2000’s
1. Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr
2. Everyday - Noah Kalina
3. Ten - Abbas Kiarostami
4. Yi Yi - Edward Yang
5. The Curious Case of Benjeman Button - David Fincher
6. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch
7. Of Time and City - Terrence Davis
8. Tarnation - Jonathan Caouette
9. Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kauffman
10. The World - Jia Zhangke
The 1990’s
1. Satantango - Bela Tarr
2. The Wind Will Carry Us - Abaas Kiarostami
3. Hoop Dreams - Steve James
4. Schindler’s List - Stephen Speilberg
5. The School that was Blown Away - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
6. Dans le noir du temps - Jean-Luc Godard
7. Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices - Werner Herzog
8. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
9. The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick
10. Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
1980’s
1. Sans Soleil - Chris Marker
2. Passion - Jean-Luc Godard
3. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
4. Come and See - Elem Klimov
5. The Horse Thief - Tian Zhugzhuang
6. First Name: Carmen - Jean-Luc Godard
7. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Paul Schrader
8. The Seventh Continent - Michael Hanneke
9. My Dinner with Andre - Louis Malle
10. A Christmas Story - Bob Clark
1970’s
1. The Land of Silence and Darkness - Werner Herzog
2. Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett
3. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
4. Hitler: A Film from Germany - Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
5. The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky
6. Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman
7. The Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice
8. Jeanne Dielmann, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akermann
9. The Act of Seeing with Ones Own Eyes - Stan Brakhage
10. Nashville - Robert Altman
1960’s (best decade ever - the first seven would easily make my top 20)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. Playtime - Jaques Tati
4. House is Black - Forrough Farrokhzad
5. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
6. Au Hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson
7. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
8. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
9. Jules et Jim - Francis Truffaut
10. The Trial - Orson Welles
1950’s
1. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
2. Singin’ in the Rain - Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen
3. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
4. Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa
5. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
6. Floating Weeds - Yasujiro Ozu
7. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchock
8. Shadows - John Cassavetes
9. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
10. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
1940’s
1. The Third Man - Carol Reed
2. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
3. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles
4. Late Spring - Yasujiro Ozu
5. Hamlet - Laurence Olivier
6. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
7. It’s a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
8. Black Narcissus - Michael Powell and Ernest Pressburger
9. There Was a Father - Yasujiro Ozu
10. Ivan the Terrible - Serigi Eisenstein
1930’s
1. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
2. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra
3. Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums - Kenji Mizguchi
5. M - Fritz Lang
6. The Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir
7. City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
8. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Flemming
9. The Only Son - Yasujiro Ozu
10. I Was Born But… - Yasujiro Ozu
1920’s and beyond
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl T. Dreyer
2. The General - Buster Keaton
3. Greed - Eric van Stroheim
4. Rain - Joris Ivens
5. The Man with a Movie Camera - Dzigia Vertov
6. Lonesome - Paul Fejos
7. Les Vampires - Louis Feullide
8. A Trip Down Main Street Before/After Fire - Edison Studios
9. Foolish Wives - Eric van Stroheim
10. Pandora’s Box - G.W. Pabst
