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
  40. Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
  41. Belle (Hosoda Mamoru)
  42. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
  43. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
  44. Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
  45. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
  46. Free Chol Soo Lee (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
  47. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
  48. Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)
  49. Mija (Isabel Castro)
  50. Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens)
  51. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
  52. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
  53. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
  54. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
  55. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
  56. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
  57. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
  58. God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
  59. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Park Sung-hoo)
  60. Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
  61. Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
  62. A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)
  63. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
  64. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
  65. Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
  66. Close (Lukas Dhont)
  67. Athena (Romain Gavras)
  68. Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
  69. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  70. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
  71. Turning Red (Domee Shi)
  72. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  73. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
  74. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  6. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  8. Annette (Leos Carax)
  9. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
  10. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  11. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
  12. Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  13. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
  14. France (Bruno Dumont)
  15. Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Frank Beauvais)
  16. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Anno Hideaki)
  17. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
  18. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  19. Procession (Robert Greene)
  20. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
  21. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  22. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
  23. Labyrinth of Cinema (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  24. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
  25. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
  26. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  27. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
  28. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
  29. Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
  30. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
  31. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  32. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
  33. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  34. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
  35. Monster Hunter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  36. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
  37. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
  38. The Witches of the Orient (Julien Faraut)
  39. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
  40. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
  41. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
  42. maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka)
  43. Undine (Christian Petzold)
  44. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
  45. The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
  46. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
  47. French Exit (Azazel Jacobs)
  48. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  49. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  50. Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
  51. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
  52. Anne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski)
  53. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
  54. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  55. I Was a Simple Man (Christopher Makoto Yogi)
  56. The World to Come (Mona Fastvold)
  57. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Horvát Lili)
  58. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
  59. Eternals (Chloé Zhao)
  60. Ema (Pablo Larraín)
  61. Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
  62. Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
  63. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
  64. Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
  65. Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima)
  66. The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright)
  67. The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
  68. The Green Knight (David Lowery)
  69. The Last Vermeer (Dan Friedkin)
  70. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
  71. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
  72. Life in a Day 2020 (Kevin Macdonald)

2020

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
  4. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
  5. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
  6. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
  7. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  8. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
  9. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
  10. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  11. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  12. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
  13. Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
  14. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
  15. The August Virgin (Jonás Trueba)
  16. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  17. Liberté (Albert Serra)
  18. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
  19. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
  20. Sibyl (Justine Triet)
  21. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
  22. Education (Steve McQueen)
  23. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
  24. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
  25. On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
  26. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  27. Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
  28. A Girl Missing (Fukada Koji)
  29. Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
  30. Time (Garrett Bradley)
  31. Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
  32. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
  33. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
  34. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
  35. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
  36. MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
  37. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
  38. Sunrise/Sunset (Ougie Pak)
  39. Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)
  40. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
  41. The Midnight Sky (George Clooney)
  42. Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
  43. Mank (David Fincher)
  44. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
  45. The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
  46. Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
  47. Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
  48. Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
  49. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
  50. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
  51. Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)
  52. Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
  53. Mulan (Niki Caro)

2019

  1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
  2. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  3. Transit (Christian Petzold)
  4. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  5. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  8. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  9. High Life (Claire Denis)
  10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
  11. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
  12. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
  13. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  14. The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow and James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir)
  15. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  16. Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
  17. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  18. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
  19. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  20. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
  21. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude)
  22. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
  23. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  24. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
  25. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
  26. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
  27. The World Is Full of Secrets (Graham Swon)
  28. 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
  29. Ad Astra (James Gray)
  30. Better Days (Derek Tsang)
  31. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
  32. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
  33. Genèse (Philippe Lesage)
  34. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
  35. Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
  36. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (Herman Yau)
  37. Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
  38. The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
  39. John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (Chad Stahelski)
  40. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
  41. Us (Jordan Peele)
  42. Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
  43. Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
  44. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
  45. The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
  46. Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
  47. Domino (Brian De Palma)
  48. A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
  49. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
  50. Two Plains & a Fancy (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  51. Relaxer (Joel Potrykus)
  52. Diane (Kent Jones)
  53. Gemini Man (Ang Lee)
  54. Climax (Gaspar Noé)
  55. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
  56. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping)
  57. Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (Martin Scorsese)
  58. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J. J. Abrams)
  59. Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
  60. Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
  61. Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
  62. Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
  63. 21 Bridges (Brian Kirk)
  64. Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
  65. Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)
  66. Avengers: Endgame (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  67. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
  68. Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
  69. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
  70. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
  71. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)
  72. 6 Underground (Michael Bay)
  73. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
  74. Joker (Todd Phillips)
  75. Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
  76. Sunset (Nemes László)
  77. Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
  78. Midsommar (Ari Aster)
  79. In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
  80. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
  81. The Lion King (Jon Favreau)
  82. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)

