Updates: 01 February 10

Added to lists: 1978: Les rendez-vous d'Anna; 1976: News From Home; 1975: Apparent Motion, Je tu il elle, Shutter Interface; 1972: La chambre; 1945: Rome, Open City

Added to HM: 1966: The Battle of Algiers; 1948: Drunken Angel

Upgraded: 2009: Antichrist; 1971: The Last Picture Show

Downgraded: n/a

Removed: n/a

Seen, but not added: 2009: Youth in Revolt; 2007: Yella; 1991: Europa; 1976: Harlan County U.S.A.; 1966: Closely Watched Trains

...lists will be updated on (or around) the first of every month

2000s

2009

1 Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark)
2 A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3 Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr)
4 Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito)
5 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
6 In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
7 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
8 Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier)
9 Journals and Remarks (David Gatten)
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

HM: The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh); The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh); I volti dell’Anonimo (Paolo Gioli); Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis)

2008

1 Easter Morning (Bruce Conner)
2a Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2b Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)
3 1859 (Fred Worden)
4 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
5 Film For Invisible Ink, Case No. 142 Abbreviations For Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] (David Gatten)
6 Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson)
7 Che (Steven Soderbergh)
8 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
9 Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
10 Jerichow (Christian Petzold)

HM: Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson)

2007

1 RR (James Benning)
2 Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson)
3 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4 After Writing (Mary Helena Clark)
5 Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)
6 False Friends (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
7 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
8 Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson)
9 No Country For Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
10 Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)

2006

1 Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2a The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson)
2b You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Michael Robinson)
3 Still Life (Jia Kheng-fe)
4 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Gerran)
5 Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
6 Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7 Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs)
8 Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
9 Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10 Flanders (Bruno Dumont)

HM: Reverberlin (Michael Snow); Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)

2005

1 Regular Lovers (Phillipe Garrell)
2 Caché (Michael Haneke)
3 The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
4 Ghosts (Christian Petzold)
5 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
6 Three Times (Hou Hsaio-hsien)
7 Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
8 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
9 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
10 Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

HM: Last Days (Gus Van Sant)

2004

1 Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2 Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
4 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
5 The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)
6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
7 Primer (Shane Carruth)
8 I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
9 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
10 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)

2003

1 Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2 Dogville (Lars Von Trier)
3 Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage)
4 The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
5 Chiquitita and the Soft Escape (Michael Robinson)
6 The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
7 Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
8 The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
9 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
10 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)

HM: Elephant (Gus Van Sant); Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais)

2002

1 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
2 Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
3 Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
4 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5 Monday Morning (Otar Iosseliani)
6 Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7 The Son (Jean Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)
8 8 Women (François Ozon)
9 Irreversible (Gaspar Noé)
10 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

2001

1 Lovesong (Stan Brakhage)
2 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 What Time Is It There (Tsai-ming Liang)
4 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
5 Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsein)
6 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
7 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
8 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
9 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
10 The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)

2000

1 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
3 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
4 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
5 Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
6 Platform (Jia Kheng-fe)
7 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
8 Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
9 Under the Sand (François Ozon)
10 Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier)

1990s

1999

1 Persian Series #s 1 - 3 (Stan Brakhage)
2 L'humanité (Bruno Dumont)
3 Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
4 The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
5 Beau travail (Claire Denis)
6 The Dark Tower (Stan Brakhage)
7 Romance (Catherine Breillat)
8 Audition (Takashi Miike)
9 The Straight Story (David Lynch)
10 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

1998

1 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2 The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
3 Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)
4 Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
6 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
7 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
8 The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
9 Psycho (Gus Van Sant)
10 Wild Things (John McNaughton)

1997

1 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
3 Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
4 Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
5 Lost Highway (David Lynch)
6 Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage)
7 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
8 Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
9 Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
10 Titanic (James Cameron)

1996

1 Looking for Mushrooms (Bruce Conner)
2 Comingled Containers (Stan Brakhage)
3 Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
4 Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis)
5 Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
6 A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
7 Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
8 Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
9 Crash (David Cronenberg)
10 La promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)

1995

1 Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2 Clueless (Amy Hecerkling)
3 La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
4 When It Rains (Charles Burnett)
5 Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
6 From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)
7 Safe (Todd Haynes)
8 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
9 Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
10 Falled Angels (Wong Kar-wai)

1994

1 Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
2 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
3 Black Ice (Stan Brakhage)
4 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
5 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
6 I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis)
7 Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
8 Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
9 Speed (Jan De Bont)
10 Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1993

1 Oh, Woe Is Me (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 Boulder Blues and Pearls and... (Stan Brakhage)
3 Naked (Mike Leigh)
4 Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
5 Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
6 Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
7 Matinee (Joe Dante)
8 The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
9 Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
10 Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1992

1a Crack Glass Eulogy (Stan Brakhage)
1b For Marilyn (Stan Brakhage)
2 Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
3 Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
4 Un coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet)
5 Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
6 Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
7 Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)
8 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
9 The Player (Robert Altman)
10 Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

1991

1 Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr)
2 Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
3 Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
4 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
5 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
6 Homicide (David Mamet)
7 La belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
8 Delicacies of the Molten Horror Synapse (Stan Brakhage)
9 My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
10 The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)

1990

1 Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (Stan Brakhage)
2 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
3 Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
5 Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
6 King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
7 Glaze of Cathexis (Stan Brakhage)
8a Jollies (Sadie Benning)
9b If Every Girl Had a Diary (Sadie Benning)
9 Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
10 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)

1980s

1989

1 Elephant (Alan Clarke)
2 The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
3 Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
4 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
5 Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
6 Living Inside (Sadie Benning)
7 Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
8 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
9 Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple)
10 Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)

1988

1 I... Dreaming (Stan Brakhage)
2 Chocolat (Claire Denis)
3 Damnation (Béla Tarr)
5 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis)
6 Rage Net (Stan Brakhage)
7 The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
7 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
8 Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
9 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
10 Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)

1987

1 Alaya (Nathaniel Dorsky)
2 The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage)
3 Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
4 House of Games (David Mamet)
5 Kindering (Stan Brakhage)
6 The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol)
7 Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)
8 Rapture (Paul Sharits)
9 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
10 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)

1986

1 Fake Fruit Factory (Chick Strand)
2 The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 Night Music (Stan Brakhage)
4 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
5 Summer (Eric Rohmer)
6 Aliens (James Cameron)
7 Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
8 The Fly (David Cronenberg)
9 Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
10 Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard)

1985

1 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2 After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
3 Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
4 Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant)
5 Detective (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
7 Day of the Dead (George Romero)
8 Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Rabenco)
9 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
10 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)

1984

1 Blood Simple. (Joel Coen)
2 Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
3 Love Unto Death (Alain Resnais)
4 The Hit (Stephen Frears)
5 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
6 Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan)
7 Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer)
8 Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
9 The Terminator (James Cameron)
10 Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)

1983

1 Transit (Greg Sharits)
2 L'argent (Robert Bresson)
3 Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
4 Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
5 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Transfer (Greg Sharits)
7 À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
10 The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

1982

1 Arabic Numeral Series (Stan Brakhage)
2 America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
3 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
4 Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
7 Bad Burns (Paul Sharits)
8 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
9 A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer)
10 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)

1981

1 The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
2 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
3 Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
5 THe Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage)
6 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
8 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
9 My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
10 S.O.B. (Blake Edwards)

1980

1 The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
3 Mahagonny (Harry Smith)
4 The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
5 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
6 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
7 Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
8 The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
9 The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
10 Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)

1970s

1979

1a Cartoon le Mousse (Chick Strand)
1b Fever Dream (Chick Strand)
1c Kristallnacht (Chick Strand)
2 The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3 Manhattan (Woody Allen)
4 Tess (Roman Polanski)
5 Monty Python's Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
6 Alien (Ridley Scott)
7 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
8 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
9 The Brood (David Cronenberg)
10 Love on the Run (François Truffaut)

1978

1 Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
2 Les rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)
3 In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
5 Burial Path (Stan Brakhage)
6 A Wedding (Robert Altman)
7 Cipher (Greg Sharits)
8 Mongoloid (Bruce Conner)
9 Halloween (John Carpenter)
10 The Driver (Walter Hill)

1977

1 Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)
2 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
3 Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
4 Untitled No. 9 (Greg Sharits)
5 3 Women (Robert Altman)
6 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
7 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
8 Martin (George Romero)
9 That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
10 Opening Night (John Cassavetes)

HM: Pause! (Peter Kubelka); Desperate Living (John Waters)

1976

1 Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner)
2 News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
3 Crossroads (Bruce Conner)
4 Rubber Cement (Robert Breer)
5 Declarative Mode (Paul Sharits)
6 Cría cuervos (Carlos Sauras)
7 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
8 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
9 Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 Carrie (Brian De Palma)

