Favorite Films

A work in progress. Last updated 1/19/24.

2023

1. El auge del humano 3 (Eduardo Williams) [The Human Surge 3]
2. Laberint Sequences (Blake Williams)
3. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar)
4. May December (Todd Haynes)
5. 君たちはどう生きるか (Hayao Miyazaki) [The Boy and the Heron]
6. Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
7. பொன்னியின் செல்வன்: பாகம் 2 (Mani Ratnam) [Ponniyin Selvan: Part II]
8. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
9. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joana Arnow)
10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)

2022

1. Chronique d’une liaison passagère (Emmanuel Mouret) [Diary of a Fleeting Affair]
2. Mato Seco em Chamas (Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta) [Dry Ground Burning]
3. பொன்னியின் செல்வன்: பாகம் 1 (Mani Ratnam) [Ponniyin Selvan: Part I]
4. All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
5. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
6. Happer’s Comet (Tyler Taormina)
7. Confess, Fletch (Greg Mottola)
8. Fogo-Fátuo (João Pedro Rodrigues) [Will-o’-the-Wisp]
9. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. Nope (Jordan Peele)

2021

1. Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert) [Little Solange]
2. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
3. 犬王 (Masaaki Yuasa) [INU-OH]
4. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
5. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. À plein temps (Eric Gravel) [Full Time]
7. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman)
8. North by Current (Angelo Madsen Minax)
9. Home When You Return (Carl Elsaesser)
10. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderberg)

2020

1. Ask Any Buddy (Elizabeth Purchell)
2. s01e03 (Kurt Walker)
3. ドロステのはてで僕ら (Junta Yamaguchi) [Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes]
4. Point and Line to Plane (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
5. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
6. Let Them All Talk (Steven Soderbergh)
7. Circumstantial Pleasures (Lewis Klahr)
8. Spontaneous (Brian Duffield)
9. Time (Garrett Bradley)
10. Rūrangi (Max Currie)

2019

1. Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)
2. 기생충 (Bong Joon-Ho) [Parasite]
3. Fin de siglo (Lucio Castro) [End of the Century]
4. في الثورة (Maya Khoury) [During Revolution]
5. So Pretty (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli)
6. Shakti (Martín Rejtman)
7. Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
8. Parsi (Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt)
9. Caterina (Dan Sallitt)
10. Salacia (Tourmaline)

2018

1. Transit (Christian Petzold)
2. Amanda (Mikhaël Hers)
3. A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang)
4. لسه عم تسجل (Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub) [Still Recording]
5. High Life (Claire Denis)
6. Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Christophe Honoré)
7. Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
8. Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt)
9. طرس،___رحلة الصعود الى المرئي (Ghassan Halwani) [Erased,____Ascent of the Invisible]
10. My First Film (Zia Anger)

2017

1. Madame Hyde (Serge Bozon)
2. La caméra de Claire (Hong Sang-Soo) [Claire’s Camera]
3. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
4. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
5. Un beau soleil intérieur (Claire Denis) [Let the Sunshine In]
6. 120 battements par minute (Robin Campillo) [120 Beats Per Minute]
7. Fajr (Lois Patiño)
8. Contes de Juillet (Guillaume Brac) [July Tales]
9. Occidental (Neil Beloufa)
10. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)

2016

1. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
2. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
4. Jours de France (Jérôme Reybaud) [4 Days in France]
5. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
6. El auge del humano (Eduardo Williams) [The Human Surge]
7. Rester vertical (Alain Guiraudie) [Staying Vertical]
8. Fan (Maneesh Sharma)
9. L’avenir (Mia Hansen-Løve)
10. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)

2015

1. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel)
2. John From (João Nicolau)
3. Carol (Todd Haynes)
4. Deux Rémi, deux (Pierre Léon)
5. รักที่ขอนแก่น (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [Cemetery of Splendour]
6. 지금은맞고그때는틀리다 (Hong Sang-Soo) [Right Now, Wrong Then]
7. 華麗上班族 (Johnnie To) [Office]
8. Ce sentiment de l’été (Mikhaël Hers) [This Summer Feeling]
9. डिटेक्टिव ब्योमकेश बक्शी! (Dibakar Banerjee) [Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!]
10. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)

2014

1. 자유의 언덕 (Hong Sang-Soo) [Hill of Freedom]
2. Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard) [Goodbye to Language]
3. The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark)
4. La princesa de Francia (Matías Piñeiro) [The Princess of France]
5. L for Leisure (Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn)
6. P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) [Li’l Quinquin]
7. 單身男女2 (Johnnie To) [Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2]
8. Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) [You’re Sleeping Nicole]
9. Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (Margaret Honda)
10. Hit 2 Pass (Kurt Walker)