2018

  1. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
  3. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  4. Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
  5. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  6. Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Mission: Impossible—Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
  10. Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco)
  11. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  12. Bitter Money (Wang Bing)
  13. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
  14. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
  15. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
  16. Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  17. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
  18. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  19. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
  20. Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
  21. The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
  22. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
  23. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
  24. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
  25. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
  26. Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis)
  27. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
  28. Good Manners (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
  29. Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
  30. The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  31. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  32. Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  33. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
  34. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  35. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
  36. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
  37. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
  38. The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao)
  39. The Great Pretender (Nathan Silver)
  40. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  41. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  42. Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast)
  43. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  44. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
  45. Gemini (Aaron Katz)
  46. Caniba (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  47. The Green Fog (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson)
  48. Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
  49. The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
  50. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
  51. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
  52. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
  53. The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)
  54. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
  55. Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
  56. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  57. Milla (Valérie Massadian)
  58. Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  59. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
  60. Minding the Gap (Liu Bing)
  61. Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
  62. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
  63. En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
  64. Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler)
  65. Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
  66. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber)
  67. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
  68. The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
  69. Widows (Steve McQueen)
  70. The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
  71. Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
  72. Memoir of War (Emmanuel Finkiel)
  73. Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  74. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
  75. Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
  76. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
  77. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
  78. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
  79. Orders (Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis)
  80. The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)
  81. On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
  82. Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
  83. A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang)
  84. Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
  85. 12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
  86. Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
  87. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker)
  88. Saving Brinton (Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne)
  89. Hereditary (Ari Aster)
  90. People’s Republic of Desire (Wu Hao)
  91. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
  92. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
  93. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
  94. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  95. Vice (Adam McKay)
  96. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)
  97. Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)

2017

  1. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
  2. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
  4. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
  5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. A Silent Voice (Yamada Naoko)
  7. Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
  8. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
  9. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  10. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  11. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  12. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  13. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  14. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  15. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
  16. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  17. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  18. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
  19. Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
  20. The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
  21. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
  22. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
  23. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
  24. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
  25. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
  26. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  27. John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
  28. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
  29. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
  30. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
  31. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
  32. Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
  33. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
  34. Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei)
  35. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
  36. Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa)
  37. Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee)
  38. Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
  39. Escapes (Michael Almereyda)
  40. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
  41. Your Name. (Shinkai Makoto)
  42. Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
  43. Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
  44. In Transit (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
  45. Mimosas (Óliver Laxe)
  46. Thirst Street (Nathan Silver)
  47. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
  48. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
  49. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
  50. The Square (Ruben Östlund)
  51. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
  52. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
  53. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
  54. Félicité (Alain Gomis)
  55. Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
  56. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
  57. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
  58. Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
  59. A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski)
  60. Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
  61. The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz)
  62. Bronx Gothic (Andrew Rossi)
  63. 4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud)
  64. Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
  65. Harmonium (Fukada Koji)
  66. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
  67. Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad)
  68. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
  69. Thelma (Joachim Trier)
  70. All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott)
  71. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
  72. Jane (Brett Morgen)
  73. After the Storm (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  74. Columbus (Kogonada)
  75. Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
  76. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen)
  77. The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou)
  78. A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
  79. Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
  80. Coco (Lee Unkrich)
  81. Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green)
  82. The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray)
  83. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
  84. Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)
  85. The Lego Batman Movie (Chris McKay)
  86. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
  87. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
  88. Raw (Julia Ducournau)
  89. Atomic Blonde (David Leitch)
  90. The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
  91. Cézanne and I (Danièle Thompson)
  92. The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
  93. Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
  94. The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
  95. Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
  96. Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
  97. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
  98. Logan (James Mangold)
  99. Gook (Justin Chon)
  100. As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
  101. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  102. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
  103. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

2016

  1. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  2. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  6. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  7. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang)
  9. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  10. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  11. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
  12. Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
  13. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  14. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
  15. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  16. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
  17. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
  18. Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
  19. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  20. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  21. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
  22. Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  23. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  24. Shin Godzilla (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji)
  25. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  26. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
  27. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
  28. I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
  29. The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  30. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
  31. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
  32. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  33. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
  34. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
  35. Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
  36. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
  37. I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
  38. Short Stay (Ted Fendt)
  39. Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
  40. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
  41. Tower (Keith Maitland)
  42. Rules Don’t Apply (Warren Beatty)
  43. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
  44. Three (Johnnie To)
  45. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
  46. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
  47. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
  48. The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
  49. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  50. Café Society (Woody Allen)
  51. Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  52. Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  53. Rogue One (Gareth Edwards)
  54. The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerín)
  55. Weiner (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
  56. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder)
  57. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
  58. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
  59. Aferim! (Radu Jude)
  60. Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux)
  61. De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
  62. Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
  63. The Love Witch (Anna Biller)
  64. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
  65. Don’t Breathe (Fede Álvarez)
  66. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)
  67. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
  68. The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
  69. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  70. Loving (Jeff Nichols)
  71. Indignation (James Schamus)
  72. Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  73. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
  74. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
  75. 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
  76. Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
  77. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert)
  78. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
  79. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
  80. April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
  81. Fences (Denzel Washington)
  82. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
  83. Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  84. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)
  85. Sing Street (John Carney)
  86. Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
  87. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller)
  88. X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer)
  89. Captain America: Civil War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  90. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
  91. Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson)
  92. Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)
  93. High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
  94. Zootopia (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  95. The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
  96. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
  97. The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)
  98. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
  99. Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)
  100. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
  101. Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
  102. Nerve (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
  103. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
  104. Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
  105. Passengers (Morten Tyldum)
  106. A Monster Calls (J. A. Bayona)
  107. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
  108. The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
  109. Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
  110. Keanu (Peter Atencio)
  111. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  112. 13th (Ava DuVernay)
  113. Lion (Garth Davis)
  114. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  115. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
  116. Christine (Antonio Campos)
  117. Live by Night (Ben Affleck)
  118. Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
  119. Assassin’s Creed (Justin Kurzel)
  120. Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
  121. Deadpool (Tim Miller)
  122. Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia)
  123. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  124. Now You See Me 2 (Jon M. Chu)
  125. Swiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  126. Suicide Squad (David Ayer)

