We
All Love Lists, or: Sixty-Four Years Of Cinema As Filtered Through a Very Foggy
Hierarchical Prism
[The most recent additions are in red.]
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2001
01. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
02. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel
[and Ethan] Coen)
03. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
04. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
05. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
06. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
07. Under the Sand (François
Ozon)
08. Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
09. Amores Perros (Alejandro González
Iñárritu)
10. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua)
2000
01. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
02. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
03. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
04. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
05. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)
06. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
07. Untitled (Cameron Crowe)
08. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von
Trier)
09. Praise (John Curran)
10. Meet the Parents (Jay Roach)
1999
01. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
02. Fight Club (David Fincher)
03. Election (Alexander Payne)
04. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
05. American Movie (Chris Smith)
06. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
07. Being John Malkovich (Spike
Jonze)
08. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin
Scorsese)
09. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
10. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
(Errol Morris)
1998
01. The Big Lebowski (Joel [and Ethan]
Coen)
02. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
03. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
04. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
05. Happiness (Todd Solondz)
06. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
07. Affliction (Paul Schrader)
08. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
09. The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet)
10. Two Girls and a Guy (James Toback)
1997
01. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
02. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
03. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
04. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
05. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
06. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
07. The Game (David Fincher)
08. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
09. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
10. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
1996
01. Fargo (Joel [and Ethan] Coen)
02. Tin Cup (Ron Shelton)
03. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody
Allen)
04. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
05. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
06. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
07. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
08. Swingers (Doug Liman)
09. Bound (Andy Wachowski & Larry
Wachowski)
10. Mission: Impossible (Brian De
Palma)
1995
01. Se7en (David
Fincher)
02. Casino (Martin Scorsese)
03. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
04. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
05. Heat (Michael Mann)
06. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
07. Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld)
08. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
09. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
10. Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
1994
01. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
02. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank
Darabont)
03. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
04. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
05. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
06. When a Man Loves a Woman (Luis
Mandoki)
07. Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
08. The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
09. Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton)
10. Léon (Luc Besson)
1993
01. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
02. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
03. True Romance (Tony Scott)
04. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
05. My Life (Bruce Joel Rubin)
06. Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
07. Fearless (Peter Weir)
08. Malice (Harold
Becker)
09. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody
Allen)
10. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
1992
01. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
02. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
03. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
04. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
05. Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
06. Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
07. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
08. The Player (Robert Altman)
09. My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn)
10. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
1991
01. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan
Demme)
02. Barton Fink (Joel [and Ethan]
Coen)
03. JFK (Oliver Stone)
04. What About Bob? (Frank Oz)
05. Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
06. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)
07. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese)
08. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James
Cameron)
09. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
(Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper)
10. Flirting (John Duigan)
1990
01. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
02. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
03. Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick
Shanley)
04. Miller's Crossing (Joel [and Ethan]
Coen)
05. Misery (Rob Reiner)
06. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
07. After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley)
08. The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
09. Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
10. Miami Blues (George Armitage)
1989
01. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody
Allen)
02. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
03. sex, lies and videotape (Steven
Soderbergh)
04. When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner)
05. Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
06. Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
07. The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito)
08. The Abyss: special edition cut (James
Cameron)
09. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus
Van Sant)
10. Batman (Tim Burton)
1988
01. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
02. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
03. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
04. They Live (John Carpenter)
05. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
06. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert
Zemeckis)
07. Midnight Run (Martin Brest)
08. Another Woman (Woody Allen)
09. The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
10. Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
1987
01. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John
Hughes)
02. House of Games (David Mamet)
03. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
04. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
05. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
06. Raising Arizona (Joel [and Ethan]
Coen)
07. Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
08. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
09. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
10. Radio Days (Woody Allen)
1986
01. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody
Allen)
02. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
03. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John
Hughes)
04. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
05. At Close Range (James Foley)
06. Big Trouble in Little China (John
Carpenter)
07. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
08. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
09. River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
10. The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)
1985
01. Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
02. Big Trouble (John Cassevetes)
03. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
04. To Live and Die in L.A. (William
Friedkin)
05. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
06. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody
Allen)
07. Blood Simple [2000 ed.] (Joel
[and Ethan] Coen)
08. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
09. My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström)
10. Witness (Peter Weir)
1984
01. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
02. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
03. The Terminator (James Cameron)
04. The Hit (Stephen Frears)
05. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
06. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
07. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
08. Gremlins (Joe Dante)
09. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
10. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
1983
01. Terms of Endearment (James L.
Brooks)
02. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
03. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford)
04. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
05. Star 80 (Bob Fosse)
06. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
07. The Hunger (Tony Scott)
08. Christine (John Carpenter)
09. Zelig (Woody Allen)
10. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
1982: The
Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
1981: Escape
from New York (John Carpenter)
1980
01. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
02. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
03. The Changeling (Peter Medak)
04. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
05. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
06. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin
Kershner)
07. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
08. Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)
09. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
10. Popeye (Robert Altman)
1979
01. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
02. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
03. Being There (Hal Ashby)
04. Going in Style (Martin Brest)
05. Alien (Ridley Scott)
06. Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer)
07. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
08. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
09. The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke)
10. The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller)
1978
01. Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty
& Buck Henry)
02. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
03. Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
04. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
05. Halloween (John Carpenter)
06. Interiors (Woody Allen)
07. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
08. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
09. Big Wednesday (John Milius)
10. Foul Play (Colin Higgins)
1977: Annie Hall
(Woody Allen)
1976:
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1975
01. Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
02. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
03. Nashville (Robert Altman)
04. The Great Waldo Pepper (George
Roy Hill)
05. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
06. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
07. Three Days of the Condor (Sydney
Pollack)
08. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(Milos Forman)
09. The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)
10. Rollerball (Norman Jewison)
1974:
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
1973: Save the Tiger
(John G. Avildsen)
1972:
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
1971: McCabe &
Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
1970: Loving
(Irvin Kershner)
1969: Midnight
Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
1968:
Petulia (Richard Lester)
1967:
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
1966: The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
1965:
The Cincinnati Kid
(Norman Jewison)
1964:
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
1963:
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
1962: Days of Wine
and Roses (Blake Edwards)
1961:
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
1960:
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
1959 (All
seen theatrically!)
01. Middle of the Night (Delbert Mann)
02. The 400 Blows (François
Truffaut)
03. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
04. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
05. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
06. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
07. Compulsion (Richard Fleischer)
08. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
09. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
1958: Touch of Evil
(Orson Welles)
1957: Sweet
Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
1956: Bigger Than
Life (Nicholas Ray)
1955: Diabolique
(Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1954: A Star is Born
(George Cukor)
1953: Pickup on South
Street (Samuel Fuller)
1952:
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
1951:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
1950:
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
1949:
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948: Sorry, Wrong
Number (Anatole Litvak)
1947:
Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1946:
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1945: The
Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
1944: Double
Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1943:
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1942:
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1941: Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles)
1940: The
Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
1939: Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington (Frank Capra)
1938: The Lady Vanishes
(Alfred Hitchcock)
1937: Make Way for
Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
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