2013

1. Das merkwürdige Kätzchen (Ramon Zürcher) [The Strange Little Cat]
2. 郊遊 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [Stray Dogs]
3. Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
4. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack)
5. L’Inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie) [Stranger by the Lake]
6. Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack)
7. Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert) [Miss and the Doctors]
8. Spring (Nathaniel Dorsky)
9. शुद्ध देसी रोमांस (Maneesh Sharma) [Shuddh Desi Romance]
10. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez)

2012

1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
3. Je sens le beat qui monte en moi (Yann Le Quellec) [I Feel the Beat that Moves in Me]
4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
5. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
7. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)
8. ఈగ (S. S. Rajamouli) [Eega]
9. 잠 못 드는 밤 (Jang Kun-Jae) [Sleepless Night]
10. The Great Cinema Party (Raya Martin)

2011

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello) [House of Tolerance]
4. Traveling Light (Gina Telaroli)
5. Pude ver un puma (Eduardo Williams) [Could See a Puma]
6. Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve) [Goodbye First Love]
7. River Rites (Ben Russell)
8. 單身男女 (Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai) [Don’t Go Breaking My Heart]
9. The Story of Milk and Honey (Basma Alsharif)
10. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)

2010

1. बैंड बाजा बारात (Maneesh Sharma) [Band Baaja Baraat]
2. Mistérios de Lisboa (Raúl Ruiz) [Mysteries of Lisbon]
3. Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami) [Certified Copy]
4. Trypps #7 (Badlands) (Ben Russell)
5. A Espada e a Rosa (João Nicolau) [The Sword and the Rose]
6. 志明與春嬌 (Pang Ho-Cheung) [Love in a Puff]
7. ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives]
8. Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino) [The Four Times]
9. 頁台北 (Arvin Chen) [Au Revoir Taipei]
10. इश्क़िया (Abhishek Chaubey) [Ishqiya]

2009

1. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
2. Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
4. Visage (Tsai Ming-Liang)
5. Atlantiques (Mati Diop)
6. Alle Anderen (Maren Ade) [Everyone Else]
7. A Serious Man (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
8. 회오리 바람 (Jang Kun-Jae) [Eighteen]
9. Todos mienten (Matías Piñeiro) [They All Lie]
10. 마더 (Bong Joon-Ho) [Mother]

2008

1. 35 rhums (Claire Denis) [35 Shots of Rum]
2. Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Miguel Gomes) [Our Beloved Month of August]
3. Historias extraordinarias (Mariano Llinás) [Extraordinary Stories]
4. रब ने बना दी जोड़ी (Aditya Chopra) [Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi]
5. Un lac (Philippe Grandrieux) [A Lake]
6. Two Lovers (James Gray)
7. Speed Racer (Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski)
8. 愛のむきだし (Sion Sono) [Love Exposure]
9. L’heure d’été (Olivier Assayas) [Summer Hours]
10. Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin) [A Christmas Tale]

2007

1. En la ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerín) [In the City of Sylvia]
2. Le voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Flight of the Red Balloon]
3. ओम शांति ओम (Farah Kahn) [Om Shanti Om]
4. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (Shaad Ali)
5. Ne touchez pas la hache (Jacques Rivette) [The Duchess of Langeais]
6. La France (Serge Bozon)
7. जब वी मेट (Imtiaz Ali) [Jab We Met]
8. Light is Waiting (Michael Robinson)
9. La Graine et le Mulet (Abdellatif Kechiche) [The Secret of the Grain]
10. What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6 (David Gatten)

2006

1. แสงศตวรรษ (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [Syndromes and a Century]
2. 三峡好人 (Jia Zhang-Ke) [Still Life]
3. Rapace (João Nicolau) [Bird of Prey]
4. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
5. The Anthem (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
7. آفساید‎ (Jafar Panahi) [Offside]
8. Glue (Alexis Dos Santos)
9. Les signes (Eugène Green)
10. 해변의 여인 (Hong Sang-Soo) [Woman on the Beach]

2005

1. Les amants réguliers (Philippe Garrel) [Regular Lovers]
2. The New World (Terrence Malick)
3. 最好的時光 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Three Times]
4. リンダ リンダ リンダ (Nobuhiro Yamashita) [Linda Linda Linda]
5. 극장전 (Hong Sang-Soo) [Tale of Cinema]
6. Voici venu le temps (Alain Guiraudie) [Time Has Come]
7.  L’enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) [The Child]
8. À travers la forêt (Jean-Paul Civeyrac) [Through the Forest]
9. 天邊一朵雲 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [The Wayward Cloud]
10. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)

