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“Drive My Car”
  1. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  2. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Thrice Upon a Time (Hideaki Anno)
  3. Annette (Leos Carax)
  4. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
  5. North By Current (Angelo Madsen Minax)
  6. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
  7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  8. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse)
  9. Spencer (Pablo Larrain)
  10. The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
“Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
  1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
  2. Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
  3. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. The Assistant (Kitty Green)
  5. The Empty Man (David Prior)
  6. Perparations to be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvat)
  7. Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
  8. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois)
  10. last night i dreamt that somebody loved me (Haaniyah Angus)
“The Irishman//I Heard You Paint Houses”

2019

  1. The Irishman//I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  2. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Uncut Gems (The Safdie Brothers)
  5. Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
  6. Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
  7. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
  8. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
  9. Fit Model (Myna Joseph)
  10. So Pretty (Jessica Rovinelli)
“Support the Girls”

2018

  1. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
  2. Devilman Crybaby (Masaaki Yuasa)
  3. Liz and the Blue Bird (Naoko Yamada)
  4. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)
  5. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
  6. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
  7. Beychella (Beyonce’)
  8. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
  9. Unsane (Stephen Soderbergh)
  10. The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
“Twin Peaks”

2017

  1. Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
  2. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  3. Milla (Valerie Massadian)
  4. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-Soo)
  5. Ladybird (Greta Gerwig)
  6. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  7. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld)
  9. Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa)
  10. Strong Island  (Yance Ford)
“Cameraperson”

2016

  1. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  2. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  3. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. Lemonade (Beyonce)
  5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  6. O.J. Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  7. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
  8. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Femon Craig)
  9. Little Sister (Zack Clark)
  10. Nine Behind (Sophy Romvari)
“No Home Movie”

2015

  1. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
  3. By the Sea (Angelina Jolie)
  4. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  5. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
  6. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig)
  7. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
  8. The Assassin (Hou Hsien-Hsiao)
  9. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  10. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
“The Tale of Princess Kaguya”

2014

  1. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
  2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  3. Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  4. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
  5. Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie)
  6. Girlhood (Celine Sciamma)
  7. Two Days, One Night (The Dardenne Brothers)
  8. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
  9. Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze)
  10. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
“Under the Skin”

2013

  1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
  2. Top of the Lake (Jane Campion)
  3. Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
  5. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
  6. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros.)
  7. Drug War (Johnnie To)
  8. Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
  9. White Reindeer (Zach Clark)
  10. Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
“Cosmopolis”

2012

  1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
  2. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
  3. The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie)
  4. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  5. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
  6. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig)
  7. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
  8. Dredd (Pete Travis)
  9. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
  10. Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada)
“Margaret”

2011

  1.  Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
  3. K-On! The Movie (Naoko Yamada)
  4. Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto)
  5. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
  6. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
  7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  8. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
  9. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
  10. Pariah (Dee Rees)
“Meek’s Cutoff”

2010

  1. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
  2. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
  3. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
  5. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
  6. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
  7. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
  8. Poetry (Lee Chang Dong)
  9. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz)
  10. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
“Halloween 2”

2009

  1. Halloween II: Director’s Cut (Rob Zombie)
  2. Bright Star (Jane Campione
  3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. Alle Anderen (Maren Ade)
  5. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
  6. The House of the Devil (Ti West)
  7. Whip It! (Drew Barrymoore)
  8. Two Lovers (James Gray)
  9. A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
  10. Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
“Rachel Getting Married”

2008

  1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
  2. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
  3. Sparrow (Johnnie To)
  4. 35 Rhums (Claire Denis)
  5. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
  6. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
  7. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  8. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  9. Speed Racer (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
  10. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”

2007

  1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  2. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
  3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
  4. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
  5. More Things that Happened (David Lynch)
  6. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  7. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
  8. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
  9. Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
  10. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
“Inland Empire”

2006

  1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
  2. Exiled (Johnnie To)
  3. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  4. Still City (Jia Zhangke)
  5. The Lake House  (Alejandro Agresti)
  6. Syndromes and a Century (Joe)
  7. Triad Election (Johnnie To)
  8. Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
  9. Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
  10. Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener)
“Linda, Linda, Linda”

2005

  1.  Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
  2. Domino (Tony Scott)
  3. Election (Johnnie To)
  4. The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie)
  5. Three Times (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
  6. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
  7. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  8. Cigarette Burns (John Carpenter)
  9. Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto)
  10. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Michel Gondry)
“Innocence”

2004

  1. Innocence (Lucille Hadzihalilovic)
  2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
  3. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
  4. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
  5. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Collateral (Michael Mann)
  7. Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman)
  8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
  10. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
“Lost in Translation

2003

  1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
  2. The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
  3. Running on Karma (Johnnie To)
  4. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
  5. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
  6. In the Cut (Jane Campion)
  7. The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Sisters)
  8. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson)
  10. Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon)
“A Snake of June”

2002

  1. A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto)
  2. Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis)
  3. Funny Haha (Andrew Bujalski)
  4. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
  5. Rabbits (David Lynch)
  6. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Takashi Miike)
  7. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
  9. May (Lucky McKee)
  10. Blue (Hiroshi Ando)
“Mulholland Drive”

2001

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  2. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
  3. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  4. The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
  5. Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun)
  6. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
  7. Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
  8. Things Behind the Sun (Alison Anders)
  9. Avalon (Mamoru Oshii)
  10. Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
“In the Mood For Love”

2000

  1. In the Mood For Love (Kar-Wai Wong)
  2. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
  3. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
  4. DOA 2: Birds (Takashi Miike)
  5. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
  6. Love and Basketball (Gina Price-Bythewood)
  7. Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine (Gee-Woong Nam)
  8. La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
  9. Needing You (Johnnie To)
  10. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
“Eyes Wide Shut”

1999

  1. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
  2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
  3. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
  4. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Audition (Takashi Miike)
  6. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
  7. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
  8. The Matrix (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
  9. Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima)
  10. Adolescence of Utena (Kunihiko Ikuhara)
“Fucking Amal”

1998

  1. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson)
  3. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  4. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
  5. The Flowers of Shanghai (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
  6. Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu)
  7. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Takashi Anno)
  8. Sombre (Phillipe Grandieux)
  9. Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore (Sarah Jacobson)
  10. Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto)
“End of Evangelion”

1997

  1. The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno)
  2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  4. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
  5. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
  6. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
  7. Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman)
  8. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
  9. Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
  10. Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike)
“Crash”

1996

  1. Crash (David Cronenberg)
  2. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
  3. Bound (Lana and Lily Wachowski)
  4. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  5. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  6. Fudoh: The New Generation (Takashi Miike)
  7. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
  8. Nenette et Boni (Claire Denis)
  9. Sudden Manhattan (Adrienne Shelly)
  10. Scream (Wes Craven)
Clueless

1995

  1. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
  2. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
  3. Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
  4. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Ishii)
  5. Heat (Michael Mann)
  6. [SAFE] (Todd Haynes)
  7. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. To Die For (Gus Van Zant)
  9. Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!!! The Heist (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  10. The Blade (Hark Tsui)
Joan the Maiden

1994

  1. Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette)
  2. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
  3. Portrait of a Young Girl in Brussels at the End of the 60s (Chantal Akerman)
  4. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
  5. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong)
  6. Which Way is East: Notebooks From Vietnam (Lynne Sachs)
  7. Speed (Jan De Bont)
  8. Legend of Drunken Master (Kar-Lau Leung)
  9. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  10. Angel Dust (Gakuryu Ishii)
Green Snake

1993

  1. Green Snake (Hark Tsui) 
  2. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  3. Blue (Derek Jarman)
  4. D’est (Chantal Akerman)
  5. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
  6. Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa)
  7. Matinee (Joe Dante)
  8. Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Blackout” (David Lynch)
  10. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

  1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
  2. The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
  3. Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
  4. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
  5. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
  6. Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
  7. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris)
  8. I Am My Own Woman (Rosa Von Praunheim)
  9. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
  10. Orlando (Sally Potter)
“The Silence of the Lambs”

1991

  1. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
  2. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
  3. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
  4. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
  5. Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa)
  6. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
  7. I Am Wanda (Katja Raganelli)
  8. Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  9. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
  10. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
“Paris is Burning”

1990

  1. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
  2. King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
  3. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
  4. Privilege (Yvonne Rainer)
  5. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
  6. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
  7. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion)
  9. Janine (Cheryl Dunye)
  10. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
“Kiki’s Delivery Service”

1989

  1. Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette)
  2. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
  3. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto)
  4. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
  5. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
  6. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
  7. The Killer (John Woo)
  8. A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Hark Tsui)
  9. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
  10. The Woman in Black (Herbert Wise)
“My Neighbor Totoro”

1988

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
  2. School on Fire (Ringo Lam)
  3. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
  4. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
  6. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
  7. Face Like a Frog (Sallu Cruikshank)
  8. Hairspray (John Waters)
  9. Akira (Katsuhio Otomo)
  10. Bloodsport (Newt Arnold)
“Broadcast News”

1987

  1. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
  2. Sign O’ The Times (Prince)
  3. Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
  4. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
  5. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
  6. City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
  7. Where Is My Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. The Adventures of Denchu-Kozo (Shin’ya Tsukamoto)
  9. King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. No No Nooky T.V. (Barbara Hammer)
“Big Trouble in Little China”

1986

  1. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
  2. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
  3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
  4. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
  5. Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)
  6. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
  7. Peking Opera Blues (Hark Tsui)
  8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre II (Tobe Hooper)
  9. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
  10. His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
“Angel’s Egg”

1985

  1. Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii)
  2. Police Story (Jackie Chan)
  3. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
  4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
  5. Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)
  6. Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
  7. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  8. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
  9. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Siedelman)
“Starman”

1984

  1. Starman (John Carpenter) 
  2. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
  3. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
  4. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
  5. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
  6. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
  7. When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh)
  8. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
  9. Mermaid Legend (Toshiharu Ikeda)
  10. Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii)
“Silkwood”

1983

  1. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
  2. Silkwood (Mike Nichols)
  3. One Day Pina Asked (Chantal Akerman)
  4. Christine (John Carpenter)
  5. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
  6. Sheer Madness (Margarethe Von Trotta)
  7. Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz)
  8. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
  9. Love Letters (Amy Holden Jones)
  10. Possibly in Michigan (Cecelia Condit)
“Toute Une Nuit”

1982

  1. Toute Une Nuit (Chantal Akerman)
  2. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
  3. The Thing (John Carpenter)
  4. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  5. The Fan (Eckhart Schmidt)
  6. Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins)
  7. The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
  8. The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones)
  9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
  10. Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong)
“Ms. 45”

1981

  1. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
  2. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
  3. WMEN (Esther Regelson)
  4. They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
  5. Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
  6. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
  7. You Are Not I (Sara Driver)
  8. Le Pont Du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
  9. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
  10. Audience (Barbara Hammer)
“The Shining”

1980

  1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Breathing” (Kate Bush)
  3.  Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
  4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
  5. The Fog (John Carpenter)
  6. Melvin & Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  7. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
  8. A Week’s Vacation (Bertrand Tavernier)
  9. City of the Livind Dead (Lucio Fulci)
  10. Simone Barbes de Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
“Soft Fiction”

1979

  1. Soft Fiction (Chick Strand)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Alien (Ridley Scott)
  4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. Asparagus (Suzan Pitt)
  6. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
  7. The Brood (David Cronenberg)
  8. The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
  9. Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
  10. Real Life (Albert Brooks)
“The Meetings of Anna”

