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.
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Absolute Power (Eastwood);
Afterglow (Rudolph); Air Force One (Petersen); The
Alarmist (Dunsky); Alien Resurrection (Jeunet); Amistad
(Spielberg); Anastasia (Bluth & Goldman); As Good as It
Gets (Brooks); The Assignment (Duguay); Austin Powers:
International Man of Mystery (Roach); Belly Up (Brant); The
Best Man (Avati); Beverly Hills Ninja (Dugan); The Big
One (Moore); Black & White & Red All Over (D. Davis & McCoy &
Streeter); Booty Call (Pollack); The Borrowers (Hewitt);
The Boxer (Sheridan); Brother (Balabanov); A
Brother... (Verheyde); Buddy (Thompson); The Butcher
Boy (Jordan); Buttoners (Zelenka); Career Girls
(Leigh); The Chambermaid on the Titanic (Luna); Character
(Van Diem); Children of Heaven (Majidi); Chinese Box
(Wang); Con Air (West); Conspiracy Theory (Donner);
Contact (Zemeckis); Cop Land (Mangold); Deconstructing
Harry (Allen); The Designated Mourner (Hare); Destiny
(Chahine); The Devil's Advocate (Hackford); Don King: Only in
America (Herzfeld); Dry Cleaning (Fontaine); East Side
Story (Ranga); The Edge (Tamahori); The End of Violence
(Wenders); Face Down (Eberhardt); FairyTale—A True
Story (Sturridge); Family Name (Alston); Fathers' Day
(Reitman); The Fifth Element (Besson); Four Days in
September (Barreto); 4 Little Girls (Lee); A Friend of the
Deceased (Krishtofovich); From Today Until Tomorrow (Huillet &
Straub); Gadjo dilo (Gatlif); Gattaca (Niccol);
Genealogies of a Crime (Ruiz); Gesche's Poison (Von
Waldenfels); G.I. Jane (Scott); Good Will Hunting (Van
Sant); Gravesend (Stabile); GRIDLOCK'd (Curtis Hall);
Grind (Kentis); Gummo (Korine); A Gun, a Car, a
Blonde (Ames); Hav Plenty (Cherot); Hercules (Musker &
Clements); Hoodlum (Duke); The House of Yes (Waters);
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Fisher); Hugo Pool
(Downey); Hurricane Streets (Freeman); I Love You, Don't Touch
Me! (J. Davis); I Went Down (Breathnach); In & Out
(Oz); Inside/Out (Tregenza); Jane Eyre (Young); John
Grisham's The Rainmaker (Coppola); Junk Mail (Sletaune);
The King of Masks (Wu); Kiss or Kill (Bennett);
Kitchen (Yim); Kitchen Party (Burns); La vie
de Jésus (Dumont); Liar Liar (Shadyac); Licensed to
Kill (Dong); A Life Less Ordinary (Boyle); The Locusts
(Kelley); The Long Way Home (Harris); Love! Valour!
Compassion! (Mantello); The Lucky Star (Franco); Ma vie en
rose (Berliner); Marius and Jeannette (Guédiguian);
Martín (Hache) (Aristarain); The Matchmaker (Joffe);
Men in Black (Sonnenfeld); Men With Guns (Sayles); A
Merry War (Bierman); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(Eastwood); The Mirror (Panahi); Mr. Jealousy (Baumbach);
Mojo (Butterworth); Moon Over Broadway (Pennebaker &
Hegedus); Mrs Brown (Madden); Mrs Dalloway (Gorris);
Murder at 1600 (Little); Murmur of Youth (Lin); My Son
the Fanatic (Prasad); Night Falls on Manhattan (Lumet);
Nowhere (Araki); Obsession (Sehr); The Odyssey
(Konchalovsky); One Night Stand (Figgis); Open Your Eyes
(Amenábar); Oscar and Lucinda (Armstrong); The Other
Shore (Cabrera); The Perfect Circle (Kenovic); Post
Coitum (Roüan); Private Parts (Thomas); Public
Housing (Wiseman); A Queer Story (Shu); The Real Blonde
(DiCillo); Red Corner (Avnet); Romy and Michele's High School
Reunion (Mirkin); Rough Riders (Milius); The Second Civil
War (Dante); Secrets of the Heart (Armendáriz);
Seven Years in Tibet (Annaud); Seventh Heaven (Jacquot);
Shadow Conspiracy (Cosmatos); She's So Lovely (Cassavetes);
Shooting Fish (Schwartz); Smilla's Sense of Snow (August);
Soul in the Hole (Gardner); Speed 2: Cruise Control (De
Bont); Squeeze (Patton-Spruill); Star Maps (Arteta); The
Sticky Fingers of Time (Brougher); Suicide Kings (O'Fallon);
Sunday (Nossiter); Suzaku (Kawase); Telling Lies in
America (Ferland); The Thief (Chukhrai); Thirteen
(Williams); Too Much Sleep (Maquiling); Trouble on the
Corner (Madison); Truth Or Consequences, N.M. (Sutherland);
Turbulence (Butler); 12 Angry Men (Friedkin);
TwentyFourSeven (Meadows); Twin Town (Allen); U Turn
(Stone); Ulee's Gold (Nunez); Under the Skin (Adler);
Unmade Beds (Barker); Voyage to the Beginning of the World
(De Oliveira); Waco: The Rules of Engagement (Gazecki);
Washington Square (Holland); Wednesday (Kossakovsky);
Welcome to Sarajevo (Winterbottom); The Well (Lang);
Western (Poirier); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (Rubin & Workman);
Who the Hell Is Juliette? (Marcovich); The Wings of the
Dove (Softley); Winter Sleepers (Tykwer); The Witman
Boys (Szász); Xiao Wu (Jia); Year of the Horse
(Jarmusch)