2004

1. สัตว์ประหลาด (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [Tropical Malady]
2. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. Marseille (Angela Schanelec)
4. Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino (Lav Diaz) [Evolution of a Filipino Family]
5. Le Pont des Arts (Eugène Green)
6. मैं हूँ ना (Farah Khan) [Main Hoon Na]
7. Collateral (Michael Mann)
8. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
9. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
10. Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso)

2003

1. Le monde vivant (Eugène Green) [The Living World]
2. Histoire de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette) [The Story of Marie and Julien]
3. 不散 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [Goodbye, Dragon Inn]
4. ヴァイブレータ (Ryuichi Hiroki) [Vibrator]
5. Down With Love (Peyton Reed)
6. Pas de repos pour les braves (Alain Guiraudie) [No Rest for the Brave]
7. PTU (Johnnie To)
8. 살인의 추억 (Bong Joon-Ho) [Memories of Murder]
9. Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (Maren Ade) [The Forest for the Trees]
10. Dogville (Lars von Trier)

2002

1. La vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux) [A New Life]
2. สุดเสน่หา (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) [Blissfully Yours]
3. Vendredi soir (Claire Denis) [Friday Night]
4. Mods (Serge Bozon)
5. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
6. Le fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) [The Son]
7. Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
8. Les jours où je n’existe pas (Jean-Charles Fitoussi) [The Days I Don’t Exist]
9. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
10. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)

2001

1. 千禧曼波 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Millennium Mambo]
2. In den Tag hinein (Maria Speth) [The Days Between]
3. Toutes les nuits (Eugène Green)
4. Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (Alain Guiraudie) [That Old Dream That Moves]
5. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
6. 你那邊幾點 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [What Time Is It There?]
7. Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
8. リリイ・シュシュのすべて (Shunji Iwai) [All About Lily Chou-Chou]
9. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
10. חתונה מאוחרת (Dover Koshashvili) [Late Marriage]

2000

1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
2. 花樣年華 (Wong Kar-Wai) [In the Mood for Love]
3. 一 一 (Edward Yang) [Yi Yi]
4. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
5. Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr) [Werckmeister Harmonies]
6. Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Michael Haneke) [Code Unknown]
7. The Yards (James Gray)
8. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
9. Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz) [Come Undone]
10. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)

1999

1. Beau travail (Claire Denis)
2. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
3. Pola X (Leos Carax)
4. L’humanité (Bruno Dumont)
5. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
6. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
7. The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski)
8. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
9. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. New Waterford Girl (Allan Moyle)

1998

1. 洞 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [The Hole]
2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
3. दिल से.. (Mani Ratnam) [Dil Se..]
4. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
5. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)
7. Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
8. Secret défense (Jacques Rivette)
9. Conte d’automne (Eric Rohmer) [Autumn Tale]
10. What The Water Said, Nos. 1-3 (David Gatten)

1997

1. 春光乍洩 (Wong Kar-Wai) [Happy Together]
2. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
3. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
4. Gummo (Harmony Korine)
5. 나쁜 영화 (Jang Sun-Woo) [Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie]
6. மின்சார கனவு (Rajiv Menon) [Minsara Kanavu]
7. キュア (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [Cure]
8. 河流 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [The River]
9. Ossos (Pedro Costa) [Bones]
10. Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher)

1996

1. Conte d’été (Eric Rohmer) [A Summer’s Tale]
2. La promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) [The Promise]
3. Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle) (Arnaud Desplechin) [My Sex Life…or How I Got into An Argument]
4. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
5. Irma vep (Olivier Assayas)
6. Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis) [Nenette and Boni]
7. 麻將 (Edward Yang) [Mahjong]
8. نون و گلدون (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) [A Moment of Innocence]
9. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
10. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)

1995

1. रंगीला (Ram Gopal Varma) [Rangeela]
2. दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे (Aditya Chopra) [Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge]
3. Haut, bas, fragile (Jacques Rivete) [Up, Down, Fragile]
4. 墮落天使 (Wong Kar-Wai) [Fallen Angels]
5. Safe (Todd Haynes)
6. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
7. 好男好女 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Good Men, Good Women]
8. 渚のシンドバッド (Ryosuke Hashiguchi) [Like Grains of Sand]
9. Heat (Michael Mann)
10. ओह डार्लिंग यह है इंडिया! (Ketan Mehta) [Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!]

