Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (1963).
2007
01. Zodiac - David Fincher
02. Grindhouse - Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
03. Once - John Carney
04. Knocked Up - Judd Apatow
05. Odin's Shield Maiden - Guy Maddin
06. The Simpsons Movie - David Silverman
07. Black Snake Moan - Craig Brewer
08. Hairspray - Adam Shankman
09. Ocean's Thirteen - Steven Soderbergh
10. Spider-Man 3 - Sam Raimi
2006
01. Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron
02. Still Life - Jia Zhang-ke
03. The Host - Bong Joon-ho
04. Offside - Jafar Panahi
05. A Scanner Darkly - Richard Linklater
06. The Science of Sleep - Michel Gondry
07. Volver - Pedro Almodovar
08. Old Joy - Kelly Reichardt
09. Miami Vice - Michael Mann
10. The Departed - Martin Scorsese
Honorable mentions: Inside Man (Spike Lee), A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman). The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema (Sophie Fiennes), Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola), Idiocracy (Mike Judge), An Inconvenient Truth (David Guggenheim).
2005
01. Regular Lovers - Philippe Garrel
02. Mutual Appreciation - Andrew Bujalski
03. Three Times - Hou Hsiao-hsien
04. The New World - Terrence Malick
05. A History of Violence - David Cronenberg
06. The Sun - Alexander Sokurov
07. The Wayward Cloud - Tsai Ming-liang
08. Brick - Rian Johnson
09. Last Days - Gus Van Sant
10. My Dad is 100 Years Old - Guy Maddin
Honorable mentions: The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog), Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky), The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach), Land of the Dead (George A. Romero), The Child (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July).
2004
01. Before Sunset - Richard Linklater
02. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry
03. Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
04. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wes Anderson
05. Bad Education - Pedro Almodovar
06. 2046 - Wong Kar-wai
07. The World - Jia Zhang-ke
08. Kill Bill, Volume II - Quentin Tarantino
09. Primer - Shane Carruth
10. I Heart Huckabees - David O. Russell
2003
01. Dogville - Lars von Trier
02. The Brown Bunny - Vincent Gallo
03. Elephant - Gus Van Sant
04. Kill Bill, Volume I - Quentin Tarantino
05. Funny Ha Ha - Andrew Bujalski
06. The Company - Robert Altman
07. Twentynine Palms - Bruno Dumont
08. Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-liang
09. Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch
10. The Dreamers - Bernardo Bertolucci
Honorable mentions: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola).
2002
01. Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson
02. 25th Hour - Spike Lee
03. Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes
04. Irreversible - Gaspar Noe
05. Gerry - Gus Van Sant
06. Adaptation - Spike Jonze
07. Talk to Her - Pedro Almodovar
08. Dream Work - Peter Tscherkassky
09. The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke
10. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - George Clooney
Honorable mentions: Minority Report (Steven Spielberg), Home Movie (Chris Smith).
2001
01. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch
02. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
03. Waking Life - Richard Linklater
04. Y tu mama tambien - Alfonso Cuaron
05. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
06. Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
07. Code Unknown - Michael Haneke
08. The Man Who Wasn't There - Joel Coen
09. Ghost World - Terry Zwigoff
10. Fat Girl - Catherine Breillat
Honorable mentions: Harmful Insect (Akihito Shiora).
2000
01. Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr
02. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai
03. The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin
04. George Washington - David Gordon Green
05. High Fidelity - Stephen Frears
06. Audition - Takashi Miike
07. Amores Perros - Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu
08. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Joel Coen
09. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
10. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
1999
01. Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
02. Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
03. Beau travail - Claire Denis
04. Outer Space - Peter Tscherkassky
05. Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
06. Toy Story 2 - John Lasseter
07. Rosetta - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
08. All About My Mother - Pedro Almodovar
09. The Dark Tower - Stan Brakhage
10. Fight Club - David Fincher
1998
01. Rushmore - Wes Anderson
02. Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo
03. L'Arrivée - Peter Tscherkassky
04. Happiness - Todd Solondz
05. Pi - Darren Aronosfky
06. Primary Colors - Mike Nichols
07. There's Something About Mary - Bobby and Peter Farrely
1997
01. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control - Errol Morris
02. Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino
03. The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
04. Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
05. Princess Mononoke - Hayao Miyazaki
06. Commingled Containers - Stan Brakhage
07. Chasing Amy - Kevin Smith
1996
01. A Moment of Innocence - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
02. Crash - David Cronenberg
03. Irma Vep - Olivier Assayas
04. Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier
05. Lumière - David Lynch
06. Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson
07. Preludes - Stan Brakhage
08. Fargo - Joel Coen
1995
01. Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
02. Before Sunrise - Richard Linklater
03. Safe - Todd Haynes
04. Exotica - Atom Egoyan
05. Kicking and Screaming - Noah Baumbach
06. Toy Story - John Lasseter
07. Se7en - David Fincher
08. Welcome to the Dollhouse - Todd Solondz
09. Kids - Larry Clark
1994
01. Satantango - Bela Tarr
02. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
03. Heavenly Creatures - Peter Jackson
04. Ed Wood - Tim Burton
05. Hoop Dreams - Steve James
06. Black Ice - Stan Brakhage
07. Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
08. Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone
09. Clerks - Kevin Smith
1993
01. Naked - Mike Leigh
02. Short Cuts - Robert Altman
03. Dazed and Confused - Richard Linklater
04. Stellar - Stan Brakhage
05. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
06. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Henry Selick
07. Study in Color and Black and White - Stan Brakhage
08. Je vous salue Sarajevo - Jean-Luc Godard
1992
01. The Player - Robert Altman
02. Lessons of Darkness - Werner Herzog
03. Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino
04. Crack Glass Eulogy - Stan Brakhage
05. Untitled (For Marilyn) - Stan Brakhage
1991
01. Naked Lunch - David Cronenberg
02. Life and Nothing More... - Abbas Kiarostami
03. Slacker - Richard Linklater
04. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse - Stan Brakhage
05. My Own Private Idaho - Gus Van Sant
06. The Double Life of Veronique - Krysztof Kieslowski
1990
01. Metropolitan - Whit Stillman
02. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
03. Glaze of Cathexis - Stan Brakhage
1989
01. Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee
02. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
03. sex, lies and videotape - Steven Soderbergh
04. Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant
1988
01. Distant Voices, Still Lives - Terence Davies
02. Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Robert Zemeckis
03. My Neighbor Totoro - Hayao Miyazaki
04. Rage Net - Stan Brakhage
05. I... Dreaming - Stan Brakhage
06. The Vanishing - George Sluizer
1987
01. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - Todd Haynes
02. The Dead - John Huston
03. The Dante Quartet - Stan Brakhage
04. Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
05. Kindering - Stan Brakhage
06. Raising Arizona - Joel Coen
1986
01. Blue Velvet - David Lynch
02. Hannah and her Sisters - Woody Allen
03. The Fly - David Cronenberg
04. Down by Law - Jim Jarmusch
05. Night Music - Stan Brakhage
06. Laputa: Castle in the Sky - Hayao Miyazaki
1985
01. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - Tim Burton
02. Brazil - Terry Gilliam
1984
01. Love Streams - John Cassavetes
02. L'Amour à mort - Alain Resnais
03. Stranger Than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch
04. Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
05. Blood Simple - Joel Coen
1983
01. Zelig - Woody Allen
02. L'Argent - Robert Bresson
03. Videodrome - David Cronenberg
1982
01. Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
02. Sans soleil - Chris Marker
03. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
04. Pink Floyd: The Wall - Alan Parker
1981
01. The Garden of Earthly Delights - Stan Brakhage
02. Vernon, Florida - Errol Morris
1980
01. Mon oncle d'Amerique - Alain Resnais
02. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
03. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
04. Stardust Memories - Woody Allen
05. Kagemusha - Akira Kurosawa
1979
01. Manhattan - Woody Allen
02. The Marriage of Maria Braun - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
03. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
1978
01. Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick
02. In a Year of 13 Moons - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
03. Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero
04. Gates of Heaven - Errol Morris
05. Interiors - Woody Allen
1977
01. 3 Women - Robert Altman
02. Annie Hall - Woody Allen
03. Eraserhead - David Lynch
04. Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett
05. Stroszek - Werner Herzog
06. Suspiria - Dario Argento
07. That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel
08. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
1976
01. F for Fake - Orson Welles
02. Assault on Precint 13 - John Carpenter
03. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - John Cassavetes
04. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
05. Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) - Michael Snow
1975
01. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
02. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman
03. Nashville - Robert Altman
04. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
05. Love and Death - Woody Allen
1974
01. Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
02. The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
03. A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes
04. The Phantom of Liberty - Luis Buñuel
05. Lancelot du Lac - Robert Bresson
06. California Split - Robert Altman
07. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper
08. Chinatown - Roman Polanski
09. The Stars Are Beautiful - Stan Brakhage
1973
01. The Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice
02. Badlands - Terrence Malick
03. The Long Goodbye - Robert Altman
04. Scenes from a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman
05. Sleeper - Woody Allen
06. American Graffitti - George Lucas
07. The Wicker Man - Robin Hardy
1972
01. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel
02. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
03. Fat City - John Huston
04. La Cicatrice intérieure - Philippe Garrel
05. Chloe in the Afternoon - Eric Rohmer
06. Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman
07. La chambre - Chantal Akerman
08. The Wold Shadow - Stan Brakhage
09. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
10. Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci
Honorable mentions: Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage), Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre GOrin), The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola).
1971
01. McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Robert Altman
02. Two-Lane Blacktop - Monte Hellman
03. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes - Stan Brakhage
04. Dirty - Stephen Dwoskin
05. Harold and Maude - Hal Ashby
06. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
1970
01. Claire's Knee - Eric Rohmer
02. The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci
03. Trash - Paul Morrissey
04. Performance - Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg
05. Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson
06. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Russ Meyer
07. Serene Velocity - Ernie Gehr
08. Catch-22 - Mike Nichols
1969
01. My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer
02. Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville
03. The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah
04. Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper
1968
01. Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
02. Je t'aime, je t'aime - Alain Resnais
03. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
04. Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero
05. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One - William Greaves
06. Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone
07. Le Révélateur - Philippe Garrel
08. The Producers - Mel Brooks
09. Saute ma ville - Chantal Akerman
10. Head - Bob Rafelson
1967
01. Playtime - Jacques Tati
02. The Young Girls of Rochefort - Jacques Demy
03. Mouchette - Robert Bresson
04. Wavelength - Michael Snow
05. La collectionneuse - Eric Rohmer
06. Belle de Jour - Luis Buñuel
07. Weekend - Jean-Luc Godard
08. Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn
09. The Graduate - Mike Nichols
10. Two or Three Things I Know About Her - Jean-Luc Godard
Honorable mentions: The Perfect Human (Jorgen Leth).
1966
01. Au hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson
02. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
03. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
04. Masculine-Feminine - Jean-Luc Godard
05. Chelsea Girls - Andy Warhol
06. All My Life - Bruce Baillie
07. Castro Street - Bruce Baillie
08. Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni
09. Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations - Willard Maas
10. Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. - Owen Land (George Landow)
1965
01. Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard
02. Repulsion - Roman Polanski
03. The Knack - Richard Lester
04. Loves of a Blonde - Milos Forman
05. Vinyl - Andy Warhol
06. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! - Russ Meyer
07. Beauty #2 - Andy Warhol
08. The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo
09. Alphaville - Jean-Luc Godard
10. Simon of the Desert - Luis Buñuel
1964
01. Gertrud - Carl Theodor Dreyer
02. Band of Outsiders - Jean-Luc Godard
03. Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara
04. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy
05. Red Desert - Michelangelo Antonioni
06. Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage
07. A Hard Day's Night - Richard Lester
08. The Naked Kiss - Samuel Fuller
09. Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick
10. Diary of a Chambermaid - Luis Buñuel
1963
01. Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard
02. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
03. The House is Black - Forugh Farrokhzad
04. Mothlight - Stan Brakhage
1962
01. L'eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni
02. The Exterminating Angel - Luis Buñuel
03. The Manchurian Candidate - John Frenkenheimer
04. Confessions of an Opium Eater - Albert Zugsmith
05. I Fidanzati - Ermanno Olmi
06. My Life to Live - Jean-Luc Godard
07. La Jetée - Chris Marker
1961
01. Jules and Jim - Francois Truffaut
02. Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais
03. Viridiana - Luis Buñuel
04. Lola - Jacques Demy
05. Il Posto - Ermanno Olmi
06. A Woman is a Woman - Jean-Luc Godard
07. Mr. Hayashi - Bruce Baillie
08. The Hustler - Robert Rossen
1960
01. L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni
02. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
03. Shoot the Piano Player - Francois Truffaut
04. The Apartment - Billy Wilder
05. Les Bonnes Femmes - Claude Chabrol
06. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
07. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
08. Peeping Tom - Michael Powell
09. Testament of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau
1959
01. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
02. The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut
03. Shadows - John Cassavetes
04. Window Water Baby Moving - Stan Brakhage
05. Floating Weeds - Yasujiro Ozu
06. North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
07. Wedlock House: An Intercourse - Stan Brakhage
08. Cat's Cradle - Stan Brakhage
1958
01. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
02. Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati
03. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
1957
01. Sweet Smell of Success - Alexander Mackendrick
02. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? - Frank Tashlin
03. Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini
04. Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
05. The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
06. 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet
07. Paths of Glory - Stanley Kubrick
08. A Face in the Crowd - Elia Kazan
09. What's Opera, Doc? - Chuck Jones
1956
01. A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson
02. The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock
03. The Killing - Stanley Kubrick
1955
01. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
02. Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
03. All That Heaven Allows - Douglas Sirk
04. Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich
05. Ordet - Carl Theodor Dreyer
06. Night and Fog - Alain Resnais
07. One Froggy Evening - Chuck Jones
1954
01. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
02. Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
03. Desistfilm - Stan Brakhage
1953
01. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Howard Hawks
02. Pickup on South Street - Samuel Fuller
03. The Naked Spur - Anthony Mann
04. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T - Roy Rowland
05. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
06. M. Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati
07. Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi
08. Duck Amuck - Chuck Jones
1952
01. Park Row - Samuel Fuller
02. Umberto D. - Vittorio De Sica
03. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
1951
01. The Steel Helmet - Samuel Fuller
02. Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder
03. Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson
04. The River - Jean Renoir
1950
01. Los Olvidados - Luis Buñuel
02. In a Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray
03. Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder
04. Un Chant D'amour - Jean Genet
05. Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa
1949
01. Orpheus - Jean Cocteau
02. The Third Man - Carol Reed
03. A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
04. The Set-Up - Robert Wise
05. Puce Moment - Kenneth Anger
1948
01. The Red Shoes - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
02. Red River - Howard Hawks
03. The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica
1947
01. Monsieur Verdoux - Charles Chaplin
02. Quai des Orfèvres - Henri-Georges Clouzot
03. The Lady from Shanghai - Orson Welles
04. Black Narcissus - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
05. L'ecole des facteurs - Jacques Tati
1946
01. A Matter of Life and Death - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
02. Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock
03. Gilda - Charles Vidor
04. The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks
1945
01. Brief Encounter - David Lean
02. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne - Robert Bresson
03. A Study in Choreography for the Camera - Maya Deren
1944
01. Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder
02. Meet Me in St. Louis - Vincente Minnelli
03. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Preston Sturges
1943
01. I Walked With a Zombie - Jacques Tourneur
02. Day of Wrath - Carl Theodor Dreyer
03. Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren
1942
01. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles
02. The Palm Beach Story - Preston Sturges
03. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
1941
01. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
02. The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges
03. Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges
1940
01. His Girl Friday - Howard Hawks
1939
01. Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks
02. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
1938
01. Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks
1937
01. Make Way for Tomorrow - Leo McCarey
02. Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir
03. The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey
1936
01. Modern Times - Charles Chaplin
1935
01. Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale
02. A Night at the Opera - Sam Wood
1934
01. The Scarlet Empress - Josef von Sternberg
1933
01. Duck Soup - Leo McCarey
1932
01. Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch
02. Love Me Tonight - Rouben Mamoulian
03. Freaks - Tod Browning
04. Scarface - Howard Hawks
05. Boudu Saved from Drowning - Jean Renoir
1931
01. M - Fritz Lang
02. City Lights - Charles Chaplin
1930
01. L'Age d'Or - Luis Buñuel
02. Blood of a Poet - Jean Cocteau
1929
01. The Man With a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov
02. Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel
1928
01. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer
02. Steamboat Bill, Jr. - Charles Reisner
1927
01. Sunrise - F.W. Murnau
02. The General - Buster Keaton
1925
01. The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin
02. Paris qui dort - Rene Clair
03. The Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
1924
01. Sherlock, Jr. - Buster Keaton
02. The Last Laugh - F.W. Murnau
1923
01. Our Hospitality - Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone
1922
01. Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty
02. Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau
1917
01. Easy Street - Charles Chaplin
Silent Era
01. Sunrise - F.W. Murnau (1927)
02. Sherlock, Jr. - Buster Keaton (1924)
03. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
04. Our Hospitality - Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone (1923)
05. Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty (1922)
06. The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin (1925)
07. The Last Laugh - F.W. Murnau (1924)
08. The Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1929)
09. Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel (1929)
10. The General - Buster Keaton (1927)
