Year Lists



2019(W; true)
1. “A Hidden Life” Director: Terrence Malick (“Badlands”) A+
2. “Dolor Y Gloria” Director Pedro Almodovar A
3. “Parasite” Director: Bong Joon-Ho (“Okja”) A
4. “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” Director: Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”) A
5. “The Irishman” Director: Martin Scorsese (“Goodfellas”) A
6. “Marriage Story” Director: Noah Baumbach (“Frances Ha”) A
7. “The Lighthouse” Director: Robert Eggers (“The Witch”) A
8. “Little Women” Director: Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) A
9. “Us” Director: Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) A
10. “Knives Out” Director: Rian Johnson (“Looper”) A

Honorable Mentions: “1917” Director: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”), “The Souvenir” Director: Joanna Hogg (“Unrelated”), “Birds of Passage” Director: Ciro Guerra and Christina Gallego, “Toy Story 4” Director: Josh Cooley 

2019(V; true)
1. “Dolor Y Gloria” Director Pedro Almodovar A+
2. “A Hidden Life” Director: Terrence Malick (“Badlands”) A+
3. “Parasite” Director: Bong Joon-Ho (“Okja”) A
4. “Marriage Story” Director: Noah Baumbach (“Frances Ha”) A
5. “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” Director: Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”) A
6. “The Irishman” Director: Martin Scorsese (“Goodfellas”) A
7. “Little Women” Director: Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) A
8. “The Lighthouse” Director: Robert Eggers (“The Witch”) A-
9. “1917” Director: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) A-
10. “Knives Out” Director: Rian Johnson (“Looper”) A-

Honorable Mentions: “Birds of Passage” Director: Ciro Guerra and Christina Gallego, “Us” Director: Jordan Peele (“Get Out”), “Midsommar” Director: Ari Aster (“Hereditary”), “Toy Story 4” Director: Josh Cooley 

Unwatched Notables As of Now
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Director: Céline Sciamma (“Girlhood”)  

2018(W; true)
1. “Roma” Director: Alfonso Cuarón A
2. “Burning” Director: Chang-dong Lee A
3. “Shoplifters” Director: Hirokazu Koreeda A
4. “Annihilation” Director: Alex Garland A
5. “The Favorite” Director: Yorgos Lanthimos A
6. “Hereditary” Director: Ari Aster A
7. “If Beale Street Could Talk”  Director: Barry Jenkins A
8. “Sorry to Bother You”  Director: Boots Riley A
9. “Support the Girls” Director: Andrew Bujalski A
10. “Leave No Trace” Director: Debra Granik A

Honorable Mention: Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson), Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Bros), Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie), Third Murder (Hirokazu Koreeda)

2018(V; true)
1. “Roma” Director: Alfonso Cuarón A+
2. “The Favorite” Director: Yorgos Lanthimos A
3. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Director: Coen Bros A
4. “Burning” Director: Chang-dong Lee A
5. “Shoplifters” Director: Hirokazu Koreeda A-
6. “If Beale Street Could Talk”  Director: Barry Jenkins A-
7. “Isle Of Dogs” Director: Wes Anderson A-
8. “Annihilation” Director: Alex Garland A-
9. “Hereditary” Director: Ari Aster A-
10. “Third Murder” Director: Hirokazu Koreeda A-

2017(W; true)
1. “Twin Peaks” Director: David Lynch A+
2. “Phantom Thread” Director: Paul Thomas Anderson A+
3. “Get Out” Director: Jordan Peele A
4. “Lady Bird” Director: Greta Gerwig A
5. “First Reformed” Director: Paul Schrader A
6. “You Were Never Really Here” Director: Lynne Ramsay A
7. “mother!” Director: Darren Aronofsky A-
8. “Dunkirk” Director: Christopher Nolan A-
9. “Shape of Water” Director: Guillermo Del Toro A-
10. “A Ghost Story” Director: David Lowery A-

Honorable Mention: The Square (Ruben Ostlund), Okja (Bong Joon-Ho), The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos), Blade Runner 2046 (Denis Villeneuve), On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-Soo), The Square (Ruben Ostlund), Coco (Lee Unkrich)

2017(V; true)
1. “Phantom Thread” Director: Paul Thomas Anderson A+
2. “Coco” Director: Lee Unkrich A
3. “Lady Bird” Director: Greta Gerwig A
4. “Get Out” Director: Jordan Peele A-
5. “Call Me By Your Name” Director: Luca Guadagnino A-
6. “The Square” Director: Ruben Ostlund A-
7. “A Ghost Story” Director: David Lowery A-
8. “mother!” Director: Darren Aronofsky A-
9. “Okja” Director: Bong Joon-Ho A-
10. “Dunkirk” Director: Christopher Nolan A-