HM: The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer); The Passion of Berenice (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)

1975

1 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
2 Apparent Motion (Paul Sharits)
3 Je tu il elle (Chantal Akerman)
4 For for Fake (Orson Welles)
5 Nashville (Robert Altman)
6 Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7 The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8 Shutter Interface (Paul Sharits)
9 Shivers (David Cronenberg)
10 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

HM: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini); Love and Death (Woody Allen)

1974

1 The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage)
2 Fuji (Robert Breer)
3 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
5 Cartesius (Roberto Rossellini)
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
7 A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
8a "He was Born, He Suffered, He Died." (Stan Brakhage)
8b The Stars are Beautiful (Stan Brakhage)
9 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
10a The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
10b The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

HM: Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman); Parade (Jacques Tati)

1973

1 Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3 Film Portrait (Jerome Hill)
4 The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
5 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
6 The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
7 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
8 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
9 The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
10 Day for Night (François Truffaut)

1972

1 The Riddle of Lumen (Stan Brakhage)
2a The Shores of Phos: A Fable (Stan Brakhage)
2b The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage)
3 Remote Control (Hollis Frampton)
4 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
5 Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini)
6 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
7 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9a Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton)
9b Ordinary Matter (Hollis Frampton)
10 La chambre (Chantal Akerman)

HM: Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin); Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin); Special Effects (Hollis Frampton); Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer); The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola); Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock); Gulls and Buoys (Robert Breer)

1971

1 La région centrale (Michael Snow)
2a (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
2b Critical Mass (Hollis Frampton)
3a Deus Ex (Stan Brakhage)
3b Eyes (Stan Brakhage)
4 The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
5 S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits)
6 Sexual Meditation: Room with View (Stan Brakhage)
7 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
8 McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
9 Trafic (Jacques Tati)
10 Bananas (Woody Allen)

HM: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage); Travelling Matte (Hollis Frampton)

1970

1 Scenes from Under Childhood (Stan Brakhage)
2 Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)
3a The Weir-Falcon Saga (Stan Brakhage)
3b The Machine of Eden (Stan Brakhage)
4 Sexual Meditations #1: Motel (Stan Brakhage)
5a Le boucher (Claude Chabrol)
5b La rupture (Claude Chabrol)
6 Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
8 MASH (Robert Altman)
9 Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
10 Bed and Board (François Truffaut)

HM: Wanda (Barbara Loden)

1960s

1969

1 Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Ken Jacobs)
2 Walden (Jonas Mekas)
3 <---> (Michael Snow)
4 My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
5 Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
6 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8 The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel)
9 Note to Pati (Saul Levine)
10 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)

HM: Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)

1968

1 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
2 The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth (Stan Brakhage)
3 Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie)
4 Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
5 Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
6 Faces (John Cassavetes)
7 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
8 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves)
9 The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Chris Marker & Francois Reichenbach)
10 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)

1967

1 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
2 Wavelength (Michael Snow)
3 Report (Bruce Conner)
4 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
5 Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 The White Rose (Bruce Conner)
7a Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
7b La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
9 Le samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)

HM: El Dorado (Howard Hawks); La collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer); The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy); A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura)

1966

1 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
2a Castro Street (Bruce Baillie)
2b All My Life (Bruce Baillie)
3 Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
4 Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
5 The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
6 Unsere Akrikareise (Peter Kubelka)
7 Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 Le deuxième souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9 Tung (Bruce Baillie)
10 Aleph (Wallace Berman)

HM: The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)

1965

1 The Art of Vision (Stan Brakhage)
2 Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
4 Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
5 Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
6 Vivian (Bruce Conner)
7a Songs #s 9 - 14 (Stan Brakhage)
7b 15 Song Traits (Stan Brakhage)
7c Pasht (Stan Brakhage)
7d Three Films: Bluewhite, Blood's Tone, Vein (Stan Brakhage)
7e Fire of Waters (Stan Brakhage)
8 Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
9 Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
10 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)

HM: Horse (Andy Warhol); Ten Second Film (Bruce Conner); Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa); Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)

1964

1 Fist Fight (Robert Breer)
2 Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie)
3 Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
4 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
5 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
6 Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Go! Go! Go! (Marie Menken)
9 Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa)
10a Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)
10b Songs #s 1 - 8 (Stan Brakhage(