1994

1. 重慶森林 (Wong Kar-Wai) [Chungking Express]
2. L’eau froide (Olivier Assayas) [Cold Water]
3. Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
4. 愛情萬歲 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [Vive l’amour]
5. Amateur (Hal Hartley)
6. US Go Home (Claire Denis)
7. زیر درختان زیتون‎ (Abbas Kiarostami) [Through the Olive Trees]
8. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
9. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
10. J’ai pas sommeil (Claire Denis) [I Can’t Sleep]

1993

1. La naissance de l’amour (Philippe Garrel) [The Birth of Love]
2. माया मेमसाब (Ketan Mehta) [Maya Memsaab]
3. Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. お引越し (Shinji Sômai) [Moving]
5. Je vous salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Naked (Mike Leigh)
7. Totally Fucked Up (Gregg Araki)
8. L’Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque ou les sept hasards (Eric Rohmer) [The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque]
9. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
10. Carlito’s Way (Briand De Palma)

1992

1. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
2. الليل (Mohammad Malas) [The Night]
3. Conte d’hiver (Eric Rohmer) [A Tale of Winter]
4. زندگی و دیگر هیچ (Abbas Kiarostami) [Life, and Nothing More…]
5. 青少年哪吒 (Tsai Ming-Liang) [Rebels of the Neon God]
6. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
7. Les nuits fauves (Cyril Collard) [Savage Nights]
8. Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda)
9. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
10. La sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin)

1991

1. 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (Edward Yang) [A Brighter Summer Day]
2. La vie des morts (Arnaud Desplechin)
3. Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax) [The Lovers on the Bridge]
4. J’entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel) [I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar]
5. La double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski) [The Double Life of Veronique]
6. La belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
7. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
8. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
9. लम्हे (Yash Chopra) [Lamhe]
10. The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan)

1990

1. Trust (Hal Hartley)
2. 阿飛正傳 (Wong Kar-Wai) [Days of Being Wild]
3. کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک (Abbas Kiarostami) [Close-Up]
4. Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard) [New Wave]
5. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
6. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
7. Pump Up The Volume (Allan Moyle)
8. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
9. Замри – умри – воскресни! (Vitali Kanevsky) [Freeze, Die, Come to Life!]
10. S’en fout la mort (Claire Denis) [No Fear, No Die]

1989

1. O Sangue (Pedro Costa) [Blood]
2. La bande des quatre (Jacques Rivette) [Gang of Four]
3. Les sièges de l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
4. Les baisers de secours (Philippe Garrel) [Emergency Kisses]
5. 魔女の宅急便 (Hayao Miyazaki) [Kiki’s Delivery Service]
6. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
7. Peaux de vaches (Patricia Mazuy) [Thick Skinned]
8. Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski) [The Decalogue]
9. 悲情城市 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [A City of Sadness]
10. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)

1988

1. Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver)
2. Once More (Paul Vecchiali)
3. Abolição (Zózimo Bulbul)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
5. Uma Pedra no Bolso (Joaquim Pinto)
6. They Live (John Carpenter)
7. Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza)
8. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
9. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
10. I…Dreaming (Stan Brakhage)

1987

1. خانه‌ی دوست کجاست؟ (Abbas Kiarostami) [Where is the Friend’s Home?]
2. 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer) [Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle]
3. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
4. L’ami de mon amie (Eric Rohmer) [Boyfriends and Girlfriends]
5. Ishtar (Elaine May)
6. 尼羅河女兒 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Daughter of the Nile]
7. Sous le soleil de Satan (Maurice Pialat) [Under the Sun of Satan]
8. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
9. The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage)
10. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)

1986

1. Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer) [The Green Ray]
2. 恐怖分子 (Edward Yang) [The Terrorizers]
3. 戀戀風塵 (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) [Dust in the Wind]
4. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
5. Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman)
6. Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
7. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
8. 天空の城ラピュタ (Hayao Miyazaki) [Castle in the Sky]
9. Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki)
10. The Fly (David Cronenberg)

1985

1. Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel) [She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps]
2. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
3. 青梅竹馬 (Edward Yang) [Taipei Story]
4. Je vous salue, Marie (Jean-Luc Godard) [Hail Mary]
5. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
6. タンポポ (Jûzô Itami) [Tampopo]
7. Sans toit ni loi (Agnes Varda) [Vagabond]
8. Мой друг Иван Лапшин (Aleksei German) [My Friend Ivan Lapshin]
9. Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
10. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)

