When I post Favorite Films lists, they are always works in progress.

Here is Part One of my two-part reflection on the films of 2011, posted at Good Letters, the blog at Image.

And here is Part Two: my ten favorite films of 2011 (so far).

These articles go into some detail.

The list published at Good Letters is based on which films were released in the U.S. in 2011.

The list archive here at Looking Closer is organized by the date of the film’s first screening. So some of my 2010 favorites are included in this 2011 list because they didn’t open in the U.S. until this year. Confusing, I know. Because of this, the #1 film on my 2011 list at Good Letters is actually the #1 film on my list for 2010 in the archive. It all depends on whether you categorize a film by when it opened, or by when it opened in America.

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AN INTRODUCTION:

This is a work in progress… a running list of my favorite films.

Organizing any film list is a challenge. How do we determine the release date of a film? By the first festival screening? By the American commercial release date? What if it’s made available online before it reaches theatres?

I recently threw out my old lists. They had been categorized by the year in which they became accessible to me in Seattle. But distribution methods for movies have changed. It’s become increasingly difficult to say when a film has “become available.” Sometimes, films are available online long before they reach Seattle theaters or DVD.

For simplicity’s sake, I now list movies by the year of the film’s first showings as reported by IMDB (the Internet Movie Database).

That means my favorite of the films I saw in 2011 — Certified Copy — is now listed as my #1 film of 2010 because the completed film was first presented to audiences in 2010.

No doubt I still have some corrections to make, so if you see that I’ve mistakenly repeated a title or categorized in the wrong place, please let me know.

Before you peruse the lists, permit me to explain a little bit about what it actually represents.

WHAT THE LIST MEANS: Q&A

• What makes you think you’re an expert, Overstreet?

I don’t! I explore movies and I study them, but I’m not a scholar.

• Then why write reviews? Why make long lists like these?

For 20 years I’ve been writing reviews as a way of thinking through what I’ve seen.

Seeing a film for the first time is like meeting a stranger for the first time. I don’t want to just meet works of art. I want to get to know them. Sometimes they have little to say to me, or they’re mean, or they’re superficial, or they want to sell me something. Sometimes they turn out to be marvelous company, and I end up learning from them and revisiting them often. I make lists as a way of keeping track of which movies have been most rewarding for me, and which I’d most like to spend time revisiting.

You know the word “ruminate”? If so, you probably know where that word comes from. When animals “ruminate,” they’re chewing their meal again. I write about movies and discuss them in order to get more out of the experience, to glean rewards, to savor. I started LookingCloser.org not so I would have a platform or a pulpit, but because I wanted to find others who were interested in discussing cinema as “incarnation” — the embodying of truth through the imagination. I’m still learning a lot from that discussion, and I’ve only scratched the surface of it.

• Do these lists represent what you would call “the best movies”?

No.

When film critics announce that they’ve decided “the best films of the year,” I’m immediately distrustful. I’ve never met an individual who has that kind of authority. It’s better to be humble about it. Why not call them “favorites”?

Lists are personal things. Our cinematic preferences say as much about our personalities, interests, aversions, and questions as they do about the films themselves. We’re all distinct individuals and, to complicate matters further, we’re all changing. So what we value, appreciate, and understand is going to change and grow as we do.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a critic say, “Well, it wasn’t a perfect movie.” Of course it wasn’t! There are no perfect movies. Movies are imperfect because they’re made by imperfect people. It’s not very worthwhile to declare whether a film is imperfect or not.

It is worthwhile, however, to talk about what impressed us, what confused us, what intrigued us about a movie. But our relationship with any work of art will be incomplete, unique, and subject to change.

Thus, whether we’re rating movies with stars or points or thumbs, there is no strict unit of measure that can tell us the value of a work of art. We can talk about the virtues and faults of Schindler’s List or The Blair Witch Project, but any kind of “grade” or “point system” is severely insufficient and misleading.

Rating movies is like rating food: Is a ham better than a strawberry? How can you compare the two?

A movie, like any work of art, is — as my high school English teacher used to say — both a Thing and a Way. As a Thing, its craftsmanship can be examined, and we can discuss the quality of acting, soundtrack, editing, cinematography, composition, etc. As a Way, it is an invitation to an experience, and each traveler will find that movie inspiring different kinds of memories, challenges, questions, ideas, and lessons.

So in these lists, I have no authority to say which films are the “best.” Nor do I judge movies based on whether I “liked” them. I’m taking into account whether the Thing is excellent and worthy of praise, and I’m also taking into account what I have experienced on the Way of the movie.

• But isn’t it all subjective, this business of assessing what is excellent?

No.

Some questions about movies are somewhat subjective:

- Was a director’s decision to shoot in black and white a good one?
- Should the voice-over narration have been eliminated?
- Was a performance too understated, or too flamboyant?
- Is the movie boring, or is it asking us to pay close attention?
- Was the non-chronological storytelling confusing or revealing?
- Must a movie have a clear and compelling narrative, or can movies work in other ways like impressionist paintings or poetry?

These are matters of opinion.

Because of that subjectivity, we should listen to each other’s opinions and preferences with respect, and offer our own with some humility.

But it would be wrong to say that there is no such thing as excellence.

Some aspects of film reviewing are far less subjective. For example, if the sound is poorly mixed, if the editing is sloppy, if there is evidence of laziness or thoughtlessness, or if we observe unethical treatment of actors, animals, or audiences… these are not very subjective matters. Most people know the difference between an actor and somebody who just speaks lines into a camera.

If somebody thinks that excellence is always just a matter of opinion, I’d like to give them some choices: Would they like their open-heart surgery performed by an accomplished surgeon or a 12-year-old who knows how to play the game of Operation? Would they like to hear a piano concerto performed by a famous pianist or by someone who’s had one piano lesson? I suspect that person’s choice would demonstrate that they do believe in objective measures of excellence.

• Your lists, like a lot of critics’ lists, don’t look anything like the box office reports. Are you saying you know better than the moviegoing public?

I’ll say this:

Most people will agree that the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone are “great” national parks, but some people would rather go to a video arcade than go on a hike or a camping trip. The most popular restaurants are obviously not the establishments that serve the greatest meals. People tend to choose donuts over spinach salad. Appreciating great art is a matter of growing up. When we’re children, we dislike a lot of the food and drink that we learn to appreciate and favor later. I hated both coffee and asparagus when I was a kid. But I learned, gradually, that the adults weren’t just trying to trick me. Coffee and asparagus are wonderful things. When I look at what’s popular at the box office, I think it shows us that we are a people of childish interests. Growing up a little would be good for us.

Most people think critics are crazy when they talk about “the great films.” That’s because most people don’t have the patience to discover the greatest rewards that movies have to offer. They want instant, familiar gratification, and then they’re on their way.Americans tend to treat movies like junk food, and that’s why we’re now getting our movies out of Redbox vending machines instead of renting them from a neighborhood store, like the one where I used to work and have long conversations with neighbors and introduce them to challenging new filmmakers.

Recognizing greatness takes time, even for the most thoughtful moviegoers. Most critics will agree that Citizen Kane, Tokyo Story, and Andrei Rublev are essential works of cinema, but the greatness of those masterpieces has been recognized over time, through countless viewings and discussions, through examinations under many different critical lenses. Blade Runner was not well-regarded when it first opened; now it’s often called a science fiction masterpiece. A movie’s greatness may go unrecognized by a casual moviegoer who goes to the movies on Friday night with certain expectations, desiring something easy and familiar, and equating “greatness” with “fun” or positive emotions.

Most people wouldn’t sit through Tokyo Story, or Yi-Yi, or Certified Copy, or Into Great Silence, or many of the films that have become my favorites over time. But then, when I was younger, I wouldn’t have appreciated those films either.

Having said all of that, I do like a good candy bar now and then. Sometimes I get cravings for an Almond Joy or M&Ms with pretzels. I’m also fond of Die Hard, Fletch, and Spider-man 2. These movies aren’t bad. But we can turn them into damaging influences if we make a steady diet of them, or fail to think about what they and how they are made.

• Okay, enough about subjectivity and excellence. How does your rating system work?

I offer these lists and classifications as tentative summaries of personal experience. Nothing more.

They are expressions of enthusiasm and gratitude to some artists, and expressions of respectful acknowledgement (but not enthusiasm) for others. They reflect a combination of the excellence I see in each Thing, and the experience I had on the path of each Way. Thus, my choices say as much or more about me as they do about the films in question.

But these are not “ratings,” really. I don’t like “rating” movies. In one of my film-review jobs, I was required to submit my star-ratings of each film, rating each on a scale of 1-5. I did not enjoy that at all. I’m much happier when people have to read my review to get a sense of my experience. If they see that I’ve given a movie 3 1/2 stars, they don’t know anything about my opinion of that movie.

Think about it: If I served you a delicious strawberry on Monday, and a Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday, and then asked you to rate them on a scale of 1-5, what would you do if they were both excellent? Five stars for both of them? Are you saying a good strawberry is equal to a good Thanksgiving dinner? It doesn’t make sense.

• So, these aren’t ratings. They’re recommendations! Right?

No.

I might love a movie for how it changed my life, and still be careful to avoid recommending it to certain people based on what’s in it. And here I go with another food metaphor: I may enjoy a well-made peanut butter sandwich, but I have friends who will get sick if I serve them peanut butter.

Recommendations are individual. I can’t recommend a movie to my readership, because that’s like recommending pair of shoes to a crowd of people. What is useful and comfortable for some people could be harmful for others.

• Are the lists finished?

No. I’m changing, so the lists will change too. I’ll revise them as often as I like.

Nevertheless, I hope they lead you to some memorable, rewarding experiences.

• I just noticed that you listed one movie twice. And you overlooked one of my favorites. What do I do?

Email me. Feel free to point out errors. Ask me why certain titles are missing, or why certain titles are included. But I’d encourage you to search my review archive first, where you may find some answers. If you notice that a film is not listed among my favorites or among the titles I have not seen, that means I’ve overlooked it or I saw it and didn’t care for it.

COLOR-CODED GUIDE TO THE LISTS

The lists are numbered and color-coded.

The numbers list my Top 25 of each year, in an approximate order of my gratitude for the experience.

The colors are a general expression of how grateful I am, how much I appreciate and value them. (If I were to offer a list of my all-time favorite movies, I’d be drawing from the red-letter “treasures.” Some years didn’t produce anything I’d consider “treasure.”)

• TREASURES:
  Films that have profoundly inspired, influenced, and affected me. I desire to have all of them in my personal collection for future reference. Why are they red? They’re like the burning bush, always blazing but never consumed.
• FAVORITES:
  Films I will probably never tire of revisiting, studying, sharing, and discussing. Why are they purple? Among films, I consider them royalty.
• KEEPERS:
  Films worth seeing more than once, studying, sharing, and discussing. Why are they blue? To a rain-soaked Seattle-dweller like myself, blue is a reason to celebrate.
• WORTHWHILE:
  Films worth seeing at least once, due to their strong points, but I probably wouldn’t revisit them. Why are they grey? Hmm. Now, don’t get snarky. Let’s say they’re brown like James Brown – when they’re good, you’re glad they’re onstage, but you might not want to lift them up as role models.
• UNSEEN or UNRATABLE:
  Films I haven’t seen, or else I can’t remember what I thought of them… but they’ve been recommended to me by friends or reputable critics. If the right opportunity comes along, I’ll check them out. Why are they green? I look at them as “the grass on the other side of the fence.” Or, perhaps, an undiscovered pasture where I can graze in future days.
• * MOVIES MARKED WITH ASTERISKS:
  Those are those that received either a festival-only release or an extremely limited release during their year. Many of these films I didn’t see until after the year of their release, and I had to go back and revise that year’s list.

