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The theatrical shorts and features (all two of 'em) produced by the UPA animation studio, with a contemporaneous tv special thrown in for good measure.

• Robin Hoodlum
• The Magic Fluke
• Ragtime Bear
• Punchy De Leon
• Spellbound Hound
• The Miner's Daughter
• Giddyap
• Trouble Indemnity
• Gerald McBoing-Boing
• The Popcorn Story

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Top-20 finishers in Mike D'Angelo's yearly Skandies poll (1996-present) that I've yet to see. Results for the latest installment are rolling out here.

The idea for this list was gleefully stolen from Alex Fung

• Captain Conan
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• What Time Is It There?
• The Brown Bunny
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Syndromes and a Century
• Regular Lovers
• Once
• Atonement
• In the City of Sylvia

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favourite new films seen in 2024 (and early 2025, if the American release date was 2024).

Notable by their absence because they were on last year's list:
- How To Have Sex, which would slot between Anora and The Shadow Strays
- About Dry Grasses, which would slot between Rumours and Flow

1. All We Imagine as Light
2. Hundreds of Beavers
3. Challengers
4. The Count of Monte Cristo
5. Red Rooms
6. La Chimera
7. The Substance
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
9. The Brutalist
10. Blitz

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2024 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
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Should revisit:
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)

1. All We Imagine as Light
2. Challengers
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. The Substance
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. The Brutalist
7. Blitz
8. Love Lies Bleeding
9. Anora
10. The Shadow Strays

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2023 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
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Should revisit:
Anselm (Wim Wenders)
The Boy And The Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Perfect Days
3. Poor Things
4. Red Rooms
5. All of Us Strangers
6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
7. Oppenheimer
8. The Holdovers
9. La Chimera
10. Close Your Eyes

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2021 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
In Front Of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
Operation Hyacinth (Piotr Domalewski)

Should revisit:
Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma)
The Power Of The Dog (Jane Campion)

1. The Green Knight
2. The Girl and the Spider
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Cyrano
5. Great Freedom
6. The French Dispatch
7. A Hero
8. Drive My Car
9. Dune
10. let me come in

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2020 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Ask Any Buddy (Elizabeth Purchell)
Red Moon Tide (Lois Patino)
Short Vacation (Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Han-sol)
The Woman Who Left (Hong Sang-soo)

Should revisit:
Bandar Band (Manijeh Hekmat)
French Exit (Azazel Jacobs)
Limbo (Ben Sharrock)
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)

1. Nomadland
2. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
3. Soul
4. Lovers Rock
5. Limbo
6. Undine
7. Bandar Band
8. The Empty Man
9. Gretel & Hansel
10. Under the Open Sky

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2019 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
Kaithi (Lokesh Kanagaraj)
1917 (Sam Mendes)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

Should revisit:
Labyrinth Of Cinema (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Pain And Glory (Pedro Almodovar)
Uncut Gems (Benny & Josh Safdie)

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2. Parasite
3. Marriage Story
4. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5. Country Music
6. Collective
7. Little Women
8. Jallikattu
9. Labyrinth of Cinema
10. First Cow

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2018 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
In My Room (Ulrich Kohler)
Sunset (Nemes László)
This Magnificent Cake! (Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels)

Should revisit:
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
Isle Of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)

1. Annihilation
2. Transit
3. Burning
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
5. Hereditary
6. Bisbee '17
7. The Favourite
8. Shoplifters
9. Isle of Dogs
10. Suspiria

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2017 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Columbus (Kogonada)
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
On The Beach At Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)

Should revisit:
Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)

1. Phantom Thread
2. Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion
3. Paddington 2
4. Let the Corpses Tan
5. Faces Places
6. Blade Runner 2049
7. Get Out
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
9. You Were Never Really Here
10. Weekends

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2015 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
The Big Short (Adam McKay)
The Blackcoat's Daughter (Oz Perkins)
Bridge Of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
Cemetery Of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
Love (Gaspar Noe)
Microbe & Gasoline (Michel Gondry)
My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
One Floor Below (Radu Muntean)
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
Rams (Grimur Hakonarson)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Son Of Saul (Nemes Laszlo)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)

Should revisit:
The Assassin (Hou Hisao-hsien)
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Love & Peace (Sion Sono)
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
Slow West (John Maclean)

