Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons(Kenji Misumi)
The Sting(George Roy Hill)
Day for Night(François Truffaut)
The Last American Hero(Lamont Johnson)
Westworld(Michael Crichton)
Breezy(Clint Eastwood)
Hot Pepper(Les Blank)
High Plains Drifter(Clint Eastwood)
The Wicker Man(Robin Hardy)
Lady Snowblood(Toshiya Fujita)
Bang the Drum Slowly(John Hancock)
Sleeper(Woody Allen)
Walking Tall(Phil Karlson)
O Lucky Man!(Lindsay Anderson)
Papillon(Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Way We Were(Sydney Pollack)
Jesus Christ Superstar(Norman Jewison)
The Three Musketeers(Richard Lester)
Wedding in Blood(Claude Chabrol)
Soylent Green(Richard Fleischer)
Ganja & Hess(Bill Gunn)
Magnum Force(Ted Post)
Flesh for Frankenstein(Paul Morrissey)
The Exorcist(William Friedkin)
Scenes From a Marriage(Ingmar Bergman)
Amarcord(Federico Fellini)
The Holy Mountain(Alexandro Jodorowsky)
La Grande Bouffe(Marco Ferreri)
The Asphyx(Peter Newbrook)
A River Called Titas(Ritwik Kumar Ghatak)
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):Charlotte's Web (Nichols &
Takamoto); The Crazies (Romero); Enter the Dragon (Clouse);
The Great Love Songs (Voulgaris); The Homecoming (Hall);
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (Blackburn); The
Mother and the Whore (Eustache); Payday (Duke); Serpico
(Lumet); Wattstax (Stuart)
As yet unseen:Blood Brothers (Chang);
Blume in Love (Mazursky); Distant Thunder (Ray); Love
and Anarchy (Wertmuller); Theatre of Blood (Hickox)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.