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My Favourite Films by Year (1970 – 2011)

“Approximately and exactly.”
— Parabatial Kanhaiyalal ‘P.K.’ Dubey (Vijay Raaz) from Monsoon Wedding (2001)

1970–2011

Great Television Shows

2012

We Need to Talk About Kevin (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
The Moth Diaries (dir. Mary Harron)
The Deep Blue Sea (dir. Terence Davies)
Monsieur Lazhar (dir. Philippe Falardeau)
Footnote (dir. Joseph Cedar)
Damsels in Distress (dir. Whit Stillman)
Rampart (dir. Oren Moverman)
Kidnapped (dir. Miguel Ángel Vivas)

Pariah (dir. Dee Rees)
Perfect Sense (dir. David Mackenzie)
Miss Bala (dir. Gerardo Naranjo)
Keyhole (dir Guy Madden)
Womb (AKA Clone) (dir. Benedek Fliegauf)
Marvel’s The Avengers (dir. Joss Whedon)
Norwegian Wood (dir. Anh Dung Tran)
Dark Shadows (dir. Tim Burton)
Game Change (dir. Jay Roach)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (dir. Jay and Mark Duplass)
Road to Nowhere (dir. Monte Hellman)
Cabin in the Woods (dir, Drew Goddard)
The Forgiveness of Blood (dir. Joshua Marston)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (dir. Andrei Ujica)

The Five-Year Engagement (dir. Nicholas Stoller)
The Woman in Black (dir. James Watkins)
The Hunger Games (dir. Gary Ross)

2011

Martha Marcy May Marlene (dir. Sean Durkin)
Without (dir. Mark Jackson)
Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
Margaret (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Meek’s Cutoff (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Julia Leigh)
The Artist (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
The Skin I Live In (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Incendies (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
The Kid with the Bike (dir. (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
City of Life and Death (dir. Chuan Lu)
Shame (dir. Steve McQueen)
The Color Wheel (dir. Alex Ross Perry)
Elena (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Trust (dir. David Schwimmer)
The Descendants (dir. Alexander Payne)
Breathless (dir. Yang Ik-Joon)
Midnight in Paris (dir. Woody Allen)
Higher Ground (dir. Vera Farmiga)
A Dangerous Method (dir. David Cronenberg)
Once Upon a time in Anatolia (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Carancho (dir. Pablo Trapero)
Rango (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Project Nim (dir. James Marsh)
Take This Waltz (dir. Sarah Polley)
Hugo (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Tree of Life (dir. Terrance Malick)
Take Shelter (dir. Jeff Nichols)
The Guard (dir. John Michael McDonagh)
Michael (dir. Markus Schleinzer)
Tabloid (dir. Errol Morris)
Certified Copy (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
Lily Sometimes (dir. Fabienne Berthaud)
Melancholia (dir. Lars von Trier)
The Future (dir. Miranda July)
Another Earth (dir. Mike Cahill)
Terri (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Margin Call (dir. J.C. Chandor)
The Myth of the American Sleepover (dir. David Robert Mitchell)
Marwencol (dir. Jeff Malmberg)
Pure (Till Det Som Är Vackert) (dir. Lisa Langseth)
Outside the Law (dir. Rachid Bouchareb)
Young Adult (dir. Jason Reitman)
Jess + Moss (dir. Clay Jeter)
Tuesday, after Christmas (dir. Radu Muntean)
Moneyball (dir. Bennett Miller)

Boy Wonder (dir. Michael Morrissey)
Hanna (dir. Joe Wright)
Tyrannosaur (dir. Paddy Considine)
Jane Eyre (dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)
The Trip (dir. Michael Winterbotom)
Contagion (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Red State (dir. Kevin Smith)
Bobby Fischer Against the World (dir. Liz Garbus)
Submarine (dir. Richard Ayoade)
A Little Help (dir. Michael J. Weithorn)
Tomboy (dir. Céline Sciamma)
The Interrupters (dir. Steve James)
Viva Riva! (dir. Djo Munga)
Too Big to Fail (dir. Curtis Hanson)
The Swell Season (dir. Nick August-Perna and Chris Dapkins)
Captain America: The First Avenger (dir. Joe Johnston)
My Perestroika (dir. Robin Hessman)
Source Code (dir. Duncan Jones)
My Little Princess (dir. Eva Ionesco)
Happy, Happy (dir. Anne Sewitsky)
Le Havre (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Chico and Rita (dir. Tono Errando and Javier Mariscal)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (dir. Brad Bird)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (dir. David Yates)
Into the Abyss | Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(dir. Werner Herzog)
Nora’s Will (dir. Mariana Chenillo)
Beginners (dir. Mike Mills)
The Woman (dir. Lucky McKee)
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (dir. Mark Hartley)
Cedar Rapids (dir. Miguel Arteta)
Life, Above All (dir. Oliver Schmitz)
Queen to Play (dir. Caroline Bottaro)
Little White Lies (dir. Guillaume Canet)
Win-Win (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
X (dir. Jon Hewitt)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (dir. Jennifer Yuh)
The Turin Horse (dir. Béla Tarr)
Curling (dir. Denis Côté)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (dir. Craig McCall)
The Mill and the Cross (dir. Lech Majewski)
A Better Life (dir. Chris Weitz)
Crime After Crime (dir. Yoav Potash)
Rubber (dir. Quentin Dupieux)
Page One: Inside the New York Times (dir. Andrew Rossi)
The Muppets (dir. James Bobin)
Restless (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Page Eight (dir. David Hare)
Essential Killing (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
I Wish (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
Tatsumi (dir. Eric Khoo)
My Week with Marilyn (dir. Simon Curtis)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (dir. Guy Ritchie)
X-Men: First Class (dir. Matthew Vaughn)
Starbuck (dir. Ken Scott)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (dir. Eli Craig)
The Ides of March (dir. George Clooney)
Bill Cunningham New York (dir. Richard Press)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
(dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
War Horse (dir. Steven Spielberg)

Super (dir. James Gunn)
Water for Elephants (dir. Francis Lawrence)
Twice a Woman (dir. François Delisle)
Scream 4 (dir. Wes Craven)
J. Edgar (dir. Clint Eastwood)
50/50 (dir. Jonathan Levine)
Sarah’s Key (dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner)
Straw Dogs (dir. Rod Lurie)
Puss in Boots (dir. Chris Miller)
Café de Flore (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)
Bridesmaids (dir. Paul Feig)
Orgasm Inc. (dir. Elizabeth Canner)
The Help (dir. Tate Taylor)
Head Cold (Gamma Bak)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (dir. Rupert Wyatt)

Honourable Selection: MILDRED PIERCE: THE MINISERIES

Parts 1 – 5 (dir. Todd Haynes)

Honourable Selection: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (dir. David Fincher, 2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(Män Som Hatar Kvinnor – Men Who Hate Women)
(dir. Niels Arden Oplev, 2010)

2010

The Social Network (dir. David Fincher)
Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The Ghost Writer (dir. Roman Polanski)
Animal Kingdom (dir. David Michôd)
Greenberg (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Dogtooth (dir. Giorgos Lanthimos)
Poetry | Secret Sunshine (dir. Chang-dong Lee)
The Secret in their Eyes (dir. Juan José Campanella)
Please Give (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Cell 211 (dir. Daniel Monzón)
The Kids Are All Right (dir. Lisa Cholodenko)
Life During Wartime (dir. Todd Solondz)
Putty Hill (dir. Matthew Porterfield)
The American (dir. Anton Corbijn)
A Prophet (dir. Jacques Audiard)
Fish Tank (dir. Andrea Arnold)
White Material (dir. Claire Denis)
Another Year (dir. Mike Leigh)
Mary and Max. (dir. Adam Elliot)
Farewell (dir. Christian Carion)
I Am Love (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Temple Grandin (dir. Mick Jackson)
The King’s Speech (The R-Rated Version) (dir. Tom Hooper)
The Chaser (dir. Hong-jin Na)
Home (dir. Ursula Meier)
Flipped (dir. Rob Reiner)
The Illusionist (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
You Don’t Know Jack (dir. Barry Levinson)
Mr. Nobody (dir. Jaco Van Dormael)
All Good Things (dir. Andrew Jarecki)
Mother (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (dir. Banksy)
Four Lions (dir. Christopher Morris)
Somewhere (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Lebanon (dir. Samuel Maoz)
The Runaways (dir. Floria Sigismondi)
Last Train Home (dir. Lixin Fan)
The Sunset Limited (dir. Tommy Lee Jones)
City Island (dir. Raymond De Felitta)
Inside Job (dir. Charles Ferguson)

Rabbit Hole (dir. John Cameron Mitchell)
Buried (dir. Rodrigo Cortés)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (dir. Edgar Wright)
Leaves of Grass (dir. Tim Blake Nelson)
The Maid (dir. Sebastián Silva)
Blue Valentine (dir. Derek Cianfrance)
The Princess of Montpensier (dir. Bertrand Tavernier)
The Crazies (dir. Breck Eisner)
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (dir. Jalmari Helander)
Enter the Void (dir. Gaspar Noé)
I Love You, Phillip Morris (dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa)
The Fighter (dir. David O. Russell)
Shutter Island (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (dir. Don Hahn)
Taxidermia (dir. György Pálfi)
Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Winter’s Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
The Square (dir. Nash Edgerton)
A Town Called Panic (dir. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar)
Tangled (dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard)
Monsters (dir. Gareth Edwards)
Salt (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Wild Grass (dir. Alain Resnais)
Smash His Camera (dir. Leon Gast)
Waiting for ‘Superman’ (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
Idiots and Angels (dir. Bill Plympton)
Tiny Furniture (dir. Lena Dunham)
The Secret of Kells (dir. Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey)
The Father of my Children (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Splice (dir. Vincenzo Natali)
The Robber (dir. Benjamin Heisenberg)
Solitary Man (dir. Brian Koppelman)
Never Let Me Go (dir. Mark Romanek)
The Tillman Story (dir. Amir Bar-Lev)
My Dog Tulip (dir. Paul Fierlinger)
True Grit (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
I, Don Giovanni (dir. Carlos Saura)
World’s Greatest Dad (dir. Bobcat Goldthwait)
The Sleeping Beauty (dir. Catherine Breillat)
A Screaming Man (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
Howl (dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
Sweetgrass (dir. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Of Gods and Men (dir. Xavier Beauvois)
Hereafter (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Cyrus (dir. Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass)
Aurora (dir. Cristi Puiu)
When We Leave (dir. Feo Aladag)
127 Hours (dir. Danny Boyle)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden)
(dir. Daniel Alfredson)
Secretariat (dir. Randall Wallace)
Restrepo (dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger)
The Tree (dir. Julie Bertucelli)
I Killed My Mother (dir. Xavier Dolan)
Jack Goes Boating (dir. Philip Seymore Hoffman)
Agora (dir. Alejandro Amenábar)
Trigger (dir. Bruce McDonald)

Alice in Wonderland (dir. Tim Burton)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes)
(dir. Daniel Alfredson)
I Love You, Man (dir. John Hamburg)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (dir. David Yates)
Catfish (dir. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman)
Despicable Me (dir. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)
Morning Glory (dir. Roger Michell)
Cold Fish (dir. Shion Sono)
The Other Guys (dir. Adam McKay)
The Town (dir. Ben Affleck)
Chassis (dir. Adolfo Alix Jr.)

