For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):The Alamo (Wayne); Bad
Luck (Munk); Elmer Gantry (Brooks); The Entertainer
(Richardson); Flaming Star (Siegel); House of Usher
(Corman); Jazz on a Summer's Day (Stern); Les Bonnes Femmes
(Chabrol); Never on Sunday (Dassin); Pollyanna (Swift);
Sergeant Rutledge (Ford); Swiss Family Robinson (Annakin);
Two Women (De Sica); Zazie dans le métro (Malle)
As yet unseen:Black Sunday (Bava);
Comanche Station (Boetticher); The Little Shop of Horrors
(Corman); The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Lang); The Young
One (Buñuel)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.