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); 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); 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); 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); 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); 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); Night Falls
on Manhattan (Lumet); 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); Pterodactyl Woman From
Beverly Hills (Mora); 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); 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);
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)