Wednesday, January 30, 2008

1980's

1980:
1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
3. The Shining (Kubrick)
4. Stardust Memories (Allen)
5. The Elephant Man (Lynch)
6. Airplane! (Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker)
7t. The Big Red One (Fuller)
7t. The Blues Brothers (Landis)
9. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
10. Dressed to Kill (De Palma)

Near misses:
The Ninth Configuration (Blatty)
The Falls (Greenaway)
Caddyshack (Ramis)
Breaker Morant (Beresford)
Ordinary People (Redford)


1981:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
2. Das Boot (Petersen)
3. Blow Out (De Palma)
4. The Road Warrior (Miller)
5. Escape from New York (Carpenter)
6. Time Bandits (Gilliam)
7t. An American Werewolf in London (Landis)
7t. Gallipoli (Weir)
9. The Evil Dead (Raimi)
10. Diva (Beineix)

Near misses:
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Reisz)
Reds (Beatty)
Modern Romance (A. Brooks)


1982:
1. Blade Runner (R. Scott)
2. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
3. The Thing (Carpenter)
4. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
5. E.T. (Spielberg)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio)
7. The Atomic Café (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty)
8t. Poltergeist (Hooper)
8t. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
10. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)

Not quite:
Gandhi (Attenborough)
The Secret of NIMH (Bluth)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling)
Tron (Lisberger)
White Dog (Fuller)


1983:
1. Return of the Jedi (Marquand)
2. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
3. Sans soleil (Marker)
4. A Christmas Story (Clark)
5. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
6. Zelig (Allen)
7. The Meaning of Life (Jones/Gilliam)
8. L’Argent (Bresson)
9. The Right Stuff (Kaufman)
10. Risky Business (Brickman)

Close, not quite:
WarGames (Badham)
El Sur (Erice)
Rumble Fish (Coppola)
Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)


1984:
1. Amadeus (Forman)
2. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
3. Blood Simple (Coen)
4. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
5. Ghostbusters (Reitman)
6. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (Miyazaki)
7. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg)
9. Repo Man (Cox)
10t. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen)
10t. Stranger than Paradise (Jarmusch)

Not quite:
The Terminator (Cameron)
Stop Making Sense (Demme)
A Nightmare on Elm St. (Craven)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (German)


1985:
1. Ran (Kurosawa)
2. Brazil (Gilliam)
3. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
4. Come and See (Klimov)
5. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway)
6. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
7. After Hours (Scorsese)
8. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Burton)
9. Tampopo (Itami)
10. Vagabond (Varda)


1986:
1. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
2. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
3. Aliens (Cameron)
4. The Fly (Cronenberg)
5. Down by Law (Jarmusch)
6. Platoon (Stone)
T7. Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
T7. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
9. Sherman's March (McElwee)
10. Mona Lisa (Jordan)

Not quite:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes)
Jean de Florette (Berri)
Street of Crocodiles (Quays)

1987:
1. Raising Arizona (Coen)
2. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back)
3. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
4. Au revoir les enfants (Malle)
5. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
6. Withnail & I (Robinson)
7. Evil Dead II (Raimi)
8. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes)
9t. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg)
9t. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Hughes)

Near misses:
The Princess Bride (Reiner)
Matewan (Sayles)


1. The Vanishing (Sluizer)
2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
3. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
4. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
5. Akira (Ôtomo)
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
7. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
8. Die Hard (McTiernan)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
10t. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
10t. The Thin Blue Line (Morris)

Runners-Up:
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
A Short Film about Killing (Kieslowski)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)


1989:
1. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
3. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway)
4. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg)
6t. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky)
6t. Roger & Me (Moore)
8. Field of Dreams (Robinson)
9. Glory (Zwick)
10. The Seventh Continent (Haneke)

Nearly missed:
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Speaking Parts (Egoyan)
Say Anything... (Crowe)