2011

1. The Tree of Life (reviews)
2. Pina*
3. The Mill and the Cross
4. Buck
5. Martha Marcy May Marlene (review)
6. Nostalgia for the Light
7. Tuesday, After Christmas
8. War Horse (review)
9. The Muppets (review)
10. Winnie the Pooh
11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
12. Take Shelter
13. Win Win (review) (interview with Tom McCarthy)
14. Wrestling for Jesus: The Tale of T-Money
15. Drive (review)
16. Le Havre
17. Attack the Block
18. Hugo
19. Moneyball
20. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (review)
21. Margaret
22. Midnight in Paris
23. The Trip
24. Rango
25. A Dangerous Method
26. Jane Eyre (review)

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Contagion (review)
• The Descendants
• Super 8
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• X-Men: First Class

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2011:

4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
A Better Life
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Todd Strauss-Schulson)
Albert Nobbs
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman)
Alpis
Anonymous
Art History (Joe Swanberg)
Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg)
Avalon
Battle: Los Angeles
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Bernie
Born to Be Wild
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
Caitlin Plays Herself (Joe Swanberg)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)
Dark Horse
Dolphin Tale
Duo Mingjin
Edwin Parker (Tacita Dean)
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fast Five
Faust (Alexander Sokurov)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
Good for Nothing
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)
Green Lantern
Hahithalfut
Hall Pass (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Happy Feet Two
Hell and Back Again
Higher Ground
Himizu
Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
How to Die in Oregon
I Will Follow
In Darkness
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Innocent Saturday (Alexander Mindadze)
Into the Abyss
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
Killer Joe
Kinyarwanda
Like Crazy
Love and Bruises (Lou Ye)
Low Life (Nicolas Klotz)
L’ultimo terrestre
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
Margin Call
Mars Needs Moms
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Mildred Pierce
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Monsieur Lazhar
On the Shoulders of Giants
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Page Eight
Page One: Inside The New York Times
Paul (Greg Mottola)
Pina
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
Polisse
Poulet aux prunes
Project Nim
Prom
Puss in Boots
Quando la notte
Real Steel
Ren Shan Ren Hai
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Ricky (Janie Geiser)
Rio
River Rites (Ben Russell)
Saideke Balai
Septien (Michael Tully)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Kohler)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Source Code (Duncan Jones)
Starbuck
Tao jie
Target (Alexander Zeldovich)
Terraferma
Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
Texas Killing Fields
The Beaver
The Big Year
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
The First Man
The Flowers of War
The Future
The Future (Miranda July)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry)
The Guard
The Hangover Part II
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
The Interrupters
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes)
The Last Mountain
The Last Rites of Joe May
The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
The Mechanic (Simon West)
The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
The Smurfs
The Three Musketeers (Paul W.S. Anderson)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
This is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi)
This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino)
Thor
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay)
Tyrannosaur
Un été brûlant
Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg)
Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Warrior
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
What’s Your Number?
Where Do We Go Now?
Wild and Weird
Wuthering Heights
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
Zookeeper

2010

1. Certified Copy* (review)
2. Toy Story 3 (review)
3. Of Gods and Men* (a review by Steven Greydanus)
4. Lucky Life* (review)
5. True Grit* (review)
6. Winter’s Bone (review)
7. The Social Network (review)
8. Another Year* (some comments)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives* (review)
10. Meek’s Cutoff* (review)
    
11. Four Lions (a brief review)
    
12. The Arbor*
13. Mysteries of Lisbon*
14. Please Give
15. Waste Land (review)
16. Somewhere*
17. Le Quattro Volte*
18. Babies (review)
19. Road to Nowhere*
20. Poetry*
21. The King’s Speech (review)
22. Submarine*
23. Beginners* (review)
24. Never Let Me Go (a brief review)
25. The Oath

• Carlos*
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (review)
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Shutter Island
• L’Illusioniste*
• Inception (2-part review: Pt. 1, Pt. 2)
• Exit Through the Gift Shop*
• Rabbit Hole
• Ondine
• The Way Back*
• The Kids Are All Right
• Blue Valentine
• The Ghost Writer
• Let Me In
• The Town
• Animal Kingdom
• Everything Must Go*
• 127 Hours (review)
• Tangled
• Alice in Wonderland
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Iron Man 2
• Black Swan
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (review)
• The Fighter (review)
• Morning Glory
• The Wolfman (review)
• Incendies*
• Greenberg
• Stone (review)
• The American
• Rubber*

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2010:
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
A Letter to Elia (Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones)
A Sad Trumpet Ballad
A Small Act
All Good Things
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Bach & Friends
Bal
Barney’s Version
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Beautiful Boy
Bill Cunningham New York
Biutiful
Black Venus
Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman)
Buried
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Catfish
Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
Coyote Falls
Curling (Denis Côté)
Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass)
Daddy Longlegs, or Go Get Some Rosemary (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie)
Date Night
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Drei
Easy A
Edge of Darkness
El Sicario Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi)
Essential Killing
Exporting Raymond
Fair Game
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Flipped
Fur of Flying
Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller)
Green Zone
Happy Few
Happy, Happy
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
Holy Rollers
How Do You Know (James L. Brooks)
I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-Ke)
In a Better World
Inside Job
I’m Still Here
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
Knight and Day
L’amour fou
La pecora nera
Life, Above All
Little Fockers
Louder Than a Bomb
Made in Dagenham
Marwencol
Megamind
Mighty Uke
Miral
Monsters
Noi credevamo
Norwegian Wood
Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Open Five (Kentucker Audley)
Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb)
Piranha (Alexander Aja)
Post Mortem
Potiche
Predators (Nimród Antal)
Promises Written in Water
Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield)
Rabid Rider
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Red
Rejoice and Shout
Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Restrepo
Robin Hood
Scrappers
Secretariat
Shrek Forever After
Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
Sons of the Pioneers 75th Anniversary Show, Volume 1
Step Up 3D
Stop-Motion Marvels!
Tamara Drewe
The Company Men (John Wells)Easy A (Will Gluck)
The Conspirator
The Crazies (Breck Eisner)
The Ditch
The Edge
The Extra Man
The First Grader
The Killer Inside Me
The Losers
The Other Guys (Adam McKay)
The Passion
The Princess of Montpensier
The Runaways
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Tillman Story
The Tourist
Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham)
Trust
Tuesday After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Un homme qui crie
Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
Waiting for ‘Superman’
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Welcome to the Rileys
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

2009

1. The Secret of Kells* (two-part review: Pt. 1, Pt. 2)
2. Up (review)
3. Where the Wild Things Are (review)
4. A Serious Man (review)
5. Coraline (review)
6. A Town Called Panic*
7. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. Lourdes*
9. The Girlfriend Experience
10. Bright Star
    
11. Moon
12. The Maid
13. Mary and Max
14. Duplicity
15. Police, Adjective (review)
16. District 9
17. The Limits of Control (two-part review: Pt.1 , Pt. 2)
18. The Exploding Girl
19. The Secret In Their Eyes*
20. In the Loop
21. Dogtooth
22. The Road
23. Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (two-part review: Pt. 1, Pt. 2)
24. I Am Love
25. Micmacs

• 500 Days of Summer*
• Invictus
• Get Low
• The White Ribbon*
• Inglourious Basterds (two-part review: Pt. 1, Pt.2)
• Alamar*
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs*
• Red Riding: 1970
• Red Riding: 1984
• The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
• Star Trek
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Public Enemies
• Away We Go
• Invictus
• Sweetgrass
  
• Between the Folds*
• Avatar (review)
• An Education
• Up in the Air
• Tetro
• Fish Tank
• Oceans
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• The Informant!
• Sherlock Holmes
• Watchmen
• Thirst
• Drag Me to Hell
• Zombieland
• The Princess and the Frog

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2009:
A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis)**
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
A Room and a Half (Andrey Khrzhanovskiy)
A Single Man
Adam
Accident (Soi Cheang)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
Ajami
Alexander the Last (Joe Swanberg)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Amer (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Amreeka
Angels & Demons
Antichrist (Lars Von Trier)
Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
Art & Copy
Baarìa
Bakjwi
Bandslam
Barking Water (Sterlin Harjo)
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski)
Bellamy (Claude Cabrol)
Between Two Worlds (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
Big Fan
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders)
Blue Beard (Catherine Breillat)
Bran Nue Dae
Bride Wars
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)
Brothers
Brüno
Butterflies Have No Memories (Lav Diaz)
Cafe Noir (Jung Sung-il)
Cairo Time
Canary (Alejandro Adams)
Capitalism: A Love Story
Cell 211
Cheri
Chloe
City Island
Coco Before Chanel
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Cold Souls
Collapse
Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)
Crank 2: High Voltage (Neveldine/Taylor)
Crazy Heart
Crude
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Dogtooth
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
Eighteen (Jang Kun-jae)
Enter the Void
Everybody’s Fine
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Extract (Mike Judge)
Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
Farewell
Funny People (Judd Apatow)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
Halloween II (Rob Zombie)**
Harry Brown
He’s Just Not That Into You
Huacho (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
Humpday (Lynn Shelton)
I Love You Phillip Morris
I Love You, Man
Il grande sogno
Imburnal (Sherad Anthony Sanchez)
In the Electric Mist
Inspector Bellamy
Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s On Me
Julie & Julia
Karaoke (Chris Chong Chan Fui)
Knowing (Alex Proyas)
La bocca del lupo (Pietro Marcello)
La Donation
La doppia ora
La mission
Last Train Home
Le roi de l’évasion (Alain Guiraudie)
Lebanon
Life
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
Like You Know it All (Hong Sang-soo)
Lo spazio bianco
Lola
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)
Mao’s Last Dancer
Monsters vs Aliens
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Mother and Child
Mr. Nobody
My Dear Enemy (Lee Yoon-ki)
My Dog Tulip
My One and Only
My Sister’s Keeper
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog)
Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)
Nine
Notorious
Nowhere Boy
Nymph (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Orphan
Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
Passing Strange
Persécution
Pirate Radio
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
Prince of Tears
Pulling John
Queen to Play
Red Riding: 1983
Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton)
She, a Chinese (Xiaolu Guo)
Sin Nombre
Solitary Man
Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
Splice (Vincenzo Natali)
Spring Fever (Lou Ye)
State of Play
Still Bill
Surrogates (Jonathan Mostow)
Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
That Evening Sun
The Army of Crime (Robert Guédiguian)
The Art of the Steal
The Blind Side
The Box (Richard Kelly)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story
The Concert
The Cove
The Damned United
The Donation (Bernard Emond)
The Father of my Children (Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Final Destination (David R. Ellis)
The Hangover
The House of the Devil
The International (Tom Tykwer)
The Invention of Lying
The Last Station
The Man Beyond the Bridge
The Messenger
The Milk of Sorrow
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression as Seen by the Common Man
The Portugeuse Nun (Eugene Green)
The Promotion (Steve Conrad)
The Proposal
The Red Chapel
The Red Machine
The Search (Pema Tseden)
The Soloist (Joe Wright)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
The Traveller
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Winning Season
The Young Victoria
This Is It
Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
Under the Sea 3D
Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Vengeance (Johnny To)
Vincere (Marco Belloccio)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Whatever Works (Woody Allen)
Whip It (Drew Barrymore)
White Material
White Material (Claire Denis)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
Women Without Men
World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Yellowstone: Battle for Life
Yi ngoi
Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Youth in Revolt