1984

1. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
2. Manoel dans l’île des merveilles (Raúl Ruiz) [Manoel on the Island of Marvels]
3. Starman (John Carpenter)
4. Liberté, la nuit (Philippe Garrel)
5. Les nuits de la pleine lune (Eric Rohmer) [Full Moon in Paris]
6. 風の谷のナウシカ (Hayao Miyazaki) [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]
7. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
8. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
9. Barres (Luc Moullet)
10. L’amour par terre (Jacques Rivette) [Love on the Ground]

1983

1. À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
2. La ville des pirates (Raúl Ruiz) [City of Pirates]
3. Pauline à la plage (Eric Rohmer) [Pauline at the Beach]
4. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. L’argent (Robert Bresson)
6. 海灘的一天 (Edward Yang) [That Day, on the Beach]
7. Seventeen (Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines)
8. कथा (Sai Paranjape) [Katha]
9. The Keep (Michael Mann)
10. The Hunger (Tony Scott)

1982

1. Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) [Fanny and Alexander]
2. Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins)
3. Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang)
4. Le beau mariage (Eric Rohmer) [A Good Marriage]
5. Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman)
6. E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
7. M’Pongo (Jean-Michel Tchissoukou)
8. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
9. Het dak van de Walvis (Raúl Ruiz) [On Top of the Whale]
10. Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman)

1981

1. Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
2. La femme de l’aviateur (Eric Rohmer) [The Aviator’s Wife]
3. Thief (Michael Mann)
4. Neige (Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger) [Snow]
5. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
7. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
8. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski) [Possession]
9. They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. O Território (Raúl Ruiz) [The Territory]

1980

1. Simone Barbès ou la vertu (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
2. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
3. The Fog (John Carpenter)
4. Cruising (William Friedkin)
5. Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette)
6. Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Jean-Luc Godard) [Every Man for Himself]
7. Times Square (Allan Moyle)
8. Poto et Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin)
9. Airplane! (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams)
10. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)

1979

1. L’enfant secret (Philippe Garrel) [The Secret Child]
2. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [The Marriage of Maria Braun]
3. Сталкер (Andrei Tarkovsky) [Stalker]
4. Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver)
5. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
6. Corps à cœur (Paul Vecchiali) [Drugstore Romance]
7. Rock ’n’ Roll High School (Allan Arkush)
8. Die dritte Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [The Third Generation]
9. Real Life (Albert Brooks)
10. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

1978

1. Le prix de la liberté (Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa) [The Price of Liberty]
2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
3. Passe ton bac d’abord (Maurice Pialat) [Graduate First]
4. آليام آليام (Ahmed El Maanouni) [Oh the Days!]
5. In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [In a Year of 13 Moons]
6. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
7. L’Hypothèse du tableau volé (Raúl Ruiz) [The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting]
8. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
9. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
10. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazurksy)

1977

1. Le diable probablement (Robert Bresson) [The Devil, Probably]
2. Восхождение (Larisa Shepitko) [The Ascent]
3. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
4. Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
5. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
6. Le Théâtre des matières (Jean-Claude Biette) [The Theatre of the Matters]
7. अमर अकबर एन्थोनी (Manmohan Desai) [Amar Akbar Anthony]
8. Diabolo menthe (Diane Kurys) [Peppermint Soda]
9. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
10. 3 Women (Robert Altman)

1976

1. Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette)
2. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
3. News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
4. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
5. Noroît (Jacques Rivette)
6. 9. عمر قتلتوا الرجلة (Merzak Allouache) [Omar Gatlato]
7. Die Marquise von O… (Eric Rohmer) [The Marquise of O]
8. Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple)
9. Un enfant dans la foule (Gérard Blain) [A Child in the Crowd]
10. Berenice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)

1975

1. Зеркало (Andrei Tarkovsky) [Mirror]
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
3. Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Lino Brocka) [Manila in the Claws of Light]
4. Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver)
5. शोले (Ramesh Sippy) [Sholay]
6. Nashville (Robert Altman)
7. दीवार (Yash Chopra) [Deewaar]
8. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
10. Change pas de main (Paul Vecchiali)

1974

1. Femmes femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
2. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
3. Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Jacques Rivette) [Celine and Julie Go Boating]
4. Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache) [My Little Loves]
5. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
6. Angst essen Seele auf (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [Ali: Fear Eats the Soul]
7. أحداث بدون دلاله (Mustapha Derkaoui) [About Some Meaningless Events]
8. Un homme qui dort (Bernard Queysanne) [The Man Who Sleeps]
9. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. A Rainha Diaba (Antonio Carlos da Fontoura) [The Devil Queen]