1990's

1990:
1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Miller's Crossing (Coen)
3. Edward Scissorhands (Burton)
4. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
5. Wild at Heart (Lynch)
6. Dances with Wolves (Costner)
7. Nikita (Besson)
8. Jacob's Ladder (Lyne)
9t. Archangel (Maddin)
9t. Metropolitan (Stillman)

Near Misses:
Total Recall (Verhoeven)
Trust (Hartley)
Pump Up the Volume (Moyle)
Twin Peaks Pilot (Lynch)
Misery (Reiner)
The Grifters (Frears)


1991:
1. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
2. Barton Fink (Coen)
3. JFK (Stone)
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron)
5t. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang)
5t. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale/Wise)
7. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
8. Days of Being Wild (Wong)
9. Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet)
10. The Rapture (Tolkin)

Close:
Prospero's Books (Greenaway)
La Belle noiseuse (Rivette)


1992:
1. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
2. The Player (Altman)
3. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
4t. Husbands and Wives (Allen)
4t. Lessons of Darkness (Herzog)
6. Malcolm X (S. Lee)
7t. Orlando (Potter)
7t. Hard-Boiled (Woo)
9t. Baraka (Fricke)
9t. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch)

Close:
Careful (Maddin)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)


1993:
1. Schindler's List (Spielberg)
2. Naked (Leigh)
3. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski)
4. Groundhog Day (Ramis)
5. Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers (Park)
6. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick)
7. Short Cuts (Altman)
8. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
9t. Sonatine (Kitano)
9t. The Piano (Campion)

Almost:
Jurassic Park (Spielberg)


1994:
1. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
2. Chungking Express (Wong)
3. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski)
4. Ed Wood (Burton)
5. Exotica (Egoyan)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
7. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
8. Sátántangó (Tarr)
9. Crumb (Zwigoff)
10. Three Colors: White (Kieslowski)

So Close:
Hoop Dreams (James)
Léon (Besson)


1995:
1. Se7en (Fincher)
2. Dead Man (Jarmusch)
3. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo)
4. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
T5. Heat (Mann)
T5. Twelve Monkeys (Gilliam)
7. Safe (Haynes)
8. Toy Story (Lasseter)
9. Cyclo (Tran)
10. Underground (Kusturica)

So very close:
La Haine (Kassovitz)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz)
Maborosi (Koreeda)


1996:
1. Fargo (Coen)
2. Trainspotting (Boyle)
3. Breaking the Waves (Trier)
4. Secrets and Lies (Leigh)
5. Lone Star (Sayles)
6. La Promesse (Dardennes)
7. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
8. Waiting for Guffman (Guest)
9. Bottle Rocket (W. Anderson)
10t. Freeway (Bright)
10t. Crash (Cronenberg)
10t. Sling Blade (Thornton)

Not quite:
Kids Return (Kitano)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trousdale/Wise)


1997:
1. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
2. Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
3t. Hana-bi (Kitano)
3t. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
5. Lost Highway (Lynch)
6. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
7. Funny Games (Haneke)
8. In the Company of Men (LaBute)
9. L.A. Confidential (Hanson)
10. Cure (K. Kurosawa)

Almost there
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Herzog)

1. Rushmore (W. Anderson)
2. The Big Lebowski (Coen)
3. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
4. Run, Lola, Run (Tykwer)
5. The Truman Show (Weir)
6. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
7. The Celebration (Vinterberg)
8. Pleasantville (Ross)
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam)
10. Fucking Åmål (Moodysson)

Almost there:
Out of Sight (Soderbergh)
Buffalo '66 (Gallo)
The Hole (Tsai)

1. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
2. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
4. Fight Club (Fincher)
5t. Election (Payne)
5t. The Straight Story (Lynch)
7t. Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
7t. Kikujiro (Kitano)
9. Beau Travail (Denis)
10. Boys Don't Cry (Peirce)

Almost there:
The Insider (Mann)
Three Kings (Russell)
Toy Story 2 (Lasseter/Brannon/Unkrich)
Audition (Miike)