2008

1. Summer Hours* (review)
2. Séraphine* (review)
3. WALL•E
4. Everlasting Moments*
5. The Class
6. Lorna’s Silence* (review)
7. Heartbeat Detector*
8. Rachel Getting Married
9. Man on Wire (review)
10. Lake Tahoe*
    
11. Up the Yangtze*
12. Let the Right One In (review)
13. The Dark Knight
14. Gomorrah*
15. 35 Shots of Rum*
    
16. Liverpool
17. Ponyo*
18. Departures*
19. Phoebe in Wonderland*
20. A Christmas Tale (review)
21. Synecdoche, New York (interview with Charlie Kaufman)
22. The Beaches of Agnes*
    
23. Doubt (some observations)
24. Two Lovers*
25. The Song of Sparrows*

• Waltz With Bashir
• U23D*
• Sparrow*
• Me and Orson Welles
• Treeless Mountain*
• Of Time and the City*
• Julia*
• Ballast
• Goodbye, Solo*
• Trouble the Water
• In Bruges
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
• Burn After Reading
• Tropic Thunder
• Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp*
• Iron Man
• Still Walking
• The Headless Woman
• Food, Inc.
• Hunger
• Days and Clouds*
• Kung Fu Panda
• The Brothers Bloom
• Redbelt
• Revolutionary Road
• Get Smart
• The Hurt Locker
• Mine (review)
• Be Kind, Rewind (some observations)
• Eldorado*
• The Grocer’s Son*
• Horton Hears aWho
• Frozen River
• Body of Lies
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• The Pineapple Express
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Sunshine Cleaning
• The Wrestler
• Frost/Nixon (some observations)
• Sugar
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Call + Response
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• We Are Together*

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2008:

24 City (Jia Zhang-Ke)
A Week Alone (Celina Murga)
Achilles to kame
Adoration
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
All Around Us (Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
American Teen
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Appaloosa
Around the Bay (Alejandro Adams)
Australia
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Birdsong (Albert Serra)
BirdWatchers
Bolt
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Bottle Shock
Bumaznyj soldat
Burma VJ
Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin)
Carmen Miranda: The Girl From Rio
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Che (Steven Soderbergh)
Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
Cloverfield
Dangkou
Dawn of the World (Abbas Fahdel)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Death Race (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Defiance
Disgrace
Every Little Step
Falling (Richard Dutcher)
Fats Waller: This Joint is Jumpin’
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Four Nights With Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)
Gabbla
Ghost Town
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Hancock
Henry Poole Is Here
Home (Ursula Meier)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
I.O.U.S.A.
Idiots and Angels
Il Divo
Il papà di Giovanna
Il seme della discordia
I’m Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo)
Inju, la bête dans l’ombre
It Might Get Loud
Jazz Icons: Series 3
JCVD
Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
Kisses
Lakeview Terrace
L’Autre
Leatherheads (George Clooney)
Let’s Talk About the Rain
Lost Song
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
Lymelife
Mad Money
Management
Medicine for Melancholy
Melancholia (Lav Diaz)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Mid-August Lunch (Gianni Di Gregorio)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Miracle at St. Anna
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
More Than a Game
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett)
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
Nights and Weekends (Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig)
Nora’s Will
North Face
Nothing But the Truth
Nothing Like the Holidays
Nucingen House (Raul Ruiz)
Nuit de chien
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
Paris
Pirate for the Sea
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Red Cliff
Religulous
RocknRolla
Role Models (David Wain)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Rough Aunties
Rudo y Cursi
Shine a Light
Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Skin
Speed Racer (Lana and Andy Wachowski)
Standard Operating Procedure
Stella (Sylvia Verheyde)
Stop-Loss
Sunshine Cleaning
Swing Vote
Taken
Teza
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Burning Plain
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
The Deal
The Duchess
The Great Buck Howard
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Incredible Hulk
The Meerkats
The Merry Gentleman
The Order of Myths
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Secret Life of Bees
The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii)
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Square
The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)
The Wackness
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Transsiberian
Trucker
Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
Tulpan
Tyson
Un Giorno perfetto
Un lac (Philippe Grandrieux)
Vegas: Based on a True Story
Vincent: A Life in Color
W.
Walt & El Grupo
We Live in Public
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
What Doesn’t Kill You
Years When I Was a Child Outside (John Torres)

2007

1. In the City of Sylvia*
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Shotgun Stories* (review)
4. Munyurangabo* (review)
5. Flight of the Red Balloon*
6. My Kid Could Paint That (review)
7. Ratatouille
8. Hot Fuzz
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Times and Winds* (review)
11. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (review)
12. The Secret of the Grain* (review)
13. I’m Not There
14. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
15. The Devil Came on Horseback
    
16. No Country for Old Men
17. Ostrov (The Island)*
18. Silent Light*
19. Zodiac
20. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
21. Persepolis*
22. Yella*
23. Juno
24. The Visitor*
25. Son of Rambow*

• Encounters at the End of the World *
• Honeydripper* (some observations)
• Eastern Promises
• Secret Sunshine*
• Planet Terror
• Heading South*
• The Savages
• No End in Sight
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• La Vie En Rose
• Into the Wild
• The Simpsons Movie
• Paranoid Park
• The Band’s Visit*
• Angel-A*
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Gone Baby Gone
• Bridge to Terabithia
• Jindabyne*
• Enchanted
• Waitress
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Charlie Wilson’s War
• Michael Clayton
• The Orphanage
• 3:10 to Yuma
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Lust, Caution
• Ben X
• Margot at the Wedding
• The Edge of Heaven
• Chop Shop
• Cassandra’s Dream
• Breach
• The Lookout
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• Death Proof
• Knocked Up
• Dan in Real Life
• Atonement
• In the Valley of Elah
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As-yet Unseen or Unratable films of 2007:

12
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
5 Centimeters per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
A Century of Sound
A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol)
A Mighty Heart
A Secret
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Across the Universe
Afternoon (Angela Schanelec)
Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov)
Altar (Rico Ilarde)
American Gangster
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Beaufort
Becoming Jane
Becoming John Ford
Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet)
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
Bernard and Doris
Big Man Japan
Body of War
Boy A
Brick Lane
Chicago 10
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbayev)
City of Men
Cochochi
Control
Crashing (Gary Walkow)
Crazy Love
Death at a Funeral
Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz)
Duchess of Langeais
Earth
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
En la ciudad de Sylvia
Encarnación
Fados (Carlos Saura)
Freedom Writers
Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)
Fugitive Pieces
Funny Games
George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
Grace Is Gone
Hairspray
Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Happiness (Hur Jin-ho)
Help Me Eros
Heya fawda
Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson)
I Am Legend
Il Dolce e l’amaro
Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
In the Shadow of the Moon
It’s a Free World…
Jazz Icons, Volume II
Just Another Love Story
Katyn
King of California
King of Ping Pong
La Antena
La France (Serge Bozon)
Lions for Lambs
L’Ora di punta
Love in the Time of Cholera
Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Maurice Jarre: A Salute to David Lean
Mogari no mori
Molière
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
Must Read After My Death
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Nessuna qualità agli eroi
Nightwatching
O’Horten
Padre Nuestro
Paranormal Activity
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pure Cinema: Birth of the Hitchcock Style
Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
Rails & Ties
Redacted (Brian De Palma)
Rendition
Rocket Science
Roman de Gare
Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
Shrek the Third
Sicko
Sleuth
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
Spike Jones: The Legend
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Starting Out in the Evening
Sukiyaki Western Django
Superbad
Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi
Talk to Me
Taxi to the Dark Side
Team Picture (Kentucker Audley)
The Brave One
The Counterfeiters
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
The Go-Getter
The Great Debaters
The Heartbreak Kid (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Kite Runner
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
The Man from London (Béla Tarr)
The Mist (Frank Darabont)
The Pool
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
The Secrets
The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen)
The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald)
The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
The Zone
Then She Found Me
Things We Lost in the Fire
Tout est pardonne (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Towelhead
Useless (Jia Zhang-ke)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
Weiss-O-Rama
Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold)
XXY
You Kill Me
You, The Living (Roy Andersson)
Young@Heart

2006

1. Children of Men
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. Little Children
4. Paprika
5. Once
6. Syndromes and a Century
7. Army of Shadows*
8. The Lives of Others
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Paris Je T’aime
11. United 93
12. The Queen
13. Babel
14. This is England
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
16. Still Life*
17. The Prestige
18. The Science of Sleep
19. The Departed
20. Stranger Than Fiction
21. The Host
22. The Fall
23. Cars
24. Miami Vice
25. Marie Antoinette

• Half Nelson
• The Painted Veil
• A Prairie Home Companion (review)
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Marie Antoinette
• Offside
• Away from Her
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
• The Namesake
• Amazing Grace (review)
• Inland Empire
• The Illusionist
• Casino Royale
• Tell No One*
• The Wind that Shakes the Barley*
• Rescue Dawn*
• The Fountain
• Old Joy
• A Scanner Darkly (review)
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Private Fears in Public Places
• Longford
• Climates
• Inside Man
• Perfume: Story of a Murderer
• Black Snake Moan
• Manufactured Landscapes
• Volver
• Bella
• Monster House
• For Your Consideration
• God Grew Tired of Us
• The Black Dahlia
• Mission: Impossible III
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Wordplay
• Notes on a Scandal
• Penelope (review)
• Fay Grim
• The Second Chance
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Akeelah and the Bee

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2006

10 Items or Less
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
16 Blocks (Richard Donner)
300
A Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol)
Adama Meshuga’at
After the Wedding
American Dreamz
Americanese
An Inconvenient Truth
An Unreasonable Man
Art School Confidential
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Been Rich All My Life
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike)
Billy Wilder Speaks
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Blame it on Fidel
Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche)
Bobby
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
Breaking and Entering
Broken Trail (Walter Hill)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Catch a Fire
Click
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
Crank (Neveldine/Taylor)
Curious George
Curse of the Golden Flower
Dans Paris
Daratt
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Days of Glory
Death of a President
Deep Water
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
Delirious
Deliver Us from Evil
Distant (Zeki Demirkubuz)
Dreamgirls
Dreamland
Driving Lessons
Ejforija
Enemies of Happiness
Exiled (Johnny To)
Fallen
Fast Food Nation
Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet)
First Flight
Flandres
Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
Flicka
Flushed Away
Flyboys
Friends with Money
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Hamilton (Matthew Porterfield)
Happy Feet
Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess (Lav Diaz)
Hollywoodland
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
I Served the King of England
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
I’m a Cyborg But That’s Okay (Park Chan-wook)
In the Pit
Industrial Strength Keaton
Infamous
Invincible
Keeping Up with the Steins
Klimt (Raul Ruiz)
La Stella che non c’è
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
Lake of Fire
Last Holiday
Lights in the Dusk
Longing (Valeska Grisebach)
Memories of Tomorrow
Millions: A Lottery Story
Miss Potter
Monkey Warfare
Mukhsin (Yasmin Ahmad)
Mushi-Shi
My Best Friend
My Country My Country
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Open Season
Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho)
Priceless
Private Property
Puccini for Beginners
Quei loro incontri
Quinceañera
Rain Dogs (Ho Yuhang)
Rang De Basanti
Red Road
Renaissance
Reprise
Roving Mars
RV
Saving Shiloh
Scoop
Shortbus
Shut Up and Sing
Snakes on a Plane
Something New
Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akın)
South Pacific: In Concert from Carnegie Hall
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Stephanie Daley
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman Returns
Svend Asmussen: The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend
The Astronaut Farmer
The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier)
The Break-Up (Peyton Reed)
The Bridge
The Da Vinci Code
The Dead Girl
The Golden Door
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
The Ground Truth
The Guardian
The History Boys
The Hoax
The Holiday
The Lake House
The Last Winter
The OH in Ohio
The Omen
The Pink Panther
The Poet Laureate of Radio
The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Queen
The Road to Guantanamo
The Teacher (Brillante Mendoza)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
The Untouchable
The World of Nat King Cole
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Time (Kim Ki-duk)
Todo todo teros (John Torres)
Toots
Vanaja
Venus
Vitus
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
World Trade Center
You Called Me (Sky Hirschkron)

2005

1. The New World* (2nd review)
2. Into Great Silence*
   
3. Junebug
4. L’Enfant*
5. A History of Violence (review)
6. Mirrormask (review)
7. Three Times*
8. The Sun*
9. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
10. Munich
11. Caché
12. Brick
13. The Proposition*
14. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*
15. Batman Begins
16. Pride and Prejudice
17. Capote
18. Broken Flowers
19. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
20. Star Wars, Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith
21. Last Days
22. The White Diamond*
23. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
24. Grizzly Man
25. Match Point

• Kingdom of Heaven
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose
• Sweet Land*
• Adam’s Apples
• Good Night and Good Luck
• Don’t Come Knocking
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada*
• Blue in Green*
• Serenity
• March of the Penguins
• Joyeux Noël*
• Corpse Bride
• The Squid and the Whale
• Thank You for Smoking
• Walk the Line
• Touch the Sound*
• 49 Up
• Everything is Illuminated
• Bubble
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• Tsotsi*
• Syriana
• Lassie
• Shopgirl
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The Descent
• Murderball
• War of the Worlds
• The Constant Gardener
• In Her Shoes
• Duma

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2005

12 and Holding
13 Tzameti
51 Birch Street
A Perfect Day (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige)
An Unfinished Life
Aurora Borealis
Ballets russes
Battle in Heaven
Be with Me
Because of Winn-Dixie
Bee Season
Block Party (Michel Gondry)
Breakfast on Pluto
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Casanova
Caveman: V. T. Hamlin & Alley Oop
Cigarette Burns
Conversations with Other Women
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
Dark Water
Derailed
Domino (Tony Scott)
Don’t Tell
Down in the Valley (David Jacobson)
Dreams in the Witch-House
Duane Hopwood
Edison: The Invention of the Movies
Edmond (Stuart Gordon)
Election (Johnny To)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Espelho Mágico
Factotum
Fatalista
Fateless
Fever Pitch
Flightplan
Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
Four Brothers
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)
Game 6
Garpastum
Grain in Ear (Zhang Lü)
Green Street Hooligans
Happy Endings
Hard Candy
Heading South
House of Sand
Hustle & Flow
I Build the Tower: The Life and Work of Sam Rodia
I Giorni dell’abbandono
I’m the Angel of Death: Pusher III Brick (Rian Johnson)
Indio Nacional (Raya Martin)
Jarhead
Johanna (Kornel Mundruczo)
Keeping Mum
Kontroll
La Seconda notte di nozze
Lady Vengeance
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
Le petit lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)
Les Amants réguliers
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
Live and Become
Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Loggerheads
Lonesome Jim
Look Both Ways
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Lord of War
Lower City
Mad Hot Ballroom
Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)
Man Push Cart
Mary
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Monarch of the Moon
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
Nine Lives
North Country
North Diversion Road (Dennis Marasigan)
Obreras saliendo de la fábrica (Jose Luis Torres Leiva)
Oliver Twist
On a Clear Day
Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
Paradise Now
Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie
Persona non grata
Pierrepoint
Prime
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)
Proof
Red Eye
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Romance & Cigarettes
Room (Kyle Henry)
Sahara (Breck Eisner)
Sa-kwa
Sangre (Amat Escalante)
Separate Lies
Shadowboxer
Shanghai Dreams
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Stay
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Takeshis’ (Takeshi Kitano)
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
The Animation Show 2005
The Aristocrats
The Beat that My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
The Big White
The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito)
The Bondmaid
The Devil & Daniel Johnston
The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie)
The Fall of Fujimori
The Family Stone
The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
The Great Raid (John Dahl)
The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Heart of the Game
The Ice Harvest
The Interpreter
The King
The Matador
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
The Producers
The Promise (Chen Kaige)
The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass)
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Songwriters Collection
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Weather Man
The World’s Fastest Indian
Thumbsucker
Transamerica
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Two for the Money
Unknown White Male
Valiant
Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark)
Water
Who’s Camus Anyway (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
Why We Fight
Winter Passing
Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)
Zathura

2004

1. Millions
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Incredibles
   
4. 2046 (review)
5. The Motorcycle Diaries
6. Birth
7. Before Sunset
8. Born Into Brothels
9. Tony Takitani*
   
10. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
11. The Taste of Tea* (review)
12. Mean Creek
13. The Bourne Supremacy
14. Spider-man 2
15. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
16. The World
17. Primer
18. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
19. Napoleon Dynamite
20. Vera Drake
21. Shaun of the Dead
22. Million Dollar Baby
23. Hotel Rwanda
24. Howl’s Moving Castle*
25. Dear Frankie

• Nobody Knows
• Kill Bill, Volume Two
• Downfall
• Saved!
• Land of Plenty
• Ocean’s Twelve
• Sideways
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• House of Flying Daggers
  
• Collateral
• The Passion of the Christ
• THX 1138: Director’s Cut
• I Heart Huckabees
• The Aviator
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Since Otar Left*
• Closer
• Finding Neverland
• Strings
• The Village
• America’s Heart and Soul (review) (interview)
• We Don’t Live Here Anymore
• Maria Full of Grace
• In Good Company
• Intimate Strangers
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Shrek 2
• Super-Size Me
• Yes
• Bride and Prejudice
• Hellboy
• Kung Fu Hustle
• As It Is In Heaven
• Garden State
• A Very Long Engagement (review)
• Undertow
• Melinda and Melinda
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• Ray
• Winter Solstice
• Hawaii, Oslo*
• Mean Girls

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2004

3-iron (Kim Ki-duk)
5×2
A Christmas Carol
A Film About Townes Van Zandt
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
All the Ships at Sea (Dan Sallitt)
Ana and the Others (Celina Murga)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Bad Education
Be Here to Love Me:
Birthday Boy
Bombón: El Perro
Breaking News (Johnny To)
Brothers
Chiens égarés
Clean
Connie and Carla
Criminal
Darwin’s Nightmare
Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows)
Delivery
De-Lovely
Destination Mars!
DiG!
Duck Season
Electric Edwardians
Ett Hål i mitt hjärta
Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)
Firecracker
Frankie & Johnny Are Married
Gilles’ Wife
Goodnight, We Love You
Gunner Palace
Haryu insaeng
Head in the Clouds (John Duigan)
Head-On (Fatih Akın)
Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
Holy Lola
I’m Not Scared
In My Father’s Den
Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2 (Mamoru Oshii)
Innocent Voices
Isn’t This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
King of the Corner
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Lavorare con lentezza
Layer Cake
Le Grand voyage
Lightning in a Bottle
Little Terrorist
Look at Me (Agnes Jaoui)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
Mouse Heaven (Kenneth Anger)
My Summer of Love
Mysterious Skin
Never Die Alone
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Omagh
Or (Mon Tresor) (Keren Yedaya)
Ovunque sei
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Promised Land
Red Lights (Cedric Kahn)
Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher
Riding Giants
Ryan
Saving Face
ScaredSacred
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
Silver City
Sombra Dolorosa (Guy Maddin)
Stand van de maan
Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
Suspect Zero (E. Elias Merhige)
Taking Lives
Team America: World Police
Tell Them Who You Are
The Alamo
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
The Chorus
The Consequences of Love
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Lech Majewski)
The Gate of the Sun (Yousry Nasrallah)
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
The Hero
The Intruder (Claire Denis)
The Keys to the House
The Libertine
The Merchant of Venice
The Notebook
The Phantom of the Opera
The Sea Inside
The Staircase
The Syrian Bride
The Talent Given Us
The Woodsman
Three… Extremes
Throwdown (Johnny To)
Tout un hiver sans feu
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Turtles Can Fly
Udalionnyy dostup
Waiting (Sky Hirschkron)
Walk on Water
Watermarks
When Will I Be Loved
With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II
Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Word Wars
Yesterday

2003

1. Finding Nemo
2. The Station Agent
3. The Return*
4. The Five Obstructions*
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
6. Dogville*
7. Lost in Translation
8. Time of the Wolf*
9. In America
10. The Story of the Weeping Camel*
11. Café Lumiere
12. Pieces of April
13. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
14. Not of This World*
15. Last Life in the Universe
16. X2: X-Men United
17. American Splendor (review)
18. The Triplets of Bellville
19. The Best of Youth*
20. Goodbye, Dragon Inn*
21. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
22. Whale Rider
23. The Fog of War
24. Kill Bill, Vol. 1
25. Lost in La Mancha

• Lost in La Mancha
• I Capture the Castle
• All the Real Girls
• A Mighty Wind (review)
• The Saddest Music in the World
• Crimson Gold
• Thirteen
• Down With Love
• Matchstick Men
• Touching the Void
• Coffee and Cigarettes
• The Dreamers
• Cold Mountain
• The Barbarian Invsions
• Intolerable Cruelty
• Open Range
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Spring Summer Fall Winter…and Spring
• Shattered Glass
• Holes
• Peter Pan
• The Matrix Revolutions
• House of Sand and Fog
• The Human Stain
• Levity
• Monster
• Swimming Pool
• Love Actually
• Northfork

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2003

7:35 in the Morning
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon)
A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira)
Alila
At Five in the Afternoon
Baadasssss!
Baramnan gajok
Basic (John McTiernan)
Bon Voyage
Bright Future
Bright Young Things
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Bukowski: Born into This
Cinema 16
Code 46
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
Deliver Us from Eva
Destino
Dopamine
Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
End of the Century
Evil
Father and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
Ghosts of the Abyss
Girlhood
Go Further
Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Morning, Night
Gozu (Takashi Miike)
Head of State
Identity
Il Miracolo
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (Mike Hodges)
I’m Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores)
Imagining Argentina
Intermission
Japanese Story
Jesus, You Know (Ulrich Seidl)
Johnny English
Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer)
Kôhî jikô
La Petite Lili
Le Cerf-volant
Les Sentiments
Lian zhi feng jing
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
Monsieur Ibrahim
My Architect: A Son’s Journey
My Flesh and Blood
My Life Without Me
No Rest for the Brave (Alain Guiraudie)
Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais)
Noviembre
Off the Map
Open Water
Osama
Owning Mahowny
Playing ‘In the Company of Men’ (Arnaud Desplechin)
Pornografia
Raja (Jacques Doillon)
Rhinoceros Eyes
Rosenstrasse
Runaway Jury
S-21 (Rithy Panh)
Saraband
Schultze Gets the Blues
Segreti di stato
Shara (Naomi Kawase)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sjaj u ocima
Son frère (Patrice Chereau)
Stuck on You (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Take My Eyes
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
The Agronomist
The Animation Show
The Blind Swordsman: Zatôichi
The Company (Robert Altman)
The Cooler
The Corporation (Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)
The Far Side of the Moon (Robert Lepage)
The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol)
The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
The Hunted (William Friedkin)
The Memory of a Killer
The Mother
The Rundown
The Same River Twice
The Shape of Things
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
Timeline (Richard Donner)
Tokyo Godfathers
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
Toutes ces belle promesses (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
Tupac: Resurrection
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
Two Cars, One Night
Untold Scandal (Lee Je-yong)
Vai e Vem (João César Monteiro)
Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Voices of a Distant Star (Makoto Shinkai and Steven Foster)
Waiting for the Clouds (Yesim Ustaoglu)
Wasp
West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
Zelary
Zero Day (Ben Coccio)