2015

  1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  3. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
  4. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
  5. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
  6. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
  7. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
  8. L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  9. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
  10. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
  11. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
  12. Aloha (Cameron Crowe)
  13. Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
  14. Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
  15. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
  16. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
  17. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
  18. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
  19. The Mend (John Magary)
  20. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
  21. Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
  22. Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
  23. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  24. Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
  25. Office (Johnnie To)
  26. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
  27. When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
  28. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  29. The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
  30. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
  31. Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
  32. Unfriended (Leo Gabriadze)
  33. Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
  34. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
  35. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams)
  36. Stinking Heaven (Nathan Silver)
  37. Results (Andrew Bujalski)
  38. Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
  39. Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon)
  40. Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  41. Creed (Ryan Coogler)
  42. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
  43. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
  44. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
  45. Mustang (Denis Gamze Ergüven)
  46. James White (Josh Mond)
  47. The Martian (Ridley Scott)
  48. Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
  49. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
  50. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
  51. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
  52. Joy (David O. Russell)
  53. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
  54. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
  55. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 (Francis Lawrence)
  56. Boy and the World (Alê Abreu)
  57. Everest (Baltasar Kormákur)
  58. Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
  59. Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)
  60. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
  61. What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
  62. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
  63. Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
  64. Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray)
  65. Furious 7 (James Wan)
  66. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
  67. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
  68. Meet the Patels (Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel)
  69. The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
  70. Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
  71. Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
  72. Spectre (Sam Mendes)
  73. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
  74. The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
  75. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
  76. Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)
  77. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  78. Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
  79. In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard)
  80. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  81. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
  82. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
  83. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
  84. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

2014

  1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
  3. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  4. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
  6. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
  8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
  9. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata Isao)
  10. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
  11. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
  12. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  13. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
  14. Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
  15. The Immigrant (James Gray)
  16. Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  17. John Wick (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch)
  18. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
  19. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
  20. Actress (Robert Greene)
  21. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
  22. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
  23. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
  24. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
  25. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
  26. The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
  27. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
  28. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
  29. Locke (Steven Knight)
  30. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
  31. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  32. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
  33. X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)
  34. Selma (Ava DuVernay)
  35. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
  36. Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams)
  37. Fury (David Ayer)
  38. The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
  39. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  40. The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
  41. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)

2013

  1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
  4. Drug War (Johnnie To)
  5. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  6. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
  7. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
  8. Bastards (Claire Denis)
  9. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
  10. Passion (Brian De Palma)
  11. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
  12. Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
  13. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais)
  14. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
  15. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
  17. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
  18. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  19. The World’s End (Edgar Wright)
  20. The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
  21. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
  22. Gravity (Alfonso Cuáron)
  23. Her (Spike Jonze)
  24. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
  25. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
  26. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
  27. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
  28. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
  29. Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
  30. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
  31. Star Trek Into Darkness (J. J. Abrams)
  32. Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
  33. Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
  34. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson)
  35. Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
  36. Man of Steel (Zack Snyder)
  37. Elysium (Neill Blomkamp)
  38. The Heat (Paul Feig)
  39. World War Z (Marc Forster)
  40. Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)
  41. The Wolverine (James Mangold)
  42. Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier)
  43. Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)
  44. Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua)
  45. Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  46. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

2012

  1. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
  3. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  6. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  7. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
  9. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
  10. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  11. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  12. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  13. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
  14. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
  15. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
  16. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
  17. The Wise Kids (Stephen Cone)
  18. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
  19. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
  20. Cloud Atlas (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
  21. Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
  22. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
  23. Dredd (Pete Travis)
  24. Argo (Ben Affleck)
  25. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)
  26. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  27. Looper (Rian Johnson)
  28. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
  29. The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
  30. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
  31. The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
  32. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)
  33. The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb)
  34. Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
  35. The Words (Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)

2011

  1. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
  3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
  6. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
  7. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
  8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
  9. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
  11. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Anno Hideaki)
  12. Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
  13. Pina (Wim Wenders)
  14. Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  15. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
  16. Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)
  17. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
  18. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
  19. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
  20. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
  21. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
  22. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie)
  23. Pariah (Dee Rees)
  24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
  25. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
  26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
  27. Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
  28. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
  29. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  30. X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
  31. War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
  32. Life in a Day (Kevin Macdonald)
  33. Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
  34. Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
  35. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)

2010

  1. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)
  2. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
  3. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  4. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
  5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
  6. The Social Network (David Fincher)
  7. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
  8. Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  9. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
  10. White Material (Claire Denis)
  11. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  12. True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  13. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
  14. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  15. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
  16. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
  17. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
  18. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
  19. Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
  20. The Fighter (David O. Russell)
  21. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
  22. 3 Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani)
  23. The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
  24. Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
  25. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates)
  26. Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  27. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted)
  28. The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
  29. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
  30. Mao’s Last Dancer (Bruce Beresford)
  31. The Karate Kid (Harold Zwart)
  32. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)
  33. Extraordinary Measures (Tom Vaughn)

2009

  1. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
  3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  4. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
  6. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
  8. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
  10. Two Lovers (James Gray)
  11. Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  12. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Anno Hideaki)
  13. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
  14. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
  15. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
  17. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
  18. Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)
  19. Up (Pete Docter)
  20. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
  21. Coraline (Henry Selick)
  22. Red Cliff (John Woo)
  23. Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)
  24. Avatar (James Cameron)
  25. Taken (Pierre Morel)
  26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
  27. Gamer (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
  28. Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  29. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
  30. Invictus (Clint Eastwood)
  31. Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
  32. This Is It (Kenny Ortega)
  33. 17 Again (Burr Steers)
  34. The Soloist (Joe Wright)
  35. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)
  36. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
  37. Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
  38. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)

