For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral.
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):The Addiction (Ferrara);
American Job (C. Smith); The American President (Reiner);
Angels and Insects (Haas); Anne Frank Remembered (Blair);
Antonia's Line (Gorris); Art for Teachers of Children
(Montgomery); Augustin (Fontaine); An Awfully Big Adventure
(Newell); The Babysitter (Ferland); Bang (Ash); The
Basketball Diaries (Kalvert); Batman Forever (Schumacher);
Beyond Rangoon (Boorman); The Blue Villa (Robbe-Grillet &
De Clercq); Blush (Li); Braveheart (Gibson); The Bridges
of Madison County (Eastwood); Brothers in Trouble (Prasad);
The Brothers McMullen (Burns); Butterfly Kiss
(Winterbottom); Bye-Bye (Dridi); Carrington (Hampton);
The Celluloid Closet (Epstein & Friedman); Cinema of Unease
(Neill & Rymer); Circle of Friends (O'Connor); The City of Lost
Children (Jeunet & Caro); Clockers (S. Lee); Cold Comfort
Farm (Schlesinger); Cold Fever (Fridriksson); The
Convent (De Oliveira); Copycat (Amiel); Cry, the Beloved
Country (Roodt); Dead Presidents (Hughes Brothers); Denise
Calls Up (Salwen); Desolation Angels (McCann);
Desperado (Rodriguez); Die Hard With a Vengeance
(McTiernan); Dolores Claiborne (Hackford); Don Juan DeMarco
(Leven); Don't Forget You're Going to Die (Beauvois); The Doom
Generation (Araki); Dust of Life (Bouchareh); Eden
Valley (no director credited); The Englishman Who Went up a Hill
but Came Down a Mountain (Monger); Flamenco (Saura); The
Flower of My Secret (Almodóvar); Forgotten Silver
(Jackson); Frankie Starlight (Lindsay-Hogg); French Twist
(Balasko); Funny Bones (Chelsom); The Gate of Heavenly
Peace (Hinton & Gordon); Georgia (Grosbard); Get Shorty
(Sonnenfeld); Good Men, Good Women (Hou); Guantanamera
(Gutiérrez Alea & Carlos Tabio); Guimba the Tyrant
(Sissoko); Habit (Fessenden); Heavy (Mangold); Heidi
Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (Broomfield); How to Make an American
Quilt (Moorhouse); I Can't Sleep (Denis); Institute
Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Brothers Quay);
The Keeper (Brewster; Keïta! The Voice of the
Griot (Kouyaté); Kids (Clark); Kiss of Death
(Schroeder); Le Garçu (Pialat); Les
Misérables (Lelouch); A Little Princess
(Cuarón); Living in Oblivion (DiCillo); Lotto Land
(Rubino); Lumière and Company (various); Maborosi
(Kore-eda); Mallrats (K. Smith); Man of the Year (Shafer);
Margaret's Museum (Ransen); Miami Rhapsody (Frankel); A
Midwinter's Tale (Branagh); Mighty Aphrodite (Allen);
Mondo (Gatlif); A Mongolian Tale (Xie); Mouth to
Mouth (Gómez Pereira); Murder in the First (Rocco);
The Muslim (Khotinenko); My Mother's Courage (Verhoeven);
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (Sautet); The Neon Bible (Davies);
New Jersey Drive (Gomez); Nico Icon (Ofteringer);
Nixon (Stone); Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
(Díaz Yanes); Notes From Underground (Walkow); Nueba
Yol (Muñiz); On the Beat (Ning); Othello
(Parker); Palookaville (Taylor); A Personal Journey With Martin
Scorsese Through American Movies (Scorsese & Wilson);
Persuasion (Michell); Pride and Prejudice (Langton); The
Prophecy (Widen); Reckless (René); Rendezvous in
Paris (Rohmer); Rob Roy (Caton-Jones); Screamers
(Duguay); Sense and Sensibility (A. Lee); Shanghai Triad
(Zhang); A Single Girl (Jacquot); A Single Spark (Park);
Sixteen-Oh-Sixty (Mainardi); Small Wonders (Miller);
Smoke (Wang); Someone Else's America (Paskaljevic);
Sonic Outlaws (Baldwin); Strange Days (Bigelow); Sweet
Nothing (Winick); Synthetic Pleasures (I. Lee); Target
(Ray); Ten Benny (Bross); To Have (Or Not) (Masson);
Total Eclipse (Holland); Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
(Jordan & Ascher); Two Bits (Foley); Two Deaths (Roeg);
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos); Under the Domim Tree (Cohen);
Underneath (Soderbergh); Unzipped (Keeve);
Up/Down/Fragile (Rivette); Waati (Cissé);
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz); When I Close My Eyes
(Iwai); While You Were Sleeping (Turteltaub); The White
Balloon (Panahi); Wild Bill (Hill); The Young Poisoner's
Handbook (Ross)
As yet unseen:Deseret (Benning);
Salaam Cinema (Makhmalbaf); Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto)