Stephen King's Graveyard Shift(Ralph S. Singleton)
Men at Work(Emilio Estevez)
Marked for Death(Dwight H. Little)
Nouvelle Vague(Jean-Luc Godard)
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):After Dark, My Sweet (Foley);
Air America (Spottiswoode); Alice (Allen); All the
Vermeers in New York (Jost); Another 48HRS. (Hill); Antonia
& Jane (Kidron); Arachnophobia (F. Marshall); Avalon
(Levinson); Awakenings (P. Marshall); Back to the Future Part
III (Zemeckis); Bad Influence (Hanson); Bird on a Wire
(Badham); Boiling Point (Kitano); The Bonfire of the
Vanities (De Palma); Cadillac Man (Donaldson); C'est la
vie (Kurys); Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (Rose); Coupe de
Ville (Roth); Courage Mountain (Leitch); Crazy People
(Bill); Cry-Baby (Waters); Cyrano de Bergerac (Rappeneau);
Daddy Nostalgia (Tavernier); Dances With Wolves (Costner);
Days of Thunder (T. Scott); Desperate Hours (Cimino);
Dick Tracy (Beatty); Downtown (Benjamin); DuckTales: The
Movie—Treasure of the Lost Lamp (Hathcock); Eating
(Jaglom); Europa Europa (Holland); Everybody Wins (Reisz);
The Field (Sheridan); Fire Birds (Green); Flashback
(Amurri); Funny About Love (Nimoy); Ghost (Zucker);
Ghost Dad (Poitier); The Golden Boat (Ruiz); Green
Card (Weir); The Grifters (Frears); The Guardian
(Friedkin); The Hairdresser's Husband (Leconte); Halfaouine,
Boy of the Terraces (Boughedir); Hamlet (Zeffirelli); The
Handmaid's Tale (Schlöndorff); Havana (Pollack); Heart
Condition (Perriott); Henry & June (Kaufman); Hidden
Agenda (Loach); The Hot Spot (Hopper); House Party
(Hudlin); The Hunt for Red October (McTiernan); I Love You to
Death (Kasdan); I, the Worst of All (Bemberg); Impulse
(Locke); Internal Affairs (Figgis); Journey of Hope
(Koller); Ju Dou (Zhang & Yang); The Krays (Medak); La
Femme Nikita (Besson); The Last of the Finest (Mackenzie);
Lisa (Sherman); The Long Walk Home (Pearce); Longtime
Companion (René); Look Who's Talking Too (Heckerling);
Loose Cannons (Clark); Lord of the Flies (Hook); Love at
Large (Rudolph); Madhouse (Ropelawski); The Match Factory
Girl (Kaurismäki); May Fools (Malle); Memphis
Belle (Caton-Jones); Men Don't Leave (Brickman);
Mermaids (Benjamin); Misery (R. Reiner); Mr. & Mrs.
Bridge (Ivory); Mr. Destiny (Orr); Mister Frost
(Setbon); Mo' Better Blues (Lee); Mountains of the Moon
(Rafelson); My Blue Heaven (Ross); My Father's Glory
(Robert); Narrow Margin (Hyams); Navy SEALS (Teague);
Nightbreed (Barker); Nuns on the Run (Lynn); Opportunity
Knocks (Petrie); Pacific Heights (Schlesinger); A Paper
Wedding (Brault); Paris Is Burning (Livingston); Presumed
Innocent (Pakula); Pretty Woman (G. Marshall); Problem
Child (Dugan); Pump Up the Volume (Moyle); Q & A
(Lumet); Quick Change (Franklin & Murray); Quigley Down
Under (Wincer); The Reflecting Skin (Ridley); The Rescuers
Down Under (Butoy & Gabriel); RoboCop 2 (Kershner); Robot
Jox (Gordon); Rocky V (Avildsen); The Rookie
(Eastwood); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard);
The Russia House (Schepisi); The Sheltering Sky
(Bertolucci); Shipwrecked (Gaup); Short Time (Champion);
Sibling Rivalry (C. Reiner); Singapore Sling (Nikolaidis);
Stanley & Iris (Ritt); State of Grace (Joanou);
Stella (Erman); Strangers in Good Company (C. Scott);
Strike It Rich (J. Scott); Sure Fire (Jost); Taking Care
of Business (Hiller); A Tale of Springtime (Rohmer); Tales
From the Darkside: The Movie (Harrison); Tatie Danielle
(Chatiliez); 3 Men and a Little Lady (Ardolino); Tune in
Tomorrow... (Amiel); The Two Jakes (Nicholson); Uranus
(Berri); Vincent & Theo (Altman); Waiting for the Light
(Monger); Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (Abrahams); Where the
Heart Is (Boorman); White Hunter, Black Heart (Eastwood);
White Palace (Mandoki); The Witches (Roeg); Without
You I'm Nothing (Boskovich); Young Guns II (Murphy)
As yet unseen:American Dream
(Kopple); Larks on a String (Menzel)
I occasionally write reviews
of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.