1. World of Tomorrow
2. Our Little Sister
3. Slow West
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Exquisite Corpus
6. Carol
7. Bāhubali: The Beginning
8. Love & Peace
9. Heart of a Dog
10. Inside Out

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2013 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Joe (David Gordon Green)
Stop The Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang)

Should revisit:
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
The F Word (Michael Dowse)
Ida (Pawel Palikowski)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zurcher)

1. The Wind Rises
2. Her
3. Frozen
4. Stranger by the Lake
5. Upstream Color
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Like Father, Like Son
8. The Past
9. The Immigrant
10. The Strange Little Cat

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2012 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Reality (Matteo Garrone)

Should revisit:
Barbara (Christian Petzold)
Hemel (Sacha Polak)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
It's Such A Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

1. Drug War
2. Brave
3. Hemel
4. Room 237
5. Berberian Sound Studio
6. Mud
7. Eega
8. s Ha
9. It's Such a Beautiful Day
10. The Act of Killing

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2011 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky)

Should revisit:
Detention (Joesph Kahn)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
Terri (Azazel Jacobs)

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2. Alps
3. Take Shelter
4. Terri
5. The Kid with a Bike
6. Margaret
7. The Cabin in the Woods
8. Super 8
9. The Loneliest Planet
10. The Tree of Life

...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2001 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)

Should revisit:
Ali (Michael Mann)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
CQ (Roman Coppola)
Un Crabe Dans La Tete (Andre Turpin)
In The Bedroom (Todd Field)
A Knight's Tale (Brian Helgeland)
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
The Pornographer (Bertrand Bonello)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan)
Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)

1. Amélie
2. Time Out
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Devil's Backbone
5. Rivers and Tides
6. Film(dzama)
7. Late Marriage
8. Waking Life
9. Ghost World
10. In the Bedroom

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2009 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Amer (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Disorder (Huang Weikai)
Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Rapt (Lucas Belvaux)

1. Git Gob
2. Drag Me to Hell
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Dogtooth
5. Mother
6. The Limits of Control
7. Magadheera
8. Everyone Else
9. Lourdes
10. A Town Called Panic

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2006 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Perfume: The Story of a Murder (Tom Tykwer)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Should revisit:
Aachi & Ssipak (Jo Beom-jin)
Congorama (Philippe Faladreau)
Exiled (Johnnie To)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Little Children (Todd Field)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
Taxidermia (Gyorgi Palfi)
Time (Kim Ki-duk)

1. Taxidermia
2. Shortbus
3. The Prestige
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Children of Men
6. Exiled
7. Congorama
8. A Prairie Home Companion
9. The Host
10. Little Children

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2002 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)

Should revisit:
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Gangs Of New York (Martin Scorsese)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-Wook)
28 Days Later ... (Danny Boyle)
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar)
Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis)
Windtalkers (John Woo)

1. Talk to Her
2. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
3. All or Nothing
4. Spider
5. Far from Heaven
6. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
7. 25th Hour
8. 28 Days Later
9. Irreversible
10. Roger Dodger

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 2000 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
The Yards (James Gray)

Should revisit:
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
American Psycho (Mary Harron)
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-Ho)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
Dancer In The Dark (Lars von Trier)
The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda)
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
The House Of Mirth (Terence Davies)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage)
Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
State And Main (David Mamet)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
Time And Tide (Tsui Hark)
The Widow Of St. Pierre (Patrice Leconte)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
3. The Heart of the World
4. Songs from the Second Floor
5. Hamlet
6. Krapp's Last Tape
7. Suzhou River
8. Little Otik
9. Yi Yi
10. Almost Famous

...plus 81 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1998 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)

Should revisit:
The Acid House (Paul McGuigan)
Babe: Pig In The City (George Miller)
Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Dreamlife Of Angels (Erick Zonca)
Expect The Unexpected (Patrick Yau)
Genesis (Nacho Cerda, short)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
The Herd (Peter Lynch)
A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Idiots (Lars Von Trier)
Knock Off (Tsui Hark)
Last Night (Don McKellar)
The Longest Nite (Patrick Yau)
My Name Is Joe (Ken Loach)
No (Robert Lepage)
Shakespeare In Love (John Madden)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
Wild Things (John McNaughton)
The Wisdom Of Crocodiles (Leong Po-Chih)

