Top 10 Project

2011

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1. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)
4. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
5. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
6. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
7. War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
8. Nostalgia For the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
9. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)

Honorable Mentions:
Melancholia (Lars von Trier), The Way Back (Peter Weir), The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat), Rejoice and Shout (Don McGlynn), The Sitter (David Gordon Green), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird), Attack the Block (Joe Cornish), 3 Backyards (Eric Mendelsohn), Kaboom (Gregg Araki), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt)

2010

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1. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
2. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
3. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
4. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
6. The Girl On the Train (André Téchiné)
7. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
8. 127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
9. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
10. Bellamy (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen), The Fighter (David O. Russell), Mother and Child (Rodrigo García), The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi), Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky), The Social Network (David Fincher), Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), From Paris With Love (Pierre Morel), My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (Werner Herzog), The Other Guys (Adam McKay)

The 366 Best Songs of the 20th Century...

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Music plays a vital role in every culture on earth. It is probably the closest thing we have a universal art form. The words on which we base our literature and poetry can be deceptive and downright unintelligible if you don’t speak the language. Even the images we paint and the photographs we take often have to be understood within the context of its culture and intellectually processed before it can be fully understood and appreciated. With music, however, all one has to do is competently hum a tune in order to raise a smile from an infant to an old man anywhere on the planet, and you might just make a friend too. Music bypasses the brain and directly engages the emotions which is what makes it universal.

The United States has a rich musical tradition which can primarily be traced to the European folk songs brought over by settlers and adapted to a new land, as well as the African tribal music brought over on slave ships. It wasn’t until the 20th century, however, with the advent of recording technology that these traditions began to merge and evolve with incredible rapidity. The diversity of musical traditions which grew out of this country in the 20th century is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. In fact, many of these songs have become ingrained in the American psyche—they are part of our national unconscious. Many are songs we know even if we’ve never heard them.

Recently, I have attempted the monumental task of gathering together the best these traditions have to offer and compiling them into a list. From the scratchy, barely audible low-fi blues and jazz recordings of the early 1900’s to the whining alt-rock of the 1990’s to everything in between, chances are it can be found on this list. I’m very proud of this list, because I think it is very close to being complete. By that I mean that whoever you are and wherever you’re from in America, if you lived any significant amount of time in the 20th century, chances are you will find your experience of that particular time and place somewhere in this list.

Now, I can’t claim that these are all truly the best songs of the century for at least three reasons:
(1) I haven’t heard every song ever recorded in that 100-year period of time. Therefore, there are bound to be worthy songs omitted for the simple reason that I still haven’t heard them.
(2) I decided to limit it to a single song per artist in order to represent the broadest possible spectrum. Let’s face it, I could probably form a list this long off of the songs of a dozen gifted artists alone.
(3) There is necessarily an arbitrariness to the ordering because sometimes it’s just difficult to compare such wildly divergent styles. How does one compare The Kingston Trio with Public Enemy?

Since this is definitely a list of opinion, I encourage comments. Feel free to question my ancestry for not including certain songs (or for including certain songs). I’m sure most of these songs are available on itunes, so check them out. And if you’re still pissed, make your own damn list. Enjoy!

The 366 Best Songs of the 20th Century:

366
I Need Love
LL Cool J

365
I Can See Clearly Now
Johnny Nash

364
River
Joni Mitchell

363
You're the Inspiration
Chicago

362
Baby, One More Time
Britney Spears

361
Statesboro Blues
Blind Willie McTell

360
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
REO Speedwagon

359
I See a Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy

358
We Shall Overcome
Joan Baez

357
Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lauryn Hill

356
Cattle Call
Eddy Arnold

355
It Is Accomplished
Peter Gabriel

354
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
Maurice Chevalier

353
Moonshine Blues
Ma Rainey

352
I Want To Know What Love Is
Foreigner

351
Deep In the Heart of Texas
Alvino Rey

350
Against the Wind
Bob Seger

349
Oh Happy Day
Edwin Hawkins Singer

348
Mysteries of Love
Julee Cruise

347
Juke
Little Walter

346
It's Only a Paper Moon
Paul Whiteman

345
El Paso
Marty Robbins

344
You're the First, the Last, My Everything
Barry White

343
Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet

342
Juicy
Notorious B.I.G.

341
Lake Charles
Lucinda Williams

340
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Helen Kane

339
El Shaddai
Amy Grant

338
We Belong
Pat Benatar

337
Hot Stuff
Donna Summer

336
Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, & Nash

335
Matchbox Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson

334
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Tony Bennett

333
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley

332
Sentimental Journey
Les Brown Orchestra

331
Seventy-six Trombones
Robert Preston

330
Makin' Whoppee
Eddie Cantor

329
Just What I Needed
The Cars

328
Hard Knock Life
Jay-Z

327
I Could Have Danced All Night
Marni Nixon

326
Beth
KISS

325
Smooth
Santana & Rob Thomas

324
Every Breath You Take
The Police

323
Poison
Alice Cooper

322
Seems Like Old Times
Joe Loss

321
I'm Easy
Keith Carradine

320
Where It's At
Beck

319
Sing Me Back Home
Merle Haggard

318
Surrender
Cheap Trick

317
Don't Look Back In Anger
Oasis

316
Still Loving You
The Scorpions

315
Jungle Boogie
Kool & the Gang

314
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston

313
In the Midnight Hour
Wilson Pickett

312
Love Bites
Def Lepperd

311
The Locomotion
Little Eva

310
It Had To Be You
Isham Jones

309
Sweet Caroline
Neil Diamond

308
At the Hop
Danny & the Juniors

307
I Got You Babe
Sonny & Cher

306
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
B.J. Thomas

305
Who's Sorry Now
Connie Francis

304
Bittersweet Symphony
The Verve

303
Life's a Bitch
Nas

302
I Love Rock 'N Roll
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

301
Hold On! I'm Comin'
Sam & Dave

300
Change the World
Eric Clapton

299
Mr. Sandman
The Chordettes

298
It's Not Unusual
Tom Jones

297
The Final Countdown
Europe

296
My Favorite Things
Julie Andrews

295
Shout
The Isley Brothers

294
Teen Age Riot
Sonic Youth

293
The Weight
The Band

292
Faithfully
Journey

291
St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins

290
More Than a Feeling
Boston

289
T-Bone Blues
T-Bone Walker

288
Dancing Queen
Abba

287
Friends In Low Places
Garth Brooks

286
Django
The Modern Jazz Quartet

285
Tutti Frutti
Little Richard

284
Brown Eyed Girl
Van Morrison

283
Ramblin' Man
The Allman Brothers

282
Crimson and Clover
Tommy James & the Shondells

281
Keep Ya Head Up
2Pac

280
Run
Collective Soul

279
Ashokan Farewell
Jay Ungar

278
I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow
Emry Arthur

277
Black
Pearl Jam

276
Joy To the World
Three Dog Night

275
Ode To Billie Joe
Bobbie Gentry

274
Enjoy the Silence
Depeche Mode

273
Behind Closed Doors
Charlie Rich

272
The In Crowd
Ramsey Lewis Trio

271
Shaft
Isaac Hayes

270
Right Now
Van Halen

269
Que Sera Sera
Doris Day

268
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Charlie Daniels Band

267
House of the Rising Sun
The Animals

266
Swing Down, Chariot
Golden Gate Quartet

265
1979
The Smashing Pumpkins

264
Heart of Glass
Blondie

263
Material Girl
Madonna

262
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway

261
Rosa Parks
OutKast

260
Nobody Does It Better
Carly Simon

259
Time In a Bottle
Jim Croce

258
The Girl From Ipanema
Stan Getz

257
Krull
James Horner

256
Right Here, Right Now
Fatboy Slim

255
I Wanna Be Sedated
The Ramones

254
One Headlight
The Wallflowers

253
If You Don't Know Me By Now
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

252
Halloween Theme
John Carpenter

251
Paranoid
Black Sabbath

250
The Message
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

249
Piano Man
Billy Joel

248
He'll Have To Go
Jim Reeves

247
Tiger Rag
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

246
The Ice Dance
Danny Elfman

245
A-Tisket A-Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald

244
Lay Me Low
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

243
For What It's Worth
Buffalo Springfield

242
All I Have To Do Is Dream
The Everly Brothers

241
Exodus
Ernest Gold

240
Milky White Way
The Trumpeteers

239
Flashdance (What a Feeling)
Irene Cara

238
What Is the Light?
The Flaming Lips

237
Me and My Shadow
Whispering Jack Smith

236
Misty
Erroll Garner

235
The Prisoner's Song
Vernon Dalhart

234
In the Still of the Night
The Five Satins

233
The Rainbow Connection
Kermit the Frog

232
Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight

231
Thanks For the Memories
Bob Hope & Shirley Ross

230
Isn't It Romantic?
Jeanette MacDonald

229
Runaround Sue
Dion

228
City of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie

227
White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane

226
Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)
Jimmie Rodgers

225
Gangsta's Paradise
Coolio

224
Spoonful
Willie Dixon

223
The Tracks of My Tears
The Miracles

222
Wings of a Dove
Dolly Parton

221
Track A -- Solo Dancer
Charles Mingus

220
American Girl
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

219
Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton

218
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen

217
How the West Was Won
Alfred Newman

216
Here
Pavement

215
Some Velvet Morning
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood

214
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
James Baskett

213
Nuthin' But a 'G Thang
Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

212
Where Is My Mind?
The Pixies

211
Hello Darlin'
Conway Twitty

210
Love Letters
Ketty Lester

209
Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Boswell Sisters

208
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke

207
You're the Top
Cole Porter

206
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
The Shirelles

205
When a Man Loves a Woman
Percy Sledge

204
Time of the Season
The Zombies

203
These Days
Nico

202
Waltz #2
Elliott Smith

201
Downtown
Petula Clark

200
Wabash Cannonball
Roy Acuff

199
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana

198
It Hurts Me Too
Elmore James

197
When Day Is Done
Django Reinhardt

196
Up On the Roof
The Drifters

195
White Room
Cream

194
Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

193
Day Is Done
Nick Drake

192
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Tom Waits

191
John the Revelator
Son House

190
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ben Bernie

189
My Girl
The Temptations

188
I Only Have Eyes For You
The Flamingos

187
Daydream Believer
The Monkees

186
The Good Life
Weezer

185
Mother
John Lennon

184
Tea For Two
Art Tatum

183
Cat's In the Cradle
Harry Chapin

182
Back In Black
AC/DC

181
Green, Green Grass of Home
Porter Wagoner

180
Jackson
Johnny Cash & June Carter

179
Turn, Turn, Turn
The Byrds

178
I'll Fly Away
Chuck Wagon Gang

177
By the Time I Get To Phoenix
Glen Campbell

176
That'll Be the Day
Buddy Holly

175
Happy Trails
Roy Rogers

174
Sinner Man
Nina Simone

173
Boogie Chillun'
John Lee Hooker

172
Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis

171
Back In the Saddle Again
Gene Autry

170
Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks

169
Raw Hide
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

168
Age of Consent
New Order

167
Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd

166
In the Mood
Glenn Miller

165
The Gambler
Kenny Rogers

164
Smokestack Lightnin'
Howlin' Wolf

163
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Mama Cass

162
November Rain
Guns 'N Roses

161
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley & His Comets

160
Linus and Lucy
Vince Guaraldi Trio

159
Grand Canyon Suite
Ferde Grofe´

158
Happy Days Are Here Again
Ben Selvin Orchestra

157
Gonna Fly Now
Bill Conti

156
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John

155
Fade To Black
Metallica

154
Anthem
Moby

153
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Procol Harum

152
Take Me Home Country Roads
John Denver

151
Take Me Out To the Ballgame
Billy Murray

150
Me and Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin

149
Koyaanisqatsi
Philip Glass

148
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd

147
Begin the Beguine
Artie Shaw

146
Light My Fire
The Doors

145
Once In a Lifetime
Talking Heads

144
I Want You Back
The Jackson 5

143
If I Didn't Care
The Ink Spots

142
Cross Road Blues
Robert Johnson

141
Behind Blue Eyes
The Who

140
How Great Thou Art
George Beverly Shea

139
Can the Circle Be Unbroken
The Carter Family

138
Be My Baby
The Ronettes

137
Take Five
Dave Brubeck

136
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Roberta Flack

135
Over There
George M. Cohan

134
Everybody's Talkin'
Harry Nilsson

133
On Top of Old Smokey
The Weavers

132
Everybody Loves Somebody
Dean Martin

131
At Last
Etta James

130
C.R.E.A.M.
Wu-Tang Clan

129
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

128
The Pink Panther
Henry Mancini

127
New San Antonio Rose
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

126
Dirt
The Stooges

125
Blade Runner (End Titles)
Vangelis

124
Riders In the Sky
Vaughn Monroe

123
Let's Stay Together
Al Green

122
Kind of Blue (Album)
Miles Davis

121
On the Road Again
Willie Nelson

120
Stand By Me
Ben E. King

119
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel

118
Across 110th Street
Bobby Womack

117
Night In Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie

116
To Kill a Mockingbird
Elmer Bernstein

115
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Sons of the Pioneers

114
Losing My Religion
R.E.M

113
A Love Supreme (Album)
John Coltrane

112
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Rudy Vallee

111
King of the Road
Roger Miller

110
The Anvil of Crom
Basil Poledouris

109
Fight the Power
Public Enemy

108
Marquee Moon
Television

107
Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday

106
Ko-Ko
Charlie Parker

105
Starless
King Crimson

104
Reach Out, I'll Be There
The Four Tops

103
Summertime
Sidney Bechet

102
Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry

101
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival

100
Lara's Theme
Maurice Jarre

99
Starman
David Bowie

98
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Mellomen

97
Notre Dame Victory March
Michael and John Shea

96
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor

95
Moon River
Andy Williams

94
Purple Rain
Prince

93
Day of the Lords
Joy Division

92
Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael

91
Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers

90
Stayin' Alive
The Bee Gee's

89
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye

88
Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.