2008

  1. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
  2. La France (Serge Bozon)
  3. Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  4. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
  6. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
  7. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
  8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  9. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
  11. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
  12. Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
  13. Viva (Anna Biller)
  14. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
  15. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
  16. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
  17. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
  18. Flash Point (Wilson Yip)
  19. Bolt (Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
  20. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
  21. The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
  22. Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
  23. Hancock (Peter Berg)
  24. 27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
  25. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen)
  26. The Express (Gary Fleder)
  27. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
  28. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
  29. Jumper (Doug Liman)

2007

  1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Election 2 (Johnnie To)
  3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
  4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. Exiled (Johnnie To)
  6. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
  7. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
  9. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
  10. Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
  11. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
  12. Election (Johnnie To)
  13. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
  14. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
  15. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
  16. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  17. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
  18. Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy)
  19. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
  20. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
  21. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
  22. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
  23. Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
  24. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
  25. Redacted (Brian De Palma)
  26. Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
  27. Blades of Glory (Will Speck & Josh Gordon)
  28. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
  29. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
  30. Rush Hour 3 (Brett Ratner)
  31. The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
  32. Mr. Bean’s Holiday (Steve Bendelack)
  33. Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)
  34. Transformers (Michael Bay)
  35. The Game Plan (Andy Fickman)
  36. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
  37. The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
  38. The Last Mimzy (Bob Shaye)
  39. Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
  40. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
  41. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)

2006

  1. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
  2. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  3. The Child (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  4. Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
  5. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  6. The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)
  7. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. Breaking News (Johnnie To)
  9. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
  11. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
  12. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  13. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
  14. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
  15. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
  16. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
  17. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
  18. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
  19. Mission: Impossible III (J. J. Abrams)
  20. Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
  21. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski)
  22. Happy Feet (George Miller)
  23. Cars (John Lasseter)
  24. Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
  25. X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
  26. Monster House (Gil Kenan)
  27. The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)
  28. Eragon (Stefan Fangmeier)

2005

  1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. Throw Down (Johnnie To)
  5. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
  6. The New World (Terrence Malick)
  7. The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis)
  8. The World (Jia Zhangke)
  9. Caché (Michael Haneke)
  10. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
  11. The Intruder (Claire Denis)
  12. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
  13. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  14. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  15. Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
  16. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
  17. Eros (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni)
  18. House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  19. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
  20. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
  21. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
  22. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
  23. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
  24. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
  25. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
  26. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
  27. Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew)
  28. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
  29. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
  30. Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGarth)
  31. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
  32. Zathura (Jon Favreau)
  33. Fantastic Four (Tim Story)
  34. Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)

2004

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
  3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
  4. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
  6. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
  9. Collateral (Michael Mann)
  10. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
  11. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  12. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
  13. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
  14. Primer (Shane Carruth)
  15. Mr. 3000 (Charles Stone III)
  16. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
  17. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
  18. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
  19. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
  20. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
  21. Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
  22. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  23. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
  24. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
  25. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
  26. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
  27. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt)
  28. The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  29. Ray (Taylor Hackford)
  30. Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
  31. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  32. National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
  33. Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
  34. The Final Cut (Omar Naim)
  35. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
  36. The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
  37. DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (Rawsom Marshall Thurber)
  38. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling)
  39. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall)
  40. Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)

2003

  1. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
  3. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
  4. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
  5. From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman)
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
  7. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Watanabe Shinichiro)
  8. The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  9. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
  10. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
  12. The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  13. X2 (Bryan Singer)
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
  15. The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
  16. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
  17. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore)
  18. Freaky Friday (Mark Waters)
  19. Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
  20. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)
  21. Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
  22. Holes (Andrew Davis)
  23. The Haunted Mansion (Rob Minkoff)

2002

  1. Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
  3. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
  5. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
  6. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  7. Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)
  8. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
  9. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  10. Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
  11. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
  12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
  13. Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
  14. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
  15. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
  16. Resident Evil (Paul W. S. Anderson)
  17. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
  18. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
  19. Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
  20. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
  21. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)
  22. Happy Times (Zhang Yimou)
  23. Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
  24. Return to Never Land (Robin Budd)
  25. Ice Age (Chris Wedge)
  26. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
  27. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
  28. Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell)

2001

  1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
  2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
  4. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
  5. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
  6. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
  7. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
  8. Ali (Michael Mann)
  9. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
  11. Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  12. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
  13. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
  14. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
  15. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
  16. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
  17. Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
  18. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
  19. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Chris Columbus)
  20. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
  21. Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner)
  22. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
  23. The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall)
  24. Osmosis Jones (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly)

2000

  1. A One and a Two… (Edward Yang)
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
  3. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
  4. Taboo (Oshima Nagisa)
  5. Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
  6. The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal)
  7. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
  8. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
  9. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
  10. Pola X (Leos Carax)
  11. Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
  12. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
  13. Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
  14. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
  15. The Art of War (Christian Duguay)
  16. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  17. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
  18. But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
  19. X-Men (Bryan Singer)
  20. Fantasia/2000 (Don Hahn/Pixote Hunt/Hendel Butoy/Eric Goldberg/James Algar/Francis Glebas/Paul Brizzi/Gaëtan Brizzi)
  21. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
  22. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
  23. Shower (Zhang Yang)
  24. Gone in 60 Seconds (Dominic Sena)
  25. Dinosaur (Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
  26. Bring It On (Peyton Reed)
  27. Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
  28. Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian)

