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):Absolute Power (Eastwood);
Afterglow (Rudolph); Air Force One (Petersen); The
Alarmist (Dunsky); Alien Resurrection (Jeunet); Amistad
(Spielberg); Anastasia (Bluth & Goldman); As Good as It
Gets (Brooks); The Assignment (Duguay); Austin Powers:
International Man of Mystery (Roach); Belly Up (Brant); The
Best Man (Avati); Beverly Hills Ninja (Dugan); The Big
One (Moore); Black & White & Red All Over (D. Davis & McCoy &
Streeter); Booty Call (Pollack); The Borrowers (Hewitt);
The Boxer (Sheridan); Brother (Balabanov); A
Brother... (Verheyde); Buddy (Thompson); The Butcher
Boy (Jordan); Buttoners (Zelenka); Career Girls
(Leigh); The Chambermaid on the Titanic (Luna); Character
(Van Diem); Children of Heaven (Majidi); Chinese Box
(Wang); Clockwatchers (Sprecher); Con Air (West);
Conspiracy Theory (Donner); Contact (Zemeckis); Cop
Land (Mangold); Deconstructing Harry (Allen); The
Designated Mourner (Hare); Destiny (Chahine); The Devil's
Advocate (Hackford); Don King: Only in America (Herzfeld);
Dry Cleaning (Fontaine); East Side Story (Ranga); The
Edge (Tamahori); The End of Violence (Wenders); Face
Down (Eberhardt); FairyTale—A True Story (Sturridge);
Family Name (Alston); Fathers' Day (Reitman); The Fifth
Element (Besson); Four Days in September (Barreto); 4
Little Girls (Lee); A Friend of the Deceased (Krishtofovich);
From Today Until Tomorrow (Huillet & Straub); Gadjo dilo
(Gatlif); Gattaca (Niccol); Genealogies of a Crime (Ruiz);
Gesche's Poison (Von Waldenfels); G.I. Jane (Scott);
Good Will Hunting (Van Sant); Gravesend (Stabile);
GRIDLOCK'd (Curtis Hall); Grind (Kentis); Gummo
(Korine); A Gun, a Car, a Blonde (Ames); Hav Plenty
(Cherot); Hercules (Musker & Clements); Hoodlum (Duke);
The House of Yes (Waters); How I Spent My Summer Vacation
(Fisher); Hugo Pool (Downey); Hurricane Streets (Freeman);
I Love You, Don't Touch Me! (J. Davis); I Went Down
(Breathnach); In & Out (Oz); Inside/Out (Tregenza); Jane
Eyre (Young); John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Coppola); Junk
Mail (Sletaune); The King of Masks (Wu); Kiss or Kill
(Bennett); Kitchen (Yim); Kitchen Party (Burns); La vie
de Jésus (Dumont); Liar Liar (Shadyac); Licensed to
Kill (Dong); A Life Less Ordinary (Boyle); The Locusts
(Kelley); The Long Way Home (Harris); Love! Valour!
Compassion! (Mantello); The Lucky Star (Franco); Ma vie en
rose (Berliner); Marius and Jeannette (Guédiguian);
Martín (Hache) (Aristarain); The Matchmaker (Joffe);
Men in Black (Sonnenfeld); Men With Guns (Sayles); A
Merry War (Bierman); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(Eastwood); The Mirror (Panahi); Mr. Jealousy (Baumbach);
Mojo (Butterworth); Moon Over Broadway (Pennebaker &
Hegedus); Mrs Brown (Madden); Mrs Dalloway (Gorris);
Murder at 1600 (Little); Murmur of Youth (Lin); My Best
Friend's Wedding (Hogan); My Son the Fanatic (Prasad);
Night Falls on Manhattan (Lumet); Nowhere (Araki);
Obsession (Sehr); The Odyssey (Konchalovsky); One Night
Stand (Figgis); Open Your Eyes (Amenábar); Oscar and
Lucinda (Armstrong); The Other Shore (Cabrera); The Perfect
Circle (Kenovic); Post Coitum (Roüan); Private
Parts (Thomas); Public Housing (Wiseman); A Queer Story
(Shu); The Real Blonde (DiCillo); Red Corner (Avnet);
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (Mirkin); Rough
Riders (Milius); The Second Civil War (Dante); Secrets of
the Heart (Armendáriz); Seven Years in Tibet (Annaud);
Seventh Heaven (Jacquot); Shadow Conspiracy (Cosmatos);
She's So Lovely (Cassavetes); Shooting Fish (Schwartz);
Smilla's Sense of Snow (August); Soul in the Hole
(Gardner); Speed 2: Cruise Control (De Bont); Squeeze
(Patton-Spruill); Star Maps (Arteta); The Sticky Fingers of
Time (Brougher); Suicide Kings (O'Fallon); Sunday
(Nossiter); Suzaku (Kawase); Telling Lies in America
(Ferland); The Thief (Chukhrai); Thirteen (Williams);
Too Much Sleep (Maquiling); Trouble on the Corner
(Madison); Truth Or Consequences, N.M. (Sutherland);
Turbulence (Butler); 12 Angry Men (Friedkin);
TwentyFourSeven (Meadows); Twin Town (Allen); U Turn
(Stone); Ulee's Gold (Nunez); Under the Skin (Adler);
Unmade Beds (Barker); Voyage to the Beginning of the World
(De Oliveira); Waco: The Rules of Engagement (Gazecki);
Washington Square (Holland); Wednesday (Kossakovsky);
Welcome to Sarajevo (Winterbottom); The Well (Lang);
Western (Poirier); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (Rubin & Workman);
Who the Hell Is Juliette? (Marcovich); The Wings of the
Dove (Softley); Winter Sleepers (Tykwer); The Witman
Boys (Szász); Xiao Wu (Jia); Year of the Horse
(Jarmusch)