Honourable Selection: THE TOY STORIES

Toy Story 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich, 2010)
Toy Story 2 (dir. John Lasseter and Ash Brannon, 1999)
Toy Story (dir. John Lasseter, 1995)

Honourable Selection: Carlos (dir. Olivier Assayas, 2010)

Honourable Selection: Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let Me In (dir. Matt Reeves, 2010)
Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

2009

Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)
A Serious Man (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Goodbye Solo (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
In the Loop (dir. Armando Iannucci)
Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The House of the Devil (dir. Ti West)
Villa Amalia (dir. Benoît Jacquot)
35 Shots of Rum (dir. Claire Denis)
Nightwatching | Rembrandt’s J’Accuse… (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Cracks (dir. Jordon Scott)
The Beaches of Agnès (dir. Agnès Varda)
The White Ribbon (dir. Michael Haneke)
Two Lovers (dir. James Gray)
Broken Embraces (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Adventureland (dir. Greg Mottola)
(500) Days of Summer (dir. Marc Webb)
Vincere (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
Polytechnique (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
For A Son (dir. Alix De Maistre)
Disgrace (dir. Steve Jacobs)
Still Walking (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Up (dir. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
The Merry Gentleman (dir. Michael Keaton)
Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier)
Collapse (dir. Chris Smith)
Summer Hours (dir. Olivier Assayas)
The Girlfriend Experience | The Informant! (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Julia (dir. Erick Zonca)
Gomorrah (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Sugar (dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck)
Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Trick ‘r Treat (dir. Michael Dougherty)
Coraline (dir. Henry Selick)
Vengeance (dir. Johnnie To)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans (dir. Werner Herzog)
Thirst (dir. Chan-wook Park)
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
Protektor (dir. Marek Najbrt)
Up in the Air (dir. Jason Reitman)
District 9 (dir. Neill Blomkamp)
An Education (dir. Lone Scherfig)
Knowing (dir. Alex Proyas)
Capitalism: A Love Story (dir. Michael Moore)
A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford)
Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze)
Ponyo (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir. Wes Anderson)
O’ Horten (dir. Bent Hamer)
Nothing But the Truth (dir. Rod Lurie)
Slovenian Girl (AKA A Call Girl) (dir. Damjan Kozole)
Lymelife (w. the Original Ending: Alternate Ending on DVD)
(dir. Derick Martini)
The Uninvited (dir. Charles Guard and Thomas Guard)
Revanche (dir. Götz Spielmann)
Blue Beard (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Cold Souls (dir. Sophie Barthes)
Three Monkeys (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Mother and Child (dir. Rodrigo García)
Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion)
Medicine for Melancholy (dir. Barry Jenkins)
Crazy Heart (dir. Scott Cooper)
Big Fan (dir. Robert D. Siegel)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (dir. David Yates)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Avatar (dir. James Cameron)
Trucker (dir. James Mottern)
Munyurangabo (dir. Lee Isaac Chung)
Zombieland (dir. Ruben Fleischer)
Alamar (dir. Pedro González-Rubio)
The Road (dir. John Hillcoat)
The Cove (dir. Louie Psihoyos)
Tulpan (dir. Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (dir. Lee Daniels)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
(dir. Gerald Peary)
Drag Me To Hell (dir. Sam Raimi)
Police, Adjective (Politist, adjective.) (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Damned United (dir. Tom Hooper)
Watchmen (dir. Zack Snyder)
London River (dir. Rachid Bouchareb)
Of Time and the City (dir. Terence Davies)
Je L’Aimais (Someone I Loved) (dir. Zabou Breitman)
Sin Nombre (dir. Cary Fukunaga)

The Girl on the Train (dir. André Téchiné)
Observe and Report (dir. Jody Hill)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (dir. J Blakeson)
The Missing Person (dir. Noah Buschel)
Food, Inc. (dir. Robert Kenner)
The Headless Woman (dir. Lucrecia Martel)
The Princess and the Frog (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
Away We Go (dir. Sam Mendes)
Chloe (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Stuck! (dir. Steve Balderson)

2008

Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
In Bruges (dir. John McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Man on Wire (dir. James Marsh)
Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
XXY (dir. Lucí­a Puenzo)
Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Tell No One (dir. Guillaume Canet)

2008 (revised)

Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
In Bruges (dir. John McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Milk | Paranoid Park (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Man on Wire (dir. James Marsh)
The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
My Winnipeg (dir. Guy Maddin)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (dir. Kurt Kuenne)
Transsiberian (dir. Brad Anderson)
Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
Revolutionary Road (dir. Sam Mendes)
Silent Light (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Tell No One (dir. Guillaume Canet)
XXY (dir. Lucí­a Puenzo)
The Edge of Heaven (dir. Fatih Akin)
Shotgun Stories (dir. Jeff Nichols)
Afterschool (dir. Antonio Campos)
A Christmas Tale (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
Chop Shop (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen)
Doubt (dir. John Patrick Shanley)
The Class (dir. Philippe Claudel)
Séraphine (dir. Martin Provost)
Maria Larsson’s Everlasting Moments (dir. Jan Troell)
Skin (dir. Anthony Fabian)

Standard Operating Procedure (dir. Errol Morris)
Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Frost/Nixon (dir. Ron Howard)
Rachel Getting Married (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Terribly Happy (dir. Henrik Ruben Genz)
The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
Ballast (dir. Lance Hammer)
Burn After Reading (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Bronson (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Duchess (dir. Saul Dibb)
The Secret of the Grain (aka Couscous) (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
Wall•E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog)
Treeless Mountain (dir. So Yong Kim)
Sita Sings the Blues (dir. Nina Paley)
The Visitor (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
I’ve Loved You So Long (dir. Philippe Claudel)
Frozen River (dir. Courtney Hunt)
Kung-Fu Panda (dir. Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)
Lorna’s Silence (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Che: Parts 1 and 2 (dir. Steven Sodenbergh)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (dir. Mark Herman)
W. (dir. Oliver Stone)
Iron Man (dir. Jon Favreau)
Definitely, Maybe (dir. Adam Brooks)
Slumdog Millionaire (dir. Danny Boyle)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (dir. Marina Zenovich)
Trouble the Water (dir. Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (dir. Nicholas Stoller)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary (dir. Pepita Ferrari)
Lakeview Terrace (dir. Neil Labute)
Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood)

Redbelt (dir. David Mamet)
Momma’s Man (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
Elegy (dir. Isabel Coixet)
Tropic Thunder (dir. Ben Stiller)
Waltz with Bashir (dir. Ari Folman)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (dir. Woody Allen)
Adoration (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Henry Poole Is Here (dir. Mark Pellington)
Zach and Miri Make a Porno (dir. Kevin Smith)
Changeling (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Secret Life of Bees (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Tokyo!
(Michel Gondry “Interior Design,” Leos Carax “Merde,” and Joon-ho Bong “Shaking Tokyo”)
Shine a Light (dir. Martin Scorsese)
$9.99 (dir. Tatia Rosenthal)
Troubled Water (dir. Erik Poppe)
The Reader (dir. Stephen Daldry)

Honourable Selection: WALLACE & GROMIT

A Matter of Loaf and Death (dir. Nick Park, 2008)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (dir. Nick Park, 2005)
A Close Shave (dir. Nick Park, 1995)
The Wrong Trousers (dir. Nick Park, 1993)
A Grand Day Out (dir. Nick Park, 1989)

2007

There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
Once (dir. John Carney)
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird)
Brand Upon the Brain! (dir. Guy Maddin)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Michael Clayton (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Zoo (dir. Robinson Devor)
Stephanie Daley (dir. Hilary Brougher)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
No Country for Old Men (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Lookout (dir. Scott Frank)
The Silence before Bach (dir. Pere Portabella)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(dir. Andrew Dominik)
Grindhouse (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
with a nod to Death Proof and a wink to Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth)
Starting Out in the Evening (dir. Andrew Wagner)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (dir. Scott Hicks)
Joshua (dir. George Ratliff)
Control (dir. Anton Corbijn)
You, The Living (dir. Roy Andersson)
The Savages (dir. Tamara Jenkins)
Away from Her (dir. Sarah Polley)
Juno (dir. Jason Reitman)
Waitress (dir. Adrienne Shelly)
Boarding Gate (dir. Olivier Assayas)

Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)
Margo at the Wedding (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Lake of Fire (dir. Tony Kaye)
Chicago 10 (dir. Brett Morgen)
Hot Fuzz (dir. Edgar Wright)
The Kite Runner (dir. Marc Forster)
Charlie Wilson’s War (dir. Mike Nichols)
No End in Sight (dir. Charles Ferguson)
Paris, Je T’aime (dir. 22 Filmmakers)
Snow Angels (dir. David Gordon Green)
In the Valley of Elah (dir. Paul Haggis)
Bridges to Terabithia (dir. Gabor Csupo)
Terror’s Advocate (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door (dir. Gregory Wilson)
The Mist (dir Frank Darabont)
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
Irina Palm (dir. Sam Garbarski)
The Man from London (dir. Béla Tarr)
Frownland (dir. Ronald Bronstein)
Breach (dir. Billy Ray)
Boy A (dir. John Crowley)
Crazy Love (dir. Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens)
La Vie en Rose (dir. Olivier Dahan)
The Host (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Romance & Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro)
I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes)
Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (dir. David Yates)
Lars and the Real Girl (dir. Craig Gillespie)
The Simpsons Movie (dir. David Silverman)
Teeth (dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein)
Big Man Japan (dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto)
Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn)
Hairspray (dir. Adam Shankman)
The Darjeeling Limited (dir. Wes Anderson)
Please Vote for Me (dir. Weijun Chen)
The Orphanage (dir. Juan Antonio Bayona)
Last Days (dir. Gus Van Sant)
1408 (dir. Mikael Håfström)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (dir. Alex Holdridge)
Reservation Road (dir. Terry George)
12 (dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)
The Bourne Ultimatum (dir. Paul Greengrass)
A Mighty Heart (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Brick Lane (dir. Sarah Gavron)
3:10 to Yuma (dir. James Mangold)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (dir. Seth Gordon)
Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White)
The Great Debaters (dir. Denzel Washington)
The Last Mistress (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Helvetica (dir. Gary Hustwit)
Enchanted (dir. Kevin Lima)

No Reservations (dir. Scott Hicks)
Your Mommy Kills Animals (dir. Curt Johnson)
Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) (dir. Patricia Riggen)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (dir. Jake Kasdan)
Shoot ‘Em Up (dir. Michael Davis)
An American Crime (dir. Tommy O’Haver)
The Brave One (dir. Neil Jordon)
Married Life (dir. Ira Sachs)
American Gangster (dir. Ridley Scott)

2006

Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Tristram Shanty: A Cock and Bull Story (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Man Push Cart (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
The King (dir. James Marsh)
The Proposition (dir. John Hillcoat)
The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)
Longford (dir. Tom Hopper)
The Illusionist (dir. Neil Burger)
Babel (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Queen (dir. Stephen Frears)
Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster)
Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Climates (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (dir. Larry Charles)
Inland Empire (dir. David Lynch)
The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Flags of Our Fathers | Letters from Iwo Jima (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Open Window (dir. Mia Goldman)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (dir. Cristi Puiu)
Casino Royale (dir. Martin Campbell)
Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre)
Bug (dir. William Friedkin)

Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
Deliver Us from Evil (dir. Amy Berg)
The Notorious Bettie Page (dir. Mary Harron)
Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola)
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (dir. Stanley Nelson)
The Dead Girl (dir. Karen Moncrieff)
The Bridge (dir. Eric Steel)
The Killer Within (dir. Macky Alston)
Joyeux Noel (dir. Christian Carion)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (dir. Adam McKay)
Days of Glory (dir. Rachid Bouchareb)
Offside (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Blood Diamond (dir. Edward Zwick)
Edmond (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Curse of the Golden Flower (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
Conversations with Other Women (dir. Hans Canosa)
Brick (dir. Rian Johnson)
A Prairie Home Companion (dir. Robert Altman)
This Is England (dir. Shane Meadows)
Lassie (dir. Charles Sturridge)
Something New (dir. Sanaa Hamri)
The Good Shepard (dir. Robert De Niro)
Slither (dir. James Gunn)
Apocalypto (dr. Mel Gibson)
Come Early Morning (dir. Joey Lauren Adams)
Old Joy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Strangers with Candy (dir. Paul Dinello)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
Rescue Dawn (dir. Werner Herzog)
Friends with Money (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
The Namesake (dir. Mira Nair)
12:08 East of Bucharest (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Night Listener (dir. Patrick Stettne)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (dir. Ken Loach)
12 and Holding (dir. Michael Cuesta)
Monster House (dir. Gil Kenan)
The Hoax (dir. Lasse Hallström)
Shut Up & Sing (dir. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck)
Venus (dir. Roger Michell)
Time (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Hollywoodland (dir. Allen Coulter)
Fast Food Nation | A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater)
Black Snake Moan (dir. Craig Brewer)
Syndromes and a Century (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
An Inconvenient Truth (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
Breakfast on Pluto (dir. Neil Jordon)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (dir. Kirby Dick)
Manderlay (dir. Lars von Trier)
V for Vendetta (dir. James McTeigue)
Sherrybaby (dir. Laurie Collyer)
Taking Lives (dir. D.J. Caruso)
Idiocracy (dir. Mike Judge)

Bobby (dir. Emilio Estevez)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (dir. Tom Tykwer)
The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Fido (dir. Andrew Currie)
Breaking and Entering (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Jesus Camp (dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady)
Dreamgirls (dir. Bill Condon)
Water (dir. Deepa Mehta)
Akeelah and the Bee (dir. Doug Atchison)
Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jennifer Baichwal)
Flushed Away (dir. David Bowers and Sam Fell)
A Good Year (dir. Ridley Scott)
Clerks II (dir. Kevin Smith)
Tekkonkinkreet (dir. Michael Arias)
Quinceañera (dir. Richard Glatzer)
Dark Blue Almost Black (dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo)

2005

The Ring Finger (L’Annulaire) (dir. Diane Bertrand)
Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)
Schultze Gets The Blues (dir. Michael Schorr)
Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee)
Sin City (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (dir. Miranda July)
Mysterious Skin (dir. Gregg Araki)
Duane Hopwood (dir. Matt Mulhern)
Junebug (dir. Phil Morrison)
Nine Lives (dir. Rodrigo Garcí­a)
The Squid and the Whale (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (dir. Tommy Lee Jones)
Munich (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Weather Man (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Nuit Noire, 17 Octobre 1961 (dir. Alain Tasma)
Oldboy (dir. Chan-wook Park)
Police Beat (dir. Robinson Devor)
Saraband (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Millions (dir. Danny Boyle)
Sweet Land (dir. Ali Selim)
Firecracker (dir. Steve Balderson)
Match Point (dir. Woody Allen)
Tokyo Godfathers (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Crash (dir. Paul Haggis)
Downfall (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Volver (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (dir. Judd Apatow)

Shopgirl (dir. Anand Tucker)
The New World (dir. Terrance Malick)
Good Night, and Good Luck (dir. George Clooney)
Batman Begins (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (dir. Alex Gibney)
Eve and the Fire Horse (dir. Julia Kwan)
Yes (dir. Sally Potter)
Cache (aka Hidden) (dir. Michael Haneke)
Syriana (dir. Stephen Gaghan)
Lord of War (dir. Andrew Niccol)
King Kong (dir. Peter Jackson)
Thumbsucker (dir. Mike Mills)
Grizzly Man (dir. Werner Herzog)
Hard Candy (dir. David Slade)
The Upside of Anger (dir. Mike Binder)
51 Birch Street (dir. Doug Block)
Pride & Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright)
Thank You for Smoking (dir. Jason Reitman)
Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood)
Paradise Now (dir. Hany Abu-Assad)
The Matador (dir. Richard Shepard)
L’enfant (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Look Both Ways (dir. Sarah Watt)
House of Sand (dir. Andrucha Waddington)
Prime (dir. Ben Younger)
Hustle & Flow (dir. Craig Brewer)
North Country (dr. Niki Caro)
Our Daily Bread (dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Three Times (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Three… Extremes
(dir. Fruit Chan – DUMPLINGS, Chan-wook Park – CUT, Takashi Miike – BOX)
Dumplings (Full Length Version) (dir. Fruit Chan)
Broken Flowers (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Forty Shades of Blue (dir. Ira Sachs)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (dir. Mike Newell)
Duma (dir. Carroll Ballard)
Mrs Henderson Presents (dir. Stephen Frears)
Thieves of Innocence (dir. Paul Arcand)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (dir. Bill Paxton)
Game 6 (dir. Michael Hoffman)
Walk the Line (dir. James Mangold)
Fever Pitch (dir. Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (dir. Scott Derrickson)
Murderball (dir. Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
Corpse Bride (dir. Tim Burton and Mike Johnson)
The Aristocrats (dir. Paul Provenza)
Jarhead (dir. Sam Mendes)
Off the Map (dir. Campbell Scott)
Battle in Heaven (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Gabrielle (dir. Patrice Chéreau)
Reel Paradise (dir. Steve James)
Stay (dir. Marc Forster)
March of the Penguins (dir. Luc Jacquet)
Where the Truth Lies (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (dir. Marc Rothemund)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dir. Tim Burton)
The Motel (dir. Michael Kang)
The World’s Fastest Indian (dir. Roger Donaldson)
Havoc (dir. Barbara Kopple)
Sky High (dir. Mike Mitchell)
Cinderella Man (dir. Ron Howard)
MirrorMask (dir. Dave McKean)
Bee Season (dir. Scott McGehee and David Siegel)
Wah-Wah (dir. Richard E. Grant)
In Her Shoes (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Tupac: Resurrection (dir. Lauren Lazin)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (dir. Katsuhito Ishii and Hajime Ishimine)
Domino (dir. Tony Scott)
The Girl from Monday (dir. Hal Hartley)

Honourable Selection: The UP Documentaries

49 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2005)
42 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1998)
35 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1991)
28 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1984)
21 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1977)
7 Plus Seven (dir. Michael Apted, 1970)
Seven Up! (dir. Paul Almond, 1964)

Honourable Selection: THE BEST OF YOUTH
(dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)

2004

Kill Bill Vol. I & II (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Fog of War (dir. Errol Morris)
Kinsey (dir. Bill Condon)
Birth (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Spiderman 2 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Ripley’s Game (dir. Liliana Cavani)
Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird)
Finding Nemo (dir. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
Baadasssss! (dir. Mario Van Peebles)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
Vera Drake (dir. Mike Leigh)
Closer (dir. Mike Nichols)
Hotel Rwanda (dir. Terry George)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore)
Young Adam (dir. David Mackenzie)
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne)
Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Aviator (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Moolaadé (dir. Ousmane Sembene)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (dir. Niels Mueller)
Intimate Strangers (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Red Lights (dir. Cédric Kahn)
A Home at the End of the World (dir. Michael Mayer)
House of Flying Daggers (dir. Yimou Zhang)
King of the Corner (dir. Peter Riegert)
3-Iron (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Blind Shaft (dir. Yang Li)