1999

  1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. The Insider (Michael Mann)
  3. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
  4. The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  5. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
  6. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  7. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
  8. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
  9. Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
  10. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
  11. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  12. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
  13. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
  14. Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
  15. Fight Club (David Fincher)

1998

  1. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
  2. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
  4. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  5. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
  6. Belly (Hype Williams)
  7. Knock Off (Tsui Hark)
  8. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
  9. Mr. Nice Guy (Sammo Hung)
  10. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
  11. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
  13. The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
  14. Mulan (Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft)
  15. The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells)
  16. Rush Hour (Brett Ratner)
  17. A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter)
  18. The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers)
  19. The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)

1997

  1. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
  3. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
  4. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
  5. Face/Off (John Woo)
  6. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
  7. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
  9. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. Gummo (Harmony Korine)
  11. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
  12. Nénette and Boni (Claire Denis)
  13. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
  14. Double Team (Tsui Hark)
  15. Titanic (James Cameron)
  16. The Assignment (Christian Duguay)
  17. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  18. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
  19. Fire (Deepa Mehta)
  20. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
  21. Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)
  22. Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
  23. Anastasia (Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
  24. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
  25. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
  26. Hercules (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  27. Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)

1996

  1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. The Ceremony (Claude Chabrol)
  3. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
  6. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
  7. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  8. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. Bound (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  10. Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter)
  11. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
  12. Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru)
  13. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
  14. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
  15. Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
  16. The Rock (Michael Bay)
  17. Space Jam (Joe Pytka)
  18. Matilda (Danny DeVito)

1995

  1. Heat (Michael Mann)
  2. Safe (Todd Haynes)
  3. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
  4. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
  5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
  6. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
  7. Se7en (David Fincher)
  8. Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
  9. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
  10. Die Hard With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
  11. River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
  12. The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)
  13. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
  14. I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
  15. Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
  16. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
  17. Balto (Simon Wells)
  18. Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
  19. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
  20. Jumanji (Joe Johnston)
  21. Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)

1994

  1. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
  3. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
  4. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  5. Speed (Jan de Bont)
  6. True Lies (James Cameron)
  7. Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
  8. Go Fish (Rose Troche)
  9. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
  10. Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
  11. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
  13. The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)

1993

  1. Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
  2. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  3. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
  4. Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark)
  5. Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma)
  6. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
  7. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  9. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  10. Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
  11. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
  12. True Romance (Tony Scott)
  13. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
  14. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
  15. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
  16. Baraka (Ron Fricke)
  17. Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
  18. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
  19. Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
  20. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

1992

  1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
  2. Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
  3. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
  4. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
  5. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
  6. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
  7. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
  8. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
  9. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
  10. One False Move (Carl Franklin)
  11. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
  12. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
  13. No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
  14. Candyman (Bernard Rose)
  15. Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
  16. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
  17. A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
  18. A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
  19. Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
  20. Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  21. Lorenzo’s Oil (George Miller)

1991

  1. Trust (Hal Hartley)
  2. The Killer (John Woo)
  3. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
  4. Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  5. Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)
  6. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
  8. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  9. Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
  10. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
  11. Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
  12. JFK (Oliver Stone)
  13. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)

1990

  1. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
  2. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
  3. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
  4. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
  6. Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
  7. Akira (Otomo Katsuhiro)
  8. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
  9. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
  10. Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis)
  11. Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
  13. Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
  14. The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
  15. Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

1989

  1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
  2. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara Kazuo)
  3. The Abyss (James Cameron)
  4. 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer)
  5. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
  6. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
  7. 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
  8. Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
  9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
  10. Road House (Rowdy Herrington)
  11. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
  12. Chocolat (Claire Denis)
  13. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
  14. The Little Mermaid (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  15. When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner)
  16. Batman (Tim Burton)
  17. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Stephen Hopkins)
  18. Glory (Edward Zwick)
  19. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik)

1988

  1. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
  2. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
  3. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
  4. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
  5. The Land Before Time (Don Bluth)
  6. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
  7. Big (Penny Marshall)
  8. Shoot to Kill (Roger Spottiswoode)

1987

  1. Ishtar (Elaine May)
  2. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
  3. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  4. Sign “O” the Times (Prince)
  5. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
  7. Predator (John McTiernan)
  8. Tampopo (Itami Juzo)
  9. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
  10. Maurice (James Ivory)
  11. River’s Edge (Tim Hunter)
  12. Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)

1986

  1. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
  3. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
  4. Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
  5. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
  6. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
  7. Aliens (James Cameron)
  8. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
  9. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
  10. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
  11. The Mission (Roland Joffé)
  12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
  13. Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
  14. Top Gun (Tony Scott)
  15. Wise Guys (Brian De Palma)

1985

  1. Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
  3. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  4. Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
  5. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
  6. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
  7. Witness (Peter Weir)
  8. Commando (Mark L. Lester)
  9. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
  11. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)

1984

  1. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
  2. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
  3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
  4. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
  5. The Terminator (James Cameron)
  6. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
  7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Dune (David Lynch)
  9. Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry)
  10. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
  11. Gremlins (Joe Dante)
  12. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
  13. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
  14. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
  15. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
  16. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)

1983

  1. Sunless (Chris Marker)
  2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
  3. Boat People (Ann Hui)
  4. Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)
  5. Testament (Lynne Littman)
  6. The Keep (Michael Mann)
  7. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
  8. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
  9. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
  10. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
  11. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima Nagisa)
  12. Scarface (Brian De Palma)

1982

  1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
  4. The Thing (John Carpenter)
  5. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
  7. Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
  8. Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
  9. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
  10. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
  11. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
  12. Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
  13. Annie (John Huston)

