The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(Joseph Sargent)
The Godfather, Part II(Francis Ford Coppola)
The Parallax View(Alan J. Pakula)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(Martin Scorsese)
Hearts and Minds(Peter Davis)
That's Entertainment!(Jack Haley, Jr.)
Edvard Munch(Peter Watkins)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia(Sam Peckinpah)
The Phantom of Liberty(Luis Buñuel)
Lenny(Bob Fosse)
Italianamerican(Martin Scorsese)
Blazing Saddles(Mel Brooks)
Dark Star(John Carpenter)
A Woman Under the Influence(John Cassavetes)
A Man in a Dream(Bernard Queysanne)
A Poem Is a Naked Person(Les Blank)
Phantom of the Paradise(Brian De Palma)
Messiah of Evil(Willard Huyck)
Parade(Jacques Tati)
The Traveller(Abbas Kiarostami)
Zardoz(John Boorman)
Blood for Dracula(Paul Morrissey)
The Great Gatsby(Jack Clayton)
Gone in 60 Seconds(H.B. Halicki)
The Front Page(Billy Wilder)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry(John Hough)
Lacombe Lucien(Louis Malle)
The Man With the Golden Gun(Guy Hamilton)
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait(Barbet Schroeder)
The Mouth Agape(Maurice Pialat)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie(Jorge Grau)
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell(Yoshiyuki Kuroda)
Female Trouble(John Waters)
The Night Porter(Liliana Cavani)
Sweet Movie(Dušan Makajevev)
Going Places(Bertrand Blier)
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):Allonsanfa'n (Tavianis);
The Black Windmill (Siegel); The Clockmaker (Tavernier);
Cockfighter (Hellman); Death Wish (Winner); Effi
Briest (Fassbinder); Every Man for Himself and God Against All
(Herzog); Stavisky... (Resnais); The Terminal Man (Hodges);
Thieves Like Us (Altman); The Traveller (Kiarostami);
Uptown Saturday Night (Poitier)
As yet unseen:Arabian Nights
(Pasolini); Elektreia (Jancsó); The Fierce One
(Okeev); Juggernaut (Lester); Lancelot of the Lake
(Bresson); Pastoral: Hide and Seek (Terayama)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.