1978

  1. The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
  2. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau-Kar Leung)
  3. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
  4. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
  5. Halloween (John Carpenter)
  6. Alucarda (Juan Lopez Moctezuma)
  7. Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima)
  8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
  9. Renaldo & Clara (Bob Dylan)
  10. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)
“News From Home”

1977

  1. News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
  2. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
  3. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
  4. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
  5. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
  6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  7. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
  8. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  9. Martin (George A. Romero)
  10. Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Jim Henson)
“Taxi Driver”

1976

  1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  2. Noroit (Jacques Rivette)
  3. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
  4. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
  5. Duelle (Jacques Rivette)
  6. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
  7. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
  8. Shaolin Temple (Cheh Chang)
  9. Challenge of the Masters (Kar-Lau Leung)
  10. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Macklin Silver)
“Jeanne Dielman”

1975

  1. Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
  2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
  3. Jaws (Stephen Spielberg)
  4. Girls at 12 (Joyce Chopra)
  5. Dersu Uzuala (Akira Kurosawa)
  6. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukusaku)
  8. Black Moon (Louis Malle)
  9. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
  10. The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)
Celine and Julie Go Boating

1974

  1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
  2.  Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman)
  3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  4. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  5. Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer)
  6. Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
  7. Female Trouble (John Waters)
  8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
  9. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
  10. Five Shaolin Masters (Chang Cheh)
“Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable”

1973

  1. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito)
  2. Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita)
  3. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
  4. The Yakuza Papers, Vol 2.: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukasaku)
  5. Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)
  6. Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto)
  7. The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
  8. The Crazies (George A. Romero)
  9. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
  10. Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn)
“Hotel Monterey”

1972

  1. Hotel Monterey (Chantal Akerman) 
  2. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)
  3. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
  4. Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon)
  5. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
  6. Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
  7. Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
  8. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
  9. La Chambre (Chantal Akerman)
  10. Street Mobster (Kinji Fukasaku)
“Klute”

1971

  1. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
  2. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  3. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
  4. Joyce at 34 (Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill)
  5. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
  6. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
  7. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Sergio Martino)
  8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
  9. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
  10. Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
“The Conformist”

1970

  1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  2. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  3. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
  4. Gimme Shelter (Charlotte Zwerin, Albert and David Maysles)
  5. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
  6. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
  7. This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji)
  8. Multiple Maniacs (John Waters)
  9. Robin Redbreast (James MacTaggart)
  10. The Fruit of the Paradise (Vera Chytilova)
“Funeral Parade of Roses”

1969

  1. Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
  2. Eros + Massacre (Yoshige Yoshida)
  3. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack)
  4. Nissan Ariana Window (Ken Jacobs)
  5. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
  6. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masamura)
  7. L’amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
  8. Procile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  9. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
  10. Pit Stop (Jack Hill)
“2001: A Space Odyssey”

1968

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
  3. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
  4. Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
  5. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
  6. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
  7. Black Panthers (Agnes Varda)
  8. The Ballad of Crowfoot (Willie Dunn)
  9. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
  10. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
“Week-end”

1967

  1. Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
  3. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
  4. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Nagisa Oshima)
  5. Two For the Road (Stanley Donen)
  6. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
  7. The One Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
  8. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
  9. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
  10. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
“Breakaway”

1966

  1. Breakaway (Bruce Conner and Toni Basil)
  2. Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
  3. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  4. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
  5. The Big Gundown (Sergio Solllima)
  6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
  7. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
  8. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
  9. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
  10. Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
“Le Bonheur”

1965

  1.  Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
  2. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
  4. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
  5. Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima)
  6. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
  7. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
  8. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
  9. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
  10. Report (Bruce Conner)
“Marnie”

1964

  1. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Red Desert (Michealangelo Antonioni)
  3. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
  4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
  5. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
  6. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
  7. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  8. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  9. Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
  10. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
“High and Low”

1963

  1. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
  2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
  4. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
  5. Il Demonia (Brunello Rondi)
  6. Matango (Ishiro Honda)
  7. Charade (Stanley Donen)
  8. Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
  9. Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
  10. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
“Harakiri”

1962

  1. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
  2. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
  3. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
  4. The Exterminating Angel (Louis Bunuel)
  5. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zamen)
  6. The Whale God (Tokuzo Tanaka)
  7. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
  8. La Jatee (Chris Marker)
  9. The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi)
  10. Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
“Something Wild”

1961

  1. Something Wild (Jack Garfein)
  2. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. Divino Amore (Cecilia Mangini)
  4. Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)
  5. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
  6. The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman)
  7. Mothra (Ishiro Honda)
  8. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  9. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
  10. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
“Eyes Without a Face”

1960

  1. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
  2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. L’aaventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
  5. The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
  6. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
  7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
  8. Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
  9. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. The Brides of Dracula (Terrence Fisher)
“Window Water Baby Moving”

1959

  1. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
  2. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
  3. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
  4. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
  5. The Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth)
  6. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
  8. Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian and Bert Stern)
  9. The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
  10. Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (Nobuo Nakagawa)
“Touch of Evil”

1958

  1. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)(
  2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
  4. Diary of a Pregnant Woman (Agnes Varda)
  5. Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
  6. Bounjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
  7. Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner)
  8. The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita)
  9. The H-Man (Ishiro Honda)
  10. Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa)
“The Cranes Are Flying”

1957

  1. The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
  2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
  3. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
  4. What’s Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones)
  5. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander MacKendrick)
  6. The Tall T  and Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)
  7. The Curse of Frankenstein (Terrence Fisher)
  8. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
  9. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
“The Searchers”

1956

  1. The Searchers (John Ford)
  2. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
  3. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
  5. The Girl Can’t Help It! (Frank Tashlin)
  6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegal)
  7. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
  8. Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
  9. Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)
  10. Rodan (Ishiro Honda)
“The Night of the Hunter”

1955

  1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  2. The Age of Swordfish//Sea Countrymen//Islands of Fire//Surfarara (Vittorio De Seta)
  3. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
  4. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
  5. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  6. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
  7. The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli)
  8. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
  9. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clozout)
  10. It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen)
“Seven Samurai”

1954

  1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
  2. Gojira (Ishiro Honda)
  3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Senso (Luchino Visconti)
  5. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  7. Riding Shotgun (Andre de Toth)
  8. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
  9. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
  10. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”

1953

  1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
  2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  3. The Earrings of Madame De… (Max Ophuls)
  4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
  5. Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller)
  6. White Mane (Albert Lamorisse)
  7. The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parlamee)
  8. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
  9. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
  10. Give a Girl a Break (Stanley Donen)
“The Quiet Man”

1952

  1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
  2. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
  3. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  4. Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
  5. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
  6. Othello (Orson Welles)
  7. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
  8. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
  9. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
  10. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
“Anne of the Indies”

1951

  1. Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller)
  3. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
  4. Hard, Fast & Beautiful (Ida Lupino)
  5. The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell and Pressburger)
  6. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
  7. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
  9. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
  10. Alice in Wonderland (Various)

1950

  1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
  2. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
  3. Wagon Master (John Ford)
  4. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  5. Stars in my Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
  7. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
  8. Winchester ’73  (Anthony Mann)
  9. The Furies (Anthony Mann)
  10. Outrage (Ida Lupino)
“Caught”

1949

  1. Caught (Max Ophuls) 
  2. Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
  3. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
  4. Inspirace (Karel Zeman)
  5. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
  6. Not Wanted (Ida Lupino)
  7. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  8. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
  9. On the Town (Stanley Donen)
  10. Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
“The Red Shoes”