2002

1. The Son*
2. Punch-drunk Love
3. Stevie*
4. Hero*
5. Naked*
6. The Pianist
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. Distant*
9. The Rookie
10. 28 Days Later…* (review)
11. Dirty Pretty Things*
12. Catch Me If You Can
13. Adaptation (review)
14. Spellbound*
15. Whale Rider
16. To Be and To Have
17. Stone Reader*
18. The Quiet American
19. The Man on the Train
20. Infernal Affairs*
21. The Bourne Identity
22. City of God*
23. Russian Ark
24. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

• The Lady and the Duke*
• Signs
• Gangs of New York
• Bus 174
• Far from Heaven
• The Man Without a Past
• Springtime in a Small Town
• 25th Hour
• About a Boy
• Sunshine State
• In This World
• The Hours
• Ice Age
• The Secret Lives of Dentists
• Bowling for Columbine
• OT: Our Town
• Changing Lanes
• Derrida
• Frida
• Raising Victor Vargas
• I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
• Insomnia
• Lilo and Stitch
  
• Morvern Callar
• Minority Report
• All or Nothing
• 8 Women
• Spider-man
• Star Wars, Episode Two: Attack of the Clones
• Max
• Panic Room
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Road to Perdition
• Roger Dodger
• Ripley’s Game
• The Good Girl
• Enemy at the Gates
• The Truth About Charlie
• 24 Hour Party People
• Solaris (dir. Soderbergh)

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2002

*Corpus Callosum
Almost Peaceful
An Amazing Couple
Ararat
Balseros
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Bear’s Kiss
Below (David Twohy)
Bend It Like Beckham
Better Luck Tomorrow
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Blood Work (Clint Eastwood)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
Blue Car
Carnage for the Destroyer
Charlotte Sometimes
Comedian
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
Daughter from Danang
Decasia (Bill Morrison)
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Divine Intervention
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
Elsker dig for evigt
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Führer Ex
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
Gerry
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
House of Fools
In My Skin (Marina de Van)
Irreversible
Japon (Carlos Reygadas)
Jealousy is My Middle Name (Park Chan-ok)
Ken Park (Larry Clark)
Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige)
La Forza del passato
Les Chemins de l’oued
Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Love Liza
Manito
May (Lucky McKee)
Meili shiguang
Mondays in the Sun
Mother Ghost
My Mother’s Smile (Marco Bellocchio)
My Sister Maria
Nearest to Heaven
Nha fala
Nicholas Nickleby
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
On the Run
Only the Strong Survive
Porn Theater (Jacques Nolot)
Prisoner of Paradise
Pumpkin
Real Women Have Curves
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard)
Safe Conduct
Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat)
Skins
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Suddenly
Sweet Sixteen
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Talk to Her
Tangos volés
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
The Crime of Padre Amaro
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
The Eye
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
The Healer
The Kid Stays in the Picture
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Weather Underground
Together (Chen Kaige)
Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
Twin Sisters
Un Viaggio chiamato amore
Velocità massima
White Oleander
XX/XY

2001

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Gosford Park
3. Spirited Away*
   
4. Lantana
5. Moulin Rouge!
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. Waking Life
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Amélie (review)
10. The Devil’s Backbone
11. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working in Time
12. Donnie Darko
13. Metropolis*
14. Monsoon Wedding*
15. Ghost World
16. Time Out
    
17. A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (review)
18. What Time Is It There?
19. In the Bedroom
20. Zoolander
21. Last Orders
22. Monster’s Inc.
23. The Lady and the Duke*
24. Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)*
25. The Son’s Room

• The Others
• The Man Who Wasn’t There
• Y Tu Mama Tambien*
• Iris
• Wit
• Heist
• Winged Migration
• Shrek
• The Pledge
• Black Hawk Down
• Lovely and Amazing
• Mostly Martha
• The Believer
• Ocean’s 11
• Training Day
• Hearts in Atlantis
• The Shipping News
• Blow
• The Deep End
• Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
• Jurassic Park III
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Crazy/beautiful
• The Cat’s Meow

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2001

A Song for Martin
Ali (Michael Mann)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
American Desi
Autumn Spring
Baby Boy
Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk)
Baran
Batang West Side (Lav Diaz)
Be My Star (Valeska Grisebach)
Behind the Sun
Bitter Harvest
Brief Crossing (Catherine Breillat)
Bully (Larry Clark)
Cat Soup (Masaaki Yuasa)
Chaos
Dark Blue World
Dog Days
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Eden
Elling
Éloge de l’amour (Jean-Luc Godard)
Faat Kiné (Ousmane Sembène)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz)
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Heung gong yau gok hor lei wood
His Secret Life (Ferzan Özpetek)
i am sam
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
In Praise of Love
Inch’Allah dimanche
Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau)
Invincible
Joy Ride
Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Khaled
Kissing Jessica Stein
Kwik Stop
L.I.E.
La cienega (Lucrecia Martel)
Lagaan
L’Après-midi d’un tortionnaire
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
Life as a House
Light of My Eyes
Loin
Lost and Delirious
Luna rossa
Made
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Maya
Me Without You
Mein Stern
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
My Father and I
My First Mister
No Man’s Land
No Such Thing (Hal Hartley)
Nowhere in Africa
O
Operai, contadini
Où gît votre sourire enfoui?
Paris: XY (Zeka Laplaine)
Pauline & Paulette
Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
Promises
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Quem És Tu?
‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara)
Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
Roberto Succo (Cedric Kahn)
Savage Innocence (Philippe Garrel)
Secret Ballot
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
Son of the Bride
Southern Comfort
Startup.com
Storytelling
Suchwiin bulmyeong
Tape (Richard Linklater)
The Center of the World
The Crimson Rivers
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
The Experiment
The Grey Zone
The Jesus Trilogy and Coda (Stan Brakhage)
The Legend of Suriyothai
The Life of Rosa (Chito Rono)
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
The Man from Elysian Fields
The Navigators
The Piano Teacher
The Seagull’s Laughter
The Sleepy Time Gal
The Tailor of Panama
The Triumph of Love (Clare Peploe)
The Warrior
Trembling Before G-D
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
Wild Innocence (Philippe Garrel)
Zus & Zo

2000

1. Code Unknown*
2. Yi-Yi (A One and a Two)
3. Almost Famous (review)
   
4. The Gleaners and I*
5. In the Mood for Love*
6. Werckmeister Harmonies*
7. You Can Count On Me
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
9. The Emperor’s New Groove
10. Italian for Beginners*
    
11. The Road Home*
12. The Circle*
13. The Widow of St. Pierre*
14. Songs from the Second Floor*
15. High Fidelity
16. Wonder Boys
17. Best in Show
18. Unbreakable
19. Memento*
20. Sexy Beast
21. Erin Brockovich
22. George Washington
23. Pollock
24. The House of Mirth
25. X-Men

• O Brother, Where Art Thou
• Amores Perros*
• Dancer in the Dark*
• Chicken Run
• Divided We Fall
• The Vertical Ray of the Sun*
• The Million Dollar Hotel
• With a Friend Like Harry…
• The King is Alive
• State and Main
• American Movie*
• Cast Away
• Thirteen Days
• The Dish*
• Tully
• Billy Eliot
• Traffic
• Bread and Tulips
• Chocolat
• Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
• Return to Me
• Under the Sand
• Shaft
• Shadow of the Vampire
• The Way of the Gun
• Gladiator
• Requiem for a Dream
• Nurse Betty
• Timecode
• Girlfight
• Small Time Crooks
• American Psycho
• Pitch Black

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2000
101 Reykjavík
A Modern Cannibal Tale
A Time for Drunken Horses
Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
Battle Royale
Beat (Gary Walkow)
Before Night Falls
Blackboards
Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Boiler Room
Bread and Roses
Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Bruiser (George A. Romero)
Calle 54
Catastrophe (David Mamet)
Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
Chuck & Buck
Comedy of Innocence
Dark Days
Demons (Mario O’Hara)
Denti
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Diamond Men
Dinosaur
Diva Dolorosa
Dr T and the Women
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
Everybody’s Famous!
Everything Put Together
Faithless (Liv Ullman)
Freedom
Gangster No. 1 (Paul McGuigan)
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
Il Partigiano Johnny
I’m the One That I Want
In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa)
Innocence
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
ivansxtc. (Bernard Rose)
Jiyuan qiaohe
Joe Gould’s Secret
Keep the River on Your Right:
Kippur
La captive (Chantal Akerman)
La commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins)
La Lingua del santo
Last Resort
Les Destinees
Les Savates de Bon Dieu (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Liam
Light Keeps Me Company
Liulian piao piao
Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Loser (Amy Heckerling)
Lumumba
Maelström
Malèna
Maryam
Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
Muri Romani (Jon Jost)
My Dog Skip
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Nine Queens
Fantasma
Our Lady of the Assassins
Palavra e Utopia
Panic
Paradise Express (Tikoy Aguiluz)
Paragraph 175
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
Platform (Jia Zhang-Ke)
Proof of Life
Quills
Scarlet Diva (Asia Argento)
Séance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Selon Matthieu
Signs & Wonders
Songcatcher
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Tears of the Black Tiger
The Child and the Soldier
The Day I Became a Woman
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Filth and the Fury
The Goddess of 1967
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
The Hundred Steps
The Iron Ladies
The Isle
The Legend of Rita
The Man Who Cried
The Taste of Others (Agnes Jaoui)
The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Yards (James Gray)
Third World Hero (Mike De Leon)
Time and Tide (Tsui Hark)
Together (Lukas Moodysson)
Two Family House
Urbania (Jon Shear)
Uttara
Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
Waydowntown
What’s Cooking?

1999

1. The Insider
2. Toy Story 2
3. The Iron Giant
4. Magnolia
5. Rosetta
6. The Wind Will Carry Us
7. Beau Travail*
8. The Virgin Suicides
9. Three Kings
10. Being John Malkovich
11. Eyes Wide Shut
12. Limbo
13. Mansfield Park
14. The Limey
15. The Straight Story
16. The Color of Paradise*
17. Topsy Turvy
18. eXistenZ
19. The Sixth Sense
20. Rushmore
21. Ride With The Devil
22. Galaxy Quest
23. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai*
24. Cradle Will Rock
25. Man on the Moon

• Fight Club
• The Big Kahuna
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Star Wars, Episode One – The Phantom Menace
• The Matrix
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Titus
• Twin Falls, Idaho
• Summer of Sam
• Sweet and Lowdown
• Girl on the Bridge*
• The Winslow Boy
• South Park: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Boys Don’t Cry
• October Sky
• Office Space
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Dogma
• Cookie’s Fortune
• Shower
• Sleepy Hollow
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Bringing Out the Dead
• American Beauty (review)
• Holy Smoke!
• Guinevere
• Notting Hill

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1999

10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger)
6ixty9 (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
A domani
A Map of the World
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Run for Money (Reha Erdem)
A Walk on the Moon
Aimée & Jaguar
All About My Mother
American Movie
An Affair of Love
An Ideal Husband
Angela’s Ashes
Appassionate
Attack the Gas Station (Sang-Jin Kim)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
Bad Company
Beautiful People
Bowfinger
Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph)
Butterfly
Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Clouds of May
Crazy in Alabama
Dick (Andrew Fleming)
East Is East
East-West
Election
Every Day Here (Frazer Bradshaw)
Fantasia/2000
Farewell, Home Sweet Home (Otar Iosseliani)
Felicia’s Journey
Flowers From Another World (Iciar Bollain)
Forever Mine (Paul Schrader)
Genghis Blues
Gloomy Sunday
God’s Wedding (João César Monteiro)
Gregory’s Two Girls (Bill Forsyth)
Haut Les Coeurs! (Solveig Anspach)
Herod’s Law
Himalaya
Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
Human Traffic
Humanité
Idle Running (Janez Burger)
It All Starts Today
Joe the King
Journey to the Sun (Yesim Ustaoglu)
Julien Donkey-Boy
Kadosh
Kahapon, may dalawang bata
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
La maladie de Sachs (Michel Deville)
La Puce (Emmanuelle Bercot)
Le Vent de la nuit
Leila (Dariush Mehrjui)
Les Enfants du Marais
L’Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
Liberty Heights
Lies
M/other (Nobuhiro Suwa)
Mal
Mifune (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen)
Moloch (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
My Best Fiend
My Voyage to Italy
New Waterford Girl
Night Wind (Philippe Garrel)
Nordrand
Not One Less
On the Ropes
One More Day (Babak Payami)
Pas de scandale
Petits Freres (Jacques Doillon)
Pola X (Leos Carax)
Ratcatcher (Lynn Ramsay)
Return of the Idiot (Sasa Gedeon)
Rien à faire
Romance (Catherine Breillat)
Selma, Lord, Selma (Charles Burnett)
Set Me Free
Seventeen Years
Sicilia (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
Silvia Prieto (Martin Rejtman)
Sisa (Mario O’Hara)*
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (Helene Angel)
Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
Solomon and Gaenor
Spring Forward
Stir of Echoes (David Koepp)
Sunshine
Taal
Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
The 13th Warrior (John McTiernan)
The City
The Cup
The Emperor and the Assassin (Chen Kaige)
The Five Senses
The Hurricane
The Lady of the House (Rituparno Ghosh)
The Letter (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
The Minus Man (Hampton Fancher)
The Mission (Johnny To)
The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)
The Third Page (Zeki Demirkubuz)
The Venice Project
The War Zone
The World Is Not Enough
Three Seasons
Time Regained (Raul Ruiz)
True Crime (Clint Eastwood)
Tumbleweeds
Tuvalu
Tuvalu (Veit Helmer)
Two Women
Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny
Wojaczek (Lech Majewski)
Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)

1998

1. The Thin Red Line
2. Out Of Sight
3. The Dreamlife of Angels
4. The Last Days of Disco
5. The Truman Show
6. The Celebration
7. Henry Fool
8. Dark City
9. Flowers of Shanghai*
10. Saving Private Ryan
11. The Big Lebowski
12. Autumn Tale
13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
14. Rushmore
15. Shakespeare In Love
16. The General
17. The Prince of Egypt
18. Antz
19. Babe: Pig In The City
20. Kiki’s Delivery Service*
21. Run Lola Run*
22. A Bug’s Life
23. Men With Guns
24. Croupier*
25. Insomnia

• After Life
• Happiness
• The Butcher Boy
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• 42 Up
• Smoke Signals
• Ever After
• Central Station
• Elizabeth
• Ronin
• The Book of Life
• Pi
• Mulan
• Enemy of the State
• Gods And Monsters
• A Simple Plan
• Hilary and Jackie

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2008

A Civil Action (Steve Zaillian)
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory)
Aberdeen (Kathy Fehl and Ian Teal)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
American History X
Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark)
Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer)
Autumn Tale
Beloved (Jonathan Demme)
Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
Black Dog
Bloody Angels
Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)
Cabaret Balkan
Christmas in August (Hur Jin-ho)
Circle’s Short Circuit
Claire Dolan
Class Trip
Confession (Alexandr Sokurov)
Dance Me to My Song
Dancing at Lughnasa
Divine (Arturo Ripstein)
Divorce Iranian Style
Down in the Delta
Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura)
Eternity and a Day
Eyes of the Spider (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Ferocious Saint Lord of Gobi
Fiona (Amos Kollek)
Following
Frat House
God Said, ‘Ha!’
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
He Got Game (Spike Lee)
High Art
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
Honeymoon (Dan Sallitt)
Hurlyburly
I Giardini dell’Eden
I Piccoli maestri
I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noe)
Inquietude (Manoel de Oliveira)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Otar Iosseliani)
Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot)
Knock Off (Tsui Hark)
La Nube
L’Albero delle pere
L’Arrière Pays (Jacques Nolot)
Last Night (Don McKellar)
L’ennui (Cedric Kahn)
License to Live (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Living Out Loud
Love Is the Devil
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Mr. Zhao (Lu Yue)
My Name Is Joe
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
Next Stop Wonderland (Brad Anderson)
Nô
Of Freaks and Men
One True Thing
Outskirts (Petr Lutsik)
Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
Pecker (John Waters)
Place Vendôme
Praise
Radiation (Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley)
Return to Paradise (Joseph Ruben)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata)
Samurai Fiction (Hiroyuki Nakano)
Savior
Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
Slam
Sliding Doors
Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins)
Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
Sombre
Still Crazy
Such a Long Journey
Surrender Dorothy
Tango (Carlos Saura)
Terminus paradis
The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
The Boys
The Cremaster Cycle
The Dinner Game
The Emperor and the Assassin (Chen Kaige)
The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison
The Flight of the Bee (Jamshed Usmonov and Biong Hun Min)
The Grandfather
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Idiots (Lars Von Trier)
The Impostors (Stanley Tucci)
The Interview
The Land Girls (David Leland)
The Last Days
The Longest Summer (Fruit Chan)
The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater)
The Polish Bride
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)Praise (John Curran)
The Red Violin
The School of Flesh (Benoit Jacquot)
The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
The Way We Laughed
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau)
Three Businessmen (Alex Cox)
Tráfico
Under the Sun
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
Voleur de vie
Waking Ned Devine
West Beirut
Woman on a Tin Roof (Mario O’Hara)*
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1997

1. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
2. The Apostle
3. The Ice Storm
4. Princess Mononoke*
5. Henry Fool
6. L.A. Confidential
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Grosse Pointe Blank
9. The Fifth Element
10. The Sweet Hereafter
11. A Taste of Cherry*
12. The Children of Heaven
13. Boogie Nights
14. The Butcher Boy
15. Gattaca
16. Men in Black
17. Donnie Brasco
18. Face/Off
19. Breakdown
20. Chasing Amy
21. Life is Beautiful
22. The Spanish Prisoner
23. The End of Violence
24. Mrs. Brown
25. Jackie Brown

• The Boxer
• Titanic
• Mrs. Dalloway
• Ulee’s Gold
• Fairytale: A True Story
• Amistad (review)
• Eve’s Bayou As Good as It Gets
• Wag the Dog
• Deconstructing Harry
• Affliction
• The Game
• Men with Guns
• Open Your Eyes
• Sunday
• Insomnia
• Career Girls
• Cop Land
• Anastasia

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1997

4 Little Girls
A Merry War (Robert Bierman)
Affliction
Afterglow (Alan Rudolph)
Barbara (Nils Malmros)
Blue Moon
Brother (Alexei Balabanov)
Character
Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage)
Critical Care (Sidney Lumet)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Deja Vu
Destiny
Docteur Chance (François-Jacques Ossang)*
Double Team (Tsui Hark)
East Side Story
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
Funny Games
Gallivant
Genealogies of a Crime (Raul Ruiz)
Green Fish (Lee Chang-Dong)
Gummo (Harmony Korine)
Hamsun (Jan Troell)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
In the Company of Men
Kiss or Kill (Bill Bennett)
Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
La Vie de Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
Lawn Dogs (John Duigan)
Le Septieme Ciel (Benoit Jacquot)
Litle Shots of Happiness (Todd Verow)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
Lolita
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Love and Death on Long Island
Ma Vie en Rose (Alain Berliner)
Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Nil by Mouth
Nowhere (Gregg Araki)
Office Killer (Cindy Sherman)
Ossos (Pedro Costa)
Pronto (Jim McBride)
Public Housing
Riding the Rails
Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
Sue (Amos Kollek)
Suzaku (Naomi Kawase)
The Castle (Michael Haneke)
The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
The Eye of God (Tim Blake Nelson)
The Hanging Garden
The Long Way Home
The Prince of Homburg (Marco Bellochio)
The Revenge – A Visit From Fate (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Revenge – The Scar That Never Fades (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Second Civil War
The Tango Lesson
The Thief
TwentyFourSeven
Uncle Sam (William Lustig)
Under the Skin
Washington Square (Agnieszka Holland)
Xiao Wu (Jia Zhang-Ke)
Yours

1996

1. Secrets and Lies
2. Fargo
3. La Promesse*
4. Ponette*
5. Flirting with Disaster
6. Trainspotting
7. Lone Star
8. Waiting for Guffman
9. Big Night
10. Basquiat
11. Bottle Rocket
12. Mars Attacks!
13. Breaking the Waves
14. The Pillow Book
15. James and the Giant Peach
16. Mission: Impossible
17. Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
18. When We Were Kings*
19. The Whole Wide World
20. Sling Blade
21. Paradise Lost: The Child murders at Robin Hood Hills
22. Shall We Dance?
23. Shine
24. Everyone Says I Love You
25. The Crucible

• The Cable Guy
• Jerry McGuire
• Stealing Beauty
• The King of Masks
• The English Patient
• Romeo + Juliet
• The Portrait of a Lady
• Looking for Richard
• Emma
• Fly Away Home
• Jude

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1996

A Chef in Love
A Couch in New York (Chantal Akerman)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
A Question of Trust
A Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard)
A Summer’s Tale (Eric Rohmer)
Beautiful Thing (Hettie Macdonald)
Beavis and Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge)
Berenice (Michael Gitlin)
Beyond Silence
Blood & Wine
Bound (Lana and Andy Wachowski)
Brigands – Chapter VII (Otar Iosseliani)
Capitaine Conan (Bertrand Tavernier)
Carla’s Song
Chronicle of a Disappearance (Elia Suleiman)
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Dead Sure aka The Insurance Agent (Tikoy Aguiluz)*
Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)
Elective Affinities (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
Encore (Pascal Bonitzer)
Fly Away Home
Freeway (Matthew Bright)
Gabbeh (Moshen Makhmalbaf)
Get on the Bus (Spike Lee)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Hamsun (Jan Troell)
Hard Core Logo (Bruce McDonald)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Hommes, femmes, mode d’emploi
Improvisation
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Kansas City (Robert Altman)
Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano)
Kolya
L’Appartement
Les voleurs (Andre Techine)
Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett)
Mahjong
Manny & Lo (Lisa Krueger)
Marvin’s Room
Mary Reilly
Matilda (Danny DeVito)
Michael Collins (Neil Jordan)
Microcosmos
Mon Homme (Bertrand Blier)
Mother
My Sex Life or: How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis)
Nightjohn (Charles Burnett)
Normal Life (John McNaughton)
Oriental Elegy (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Parfait amour! (Catherine Breillat)
Party (Manoel de Oliveira)
Pretty Village Pretty Flame
Prisoner of the Mountain (Sergei Bodov)
Remembrances of Kansas City Swing
Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
Robert Altman’s Jazz ’34:
Small Faces
Study of a River
Swingers
Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige)
The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
The Delta (Ira Sachs)
The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)
The Leopard Son
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
The Other Side of Sunday
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer)
The Suicide
The Sunchaser (Michael Cimino)
The Wind in the Willows
The Winner (Alex Cox)
Three Lives and Only One Death (Raul Ruiz)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
To Have and to Hold (John Hillcoat)
Trees Lounge
Un air de famille (Cedric Klapisch)
Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
When It Rains (Charles Burnett)
Will It Snow for Christmas?