87
Don't Stop Me
Queen

86
Tennessee Waltz
Patti Page

85
Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk

84
Cheek To Cheek
Fred Astaire

83
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn

82
King Porter Stomp
Jelly Roll Morton

81
I Hear a Symphony
The Supremes

80
Hotel California
The Eagles

79
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones

78
Tom Dooley
The Kingston Trio

77
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Thomas A. Dorsey

76
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Platters

75
The Godfather Waltz
Nino Rota

74
Rapper's Delight
Sugarhill Gang

73
Blue Suede Shoes
Carl Perkins

72
The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King

71
Unchained Melody
The Righteous Brothers

70
This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie

69
Georgia On My Mind
Ray Charles

68
Vertigo
Bernard Herrmann

67
Sixteen Tons
Tennessee Ernie Ford

66
Plainsong
The Cure

65
Body and Soul
Coleman Hawkins

64
Singin' In the Rain
Gene Kelly

63
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
Muddy Waters

62
Chances Are
Johnny Mathis

61
All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix

60
Sometimes
My Bloody Valentine

59
Billy Jean
Michael Jackson

58
Stand By Your Man
Tammy Wynette

57
California Dreamin'
The Mama's & the Papa's

56
Some of Them Are Old
Brian Eno

55
One O'Clock Jump
Count Basie

54
Crying
Roy Orbison

53
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
James Brown

52
Gun's of Brixton
The Clash

51
I Fall To Pieces
Patsy Cline

50
St. Louis Blues
Bessie Smith

49
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt

48
Paranoid Android
Radiohead

47
American Pie
Don McLean

46
As Time Goes By
Dooley Wilson

45
The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel

44
Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen

43
Sunday Morning
The Velvet Underground

42
Where the Streets Have No Names
U2

41
Layla
Derek & the Dominos

40
Once Upon a Time In the West
Ennio Morricone

39
You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis

38
Sing, Sing, Sing
Benny Goodman

37
Auld Lang Syne
Frank Stanley

36
Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats Waller

35
West End Blues
King Oliver

34
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash

33
James Bond Theme
John Barry

32
God Bless America
Kate Smith

31
Goodnight, Irene
Leadbelly

30
Charleston Medley
Arthur Gibbs & His Gang

29
Star Trek Theme
Jerry Goldsmith

28
His Eye Is On the Sparrow
Mahalia Jackson

27
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darin

26
Fanfare For the Common Man
Aaron Copeland

25
When You Wish Upon a Star
Cliff Edwards

24
Ain't That a Shame
Fats Domino

23
Think
Aretha Franklin

22
Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding

21
Joy Inside My Tears
Stevie Wonder

20
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams

19
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones

18
When I Fall In Love
Nat King Cole

17
When the Levee Breaks
Led Zeppelin

16
Stars and Stripes Forever
John Philip Sousa

15
White Christmas
Bing Crosby

14
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin

13
My Way
Frank Sinatra

12
Desolation Row
Bob Dylan

11
The Imperial March
John Williams

10
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Blind Willie Johnson

9
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys

8
Can't Help Falling In Love
Elvis Presley

7
Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington

6
Yesterday
The Beatles

5
Over the Rainbow
Judy Garland

4
Tara's Theme
Max Steiner

3
When the Saints Go Marching In
Louis Armstrong

2
Adagio For Strings
Samuel Barber

1
Rhapsody In Blue
George Gershwin

Top 10 of the Decade (2000-2009)

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1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
5. The New World (Terrence Malick)
6. The Life Aquatic WIth Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
7. Silent Light (Carlos Reygades)
8. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
9. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
10. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)

Special honorable mention goes to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga, which as a whole would merit inclusion on this list, but is increasingly difficult to single out any one particular entry.

2009

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1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygades)
2. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
3. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
5. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
6. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
7. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
8. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Taken (Pierre Morel)
10. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)

Honorable Mentions:
Two Lovers (James Gray), Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater), Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze), Brothers (Jim Sheridan), Adoration (Atom Egoyan), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (David Yates), Invictus (Clint Eastwood), Adventureland (Greg Mottola), Tyson (James Toback), Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

90 Essential Films

2009-01-26T17:14:00.000-08:00

The following list, like the entirety of this blog, is an experiment for the sake of posterity. The criteria are simple: 90 films, one film from each year in which a film was made that I have seen. No more than one film from each year. To further complicate/simplify things, I am only allowing one film per director.

The nature of these criteria prevent this from becoming an authoritative list of the "90 greatest films ever made," which is fine, because that is not the point. This list is neither meant to represent the best film from any particular year (for that you can peruse the rest of this blog), nor is it necessarily meant to display the best film by any of the auteur's represented. My goal for this is to distill the knowledge acquired through my career in movie-watching into an easily manageable list which will hopefully provide a kind of historical context and chronology for the progress of the motion picture art form.

In many cases I have intentionally decided to eschew the more well-known, critically successful films, not because they are inherently lesser works, but because the more I watch, the more I realize that there is an entire universe of cinema that even some of the most accomplished film viewers are still unaware exists. Each film in some way represents the year it was released in my own mind. They each manage to capture the spiritual, political, or cultural conditions of their time and, in my opinion, ultimately transcends them for all time. So while this may not necessarily represent the 90 greatest films ever made, these are 90 essential films which no true cinephile (or filmmaker) should go too long without seeing.

If anyone ever actually reads this, I'd welcome your comments, thoughts, arguments, discussions, complaints, etc.

1916: Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1921: The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
1922: Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
1923: Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone)
1924: Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
1925: Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
1926: Faust (F.W. Murnau)
1927: Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
1928: Street Angel (Frank Borzage)
1929: The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
1930: Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
1931: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
1932: Shanghai Express (Joseph von Sternberg)
1933: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1934: L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1935: Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
1936: My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
1937: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1938: Holiday (George Cukor)
1939: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1940: The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
1941: Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
1942: The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
1943: I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
1944: Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eistenstein)
1945: Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
1946: A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
1947: The Red House (Delmer Daves)
1948: Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
1949: I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
1950: Wagon Master (John Ford)
1951: The River (Jean Renoir)
1952: Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
1953: I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
1954: Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1956: Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
1957: The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
1958: Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
1959: Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
1960: Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
1961: Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
1962: The Trial (Orson Welles)
1963: Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
1964: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
1965: Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
1966: Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava)
1967: Playtime (Jacques Tati)
1968: Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
1969: A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
1970: Husbands (John Cassavetes)
1971: Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
1972: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
1973: Badlands (Terrence Malick)
1974: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
1975: The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1976: Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
1977: Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
1978: In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1980: Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
1981: Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
1982: Tenebre (Dario Argento)
1983: And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
1985: Come and See (Elem Klimov)
1986: Castle In the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
1987: September (Woody Allen)
1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
1989: The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1990: Vincent and Theo (Robert Altman)
1991: Slacker (Richard Linklater)
1992: Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
1993: A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
1994: Satantango (Bela Tarr)
1995: JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard)
1996: A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
1997: A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
1998: Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
1999: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2000: George Washington (David Gordon Green)
2001: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2002: Japon (Carlos Reygades)
2003: The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2004: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
2005: Junebug (Phil Morrison)
2006: L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2007: Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
2008: Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)

2008

2009-01-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
4. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
5. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
6. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
7. Encounters At the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
8. Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. August Evening (Chris Eska)
10. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)

Honorable Mentions:
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant), Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen), Still Life (Jia Zhang Ke), Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh), Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Redbelt (David Mamet), The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen), Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris), The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)

2007

2008-01-13T23:37:00.000-08:00

1. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
3. Into Great Silence (Philip Groning)
4. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
5. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
6. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
7. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
8. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
9. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mentions:
Atonement (Joe Wright), Private Fears In Public Places (Alain Resnais), Offside (Jafar Panahi), I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang), I'm Not There (Todd Haynes), Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer), There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson), The Boss Of It All (Lars von Trier), Black Book (Paul Verhoeven), The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden)

2006

2007-01-11T11:08:00.000-08:00

1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
4. Battle In Heaven (Carlos Reygades)
5. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
6. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
7. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
9. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
10. Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)

Honorable Mentions:
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman), Babel (Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu), Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro), Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood), Brick (Rian Johnson), Mary (Abel Ferrara), 49 Up (Michael Apted), United 93 (Paul Greengrass), The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma), Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid)

1910's

2006-12-09T18:04:00.000-08:00

1. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
2. Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
3. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)
4. Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim)

1920

2006-12-09T17:55:00.000-08:00

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
2. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
3. The Scarecrow (s) (Buster Keaton and Edwards F. Kline)
4. The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. Neighbors (s) (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Kline)
6. The Golem (Carl Boese and Paul Wegener)

1921

2006-12-09T17:49:00.000-08:00

1. Leaves From Satan's Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith)
3. Destiny (Fritz Lang)
4. The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
5. The Saphead (Herbert Blanche' and Winchell Smith)

1922

2006-12-09T17:35:00.000-08:00

1. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
2. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors (F.W. Murnau)
3. Phantom (F.W. Murnau)
4. The Paleface (s) (Buster Keaton)
5. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen)
6. Robin Hood (Allan Dwan)

1923

2006-12-09T10:58:00.000-08:00

1. Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton)
2. Three Ages (Buster Keaton)
3. Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
4. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)

1924

2006-12-09T01:48:00.000-08:00

1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
2. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
3. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
4. The Navigator (Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton)
5. America (D.W. Griffith)
6. Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)

1925

2006-12-08T20:17:00.000-08:00

1. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
3. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
4. Chess Fever (s) (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky)
5. Go West (Buster Keaton)
6. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)

1926

2006-12-08T20:13:00.000-08:00

1. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
2. Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)
3. Anemic Cinema (s) (Marcel Duchamp)
4. Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau)

1927

2006-12-08T16:06:00.000-08:00

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
2. 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)
3. The General (Buster Keaton)
4. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
5. The End of St. Petersberg (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller)
6. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
7. College (James W. Horne)
8. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)

1928

2006-12-08T00:07:00.000-08:00

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
3. Street Angel (Frank Borzage)
4. Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
6. October (Sergei Eisenstein)
7. Spies (Fritz Lang)
8. Speedy (Ted Wilde)

1929

2006-12-07T21:31:00.000-08:00

1. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
2. Un Chien Andalou (s) (Luis Bunuel)
3. Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
4. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey and Joseph Santley)

1930

2006-12-07T16:31:00.000-08:00

1. L'Age D'Or (Luis Bunuel)
2. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
3. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
4. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
5. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
6. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
7. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
9. Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. All Quiet On the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

1931

2006-12-07T12:00:00.000-08:00

1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
2. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
3. M (Fritz Lang)
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. The 3 Penny Opera (G.W. Pabst)
7. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
9. Dracula (Tod Browning)
10. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)

Honorable Mentions:
Indiscreet (Leo McCarey), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), Arrowsmith (John Ford), Night Nurse (William A. Wellman), Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock), The Champ (King Vidor), The Skin Game (Alfred Hitchcock)

1932

2006-12-06T23:55:00.000-08:00

1. Shanghai Express (Joseph von Sternberg)
2. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. Freaks (Tod Browning)
4. Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein)
5. A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
6. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir)
7. I Am a Fugitve From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
8. The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
9. The Old Dark House (James Whale)
10. One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch)

Honorable Mentions:
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian), The Mummy (Karl Freund), Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod), Blonde Venus (Joseph von Sternberg), Number 17 (Alfred Hitchcock)

1933

2006-12-06T20:42:00.000-08:00

1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
3. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
4. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
5. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
6. Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Outskirts (Boris Barnet)
8. Heroes For Sale (William A. Wellman)
9. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian)
10. Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)

Honorable Mentions:
Little Women (George Cukor), Damaged Lives (Edgar G. Ulmer)

1934

2006-12-06T17:12:00.000-08:00

1. Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
2. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
3. Liliom (Fritz Lang)
4. The Scarlet Empress (Joseph von Sternberg)
5. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
6. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
7. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
8. The Lost Patrol (John Ford)
9. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mentions:
The Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu), Treasure Island (Victor Fleming)

1935

2006-12-06T14:11:00.000-08:00

1. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
3. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
4. The Informer (John Ford)
5. Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
6. Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford)
7. Triumph of the Will (Leni Reifenstahl)
8. Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz)
9. Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks)
10. Les Miserables (Richard Boleslawski)

1936

2006-12-06T11:54:00.000-08:00

1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
3. Fury (Fritz Lang)
4. Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler)
5. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
6. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Michael Curtiz)
7. Camille (George Cukor)
8. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Swing Time (George Stevens)
10. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)

Honorable Mentions:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra), Big Brown Eyes (Raoul Walsh), These Three (William Wyler), Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)

