The Merchant of Four Seasons(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Shaft(Gordon Parks)
The Blood on Satan's Claw(Piers Haggard)
There's Always Vanilla(George A. Romero)
The Omega Man(Boris Sagal)
The New One-Armed Swordsman(Chang Cheh)
The Emigrants(Jan Troell)
Ransom for a Dead Man(Richard Irving)
WR · Mysteries of the Organism(Dušan Makavejev)
Gumshoe(Stephen Frears)
La Salamandre(Alain Tanner)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven(Elio Petri)
The Cat o' Nine Tails(Dario Argento)
Drive, He Said(Jack Nicholson)
The Telephone Book(Nelson Lyon)
A Clockwork Orange(Stanley Kubrick)
The Boy Friend(Ken Russell)
Play Misty for Me(Clint Eastwood)
Straw Dogs(Sam Peckinpah)
A Safe Place(Henry Jaglom)
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. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):The Abominable Dr. Phibes
(Fuest); And Now for Something Completely Different (McNaughton);
Basic Training (Wiseman); Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(Stevenson); Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder); Bleak
Moments (Leigh); The Blood on Satan's Claw (Haggard);
Carnal Knowledge (Nichols); The Decameron (Pasolini);
Diamonds Are Forever (Hamilton); Family Life (Loach);
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson); Get Carter (Hodges);
Glen and Randa (McBride); The Go-Between (Losey); The
Horsemen (Frankenheimer); La Région centrale (Snow);
Minnie and Moskowitz (Cassavetes); The Panic in Needle Park
(Schatzberg); Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Van Peebles);
Two English Girls (Truffaut); Whity (Fassbinder)
As yet unseen:The Clowns (Fellini);
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog); The Hired Hand (Fonda);
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Fassbinder)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.