1995

1. Heat
2. Sense And Sensibility
3. Dead Man Walking
4. Toy Story
5. Smoke
6. Babe
7. Safe
8. Dead Man
9. The City of Lost Children
10. Seven
11. Before Sunrise
12. Kicking and Screaming
13. The Usual Suspects
14. A Little Princess
15. Rob Roy
16. Persuasion
17. 12 Monkeys
18. Casino
19. The Addiction
20. Get Shorty
21. Clueless
22. Ulysses’ Gaze
23. Clockers
24. Crimson Tide
25. The Quick and the Dead

• Living in Oblivion
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Devil In A Blue Dress
• Apollo 13
• Blue in the Face
• Nixon
• To Die For
• Nelly and Monsieur Arnuad
• Richard III
• The Underneath
• Angels and Insects
• Sabrina

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1995

…And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (Severo Pérez)
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville)
A Bucket of Blood
A Midwinter’s Tale
A Single Girl (Benoit Jacquot)
All Things Fair
An Awfully Big Adventure (Mike Newell)
Anne Frank Remembered
Antonia’s Line
Bandit Queen
Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman)
Carrington (Christopher Hampton)
Copycat
Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
Dadetown (Russ Hexter)
Dead Presidents
Deseret
Desolation Angels (Tim McCann)
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (Xavier Beauvois)
En avoir (ou pas) (Laetitia Masson)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)
Flamenco
Flirt (Hal Hartley)
Fluke (Carlo Carlei)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)
Funny Bones
Georgia (Ulu Grosbard)
Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano)
Ghost in the Shell
God’s Comedy (João César Monteiro)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Heavy
Hideaway (Brett Leonard)
Indian Summer (Saša Gedeon)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (Stephen and Timothy Quay)
Jefferson in Paris (James Ivory)
JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard)
Jupiter’s Wife
Kids (Larry Clark)
La ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
La haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
L’appat (Bertrand Tavernier)
Le confessionnal (Robert Lepage)
Le garcu (Maurice Pialat)
Les Misérables
Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
My Family
Notes from Underground (Gary Walkow)
On the Beat (Ning Ying))
Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored
Quatrilho (Fabio Barreto)
Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer)
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Scratch and Crow
Shanghai Triad
Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Stuart Saves His Family (Harold Ramis)
Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff)
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
The Blade (Tsui Hark)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
The Brothers McMullen
The Celluloid Closet
The Convent (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodovar)
The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
The Journey of August King (John Duigan)
The Last Wish (Tikoy Aguiluz)*
The Neon Bible (Terence Davies)
The Short Life of Fire (Aureaus Solito)
The Son of Gascogne
The Star Maker
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
The Wife (Tom Noonan)
The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (Benjamin Ross)
Two Bits (James Foley)
Two Deaths (Nicolas Roeg)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
Waati (Souleymane Cisse)
Welcome to the Dollhouse
When It Rains
Zero Kelvin

1994

1. Three Colors: Red
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Three Colors: White
4. Chungking Express*
5. Exotica*
6. Quiz Show
7. Hoop Dreams
8. The Hudsucker Proxy
9. The Secret of Roan Inish*
10. Nobody’s Fool
11. To Live
12. Vanya on 42nd Street
13. Bullets Over Broadway
14. Eat Drink Man Woman
15. Burnt by the Sun*
16. The Kingdom
17. Before the Rain*
18. Ed Wood
19. Nadja
20. Natural Born Killers
21. Heavenly Creatures
22. The Professional (Leon: The Professional)
23. What Happened Was…
24. The Madness of King George
25. Interview with the Vampire

• Barcelona
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Speed
• Shallow Grave
• Queen Margot
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• Il Postino*
• Immortal Beloved
• The Mask
• Crumb*
• Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear)
• Clerks
• Amateur
• Black Beauty
• Tom and Viv
• Swimming with Sharks
• Death and the Maiden

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1994

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
A Great Day in Harlem
Ashes of Time
Barcelona Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
Blue Chips (William Friedkin)
Blush (Li Shaohong)
Body Snatchers
Caro diario
Chartres Series
Clean, Shaven
Coming To Terms With The Dead (Pascale Ferran)
Country Life
Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
Dieu sait quoi
Double Happiness
Ermo
Farinelli: Il Castrato
Faust (Jan Svankmajer)
Fear of a Black Hat (Rusty Cundieff)
Freedom on My Mind
Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
Fun
Go Fish (Rose Troche)
Guarding Tess
I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
I Like it Like That (Darnell Martin)
I.Q.
I’ll Do Anything (James L. Brooks)
Imaginary Crimes
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette)
Joan the Maid: The Battles
Joan the Maid: The Prisons
Ladybird Ladybird
Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)
L’Enfer (Claude Chabrol)
Like Two Crocodiles
Little Big League
Little Odessa (James Gray)
Little Women
London
Lucky Break (Ben Lewin)
Mina Tannenbaum
Moving the Mountain
Muriel’s Wedding
No Escape (Martin Campbell)
NYC 3/94 (Hal Hartley)
Oleanna (David Mamet)
Once Were Warriors
Only You
Oublie-moi (Noemie Lvovsky)
Passions (Kira Muratova)
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman)
Priest (Antonia Bird)
Regarde les hommes tomber (Jacques Audiard)
Rhythm Thief (Matthew Harrison)
Satantango (Bela Tarr)
Shopping (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell)
Speechless (Ron Underwood)
Strawberry and Chocolate
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh)
The Day the Sun Turned Cold
The Freethinker (Peter Watkins)
The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
The New Age
The Paper
The Red Book
The Silences of the Palace
The Unforgettable Summer (Lucian Pintilie)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
Uncovered (Jim McBride)
Verhängnis
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
Vukovar
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Whispering Pages (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Widows’ Peak
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
Windigo

1993

1. Three Colors: Blue
2. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Naked
5. The Piano
6. In the Name of the Father
7. Fearless
8. The Remains of the Day
9. Schindler’s List
10. Ruby in Paradise
11. The Fugitive
12. King of the Hill
13. Short Cuts
14. Mad Dog and Glory
15. The Age of Innocence
16. Jurassic Park
17. Farewell, My Concubine
18. The Secret Garden
19. Groundhog Day
20. Faraway So Close!
21. True Romance
22. The Thing Called Love
23. Map of the Human Heart
24. The Snapper
25. The Joy Luck Club

Menace II Society
The Scent of Green Papaya
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Wedding Banquet
Carlito’s Way
Much Ado About Nothing
The Joy Luck Club
Tombstone
A Bronx Tale
The Sandlot
Kalifornia
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Shadowlands

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1993

Abraham’s Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica)
Bad Behaviour (Les Blair)
Bad Boy Bubby
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Being Human (Bill Forsyth)
Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha)
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
Caro diario (Nanni Moretti)
Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan)
Cronos
Dazed and Confused
D’Est (Chantal Akerman)
Diary of a Maniac (Marco Ferreri)
Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes)
Flight of the Innocent
Germinal
Geronimo: An American Legend (Walter Hill)
Gettysburg
Green Snake (Tsui Hark)
Helas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard)
Household Saints (Nancy Savoca)
Justice
La Naissance de l’amour
La scorta
Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif)
Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général (Anne Fontaine)
M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg)
Moving (Shinji Somai)
My Favorite Season (Andre Techine)
Raining Stones (Ken Loach)
Rebels of a Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Son of the Shark
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier)
Strange Weather (Peggy Ahwesh)
Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegel)
Tai Chi Master (Yuen Woo-ping)
Tango
The Ballad of Little Jo (Maggie Greenwald)
The Beginning and the End (Arturo Ripstein)
The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Boys of St. Vincent
The Cement Garden
The Days (Wang Xiaoshuai)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
The Music of Chance (Philip Haas)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Tree, the Mayor, and the Mediatheque (Eric Rohmer)
The Wrong Man (Jim McBride)
The Young Werther (Jacques Doillon)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
Time Indefinite
When Pigs Fly (Sara Driver)
Whispering Pages

1992

1. The Long Day Closes
2. Unforgiven
3. A River Runs Through It
4. The Crying Game
5. Passion Fish
6. Into the West
7. Strictly Ballroom
8. Glengarry Glen Ross
9. Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
10. The Player
11. Baraka
12. Bob Roberts
13. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
14. Red Rock West
15. Brother’s Keeper
16. Husbands and Wives
17. Howard’s End
18. Enchanted April
19. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
20. Patriot Games
21. One False Move
22. Batman Returns
23. Gas Food Lodging
24. Monster in a Box
25. Deep Cover

• Malcolm X
• A Midnight Clear
• Un Coeur en hiver
• American Heart
• Leap of Faith
• Reservoir Dogs
• Bad Lieutenant
• Of Mice and Men
  
• Simple Men
• Chaplin
• Mac
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Damage
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Waterland
• The Lover

As-yet Unseen or Unrated Films of 1992

A Place in the World
A Question of Attribution
A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
American Me
Amoureuse (Jacques Doillon)*
An Independent Life
Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda)
Army of Darkness
As You See (Harun Farocki)
Barjo (Jerome Boivin)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Belle Epoque
Benny’s Video (Michael Haneke)
Betty (Claude Chabrol)
Border Line (Danièle Dubroux)
Candyman
Careful (Guy Maddin)
Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan)
Chasing Butterflies (Otar Iosseliani)
Ciao, Professore!
Count Basie: Swingin’ the Blues
Cousin Bobby
Daens
Dream of Light
El Mariachi
Embracing (Naomi Kawase)
Equinox (Alan Rudolph)
Falling from Grace
Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene)
Hard Boiled
Hedd Wyn
House of Angels
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety)
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell)
Indochine
Innocent Blood (John Landis)
Interpolations I-V (Stan Brakhage)
Jamón, jamón
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris)
Kaivo
Khuda Gawah
La sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin)
La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)
Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez)
Le mirage (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
Léolo
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
Light Sleeper
Loss is to be Expected (Ulrich Seidl)
Man Bites Dog
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter)
Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland)
On My Own
Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark)
Orlando
Passages (Yilmaz Arslan)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
Prelude to a Kiss
Quince Tree of the Sun (Victor Erice)
Raising Cain (Brian de Palma)
Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rappaport)
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright)
Savage Nights (Cyril Collard)
Schtonk!
Storyville
Sunday’s Children
The Accompanist
The Best Intentions
The Boys of St. Vincent’s (John N. Smith)
The Fencing Master
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Days of Chez Nous
The Living End (Gregg Araki)
The Mambo Kings
The Mystery of the Ferns (Rachid Malikov)
The Oak (Lucian Pintilie)
The Resurrected (Dan O’Bannon)
The Second Heimat (Edgar Reitz)
The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio)
The Story of Qiu Ju
The Waterdance
Thunderheart
Tito and Me (Goran Markovic)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)*

