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):Aparajito (S. Ray); Baby
Face Nelson (Siegel); Desk Set (Lang); Forty Guns
(Fuller); A Hatful of Rain (Zinnemann); A King in New York
(Chaplin); Les Girls (Cukor); Love in the Afternoon
(Wilder); Night of the Demon (Tourneur); The Pajama Game
(Abbott & Donen); Pal Joey (Sidney); Sayonara (Logan);
The True Story of Jesse James (N. Ray); Witness for the
Prosecution (Wilder)
As yet unseen:All at Sea (Frend)
I occasionally write reviews
of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.