Man Bites Dog(Rémy Belvaux & André Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde)
Je pense à vous(Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Céline(Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me(David Lynch)
Cronos(Guillermo Del Toro)
Mac(John Turturro)
Candyman(Bernard Rose)
Consenting Adults(Alan J. Pakula)
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)The Accompanist (C. Miller);
American Me (Olmos); Baraka (Fricke); Belle epoque
(Trueba); The Best Intentions (August); Bitter Moon
(Polanski); Bob Roberts (Robbins); The Boys of St. Vincent
(Smith); Brother's Keeper (Berlinger & Sinofsky); Citizen
Cohn (Pierson); Class Act (R. Miller); Crush (Maclean);
Damage (Malle); Dammed in the USA (Yule); Death Becomes
Her (Zemeckis); Diggstown (Ritchie); Dream of Light
(Erice); The Efficiency Expert (Joffe); El Mariachi
(Rodriguez); Enchanted April (Newell); Equinox (Rudolph);
A Few Good Men (Reiner); Gas Food Lodging (Anders);
Guelwaar (Sembene); Guncrazy (Davis); The Hand That
Rocks the Cradle (Hanson); Hero (Frears); Honeymoon in
Vegas (Bergman); HouseSitter (Oz); Hyenas (Diop
Mambéty); In the Soup (Rockwell); Incident at Oglala
(Apted); Indochine (Wargnier); Into the West (Newell);
Juice (Dickerson); Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
(Harris); La Sentinelle (Desplechin); The Lady (Mehrjui);
The Last Days of Chez Nous (Armstrong); The Last of the
Mohicans (Mann); A League of Their Own (Marshall);
Léolo (Lauzon); Like Water for Chocolate (Arau);
The Living End (Araki); The Lover (Annaud); Luna
Park (Lounguine); The Mambo Kings (Glimcher); Mr. Saturday
Night (Crystal); Mistress (Primus); The Moneytree
(Dienstag); Monster in a Box (Broomfield); Night and the
City (Winkler); Noises Off (Bogdanovich); The Oak
(Pintilie); Of Mice and Men (Sinise); Olivier, Olivier
(Holland); Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Makhmalbaf); Once Upon a
Time in China II (Tsui); Orlando (Potter); Passion Fish
(Sayles); Patriot Games (Noyce); Peter's Friends (Branagh);
The Playboys (Mackinnon); Prelude to a Kiss (René);
Raising Cain (De Palma); A River Runs Through It (Redford);
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport); Romper Stomper
(Wright); Sarafina! (Roodt); Savage Nights (Collard);
Scent of a Woman (Brest); School Ties (Mandel); Simple
Men (Hartley); Single White Female (Schroeder); Singles
(Crowe); Sneakers (Robinson); South Central (Anderson);
Stolen Children (Amelio); The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang);
Strictly Ballroom (Lurhmann); Swoon (Kalin); Swordsman
II (Ching); A Tale of Winter (Rohmer); This Is My Life
(Ephron); Thunderheart (Apted); Toys (Levinson); Two
Mikes Don't Make a Wright (Leigh/Moore/Parisot); Visions of
Light (Glassman & McCarthy & Samuels); The Waterdance
(Jimenez & Steinberg); Wind (Ballard); Zebrahead
(Drazan)
As yet unseen:Actress (Kwan);
Dragon Inn (Lee); The Last Bolshevik (Marker); The
Second Heimat (Reitz); Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under
America (Baldwin)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.