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):Ah-Chung (Chang); Albino
Alligator (Spacey); Basquiat (Schnabel); Beautiful
Thing (Macdonald); Beyond Silence (Link); The Big
Bullet (Chan); The Bloody Child (Menkes); Box of
Moonlight (DiCillo); Brassed Off (Herman); Brigands:
Chapter VII (Iosseliani); Broken Arrow (Woo); Broken
English (Nicholas); The Cable Guy (Stiller); Calling the
Ghosts (Jacobson & Jelincic); Carla's Song (Loach);
Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years (Strom); Carried Away
(Barreto); Caught (Young); Chronicle of a Disappearance
(Suleiman); City Hall (Becker); Color of a Brisk and Leaping
Day (Münch); Così (Joffe); Cosmos
(various); A Couch in New York (Akerman); Courage Under
Fire (Zwick); The Crucible (Hytner); Curdled
(Braddock); Dead Heart (Parsons); Deep Crimson (Ripstein);
Diary of a Seducer (Dubroux); The Disappearance of Garcia
Lorca (Zurinaga); Dream for an Insomniac (DeBartolo);
Drifting Clouds (Kaurismäki); Eden (Goldberg); The
Eighteenth (Rønnow-Klarlund); Emma (McGrath); The
Emperor's Shadow (Zhou); Extreme Measures (Apted); A Family
Thing (Pearce); Fire (Mehta); The First Time (Walther);
Fly Away Home (Ballard); From Hell to Hell (Astrachan);
The Funeral (Ferrara); Gabbeh (Makhmalbaf); Get on the
Bus (Lee); Ghosts of Mississippi (Reiner); Girl 6
(Lee); Girls Town (McKay); Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou);
Grace of My Heart (Anders); Hamsun (Troell); Hard
Eight (Anderson); Hollow Reed (Pope); The Hunchback of
Notre Dame (Trousdale & Wise); Hype! (Pray); I Shot Andy
Warhol (Harron); illtown (Gomez); Independence Day
(Emmerich); An Internal Affair (Balagué); Jack Higgins'
On Dangerous Ground (Gordon-Clark); James and the Giant Peach
(Selick); johns (Silver); Kansas City (Altman); Kids
Return (Kitano); Kolya (Sverák); L'Appartement
(Mimouni); The Leopard Son (Van Lawick); Lilies (Greyson);
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (Dryfoos); Little
Angel (Misselwitz); Looking for Richard (Pacino); Love
Serenade (Barrett); Manny & Lo (Krueger); Marvin's Room
(Zaks); Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Music Festival, 1970
(Lerner); Microcosmos (Nuridsany & Pérennou);
Moebius (Mosquera); Mother (Brooks); Mother Night
(Gordon); Muppet Treasure Island (Henson); Mystery Science
Theater 3000: The Movie (Mallon); Non-Stop (Sabu); The
Nutty Professor (Shadyac); A Perfect Candidate (Cutler & Van
Taylor); The Pillow Book (Greenaway); Ponette (Doillon);
Portland (Oplev); Predictions of Fire (Benson); Private
Confessions (Ullmann); Pusher (Winding Refn); The Quiet
Room (De Heer); Rainclouds Over Wushan (Zhang); Ransom
(Howard); Ridicule (Leconte); Ripe (Ogrodnik); Saint
Clara (Folman & Sivan); Saint-Ex (Tucker); Salut
cousin! (Allouache); Seldom Dreaming (Ereneta); A Self Made
Hero (Audiard); Set It Off (Gray); Shall We Dance?
(Suo); Shine (Hicks); Sleepers (Levinson); Small
Faces (Mackinnon); Some Mother's Son (George); Somersault
in a Coffin (Zaim); Star Trek: First Contact (Frakes);
Stealing Beauty (Bertolucci); Stella Does Tricks
(Giedroyc); subUrbia (Linklater); The Summer of Ben
Tyler (Seidelman); A Summer's Tale (Rohmer); Swingers
(Liman); Temptress Moon (Chen); That Thing You Do! (Hanks);
Thieves (Téchiné); Three Lives and Only One
Death (Ruiz); Timothy Leary's Dead (Davids); Tin Cup
(Shelton); Trojan Eddie (Mackinnon); The Truth About Cats &
Dogs (Lehmann); Twister (De Bont); Unhook the Stars
(Cassavetes); The Van (Frears); Vaska Easoff
(Gothár); Village of Dreams (Higashi); Waiting for
Guffman (Guest); Walking and Talking (Holofcener); The
Watermelon Woman (Dunye); Wedding Bell Blues (Lustig); When
the Cat's Away (Klapisch); The Whole Wide World (Ireland);
Will It Snow for Christmas? (Veysset); The Wind in the
Willows (Jones); The Winner (Cox)
As yet unseen:God's
Comedy (Monteiro); Nightjohn (Burnett); Perfect Love
(Breillat)