1937

2006-12-06T01:06:00.000-08:00

1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (lots of people)
4. Drole de Drame (Marcel Carne')
5. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
6. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
7. Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Heidi (Allan Dwan)
9. Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)
10. The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell)

1938

2006-12-05T21:04:00.000-08:00

1. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Holiday (George Cukor)
4. Olympia (Leni Reifenstahl)
5. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
6. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne')
7. La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
8. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
9. Angels With the Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
10. A Christmas Carol (Edwin L. Marin)

1939

2006-12-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

1. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford)
6. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
7. Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
8. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
9. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
10. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Frank Capra)

Honorable Mentions:
Gunga Din (George Stevens), The Huchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle), Love Affair (Leo McCarey), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch), The Women (George Cukor), Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian), The Little Princess (Walter Lang), The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda), Wuthering Heights (William Wyler), Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee)

1940

2006-12-05T12:47:00.000-08:00

1. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
3. Fantasia (James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen)
4. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
6. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)
8. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
9. Christmas In July (Preston Sturges)
10. They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable Mentions:
Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang), The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan), The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian), Dark Command (Raoul Walsh), The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)

1941

2006-12-04T23:34:00.000-08:00

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
3. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
4. Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
5. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
6. The 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
7. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
8. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable Mentions:
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg), Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks), The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle), The Wolf Man (George Waggner), Tobacco Road (John Ford), Sergeant York (Howard Hawks), The Devil Commands (Edward Dmytryk), They Died With Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh)

1942

2006-12-04T20:28:00.000-08:00

1. The Magnificent Amberson's (Orson Welles)
2. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
3. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
4. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Bambi (David Hand)
7. To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
9. Reap the Wild Wind (Cecil B. DeMille)
10. Woman of the Year (George Cukor)

Honorable Mention:
Reunion In France (Jules Dassin), Secrets of a Co-Ed (Joseph H. Lewis), Talk of the Town (George Stevens), Flying Tigers (David Miller), Holiday Inn (Mark Sandrich), Now Voyager (Irving Rapper)

1943

2006-12-04T14:14:00.000-08:00

1. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
3. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
5. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
6. Hi Diddle Diddle (Andrew L. Stone)
7. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
9. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
10. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mentions:
Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson), The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson), Air Force (Howard Hawks), Ossessione (Luchino Visconti), Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster), The Song of Bernadette (Henry King), The Phantom of the Opera (Arthur Lubin)

1944

2006-12-04T12:09:00.000-08:00

1. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
3. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
4. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
5. The Woman In the Window (Fritz Lang)
6. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
7. Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
8. Gaslight (George Cukor)
9. Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson)
10. Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Honorable Mentions:
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock), Meet Me In St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges), Laura (Otto Preminger), Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk), The Uninvited (Lewis Allen), The Fighting Seabees (Edward Ludwig)

1945

2006-12-04T00:21:00.000-08:00

1. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
2. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne')
5. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
6. Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)
7. Leave Her To Heaven (John M. Stahl)
8. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
10. Objective Burma (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable Mentions:
Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer), Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson), I Know Where I'm Going (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), They Were Expendable (John Ford), Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer), The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey), The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin), The Southerner (Jean Renoir)

1946

2006-12-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

1. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
2. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
3. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
4. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
5. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
6. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica)
8. Bedlam (Mark Robson)
9. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
10. Duel In the Sun (King Vidor)

Honorable Mentions:
The Stranger (Orson Welles), A Scandal In Paris (Douglas Sirk), Oliver Twist (David Lean), Crisis (Ingmar Bergman), The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett), A Night In Casablanca (Archie Mayo)

1947

2006-12-03T11:49:00.000-08:00

1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. The Red House (Delmer Daves)
3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
5. A Double Life (George Cukor)
6. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
7. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)
8. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
9. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)

Honorable Mentions:
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock), Body and Soul (Robert Rossen), Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir), Gran Casino (Luis Bunuel), Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery), Miracle On 34th Street (George Seaton), Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)

1948

2006-12-02T21:30:00.000-08:00

1. Red River (Howard Hawks)
2. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
3. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
4. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Germany, Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
6. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
7. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
8. La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
9. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)
10. Fort Apache (John Ford)

Honorable Mentions:
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica), Macbeth (Orson Welles), Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman), The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), A Song Is Born (Howard Hawks), Great Expectations (David Lean), 3 Godfathers (John Ford), Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)

1949

2006-12-02T15:28:00.000-08:00

1. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
2. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Sands of Iwo Jima (Allan Dwan)
4. I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
5. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)
6. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
7. Thieves Highway (Jules Dassin)
8. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
9. A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Battleground (William A. Wellman)

Honorable Mentions:
The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa), The Set-Up (Robert Wise), I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller), The Heiress (William Wyler), Whirlpool (Otto Preminger), The Third Man (Carol Reed), Border Incident (Anthony Mann), Thirst (Ingmar Bergman), Adam's Rib (George Cuckor), Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)

1950

2006-12-01T20:58:00.000-08:00

1. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
2. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
3. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
4. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
5. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
7. House By the River (Fritz Lang)
8. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
9. Wagon Master (John Ford)
10. Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves)

Honorable Mentions:
D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate'), Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock), Night and the City (Jules Dassin), The Baron of Arizona (Sam Fuller), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger), Panic In the Streets (Elia Kazan), No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli)

1951

2006-12-01T14:31:00.000-08:00

1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
2. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Ace In the Hole (Billy Wilder)
5. The River (Jean Renoir)
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
7. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
8. Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)
9. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)

Honorable Mentions:
An American In Paris (Vincente Minnelli), The Prowler (Joseph Losey), Flying Leathernecks (Nicholas Ray), The African Queen (John Huston), Man In the Saddle (Andre De Toth), St. Benny the Dip (Edgar G. Ulmer), The Man In the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Susana (Luis Bunuel), The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa), The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust and Raoul Walsh)

1952

2006-11-30T22:30:00.000-08:00

1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
3. Singin' In the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
4. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
5. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
6. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Othello (Orson Welles)
8. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
9. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
10. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)

Honorable Mentions
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Carson City (Andre de Toth), Angel Face (Otto Preminger), Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), Casque D'Or (Jacques Becker), Clash By Night (Fritz Lang), Springfield Rifle (Andre de Toth), The White Sheik (Federico Fellini), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), Pat and Mike (George Cukor)

1953

2006-11-30T16:18:00.000-08:00

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
3. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
6. Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
7. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
8. Forbidden Games (Rene' Clement)
9. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
10. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Honorable Mentions:
From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller), Beat the Devil (John Huston), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), El (Luis Bunuel), Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman), Appointment In Honduras (Jacques Tourneur), Shane (George Stevens), Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)