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
“Loveless” Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev 
“After the Storm” Director: Hirokazu Koreeda 

2016(W)
1. Krisha (Trey Edward Schults) A+
2. The Witch (Robert Eggers) A+
3. The Wailing (Na Hong-jin) A+
4. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) A
5. La La Land (Damien Chazelle) A
6. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) A
7. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) A
8. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)  A
9. Jackie (Pablo Larrain) A
10. Julietta (Pedro Almodovar) A

2016(V)
1. The Witch (Robert Eggers) A+
2. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)  A+
3. La La Land (Damien Chazelle) A+
4. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) A
5. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) A
6. The Wailing (Na Hong-jin) A
7. Julietta (Pedro Almodovar) A
8. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch) A-
9. Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) A-
10. Krisha (Trey Edward Schults) B+

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Things to Come (Mia Hanson-Love)
Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Korea)

2015(W)
1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes)
4. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 
5. Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) 
6. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
7. 45 Years (Andrew Haig)
8. Revenant (AGI)
9. Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
10. The Martian (Ridley Scott)

Honorable Mention: Macbeth (Justin Kurzel), Victoria (Sturla Brandth Grovlen), Sicario (Denis Villeneuve), Embrace the Serpent (Ciro Guerra), Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin), Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)

2015(V)
1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
2. Victoria (Sturla Brandth Grovlen)
3. 45 Years (Andrew Haig)
4. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
5. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
6. Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes)
7. Revenant (AGI)
8. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
9. Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence (Roy Andersson)

2014(W)
1. Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2. Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
3. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
4. Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
5. Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
6. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
7. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
8. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
9. Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof)
10. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)

Honorable Mention: Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko), Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen)

2014(V)
1. Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2. Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
3. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
4. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
5. Babadook (Jennifer Kent)
6. Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund)
7. Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen)
8. Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
9. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson)
10. Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
Selma (Ava DuVernay)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
Stray Dogs (Tsai-Ming Liang)

2013
1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros)
2. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
3. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
4. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
5. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
6. Ain't Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery)
7. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
9. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
10. Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)

Honorable Mention: Double (Richard Ayoade), American Hustle (David O. Russell), Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai), Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda), Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen), Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt), I'm So Excited (Pedro Almodovar)

2012
1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
5. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Behn Zeitlin)
7. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
9. Looper (Rian Johnson)
10. No (Pablo Larrain)

Honorable Mention: In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo), Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard), Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

2011
1. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
3. Separation (Asghar Farahdi)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
6. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
7. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
8. Shame (Steve McQueen)
9. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
10. Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)

Honorable Mention: Samsara (Ron Fricke), Blancanieves (Pablo Berger), The Future (Miranda July)

2010
1. Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Social Network (David Fincher)
3. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
4. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Kids are all Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
7. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
8. Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
9. True Grit (Coen Bros)
10. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)

Honorable Mention: The Fighter (David O. Russell), 127 Hours (Danny Boyle), I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-Woon)

2009
1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) 
2. White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
3. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar) 
4. Serious Man (Coen Bros)
5. Avatar (James Cameron)
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
7. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
8. Mother (Bong Joon Ho)   
9. I am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
10. Moon (Duncan Jones)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
White Material (Claire Denis)

2008
1. 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days (Christian Mungiu)
2. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
3. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
6. Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
7. Two Lovers (James Gray)
8. Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
9. Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
10. Burn After Reading (Coen Bros)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke)

2007
1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus van Sant)
4. Zodiac (David Fincher)
5. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
6. Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
7. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Tom Ford (Andrew Dominik)
9. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
10. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

2006
1. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
2. Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
4. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
5. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
7. Still Life (Jia Zhang Ke)
8. Departed (Martin Scorsese)
9. Host (Bong Joon Ho)
10. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Borat (Larry Charles)* 

2005
1. History of Violence (David Cronenberg
2. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
3. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
4. New World (Terrence Malick)
5. Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
6. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
7. Three Times (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
8. Capote (Bennett Miller)
9. Match Point (Woody Allen)
10. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Walk the Line (James Mangold)
Sin City (Frank Miller)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)

2004
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
3. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
4. A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Peirre Jeunet)
5. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
6. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
7. The World (Jia Zhang Ke)
8. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
9. Kill Bill Vol 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)*
Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles) 

2003
1. Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
3. Elephant (Gus van Sant)
4. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
5. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
6. Kill Bill Vol 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
9. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and... Spring (Kim Ki Duk)
10. Fog of War (Errol Morris)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Unknown Pleasure (Jia Zhang-ke) 

2002
1. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
2. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
3. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
5. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
6. Pianist (Roman Polanski)
7. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
8. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
9. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
10. Spider (David Cronenberg)

2001
1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Y tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
4. Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
5. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
6. Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
7. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
8. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
9. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
10. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Mysterious Objects at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Sexy Beast (Johnathan Glazer)
Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)

