Memories of Underdevelopment(Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
I Am Curious—Blue(Vilgot Sjöman)
The Devil Rides Out(Terence Fisher)
Finian's Rainbow(Francis Ford Coppola)
The Profound Desire of the Gods(Shohei Imamura)
The Charge of the Light Brigade(Tony Richardson)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(Ken Hughes)
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General(Michael Reeves)
Monterey Pop(D A Pennebaker)
Bye Bye Braverman(Sidney Lumet)
Faces(John Cassavetes)
Secret Ceremony(Joseph Losey)
Hour of the Wolf(Ingmar Bergman)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!(Hy Averback)
The Bamboo Saucer(Frank Telford)
Barbarella(Roger Vadim)
Skidoo(Otto Preminger)
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):Blackbeard's Ghost (Stevenson);
The Bride Wore Black (Truffaut); Charly (Nelson);
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Straub); Coogan's Bluff
(Siegel); Death by Hanging (Oshima); Funny Girl (Wyler);
The Girl (Mészáros); Greetings (De Palma);
Hell in the Pacific (Boorman); High School (Wiseman); Je
t'aime, je t'aime (Resnais); The Killing of Sister George
(Aldrich); L'enfance nue (Pialat); The Love Bug
(Stevenson); Madigan (Siegel); The Money Order
(Sembène); The Odd Couple (Saks); Oliver! (Reed);
Partner. (Bertolucci); Petulia (Lester); Planet of the
Apes (Schaffner); Star! (Wise); Targets (Bogdanovich);
Three Sad Tigers (Ruíz); Vixen! (Meyer); Yellow
Submarine (Dunning)
As yet unseen:Golden Swallow (Chang);
Les Biches (Chabrol); Spirits of the Dead
(Vadim/Malle/Fellini)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.