1973

1. La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache) [The Mother and the Whore]
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
4. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
5. El espíritu de la colmena (Víctor Erice) [The Spirit of the Beehive]
6. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
7. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
8. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
9. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
10. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)

1972

1. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
2. La cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel) [The Inner Scar]
3. Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (Maurice Pialat) [We Won’t Grow Old Together]
4. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Солярис (Andrei Tarkovsky) [Solaris]
6. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
7. Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer)
8. What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
10. Viskningar och rop (Ingmar Bergman) [Cries and Whispers]

1971

1. Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
2. La maison des bois (Maurice Pialat)
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
4. Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (Robert Bresson) [Four Nights of a Dreamer]
5. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
6. Une aventure de Billy le Kid (Luc Moullet)
7. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
8. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillee)
9. Les deux Anglaises et le continent (François Truffaut) [Two English Girls]
10. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)

1970

1. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. L’Étrangleur (Paul Vecchiali)
3. En kärlekshistoria (Roy Andersson) [A Swedish Love Story]
4. Strategia del ragno (Bernardo Bertolucci) [The Spider’s Strategem]
5. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
6. Il conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci) [The Conformist]
7. Peau d’âne (Jacques Demy) [Donkey Skin]
8. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
9. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
10. The Hart of London (Jack Chambers)

1969

1. Le grand amour (Pierre Étaix)
2. L’amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
3. Le lit de la vierge (Philippe Garrel)
4. Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (Stan Brakhage)
5. Kes (Ken Loach)
6. Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
7. Une femme douce (Robert Bresson) [A Gentle Woman]
8. Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [Pigsty]
9. Vtáčkovia, Siroty a Blázni (Juraj Jakubisko) [Birds, Orphans and Fools]
10. Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1968

1. L’enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
2. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
3. Le révélateur (Philippe Garrel)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Memorias del subdesarrollo (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [Memories of Underdevelopment]
6. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
7. Baisers volés (François Truffaut) [Stolen Kisses]
8. Separation (Jack Bond)
9. Momentum (Jordan Belson)
10. Monangambeee (Sarah Maldoror)

1967

1. Les demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy) [The Young Girls of Rochefort]
2. Le départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)
3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
4. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
6. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
7. La collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
8. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
9. Play Time (Jacques Tati)
10. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

1966

1. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Masculin feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
4. La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo) [The Battle of Algiers]
5. Андрей Рублёв (Andrei Tarkovsky) [Andrei Rublev]
6. Sedmikrásky (Vera Chytilová) [Daisies]
7. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
8. La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembène) [Black Girl]
9. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Brigitte et Brigitte (Luc Moullet)

1965

1. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix)
2. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. I pugni in tasca (Mario Bellocchio) [Fists in the Pocket]
4. Giulietta degli spiriti (Federico Fellini) [Juliet of the Spirits]
5. Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
6. Now! (Santiago Álvarez)
7. Simón del desierto (Luis Buñuel) [Simon of the Desert]
8. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
10. Walkower (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1964

1. Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni) [Red Desert]
2. Les parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy) [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]
3. চারুলতা (Satyajit Ray) [Charulata]
4. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
5. Re-entry (Jordan Belson)
6. Une femme mariée (Jean-Luc Godard) [A Married Woman]
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard) [Band of Outsiders]
9. Démanty noci (Jan Nemec) [Diamonds of the Night]
10. Le récit de Rebecca (Paul Vecchiali)

1963

1. Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini) [8½]
2. Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
3. Le mépris (Jean-Luc Godard) [Contempt]
4. মহানগর (Satyajit Ray) [The Big City]
5. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
6. خانه سیاه است (Forough Farrokhzad) [The House is Black]
7. Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti) [The Leopard]
8. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. बन्दिनी (Bimal Roy) [Bandini]
10. Charade (Stanley Donen)

1962

1. L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni) [The Eclipse]
2. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard) [My Life to Live]
3. Le soupirant (Pierre Étaix) [The Suitor]
4. Cléo de cinq à sept (Agnès Varda) [Cleo from 5 to 7]
5. Алёнка (Boris Barnet) [Alyonka]
6. Иваново детство (Andrei Tarkovsky) [Ivan’s Childhood]
7. Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
8. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
9. Heureux anniversaire (Pierre Étaix) [Happy Anniversary]
10. Les roses de la vie (Paul Vecchiali)