HM: A Fall Trip Home (Nathaniel Dorsky); Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel); The Naked Kiss (Samuell Fuller); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick); Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks);

1963

1 The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
3 Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
5 Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs)
6 The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
7 High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
8 Le petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 Shock Corridor (Samuell Fuller)
10a Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer)
10b The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer)

HM: Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)

1962

1 Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith)
2 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
3 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
4 The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
5 An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
6 L'éclipse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7 My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 La jetée (Chris Marker)
9 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
10 Le doulous (Jean-Pierre Melville)

HM: Pat's Birthday (Robert Breer); The Trial (Orson Welles); The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad); Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada); Blue Moses (Stan Brakhage); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich); Here I Am (Bruce Bailli); Mama Roma (Pier Paolo Pasonlini); Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara); Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky); Lolita (Stanley Kubrick); Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)

1961

1 Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
2 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3 A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 The Human Condition III (Masaki Kobayashi)
5 Blast of Silence (Allen Baron)
6 The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
8 Films by Stan Brakhage: An Avant-Garde Home Movie (Stan Brakhage)
9 Night Tide (Curtis Harrington)
10 The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)Lola (Jacques Demy)

HM: Lola (Jacques Demy); La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1960

1 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 The Dead (Stan Brakhage)
3 L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
6 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
7 Les bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol_
8 Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher)
9 Le trou (Jacques Becker)
10 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)

HM: La dolce vita (Federico Fellini); Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut); Let's Make Love (George Cukor)

1950s

1959

1 Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage)
2 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
3 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
4 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
5a The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi)
5b The Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi)
6 Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
7 Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
8 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
9 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
10 The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)

HM: Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger); Eyewash (Robert Breer); Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimane); Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage); Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk); Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder); Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Stan Brakhage); All the Boys are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)

1958

1 Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
2 A Movie (Bruce Conner)
3 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Schwechater (Peter Kubelka)
5 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
6 Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
7 Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
8 Mon oncle (Jacques Tati)
9 Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
10 Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger)

HM: Rusy Knife (Toshio Masuda); Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

1957

1 Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
2 Adebar (Peter Kubelka)
3 The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
4 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
5 Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)
6 Loving (Stan Brakhage)
7 I Am Waiting (Yujiro Ishihara)
8 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
9 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
10 Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)

HM: Forty Guns (Samuell Fuller); Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer)

1956

1 A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
2 Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
3 The Searchers (John Ford)
4 Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5 Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
6 Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
8 Elena and Her Men (Jean Renoir)
9 The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)

HM: Nightcats (Stan Brakhage); Aparajito (Satyajit Ray); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)

1955

1 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
2 The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Mosaik im Vertrauen (Peter Kubelka)
4 Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5 The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
6 All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
7 To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
9 Les diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10 Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)

HM: Land of the Pharaohs (Howard Hawks); Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville); Rififi (Jules Dassin)

1954

1 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)
2 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizogichi)
3 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
5 French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
6 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
7 Track of the Cat (William Wellman)
8 Crime Wave (André De Toth)
9a Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage)
9b The Way to Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)
10 A Star Is Born (George Cukor)

HM: Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker); Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock); Sabrina (Billy Wilder): Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)

1953

1 Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
2 Ugetsu (Kenji Mizogichi)
3 M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
4 The End (Christopher McClain)
5 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
6 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 Pickup on South Street (Samuell Fuller)
8 I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger)
10 The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)

HM: The Big Heat (Fritz Lang); Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (Stan Brakhage); The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang)

1952

1 Singin in' the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
2 Othello (Orson Welles)
3 Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
4 Interim (Stan Brakhage)
5 On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
6 Le plaisir (Max Ophüls)
7 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
8 Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
9 Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
10 Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)

1951

1 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 The River (Jean Renoir)
3 The Steel Helmet (Samuell Fuller)
4 Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
5 Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
6 Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg)
7 Venom and Eternity (Isidore Isou)
8 The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks)
9 The African Queen (John Huston)
10 A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

1950

1 Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)
2 Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
3 Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
4 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
5 Wagon Master (Roberto Rossellini)
6 The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
8 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
9 In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
10 Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)

HM: La ronde (Max Ophüls); The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller); Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)