1954

2006-11-30T15:04:00.000-08:00

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
4. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
5. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
6. Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
8. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
9. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
10. Crime Wave (Andre De Toth)

Honorable Mentions:
It Should Happen To You (George Cukor), French Cancan (Jean Renoir), Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli), Riding Shotgun (Andre De Toth), Silver Lode (Allan Dwan), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), Sabrina (Billy Wilder), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Where Is Freedom? (Roberto Rossellini), Them! (Gordon Douglas)

1955

2006-11-30T11:54:00.000-08:00

1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
5. Night and Fog (Alain Renais)
6. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
7. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
8. The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
9. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mentions:
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich), A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis), Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles), Rififi (Jules Dassin), To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock), Lola Montes (Max Ophuls), The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Stranger On Horseback (Jacques Tourneur), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1956

2006-11-29T21:05:00.000-08:00

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
6. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
7. Written On the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
8. Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
10. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)

Honorable Mentions:
Lust For Life (Vincente Minnelli), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin), Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan), Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir), Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)

1957

2006-11-29T16:34:00.000-08:00

1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
3. The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
4. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
6. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
7. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
8. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
9. Men In War (Anthony Mann)
10. Decision At Sundown (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mentions:
Bridge On the River Kwai (David Lean), Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick), Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur), Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), Battle Hymn (Douglas Sirk), Forty Guns (Sam Fuller), Wings of Eagles (John Ford), Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick), Les Girls (George Cukor)

1958

2006-11-29T12:26:00.000-08:00

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
3. Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
5. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
6. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
7. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
8. Equinox Flowers (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. The Last Hurrah (John Ford)
10. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mentions:
China Doll (Frank Borzage), Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray), The Line Up (Don Siegel), The Magician (Ingmar Bergman), Jalsaghar (Satyajit Ray), Gigi (Vincente Minnelli), The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger), Ashes and Diamonds (Andzej Wajda)

1959

2006-11-29T00:41:00.000-08:00

1. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
2. Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
3. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
4. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
5. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
7. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
9. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
10. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)

Honorable Mentions:
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller), Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder), Westbound (Budd Boetticher), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), A Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann), Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu), Warlock (Edward Dmytryk), Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), The Horse Soldiers (John Ford)

1960

2006-11-28T23:51:00.000-08:00

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
5. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
6. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
7. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
8. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
9. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
10. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut), Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), Let's Make Love (George Cukor), The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford), Horror Hotel (John Llewellyn Moxey), Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli), The Alamo (John Wayne)

1961

2006-11-28T20:07:00.000-08:00

1. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
4. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
7. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
8. The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. El Cid (Anthony Mann)
10. The Misfits (John Huston)

Honorable Mentions:
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller), Lola (Jacques Demy), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa), Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Splendor In the Grass (Elia Kazan), The Hustler (Robert Rossen), The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman), The Last Sunset (Robert Aldrich)

1962

2006-11-28T15:25:00.000-08:00

1. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
2. My Life To Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Trial (Orson Welles)
4. Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
5. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
7. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
8. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
10. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)

Honorable Mentions:
Knife In the Water (Roman Polanski), Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah), Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), Mama Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer), Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet), Hell Is For Heroes (Don Siegel), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)

1963

2006-11-28T12:37:00.000-08:00

1. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
2. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
3. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller)
8. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava)
10. Who's Minding the Store (Frank Tashlin)

Honorable Mentions:
The Haunting (Robert Wise), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad), Donovan's Reef (John Ford), Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola), Muriel (Alain Resnais), Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy), High and Low (Akira Kurosawa), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), Charade (Stanley Donen)

1964

2006-11-27T21:07:00.000-08:00

1. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
5. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. A Shot In the Dark (Blake Edwards)
7. Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
8. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
9. Seven Up! (Paul Almond)
10. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

Honorable Mentions:
The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin), The Night of the Iguana (John Huston), Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich), Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller), Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton), Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer), A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)

1965

2006-11-27T17:21:00.000-08:00

1. Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles)
2. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
4. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
5. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
7. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli)
9. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)
10. Kapurush (Satyajit Ray)

Honorable Mentions:
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah), The Knack... and How To Get It (Richard Lester), Doctor Zhivago (David Lean), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer), The Great Race (Blake Edwards), In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger), The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens), The Son's of Katie Elder (Henry Hathaway)

1966

2006-11-27T15:50:00.000-08:00

1. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Masculine Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
6. Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski)
7. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava)
8. Made In U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. La Guerra Est Finie (Alain Resnais)
10. The Taking of Power By Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)

Honorable Mentions:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling), Nayak (Satyajit Ray), The Professionals (Richard Brooks), Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini), This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones and Ben Washam)

1967

2006-11-27T14:04:00.000-08:00

1. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
4. Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
6. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
7. Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
8. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)

Honorable Mentions:
The Graduate (Mike Nichols), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (David Swift), Point Blank (John Boorman), La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard), Reflections In a Golden Eye (John Huston), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Taming of the Shrew (Franco Zeffirelli), The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman), The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman), Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

1968

2006-11-27T01:09:00.000-08:00

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
3. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
5. Faces (John Cassavetes)
6. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
7. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
8. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
9. The Rolling Stones: Sympathy For the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher), Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman), Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey), Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov), Signs of Life (Werner Herzog), The Party (Blake Edwards), Oliver! (Carol Reed), The Bride Wore Black (Francois Truffaut), if... (Lindsay Anderson), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1969

2006-11-26T23:54:00.000-08:00

1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
3. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
4. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
7. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
8. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
9. The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Love Is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable Mentions:
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Calcutta (Louis Malle), Love and Anger (Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, and Pier Paolo Pasolini), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut), Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), One On Top of the Other (Lucio Fulci), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)

1970

2006-11-26T20:35:00.000-08:00

1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
3. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
6. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
7. Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Hi, Mom (Brian De Palma)
9. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
10. Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace and Music (Michael Wadleigh)

Honorable Mentions:
Tristana (Luis Bunuel), The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin), Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville), The American Soldier (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 7 Plus Seven (Michael Apted), Even Dwarves Started Small (Werner Herzog), The Butcher (Claude Chabrol), El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento), 5 Dolls For an August Moon (Mario Bava)

1971

2006-11-26T17:02:00.000-08:00

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
4. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Trafic (Jacques Tati)
6. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
7. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
8. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
10. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

Honorable Mentions:
Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento), Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Death In Venice (Luchino Visconti), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Four Flies On Gray Velvet (Dario Argento), Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), The French Connection (William Friedkin), THX 1138 (George Lucas)

1972

2006-11-26T15:50:00.000-08:00

1. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
4. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. Images (Robert Altman)
10. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
One P.M. (Jean-Luc Godard and D.A. Pennebaker), Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), Merchant of the Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Chloe In the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston), Tomorrow (Joseph Anthony), Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven)