1961

1. Il posto (Ermanno Olmi)
2. Lola (Jacques Demy)
3. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
4. Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette) [Paris Belongs to Us]
5. Una vita difficile (Dino Risi) [A Difficult Life]
6. Såsom i en spegel (Ingmar Bergman) [Through a Glass Darkly]
7. Rupture (Pierre Étaix)
8. Critique de la séparation (Guy Debord)
9. L’année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais) [Last Year at Marienbad]
10. Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard) [A Woman is a Woman]

1960

1. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
3. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
4. দেবী’ (Satyajit Ray) [Devi]
5. Jungfrukällan (Ingmar Bergman) [The Virgin Spring]
6. Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)
7. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard) [Breathless]
9. Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut) [Shoot the Piano Player]
10. Plein soleil (René Clément) [Purple Noon]

1959

1. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
2. Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut) [The 400 Blows]
3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
5. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
6. North by Northwest (Albert Hitchcock)
7. The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
8. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
9. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (Terence Fisher)
10. Il tempo si è fermato (Ermanno Olmi) [Time Stood Still]

1958

1. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. باب الحديد (Youssef Chahine) [Cairo Station]
4. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
5. জলসাঘর (Satyajit Ray) [The Music Room]
6. Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
7. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
8. Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
9. Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
10. Tire dié (Fernando Birri)

1957

1. Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti) [White Nights]
2. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
3. Le notti di Cabiria (Federico Fellini) [Nights of Cabiria]
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5. प्यासा (Guru Dutt) [Pyassa]
6. Mother India (Mehboob Khan)
7. Det sjunde inseglet (Ingmar Bergman) [The Seventh Seal]
8. N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson)
9. لا أنام (Salah Abouseif) [Sleepless]
10. Летят журавли (Mikhail Kalatozov) [The Cranes are Flying]

1956

1. Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (Robert Bresson) [A Man Escaped]
2. Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)
3. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
4. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
5. Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan)
6. The Searchers (John Ford)
7. Assassins et voleurs (Sacha Guitry) [Murderers and Thieves]
8. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
10. Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)

1955

1. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
2. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
5. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
6. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
7. There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
8. পথের পাঁচালী (Satyajit Ray) [Pather Panchali]
9. French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
10. Isole di fuoco (Vittorio De Seta) [Islands of Fire]

1954

1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
4. Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli)
5. 七人の侍 (Akira Kurosawa) [Seven Samurai]
6. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini) [Journey to Italy]
7. La strada (Federico Fellini)
8. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
9. Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine)
10. Lewat Djam Malam (Usmar Ismail) [After the Curfew]

1953

1. 東京物語 (Yasujirō Ozu) [Tokyo Story]
2. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
3. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
4. 雨月物語 (Kenji Mizoguchi) [Ugetsu]
5. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
6. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland)
7. The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino)
8. Sommaren med Monika (Ingmar Bergman) [Summer with Monika]
9. The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)
10. Eaux d’artifice (Kenneth Anger)

1952

1. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
2. Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)
3. 稲妻 (Mikio Naruse) [Lightning]
4. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
5. 西鶴一代女 (Kenji Mizoguchi) [The Life of Oharu]
6. Sudden Fear (David Miller)
7. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
8. Montana Belle (Allan Dwan)
9. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
10. The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmark)

1951

1. आवारा (Raj Kapoor) [Awaara]
2. 麦秋 (Yasujirō Ozu) [Early Summer]
3. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino)
4. Bellissima (Luchino Visconti)
5. Journal d’un curé de campagne (Robert Bresson) [Diary of a Country Priest]
6. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)
8. The River (Jean Renoir)
9. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
10. The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen)

1950

1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Un chant d’amour (Jean Genet)
3. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
4. La ronde (Max Ophüls)
5. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
6. Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer)
7. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
8. 羅生門 (Akira Kurosawa) [Rashomon]
9. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
10. The Furies (Anthony Mann)

1949

1. The Heiress (William Wyler)
2. 晩春 (Yasujirō Ozu) [Late Spring]
3. Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
4. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
5. बरसात (Raj Kapoor) [Barsaat]
6. East Side, West Side (Mervyn LeRoy)
7. Inspirace (Karel Zeman) [Inspiration]
8. Border Incident (Anthony Mann)
9. Catane (Raffaello Matarazzo) [Chains]
10. Flamingo Road (Michael Curtiz)

1948

1. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)
2. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
3. आग (Raj Kapoor) [Aag]
4. Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
5. The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)
6. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica) [Bicycle Thieves]
8. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norma Foster)
9. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
10. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow)

1947

1. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
2. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
3. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)
4. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
5. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
6. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
7. Magic Town (William A. Wellman)
8. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
9. They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti)
10. Fragment of Seeking (Curtis Harrington)