2000's

2000:
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
2. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
3. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
4. Memento (Nolan)
5. Yi Yi (Yang)
6. You Can Count on Me (Lonergan)
7. Dancer in the Dark (Trier)
8. American Psycho (Harron)
9. Almost Famous (Crowe)
10. Songs From the Second Floor (Andersson)

Near misses:
The Heart of the World (Maddin)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A. Lee)
Unbreakable (Shyamalan)
Wonder Boys (Hanson)
Traffic (Soderbergh)

1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
3. Amelie (Jeunet)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
5. The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
6. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg)
7. What Time is it There? (Tsai)
8. Ghost World (Zwigoff)
9. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann)
10. Millennium Actress (Kon)

Near Misses:
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell)
Pulse (K. Kurosawa)
Donnie Darko (Kelly)
Y tu mamá también (Cuarón)


2002:
1. Punch Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson)
2. City of God (Meirelles/Lund)
3. Adaptation (Jonze)
4t. Talk to Her (Almodovar)
4t. The Son (Dardennes)
6. Lilya 4-Ever (Moodysson)
7. 25th Hour (S. Lee)
8. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (P. Jackson)
9t. Femme Fatale (De Palma)
9t. Far from Heaven (Haynes)

Oh so close:
Solaris (Soderbergh)
Minority Report (Spielberg)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese)
Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
Irreversible (Noé)


2003:
1. Dogville (Trier)
2. Lost in Translation (S. Coppola)
3. Finding Nemo (Stanton/Unkrich)
4. Elephant (Van Sant)
5. All the Real Girls (Green)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Jackson)
7. Kill Bill V.1 (Tarantino)
8. Oldboy (Park)
9. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin)
10. Spring Summer Fall Winter … and Spring (Kim)

Not quite:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir)
The Station Agent (McCarthy)
Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang)


2004:
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
2. Before Sunset (Linklater)
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (W. Anderson)
4. The Incredibles (Bird)
5. Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
T6. Shaun of the Dead (Wright)
T6. 2046 (Wong)
T6. Mysterious Skin (Araki)
9. 3-Iron (Kim)
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Tarantino)


2005:
1. The New World (Malick)
2. Caché (Haneke)
3. Brick (Johnson)
4. Pride and Prejudice (Wright)
5. The Proposition (Hillcoat)
6. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
7. L'Enfant (Dardennes)
8. Good Night, and Good Luck. (Clooney)
9. A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
10. Last Days (Van Sant)

Not quite:
Brokeback Mountain (A. Lee)
Grizzly Man (Herzog)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black)
Batman Begins (Nolan)


2006:
1. Children of Men (Cuarón)
2. Inland Empire (Lynch)
3. The Fountain (Aronofsky)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
5. Once (Carney)
6. Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul)
7. The Departed (Scorsese)
8. Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)
9. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck)
10. Paprika (Kon)

Near misses:
Marie Antoinette (S. Coppola)
United 93 (Greengrass)
The Science of Sleep (Gondry)



2007:
1. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coens)
3. Zodiac (Fincher)
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
5. I’m Not There (Haynes)
6. Ratatouille (Bird/Pinkava)
7. Sunshine (Boyle)
8. Death Proof (Tarantino)
9. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)

Honorable Mentions:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)




2008
1. Wall-E (Stanton)
2. Let the Right One In (Alfredson)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
4. The Dark Knight (Nolan)
5. Two Lovers (Gray)
6. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
7. Happy-Go Lucky (Leigh)
8t. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
8t. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
10. Hunger (McQueen)

Honorable Mention:
Tokyo Sonata (K. Kurosawa)
In Bruges (McDonagh)
Burn After Reading (Coens)
Gran Torino (Eastwood)
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)



2009
1. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
2. A Serious Man (Coens)
3. Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
4. Bright Star (Campion)
5. The White Ribbon (Haneke)
6. Enter the Void (Noé)
7. Antichrist (Trier)
8. Up (Docter/Peterson)
9. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
10. Everyone Else (Ade)

Honorable Mention:
Alamar (González-Rubio)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (W. Anderson)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Herzog)
Moon (D. Jones)