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):Alfie (Gilbert); Barrier
(Skolimowski); Black Tight Killers (Hasebe); Cul-de-Sac
(Polanski); The Deadly Affair (Lumet); Fahrenheit 451
(Truffaut); Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer); Georgy Girl
(Narizzano); King of Hearts (De Broca); La guerre est finie
(Resnais); A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann); Modesty
Blaise (Losey); The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are
Coming (Jewison); What's Up, Tiger Lily? (Allen); Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols); The Wrong Box (Forbes);
You're a Big Boy Now (Coppola)
As yet unseen:The Hawks and the
Sparrows (Pasolini); Kill, Baby, Kill (Bava); Lord Love
a Duck (Axelrod); Lupe (Warhol); Santa Claus Has Blue
Eyes (Eustache); 7 Women (Ford)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.