1946

1. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
2. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
5. Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir) [A Day in the Country]
6. Sciuscià (Vittorio De Sica) [Shoeshine]
7. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
8. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
9. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
10. Humoresque (Jean Negulesco)

1945

1. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
2. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
3. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
5. My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewsi)
6. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
7. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Crepúsculo (Julio Bracho) [Twilight]
9. Lady on a Train (Charles Henri David)
10. Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini) [Rome, Open City]

1944

1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
2. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
3. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
4. Gaslight (George Cukor)
5. At Land (Maya Deren)
6. María Candelaria (Emilio Fernández)
7. غرام وانتقام (Youssef Wahby) [Passion and Revenge]
8. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch)
9. Strangers in the Night (Anthony Mann)
10. Witch’s Cradle (Maya Deren)

1943

1. The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley)
2. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
3. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
4. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
5. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
6. The More The Merrier (George Stevens)
7. Vredens dag (Carl Theodor Dreyer) [Day of Wrath]
8. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
9. Holy Matrimony (John M. Stahl)
10. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)

1942

1. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
2. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
4. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
5. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
6. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
7. I Married a Witch (René Clair)
8. Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman)
9. By Night with Torch and Spear (Joseph Cornell)
10. The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)

1941

1. Unfinished Business (Gregory La Cava)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
3. Come Live with Me (Clarence Brown)
4. The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)
5. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
6. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood)
7. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
8. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
9. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
10. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)

1940

1. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
3. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
4. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
6. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
7. The Letter (William Wyler)
8. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Primrose Path (Gregory La Cava)
10. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)

1939

1. Stagecoach (John Ford)
2. Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
3. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
4. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir) [The Rules of the Game]
5. Love Affair (Leo McCarey)
6. Fifth Avenue Girl (Gregory La Cava)
7. Raffles (Sam Wood)
8. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
9. Five Came Back (John Farrow)
10. Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin)

1938

1. Holiday (George Cukor)
2. The Cowboy and the Lady (H.C. Potter)
3. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Jezebel (William Wyler)
5. Always Goodbye (Sidney Lanfield)
6. Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks)
7. The Rage of Paris (Henry Koster)
8. Thimble Theater (Joseph Cornell)
9. The Young in Heart (Richard Wallace)
10. Jack’s Dream (Joseph Cornell)

1937

1. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
2. History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
3. Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman)
4. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
5. Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
6. Dead End (William Wyler)
7. Woman Chases Man (John G. Blystone)
8. Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)
9. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
10. A Star is Born (William A. Wellman)

1936

1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
2. 浪華悲歌 (Kenji Mizoguchi) [Osaka Elegy]
3. Dodsworth (William Wyler)
4. After The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
5. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
6. Come and Get It (Howard Hawks, William Wyler, and Richard Rosson)
7. Libeled Lady (Jack Conway)
8. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Swing Time (George Stevens)
10. Rainbow Dance (Len Lye)

1935

1. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley)
3. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
4. The Passing of the Third Floor Back (Berthold Viertel)
5. The Wedding Night (King Vidor)
6. The Whole Town’s Talking (John Ford)
7. The Raven (Lew Landers)
8. Roberta (William A. Seiter)
9. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford)
10. The Phantom Light (Michael Powell)

1934

1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. Dames (Ray Enright)
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
5. Fashions of 1934 (William Dieterle)
6. Evergreen (Victor Saville)
7. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
8. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
9. Jimmy the Gent (Michael Curtiz)
10. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

1933

1. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
2. Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)
3. Man’s Castle (Frank Borzage)
4. Zéro de conduite (Jean Vigo)
5. Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy)
6. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon)
7. Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
8. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
9. Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava)
10. The Invisible Man (James Whale)

1932

1. Back Street (John M. Stahl)
2. Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle)
3. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
4. Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh)
5. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
7. Rain (Lewis Milestone)
8. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
9. The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)
10. Freaks (Tod Browning)

1931

1. Limite (Mário Peixoto)
2. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
3. Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman)
4. M (Fritz Lang)
5. Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
6. Other Men’s Women (William A. Wellman)
7. The Front Page (Lewis Milestone)
8. Dracula (Tod Browning)
9. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
10. Frankenstein (James Whale)

1930

1. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
2. L’Âge d’Or (Luis Buñuel)
3. À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)
4. The Big House (George W. Hill)
5. Der blaue Engel (Josef von Sternberg) [The Blue Angel]
6. Holiday (Edward H. Griffith)
7. Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
8. The Bat Whispers (Roland West)
9. Menschen am Sonntag (Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer) [People on Sunday]
10. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

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