2000
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
3. Werkmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
5. O Brother Where Art Thou? (Coen Bros)
6. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
7. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
8. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
9. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
10. Together (Lukas Moodysson)

1999
1. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Matrix (Wachowski Bros)
5. Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
7. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
8. Three Kings (David O. Russell)
9. Straight Story (David Lynch)
10. Ghost Dog (Jim Jarmusch)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Election (Alexander Payne)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
Boondock Saints (Tory Duffy) 

1998
1. Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
3. Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
4. Big Lebowski (Coen Bros)
5. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
6. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
7. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
8. Truman Show (Peter Weir)
9. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
10. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Central Station (Walter Salles)
American History X (Tony Kaye)

1997
1. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7. Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
8. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
9. Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
10. Ice Storm (Ang Lee)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)**
Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) 

1996
1. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
2. Fargo (Coen Bros)
3. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
4. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
5. Lone Star (John Sayles) 
6. Crash (David Cronenberg)
7. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
8. Scream (Wes Craven)
9. Crucible (Nicholas Hytner)
10. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodovar)**

1995
1. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
4. Seven (David Fincher)
5. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
6. Ghost in a Shell (Oshii Mamoru)
7. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
8. Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
9. Babe (Chris Noonan)
10. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Casino (Martin Scorsese) 
Heat (Michael Mann)*
City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Mallrats (Kevin Smith)*

1994
1. Red (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
2. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. White (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
4. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
6. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
7. Speed (de Bont)
8. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
9. The Legend of Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
10. Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle)
Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori) 

1993
1. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
2. Blue (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
3. Piano (Jane Campion)
4. Farewell, My Concubine (Chen Kaige)
5. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
6. Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
7. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
8. Iron Monkey (Woo-Ping Yeun)
9. Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
10. Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) 
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)

1992
1. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Player (Robert Altman)
3. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat) 
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
6. Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker)
7. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
8. Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
9. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
10. Baraka (Ron Fricke)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Hard Boiled (John Woo)
Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

1991
1. Double Life of Veronique (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
2. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
3. Barton Fink (Coen Bros)
4. Silence of the Lambs (Johnathan Demme)
5. Lovers on a Bridge (Leos Carax)
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
7. JFK (Oliver Stone)
8. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)
9. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
10. City Slickers (Ron Underwood)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant)
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)* 

1990
1. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
4. Miller's Crossing (Coen Bros)
5. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
6. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
7. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
8. Grifters (Stephen Frears)
9. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
Vincent and Theo (Robert Altman)**
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodovar)**

1989
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
2. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
3. Killer (John Woo)
4. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus van Sant)
5. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)
6. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)
7. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
8. Batman (Tim Burton)
9. Little Mermaid (Ron Clements & John Musker)
10. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)*

1988
1. Dekalog (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
4. Damnation (Bela Tarr)
5. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
6. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
7. Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
8. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
9. Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
10. Alice (Jan Svankmajer)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)***
Vanishing (George Sluizer)**
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)

1987
1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
2. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Raising Arizona (Coen Bros)
4. The Dead (John Huston)
5. Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
6. Radio Days (Woody Allen)
7. Intervista (Federico Fellini)
8. House of Games (David Mamet)
9. Barfly (Barbet Schroeder)
10. Predator (John McTiernan)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Au Revoir, les Enfants (Louis Malle)***
Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar)**
Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)*
Angel Heart (Alan Parker)
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)**

1986
1. Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
4. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
5. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
6. Aliens (James Cameron)
7. Ferris Beuller's Day Off (John Hughes)
8. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
9. Top Gun (Tony Scott)
10. Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Labyrinth (Jim Henson)*
Matador (Pedro Almodovar)**

1985
1. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
3. My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom)
4. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
5. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
6. Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
7. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
8. Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
9. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
10. Mishima (Paul Schrader)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)**  

1984
1. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
2. Blood Simple (Coen Bros)
3. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
4. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Terminator (James Cameron)
6. Amadeus (Milos Foreman)
7. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
8. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
9. Karate Kid (John G. Alvidson)
10. Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Nightmare on Elm St. (Wes Craven)*
What Have I Done To Deserve This (Pedro Almodovar)** 

1983
1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
3. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
4. Zelig (Woody Allen)
5. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
6. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
7. Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
8. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
9. Octopussy (John Glen)
10. Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)**
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)***
And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
Streamers (Robert Altman)**

1982
1. Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4. Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
5. Thing (John Carpenter)
6. E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
7. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
8. Ghandi (Richard Attenborough)
9. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
10. White Dog (Sam Fuller)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Diner (Barry Levinson)
Tron (Steven Lisberger)*

1981
1. Reds (Warren Beatty)
2. On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
3. Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
4. Raiders of the Lost Arc (Steven Spielberg)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson)**
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Diva (Jean-Jacuqes Bienieux)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
Escape From New York (John Carpenter)

