The Atomic Cafe(Kevin Rafferty & Jayne Loader & Pierce Rafferty)
A Question of Silence(Marleen Gorris)
Blade Runner(Ridley Scott)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High(Amy Heckerling)
White Dog(Samuel Fuller)
Missing(Costa-Gavras)
Personal Best(Robert Towne)
The Verdict(Sidney Lumet)
The Thing(John Carpenter)
Fanny and Alexander(Ingmar Bergman)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean(Robert Altman)
Burden of Dreams(Les Blank)
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez(Robert M. Young)
Tenebre(Dario Argento)
One From the Heart(Francis Coppola)
Time Stands Still(Péter Gothár)
The Night of the Shooting Stars(Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Sophie's Choice(Alan J. Pakula)
First Blood(Ted Kotcheff)
The Sender(Roger Christian)
Losing Ground(Kathleen Collins)
Tron(Steven Lisberger)
Identification of a Woman(Michelangelo Antonioni)
An Officer and a Gentleman(Taylor Hackford)
Querelle(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Une chambre en ville(Jacques Demy)
The Dark Crystal(Jim Henson & Frank Oz)
Conan the Barbarian(John Milius)
Passion(Jean-Luc Godard)
The Secret of NIMH(Don Bluth)
Eating Raoul(Paul Bartel)
The Beastmaster(Don Coscarelli)
Vice Squad(Gary A. Sherman)
Cat People(Paul Schrader)
Jinxed!(Don Siegel)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch(Tommy Lee Wallace)
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):Android (Lipstadt); Author! Author!
(Hiller); Basket Case (Henenlotter); Britannia Hospital
(Anderson); Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Reiner); Deathtrap
(Lumet); The Entity (Furie); Fanny and Alexander (Bergman);
Forty Deuce (Morrissey); 48HRS. (W. Hill); Gandhi
(Attenborough); Hanky Panky (Poitier); I'm Dancing as Fast as I
Can (Hofsiss); The Last American Virgin (Davidson); Le Beau
mariage (Rohmer); The Loveless (Bigelow & Montgomery); A
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Allen); Night Shift (Howard);
Rocky III (Stallone); The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
(Temple & Graef); Shoot the Moon (Parker); The World According
to Garp (G.R. Hill); The Year of Living Dangerously (Weir)
As yet unseen:Creepshow (Romero);
On Top of the Whale (Ruiz); Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(Meyer); The State of Things (Wenders); Tex (Hunter);
Toute une nuit (Akerman); The Trout (Losey);
Victor/Victoria (Edwards)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.