Top 10s

Another day, and another good friend I rip off. This time it’s Spengo, who started his list(s). The least I owe him is publicity. This is an ongoing project, and if I don’t have 10 good films for that year, it’s not going to be listed. This is an obviously ongoing project. Might be fun. 2009 will be added next year after I post my best of list.

2008

1. Let the Right One In
2. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
3. The Class
4. A Christmas Tale
5. Milk
6. The Wrestler
7. Vicky Christina Barcelona
8. Waltz with Bashir
9. Wendy and Lucy
10. Happy-Go-Lucky

2007

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Zodiac
4. Black Book
5. There Will Be Blood
6. 28 Weeks Later
7. Le Scaphandre et le papillon
8. I’m Not There
9. Ratatouille
10. Atonement 

2006

1. Marie Antoinette
2. Volver
3. Children of Men
4. Inland Empire
5. Lady Chatterley
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. The Fountain
8. The Descent
9. A Prairie Home Companion
10. Little Children

2005

1. The New World
2. Strange Circus
3. Capote
4. Good Night, and Good Luck
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. Conversations with Other Women
7. Domino
8. Serenity
9. Downfall
10. Brokeback Mountain

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
2. The Dreamers
3. Collateral
4. Un long dimanche de fiançailles
5. The Incredibles
6. Mean Girls
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Born into Brothels
9. The Sea Inside
10. My Summer of Love

2003

1. The Fog of War
2. All the Real Girls
3. Memories of Murder
4. Kill Bill Vol. 1
5. The Return
6. The Brown Bunny
7. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Finding Nemo
9. The Corporation
10. Spring, summer, fall winter and spring

2002

1. Far From Heaven
2. Suicide Club
3. About a Boy
4. Chicago
5. Solaris

2001

1. Trouble Every Day
2. Spirited Away
3. Millennium Actress
4. Mulholland Dr.
5. Amelie
6. The Others
7. Gosford Park
8. The Devil’s Backbone
9. Late Marriage
10. The Man Who Wasn’t There

2000

1. In the Mood for Love
2. House of Mirth
3. Battle Royale
4. Quills
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. Almost Famous
7. Ginger Snaps
8. Gladiator
9. The Heart of the World
10. Before Night Falls

1999

1. The Limey
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. But I’m a Cheerleader
4. Toy Story 2
5. Audition
6. Election
7. The Road Home
8. Fantasia 2000
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

1998

1. Rushmore
2. Out of Sight
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Kirikou et la sorciere
5. The Truman Show
6. Buffalo 66’
7. Shakespeare in Love
8. There’s Something About Mary
9. Elizabeth
10. Last Night

1997

1. The Sweet Hereafter
2. La femme defendue
3. Boogie Nights
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Jackie Brown

1996

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1995

1. Dead Man
2. To Die For
3. La Ceremonie
4. Babe
5. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
6. Se7en
7. The Garden
8. Sense and Sensibility
9. Whisper of the Heart
10. A Little Princess

1994

1. Exotica
2. Chungking Express
3. Trois Couleurs: Rouge
4. Ed Wood
5. Leon: the Professional

1993

1. The Secret Garden
2. Schindler’s List
3. The Age of Innocence
4. The Piano
5. Jurassic Park

1992

1. Orlando
2. Unforgiven
3. Strictly Ballroom
4. Lessons of Darkness
5. The Player

1991

1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. Raise the Red Lantern
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Rhapsody in August
5. Beauty and the Beast

1990

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1989

1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. My Nights are more Beautiful than your Days
3. Heathers
4. Do the right thing
5. Kiki’s Delivery Service
6. My Left Foot
7. Field of Dreams
8. The Little Mermaid
9. Creature Comforts
10. Cinema Paradiso

1988

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. A Fish Called Wanda
3. Dead Ringers
4. The Thin Blue Line
5. The Vanishing (aka Spoorloos)
6. The Unberable Lightness of Being
7. Grave of the Fireflies
8. Beetlejuice
9. The Cat Came Back
10. Hairspray

1987

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1986

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1985

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1984

1. Paris, Texas
2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds
3. Amadeus
4. Secret Honor
5. Under the Volcano
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street
7. The Terminator
8. Blood Simple
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (USA, Steven Spielberg)
10. Ghostbusters

1983

1. Silkwood
2. Videodrome
3. The Dead Zone
4. Local Hero
5. The Hunger

1982

1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Blade Runner
3. Plague Dogs
4. White Dog
5. La Bete Lumineuse
6. John Carpenter’s The Thing
7. The Verdict
8. Vincent (short)
9. The Secret of NIMH
10. Sophie’s Choice

1981

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1980

1. The Shining
2. Little Darlings
3. Raging Bull
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Stardust Memories

1979

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Nosferatu
3. Alien
4. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
5. Manhatten
6. All that Jazz
7. The Brood
8. The Jerk
9. Being There
10. The Black Stallion

1978

1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Watership Down
3. Halloween
4. The Last Waltz
5. Days of Heaven

1977

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1976

1. Taxi Driver
2. Carrie
3. Up!
4. The Little Mermaid
5. Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

1975

1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. Nashville
3. Grey Gardens
4. Shampoo
5. Love and Death
6. Dog Day Afternoon
7. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Jaws
9. Shivers
10. Barry Lyndon

1974

1. Black Christmas
2. F For Fake
3. Thieves like us
4. A Woman Under the Influence
5. The Night Porter
6. Blood for Dracula
7. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
8. The Conversation
9. Young Frankenstein
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1973

1. The Long Goodbye
2. Don’t Look Now
3. The Legend of Hell House
4. Badlands
5. The Exorcist
6. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7. Spirit of the Beehive
8. Robin Hood
9. The Sting
10. La Nuit Americaine

1972

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1971

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Duck, you Sucker!
3. Walkabout
4. The Last Picture Show
5. Straw Dogs
6. The Panic in Needle Park
7. Punishment Park
8. The Hospital
9. The Tragedy of Macbeth
10. Harold and Maude

1970

1. Catch-22
2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
3. Claire’s Knee
4. The Go-Between
5. The Conformist
6. Woodstock
7. M*A*S*H
8. Peau D’Ane
9. Patton
10. Le Cercle Rouge

1969

1. Last Summer
2. The Wild Bunch
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Ma nuit chez Maud
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. The House that Screamed
7. The Milky Way
8. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
9. Go, Go Second Time Virgin
10. On her Majesty’s Secret Service

1968

1. Rosemary’s baby
2. Pas de Deux
3. The Night of the Living Dead
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. Faces
6. Les Biches
7. 2001:A Space Odyssey
8. Oliver!
9. The Lion in the Winter
10. If…

1967

1. Bonnie and Clyde
2. The Graduate
3. Demoiselles de Rochefort
4. La Collectionneuse
5. In Cold Blood
6. Accident
7. Two for the Road
8. Point Blank
9. Belle de Jour
10. Cool Hand Luke 

1966

1. The Good the bad and the Ugly
2. Masculin, Feminin
3. Kill, Baby Kill
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. Persona

1965

1. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
2. Pierrot le fou
3. Alphaville
4. Juliet of the Spirits
5. For a Few Dollars More
6. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen
7. Bunny Lake is Missing
8. The Collector
9. Le Bonheur
10. The Sound of Music

1964

1. Band of Outsiders
2. Dr.Strangelove or how I learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to love the Bomb
3. Marnie
4. King and Country
5. Le Temps Perdu
6. Diary of a Chambermaid
7. The Night of the Iguana
8. Goldfinger
9. A Hard Day’s Night
10. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

1963

1. The Birds
2. The Servant
3. 8 ½
4. Shock Corridor
5. Charade
6. Le Mepris
7. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
8. The Haunting
9. From Russia With Love
10. The Great Escape

1962

1. Jules et Jim
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Window Water Baby Moving
4. Cleo 5 a 7
5. Vivre Sa Vie
6. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7. Winter Light
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. The Manchurian Candidate
10. Lolita

1961

1. The Misfits
2. The Innocents
3. La Notte
4. The Hustler
5. Mother Joan of the Angels
6. Splendor in the Grass
7. Whistle Down the Wind
8. Judgment at Nuremberg
9. Divorce Italian Style
10. Une femme est une femme

1960

1. The Apartment
2. La Dolce Vita
3. The Virgin Spring
4. L’Avventura
5. Psycho
6. Black Sunday
7. Les Yeux Sans Visage
8. Breathless
9. Sergeant Rutledge
10. Peeping Tom

1959

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Imitation of Life
3. Ballad of a Soldier
4. Rio Bravo
5. Hiroshima, mon amour
6. Anatomy of a Murder
7. Sleeping Beauty
8. Suddenly, Last Summer
9. Black Orpheus
10. North by Northwest

1958

1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Bonjour Tristesse
4. Les Amants
5. Some Came Running
6. Tarnished Angels
7. Mon Oncle
8. Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
9. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
10. Horror of Dracula

1957

1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. Le Notti Bianche
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Paths of Glory
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
6. Nights of Cabiria
7. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
8. The Three Faces of Eve
9. 12 angry men
10. The Cranes are Flying

1956

1. Baby Doll
2. The Searchers
3. Bigger than Life
4. Street of Shame
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
6. The Girl Can’t Help it
7. Giant
8. Written on the Wind
9. Forbidden Planet
10. La ballon rouge

1955

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Les Diaboliques
3. The Desperate Hours
4. Rebel Without a Cause
5. All that Heaven Allows
6. To Catch a Thief
7. East of Eden
8. The Seven Year Itch
9. The Ladykillers
10. Richard III

1954

1. Rear Window
2. Johnny Guitar
3. The Sleeping Tiger
4. Magnificent Obssesion
5. Dial M for Murder

1953

1. Roman Holiday
2. The Big Heat
3. Madame de…
4. Duck Amuck
5. I Confess
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7. Tokyo Story
8. The Naked Spur
9. Les Statues meurent aussi
10. Stalag 17

1952

1. On Dangerous Ground
2. The Bad and the Beautiful
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. Umberto D
5. Don’t Bother to Knock
6. Le Plaisir
7. The Importance of Being Earnest
8. The Quiet Man
9. High Noon
10. Clash by Night

1951

1. An American in Paris
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Strangers on a Train
4. The Browning Version
5. Ace in the Hole
6. Repast
7. His Kind of Woman
8. A Place in the Sun
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still
10. Tales of Hoffmann

1950

1. Sunset Blvd.
2. Gun Crazy
3. All About Eve
4. Gone to Earth
5. Night and the City
6. La Ronde
7. The Flowers of St. Francis
8. In a Lonely Place
9. Rashomon
10. Where the Sidewalk Ends

1949

1. The Third Man
2. The Set-Up
3. The Small Back Room
4. The Reckless Moment
5. The Heiress
6. Begone Dull Care
7. White Heat
8. Kind Hearts and Coronets
9. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
10. The Queen of Spades

1948

1. The Red Shoes
2. Portrait of Jennie
3. Unfaithfully Yours
4. Red River
5. They Live by Night
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. The Bicycle Thief
8. Force of Evil
9. The Fallen Idol
10. Hamlet

1947

1. Odd Man Out
2. Black Narcissus
3. Pursued
4. The Lady From Shanghai
5. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1946

1. Cluny Brown
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Notorious
5. The Big Sleep
6. My Darling Clementine
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. La Belle et La Bete
9. The Killers
10. Great Expectations

1945

1. ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’
2. State Fair
3. The Body Snatcher
4. Isle of the Dead
5. Scarlet Street
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. Mildred Pierce
8. Yolanda and the Thief
9. Christmas in Connecticut
10. Love Letters

1944

1. Laura
2. Meet Me in St. Louis
3. A Canterbury Tale
4. The Curse of the Cat People
5. To Have and Have Not

1943

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The More the Merrier
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. I Walked with a Zombie
5. Hangmen Also Die!

1942

1. To be or Not to Be
2. Casablanca
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Palm Beach Story
5. Cat People
6. Bambi
7. Went the Day Well
8. This Gun for Hire
9. I Married a Witch
10. Now, Voyager

1941

1. Sullivan’s Travels
2. Citizen Kane
3. How Green was my Valley
4. Ball of Fire
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. That Uncertain Feeling
7. 49th Parallel
8. The Lady Eve
9. Tobacco Road
10. Sergeant York

1940

1. The Shop Around the Corner
2. Fantasia
3. Christmas in July
4. His Girl Friday
5. Philadelphia Story

1939

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Only Angels Have wings
4. Love Affair
5. Dark Victory
6. Wuthering Heights
7. Gunga Din
8. Stagecoach
9. Beau Geste
10. Midnight

1938

*place holder until I see more good films from this year*

1937

1. Make Way for Tomorrow
2. The Awful Truth
3. Stella Dallas
4. La Grande Illusion
5. Easy Living
6. Pepe le Moko
7. Nothing Sacred
8. History is Made at Night
9. Stage Door
10. Night Must Fall

1936

1. Modern Times
2. My Man Godfrey
3. Libeled Lady
4. Partie de Campagne
5. Theodora Goes Wild

1935

1. The 39 Steps
2. The Bride of Frankenstein
3. Les Miserables
4. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
5. A Night at The Opera
6. Sylvia Scarlett
7. Captain Blood
8. Dark Angel
9. Mutiny on the Bounty
10. Anna Karenina

1934

1. The Scarlet Empress
2. Twentieth Century
3. It Happened One Night
4. L’Atalante
5. The Thin Man

1933

1. Heroes for Sale
2. Little Women
3. Duck Soup
4. Gold Diggers of 1933
5. The Bitter Tea of General Yen
6. Baby Face
7. Design for Living
8. Man’s Castle
9. Queen Christina
10. The Eagle and the Hawk

1932

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. One Hour with You
3. Love me tonight
4. Shanghai Express
5. Scarface
6. Grand Hotel
7. Freaks
8. Horse Feathers
9. Kongo
10. The Most Dangerous Game

1931

1. City Lights
2. M
3. Other Men’s Women
4. Safe in Hell
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6. The Champ
7. Frankenstein
8. The Public Enemy
9. Night Nurse
10. The Miracle Woman

1930

1. Swing you Sinners
2. Morocco
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. The Blue Angel
5. Animal Crackers

1928

1. La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc
2. The Wind
3. The Circus
4. Sadie Thompson
5. Show People

1927

1. Sunrise
2. Metropolis
3. The General
4. The Love of Jeanne Ney
5. The Unknown