The Years’ Best
In chronological order:
2009
Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)
A Serious Man (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Goodbye Solo (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Beaches of Agnès (dir. Agnès Varda)
(500) Days of Summer (dir. Marc Webb)
In the Loop (dir. Armando Iannucci)
Nightwatching (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The White Ribbon (dir. Michael Haneke)
Coraline (dir. Henry Selick)
For A Son (dir. Alix De Maistre)
Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze)
Julia (dir. Erick Zonca)
Silent Light (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Up in the Air (dir. Jason Reitman)
Villa Amalia (dir. Benoît Jacquot)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir. Wes Anderson)
An Education (dir. Lone Scherfig)
Gomorrah (dir. Matteo Garrone)
District 9 (dir. Neill Blomkamp)
Polytechnique (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Broken Embraces (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Collapse (dir. Chris Smith)
The Informant! (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Ponyo (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Revanche (dir. Götz Spielmann)
Up (dir. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans (dir. Werner Herzog)
Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford)
Avatar (dir. James Cameron)
“(These) go up to eleven…”
– Nigel Tufnel
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)
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)
Brand Upon the Brain! (dir. Guy Maddin)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird)
Black Book (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Michael Clayton (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Zoo (dir. Robinson Devor)
2006
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Tristram Shanty: A Cock and Bull Story (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Man Push Cart (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
The King (dir. James Marsh)
The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)
The Proposition (dir. John Hillcoat)
2005
Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Best of Youth (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
Schultze Gets The Blues (dir. Michael Schorr)
Duane Hopwood (dir. Matt Mulhern)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (dir. Miranda July)
Sin City (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
Downfall (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Nine Lives (dir. Rodrigo García)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (dir. Alex Gibney)
Mysterious Skin (dir. Gregg Araki)
2004
Kill Bill Vol. I & II (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird)
Kinsey (dir. Bill Condon)
The Fog of War (dir. Errol Morris)
Baadasssss! (dir. Mario Van Peebles)
Spiderman 2 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Aviator (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Vera Drake (dir. Mike Leigh)
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne)
Young Adam (dir. David Mackenzie)
2003
The Son (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Barbarian Invasions (dir. Denys Arcand)
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro)
Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
Northfork (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
The Man on the Train (dir. Patrice Leconte)
The Five Obstructions (dir. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
Matchstick Men (dir. Ridley Scott)
Girl With A Pearl Earring (dir. Peter Webber)
2002
Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Punch Drunk Love (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lovely and Amazing (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Invincible (dir. Werner Herzog)
13 Conversations About One Thing (dir. Jill Sprecher)
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson)
Frailty (dir. Bill Paxton)
Songs From The Second Floor (dir. Roy Andersson)
Talk To Her (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Last Orders (dir. Fred Schepisi)
2001
Wit (dir. Mike Nichols)
Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch)
Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Innocence (dir. Paul Cox)
Waking Life (dir. Richard Linklater)
Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz)
Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman)
In The Bedroom (dir. Todd Field)
A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard)
Fat Girl (dir. Catherine Breillat)
The Royal Tenenbaums (dir. Wes Anderson)
2000
Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr)
You Can Count On Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)
American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron)
Panic (dir. Henry Bromell)
The Terrorist (dir. Santosh Sivan)
Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
George Washington (dir. David Gordon Green)
Quills (dir. Philip Kaufman)
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)
Toy Story 2 (dir. John Lasseter and Ash Brannon)
Titus (dir. Julie Taymor)
Ratcatcher (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
1998
A Simple Plan (dir. Sam Raimi)
Love and Death on Long Island (dir. Richard Kwietniowski)
Dark City (dir. Alex Proyas)
The Truman Show (dir. Peter Weir)
Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson)
Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross)
Happiness (dir. Todd Solondz)
Babe: Pig in the City (dir. George Miller)
Affliction (dir. Paul Schrader)
Hilary and Jackie (dir. Anand Tucker)
Gods and Monsters (dir. Bill Condon)
1997
Gattaca (dir. Andrew Niccol)
Boogie Nights | Sydney (aka Hard Eight) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
L.A. Confidential (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Sick: The Life & Death Of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (dir. Kirby Dick)
In The Company of Men (dir. Neil LaBute)
Children of Heaven (dir. Majid Majidi)
The Sweet Hereafter (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (dir. Errol Morris)
Men In Black (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee)
Wag the Dog (dir. Barry Levinson)
1996
Shine (dir. Scott Hicks)
Fargo (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (dir. Todd Solondz)
Secrets and Lies (dir. Mike Leigh)
Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier)
The People vs. Larry Flint (dir. Milos Forman)
Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Freeway (dir. Matthew Bright)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
Bound (Andy and Larry Wachowski)
Sling Blade (dir. Billy Bob Thornton)
1995
To Die For (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Dead Man Walking (dir. Tim Robbins)
Crumb (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Se7en (dir. David Fincher)
Exotica (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Nixon (dir. Oliver Stone)
Leaving Las Vegas (dir. Mike Figgis)
Dolores Claiborne (dir. Taylor Hackford)
Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Muriel’s Wedding (dir. P.J. Hogan)
1994
Three Colors: Blue | White | Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Last Seduction (dir. John Dahl)
Household Saints (dir. Nancy Savoca)
Ed Wood (dir. Tim Burton)
Heavenly Creatures (dir. Peter Jackson)
Speed (dir. Jan de Bont)
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (dir. François Girard)
The Hudsucker Proxy (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Natural Born Killers (dir. Oliver Stone)
Hoop Dreams (dir. Steve James)
1993
Schindler’s List (dir. Steven Speilberg)
The Joy Luck Club (dir. Wayne Wang)
The Fugitive (dir. Andrew Davis)
Shadowlands (dir. Richard Attenborough)
Short Cuts (dir. Robert Altman)
Matinee (dir. Joe Dante)
Naked (dir. Mike Leigh)
Menace II Society (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick)
Baraka (dir. Ron Fricke)
The Age of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Kalifornia (dir. Dominic Sena)
1992
The Player (dir. Robert Altman)
Glenngarry Glen Ross (dir. James Foley)
The Crying Game (dir. Neil Jordan)
Orlando (dir. Sally Potter)
Like Water for Chocolate (dir. Alfonso Arau)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Raise The Red Lantern (dir. Yimou Zhang)
One False Move (dir. Carl Franklin)
Unforgiven (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Damage (dir. Louis Malle)
Bad Lieutenant (dir. Abel Ferrara)
1991
Beauty and the Beast (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
La Belle Noiseuse (dir. Jacques Rivette)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme)
My Father’s Glory | My Mother’s Castle (dir. Yves Robert)
Barton Fink (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Rapture (dir. Michael Tolkin)
The Double Life of Veronique (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
JFK (dir. Oliver Stone)
Grand Canyon (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
The Man In The Moon (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Homicide (dir. David Mamet)
1990
Monsieur Hire (dir. Patrice Leconte)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (dir. Uli Edel)
Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Darkman (dir. Sam Raimi)
The Grifters (dir. Stephen Frears)
Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton)
Santa Sangre (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Vincent and Theo (dir. Robert Altman)
Sweetie (dir. Jane Campion)
Metropolitan (dir. Whit Stillman)
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)
Say Anything… (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Drugstore Cowboy (dir. Gus Van Sant)
High Hopes (dir. Mike Leigh)
Roger and Me (dir. Michael Moore)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (dir. Jim Sheridan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (dir. Woody Allen)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
1988
Talk Radio (dir. Oliver Stone)
The Decalogue (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Grave of the Fireflies (dir. Isao Takahata)
The Vanishing (dir. George Sluizer)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton)
The Thin Blue Line (dir. Errol Morris)
Dead Ringers (dir. David Cronenberg)
Paperhouse (dir. Bernard Rose)
Drowning by Numbers (dir. Peter Greenaway)
1987
Housekeeping (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Babette’s Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel)
House of Games (dir. David Mamet)
Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders)
The Last Emperor (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Raising Arizona (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (dir. Louis Malle)
Broadcast News (dir. James L. Brooks)
The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner)
The Untouchables (dir. Brian De Palma)
Near Dark (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
1986
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (dir. John McNaughton)
The Fly (dir. David Cronenberg)
Hannah and Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen)
Sid and Nancy (dir. Alex Cox)
True Stories (dir. David Byrne)
Vagabond (dir. Agnès Varda)
Hoosiers (dir. David Anspaugh)
Aliens (dir. James Cameron)
Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone)
The Great Mouse Detective (dir. Ron Clements and Burny Mattinson)
Little Shop of Horrors (dir. Frank Oz)