1980
1. Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Elephant Man (David Lynch)
3. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
4. Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
5. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
6. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
7. Airplane! (Various)
8. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
9. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
10. Popeye (Robert Altman)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)***
Blues Brothers (John Landis)*

1979
1. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
2. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein)
5. Alien (Ridley Scott)
6. Being There (Hal Ashby)
7. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
8. Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Gilliam)
9. Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
10. Muppet Movie (James Frawley)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
All that Jazz (Bob Fosse)**
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)**
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)**

1978
1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2. Halloween (John Carpenter)
3. Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
4. Grease (Randall Kleiser)
5. Superman (Richard Donner)
6. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Interiors (Woody Allen)
8. Drunken Master (Woo-Ping Yeun)
9. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
10. Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)**

1977
1. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
2. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
3. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
4. Star Wars (George Lucas)
5. Suspiria (Dario Agento)
6. Stoszek (Werner Herzog)
7. Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)***
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
9. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
10. New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)

1976
1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
3. Network (Sidney Lumet)
4. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
5. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
6. Rocky (John G. Alvidson)
7. Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
8. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
9. Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicholas Roeg)
10. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima)**
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)***
Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)**

1975
1. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Jeanne Dielman (Chantel Akerman)
6. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
7. Xala (Ousemane Sembene)
8. Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam)
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Foreman)
10. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)**
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)*
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)**

1974
1. Woman Under the Influence (John Cassevetes)
2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
3. Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
7. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
8. Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
9. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
10. California Split (Robert Altman)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)**
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)***
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)**
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)***
Dark Star (John Carpenter)

1973
1. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
2. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
3. Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
4. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
5. Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)
6. Exorcist (William Friedkin)
7. Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
8. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
9. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
10. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)

1972
1. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Aguirre (Werner Herzog)
3. Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Discreet Charm (Luis Bunuel)
5. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Return of the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
7. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Deliverance (John Boorman)
9. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
10. Sounder (Martin Ritt)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Fellini's Roma (Federico Fellini)**
Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls) 

1971
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby)
3. Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
4. Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
6. French Connection (William Friedkin)
7. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
8. Duel (Steven Spielberg)
9. Bananas (Woody Allen)
10. Clowns (Federico Fellini)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)***
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)**
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)***
Touch of Zen (King Hu)**
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)**
THX 1138 (George Lucas)

1970
1. Gimme Shelter (Albert and David Maysles)
2. Clair's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
3. MASH (Robert Altman)
4. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
5. 7 Plus 7 (Michael Apted)
6. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
7. Landlord (Hal Ashby)
8. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
9. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
10. Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Butcher (Claude Chabrol)**
Performance (Nicholas Roeg)***
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowski)**

1969
1. Z (Costa-Gavras)
2. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
3. Kes (Ken Loach)
4. Color of Pomegranates (Sergie Parajanov)
5. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
7. Fellini's Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
8. Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
10. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)**
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)**
Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)***

1968
1. 2001 (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
4. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
5. If... (Lindsay Anderson)
6. Producers (Mel Brooks)
7. Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
8. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
9. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Salesman (Albert and David Maysles)**

1967
1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
3. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
4. Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6. Graduate (Mike Nichols)
7. Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
8. Red and the White (Miklos Jancso)
9. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
10. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)**
Point Blank (John Boorman)***

1966
1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
5. Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
6. Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
7. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Masculin Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. What's Up, Tiger Lilly (Woody Allen)
10. Daisies (Vera Chytilova)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf (Mike Nichols)**

1965
1. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
2. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)** 
3. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
6. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
7. Agony and the Ecstasy (Carol Reed)
8. Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
9. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)***
10. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Foreman)**

1964
1. Gertrud (Carl T. Dreyer)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
3. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
5. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
8. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
9. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Charluta (Satjajit Ray)**
Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Passolini)**
I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)**

1963
1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller)
6. Charade (Stanley Donen)
7. Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. From Russia With Love (Terrence Young)
9. Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey)
10. Muriel (Alain Resnais)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)** 
Silence (Ingmar Bergman)**

1962
1. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
2. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. La Jetee (Chris Marker)
8. TIE: Trial (Orson Welles) AND Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
10. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)***
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)***
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)***

1961
1. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
3. End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Hustler (Robert Rossen)
5. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
6. West Side Story (Wise & Robbins)
7. Viridian (Luis Bunuel)***
8. 101 Dalmatians (Various)
9. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
10. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)**
Through the Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)**

1960
1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
4. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Apartment (Billy Wilder)
6. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky) 
8. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
9. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)***

Unwatched Notables As Of Now:
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)**
Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)**

* Want to watch or re-watch
** Really want to watch or re-watch
*** Really, really want to watch or re-watch

No comments:

Post a Comment