1940s

1949

1 Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
2 I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
3a Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (Sidney Peterson)
3b The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson)
4 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
5 Christmas U.S.A. (Gregory J. Markopoulos)
6 Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
8 Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
9 I Shot Jesse James (Samuell Fuller)
10 The Third Man (Carol Reed)

1948

1 Red River (Howard Hawks)
2 The Petrified Dog (Sidney Peterson)
3 They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
4 The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)
5 The Naked City (Jules Dassin)
6 Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7 Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
8 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
9 Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
10 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)

HM: Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosaw); Key Largo (John Huston)

1947

1 Fireworks (Kennth Anger)
2 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
3 Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
4 Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
5 Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
6 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7 The Cage (Sidney Peterson)
8 Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
9 Good News (Charles Walters)
10 A Double Life (George Cukor)

1946

1 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
4 Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren)
5 The Potted Psalm (James Broughton & Sidney Peterson)
6 The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
7 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
8 Decoy (Jack Bernhard)
9 Gilda (Charles Vidor)
10 Beauty and the Beast (Jean Coucteau)

1945

1 Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
2 Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
3 Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
4 Brief Encounter (David Lean)
5 The Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
6 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
7 Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)
8 Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
9 They Were Expendable (John Ford)
10 Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)

1944

1 To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
2 Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
3 The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
4 At Land (Maya Deren)
5 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
6 A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
7 Laura (Otto Preminger)
8 Gaslight (George Cukor)
9 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise)

1943

1 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
3 Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
5 Le corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6 Ossessione(Luchino Visconti)
7 Air Force (Howard Hawks)
8 Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Geography of the Body (Willard Maas)
10 The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)

1942

1 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
2 To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
4 The 47 Ronin, Part II (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
6 Bambi (David Hand)
7 Gentlemen Jim (Raoul Walsh)
8 The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
9 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)

1941

1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2 Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)
3 The 47 Ronin, Part I (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4 Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
6 49th Parallel(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
7 How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
8 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
9 The Maltese Falcoln (John Huston)
10 Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)

1940

1 His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2 The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
3 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
4 The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
5 The Grapes of Wrath(John Ford)
6 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
7 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
8 The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
9a Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
9b Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)

HM: They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)

1930s

1939

1 The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2 Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
3 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
4 The Women (George Cukor)
5 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
6 Stagecoach (John Ford)
7 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
8 Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
10 The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)

1938

1 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
2 Holiday (George Cukor)
3 La bête humaine (Jean Renoir)
4 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage)
6 The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & Willaim Keighley)
7 The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding)
8 Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)
9 La marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
10 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoy)

1937

1 Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
4 Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
6 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
7 Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)
8 Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
9 True Confession (Wesley Ruggles)
10 The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)

1936

1 Mr. Thank You (Hiorshi Shimizu)
2 The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
3 Fury (Fritz Lang)
4 Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5 Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
7 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
8 Dodsworth (William Wyler)
9 Camille (George Cukor)
10 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)

1935

1 Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2 The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 The Informer (John Ford)
4 Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks)
5 Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
6 A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
7 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway)
8 The Good Fairy (William Wyler)
9 A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)
10 The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Clyde Bruckman)

1934

1 L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 Les misérables (Raymond Bernard)
3 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
4 Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
5 The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
6 A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 Cleopatra (Ceil B. DeMille)
8 The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
9 The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
10 The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)

1933

1 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
3 Pilgrimage (John Ford)
4 Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
5 Passing Fancy (Yasuiro Ozu)
6 Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
7 Female (Michael Curtiz)
8 Hallelujah I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
9 Zéro de conduite (Jean Vigo)
10 King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

1932

1 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Scarface (Howard Hawks)
3 A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
4 Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5 Bodu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
6 Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
7 One Hour with You (Ernst Lubitsch)
8 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
9 Poem 8 (Emlen Etting)
10 The Old Dark House (James Whale)

1931

1 M (Fritz Lang)
2 The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
4 City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
5 The Threepenny Opera (Georg Wihelm Pabst)
6 Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
8 Frankenstein (James Whale)
9 Dracula (Tod Browning
10 À nous la liberté (René Clair)

1930

1 Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair)
2 The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
3 Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
4 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
5 L'âge d'or (Luis Buñuel)
6 Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 Born Reckless (Andrew Bennison and John Ford)
8 Laughter (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast)
9 The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
10 THe Blue Agel (Josef von Sternberg)

Pre-1930s

Pandora's Box, Buster Keaton, Sunrise, etc, whatever