1991

1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. The Fisher King
3. Barton Fink
4. Delicatessen
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. Raise the Red Lantern
7. Flirting
8. 35 Up
9. Close to Eden
10. Beauty and the Beast
11. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
12. Until the End of the World
13. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
14. La Belle Noiseuse
15. My Own Private Idaho
16. JFK
17. The Commitments
18. Grand Canyon
19. L.A. Story
20. The Adjuster
21. Proof
22. The Doors
23. The Addams Family
24. Fried Green Tomatoes
25. Impromptu

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2001

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
A Little Stiff (Greg Watkins and Caveh Zahedi)
A Woman’s Tale (Paul Cox)
Blood Ties (Jim McBride)
Boyz N the Hood
Bright Angel (Michael Fields)
Cheb (Rachid Bouchereb)
City of Hope (John Sayles)
Close My Eyes (Stephen Poliakoff)
Danzon (María Novaro)
Days of Being Wild
Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks)
Dogfight
Edward II (Derek Jarman)
Europa
Fly High Run Far (Im Kwon-taek)
And Life Goes On… (Abbas Kiarostami)
Garden of Scorpions (Oleg Kovalov)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald)
Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox)
Into the Woods
J’ entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel)
Jacquot de Nantes (Agnes Varda)
Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
La vie des morts (Arnaud Desplechin)
Let Him Have It (Peter Medak)
Lovers (Vicente Aranda)
Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol)
Mediterraneo
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
Night and Day (Chantal Akerman)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
Paris Awakens (Olivier Assayas)
Paris Trout (Stephen Gyllenhaal)
Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa)
Riff-Raff (Ken Loach)
Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck)
Sale comme une ange (Catherine Breillat)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr)
Slacker
The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan)
The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
Three Days (Sharunas Bartas)
Tous les matins du monde
Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)
Vacas (Julio Medem)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
What About Bob? (Frank Oz)
Youngsters (Tsai Ming-liang)
Zentropa (Lars Von Trier)

1990

1. Close-up*
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
4. Metropolitan
5. Edward Scissorhands
6. GoodFellas
7. Dances with Wolves
8. Wild at Heart
9. Cry Baby
10. The Hairdresser’s Husband
11. Cyrano de Bergerac
12. Jacob’s Ladder
13. The Godfather Part III
14. The Sheltering Sky
15. After Dark, My Sweet
16. Henry and June
17. Hamlet
18. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
19. La Femme Nikita
20. Joe Versus the Volcano
21. Trust
22. Mr. And Mrs Bridge
23. Vincent and Theo
24. Dick Tracy
25. Eating

• Presumed Innocent
• My Father’s Glory
• My Mother’s Castle
• The Field
• Ju Dou
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Grifters
• Reversal of Fortune

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1990

A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost)
American Dream
An Angel at My Table
Archangel (Guy Maddin)
Autobus
Avalon
Awakenings
Ay, Carmela!
Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson)
Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano)
C’est la vie
Daddy Nostalgia
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino)
Europa Europa
Everybody’s Fine (Giuseppe Tornatore)
H
H-2 Worker
Hamlet
Havana
Hidden Agenda
How to Live in the German Federal Republic
Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis)
Jacques Rivette – Le veilleur (Claire Denis and Serge Daney)
Journey of Hope
King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
La discrete (Christian Vincent)
Larks on a String
Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel)
Le mariage blanc (Christine Carriere)
Le petit criminel (Jacques Doillon)
Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones
Longtime Companion
Love at Large (Alan Rudolph)
Men Don’t Leave (Paul Brickman)
Miami Blues (George Armitage)
Milou in May
Mountains of the Moon
No Fear, No Die
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Nouvelle vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
One Hour
Open Doors (Gianni Amelio)
Pacific Heights (John Schlesinger)
Paris Is Burning
Plymptoons
Queen of Temple Street (Lawrence Ah Mon)
Quick Change (Howard Franklin and Bill Murray)
Requiem for Dominic
Riff-Raff
Shi no Toge
Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich)
Song of the Exile
Stella
Sure Fire (Jon Jost)
Taxi Blues
Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Ambulance
The Confession
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty)
The Famine Within
The Handmaid’s Tale (Volker Schlondorff)
The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper)
The Krays
The Long Walk Home
The Madonna and the Dragon (Samuel Fuller)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
The Two Jakes
Tilai
To Sleep with Anger
Tongues Untied
Where the Heart Is (John Boorman)
White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
White Palace

1989

1. The Decalogue
2. Henry V
3. The Unbelievable Truth
4. Jesus of Montreal
5. Do the Right Thing
6. The ‘Burbs
7. Crimes and Misdemeanors
8. The Abyss
9. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10. Kiki’s Delivery Service
11. Cinema Paradiso
12. sex, lies, and videotape
13. The Tall Guy
14. Heathers
15. Dead Poets Society
16. Glory
17. Mystery Train
18. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
19. My Left Foot
20. Monsieur Hire
21. The Fabulous Baker Boys
22. When Harry Met Sally
23. Say Anything
24. Sea of Love
25. Roger and Me

• Parenthood
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• Back to the Future, Part 2
• Field of Dreams
• Batman
• Lethal Weapon 2

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1989

A City of Sadness
A Dry White Season
A Spy in the House That Ruth Built
A Tale of the Wind
Always (Steven Spielberg)
Bashu, The Little Stranger
Baxter (Jerome Boivin)
Black Rain (Ridley Scott)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
Black Sin
Blaze
Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow)
Born on the Fourth of July
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara)
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
Chameleon Street
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.)
Chances Are
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Cousins
Crusoe
Driving Miss Daisy
El aprendiz de pornografo (Jaime Hermosillo)
Elephant (Alan Clarke)
Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky)
Five Days in June
For All Mankind
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord
Getting it Right (Randal Kleiser)
Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman)
He Was Once (Mary Hestand)
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel)
Le fille de 15 ans (Jacques Doillon)
Leningrad Cowboys Go to America (Aki Kaurismaki)
Licence to Kill
Life and Nothing But
Major League
Marriage of the Blessed
Memories of a Marriage
Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
Miss Firecracker
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Mr. Hoover and I
Music Box
My Twentieth Century (Ildiko Enyedi)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
Orapronobis (Lino Brocka)
Parents (Bob Balaban)
Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn)
Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel)
Roadkill (Bruce McDonald)
Romuald et Juliette
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Scandal
Shirley Valentine
Sidewalk Stories
Skin Deep (Blake Edwards)
Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
Strapless (David Hare)
Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller)
Sweet Home (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Sweetie (Jane Campion)
Tap
Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Aesthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova)
The Burbs (Joe Dante)
The Church (Michele Soavi)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves)
The Iceman Cometh
The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti)
The Killer
The Kill-Off
The Last Stop (Serik Aprimov)
The Machine That Killed Bad People
The Mighty Quinn
The Owl’s Legecy (Chris Marker)
The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)
Too Beautiful for You
True Love
Valmont (Milos Forman)
Vampire’s Kiss (Robert Bierman)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
War Requiem
Water and Power
What Happened to Santiago
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-kyun)
Yaaba

1988

1. Midnight Run
2. My Neighbor Totoro*
3. Distant Voices, Still Lives*
4. Die Hard
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
   
6. Dangerous Liaisons
7. The Unbearable Lightness of being
8. Grave of the Fireflies*
9. Cinema Paradiso
10. A Fish Called Wanda
11. The Last Temptation of Christ
12. Running on Empty
13. The Accidental Tourist
14. The Thin Blue Line
15. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
16. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
17. Beetlejuice
18. I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
19. Tin Toy
20. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
21. Frantic
22. Big
23. Rain Man
24. Mississippi Burning
25. The Chocolate War

• Shoot to Kill
• Married to the Mob
• The Vanishing

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 1988

36 fillette (Catherine Breillat)
A Cry in the Dark
A Handful of dust
A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens)
A Taxing Woman’s Return
A Time of Destiny
A World Apart (Chris Menges)
Above the Law (Andrew Davis)
Akira
Alice
Another Woman
Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan)
Ariel (Aki Kaurismaki)
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)
Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov)
Biloxi Blues
Bird (Clint Eastwood)
Brain Damage (Frank Henenlotter)
Bright Lights, Big City
Bull Durham
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (William Friedkin)
Camille Claudel
Candy Mountain (Robert Frank/Rudy Wurlizter)
Chocolat (Claire Denis)
Clara’s Heart (Robert Mulligan)
Clean and Sober
Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
Colors
Coming to America
Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver)
Crusoe (Caleb Deschanel)
Damnation
Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Dead Ringers
Dominick and Eugene
Dragons Forever
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway)
Drums of Winter
Eight Men Out
Essai d’ouverture
Funny Farm
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette)
Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat)
Golub
Gorillas in the Mist
Hairspray (John Waters)
Hanussen
High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books (Richard Linklater)
Jacob (Mircha Daneliuc)
July (Darezhan Omirbaev)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo)
La lectrice (Michel Deville)
Lady in White
Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)
Legend of the Holy Drinker
Little Dorrit
Little Vera
Madame Sousatzka
Maniac Cop (William Lustig)
Maria (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Medea (Lars Von Trier)
Memories of Me
Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
Monkey Shines (George A. Romero)
My Uncle’s Legacy
Mystic Pizza
Paperhouse (Bernard Rose)
Pascali’s Island
Permanent Record
Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli)
Puissance de la parole
Red Heat (Walter Hill)
Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost)
Salaam Bombay!
School Daze
Scrooged (Richard Donner)
Stand and Deliver
Stormy Monday
Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)
Straight, No Chaser
Sunset (Blake Edwards)
Switching Channels (Ted Kotcheff)
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin)
Talk Radio (Oliver Stone)
Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza)
Tequila Sunrise (Robert Towne)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Boost
The Days of Eclipse
The Dead Pool
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
The Documentator (Istvan Darday/Gyorgy Szalai)
The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell)
The Last of England (Derek Jarman)
The Little Thief
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
The Music Teacher
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
The Serpent Rainbow (Wes Craven)
The Summer of Miss Forbes (Jaime Hermosillo)
The Vanishing
The Venus Trap (Robert van Ackeren)
The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov)
Thelonious Monk:
They Live (John Carpenter)
Thou Shall Not Kill
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
Torch Song Trilogy
Trois places pour le 26
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Two Moon Junction (Zalman King)
Vampire’s Kiss (Robert Bierman)
Vice Versa
Voices of Sarafina!
Without a Clue
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Working Girl
Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious)
Zero City (Karen Shakhnazarov)