1981

  1. The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Thief (Michael Mann)
  4. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
  5. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
  6. Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
  7. The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
  8. Rich and Famous (George Cukor)
  9. Confidence (Szabó István)
  10. The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
  11. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
  12. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)
  13. Gallipoli (Peter Weir)

1980

  1. Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. Wise Blood (John Huston)
  6. Cruising (William Friedkin)
  7. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  8. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
  9. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
  10. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
  11. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
  12. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
  13. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  14. American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
  15. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
  16. Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
  17. Home Movies (Brian De Palma)
  18. Times Square (Allan Moyle)
  19. Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
  20. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
  21. Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
  22. Mad Max (George Miller)
  23. It’s My Turn (Claudia Weill)
  24. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)

1979

  1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. The Green Room (François Truffaut)
  4. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
  5. Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph)
  6. Alien (Ridley Scott)
  7. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
  8. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
  9. Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
  10. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  11. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
  13. La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  14. Love on the Run (François Truffaut)
  15. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
  16. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
  17. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
  18. The Europeans (James Ivory)
  19. Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)

1978

  1. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
  3. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  4. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
  5. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
  6. Halloween (John Carpenter)
  7. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
  8. Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
  9. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
  10. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
  11. Women (Mészáros Márta)
  12. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
  13. Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen)
  14. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
  15. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
  16. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
  17. Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
  18. Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc)

1977

  1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
  2. Providence (Alain Resnais)
  3. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  4. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima Nagisa)
  6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  7. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
  8. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
  9. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  10. Star Wars (George Lucas)
  11. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
  12. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda)
  13. Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
  14. The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
  15. Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  16. Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
  17. Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
  18. Roseland (James Ivory)
  19. The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
  20. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  21. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
  22. The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
  23. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
  24. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman)

1976

  1. The Marquise of O… (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  3. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
  4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
  5. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
  7. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
  8. Small Change (François Truffaut)
  9. Grey Gardens (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
  10. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
  11. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
  12. Car Wash (Michael Schultz)
  13. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
  14. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
  15. Network (Sidney Lumet)
  16. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
  17. A Star Is Born (Frank Pierson)

1975

  1. Moses and Aaron (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
  2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
  3. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
  4. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
  5. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  6. Female Trouble (John Waters)
  7. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
  8. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
  9. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
  11. The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
  12. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
  13. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
  14. Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
  15. Smile (Michael Ritchie)
  16. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
  17. Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
  18. Black Moon (Louis Malle)

1974

  1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
  2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  4. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  5. Chinatown (Roman Polański)
  6. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  7. Stavisky… (Alain Resnais)
  8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  9. The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)
  10. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
  11. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
  12. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
  13. Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
  14. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino)
  15. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
  16. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  17. Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
  18. Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)

1973

  1. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
  2. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  4. Day for Night (François Truffaut)
  5. Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
  6. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
  7. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  8. Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
  10. Love (Makk Károly)
  11. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  12. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
  13. Kid Blue (James Frawley)
  14. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
  15. Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)
  16. Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma)

1972

  1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
  2. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
  3. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
  4. Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
  5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
  6. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
  7. Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)
  8. Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich)
  9. A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
  10. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
  11. Images (Robert Altman)
  12. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
  13. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
  14. Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie)
  15. Heat (Paul Morrissey)
  16. Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry)
  17. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
  18. Family Life (Ken Loach)
  19. Bad Company (Robert Benton)

1971

  1. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
  2. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
  3. Claire’s Knee (Éric Rohmer)
  4. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. The Butcher (Claude Chabrol)
  6. The Devils (Ken Russell)
  7. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. Double Suicide (Shinoda Masahiro)
  9. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
  10. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  11. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
  12. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  13. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
  14. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
  15. The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  16. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
  17. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
  18. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  19. The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
  20. Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
  21. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
  22. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
  23. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
  24. The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
  25. A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
  26. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
  27. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
  28. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
  29. Born to Win (Ivan Passer)

1970

  1. My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Boy (Oshima Nagisa)
  3. Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
  4. The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
  5. One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
  7. Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
  8. L’Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
  9. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
  10. The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
  11. Kes (Ken Loach)
  12. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  13. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  14. Dionysus in ’69 (Brian De Palma)
  15. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
  16. The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
  17. The Christine Jorgensen Story (Irving Rapper)
  18. The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin)

1969

  1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
  2. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
  3. Heartbeat (Alain Cavalier)
  4. The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
  5. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
  6. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
  7. Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
  8. Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
  9. Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
  10. Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
  11. Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
  12. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
  13. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
  14. The Creatures (Agnès Varda)
  15. The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)

1968

  1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanely Kubrick)
  3. Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
  5. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
  6. The Departure (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  7. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
  8. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polański)
  9. Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
  10. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
  11. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
  12. The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)
  13. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
  14. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
  15. The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman)
  16. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
  17. Faces (John Cassavetes)
  18. Greetings (Brian De Palma)
  19. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
  20. Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
  21. Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
  22. Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
  23. Murder à la Mod (Brian De Palma)
  24. A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)

1967

  1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
  4. Point Blank (John Boorman)
  5. Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
  6. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
  7. The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
  8. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
  9. Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker)
  10. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
  11. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
  12. The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
  13. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  14. Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
  15. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
  16. Father (Szabó István)
  17. Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
  18. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)

1966

  1. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  2. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon)
  4. Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
  5. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
  6. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  7. The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
  8. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
  10. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
  12. The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
  13. Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
  14. King & Country (Joseph Losey)
  15. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)