1948

  1. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
  2. Red River (Howard Hawks)
  3. Fort Apache (John Ford)
  4. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
  5. Woman (Keisuke Kinoshita)
  6. Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
  8. Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
  9. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
  10. Meditation on Violence (Maya Deren)
“Black Narcissus”

1947

  1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
  2. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
  3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
  5. Desire Me (Unconfirmed)
  6. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
  7. Rabbit Transit (Friz Freleng)
  8. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
  9. One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. Dark Passage (Delmer Davies)
“Notorious”

1946

  1. Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
  2. My Darling Celementine (John Ford)
  3. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  5. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
  7. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
  8. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  9. Baby Bottleneck//The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett)
  10. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
“Detour”

1945

  1. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  3. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
  4. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
  5. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
  6. My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
  7. Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
  8. Hare Tonic (Chuck Jones)
  9. Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
“The Curse of the Cat People”

1944

  1. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
  2. At Land (Maya Deren)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincent Minnelli)
  4. Gaslight (George Cukor)
  5. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
  6. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
  7. Laura (Otto Preminger)
  8. The Old Grey Hare (Bob Clampett)
  9. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
  10. Witch’s Cradle (Maya Deren)
“Meshes of the Afternoon”

1943

  1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
  2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
  3. Porky Pig’s Feat. (Frank Tashlin)
  4. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
  5. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
  7. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
  8. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  9. Falling Hare (Bob Clampett)
  10. Sanshiro Sugata (Akira Kurosawa)
“Cat People”

1942

  1. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
  3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
  4. Bambi (Disney)
  5. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
  6. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  7. I Married a Witch (Rene Clair)
  8. For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkley)
  9. In This Our Life (William Wyler)
  10. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
“Citizen Kane”

1941

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  2. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
  3. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
  4. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
  5. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
  6. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
  7. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
  8. Tortoise Beats Hare (Tex Avery)
  9. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
  10. Wabbit Twouble (Bob Clampett)
“His Girl Friday”

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  2. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
  4. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
  5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
  6. Fantasia (Various)
  7. The Letter (William Wyler)
  8. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
  9. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
  10. A Wild Hare (Tex Avery)
“Only Angels Have Wings”

1939

  1. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
  2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
  3. The Wizard of Oz (Various)
  4. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
  5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
  6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
  7. The Women (George Cukor)
  8. Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee)
  9. Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford)
  10. Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
“Jezebel”

1938

  1. Jezebel (William Wyler)
  2. Mickey’s Trailer (Ben Sharpsteen)
  3. A Date to Skate (Dave Fleischer)
  4. Wholly Smoke (Frank Tashlin)
  5. Vivacious Lady (George Stevens)
  6. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. Plumbing is a Pipe (Dave Fleischer)
  8. Daffy-Duck & Egghead (Tex Avery)
  9. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
  10. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

1937

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
  2. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
  3. Dead End (William Wyler)
  4. Porky’s Duck Hunt (Tex Avery)
  5. The Old Mill (Wilfred Jackson)
  6. The Case of the Stuttering Pig (Frank Tashlin)
  7. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali-Baba’s Forty Thieves (Dave Fleischer)
  8. Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman)
  9. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
  10. A Star is Born (William A. Wellman)
“A Day in the Country”

1936

  1. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
  2. Somewhere in Dreamland (Dave Fleischer)
  3. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
  5. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer)
  6. The Blow Out (Tex Avery)
  7. Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
  8. Paging Miss Glory (Tex Avery)
  9. Fury (Fritz Lang)
  10. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Bride of Frankenstein”

1935

  1. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
  2. The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson)
  3. Mad Love (Karl Freund)
  4. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
  5. The Whole Town’s Talking (John Ford)
  6. King of the Mardi Gras (Dave Fleischer)
  7. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. Balloon Land (Ub Iwerks)
  9. Dancing on the Moon (Dave Fleischer)
  10. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
“Scarlet Empress”

1934

  1. The Scarlett Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
  2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  3. L’atalante (Jean Vigo)
  4. Ha! Ha! Ha! (Dave Fleischer)
  5. Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell)
  6. The Gambling Lady (Archie Mayo)
  7. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
  8. The Goddess (Yonggang Wu)
“The Gold Diggers of 1933”

1933

  1. The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn Leroy)
  2. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
  3. Snow White (Dave Fleischer)
  4. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
  5. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
  6. Every Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse)
  7. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
  8. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
  9. Blondie Johnson (Ray Enright)
  10. Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)
“Shanghai Express”

1932

  1. Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg)
  2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer)
  4. No Blood Relation (Mikio Naruse)
  5. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  6. I Was Born, But (Yasujiro Ozu)
  7. What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor)
  8. Betty Boop M.D. (Dave Fleischer)
  9. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
  10. Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
“City Lights”

1931

  1. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
  2. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
  3. Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich)
  4. M. (Fritz Lang)
  5. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
  6. Frankenstein (James Whale)
  7. Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer & Grim Natwick)
  8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
  9. Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
  10. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
“Blood of a Poet”

1930

  1. Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
  2. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
  3. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
  4. Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer)
  5. That Night’s Wife (Yasujiro Ozu)
  6. Ladies of Leisure (Frank Capra)
  7. L’age Dor (Luis Bunuel)
  8. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
  9. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
  10. Dizzy Dishes (Dave Fleischer)
“Man with a Movie Camera

1929

  1. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
  2. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dahli)
  3. Tokyo March (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  4. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Rain (Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken)
  6. Days of Youth (Yasujiro Ozu)
“The Passion of Joan of Arc”

1928

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  2. The Wind  (Victor Sjolstrom)
  3. The White Stadium (Arnold Fanck and Othmar Gurtner)
  4. Koko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)
  5. The Crowd (King Vidor)
  6. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  7. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
  8. Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks)
“Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”

1927

  1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
  2. L’invitation au Voyage (Germaine Dulac)
  3. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
  4. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
  5. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
“Faust”

1926

  1. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
  2. The General (Buster Keaton)
  3. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugaza)
  4. 3 Bad Men (John Ford)
  5. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)
  6. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lottie Reineger, Karl Coch)
  7. It’s the Cats! (Dave Fleischer)
“Battleship Potemkin”

1925

  1. Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
  2. Strike! (Sergei Eisenstein)
  3. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
  4. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
  5. Song of Home (Kenji Mizoguchi)
“Sherlock Jr.”

1924

  1. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  2. Ballet Mecanique (Fernand Ledger, Dudley Murphey)
“Safety Last!”

1923

  1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmayer, Sam Taylor)
  2. A Woman of Paris (Charlie Chaplin)
  3. Three Ages (Buster Keaton)
“Nosferatu”

1922

  1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
  2. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen)
  3. Cops (Buster Keaton)
  4. Day Dreams (Buster Keaton)
  5. The Frozen North (Buster Keaton)
  6. Bubbles (Dave Fleischer)
  7. Jumping Beans (Dave Fleischer)
  8. My Wife’s Relations (Buster Keaton)
  9. The Electric House (Buster Keaton)
“Phantom Carriage”

1921

  1. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjolstrom)
  2. The High Sign (Buster Keaton)
  3. The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
  4. Destiny (Fritz Lang)
  5. The Boat (Buster Keaton)
  6. The Play House (Buster Keaton)
  7. Invisible Ink (Dave Fleischer)
  8. Modeling (Dave Fleischer)
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

1920

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
  2. One Week (Buster Keaton)
  3. The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Paul Wegener)
  4. Leaves out of the Book of Satan (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  5. The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson)
  7. Convict 13 (Buster Keaton)
  8. Neighbors (Buster Keaton)

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