1985
Mishima (dir. Paul Schrader)
A Zed and Two Noughts (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Witness (dir. Peter Weir)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (dir. Woody Allen)
The Color Purple (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Back To The Future (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
After Hours (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Streetwise (dir. Martin Bell)
Re-Animator (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Mask (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
1984
Amadeus (dir. Milos Forman)
Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
Gremlins (dir. Joe Dante)
Blood Simple (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Terminator (dir. James Cameron)
Secret Honor (dir. Robert Altman)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton)
Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman)
This Is Spinal Tap (dir. Rob Reiner)
Stop Making Sense (dir. Jonathan Demme)
1983
Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio)
El Norte (dir. Gregory Nava)
Testament (dir. Lynne Littman)
Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Star 80 (dir. Bob Fosse)
A Christmas Story (dir. Bob Clark)
Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Scarface (dir. Brian Depalma)
Entre Nous (dir. Diane Kurys)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Videodrome (dir. David Cronenberg)
1982
Diva (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix)
The Verdict (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Fitzcarraldo | Burden of Dreams (dir. Werner Herzog)
Tootsie (dir. Sydney Pollack)
E.T. (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Secret of NIMH (dir. Don Bluth)
Sophie’s Choice (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
An Officer and A Gentleman (dir. Taylor Hackford)
Creepshow (dir. George A. Romero)
Diner (dir. Barry Levinson)
11. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg)
My Dinner With Andre (dir. Louis Malle)
Mephisto (dir. István Szabó)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (dir. Karel Reisz)
Body Heat (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco)
The Evil Dead (dir. Sam Raimi)
Superman II (dir. Richard Lester)
Time Bandits (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Vernon, Florida (dir. Errol Morris)
Stripes (dir. Ivan Reitman)
1980
Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis)
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Big Red One (dir. Samuel Fuller)
The Empire Strikes Back (dir. George Lucas)
Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford)
Airplane (dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
Altered States (dir. Ken Russell)
Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman)
1979
Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
Being There (dir. Hal Ashby)
Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog)
The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)
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)
Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog)
Interiors (dir. Woody Allen)
An Unmarried Woman (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Superman (dir. Richard Donner)
The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)
1977
Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)
Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple)
That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel)
New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)
1976
Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
Swept Away…by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (dir. Lina Wertmuller)
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
Small Change (dir. François Truffaut)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)
The Shootist (dir. Don Siegel)
1975
Nashville (dir. Robert Altman)
Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir. Peter Weir)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
The Passenger (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman)
The Stepford Wives (dir. Bryan Forbes)
The Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
1974
The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Scenes from a Marriage (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Godfather Part II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks)
My Uncle Antoine (dir. Claude Jutra)
Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes)
Day for Night (dir. François Truffaut)
Amarcord (dir. Federico Fellini)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (dir. Martin Scorsese)
1973
Cries and Whispers (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy)
Badlands (dir. Terrance Malick)
Paper Moon (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Mean Streets (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Sisters (dir. Brian De Palma)
American Graffiti (dir. George Lucas)
Don’t Look Now (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
The Day of the Jackal (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin)
The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman)
1972
The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Aguirre: Wrath of God (dir. Werner Herzog)
Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
Chloe in the Afternoon (dir. Eric Rohmer)
The Other (dir. Robert Mulligan)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Deliverance (dir. John Boorman)
The Candidate (dir. Michael Ritchie)
The Last House on the Left (dir. Wes Craven)
Boxcar Bertha (dir. Martin Scorsese)
1971
A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman)