1973

2006-11-26T00:57:00.000-08:00

1. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
3. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
5. Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)
6. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
7. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
9. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman), Breezy (Clint Eastwood), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Legend of Hell House (John Hough), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), Sleeper (Woody Allen), The Sting (George Roy Hill), Dillinger (John Milius)

1974

2006-11-26T00:23:00.000-08:00

1. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
2. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
3. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
7. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
8. Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
9. California Split (Robert Altman)
10. Black Christmas (Bob Clark)

Honorable Mentions:
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle), Chinatown (Roman Polanski), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper), Deathdream (Bob Clark), The Great Ecstasy of Sculptor Steiner (s) (Werner Herzog), The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese), Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

1975

2006-11-25T23:24:00.000-08:00

1. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
3. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
4. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
6. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
8. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
10. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Honorable Mentions:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman), Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet), Wrong Move (Wim Wenders), Hard Times (Walter Hill), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones), Love and Death (Woody Allen), Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Shivers (David Cronenberg), Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer), The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)

1976

2006-11-25T16:49:00.000-08:00

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. Network (Sidney Lumet)
3. Rocky (John G. Avildson)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
5. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
6. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
8. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
9. Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
10. The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Honorable Mentions:
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer), All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula), The Omen (Richard Donner), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)

1977

2006-11-25T12:40:00.000-08:00

1. Star Wars (George Lucas)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
3. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
4. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
5. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
6. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
7. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
8. 21 Up (Michael Apted)
9. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven)
10. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mentions:
Opening Night (John Cassavetes), Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), 3 Women (Robert Altman), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Eraserhead (David Lynch), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), The Man Who Loved Women (Francois Truffaut), Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer)

1978

2006-11-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
4. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
5. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
7. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Filming Othello (Orson Welles)
9. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
10. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)

Honorable Mentions:
Midnight Express (Alan Parker), The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino), Interiors (Woody Allen), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Superman (Richard Donner), The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Piranha (Joe Dante), Death on the Nile (John Guillermin)

1979

2006-11-24T22:03:00.000-08:00

1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
5. Hardcore (Paul Schrader)
6. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
7. Wise Blood (John Huston)
8. The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Being There (Hal Ashby)
10. 1941 (Steven Spielberg)

Honorable Mention:
Alien (Ridley Scott), The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley), The Warriors (Walter Hill), The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), A Perfect Couple (Robert Altman), The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara), Zombie (Lucio Fulci)

1980

2006-11-24T20:29:00.000-08:00

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
6. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8. Inferno (Dario Argento)
9. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

Honorable Mentions:
The Fog (John Carpenter), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino), Dressed To Kill (Brian De Palma), The Big Red One (Sam Fuller), Ordinary People (Robert Redford), American Gigolo (Paul Schrader), Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris), Popeye (Robert Altman), From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman), Altered States (Ken Russell)

1981

2006-11-24T15:56:00.000-08:00

1. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
3. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
4. My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
5. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson)
7. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
8. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
9. Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
10. Ms. .45 (Abel Ferrara)

Honorable Mentions:
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), Excalibur (John Boorman), Scanners (David Cronenberg), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris), An American Werewolf In London (John Landis), Gallipoli (Peter Weir), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), The Beyond (Lucio Fulci), Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis), Roadgames (Richard Franklin)

1982

2006-11-24T12:56:00.000-08:00

1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
4. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. White Dog (Sam Fuller)
6. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
7. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
8. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
9. A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer)
10. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)

Honorable Mentions:
The Thing (John Carpenter), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Passion (Jean-Luc Godard), The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen), Cat People (Paul Schrader), The Prefab People (Bela Tarr), Conan the Barbarian (John Milius), First Blood (Ted Kotcheff), Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader and Kevin Rafferty)

1983

2006-11-24T11:43:00.000-08:00

1. L'argent (Robert Bresson)
2. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
4. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
5. And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
6. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. Zelig (Woody Allen)
9. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
10. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)

Honorable Mentions:
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz), Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut), Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), Voyage in Time (Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra), The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah), Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam), Farewell To Matyora (Elem Klimov), Local Hero (Bill Forsyth), WarGames (John Badham), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

1984

2006-11-24T01:39:00.000-08:00

1. Once Upon a Time In America (Sergio Leone)
2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
3. Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
4. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
5. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
6. Dune (David Lynch)
7. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
9. Full Moon In Paris (Eric Rohmer)
10. Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell)

Honorable Mentions:
Under the Volcano (John Huston), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven), Meantime (Mike Leigh), Blood Simple (Joel Coen), Red Dawn (John Milius), Streets of Fire (Walter Hill), The Terminator (James Cameron), Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)

1985

2006-11-23T23:45:00.000-08:00

1. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
2. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
4. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
5. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
6. Phenomena (Dario Argento)
7. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9. Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette)
10. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)

Honorable Mentions:
Fool For Love (Robert Altman), Code of Silence (Andrew Davis), Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis), Demons (Lamberto Bava), To Live and Die In L.A. (William Friedkin), Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (Paul Schrader), Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper), Detective (Jean-Luc Godard), Legend (Ridley Scott)

1986

2006-11-23T22:00:00.000-08:00

1. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
4. Castle In the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
6. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
7. Summer (Eric Rohmer)
8. My Case (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
10. God's Country (Louis Malle)

Honorable Mentions:
Melo (Alain Resnais), The Hitcher (Robert Harmon), The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese), Demons 2 (Lamberto Bava), Crossroads (Walter Hill), ...And the Pursuit of Happiness (Louis Malle), The Three Amigos (John Landis), The Mission (Roland Joffe), Aliens (James Cameron), Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)

1987

2006-11-23T19:16:00.000-08:00

1. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
2. September (Woody Allen)
3. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
4. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
7. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
8. Opera (Dario Argento)
9. My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Eric Rohmer)
10. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)

Honorable Mentions:
Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel), The Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter), Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), Raising Arizona (Joel Coen), Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes), The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner), The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci), Radio Days (Woody Allen), Hope and Glory (John Boorman), Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard)

1988

2006-11-23T00:17:00.000-08:00

1. Landscape In the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)
2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
3. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
4. Medea (Lars Von Trier)
5. A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Another Woman (Woody Allen)
8. Damnation (Bela Tarr)
9. They Live (John Carpenter)
10. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)

Honorable Mentions:
Bird (Clint Eastwood), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker), Die Hard (John McTiernan), The Adventure of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar), The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell), The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven), A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton), Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)

1989

2006-11-22T19:21:00.003-08:00

1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
3. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
5. Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
6. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. The Killer (John Woo)
8. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
9. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
10. The 'Burbs (Joe Dante)