Somersault (dir. Cate Shortland)
Undertow (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Libertine (dir. Laurence Dunmore)
Collateral (dir. Michael Mann)
Maria Full of Grace (dir. Joshua Marston)
The Terminal (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Dear Frankie (dir. Shona Auerbach)
The Syrian Bride (dir. Eran Riklis)
Primer (dir. Shane Carruth)
Brothers (dir. Susanne Bier)
Melinda and Melinda (dir. Woody Allen)
When Will I Be Loved (dir. James Toback)
My Summer of Love (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
Spartan (dir. David Mamet)
Yesterday (dir. Darrell Roodt)
Darwin’s Nightmare (dir. Hubert Sauper)
Winter Solstice (dir. Josh Sternfeld)
The Woodsman (dir. Nicole Kassell)
Down to the Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (dir. Mamoru Oshii)
The Holy Girl (dir. Lucrecia Martel)
Silver City (dir. John Sayles)
Nobody Knows (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Mean Creek (dir. Jacob Aaron Estes)
In the Realms of the Unreal (dir. Jessica Yu)
Turtles Can Fly (dir. Bahman Ghobadi)
The Ladykillers (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Friday Night Lights (dir. Peter Berg and Josh Pate)
Cellular (dir. David R. Ellis)
Palindromes (dir. Todd Solondz)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (dir. Stephen Hopkins)
Ray (dir. Taylor Hackford)
The Polar Express (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Howl’s Moving Castle (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Tanner on Tanner (dir. Robert Altman)

The Passion of the Christ (dir. Mel Gibson)
Finding Neverland (dir. Marc Forster)
Super Size Me (dir. Morgan Spurlock)
The Intruder (dir. Claire Denis)
Napoleon Dynamite (dir. Jared Hess)
The Bourne Supremacy (dir. Paul Greengrass)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dir. Wes Anderson)
Secret Window (dir. David Koepp)
The Clearing (dir. Pieter Jan Brugge)
Saved! (dir. Brian Dannelly)
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (dir. Keith Beauchamp)
Shaun of the Dead (dir. Edgar Wright)
The Machinist (dir. Brad Anderson)
Team America: World Police (dir. Trey Parker)
Shrek 2 (dir. Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury)
Helboy (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Vanity Fair (dir. Mira Nair)
My Mother (dir. Christophe Honoré)
The Notebook (dir. Nick Cassavetes)
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (dir. William Arntz and Betsy Chasse)

2003

The Son (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Barbarian Invasions (dir. Denys Arcand)
Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
City of God (dir. Fernando Meirelles)
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro)
American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
Lilya 4-Ever (dir. Lukas Moodysson)
Northfork (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
Matchstick Men (dir. Ridley Scott)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (dir. Peter Webber)
The Man on the Train (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Owning Mahowny (dir. Richard Kwietniowski)
The Five Obstructions (dir. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
Monster (dir. Patty Jenkins)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir. Peter Weir)
The Memory of a Killer (dir. Erik Van Looy)
The Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)

Intermission (dir. John Crowley)
All the Real Girls (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Station Agent (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
Time of the Wolf (dir. Michael Haneke)
The Saddest Music in the World (dir. Guy Maddin)
Touching The Void (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
May (dir. Lucky McKee)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
School of Rock (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Shape of Things (dir. Neil Labute)
The Company (dir. Robert Altman)
Japanese Story (dir. Sue Brooks)
Together (dir. Kaige Chen)
Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)
Love Actually (dir. Richard Curtis)
Thirteen (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
Bright Young Things (dir. Stephen Fry)
Capturing the Friedmans (dir. Andrew Jarecki)
Bad Santa (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
The Cooler (dir. Wayne Kramer)
Shattered Glass (dir. Billy Ray)
The Mother (dir. Roger Michell)
The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant)
I Capture the Castle (dir. Tim Fywell)
I’m Not Scared (dir. Gabriele Salvatores)
The Return (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
My Architect (dir. Nathaniel Kahn)
Big Fish (dir. Tim Burton)
Dopamine (dir. Mark Decena)
Good Bye, Dragon Inn (dir. Ming-liang Tsai)
Open Water (dir. Chris Kentis)
Bukowski: Born into This (dir. John Dullaghan)
Free Radicals (dir. Barbara Albert)
Down with Love (dir. Peyton Reed)
Bright Young Things (dir. Stephen Fry)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson)
Normal (dir. Jane Anderson)
Memories of Murder (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Osama (dir. Siddiq Barmak)
Identity (dir. James Mangold)
Tarnation (dir. Jonathan Caouette)
Bodysong (dir. Simon Pummell)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
(dir. Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill)
Hulk (dir. Ang Lee)
Nathalie… (dir. Anne Fontaine)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (dir. Joe Dante)
Peter Pan (dir. P.J. Hogan)
Elf (dir. Jon Favreau)
Swimming Pool (dir. François Ozon)
Cinemania (dir. Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak)
Love Me If You Dare (dir. Yann Samuell)
21 Grams (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Matrix Reloaded (dir. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski)
American Wedding (dir. Jesse Dylan)
The Corporation (dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)
Tupac: Resurrection (dir. Lauren Lazin)

Seabiscuit (dir. Gary Ross)
The Last Samurai (dir. Edward Zwick)
Mona Lisa Smile (dir. Mike Newell)

2002

Adaptation. (dir. Spike Jonze)
Punch-Drunk Love (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Lovely and Amazing (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Invincible (dir. Werner Herzog)
Talk To Her (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
13 Conversations About One Thing (dir. Jill Sprecher)
Auto Focus (dir. Paul Schrader)
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson)
Songs From The Second Floor (dir. Roy Andersson)
The Quiet American | Rabbit-Proof Fence (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Frailty (dir. Bill Paxton)
Last Orders (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Femme Fatale (dir. Brian DePalma)
Minority Report (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Y Tu Mamá También (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
One Hour Photo (dir. Mark Romanek)
Bowling for Columbine (dir. Michael Moore)
All or Nothing (dir. Mike Leigh)
Tully (dir. Hilary Birmingham)
Changing Lanes (dir. Roger Michell)
About Schmidt (dir. Alexander Payne)
25th Hour (dir. Spike Lee)
Ivansxtc. (dir. Bernard Rose)
The Man from Elysian Fields (dir. George Hickenlooper)
Frida (dir. Julie Taymore)
Friday Night (Vendredi Soir) (dir. Claire Denis)
The Kid Stays in the Pictures (dir. Nanette Burstein)
Solaris (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

Dirty Pretty Things (dir. Stephen Frears)
Far From Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes)
About a Boy (dir. Chris Weitz)
In America (dir. Jim Sheridan)
The Pianist (dir. Roman Polanski)
Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler)
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (dir. Lone Scherfig)
Raising Victor Vargas (dir. Peter Sollett)
The Good Girl (dir. Miguel Arteta)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (dir. Laetitia Colombani)
Irreversible (dir. Gaspar Noé)
The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Better Luck Tomorrow (dir. Justin Lin)
Stevie (dir. Steve James)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (dir. George Clooney)
Blue Car (dir. Karen Moncrieff)
Signs (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Insomnia (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
Pumpkin (dir. Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder)
24 Hour Party People (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
The Cat Returns (dir. Hiroyuki Morita)
Secretary (dir. Steven Shainberg)
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (dir. Rebecca Miller)
Gangs of New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Magdalene Sisters (dir. Peter Mullan)
8 Women (dir. François Ozon)
Oasis (dir. Chang-dong Lee)
Morvern Callar (dir. Lynn Ramsay)
Hero (dir. Yimou Zhang)
XX/XY (dir. Austin Chick)
Sunshine State (dir. John Sayles)
Catch Me If You Can (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Panic Room (dir. David Fincher)
The Laramie Project (dir. Moisés Kaufman)
Naqoyqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass)
In My Skin (dir. Marina de Van)
Close Your Eyes (dir. Nick Willing)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (dir. Chris Columbus)
Manito (dir. Eric Eason)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (dir. Peter Jackson)
The Bourne Identity (dir. Doug Liman)
Bend It Like Beckham (dir. Gurinder Chadha)
Secret Things (dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Unfaithful (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Spider (dir. David Cronenberg)
Eight Legged Freaks (dir. Ellory Elkayem)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (dir. Chan-wook Park)
Biggie and Tupac (dir. Nick Broomfield)
28 Days Later… (dir. Danny Boyle)
Bubba Ho-Tep (dir. Don Coscarelli)

Red Dragon (dir. Brett Ratner)
Lost in La Mancha (dir. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe)
Lilo & Stitch (dir. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders)
Love Liza (dir. Todd Louiso)
Chicago (dir. Rob Marshall)
Real Women Have Curves (dir. Patricia Cardoso)
People I Know (dir. Daniel Algrant)
Gerry (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Spiderman (dir. Sam Raimi)
Blood Work (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Hukkle (dir. György Pálfi)

2001

Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch)
Wit (dir. Mike Nichols)
Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Innocence (dir. Paul Cox)
Waking Life (dir. Richard Linklater)
In The Bedroom (dir. Todd Field)
Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman)
Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz)
Read My Lips (dir. Jacques Audiard)
The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke)
A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard)
The Royal Tenenbaums (dir. Wes Anderson)
Monsoon Wedding (dir. Mira Nair)
Monster’s Ball (dir. Marc Forster)
Fat Girl (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Millenium Actress (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly)
Time Out (dir. Laurent Cantet)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir. Zacharias Kunuk)

The Majestic (dir. Frank Darabont)
Bully (dir. Larry Clark)
Kwik Stop (dir. Michael Gilio)
The Son’s Room (dir. Nanni Moretti)
How I Killed My Father (dir. Anne Fontaine)
The Believer (dir Henry Bean)
Lost and Delirious (dir. Léa Pool)
Joy Ride (dir. John Dahl)
Trouble Every Day (dir. Claire Denis)
Moulin Rouge! (dir. Baz Luhrmann)
Nowhere in Africa (dir. Caroline Link)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
Amelie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
The Deep End (dir. Scott McGehee and David Siegel)
Kandahar (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
L.I.E. (dir. Michael Cuesta)
The Pledge (dir. Sean Penn)
What Time Is It Over There? (dir. Ming-liang Tsai)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Black Hawk Down (dir. Ridley Scott)
Monsters Inc. (dir. Pete Docter)
Disco Pigs (dir. Kirsten Sheridan)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (dir. Rodrigo García)
The Anniversary Party (dir. Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh)
Me Without You (dir. Sandra Goldbacher)
Intimacy (dir. Patrice Chéreau)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Spy Kids (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
From Hell (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes)
Shrek (dir. Andrew Adamson)
Made (dir. Jon Favreau)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (dir. Chris Columbus)
Human Nature (dir. Michel Gondry)
The Others (dir. Alejandro Amenábar)
Sex and Lucía (dir. Julio Medem)
Startup.com (dir. Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim)
The Cat’s Meow (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
My First Mister (dir. Christine Lahti)
Psycho Beach Party (dir. Robert Lee King)
Winged Migration (dir. Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud)
The Score (dir. Frank Oz)