1. After Life
2. Flowers of Shanghai
3. The Truman Show
4. Out of Sight
5. My Name Is Joe
6. Pi
7. Happiness
8. Genesis
9. The Last Days of Disco
10. Last Night

...plus 86 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1997 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)

Should revisit:
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Edge (Lee Tamahori)
Face/Off (John Woo)
Fast Cheap And Out Of Control (Errol Morris)
Full Alert (Full Alert)
The Game (David Fincher)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
In The Company Of Men (Neil LaBute)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Kundun (Martin Scorsese)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Ma Vie En Rose (Alain Berliner)
Mimic (Guillermo del Toro)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki)
Titanic (James Cameron)
Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (Guy Maddin)
Wings of The Dove (Iain Softley)

1. The Sweet Hereafter
2. Grosse Pointe Blank
3. Full Alert
4. Comingled Containers
5. My Life in Pink
6. Fireworks
7. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
8. Mr. Jealousy
9. In the Company of Men
10. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

...plus 72 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1995 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Babe (Chris Noonan)
Clockers (Spike Lee)
A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuarón)
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)

Should revisit:
The Blade (Tsui Hark)
Cold Comfort Farm (John Schlesinger)
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki)
Heat (Michael Mann)
Kicking & Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Palookaville (Alan Taylor)
Persuasion (Roger Michel)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)

1. Dead Man
2. Safe
3. Persuasion
4. Se7en
5. The Flower of My Secret
6. Before Sunrise
7. Twelve Monkeys
8. The City of Lost Children
9. Toy Story
10. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1993 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Blue (Derek Jarman)
Fearless (Peter Weir)
The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)

Should revisit:
Anchoress (Chris Newby)
Baby Of Macon (Peter Greenaway)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
Dazed And Confused (Richard Linklater)
Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes, short)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Raining Stones (Ken Loach)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Swordsman III: The East Is Red (Ching Siu-Tung & Raymond Lee)
Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Muller)

1. The Bride with White Hair
2. Sonatine
3. Naked
4. The Wrong Tros
5. Farewell My Concubine
6. The Baby of Mâcon
7. Swordsman III: The East Is Red
8. Calendar
9. The Last Bolshevik
10. The Heroic Trio

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1992 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
Howards End (James Ivory)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)

Should revisit:
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Candyman (Bernard Rose)
Careful (Guy Maddin)
Un Coeur En Hiver (Claude Sautet)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel & Bonoit Poelvoorde)
Minbo - Or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (Juzo Itami)
Requiem Pour Un Beau Sans-Coeur (Robert Morin)
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Supercop (Police Story 3) (Stanley Tong)
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
Swordsman II (Ching Siu-Tung)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

1. The Dark Side of the Heart
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Surviving Desire
4. Orlando
5. Man Bites Dog
6. Dream of Light
7. Braindead
8. Hard Boiled
9. Romper Stomper
10. Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1991 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Léos Carax)
Boyz 'N' the Hood (John Singleton)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Homicide (David Mamet)
JFK (Oliver Stone)
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)

Should revisit:
The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan)
The Apprentice (Richard Condie, short)
Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
The Borrower (John McNaughton)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh)
Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro)
Flirting (John Duigan)
Kafka (Steven Soderbergh)
Masala (Srinivas Krishna)
Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Raise The Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
Riff Raff (Ken Loach)
The Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Terminator 2 (James Cameron)
Toto Le Heros (Jaco Van Dormael)

1. La Belle Noiseuse
2. Once Upon a Time in China
3. Proof
4. Blackfly
5. Delicatessen
6. Naked Lunch
7. Point Break
8. High Heels
9. Barton Fink
10. Toto the Hero

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1990 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
The Disenchanted (Benoit Jacquot)
The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
Quick Change (Howard Franklin & Bill Murray)

Should revisit:
Archangel (Guy Maddin)
Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano])
Bullet In The Head (John Woo)
Darkman (Sam Raimi)
Days Of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty)
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson)
Frankenhooker (Frank Henenlotter)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte)
Henry & June (Philip Kaufman)
Hidden Agenda (Ken Loach)
I Hired A Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismaki)
The Krays (Peter Medak)
Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
Misery (Rob Reiner)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
Slacker (Richard Linklater)
Tati Danielle (Etienne Chatiliez)
Tremors (Ron Underwood)
Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella)
Trust (Hal Hartley)
White Palace (Luis Mandoki)

1. Life Is Sweet
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Truly Madly Deeply
4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
5. Metropolitan
6. GoodFellas
7. The Krays
8. Trust
9. Bullet in the Head
10. Close-Up

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1989 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)

Should revisit:
The Abyss (James Cameron)
Batman (Tim Burton)
The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
Dead Poet's Society (Peter Weir)
The Decalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Jesus Of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)
Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner)
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
Say Anything ([Cameron Crowe)
Sea Of Love (Harold Becker)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Shirley Valentine (Lewis Gilbert)
Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
UHF (Jay Levey)
The War Of The Roses (Danny DeVito)
When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)

1. Jesus of Montreal
2. The Killer
3. The Unbelievable Truth
4. Monsieur Hire
5. Do the Right Thing
6. Decalogue X
7. Decalogue I
8. Decalogue VIII
9. Decalogue IX
10. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1988 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Damnation (Bela Tarr)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Ermanno Olmi)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
Working Girl (Mike Nichols)

Should revisit:
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-Wai)
Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
Big (Penny Marshall)
Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
Comic Book Confidential (Ron Mann)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Decalog V (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Decalog VI (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway)
Eight Men Out (John Sayles)
High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
The Naked Gun (David Zucker)
Tapeheads (Bill Fishman)
Tucker: The Man And His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
Willow (Ron Howard)

1. Dead Ringers
2. Decalogue VI
3. Decalogue V
4. The Milagro Beanfield War
5. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
6. Bull Durham
7. Beetlejuice
8. Heathers
9. The Lair of the White Worm
10. Akira

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1987 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Angel Heart (Alan Parker)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
House Of Games (David Mamet)
Project A, Part II (Jackie Chan)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)

Should revisit:
Amazon Women On The Moon (Joe Dante, John Landis and others)
Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)
From The Pole To The Equator (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
The Hidden (Jack Sholder)
Innerspace (Joe Dante)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Frederic Back, short)
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Chuck Russell)
Opera (Dario Argento)
The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser)
Siesta (Mary Lambert)
Stakeout (John Badham)
Throw Momma From The Train (Danny DeVito)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders)

1. Withnail & I
2. From the Pole to the Equator
3. Near Dark
4. RoboCop
5. Maurice
6. The Princess Bride
7. Evil Dead II
8. The Hidden
9. The Untouchables
10. The Stepfather

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1986 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)

Should revisit:
Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
The Big Easy (Jim McBride)
Big Trouble In Little China (John Carpenter)
Decline Of The American Empire (Denys Arcand)
F/X (Robert Mandel)
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
Highlander (Russel Mulcahy)
Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela)
Le Rayon Vert (Eric Rohmer)
Running Scared (Peter Hyams)
The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel, TV)

1. The Fly
2. Something Wild
3. The Singing Detective
4. Little Shop of Horrors
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
6. Blue Velvet
7. The Green Ray
8. Martial Arts of Shaolin
9. Manhunter
10. The Pied Piper

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1985 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Come and See (Elem Klimov)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco)
The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen)
A Room With a View (James Ivory)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Witness (Peter Weir)

Should revisit:
Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Better Off Dead... (Savage Steve Holland)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
Fright Night (Tom Holland)
O.C. And Stiggs (Robert Altman)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
A Zed And Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)

1. Brazil
2. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
3. The Big Snit
4. After Hours
5. Lifeforce
6. Crime Wave
7. Tampopo
8. Back to the Future
9. Day of the Dead
10. The Return of the Living Dead

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1984 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Amadeus (Milos Forman)
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Should revisit:
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
Cal (Pat O'Connor)
Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven)
Reckless (James Foley)
Splash (Ron Howard)
Streets Of Fire (Walter Hill)
The Terminator (James Cameron)

1. Stop Making Sense
2. Body Double
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. The Hit
5. Blood Simple
6. Comfort and Joy
7. Gremlins
8. Repo Man
9. Paris, Texas
10. The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1983 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Lianna (John Sayles)
Project A (Jackie Chan)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
That Day, At the Beach (Edward Yang)

Should revisit:
Angst (Gerald Kargl)
The Ballad Of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Farewell (Elem Klimov)
The Meaning Of Life (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Scarface (Brian De Palma)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Jack Clayton)
Strange Invaders (Michael Laughlin)
of Endearment (James L Brooks)
Trading Places (John Landis)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Various)
Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

1. Videodrome
2. Angst
3. Local Hero
4. The Ballad of Narayama
5. Down to the Cellar
6. The Right Stuff
7. Christine
8. The 4th Man
9. The Hunger
10. Suburbia

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1982 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Vittorio and Paolo Taviani)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
The World According To Garp (George Roy Hill)

Should revisit:
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson & Frank Oz)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
48 Hrs (Walter Hill)
s (Graeme Clifford)
The King Of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio
Ladies & Gentlemen ... The Fabulous Stains (Lou Adler)
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Terry Hughes & Ian MacNaughton)
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen)
The Secret Of NIMH (Don Bluth)
So Is This (Michael Snow, short)

1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Blade Runner
3. The Thing
4. So Is This
5. White Dog
6. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
8. Personal Best
9. Ninja in the Dragon's Den
10. Legendary Weapons of China

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1981 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Excalibur (John Boorman)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
One From the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola)
Reds (Warren Beatty)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)

Should revisit:
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
For Your Eyes Only (John Glen)
Neighbors (John G Avildsen)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
Prodigal Son (Sammo Hung)

1. Das Boot
2. The Prodigal Son
3. Time Bandits
4. An American Werewolf in London
5. The Evil Dead
6. Dreadnaught
7. Scanners
8. Mad Max 2
9. Possession
10. Body Heat

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1980 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker)
American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (Nicolas Roeg)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
Gloria (John Cassavetes)
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Mon Oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
Return Of The Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)

Should revisit:
Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman)
Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
Popeye (Robert Altman)
Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff)
Superman II (Richard Lester)

1. Fame
2. The Long Riders
3. The Elephant Man
4. Altered States
5. The Long Good Friday
6. Cruising
7. Brubaker
8. The Shining
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Shogun Assassin

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1979 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
Scum (Alan Clarke)
Tess (Roman Polanski)
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)

Should revisit:
Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1941 (Steven Spielberg)
Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Being There
3. The Black Stallion
4. Rich Kids
5. Chilly Scenes of Winter
6. Alien
7. My Brilliant Career
8. Legend of the Mountain
9. Quadrophenia
10. Saint Jack

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1978 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beaty & Buck Henry)
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Robert Zemeckis)
An Umarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)

Should revisit:
Animal House (John Landis)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
Days Of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Superman (Richard Donner)
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang)
Watership Down (Martin Rosen)

1. The Driver
2. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
3. Dawn of the Dead
4. Dossier 51
5. Straight Time
6. Halloween
7. The Last Waltz
8. Coming Home
9. Heroes of the East
10. Days of Heaven

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1977 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Desperate Living (John Waters)
The Duellists (Ridley Scott)
One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
3 Women (Robert Altman)

Should revisit:
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (Michael Pressman)
Le Diable Probablement (Robert Bresson)
Equus (Sidney Lumet)
House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Orca (Michael Anderson)
Providence (Alain Resnais)
Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez & Phil Roman)
Rolling Thunder (John Flynn)
That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel)

1. Sorcerer
2. Saturday Night Fever
3. That Obscure Object of Desire
4. The Ascent
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. Slap Shot
7. Eraserhead
8. The Last Wave
9. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
10. Return of the Chinese Boxer

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1976 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Insiang (Lino Brocka)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
Kings Of The Road (Wim Wenders)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
Mr Klein (Joseph Losey)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Should revisit:
In The Realm Of The Senses (Nagisa Oshima)
Master Of The Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Blake Edwards)
Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski)

1. Network
2. All the President's Men
3. Taxi Driver
4. Nickelodeon
5. In the Realm of the Senses
6. Assault on Precinct 13
7. Harlan County U.S.A.
8. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
9. God Told Me To
10. Heartworn Highways

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For Canadian Film Day.

• Wavelength
• Pas de Deux
• Bambi Meets Godzilla
• Goin' Down the Road
• North of Superior
• Street Musique
• Paperback Hero
• Black Christmas
• Shivers
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All of 'em, though I've probably missed a couple.

Arranged by year, then degree of fondness within that.

Inspired by Canadian Film Day.

Updated to: 2025/03/07

1. Scherzo
2. Love on the Wing
3. Dots
4. Loops
5. Boogie-Doodle
6. V for Victory
7. Mail Early
8. Rock the Boat
9. Hoppity Pop
10. A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

...plus 626 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by Canadian Film Day.

Arranged by year.

Last updated: 2025/03/07

1. The Romance of the Far Fur Country
2. Back to God's Country
3. The Romance of Transportation in Canada
4. Tit-Coq
5. Corral
6. City of Gold
7. Universe
8. Circle of the Sun
9. Lonely Boy
10. Of Whales, the Moon, and Men

...plus 231 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

An attempt to catalogue and rank my forays into 1970s Black-centric cinema.

I originally intended this list to narrowly focus on Blaxploitation, but instead opted to broaden its scope to include other Black-centered films of the '70s, hence the likes of Killer Of Sheep and Sounder below.

Updated to: 2025/03/07

1. The Harder They Come
2. Super Fly
3. Across 110th Street
4. Killer of Sheep
5. Sounder
6. Watermelon Man
7. Coffy
8. Shaft's Big Score!
9. The Take
10. Tick... Tick... Tick...

...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1975 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
French Connection II (John Frankenheimer)
Grey Gardens (Maysles et al)
Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Sholay (Ramesh Sippy)

Should revisit:
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (Gene Wilder)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
Gina (Denys Arcand)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman])
The enger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Return Of The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)
Rollerball (Norman Jewison)

1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. Dog Day Afternoon
3. Night Moves
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Shivers
6. Shampoo
7. Rollerball
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. Smile
10. Jaws

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1974 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff)
Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Godfahter Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
The Phantom Of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)

Should revisit:
California Split (Robert Altman)
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill)
Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

1. The Conversation
2. Lenny
3. Chinatown
4. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
5. Wife to Be Sacrificed
6. The Text of Light
7. The Parallax View
8. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
9. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
10. The Sugarland Express

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1973 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)

Should revisit:
Day For Night (IFrancois Truffaut)
Flesh For Frankenstein (IPaul Morrissey)
The Last Detail (IHal Ashby)
Scarecrow (IJerry Schatzberg)
Serpico (ISidney Lumet)
Sleeper (IWoody Allen)
Spirit Of The Beehive (IVictor Erice)

1. Paper Moon
2. The Long Goodbye
3. Badlands
4. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
5. The Exorcist
6. American Graffiti
7. Papillon
8. The Fate of Lee Khan
9. Juvenile Court
10. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1972 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Behind The Green Door (Jim & Art Mitchell)
The Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Cries And Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich)

Should revisit:
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (Werner Herzog)
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell)
Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)

1. Solaris
2. The Godfather
3. The Candidate
4. Deliverance
5. Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
6. The Getaway
7. The Heartbreak Kid
8. Five Fingers of Death
9. The Harder They Come
10. Junior Bonner

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1971 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
The Ceremony (Nagisa Ôshima)
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
La Region Centrale (Michael Snow)
Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull)

Should revisit:
And Now For Something Completely Different (Terry Gilliam & Ian MacNaughton)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
Trial On The Road (Aleksei German)

1. Two-Lane Blacktop
2. Duck, You Sucker
3. The French Connection
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Walkabout
6. The Last Picture Show
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Carnal Knowledge
10. The Panic in Needle Park

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

While pulling together lists for the Top Ten Project I thought: "Why stop at 10"? These are the films I like from 1970 (as per IMDB), roughly ranked from love 'em to like 'em.

The Top Ten Project? Originated by Theo, revived by Paul Clark, you can see the compiled lists here.

Should see:
Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
Claire's Knee (Éric Rohmer)
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers)
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
Trash (Paul Morrissey)

Should revisit:
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (Ted Post)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (Russ Meyer)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
Ice (Robert Kramer)
The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)

1. Zabriskie Point
2. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
3. Woodstock
4. The Ear
5. The Boys in the Band
6. Hospital
7. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
8. Deep End
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Ice

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.