Walkabout (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Straw Dogs (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Duel (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Beguiled (dir. Don Siegel)
The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)
Bleak Moments (dir. Mike Leigh)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dusan Makavejev)
1970
Patton (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson)
M*A*S*H (dir. Robert Altman)
Le Boucher (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Claire’s Knee (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Woodstock (dir. Michael Wadleigh)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (dir. Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda)
Le Cercle Rouge (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Wild Child (dir. François Truffaut)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (dir. Don Siegel)
The Revolutionary (dir. Paul Williams)
1969
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler)
Last Summer (dir. Frank Perry)
Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper)
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
Z (dir. Costa Gavras)
Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (dir. Russ Meyers)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
My Night at Maud’s (dir. Éric Rohmer)
El Topo (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (dir. Paul Mazursky)
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
Night of the Living Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)
If…. (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
Bullitt (dir. Peter Yates)
Planet of the Apes (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Yellow Submarine (dir. George Dunning)
Oliver! (dir. Carol Reed)
1967
Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
In the Heat of the Night (dir. Norman Jewison)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Mouchette (dir. Robert Bresson)
Fahrenheit 451 (dir. François Truffaut)
Made in U.S.A. (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Andrei Rublev (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
Loves of a Blonde (dir. Milos Forman)
Alfie (dir. Lewis Gilbert)
Honourable Selection
The UP Series (1964 – Still in Progess)
1965
Juliet of the Spirits (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise)
A Patch of Blue (dir. Guy Green)
Chimes at Midnight (dir. Orson Welles)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Alphaville (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Othello (dir. Stuart Burge)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir. Russ Meyer)
The Cincinnati Kid (dir. Norman Jewison)
Help! (dir. Richard Lester)
Pierrot le Fou (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester)
My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson)
The Killers (dir. Don Siegel)
Fail-Safe (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Goldfinger (dir. Guy Hamilton)
Marnie (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
1963
My Life to Live (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti)
The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Dr. No (dir. Terence Young)
Charade (dir. Stanley Donen)
The Sword in the Stone (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
Bye Bye Birdie (dir. George Sidney)
Jason and the Argonauts (dir. Don Chaffey)
1962
Lawrence of Arabia {dir. David Lean)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Cape Fear (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Knife in the Water (dir. Roman Polański)
The Trial (dir. Orson Welles)
The Miracle Worker (dir. Arthur Penn)
Lolita (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (dir. Robert Bresson)
Carnival of Souls (dir. Herk Harvey)
1961
Last Year at Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais)
La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Hustler (dir. Robert Rossen)
West Side Story (dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
Victim (dir. Basil Dearden)
Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards)
Viridiana (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Pit and the Pendulum (dir. Roger Corman)
La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
1960
Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)
Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell)
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Goddard)
L’avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Virgin Spring (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Mikio Naruse)
Late Autumn (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Spartacus (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Swiss Family Robinson (dir. Ken Annakin)
Where the Boys Are (dir. Henry Levin)
1959
The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut)
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Fires on the Plain (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais)
Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Otto Preminger)
Ben-Hur (dir. William Wyler)
Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk)
1958
Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Mon Oncle (dir. Jacques Tati)
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles)
The Music Room (dir. Satyajit Ray)
Gigi (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Country (dir. William Wyler)
From the Earth to the Moon (dir. Byron Haskin)
The Long, Hot Summer (dir. Martin Ritt)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir. Richard Brooks)
Les Amants de Montparnasse (dir. Max Ophüls)
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (dir. Nathan Juran)
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