Ocean’s Eleven (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Millennium Mambo (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Kissing Jessica Stein (dir. Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
A Knight’s Tale (dir. Brian Helgeland)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (dir. Peter Jackson)

2000

American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron)
You Can Count On Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Panic (dir. Henry Bromell)
Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr)
The Terrorist (dir. Santosh Sivan)
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)
Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
Quills (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Girl on the Bridge (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Sexy Beast (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
George Washington (dir. David Gordon Green)
Wonder Boys (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Code Unknown (dir. Michael Haneke)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir. Ang Lee)

Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Chicken Run (dir. Nick Park)
Dinner Rush (dir. Bob Giraldi)
The Claim (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
My Dog Skip (dir. Jay Russell)
Amores Perros (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Diamond Men (dir. Dan Cohen)
Pollock (dir. Ed Harris)
Chopper (dir. Andrew Dominik)
The Gleaners & I (dir. Agnès Varda)
Maelström (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars von Trier)
Under the Sand (dir. François Ozon)
The Circle (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Best in Show (dir. Christopher Guest)
The Contender (dir. Rob Lurie)
Little Otik (AKA Greedy Guts) (dir. Jan Švankmajer)
High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears)
The Emperor’s New Groove (dir. Mark Dindal)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel Coen)
Faithless (dir. Liv Ullmann)
In the Mood for Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Girlfight (dir. Karyn Kusama)
Billy Elliot (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Frequency (dir. Gregory Hoblit)
The Dish (dir. Rob Sitch)
Chuck & Buck (dir. Miguel Arteta)
Ginger Snaps (dir. John Fawcett)
The Crimson Rivers (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
The Cell (dir. Tarsem)
What’s Cooking? (dir. Gurinder Chadha)
Everything Put Together (dir. Marc Forster)
Nurse Betty (dir. Neil Labute)
The Gift (dir. Sam Raimi)
The Isle (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Dr. T & the Women (dir. Robert Altman)

Mission to Mars (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Princess and the Warrior (dir. Tom Tom Tykwer)
Tigerland (dir. Joel Schumacher)
Cast Away (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Space Cowboys (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott)

1999

Being John Malkovich (dir. Spike Jonze)
The Iron Giant (dir. Brad Bird)
Magnolia (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
After Life (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr. (dir. Errol Morris)
The War Zone (dir. Tim Roth)
Election (dir. Alexander Payne)
Boys Don’t Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce)
Eyes Wide Shut (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Titus (dir. Julie Taymor)
Three Kings (dir. David O. Russell)
American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes)
All About My Mother (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Summer of Sam (dir. Spike Lee)
The Limey (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Sleepy Hollow (dir. Tim Burton)
Limbo (dir. John Sayles)
The Straight Story (dir. David Lynch)
The Virgin Suicides (dir. Sofia Coppola)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (dir. Anthony Minghella)

Ravenous (dir. Antonia Bird)
Fight Club (dir. David Fincher)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (dir. Trey Parker)
Twin Falls Idaho (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
Ratcatcher (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Topsy-Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh)
Bringing Out the Dead (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Dogma (dir. Kevin Smith)
Man on the Moon (dir. Miloš Forman)
Wonderland (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
The Green Mile (dir. Frank Darabont)
Audition (dir. Takashi Miike)
American Movie (dir. Chis Smith)
eXistenZ (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Jesus’ Son (dir. Alison Maclean)
The Blair Witch Project (dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez)
Rosetta (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Guinevere (dir. Audrey Wells)
Croupier (dir. Mike Hodges)
October Sky (dir. Joe Johnston)
Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis)
The Big Kahuna (dir. John Swanbeck)
The Cider House Rules (dir. Lasse Hallström)
The Hurricane (dir. Norman Jewison)
Dick (dir. Andrew Fleming)
My Best Fiend (dir. Werner Herzog)

House on Haunted Hill (dir. William Malone)
8MM (dir. Joel Schumacher)
Rollercoaster (dir. Scott Smith)
The General’s Daughter (dir. Simon West)
8½ Women (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Romance (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Arlington Road (dir. Mark Pellington)
Tarzan (dir. Chris Buck and Kevin Lima)
The Matrix (dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski)
Bowfinger (dir. Frank Oz)
Office Space (dir. Mike Judge)
Cruel Intentions (dir. Roger Jumble)
Girl, Interrupted
Mystery Men (dir. Kinka Usher)
American Pie (dir. Paul Weitz)
Julien Donkey-Boy (dir. Harmony Korine)

Honourable Selection: BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES

The New Batman Adventures
Seasons 1 – 2 (Created by Bruce W. Timm, 1997 – 1999)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (dir. Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm)
Batman: The Animated Series
Seasons 1 – 3 (Created by Bruce W. Timm, 1992 – 1995)

1998

A Simple Plan (dir. Sam Raimi)
Dark City (dir. Alex Proyas)
Love and Death on Long Island (dir. Richard Kwietniowski)
The Truman Show (dir. Peter Weir)
Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross)
Babe: Pig in the City (dir. George Miller)
Affliction (dir. Paul Schrader)
Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson)
Happiness (dir. Todd Solondz)
Gods and Monsters (dir. Bill Condon)
Hilary and Jackie (dir. Anand Tucker)
Antz (dir. Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson)
The Red Violin (dir. (dir. François Girard)
Dangerous Beauty (dir. Marshall Herskovitz)
The Prince of Egypt (dir. Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner)
Life is Beautiful (dir. Roberto Begnini)
Pi (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Claire Dolan (dir. Lodge Kerrigan)
Your Friends And Neighbors (dir. Neil LaBute)
The Last Days of Disco (dir. Whit Stillman)

The Spanish Prisoner (dir. David Mamet)
Nil by Mouth (dir. Gary Oldman)
Shakespeare in Love (dir. John Madden)
The Thin Red Line (dir. Terrance Malick)
The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen)
Beloved (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Bulworth (dir. Warren Beatty)
Living Out Loud (dir. Richard LaGravenese)
There’s Something About Mary (dir. Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Saving Private Ryan (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Negotiator (dir. F. Gary Gray)
He Got Game (dir. Spike Lee)
Last Night (dir. Don McKellar)
High Art (dir. Lisa Cholodenko)
Return to Paradise (dir. Joseph Ruben)
Simon Birch (dir. Mark Steven Johnson)
Primary Colors (dir. Mike Nichols)
Insomnia (dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg)
The Celebration (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
Elizabeth (dir. Shekhar Kapur)
American History X (dir. Tony Kaye)
Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer)
I Stand Alone (dir. Gaspar Noé)
Out of Sight (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Small Soldiers (dir. Joe Dante)
Gia (dir. Michael Cristofer)

Great Expectations (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Waking Ned Devine (dir. Kirk Jones)
What Dreams May Come (dir. Vincent Ward)
The Mask of Zorro (dir. Martin Campbell)
Little Voice (dir. Mark Herman)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (dir. Terry Gilliam)
The Opposite of Sex (dir. Don Roos)
Madeline (dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
Pecker (dir. John Waters)

1997

Gattaca (dir. Andrew Niccol)
Boogie Nights (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
L.A. Confidential (dir. Curtis Hanson)
In The Company of Men (dir. Neil LaBute)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (dir. Errol Morris)
The Sweet Hereafter (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Men In Black (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
Children of Heaven (dir. Majid Majidi)
The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee)
Jackie Brown (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Wag the Dog (dir. Barry Levinson)
Princess Mononoke (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Eve’s Bayou (dir. Kasi Lemmons)
The Apostle (dir. Robert Duvall)
Sick: The Life & Death Of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (dir. Kirby Dick)
The Butcher Boy (dir. Neil Jordan)
Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Rosewood (dir. John Singleton)
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (dir. John Madden)
Maborosi (dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Funny Games | The Castle (dir. Michael Haneke)

Donnie Brasco (dir. Mike Newell)
My Son the Fanatic (dir. Udayan Prasad)
Kissed (dir. Lynne Stopkewich)
Titanic (dir. James Cameron)
Chasing Amy (dir. Kevin Smith)
Ponette (dir. Jacques Doillon)
Shiloh (dir. Dale Rosenbloom)
Clockwatchers (dir. Jill Sprecher)
Career Girls (dir. Mike Leigh)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (dir. Jay Roach)
Breast Men (dir. Lawrence O’Neil)
Koyla (dir. Rakesh Roshan)
Suicide Kings (dir. Peter O’Fallon)
Good Will Hunting (dir. Gus Van Sant)
SubUrbia (dir. Richard Linklater)
Cube (dir. Vincenzo Natali)
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (dir. Michael Cohn)
Shall We Dance (dir. Masayuki Suo)
The Wings of the Dove (dir. Iain Softley)
The Castle (dir. Rob Sitch)
The Game (dir. David Fincher)
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (dir. Bille August)
Buffalo ’66 (dir. Vincent Gallo)
Bliss (dir. Lance Young)
Microcosmos: Le Peuple de L’herbe (dir. Claude Nuridsany)
Oscar and Lucinda (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Taste of Cherry (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
Deconstructing Harry (dir. Woody Allen)
Kundun (dir. Martin Scorsese)

Face/Off (dir. John Woo)
Mimic (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
The Full Monty (dir. Peter Cattaneo)
Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch)
Breakdown (dir. Jonathan Mostow)
Anastasia (dir. Don Bluth)
As Good as It Gets (dir. James L. Brooks)
My Best Friend’s Wedding (dir. PJ Hogan)
U Turn (dir. Oliver Stone)
Absolute Power | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(dir. Clint Eastwood)
Mousehunt (dir. Gore Verbinski)

 

1996

Fargo (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shine (dir. Scott Hicks)
Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier)
The People vs. Larry Flint (dir. Miloš Forman)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (dir. Todd Solondz)
Secrets and Lies (dir. Mike Leigh)
Sydney (aka Hard Eight) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Bound (dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
Sling Blade (dir. Billy Bob Thornton)
Big Night (dir. Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott)
Freeway (dir. Matthew Bright)
The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Lone Star (dir. John Sayles)
Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
La Promesse (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)

Ridicule (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Matilda (dir. Danny DeVito)
The Pillow Book (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The Frighteners (dir. Peter Jackson)
Walking and Talking (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
I Shot Andy Warhol (dir. Mary Harron)
The Arrival (dir. David Twohy)
Flirting with Disaster (dir. David O. Russell)
Bottle Rocket (dir. Wes Anderson)
Bastard Out of Carolina (dir. Anjelica Huston)
Looking for Richard (dir. Al Pacino)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
Courage Under Fire (dir. Edward Zwick)
Kissed (dir. Lynne Stopkewich)
Fear (dir. James Foley)
Primal Fear (dir. Gregory Hoblit)
Deep Crimson (dir. Arturo Ripstein)
Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle)
Set It Off (dir. F. Gary Gray)
The Portrait of a Lady (dir. Jane Campion)
Sleepers (dir. Barry Levinson)
Marvin’s Room (dir. Jerry Zaks)
Jerry Maguire (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Citizen Ruth (dir. Alexander Payne)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (dir. Michael Lehmann)
Nenette + Boni (dir. Claire Denis)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (dir. Mike Judge)
Blood and Wine (dir. Bob Rafelson)
Kingpin (dir. Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Mars Attacks! (dir. Tim Burton)
Extreme Measures (dir. Michael Apted)
Mission: Impossible (dir. Brian De Palma)

That Thing You Do! (dir. Tom Hanks)
Swingers (dir. Doug Liman)
The Nutty Profesor (dir. Tom Shadyac)
The Rock (dir. Michael Bay)
Mother (dir. Albert Brooks)
The Craft (dir. Andrew Fleming)
Steven Soderbergh’s Schizopolis (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Eraser (dir. Chuck Russell)
The Birdcage (dir. Mike Nichols)
James and the Giant Peach (dir. Henry Selick)
Fly Away Home (dir. Carroll Ballard)
The Cable Guy (dir. Ben Stiller)
Long Kiss Goodnight (dir. Renny Harlin)

1995

To Die For (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Crumb (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Dolores Claiborne (dir. Taylor Hackford)
Dead Man Walking (dir. Tim Robbins)
Se7en (dir. David Fincher)
Leaving Las Vegas (dir. Mike Figgis)
La Cérémonie (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Nixon (dir. Oliver Stone)
Whisper of the Heart (dir. Yoshifumi Kondo)
Exotica (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Muriel’s Wedding (dir. P.J. Hogan)
The White Balloon (dir. Jafar Panahi)
Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Richard III (dir. Richard Loncraine)
Babe (dir. Chris Noonan)
Before the Rain (dir. Milcho Manchevski)
Mr. Holland’s Opus (dir. Stephen Herek)
Carrington (dir. Christopher Hampton)
Before Sunrise (dir. Richard Linklater)

A Single Girl (dir. Benoît Jacquot)
Kicking and Screaming (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Restoration (dir. Michael Hoffman)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (dir. John McTiernan)
Safe (dir. Todd Haynes)
Kids (dir. Larry Clark)
Margaret’s Museum (dir. Mort Ransen)
Rob Roy (dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Twelve Monkeys (dir. Terry Gilliam)
A Walk in the Clouds (dir. Alfonso Arau)
The American President (dir. Rob Reiner)
Immortal Beloved (dir. Bernard Rose)
Heat (dir. Michael Mann)
Mighty Aphrodite (dir. Woody Allen)
A Little Princess (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Clockers (dir. Spike Lee)
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (dir. Nick Broomfield)
Dead Man (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
The Secret of Roan Inish (dir. John Sayles)
Heavy (dir. James Mangold)
Ghost in the Shell (dir. Mamoru Oshii)
Clueless (dir. Amy Heckerling)
A Month by the Lake (dir. John Irvin)
La Haine (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
L’univers de Jacques Demy (dir. Agnès Varda)
Braveheart (dir. Mel Gibson)
Copycat (dir. Jon Amiel)
Apollo 13 (dir. Ron Howard)
Dead Presidents (dir. Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes)
Village of the Damned (dir. John Carpenter)
GoldenEye (dir. Martin Campbell)

A Goofy Movie (dir. Kevin Lima)
The Quick and the Dead (dire. Sam Raimi)
Nick of Time (dir. John Badham)
Tall Tale (dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik)
Virtuosity (dir. Brett Leonard)
Lord of Illusions (dir. Clive Barker)
The Last Supper (dir. Stacy Title)

Honourable Selection: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: TV Mini-Series

Episodes 1- 6 (dir. Simon Langton, 1995)

1994

Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Ed Wood (dir. Tim Burton)
The Shawskank Redemption (dir. Frank Darabont)
Speed (dir. Jan de Bont)
The Last Seduction (dir. John Dahl)
The Hudsucker Proxy (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Heavenly Creatures (dir. Peter Jackson)
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (dir. François Girard)
Fresh (dir. Boaz Yakin)
Natural Born Killers (dir. Oliver Stone)
Ladybird Ladybird (dir. Ken Loach)
To Live (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Hoop Dreams (dir. Steve James)
Barcelona (dir. Whit Stillman)
Forrest Gump (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
The Lion King (dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff)
Quiz Show (dir. Robert Redford)
Vanya on 42nd Street (dir. Louis Malle)

Shallow Grave (dir. Danny Boyle)
Jamón Jamón (dir. Bigas Luna)
Trial by Jury (dir. Heywood Gould)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (dir. Neil Jordon)
Clerks (dir. Kevin Smith)
Nobody’s Fool (dir. Robert Benton)
Chungking Express (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
Fun (dir. Rafal Zielinski)
Red Rock West (dir. John Dahl)
Wolf (dir. Mike Nichols)
Leon: The Professional (dir. Luc Besson)
Little Women (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Swimming with Sharks (dir. George Huang)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (dir. Mike Newell)
The Paper (dir. Ron Howard)
Serial Mom (dir. John Waters)
The Jungle Book (dir. Stephen Sommers)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (dir. Michael Haneke)
In the Hands of a Puppet Master (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Blink (dir. Micheal Apted)
Captives (dir. Angela Pope)
Blue Sky (dir. Tony Richardson)
Black Beauty (dir. Caroline Thompson)
I Can’t Sleep (dir. Claire Denis)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (dir. Peter Segal)
Cop Tips Waitress Two Million Dollars (AKA It Could Happen To You)
(dir. Andy Bergman)
The Mask (dir. Chuck Russell)
When a Man Loves a Woman (dir. Luis Mandoki)
Dumb and Dumber (dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
The New Age (dir. Michael Tolklin)
New Nightmare (dir. Wes Craven)
Falling Down (dir. Joel Schumacher)
The Madness of King George (dir. Nicholas Hytner)

True Lies (dir. James Cameron)
Guarding Tess (dir. Hugh Wilson)
The Shadow (dir. Russell Mulcahy)
Legends of the Fall (dir. Edward Zwick)

Honourable Selection: THREE COLORS

Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
White (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)

Honourable Selection: SATANTANGO (Dir. Béla Tarr, 1994)


1993

Schindler’s List (dir. Steven Speilberg)
The Joy Luck Club (dir. Wayne Wang)
The Fugitive (dir. Andrew Davis)
Shadowlands (dir. Richard Attenborough)
Naked (dir. Mike Leigh)
King of the Hill (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Piano (dir. Jane Campion)
Matinee (dir. Joe Dante)
Household Saints (dir. Nancy Savoca)
Short Cuts (dir. Robert Altman)
Menace II Society (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes)
The Age of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick)
Baraka (dir. Ron Fricke)
Kalifornia (dir. Dominic Sena)
Groundhog Day (dir. Harold Ramis)
Searching For Bobby Fischer (dir. Steven Zaillian)
Ruby in Paradise (dir. Victor Nunez)
Farewell My Concubine (dir. Kaige Chen)

Fearless (dir. Peter Weir)
A Perfect World (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Remains of the Day (dir. James Ivory)
Mad Dog and Glory (dir. John McNaughton)
Body Snatchers (dir. Abel Ferrara)
What’s Love Got to Do with It (dir. Brian Gibson)
The Baby of Mâcon (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Addams Family Values (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
Dazed and Confused (dir. Richard Linklater)
Cronos (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
The Blue Kite (dir. Zhuangzhuang Tian)
Heaven & Earth (dir. Oliver Stone)
Clean, Shaven (dir. Lodge Kerrigan)
This Boy’s Life (dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (dir. Nick Broomfield)
Sommersby (dir. Jon Amiel)
Philadelphia (dir. Jonathan Demme)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (dir. Lasse Hallström)
In the Line of Fire (dir. Wolfgang Petersen)
True Romance (dir. Tony Scott)
Dave (dir. Ivan Reitman)

Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Secret Garden (dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Rudy (dir. David Anspaugh)
The Re-Cobbled Version of The Thief and the Cobbler
(dir. Richard Williams)

1992

The Player (dir. Robert Altman)
Glenngarry Glen Ross (dir. James Foley)
The Crying Game (dir. Neil Jordan)
Orlando (dir. Sally Potter)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Raise The Red Lantern (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Mac (dir. John Turturro)
Like Water for Chocolate (dir. Alfonso Arau)
Damage (dir. Louis Malle)
Howard’s End (dir. James Ivory)
One False Move (dir. Carl Franklin)
Unforgiven (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Passion Fish (dir. John Sayles)
Flirting (dir. John Duigan)
Léolo (dir. Jean-Claude Lauzon)
Malcolm X (dir. Spike Lee)
Bad Lieutenant (dir. Abel Ferrara)
Candyman (dir. Bernard Rose)
Light Sleeper (dir. Paul Schrader)
Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter) (dir. Claude Sautet)

A League of Their Own (dir. Penny Marshall)
Army of Darkness (dir. Sam Raimi)
Of Mice and Men (dir. Gary Sinise)
Aladdin (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
Husbands and Wives (dir. Woody Allen)
Scent of a Woman (dir. Martin Brest)
The Waterdance (dir. Neal Jimenez and Michael Steinberg)
Lessons in Darkness (dir. Werner Herzog)
Dead Alive (dir. Peter Jackson)
Benny’s Video (dir. Michael Haneke)
Batman Returns (dir. Tim Burton)
Wayne’s World (dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Bob Roberts (dir. Tim Robbins)
Porco Rosso (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Single White Female (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Man Bites Dog (dir. Rémy Belvaux)
El Mariachi (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino)

HouseSitter (dir. Frank Oz)
Beethoven (dir. Brian Levant)

1991

Beauty and the Beast (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Barton Fink (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
JFK (dir. Oliver Stone)
La Belle Noiseuse (dir. Jacques Rivette)
Once Around (dir. Lasse Hallström)
The Rapture (dir. Michael Tolkin)
Bugsy (dir. Barry Levinson)
Grand Canyon (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
The Man In The Moon (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Double Life of Veronique (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Homicide (dir. David Mamet)
A Woman’s Tale (dir. Paul Cox)
Dogfight (dir. Nancy Savoca)

Terminator 2: Judgment day (dir. James Cameron)
L.A. Story (dir. Mick Jackson)
Prospero’s Books (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Life Is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh)
Naked Lunch (dir. David Cronenberg)
A Brief History of Time (dir. Errol Morris)
All the Mornings of the World (Tous Les Matins du Monde)
(dir. Alain Corneau)
Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton)
Dead Again (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Slacker (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Commitments (dir. Alan Parker)
The Doctor (dir. Randa Haines)
Thelma & Louise (dir. Ridley Scott)
Cape Fear (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Let Him Have It (dir. Peter Medak)
Jungle Fever (dir. Spike Lee)
The Rocketeer (dir. Joe Johnston)
Delicatessen (dir. Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
The Lovers on the Bridge (dir. Leos Carax)
Carne (dir. Gaspar Noé)
The Object of Beauty (dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg)
Mississippi Masala (dir. Mira Nair)
True Colors (dir. Herbert Ross)
What About Bob? (dir. Frank Oz)
City Slickers (dir. Ron Underwood)

Honourable Selection: Based on the novels by Marcel Pagnol

My Father’s Glory | My Mother’s Castle (dir. Yves Robert, 1991)
Jean de Florette | Manon of the Spring (dir. Claude Berri, 1986)

1990

Monsieur Hire (dir. Patrice Leconte)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (dir. Uli Edel)
Darkman (dir. Sam Raimi)
The Grifters (dir. Stephen Frears)
Santa Sangre (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Reversal of Fortune (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Miller’s Crossing (dir. Joel Coen)
Avalon (dir. Barry Levinson)
Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton)
Presumed Innocence (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
The Krays (dir. Peter Medak)
Sweetie (dir. Jane Campion)
After Dark, My Sweet (dir. James Foley)
Pump Up the Volume (dir. Allan Moyle)
Days of Being Wild (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
The Match Factory Girl (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Metropolitan (dir. Whit Stillman)
Vincent and Theo (dir. Robert Altman)

Cinema Paradiso (dir. Giuseppe Tornatore)
Dances with Wolves (dir. Kevin Costner)
White Hunter Black Heart (dir. Clint Eastwood)
An Angel at My Table (dir. Jane Champion)
Close-Up (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
The Hot Spot (dir. Dennis Hopper)
Europa (dir. Lars von Trier)
Awakenings (dir. Penny Marshall)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (dir. Joe Dante)
Dick Tracy (dir. Warren Beatty)
Henry & June (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Jacob’s Ladder (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (dir. Renny Harlin)
The Reflecting Skin (dir. Philip Ridley)
The Long Walk Home (dir. Richard Pearce)
Joe Versus the Volcano (dir. John Patrick Shanley)
Begotten (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
La Femme Nikita (dir. Luc Besson)
Europa Europa (dir. Agnieszka Holland)
Nightbreed (dir. Clive Barker)
Cyrano de Bergerac (dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
The Hunt for Red October (dir. John McTiernan)
Arachnophobia (dir. Frank Marshall)
The Rescuers Down Under (dir. Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel)
White Palace (dir. Luis Mandoki)
Tremors (dir. Ron Underwood)
Bad Influence (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Halfaouine: Child of the Terraces (AKA The Rooftop Hopper)
(Asfour Stah) (dir. Férid Boughedir)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (dir. David Zucker)

Honourable Selection: THE DECALOGUE

Decalogue X (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue IX (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VIII (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VII (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VI (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue V (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue IV (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue III (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue II (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue I (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)
“A Short Film About Love” (80 min. version of Decalogue VI, 1988)
“A Short Film About Killing” (80 min. version of Decalogue V, 1988)

1989

Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)
The Seventh Continent (dir. Michael Haneke)
Born on the Fourth of July (dir. Oliver Stone)
The War of the Roses (dir. Danny DeVito)
Enemies: A Love Story (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Drugstore Cowboy (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Say Anything! (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Scandal (dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Roger and Me (dir. Michael Moore)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (dir. Woody Allen)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (dir. Jim Sheridan)

Batman (dir. Tim Burton)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Tall Guy (dir. Mel Smith)
Baxter (dir. Jérôme Boivin)
Mystery Train (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Johnny Handsome (dir. Walter Hill)
The Little Mermaid (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (dir. Steve Kloves)
For All Mankind (dir. Al Reinert)
Dead Calm (dir. Phillip Noyce)
When Harry Met Sally (dir. Rob Reiner)
Driving Miss Daisy (dir. Bruce Beresford)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (dir. Bruce Robinson)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Dark Obsession (dir. Nick Broomfield)
The Abyss (dir. James Cameron)
Casualties of War (dir. Brian De Palma)
Back to the Future Part II and Part III (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Parents (dir. Bob Balaban)

1988

Talk Radio (dir. Oliver Stone)
Grave of the Fireflies (dir. Isao Takahata)
The Vanishing (dir. George Sluizer)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
The Thin Blue Line (dir. Errol Morris)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan)
Dead Ringers (dir. David Cronenberg)
High Hopes (dir. Mike Leigh)
The Last Temptation of Christ (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton)
Paperhouse (dir. Bernard Rose)
My Neighbor Totoro (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Bull Durham (dir. Ron Shelton)
Running on Empty (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Drowning by Numbers (dir. Peter Greenaway)

Ariel (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Chocolate (dir. Claire Denis)
Akira (dir. Katsuhiro Otomo)
Salaam Bombay! (dir. Mira Nair)
The Accidental Tourist (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
A Cry in the Dark (dir. Fred Schepisi)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (dir. David Zucker)
The Accused (dir. Jonathan Kaplan)
Midnight Run (dir. Martin Brest)
Dangerous Liaisons (dir. Stephen Frears)
Working Girl (dir. Mike Nichols)
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (dir. Michael Apted)
Damnation (dir. Béla Tarr)
36 Fillette (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Masquerade (dir. Bob Swaim)
Bird (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Clean and Sober (dir. Glenn Gordon Caron)
Mississippi Burning (dir. Alan Parker)
A Fish Called Wanda (dir. Charles Crichton)
Powaqqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass)
Heathers (dir. Michael Lehmann)
Big (dir. Penny Marshall)
Permanent Record (dir. Marisa Silver)
The Land Before Time (dir. Don Bluth)

Child’s Play (dir. Tom Holland)
Hairspray (dir. John Waters)
Scrooged (dir. Richard Donner)

Honourable Selection: TANNER ’88

Season 1 (dir. Robert Altman, 1988)

1987

Housekeeping (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Babette’s Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel)
House of Games (dir. David Mamet)
The Untouchables (dir. Brian De Palma)
Broadcast News (dir. James L. Brooks)
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (dir. Paul Cox)
Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders)
Raising Arizona (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Prick Up Your Ears (dir. Stephen Frears)
The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner)
The Last Emperor (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Moonstruck (dir. Norman Jewison)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (dir. Louis Malle)
Wall Street (dir. Oliver Stone)
Radio Days (dir. Woody Allen)

The Belly of an Architect (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Near Dark (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (dir. Bill Couturié)
The Witches of Eastwick (dir. George Miller)
Roxanne (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Barfly (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (dir. John Hughes)
Innerspace (dir. Joe Dante)
4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | Boyfriends and Girlfriends
(dir. Éric Rohmer)
Withnail and I (dir. Bruce Robinson)
Robocop (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Hope and Glory (dir. John Boorman)
Family Dog (from Amazing Stories) (dir. Brad Bird)
Less Than Zero (dir. Marek Kanievska)
Hamburger Hill (dir. John Irvin)
Good Morning, Vietnam (dir. Barry Levinson)
Evil Dead II (dir. Sam Raimi)
Lethal Weapon (dir. Richard Donner)
Angel Heart (dir. Alan Parker)

1986

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (dir. John McNaughton)
The Fly (dir. David Cronenberg)
Sid and Nancy (dir. Alex Cox)
Hannah and Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen)
Aliens (dir. James Cameron)
Platoon | Salvador (dir. Oliver Stone)
‘Round Midnight (dir. Bertrand Tavernier)
True Stories (dir. David Byrne)
The Big Easy (dir. Jim McBride)
Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch)
Vagabond (dir. Agnès Varda)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Hoosiers (dir. David Anspaugh)
River’s Edge (dir. Tim Hunter)

Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme)
The Great Mouse Detective (dir. Ron Clements and Burny Mattinson)
Little Shop of Horrors (dir. Frank Oz)
9½ Weeks (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Summer (AKA The Green Ray) (dir. Éric Rohmer)
At Close Range (dir. James Foley)
Mona Lisa (dir. Neil Jordan)
Shadows in Paradise (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
Peggy Sue Gets Married (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
When the Wind Blows (dir. Jimmy T. Murakami)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Ruthless People (dir. Jim Abrahams)
Caravaggio (dir. Derek Jarman)

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (dir. John Hughes)
Manhunter (dir. Michael Mann)
Big Trouble in Little China (dir. John Carpenter)

1985

A Zed and Two Noughts (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Mishima (dir. Paul Schrader)
Come and See (dir. Elem Klimov)
Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Color Purple (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Witness (dir. Peter Weir)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (dir. Woody Allen)
After Hours (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Prizzi’s Honor (dir. John Huston)
Back To The Future (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
To Live and Die in L.A. (dir. William Friedkin)
No End (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Lost in America (dir. Albert Brooks)
Louie Bluie (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Streetwise (dir. Martin Bell)

Re-Animator (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Smooth Talk (dir. Joyce Chopra)
UFOria (dir. John Binder)
Mask (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Trouble in Mind (dir. Alan Rudolph)
The Falcon and the Snowman (dir. John Schlesinger)
Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Runaway Train (dir. Andrey Konchalovskiy)
Dance with a Stranger (dir. Mike Newell)
My Life as a Dog (dir. Lasse Hallström)
The Breakfast Club (dir. John Hughes)

1984

Amadeus (dir. Miloš Forman)
Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Gremlins (dir. Joe Dante)
The Terminator (dir. James Cameron)
Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone)
Blood Simple (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Secret Honor (dir. Robert Altman)
Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton)
This Is Spinal Tap (dir. Rob Reiner)

Choose Me (dir. Alan Rudolph)
The Element of Crime (dir. Lars von Trier)
Making a Splash! (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Repo Man (dir. Alex Cox)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (dir. Wes Craven)
Stop Making Sense | Swing Shift (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Racing with the Moon (dir. Richard Benjamin)
Comfort and Joy (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Beverly Hills Cop (dir. Martin Brest)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
The Times of Harvey Milk (dir. Rob Epstein)
The Karate Kid (dir. John G. Avildsen)

Top Secret! (dir. Jim Abrahams and David Zucker)
The Company of Wolves (dir. Neil Jordon)
The NeverEnding Story (dir. Wolfgang Petersen)
Tightrope (dir. Richard Tuggle)

1983

Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass)
El Norte (dir. Gregory Nava)
Testament (dir. Lynne Littman)
Star 80 (dir. Bob Fosse)
The Right Stuff (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
L’Argent (dir. Robert Bresson)
À Nos Amours (dir. Maurice Pialat)
A Christmas Story (dir. Bob Clark)
Scarface (dir. Brian DePalma)
Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Pauline at the Beach (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Betrayal (dir. David Hugh Jones)
Sans Soleil (dir. Chris Marker)

Variety (dir. Bette Gordon)
The Entity (dir. Sidney J. Furie)
The Makioka Sisters (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
Entre Nous (dir. Diane Kurys)
The Big Chill (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Videodrome | The Dead Zone (dir. David Cronenberg)
Terms of Endearment (dir. James L. Brooks)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (dir. Harold Ramis)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
Return of the Jedi (dir. Richard Marquand)
Bad Boys (dir. Rick Rosenthal)
Risky Business (dir. Paul Brickman)
Silkwood (dir. Mike Nichols)
Valley Girl (dir. Martha Coolidge)
Meantime (dir. Mike Leigh)
Sudden Impact (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Outsiders (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Rock & Rule (dir. Clive A. Smith)

1982

Diva (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix)
The Year of Living Dangerously (dir. Peter Weir)
Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Verdict (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Tootsie (dir. Sydney Pollack)
The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese)
E.T. (The Original Version) (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Fitzcarraldo (dir. Werner Herzog) | Burden of Dreams (dir. Les Blank)
The Secret of NIMH (dir. Don Bluth)
Sophie’s Choice (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Diner (dir. Barry Levinson)
An Officer and A Gentleman (dir. Taylor Hackford)

Creepshow (dir. George A. Romero)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
Cat People (dir. Paul Schrader)
The Snowman (dir. Dianne Jackson)
Personal Best (dir. Robert Towne)
My Favorite Year (dir. Richard Benjamin)
Blade Runner (The Final Cut, 2007) (dir. Ridley Scott)

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (dir. Lou Adler)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (dir. Alan Parker)
Tron (dir. Steven Lisberger)

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg)
My Dinner With Andre (dir. Louis Malle)
Pennies from Heaven (dir. Herbert Ross)
Thief (dir. Michael Mann)
Blow out (dir. Brian De Palma)
Mephisto (dir. István Szabó)
Christiane F. (dir. Uli Edel)
Body Heat (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco)
Blind Chance (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Cutter’s Way (dir. Ivan Passer)
Gregory’s Girl (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Reds (dir. Warren Beatty)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (dir. Karel Reisz)

Superman II (dir. Richard Lester)
Quest for Fire (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud)
The Evil Dead (dir. Sam Raimi)
Modern Romance (dir. Albert Brooks)
Time Bandits (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Possession (dir. Andrzej Zulawski)
Vernon, Florida (dir. Errol Morris)
Chariots of Fire (dir. Hugh Hudson)

An American Werewolf in London (dir. John Landis)
Fox and the Hound (dir. Ted Berman and Richard Rich)
Scanners (dir. David Cronenberg)

1980

Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Mon oncle d’Amerique (dir. Alain Resnais)
The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Melvin and Howard (dir. Jonathan Demme)
The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis)
The Big Red One (The Reconstruction, 2004)
(dir. Samuel Fuller)
Kagemusha (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (dir. Louis Malle)

Every Man for Himself (Sauve Qui Peut – La Vie) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Out of the Blue (No Turning Back) (dir. Dennis Hopper)
Popeye (dir. Robert Altman)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (dir. Michael Apted)
American Gigalo (dir. Paul Schrader)
Airplane (dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
Fame (dir. Alan Parker)
The Falls (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Altered States (dir. Ken Russell)
Dressed to Kill (dir. Brian De Palma)

Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman)
Nine to Five (dir. Colin Higgins)

1979

Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
Being There (dir. Hal Ashby)
Nosferatu | Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura)
Mad Max (dir. George Miller)
Camera Buff (Amator) (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
My Brilliant Career (dir. Gillian Armstrong)

Hair (dir. Miloš Forman)
Scum (dir. Alan Clarke)
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (dir. Allan Arkush)
Hardcore (dir. Paul Schrader)
The Black Stallion (dir. Carroll Ballard)
Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
Breaking Away (dir. Peter Yates)
The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
The Brood (dir. David Cronenberg)

1978

Days of Heaven (dir. Terrance Malick)
Gates of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris)
Halloween (dir. John Carpenter)
Dawn of the Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Superman (dir. Richard Donner)
Coma (dir. Michael Crichton)
Autumn Sonata (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog)
An Unmarried Woman (dir. Paul Mazursky)
The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)
Interiors (dir. Woody Allen)

Straight Time (dir. Ulu Grosbard)
Real Life (dir. Albert Brooks)
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (dir. Chantal Akerman)
Blue Collar (dir. Paul Schrader)
Koko, a Talking Gorilla (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Empire of Passion (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Watership Down (dir. Martin Rosen)
American Hot Wax (dir. Floyd Mutrux)

1977

Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Hausu (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple)
Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
Killer of Sheep (dir. Charles Burnett)
Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(Superior Director’s Cut re-released in 1980)
(dir. Steven Spielberg)

That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
Abigail’s Party (dir. Mike Leigh)
Demon Seed (dir. Donald Cammell)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Rescuers (dir. John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman)
News from Home (dir. Chantal Akerman)

1976

Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Small Change (dir. François Truffaut)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
Swept Away… by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August
(dir. Lina Wertmuller)

Je Tu Il Elle (dir. Chantal Akerman)
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Scar (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (dir. John Cassavetes)
Heart of Glass (dir. Werner Herzog)
Logan’s Run (dir. Michael Anderson)

1975

Nashville (dir. Robert Altman)
Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman)
Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Night Moves (dir. Arthur Penn)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir. Peter Weir)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
(dir. Chantal Akerman)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman)
The Mirror (dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy)
Inframan! (dir. Shan Hua)
The Stepford Wives (dir. Bryan Forbes)

Shivers (They Came from Within) (dir. David Cronenberg)

1974

The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski)
Scenes from a Marriage (5-hour TV version) (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Godfather Part II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks)
My Uncle Antoine (dir. Claude Jutra)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (dir. Werner Herzog)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes)
Day for Night (dir. François Truffaut)

The Gambler (dir. Karel Reisz)
Amarcord (dir. Federico Fellini)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Yakuza (dir. Sydney Pollack)
California Split (dir. Robert Altman)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (dir. Tobe Hooper)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (dir. John Hough)
Blazing Saddles (dir. Mel Brooks)
Sleeper (dir. Woody Allen)

1973

Cries and Whispers (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy)
Badlands (dir. Terrance Malick)
The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman)
Mean Streets (dir. Martin Scorsese)
F for Fake (dir. Orson Welles)
The Last Detail (dir. Hal Ashby)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (dir. Peter Yates)
Paper Moon (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin)
American Graffiti (dir. George Lucas)

Sisters (dir. Brian De Palma)
O Lucky Man! (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
The Mother and the Whore (dir. Jean Eustache)
The Day of the Jackal (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Don’t Look Now (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Serpico (dir. Sidney Lumet)
The Legend of Hell House (dir. John Hough)

Robin Hood (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
World on a Wire (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1972

The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Images (dir. Robert Altman)
Aguirre: Wrath of God (dir. Werner Herzog)
Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Heartbreak Kid (dir. Elaine May)
Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Chloe in the Afternoon (dir. Éric Rohmer)
The Other (dir. Robert Mulligan)

Cabaret (dir. Bob Fosse)
Boxcar Bertha (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Deliverance (dir. John Boorman)
Prime Cut (dir. Michael Ritchie)
La Chambre | Hôtel Monterey (dir. Chantal Akerman)

1971

A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman)
Walkabout (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Carnal Knowledge (dir. Mike Nichols)
Straw Dogs (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Beguiled (dir. Don Siegel)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Murmur of the Heart (dir. Louis Malle)
Dirty Harry (dir. Don Siegel)
Get Carter (dir. Mike Hodges)
Duel (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Two-Lane Blacktop (dir. Monte Hellman)

Klute (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (dir. Mel Stuart)
Harold and Maude (dir. Hal Ashby)
Bleak Moments (dir. Mike Leigh)
Play Misty for Me (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dusan Makavejev)

1970

Patton (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Conformist (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson)
M*A*S*H (dir. Robert Altman)
Le Cercle Rouge (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Boucher (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Claire’s Knee (dir. Éric Rohmer)

Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden)
Little Big Man (dir. Arthur Penn)
Donkey Skin (dir. Jacques Demy)
Husbands (dir. John Cassavetes)
Woodstock (dir. Michael Wadleigh)
The Wild Child (dir. François Truffaut)
Dodes’ka-den (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Lost in the Desert (AKA Dirkie) (dir. Jamie Uys)

Alex in Wonderland (dir. Paul Mazursky)

1970 – 2011

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