1965

  1. The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
  2. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
  6. Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  7. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
  8. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
  9. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
  10. Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)

1964

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
  2. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  3. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
  5. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  6. Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
  7. Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
  8. The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi)
  9. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
  10. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
  12. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester)
  13. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
  14. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
  15. Alone Across the Pacific (Ichikawa Kon)
  16. Lilith (Robert Rossen)
  17. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

1963

  1. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
  2. High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
  6. Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  7. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
  8. 8½ (Federico Fellini)
  9. Dr. No (Terence Young)
  10. Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
  11. All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
  12. The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)

1962

  1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  2. Lola (Jacques Demy)
  3. L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
  5. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
  6. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
  7. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. Yojimbo (Akira Kuorsawa)
  9. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
  10. La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  11. Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
  12. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)

1961

  1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  4. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
  5. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
  6. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

1960

  1. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
  2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
  4. The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
  5. Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
  6. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

1959

  1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
  2. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
  3. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
  4. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
  5. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
  7. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)
  8. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  9. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
  10. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

1958

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  3. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

1957

  1. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  2. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  3. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
  4. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
  5. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)

1956

  1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Godzilla (Honda Ishiro)
  4. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
  5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. The Searchers (John Ford)
  7. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)

1955

  1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  2. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
  3. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  4. The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
  5. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
  6. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
  7. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
  8. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. Lady and the Tramp (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
  10. Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)

1954

  1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
  2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
  4. The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. Madame de… (Max Ophuls)
  7. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
  8. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
  9. Europe ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  10. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
  11. Knave of Hearts (René Clément)

1953

  1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
  2. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
  3. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Peter Pan (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)

1952

  1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
  2. Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
  3. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
  4. Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
  5. Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  6. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)

1951

  1. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
  2. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
  4. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
  5. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

1950

  1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
  4. The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz)
  5. Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
  6. No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1949

  1. The Heiress (William Wyler)
  2. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
  3. A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  4. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
  5. I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
  6. Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)

1948

  1. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
  2. Fort Apache (John Ford)
  3. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
  4. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  5. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
  8. Key Largo (John Huston)

1947

  1. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
  3. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  4. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)

1946

  1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  3. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  5. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  6. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
  7. The Locket (John Brahm)
  8. Gilda (Charles Vidor)

1945

  1. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
  3. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  4. My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

  1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
  3. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
  4. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  5. Laura (Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
  2. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  4. The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley)
  5. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
  7. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. Bataan (Tay Garnett)

1942

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
  2. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. Bambi (David Hand)
  4. Quiet Please, Murder (John Larkin)

1941

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  2. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
  3. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
  5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming)

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  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)
  3. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)

1939

  1. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
  2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
  3. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
  4. The Women (George Cukor)
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
  6. Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)

1938

  1. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
  2. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Holiday (George Cukor)
  4. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
  5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

1937

  1. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
  2. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse Mikio)
  4. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
  5. Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
  6. A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. Fury (Fritz Lang)
  2. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
  3. Toni (Jean Renoir)
  4. Allá en el Rancho Grande (Fernando de Fuentes)

1935

  1. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
  2. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
  3. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)

1934

  1. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  2. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
  3. Fantômas (Fejős Pál)

1933

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
  3. Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl)
  4. Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
  5. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
  6. Marius (Alexander Korda)
  7. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)

1932

  1. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
  4. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
  6. The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille)

1931

  1. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
  3. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau)
  4. Frankenstein (James Whale)
  5. Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
  6. Dracula (Tod Browning)
  7. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)

1930

  1. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
  3. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
  4. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)

1929

  1. Spies (Fritz Lang)
  2. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
  3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  4. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
  5. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
  6. Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)

1928

  1. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  3. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
  4. Show People (King Vidor)
  5. The Circus (Charles Chaplin)

1927

  1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
  2. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  3. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
  4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
  5. It (Clarence Badger)

1926

  1. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
  2. Silence (Rupert Julian)

1925

  1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
  2. The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)
  3. The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)

1924

  1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
  2. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  3. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
  4. HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
  5. The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)

1923

  1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

  1. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)

1921

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)

1920

  1. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)

1918

  1. Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)

1916

  1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)

1915

  1. The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
  2. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)

1914

  1. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)

1913

  1. The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)

2020 Muriel Awards

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Best Feature-Length Film

  1. Yourself and Yours
  2. Martin Eden
  3. To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Fourteen
  5. The Grand Bizarre
  6. I Was at Home, But…
  7. The Traitor
  8. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  9. First Cow
  10. Vitalina Varela

Best Lead Performance

  1. Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
  2. Lee Yoo-young, Yourself and Yours
  3. Atsuko Maeda, To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Pierfrancesco Favino, The Traitor
  5. Tallie Medel, Fourteen
  6. John Boyega, Red, White and Blue
  7. Vitalina Varela, Vitalina Varela
  8. Ethan Hawke, Tesla
  9. Norma Kuhling, Fourteen
  10. Vlad Ivanov, The Whistlers

Best Supporting Performance

  1. Sandra Hüller, Sibyl
  2. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
  3. Udo Kier, Bacurau
  4. Shaun Parkes, Mangrove
  5. C. Mason Wells, Fourteen
  6. Kyle MacLachlan, Tesla
  7. Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
  8. Silvero Pereira, Bacurau
  9. Mikako Ichikawa, A Girl Missing
  10. Franz Rogowski, I Was at Home, But…

Best Direction

  1. Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela
  2. Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden
  3. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Angela Schanelec, I Was at Home, But…
  5. Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock

Best Cinematic Moment

  1. Yoko sings (first time), To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Filmmaking ethics, I Was at Home, But…
  3. “Silly Games,” Lovers Rock
  4. Yoko sings (second time), To the Ends of the Earth
  5. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tesla
  6. Skype remix, The Grand Bizarre
  7. “Kunta Kinte Dub,” Lovers Rock
  8. Factory chase, Red, White and Blue
  9. Martin’s speech, Martin Eden
  10. On the roof, Vitalina Varela

Best Documentary

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  3. City Hall
  4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  5. Time

Best Screenplay

  1. Yourself and Yours
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Fourteen
  4. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  5. The Whistlers

Best Ensemble Performance

  1. To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Mangrove
  3. Bacurau
  4. Sibyl
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Best Cinematography

  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Ghost Tropic
  4. Liberté
  5. First Cow

Best Editing

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Bacurau
  4. City Hall
  5. The Wild Goose Lake

Best Music

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Tesla
  5. Bacurau

Best Cinematic Breakthrough

  1. Pietro Marcello
  2. Thomas Heise
  3. Bas Devos
  4. Justine Triet
  5. Tyler Taormina

Best Body of Work

  1. Steve McQueen
  2. Luca Marinelli
  3. Chadwick Boseman
  4. Shabier Kirchner
  5. Sean Price Williams

Best Youth Performance

  1. Jakob Lassalle, I Was at Home, But…
  2. Clara Möller, I Was at Home, But…
  3. Kenyah Sandy, Education

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 2010

  1. Mysteries of Lisbon
  2. Certified Copy
  3. Meek’s Cutoff
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  5. Hahaha

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1995

  1. Heat
  2. Fallen Angels
  3. The Bridges of Madison County
  4. Before Sunrise
  5. Safe

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1970

  1. Zorns Lemma
  2. Claire’s Knee
  3. Othon
  4. Le Boucher
  5. Le Rupture

2021 Capsules

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February

PTU
The apartment raid, with the slow staggered ascent of Yam and his team with manually flickering flashlights, is at once one of the great summits of To’s ethos and its antithesis, with all that elegiac cool in service of a pointless raid that terrorizes a few women. Such is the greatness of PTU, a film that totally embodies everything masterful and terrifying about To’s filmmaking, where the wanton police brutality combined with the assuredness of the filmmaking could be repugnant if it weren’t for the interfering elements: a child riding a bike, an unexpected stabbing, an invitation to mahjong. Truth is subjective, bound to be written by the forces in charge, and it doesn’t matter who gets caught in the crossfire.

November

Shanghai Express
It’s so crucial here that none of von Sternberg’s characters fundamentally change, perhaps not even Dietrich. Despite their harrowing journey, they are either too enmeshed in China (Wong and her quiet patriotism) or too set apart from it by their foreign mindsets to be truly shaken. What matters here, and what von Sternberg so vividly conveys in his structure, which treats the entire upheaval of a vicious power struggle, is how events shed new lights on preexisting perspectives. Carmichael, previously the butt of most every joke, emerges as a guiding light, a conduit towards a deeper understanding. And it is with a great, unexpected tenderness that Dietrich rises to receive it, while keeping her luminescence intact.

The Souvenir: Part II
Aside from its clear purpose as an elaboration of an artist’s vision liberated from the strictures of a threadbare film school student’s budget and limited sets, the climax’s imagined short film acts as a synecdoche for Hogg’s larger vision. The Souvenir: Part II itself cycles through styles, throwing in privileged moment after moment, with the metafilm conceit helping the viewer to cast a different glance on each successive shot: is this Julie’s film? Garance’s? Patrick’s? Of course, it’s all Hogg’s film in the end, but there’s a productive tension of reality and unreality, most evident in Julie’s amusing but honestly painful attempts at communicating messy interior life to well-meaning but confused actors. In general, there’s a fitting sense of instability and tentativeness, thrown into further relief by the greater time spent with Julie’s mother and her own modest burgeoning artistic practice. And the very ending acts as a strange hall of mirrors, both an entrapment and a liberation, a closing of a chapter.

Round Midnight
I keep coming back to the moments where Gordon talks about his reeds. He seems to be playing on a single reed at a time, specifically requesting a Rico 3. I don’t know what the reed market was like in 1959; now reeds come in boxes of five (for tenors) and aren’t all that expensive. Moreover, Ricos are the starter reeds, the ones that come gratuit with your new horn. I play Vandoren Java 2 1/2s, designed specifically for jazz; I wonder if Gordon opting for the stronger reed helped with the richness of his sound, which regains its former luster over the course of the film. That Round Midnight can carry and sustain that detail only goes to show the key role experience should play when it comes to the creation of art.

December

Benedetta
As a Christian, I’m naturally inclined to believe in the validity of Benedetta’s visions, but I was surprised the degree to which the film — and Verhoeven — seem to agree, or at least in the conviction of her beliefs. Many have rightly commented on the general primacy of power relations over the lesbian copulations that were supposed to be the backbone, and it’s important to situate that within how it relates to the central dilemma of faith: the belief in something that can’t be directly experienced. Numerous characters, even Rampling’s daughter, invoke this, twisting it for their own ends, and while the film can be said to be a critique of the Catholic Church, a central core of faith remains intact. The two characters who most fervently express a desire for faith, Benedetta and the Reverend Mother, maintain it to the end, and as such remains unchallenged in that realm, even by the forces of lust for sex or power. What they end up doing with that desire is where interpretation lies, and where purity is corrupted.