Honorable Mentions:
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowski), My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg), Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), Dead Poet Society (Peter Weir), Batman (Tim Burton), The Church (Michele Soavi), Born On the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)

1990

2006-11-22T16:15:00.000-08:00

1. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
3. Vincent and Theo (Robert Altman)
4. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
5. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
8. Wild At Heart (David Lynch)
9. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader)
10. A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)

Honorable Mentions:
The Witches (Nicolas Roeg), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci), Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich), Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen), The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola), The Hunt For Red October (John McTiernan), Tremors (Ron Underwood), Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

1991

2006-11-22T14:51:00.000-08:00

1. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. JFK (Oliver Stone)
3. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
4. 35 Up (Michael Apted)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6. Rhapsody In August (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
8. Zentropa (Lars Von Trier)
9. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)

Honorable Mentions:
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton), Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou), Jungle Fever (Spike Lee), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai), The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam), Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron), Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)

1992

2006-11-22T13:39:00.000-08:00

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
2. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
3. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux)
6. The Story Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
7. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
8. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
9. Lessons Of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
10. Betty (Claude Chabrol)

Honorable Mentions:
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), The Player (Robert Altman), Alien 3 (David Fincher) Candyman (Bernard Rose), Malcolm X (Spike Lee), The Jar (Ebrahim Forouzesh), Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki), Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski), Dead Alive (Peter Jackson), Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich)

1993

2006-11-22T12:12:00.000-08:00

1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
3. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
4. Naked (Mike Leigh)
5. Fearless (Peter Weir)
6. Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
7. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
8. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
9. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsaio-Hsien)
10. O Woe Is Me! (Jean-Luc Godard)

Honorable Mentions:
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese), Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa), The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran), It's All True (Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson), Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg), Trauma (Dario Argento), The Piano (Jane Campion), Hard Target (John Woo), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

1994

2006-11-22T11:10:00.000-08:00

1. Satantango (Bela Tarr)
2. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
4. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
5. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
7. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
8. Leon (Luc Besson)
9. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
10. Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette)

Honorable Mentions:
Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski), The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), Vanya On 42nd St. (Louis Malle), Ready To Wear (Robert Altman), Il Postino (Michael Radford), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson), Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee), Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick)

1995

2006-11-22T01:05:00.000-08:00

1. Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)
2. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
3. JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Seven (David Fincher)
5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
6. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
7. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
8. Safe (Todd Haynes)
9. Nixon (Oliver Stone)
10. Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)

Honorable Mentions:
Heat (Michael Mann), Braveheart (Mel Gibson), Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsaio-Hsien), Casino (Martin Scorsese), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai), A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese), Sudden Death (Peter Hyams)

1996

2006-11-21T21:35:00.000-08:00

1. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
2. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
3. Fargo (Joel Coen)
4. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
5. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
6. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
7. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
10. Scream (Wes Craven)

Honorable Mentions:
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma), The Stendhal Syndrome (Dario Argento), Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen), City Hall (Harold Becker), Muppet Treasure Island (Brian Henson), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky), Freeway (Matthew Bright)

1997

2006-11-21T16:46:00.000-08:00

1. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
3. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
5. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7. Affliction (Paul Schrader)
8. The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
9. Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
10. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)

Honorable Mentions:
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen), Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Manoel de Oliviera), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood), Kundun (Martin Scorsese), Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant), The End of Violence (Wim Wenders), Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni), Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Werner Herzog)

1998

2006-11-21T15:10:00.000-08:00

1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
3. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
4. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
5. 42 Up (Michael Apted)
6. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
7. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
8. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
9. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
10. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)

Honorable Mentions:
Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg), A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi), Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon), Dark City (Alex Proyas), The Truman Show (Peter Weir), Antz (Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson), Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo), Jane Austen's Mafia (Jim Abrahams), Bulworth (Warren Beatty)

1999

2006-11-20T16:59:00.000-08:00

1. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
6. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
7. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
9. Cookie's Fortune (Robert Altman)
10. The Third Miracle (Agnieszka Holland)

Honorable Mentions:
L'humanite (Bruno Dumont), Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone), Fight Club (David Fincher), The Road Home (Zhang Yimou), eXistenz (David Cronenberg), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski), Not One Less (Zhang Yimou), Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)

2000

2006-11-20T00:01:00.000-08:00

1. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
3. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
4. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
6. The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer)
7. Time and Tide (Hark Tsui)
8. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
9. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
10. Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman)

Honorable Mentions:
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), Happy Times (Zhang Yimou), Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran), Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu), Best In Show (Christopher Guest), X-Men (Bryan Singer), Hellraiser: Inferno (Scott Derrickson)

2001

2006-11-19T23:11:00.000-08:00

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
3. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
6. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
8. Tape (Richard Linklater)
9. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
10. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)

Honorable Mentions:
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann), The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke), In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard), The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud), 'R Xmas (Abel Ferrara), Hell House (George Ratliff), Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter and David Silverman), The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro)

2002

2006-11-19T19:58:00.000-08:00

1. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
2. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
3. Japon (Carlos Reygades)
4. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
6. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
7. Stevie (Steve James)
8. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
9. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Heaven (Tom Tykwer)

Honorable Mentions:
Gerry (Gus Van Sant), Adaptation (Spike Jonze), Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar), Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson), Hero (Zhang Yimou), Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg), Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov), In America (Jim Sheridan), Minority Report (Steven Spielberg), Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)

2003

2006-11-19T18:16:00.000-08:00

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
2. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3. (tie) I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores)
3. (tie) The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
4. Dogville (Lars Von Trier)
5. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
6. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
7. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
8. The Five Obstructions (Lars Von Trier and Jorgen Leth)
9. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)
10. Big Fish (Tim Burton)

Honorable Mentions:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir), Kill Bill, vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino), Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont), Baadassss! (Mario Van Peebles), The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano), Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci), School of Rock (Richard Linklater), The Saddest Music In the World (Guy Maddin)

2004

2006-11-19T17:43:00.000-08:00

1. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Kill Bill, vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
3. The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)
4. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
5. Undertow (David Gordon Green)
6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
8. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
10. Collateral (Michael Mann)

Honorable Mentions:
Birth (Jonathan Glazer), The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), District B13 (Pierre Morel), The Incredibles (Brad Bird), Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer), Closer (Mike Nichols), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron)

2005

2006-11-19T14:22:00.000-08:00

1. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. The New World (Terrence Malick)
3. Cache' (Michael Haneke)
4. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
6. Junebug (Phil Morrison)
7. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
8. Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
9. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
10. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

Honorable mentions:
Last Days (Gus Van Sant), Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright), Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki), Millions (Danny Boyle), Match Point (Woody Allen), King Kong (Peter Jackson), Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders), Red Eye (Wes Craven), Land of the Dead (George A. Romero), The Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater)