Thursday, December 28, 2023

Hong 2023 First Draft

Complete first draft for In Review Online's best of 2023 feature.

I've written before for Reverse Shot about the peculiar phenomenon of comparing and contrasting films written and directed by Hong Sang-soo that comes as a result of them being released in the same year. This is rendered even stranger when two films from adjoining premiere years come out during the same release year, which has happened three times thus far: the annus mirabilis of 2012 with Oki's Movie (2010), The Day He Arrives (2011), and In Another Country (2012); last year with 2022's The Novelist's Film joining 2021 premieres Introduction and In Front of Your Face; and now this year with the two films in present conversation. So, while it may be purely due to the vagaries of distribution (courtesy of the heroes at Cinema Guild) that we have an outlet to consider Walk Up (2022) and in water (2023) in the same year-end breath, it provides a useful excuse to look at these two very different grand achievements, Hong's 28th and 29th films respectively. Upon casting a very preliminary glance, and stripping these already spare works purely down to their essence, they belong to separate modes of Hong: Walk Up the sober black-and-white rumination on middle-age a la The Day After or Hotel by the River; in water the young filmmaker-centric metafiction about the artistic process of Oki's Movie or Our Sunhi. But on further examination neither align strictly with either paradigm, and in fact each attach a new means of expression to Hong's arsenal as vivid as Hill of Freedom's jumbled chronology or The Day He Arrives's perpetual chronological quasi-resets. In Walk Up's case, it is a literalization of Hong's penchant for narrative structure, with said four-part construction corresponding to the four floors of the eponymous apartment building. Kwon Hae-hyo, in perhaps his finest role of his ongoing collaboration with Hong, gradually drifts skyward as what may be months, years, or no time at all pass him by, and the cozy spaces gradually absorb and exude the anxieties over a wasted life that implicitly hang over so many past Hong protagonists. But the constriction in location here magnifies the feeling of each space being haunted with its unique ghosts/alternate realities, and the sense that your past or future life (for better or worse) may be right in front of your face. in water's gambit is both just as simple and visually entrancing as it sounds and more considered than meets than the eye. For one, the out-of-focus shots are not uniform in their look (two interior shots near the start are even in-focus); for another, the perspective they suggest—that of Hong himself, with his well-known failing eyesight—is layered onto that of a young filmmaker just starting out yet possessed with the same ruminations on mortality as Kwon in the past film. Hong certainly isn't lacking for great endings, but what may bind these two films as closely as any commonality is the finesse with which their final shots suddenly snap each of their associated works into startling, devastating focus.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Assorted Rankings Index

Berlin
Adaptation.
Aferim!
Afire
Alexandria... Why?
Alphaville
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
The Bad Sleep Well
Bamboozled
Barbara
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Belladonna of Sadness
Beloved Sisters
Between the Lines
Les Biches
The Big City
The Big Lebowski
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Le Bonheur
Both Sides of the Blade
Boyhood
Breathless
Call Jane
Charulata
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
La Ciénaga
Cinderella
Class Relations
La Collectionneuse
The Conductor
Confidence
The Conformist
Days
Days and Nights in the Forest
The Death of Empedocles
Le Départ
The Devil, Probably
Dionysus in '69
Distant Thunder
The End of Summer
eXistenZ
Fabian, or Going to the Dogs
Félicité
The Final Cut
Fire at Sea
First Cow
45 Years
Four Nights of a Dreamer
Le Gai Savoir
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle
The Ghost Writer
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Good Will Hunting
Greetings
Hero
The Hunt
I Was at Home, But...
Ikiru
The Immortal Story
Introduction
Isle of Dogs
Jackie Brown
Joint Security Area
Knight of Cups
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Love on the Run
Magnolia
Mahjong
Malcolm X
The Man Who Loved Women
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Masculin féminin
Midnight Special
Music
The Nasty Girl
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Night and Day
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
Nosferatu the Vampyre
The Novelist's Film
La notte
On the Beach at Night Alone
The Other Side of Hope
Past Lives
Pauline at the Beach
Petite Maman
Pickpocket
The Plough
Rain Man
Rashomon
Red Sorghum
Return to Dust
The River
The Road Home
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Salt of Tears
Salvatore Giuliano
A Separation
The Shadowless Tower
The Silence of the Lambs
Shakespeare Wallah
She and He
Signs of Life
Small Change
Sparrow
Spirited Away
Synonyms
Tabu
Tent of Miracles
There Will Be Blood
The Thin Red Line
Things to Come
Three Colors: White
Tótem
Transit
Triple Agent
Trouble in Mind
Undine
Veronika Voss
Viva Erotica
The Wayward Cloud
The Wedding Banquet
Week-end
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Wild Strawberries
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
A Woman Is a Woman
The Woman Who Ran

Cannes
Act of Violence
Ådalen 31
After Hours
Ahed's Knee
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All About Eve
Alone Across the Pacific
The American Friend
American Honey
An American in Paris
Anatomy of a Fall
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
Annette
Apocalypse Now
Aquarius
L'Argent
Armageddon Time
The Artist
Asako I & II
Ash Is Purest White
The Assassin
Asteroid City
Atlantics
L'avventura
Awaara
Bacurau
Barton Fink
Basic Instinct
Beauty and the Beast
The Beguiled
Benedetta
Bergman Island
BlacKkKlansman
Blowup
Breaking the Waves
Brief Encounter
Burning
Bye Bye Brazil
Caché
Le Camion
Capricious Summer
Car Wash
Carol
Casablanca Beats
Certified Copy
Chariots of Fire
La chimera
Chimes at Midnight
Chocolat
Cléo From 5 to 7
Close
Clouds of Sils Maria
Cold War
A Confucian Confusion
The Conversation
Cosmopolis
The Constant Factor
Crimes of the Future
The Crucified Lovers
Dancer in the Dark
The Day After
Days of Heaven
The Dead Don't Die
Death Proof
Decision to Leave
Despair
Do the Right Thing
La dolce vita
The Double Life of Veronique
Drive
Drive My Car
Dumbo
Easy Rider
L'eclisse
Election
Electra, My Love
Elle
Elvira Madigan
L'Enfant
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
EO
The Europeans
Every Man for Himself
The Exterminating Angel
Face
Fallen Leaves
Falling Down
Family Life
Fargo
Festen
I fidanzati
The Firemen's Ball
Fish Tank
Flowers of Shanghai
The 400 Blows
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Foxcatcher
France
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Gilda
Glory Sky
Gohatto
Good Time
Goodbye South, Goodbye
Goodbye to Language
Graduation
The Handmaiden
Happy as Lazzaro
Happy Together
Harakiri
Harry Munter
The Hawks and the Sparrows
The Headless Woman
A Hidden Life
Hiroshima mon amour
The Hole
Holy Motors
House of Tolerance
The Hudsucker Proxy
Hunger
Hyenas
I Confess
I, Daniel Blake
The Image Book
Images
The Immigrant
In Another Country
In the Mood for Love
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Llewyn Davis
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Ju Dou
Julieta
Kagemusha
The Kid With a Bike
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Kings of the Road
Knave of Hearts
Knife + Heart
The Lacemaker
The Ladykillers
The Left-Handed Woman
Léolo
Like Someone in Love
The Lobster
The Long Day Closes
Loulou
Love
Ma' Rosa
Macbeth
A Man Escaped
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Wasn't There
Marie Antoinette
The Marquise of O...
May December
Melancholia
Memoria
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Millennium Mambo
Molière
Moonrise Kingdom
The Mother and the Whore
Mouchette
Mountains May Depart
Much Ado About Nothing
Mulholland Dr.
Murmur of the Heart
My Bluebery Nights
My Brilliant Career
My Night at Maud's
Naked
The Neon Demon
No Country for Old Men
Notorious
The Nun
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Okja
Oldboy
Los olvidados
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
A One and a Two...
120 BPM
Only God Forgives
Othello
Our Little Sister
Pacifiction
Padre Padrone
Pain and Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Parasite
Paris, Texas
Pasazerka
The Passenger
Paterson
Pather Panchali
Perfect Days
Persepolis
Personal Shopper
Peter Pan
The Piano
Pola X
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Possession
Pulp Fiction
Punch-Drunk Love
Raven's End
The Red and the White Red Psalm
Red Rocket
Le Redoutable
A Report on the Party and the Guests
Rome, Open City
Rosetta
The Round-Up
Russian Ark
Saint Laurent
Seconds
Secrets & Lies
The Seventh Seal
sex, lies, and videotape
Shoplifters
The Shout
Showing Up
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sibyl
Sicario
Sieranevada
Simple Men
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Solaris
Son of Saul
Southland Tales
Special Treatment
The Square
Stars at Noon
Stavisky...
Staying Vertical
The Story of the Flaming Years
The Straight Story
The Sweet Hereafter
Synecdoche, New York
Tale of Cinema
Taste of Cherry
The Taste of Things
Taxi Driver
Thief
The Third Man
3 Faces
Titane
To Live
Toni Erdmann
A Touch of Sin
A Touch of Zen
The Traitor
The Tree of Life
The Trial of Joan of Arc
Triangle of Sadness
Tropical Malady
Le Trou
24 City
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Two Days, One Night
Two Lovers
2046
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Under the Silver Lake
Underground
The Unknown Girl
Unknown Pleasures
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Valley of Love
Violette Nozière
The Virgin Spring
Viridiana
Walkabout
We Won't Grow Old Together
What Time Is It There?
The Whistlers
Wild at Heart
The Wild Goose Lake
Wings of Desire
Without Anesthesia
Woman in the Dunes
Woman Is the Future of Man
Wonderstruck
The Worst Person in the World
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
You Were Never Really Here
Young Ahmed
Young Törless
Youth (Spring)
Zodiac
The Zone of Interest

Chinese Cast/Crew
Accident
Ashes of Time
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow II
A Chinese Ghost Story
Come Drink With Me
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Dangerous Encounters—1st Kind
Dirty Ho
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
Double Team
Drug War
Drunken Master
Drunken Master II
Eastern Condors
Election
Election 2
Enter the Dragon
The Fate of Lee Khan
The Forbidden Kingdom
Game of Death
Golden Swallow
Gong Shou Dao
The Grandmaster
Green Snake
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
In Our Time
Ip Man
Ip Man 2
The Karate Kid
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
The Killer
Knock Off
Kung Fu Hustle
Legend of the Mountain
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Mermaid
Mr. Nice Guy
Mountains May Depart
My Young Auntie
Office
Once Upon a Time in China
Once Upon a Time in China II
One-Armed Swordsman
Pedicab Driver
Peking Opera Blues
Police Story
Police Story 2
Romancing in Thin Air
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Shanghai Blues
Shaolin Soccer
SPL
SPL: Paradox
SPL II: A Time for Consequences
Tai-Chi Master
That Day, on the Beach
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Three
Throw Down
A Touch of Zen
The Valiant Ones
Warriors of Future
Wheels on Meals
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
Wing Chun

Festival Award Winners
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Alphaville
Anatomy of a Fall
Aparajito
Apocalypse Now
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Barton Fink
The Battle of Algiers
Belle de jour
Black Peter
Blowup
Brief Encounter
Brokeback Mountain
Cinderella
A City of Sadness
The Conversation
Dancer in the Dark
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Le Départ
Distant Thunder
La dolce vita
Dumbo
L'Enfant
Fire at Sea
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Green Ray
Hands Over the City
Happening
I, Daniel Blake
The Illumination
Ivan's Childhood
Joker
Kagemusha
Killer's Kiss
Last Year at Marienbad
Lust, Caution
Magnolia
Mundane History
Nénette et Boni
Nomadland
La notte
Old Joy
Othello
Padre Padrone
Parasite
Paris, Texas
Pebbles
The Piano
Poor Things
Present.Perfect.
Pulp Fiction
Rain Man
Rashomon
Red Desert
Red Sorghum
Right Now, Wrong Then
Roma
Rome, Open City
Rosetta
Sandra
Secrets & Lies
A Separation
sex, lies, and videotape
The Shape of Water
Shoplifters
Spirited Away
The Square
Still Life
The Story of Qiu Ju
Synonyms
Taste of Cherry
Taxi Driver
The Thin Red Line
The Third Man
Three Colors: Blue
Titane
The Tree of Life
Triangle of Sadness
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Underground
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Vera Drake
Viridiana
Vitalina Varela
Vive L'Amour
The Wedding Banquet
Wild at Heart
Wild Strawberries

Golden Horse
The Assassin
A Brighter Summer Day
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Durian Durian
An Elephant Sitting Still
In the Heat of the Sun
Infernal Affairs
Kung Fu Hustle
The Love Eterne
Lust, Caution
Stonewalling
Terrorizers
Vive L'Amour
The Wedding Banquet

New York Film Festival Projections/Currents Features
The Adventures of Gigi the Law
ALLENSWORTH
Caniba
Classical Period
Coma
Diamantino
Dry Ground Burning
Fauna
88:88
Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
El futuro
El gran movimiento
The Grand Bizarre
Haruhara-san's Recorder
Heimat Is a Space in Time
Her Socialist Smile
The Inheritance
Human Flowers of Flesh
The Human Surge
The Human Surge 3
The Illinois Parables
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
The Last City
Last Things
The Lobby
Mambar Pierrette
Man in Black
Minotaur
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Nowhere Near
Queens of the Qing Dynasty
Rewind & Play
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Social Hygiene
Tales of the Purple House
There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse.
Tonsler Park
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
The Year of the Discovery
Your Face

Non-Chinese Film Producers
Aquarius
Bacurau
Benedetta
Cat People
Caterina
The Cathedral
Classical Period
Cosmopolis
Cosmos
Elle
Faubourg St. Martin
Foreign Powers
Fourteen
Hermia & Helena
I Walked With a Zombie
In the Shadow of Women
The Leopard Man
Lover for a Day
Mysteries of Lisbon
Notes on an Appearance
Passages
Passion
The Seventh Victim
The Sky Is Clear and Blue Today
Synonyms
Until the End of the World
The World Is Full of Secrets

Oscar
All About Eve
All the President's Men
Amadeus
American Fiction
American Graffiti
American Hustle
An American in Paris
Anatomy of a Fall
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Argo
Arrival
The Artist
Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Awful Truth
The Banshees of Inisherin
Barbie
Barry Lyndon
Beauty and the Beast
The Big Short
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Boyhood
Braveheart
Bridge of Spies
Brokeback Mountain
Brooklyn
Cabaret
Call Me by Your Name
Captain Phillips
Casablanca
Chariots of Fire
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
The Conversation
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
Django Unchained
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
Drive My Car
Dune: Part One
Dunkirk
The Elephant Man
Elvis
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Fargo
The Favourite
Fences
A Few Good Men
The Fighter
Five Easy Pieces
Forrest Gump
42nd Street
Gangs of New York
Get Out
Gladiator
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Good Will Hunting
GoodFellas
The Graduate
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Grand Illusion
Gravity
Hacksaw Ridge
Heaven Can Wait
The Heiress
Hell or High Water
Her
Hidden Figures
High Noon
The Holdovers
Hugo
The Hurt Locker
I Heard You Paint Houses
The Imitation Game
Inception
Inglourious Basterds
The Insider
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
JFK
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Killers of the Flower Moon
The King's Speech
La La Land
Lady Bird
The Last Picture Show
Lawrence of Arabia
A Letter to Three Wives
Licorice Pizza
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Lion
Little Women
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lost in Translation
Mad Max: Fury Road
Maestro
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Maltese Falcon
Manchester by the Sea
Mank
Marriage Story
The Martian
Michael Clayton
Midnight in Paris
Mildred Pierce
Million Dollar Baby
Minari
Les Misérables
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Moneyball
Moonlight
Nashville
Network
No Country for Old Men
Nomadland
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Oppenheimer
Parasite
Past Lives
Phantom Thread
The Piano
Poor Things
The Post
The Power of the Dog
Pulp Fiction
The Quiet Man
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Ray
Rebecca
The Red Shoes
The Revenant
Rocky
Roma
Romeo and Juliet
Room
Ruggles of Red Gap
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Secrets & Lies
Selma
A Serious Man
Shanghai Express
The Shape of Water
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
The Social Network
Sound of Metal
The Sound of Music
Spotlight
Stagecoach
A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
Suspicion
TÁR
Taxi Driver
The Theory of Everything
There Will Be Blood
The Thin Red Line
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Titanic
Tootsie
Top Gun: Maverick
Toy Story 3
The Tree of Life
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Triangle of Sadness
True Grit
12 Years a Slave
Unforgiven
Up
Up in the Air
Vice
War Horse
West Side Story
West Side Story
Whiplash
Winter's Bone
Witness
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty
The Zone of Interest

Production Companies/Studios
Accident
At the Top of the Stairs
Blind Detective
Breaking News
A Bug's Life
Caniba
Cars
Chasing Dream
Coco
Come Drink With Me
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Dirty Ho
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
Drug War
Dry Ground Burning
Election
Election 2
Exiled
Expedition Content
Faubourg St. Martin
Femmes Femmes
Finding Nemo
La Flor
Golden Swallow
Grave of the Fireflies
A Hero Never Dies
Historias Extraordinarias
How Do You Live?
The Incredibles
Incredibles 2
Inside Out
Kiki's Delivery Service
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Leviathan
Life Without Principle
The Love Eterne
Love on a Diet
Mad Fate
Manakamana
The Mission
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters University
Motorway
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbors the Yamadas
My Young Auntie
The Odd One Dies
Office
One-Armed Swordsman
Only Yesterday
Pom Poko
Princess Mononoke
PTU
Qui trop embrasse...
Ratatouille
Romancing in Thin Air
Rosa la rose, fille publique
Running on Karma
Simone Barbès or Virtue
Single Stream
Sons of the Good Earth
Sparrow
Spirited Away
The Story of Sue San
Sweetgrass
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Three
Throw Down
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4
Trenque Lauquen
Turn Left, Turn Right
Up
WALL-E
When Marnie Was There
The Wind Rises

Sight & Sound
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
All About Eve
All That Heaven Allows
Andrei Rublev
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now
L'Argent
Army of Shadows
L'Atalante
Au hasard Balthazar
An Autumn Afternoon
L'avventura
Barry Lyndon
The Battle of Algiers
Battleship Potemkin
Beau Travail
Bicycle Thieves
The Birds
Black Girl
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Le Bonheur
Born in Flames
Breathless
Brief Encounter
A Brighter Summer Day
Casablanca
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Charulata
Un chien andalou
Chinatown
Chungking Express
La Ciénaga
Citizen Kane
City Lights
A City of Sadness
Cléo From 5 to 7
A Clockwork Orange
Close-Up
The Color of Pomegranates
The Conformist
Contempt
Daisies
Daughters of the Dust
A Day in the Country
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Do the Right Thing
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
La dolce vita
Double Indemnity
Earth
L'eclisse

Europa '51
The Exterminating Angel
Flowers of Shanghai
The 400 Blows
The General
Gertrud
Get Out
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
GoodFellas
The Gospel According to Matthew
Grand Illusion
Grave of the Fireflies
Greed
The Green Ray
Happy Together
Harlan County, U.S.A.
The Headless Woman
Heat
Hiroshima mon amour
His Girl Friday
The House Is Black
Ikiru
Imitation of Life
In the Mood for Love
India Song
L'Intrus
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
La Jetée
Johnny Guitar
Journey to Italy
Killer of Sheep
Last Year at Marienbad
Late Spring
Lawrence of Arabia
Letter From an Unknown Woman
M
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Magnificent Ambersons
Magnolia
A Man Escaped
Man With a Movie Camera
The Matrix
Melancholia
Memories of Underdevelopment
Meshes of the Afternoon
Metropolis
Moonlight
The Mother and the Whore
Mouchette
Mulholland Dr.
My Neighbor Totoro
Napoléon
Nashville
News From Home
The Night of the Hunter
North by Northwest
Nosferatu
Notorious
Los olvidados
Once Upon a Time in the West
A One and a Two...
Only Angels Have Wings
Out 1: Noli me tangere
Out of the Past
Parasite
Paris Is Burning
Paris, Texas
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali
Persona
Petite Maman
The Piano
Pickpocket
Pierrot le Fou
Pink Flamingos
PlayTime
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Possession
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Pyaasa
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ran
Rashomon
Rear Window
Red Desert
The Red Shoes
Rio Bravo
The Rules of the Game
Sansho the Bailiff
Sátántangó
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Sherlock Jr.
The Shining
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
The Spirit of the Beehive
Spirited Away
Stalker
Star Wars
Sunless
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunset Blvd.
Suspiria
Syndromes and a Century
Taste of Cherry
Taxi Driver
There Will Be Blood
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Thing
The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
A Touch of Zen
Tropical Malady
Trouble in Paradise
The Tree of Life
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Twin Peaks: The Return
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ugetsu Monogatari
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Under the Skin
Vertigo
Videodrome
Vivre sa vie
Wanda
The Watermelon Woman
Wavelength
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
A Woman Under the Influence
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Zama

Venice
Accident
Ad Astra
Alice in Wonderland
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Almost a Man
Anomalisa
Aparajito
Arrival
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Ashes of Time
Athena
Au hasard Balthazar
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Banshees of Inisherin
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
The Battle of Algiers
The Beast
Beasts of No Nation
Belle de jour
A Bigger Splash
Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Black Dahlia
Bones and All
Brokeback Mountain
The Burmese Harp
Il buco
Café Lumière
The Card Counter
La Cérémonie
Children of Men
La Chinoise
Cinderella
A City of Sadness
The Cool World
A Couple
Les Créatures
The Danish Girl
The Darjeeling Limited
Diary of a Country Priest
The Disciple
Downsizing
Durian Durian
Ema
Enamorada
Enjo
Europa '51
Ex Libris—The New York Public Library
Exiled
Faces
Far From Heaven
The Favourite
Ferrari
First Man
First Reformed
Francofonia
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
GoodFellas
The Gospel According to Matthew
The Green Ray
Hamlet
Hands Over the City
Happening
High and Low
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Hurt Locker
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
In the Heat of the Sun
L'Intrus
Ivan's Childhood
Jackie
Joker
The Killer
King & Country
La La Land
Lady Vengeance
Last Year at Marienbad
Life Upside Down
Life Without Principle
Lolita
Loves of a Blonde
Lust, Caution
Maestro
Mandabi
Marriage Story
A Married Woman
Martin Eden
The Master
Maurice
Meek's Cutoff
Melvin and Howard
Michael Clayton
Mickey One
mother!
Muriel, or the Time of Return
New Rose Hotel
Night Moves
No Fear, No Die
Nocturnal Animals
Nomadland
Non-Fiction
Notturno
On the Waterfront
Parallel Mothers
Passion
Pierrot le Fou
Platform
Poor Things
The Power of the Dog
Priscilla
The Quiet Man
Raise the Red Lantern
Raising Cain
Rashomon
Rear Window
Red Beard
Red Desert
Redacted
Roma
La Ronde
Round Midnight
The Saga of Anatahan
Saint Omer
Sandra
Sansho the Bailiff
The Servant
Seven Samurai
The Shape of Water
Simon of the Desert
Spencer
Spring Breakers
Still Life
The Story of Qiu Ju
Stray Dogs
Sunset
Suspiria
Syndromes and a Century
TÁR
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Colors: Blue
Throne of Blood
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
To Catch a Thief
To the Wonder
Ugetsu Monogatari
Under the Skin
Vera Drake
Vive L'Amour
Vivre sa vie
Waking Life
Wasp Network
The Whale
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
White Material
White Noise
Wife of a Spy
The Wind Rises
The World
Yesterday Girl
Yojimbo
Zatoichi

Godzilla Minus One First Draft

Complete first draft for The Film Stage.

For much of Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One, the 33rd Toho Studios film in the beloved kaiju franchise, the iconic monster exists as an abstraction. After a brief, brutal rampage at the beginning of the film, he is kept off-screen, a shadow in the mind of our hero Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki). To a certain extent, this entirely symbolic usage is nothing new: the deeply ingrained allegory for nuclear annihilation that Ishiro Honda's 1954 original presented has persisted, and often been adapted to fit the times: the most recent Japanese live-action predecessor, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's ferociously incisive Shin Godzilla, tackled the tangled bureaucracy ill-equipped to deal with the Fukushima disaster head-on. But Yamazaki moves back before the source: the prologue begins at the end of World War II, on an island mostly inhabited by plane technicians, where Koichi, a would-be kamikaze pilot, touches down after claiming to have technical issues. That night, a smaller but still fearsome incarnation of Godzilla attacks the encampment, and Koichi is frozen by fear, unable to pull the trigger on his plane turret, and the resulting devastation kills almost everybody else. After he returns to a firebombed Tokyo, he forms an ad hoc family with a homeless woman, Noriko (Minami Hamabe), and an orphaned baby, then takes a job aboard a small minesweeper clearing the detritus of war. This humble existence is threatened when Godzilla, mutated and greatly enlarged by American nuclear testing, emerges once again. The weighting of information in the previous paragraph is intentional: Godzilla Minus One, despite its curious title, is effectively first and foremost a rather small-scale drama, spending much of its screentime with Koichi, his found family, and the motley minesweeper crew. Often located in the cramped interiors of Koichi's childhood home, it is locked into his mindset, doubly tormented by both the knowledge of his survival when so many others lived and his inability to take action, whether at the cost of his own life or not. Duty and honor as instilled by culture and society inevitably tie into this struggle, and it is given a potential, perverse outlet with the rise of a new enemy, as destructive as the conquerors who inadvertently reawakened it. The scenes of actual devastation are concentrated largely into sea battles (the first acts as a very tense Jaws homage) and a single land-based attack on the luxury district of Ginza, which does achieve the horrific level of carnage expected from any self-respecting monster movie. But these stand shoulder-to-shoulder with what emerges as a men-on-a-mission climax, an effort on the part of ex-Navy civilians, led by Koichi and his minesweeper crew, to kill Godzilla. Such shifts in scale—from grand calamity to intense revelations, from personal trauma to collective resolve—distinguish Godzilla Minus One. It is unabashedly sentimental, even risking a certain ideological simplicity in its groundswell of former troops fighting a new, potentially more worthy conflict on their own terms. But its journey towards its destination is hard-fought, willing to stay in the quiet anguish for uncomfortable lengths of time, so that the ultimate release is all the sweeter.

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Golden Horse Best Narrative Feature Winners

Reference

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  3. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  4. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1997, Peter Chan)
  5. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
  7. Kung Fu Hustle (2005, Stephen Chow)
  8. In the Heat of the Sun (1996, Jiang Wen)
  9. Durian Durian (2001, Fruit Chan)
  10. Vive L'Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang)
  11. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
  12. Stonewalling (2023, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  13. Infernal Affairs (2003, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  14. Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee)
  15. The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee)

Saturday, November 11, 2023

New York Film Festival Main Slates

1st (1963):

  1. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
  2. An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
  3. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  4. Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
  5. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
  6. Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
  7. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
  8. I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  9. Il mare (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
  10. Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
  11. Ro.Go.Pa.G (Roberto Rossellini/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Ugo Gregoretti)
  12. In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico)
  13. Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)
  14. Barravento (Glauber Rocha)
  15. Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
  16. All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
  17. Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville)

2nd (1964):

  1. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  2. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
  3. The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
  4. Pasazerka (Andrzej Munk)
  5. The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
  6. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. ...A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens)
  8. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
  9. Shin Heike Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  10. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
  11. Joseph Kilian (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)
  12. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. Enjo (Ichikawa Kon)
  14. Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  15. King & Country (Joseph Losey)
  16. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
  17. L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel)
  18. She and He (Hani Susumu)
  19. Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
  20. Alone Across the Pacific (Ichikawa Kon)
  21. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
  22. Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)
  23. Lilith (Robert Rossen)
  24. Siberian Lady Macbeth (Andrzej Wajda)
  25. The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie)
  26. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

3rd (1965):

  1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
  2. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  3. Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
  5. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
  6. Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
  7. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
  8. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
  10. The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  11. Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
  14. Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
  15. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
  16. Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  17. Six in Paris (Jean Douchet/Jean Rouch/Jean-Daniel Pollet/Éric Rohmer/Jean-Luc Godard/Claude Chabrol)
  18. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
  19. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
  20. Knave of Hearts (René Clément)
  21. Film (Alan Schneider)
  22. The Railrodder (Gerald Potterton)
  23. Black Peter (Miloš Forman)

4th (1966):

  1. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
  3. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
  4. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
  5. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
  6. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
  7. The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
  8. The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon)
  11. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
  12. Meet Marlon Brando (Albert & David Maysles)
  13. Troublemakers (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover)
  14. The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
  15. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  16. The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
  17. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  18. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux)
  19. La commare secca (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  20. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
  21. Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
  22. Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
  23. Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead)
  24. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
  25. Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
  26. Pearls of the Deep (Jiří Menzel/Jan Němec/Evald Schorm/Věra Chytilová/Jaromil Jireš)
  27. Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)

5th (1967):

  1. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
  2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  3. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  4. Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
  5. Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  6. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
  7. Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
  8. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
  10. Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
  12. Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
  13. Show People (King Vidor)
  14. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
  15. Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  16. Father (Szabó István)
  17. Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
  18. The Lion Hunters (Jean Rouch)
  19. Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Peter Whitehead)
  20. Memorandum (Donald Brittain & John Spotton)

6th (1968):

  1. Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
  3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
  4. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
  5. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
  6. The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
  7. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  8. One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Toni (Jean Renoir)
  11. L'Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
  12. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
  13. The Firemen's Ball (Miloš Forman)
  14. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
  15. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
  16. Partner. (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  17. Faces (John Cassavetes)
  18. L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
  19. Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)
  20. Hugo and Josephine (Kjell Grede)
  21. Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
  22. Oratorio for Prague (Jan Němec)
  23. A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)

7th (1969):

  1. My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Boy (Oshima Nagisa)
  3. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
  4. Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
  5. Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
  6. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
  7. Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
  8. Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
  10. HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöstrom)
  11. The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)
  12. One Fine Day (Ermanno Olmi)
  13. Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
  14. The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
  15. Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
  16. The Epic That Never Was (Bill Duncalf)
  17. Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
  18. The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
  19. Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  20. Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk)

8th (1970):

  1. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
  2. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  3. Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
  4. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
  5. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
  6. The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
  9. Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
  10. Wind From the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  11. La Musica (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
  12. Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun)
  13. Kes (Ken Loach)
  14. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
  15. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  16. The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi)
  17. The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  18. The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
  19. The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani)
  20. Langlois (Elia Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
  21. Comrades (Marin Karmitz)
  22. Harry Munter (Kjell Grede)

9th (1971):

  1. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
  2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
  3. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
  4. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  5. Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. Dodes'ka-den (Kurosawa Akira)
  7. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
  8. The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  9. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
  10. The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
  11. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  12. Directed by John Ford (Peter Bogdanovich)
  13. Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  14. In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio)
  15. A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
  16. Born to Win (Ivan Passer)

10th (1972):

  1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
  2. L'Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
  3. Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
  4. We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
  5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
  6. Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
  7. Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  8. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  9. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
  10. Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
  11. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
  12. The Adversary (Satyajit Ray)
  13. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
  14. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  15. Love (Makk Károly)
  16. A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
  17. Images (Robert Altman)
  18. Heat (Paul Morrissey)
  19. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
  20. Going Home (Adolfas Mekas)
  21. Bad Company (Robert Benton)
  22. Summer Soldiers (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  23. Family Life (Ken Loach)

11th (1973):

  1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
  2. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
  3. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  5. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
  6. Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
  7. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
  8. Day for Night (François Truffaut)
  9. History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  11. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's "Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  12. A Doll's House (Joseph Losey)
  13. The Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  14. Israel, Why (Claude Lanzmann)
  15. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
  16. Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
  17. Kid Blue (James Frawley)
  18. Réjanne Padovani (Denys Arcand)

12th (1974):

  1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
  2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
  4. Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
  5. The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
  6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
  7. Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)
  8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  9. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
  10. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
  11. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
  12. Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
  13. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
  14. Yudie (Mirra Bank)
  15. The Night of the Scarecrow (Sérgio Ricardo)
  16. Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
  17. From These Roots (William Greaves)
  18. La Paloma (Daniel Schmid)
  19. Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  20. A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan)
  21. L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel)
  22. Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge)
  23. Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)
  24. Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)

13th (1975):

  1. India Song (Marguerite Duras)
  2. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  3. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
  4. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
  6. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
  7. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
  8. Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
  9. The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
  10. Electra, My Love (Jancsó Miklós)
  11. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
  12. Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)
  13. Smile (Michael Ritchie)
  14. The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
  15. Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
  16. Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory)
  17. Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (Stanley Forman & Martin Smith)
  18. Black Moon (Louis Malle)

14th (1976):

  1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
  2. Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette)
  3. The Marquise of O... (Éric Rohmer)
  4. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima Nagisa)
  6. The Ceremony (Oshima Nagisa)
  7. Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
  8. Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
  9. Small Change (François Truffaut)
  10. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
  11. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
  12. The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
  13. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
  14. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
  15. Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  16. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
  17. Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)

15th (1977):

  1. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
  2. Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
  4. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  5. Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
  6. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda)
  7. The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
  8. Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  9. Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache)
  10. Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
  11. Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
  12. Roseland (James Ivory)
  13. La Soufrière (Werner Herzog)
  14. The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
  15. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  16. Women (Mészáros Márta)
  17. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
  18. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
  19. L'Enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret)
  20. Hot Tomorrows (Martin Brest)
  21. My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze)
  22. Pafnucio Santo (Rafael Corkidi)

16th (1978):

  1. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Spione (Fritz Lang)
  3. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
  4. The Green Room (François Truffaut)
  5. Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
  6. Like a Turtle on Its Back (Luc Béraud)
  7. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
  8. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
  9. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  10. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
  11. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  13. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese)
  14. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
  15. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
  16. Skip Tracer (Zale Dalen)
  17. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
  18. They Are Their Own Gifts (Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
  19. The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)
  20. The Apple Game (Věra Chytilová)
  21. Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)

17th (1979):

  1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
  3. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
  5. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
  6. Wise Blood (John Huston)
  7. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
  8. Short Memory (Eduardo de Gregorio)
  9. Alexandria... Why? (Youssef Chahine)
  10. Other People's Money (Christian de Chalonge)
  11. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
  12. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges)
  13. A Scream From Silence (Anne Claire Poirier)
  14. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
  15. Black Jack (Ken Loach)
  16. Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
  17. La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  18. Molière (Ariane Mnouchkine)
  19. My Briliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
  20. The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
  21. Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
  22. The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
  23. Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
  24. The Europeans (James Ivory)

18th (1980):

  1. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
  2. Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
  4. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
  5. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  7. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  8. The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
  9. The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
  10. Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
  11. And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
  12. Confidence (Szabó István)
  13. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  14. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  15. New York Story (Jackie Raynal)
  16. Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
  17. The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  18. Here's looking at you, kid. (William Edgar Cohen)
  19. Sunday Daughters (Rózsa Janós)
  20. Nights at O'Rear's (Robert Mandel)
  21. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)

19th (1981):

  1. The Aviator's Wife (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)

20th (1982):

  1. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)

21st (1983):

  1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Boat People (Ann Hui)

22nd (1984):

  1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
  2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
  3. Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon)
  4. Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)

23rd (1985):

  1. Ran (Kurosawa Akira)

24th (1986):

  1. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
  2. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)

25th (1987):

  1. Police Story (Jackie Chan)

26th (1988):

  1. Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
  3. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)

27th (1989):

  1. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. Rain (Joris Ivens)

28th (1990):

  1. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
  2. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
  3. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  4. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
  5. Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)

29th (1991):

  1. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

30th (1992):

  1. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  2. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
  3. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

31st (1993):

  1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  2. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
  3. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. The Piano (Jane Campion)

32nd (1994):

  1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
  3. Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
  4. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
  5. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
  6. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

33rd (1995):

  1. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
  2. Zone (Ito Takashi)
  3. Joy Street (Suzan Pitt)
  4. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

34th (1996):

  1. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
  2. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
  3. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
  4. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
  5. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  7. Fire (Deepa Mehta)

35th (1997):

  1. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhszad)
  3. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
  4. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
  6. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)

36th (1998):

  1. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  3. Point Blank (John Boorman)
  4. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

37th (1999):

  1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
  2. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
  3. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  4. Pola X (Leos Carax)
  5. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

38th (2000):

  1. A One and a Two... (Edward Yang)
  2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
  5. Gohatto (Oshima Nagisa)
  6. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)

39th (2001):

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  3. That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
  4. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)
  5. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
  7. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
  8. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
  9. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

40th (2002):

  1. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  3. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
  4. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
  5. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)

41st (2003):

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. PTU (Johnnie To)
  3. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)

42nd (2004):

  1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. The World (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
  5. Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
  6. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
  7. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

43rd (2005):

  1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  2. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Through the Forest (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  4. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
  5. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  6. Caché (Michael Haneke)
  7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  8. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)

44th (2006):

  1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
  2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Election 2 (Johnnie To)
  4. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  5. Insiang (Lino Brocka)
  6. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)

45th (2007):

  1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  2. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
  3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  4. Useless (Jia Zhangke)
  5. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
  7. Redacted (Brian De Palma)

46th (2008):

  1. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  4. Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
  5. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)

47th (2009):

  1. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
  2. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  3. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
  4. White Material (Claire Denis)
  5. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)

48th (2010):

  1. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
  8. The Social Network (David Fincher)
  9. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)

49th (2011):

  1. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  2. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  3. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
  4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
  5. Pina (Wim Wenders)
  6. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
  7. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

50th (2012):

  1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
  4. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
  5. Passion (Brian De Palma)
  6. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
  7. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
  8. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
  9. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)

51st (2013):

  1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
  3. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Bastards (Claire Denis)
  5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
  8. The Immigrant (James Gray)
  9. Her (Spike Jonze)
  10. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)

52nd (2014):

  1. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
  2. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
  3. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
  7. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
  8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
  9. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  10. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
  11. Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
  12. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
  13. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
  14. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  15. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
  16. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
  17. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

53rd (2015):

  1. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  4. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
  8. Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (Michael Almereyda)
  9. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
  10. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
  11. The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
  12. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
  13. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  14. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
  15. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  16. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
  17. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

54th (2016):

  1. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  4. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  6. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
  7. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  8. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  9. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  10. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
  11. The Son of Joseph (Eugéne Green)
  12. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
  13. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  14. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
  15. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
  16. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  17. Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
  18. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
  19. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
  20. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
  21. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
  22. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
  23. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
  24. 13th (Ava DuVernay)

55th (2017):

  1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  4. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
  6. Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
  8. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  10. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
  11. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
  12. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
  13. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
  14. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
  15. Ismael's Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
  16. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
  17. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
  18. Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
  19. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
  20. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
  21. Félicité (Alain Gomis)
  22. The Square (Ruben Östlund)
  23. Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
  24. Thelma (Joachim Trier)

56th (2018):

  1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
  2. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  3. Transit (Christian Petzold)
  4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  5. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  7. High Life (Claire Denis)
  8. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
  9. Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
  10. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  14. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
  15. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  16. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
  17. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
  18. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  19. 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
  20. A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
  21. Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
  22. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  23. A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
  24. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  25. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  26. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)

57th (2019):

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  4. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
  5. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
  6. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  7. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
  8. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  9. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
  10. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  11. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  12. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  13. Liberté (Albert Serra)
  14. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  15. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
  16. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
  17. Sibyl (Justine Triet)
  18. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  19. A Girl Missing Fukada Koji)
  20. Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
  21. Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
  22. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
  23. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
  24. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

58th (2020):

  1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  4. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
  5. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
  6. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
  7. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  8. Notturno (Giancranco Rosi)
  9. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
  10. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
  11. The Calming (Song Fang)
  12. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
  13. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
  14. Time (Garrett Bradley)
  15. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
  16. Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugène Green)
  17. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
  18. Undine (Christian Petzold)

59th (2021):

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  4. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
  7. France (Bruno Dumont)
  8. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
  9. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
  12. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  13. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
  14. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
  15. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
  16. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  17. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  18. Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
  19. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
  20. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  21. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  22. Titane (Julia Ducournau)

60th (2022):

  1. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  3. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
  5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  6. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  7. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
  8. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  9. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
  10. TÁR (Todd Field)
  11. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
  12. Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  13. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
  14. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
  15. Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)
  16. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
  17. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
  18. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
  19. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
  20. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
  21. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)

61st (2023):

  1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
  2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
  3. Music (Angela Schanelec)
  4. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
  5. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  6. May December (Todd Haynes)
  7. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  8. In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
  10. The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
  11. in water (Hong Sang-soo)
  12. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
  13. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
  14. Here (Bas Devos)
  15. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  16. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
  17. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
  18. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
  19. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
  20. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  21. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)

Venice Competition

Reference

7th (1946):

8th (1947):

  1. Enamorada (Emilio Fernández)

9th (1948):

10th (1949):

11th (1950):

  1. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
  2. Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

12th (1951):

  1. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
  2. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

13th (1952):

  1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
  2. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)

14th (1953):

  1. The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)

15th (1954):

  1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)

16th (1955):

  1. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)

17th (1956):

  1. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon)

18th (1957):

  1. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)

19th (1958):

20th (1959):

  1. Enjo (Ichikawa Kon)

21st (1960):

  1. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)

22nd (1961):

  1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  2. Yojimbo (Kuroswa Akira)

23rd (1962):

  1. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)

24th (1963):

  1. Muriel, or the Time of Return)
  2. High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  4. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
  5. Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)

25th (1964):

  1. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  2. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
  5. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
  6. King & Country (Joseph Losey)

26th (1965):

  1. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
  3. Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
  4. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
  5. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
  6. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)

27th (1966):

  1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
  3. Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
  4. Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
  5. Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)

28th (1967):

  1. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
  2. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)

29th (1968):

  1. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
  2. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
  3. Faces (John Cassavetes)

37th (1980):

  1. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

38th (1981):

39th (1982):

40th (1983):

41st (1984):

42nd (1985):

43rd (1986):

  1. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)

44th (1987):

  1. Maurice (James Ivory)

45th (1988):

46th (1989):

  1. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

47th (1990):

  1. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
  2. No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)

48th (1991):

  1. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)

49th (1992):

  1. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
  2. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)

50th (1993):

  1. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

51st (1994):

  1. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
  3. Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

52nd (1995):

  1. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)

53rd (1996):

54th (1997):

55th (1998):

  1. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)

56th (1999):

57th (2000):

  1. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
  2. Durian Durian (Fruit Chan)

58th (2001):

  1. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

59th (2002):

  1. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

60th (2003):

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)

61st (2004):

  1. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  2. The World (Jia Zhangke)
  3. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
  4. L'Intrus (Wim Wenders)

62nd (2005):

  1. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  2. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)

63rd (2006):

  1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
  3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. Exiled (Johnnie To)
  5. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  6. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)

64th (2007):

  1. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
  2. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
  3. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
  4. Redacted (Brian De Palma)

65th (2008):

  1. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)

66th (2009):

  1. Accident (Soi Cheang)
  2. White Material (Claire Denis)

67th (2010):

  1. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

68th (2011):

  1. Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
  2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)

69th (2012):

  1. Passion (Brian De Palma)
  2. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
  3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)

70th (2013):

  1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
  3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
  4. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)

71st (2014):

  1. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorence) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

72nd (2015):

  1. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
  2. Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
  3. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
  4. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  5. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)

73rd (2016):

  1. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
  2. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  3. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  4. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)

74th (2017):

  1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  2. Downsizing (Alexander Pande)
  3. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
  4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
  5. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
  6. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

75th (2018):

  1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  2. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  3. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
  4. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  5. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
  6. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  7. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
  8. Sunset (Nemes László)

76th (2019):

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  3. Ad Astra (James Gray)
  4. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
  5. Ema (Pablo Larraín)
  6. Joker (Todd Phillips)

77th (2020):

  1. Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  2. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  3. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
  4. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

78th (2021):

  1. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  2. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
  3. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
  5. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
  6. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)

79th (2022):

  1. TÁR (Todd Field)
  2. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
  3. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
  4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
  5. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
  6. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
  7. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
  8. Athena (Romain Gavras)
  9. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  10. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)

80th (2023):

  1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
  2. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
  3. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
  4. The Killer (David Fincher)
  5. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  6. Maestro (Bradley Cooper)

Cannes Competition

Reference

1st (1946):

  1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  3. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
  4. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
  5. Gilda (Charles Vidor)

2nd (1947):

  1. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)

3rd (1949):

  1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  2. Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)

4th (1951):

  1. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  2. the Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges)
  3. Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel)

5th (1952):

  1. Othello (Orson Welles)
  2. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)

6th (1953):

  1. Awaara (Raj Kapoor)
  2. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Peter Pan (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)

7th (1954):

  1. Knave of Hearts (René Clément)

8th (1955):

  1. The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi Kenji)

9th (1956):

  1. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)

10th (1957):

  1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  2. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

11th (1958):

12th (1959):

  1. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
  2. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)

13th (1960):

  1. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
  2. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
  4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

14th (1961):

  1. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
  2. The Story of the Flaming Years (Yuliya Solntseva)

15th (1962):

  1. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  2. Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
  3. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
  4. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

16th (1963):

  1. Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
  2. I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  3. Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)

17th (1964):

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
  2. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  3. Pasazerka (Andrzej Munk)
  4. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
  5. Alone Across the Pacific (Ichikawa Kon)

18th (1965):

19th (1966):

  1. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
  2. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
  3. The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
  4. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
  5. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
  7. Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)

20th (1967):

  1. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
  2. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)

21st (1968):

  1. Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
  2. The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
  3. The Firemen's Ball (Miloš Forman)
  4. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
  5. Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
  6. A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)

22nd (1969):

  1. My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
  3. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)

23rd (1970):

  1. Harry Munter (Kjell Grede)

24th (1971):

  1. Love (Makk Károly)
  2. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  3. Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  4. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)

25th (1972):

  1. We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
  2. Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
  3. Images (Robert Altman)
  4. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

26th (1973):

  1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)

27th (1974):

  1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)

28th (1975):

  1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
  2. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
  4. Electra, My Love (Jancsó Miklós)

29th (1976):

  1. The Marquise of O... (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)

30th (1977):

  1. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  2. Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
  3. Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  4. Car Wash (Michael Schultz)
  5. The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)

31st (1978):

  1. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
  2. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
  3. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. Molière (Ariane Mnouchkine)

32nd (1979):

  1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
  4. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
  5. The Europeans (James Ivory)

33rd (1980):

  1. Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  4. Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
  5. And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
  6. Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
  7. The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)

34th (1981):

  1. Thief (Michael Mann)
  2. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
  3. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)

35th (1982):

36th (1983):

  1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  2. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima Nagisa)

37th (1984):

  1. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

38th (1985):

39th (1986):

  1. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)

40th (1987):

  1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)

41st (1988):

  1. Chocolat (Claire Denis)

42nd (1989):

  1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
  2. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

43rd (1990):

  1. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
  2. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)

44th (1991):

  1. Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  2. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

45th (1992):

  1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
  2. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
  3. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
  4. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
  5. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  6. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

46th (1993):

  1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  2. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  3. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
  4. Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

47th (1994):

  1. A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
  2. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
  3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)

48th (1995):

  1. Underground (Emir Kusturica)

49th (1996):

  1. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
  2. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  4. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)

50th (1997):

  1. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)

51st (1998):

  1. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

52nd (1999):

  1. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  2. Pola X (Leos Carax)
  3. The Straight Story (David Lynch)

53rd (2000):

  1. A One and a Two... (Edward Yang)
  2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Gohatto (Oshima Nagisa)
  4. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
  5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)

54th (2001):

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  2. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  5. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)

55th (2002):

  1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  2. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
  3. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)

56th (2003):

57th (2004):

  1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
  5. The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)

58th (2005):

  1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  2. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Caché (Michael Haneke)
  4. Election (Johnnie To)

59th (2006):

  1. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  2. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
  3. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)

60th (2007):

  1. Zodiac (David Fincher)
  2. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. My Bluebery Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  5. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)

61st (2008):

  1. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  2. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  3. Two Lovers (James Gray)
  4. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

62nd (2009):

  1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)

63rd (2010):

  1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

64th (2011):

  1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  2. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
  3. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
  5. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
  6. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)

65th (2012):

  1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
  4. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
  5. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
  6. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)

66th (2013):

  1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  2. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
  3. The Immigrant (James Gray)
  4. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

67th (2014):

  1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  3. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
  4. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
  5. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)

68th (2015):

  1. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  4. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
  5. Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  6. Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux)
  7. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  8. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
  9. Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)

69th (2016):

  1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  2. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  3. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
  4. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  5. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  6. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  7. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
  8. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  9. Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
  10. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
  11. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
  12. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
  13. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
  14. Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
  15. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)

70th (2017):

  1. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  3. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  4. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute (Robin Campillo)
  5. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
  6. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
  7. Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. The Square (Ruben Östlund)
  9. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  11. Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)

71st (2018):

  1. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  3. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  5. 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
  6. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  7. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
  8. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  9. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  10. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
  11. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)

72nd (2019):

  1. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  3. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  4. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  5. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  6. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
  7. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
  8. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
  9. Sibyl (Justine Triet)
  10. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  11. The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch)
  12. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
  13. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

74th (2021):

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Annette (Leos Carax)
  4. France (Bruno Dumont)
  5. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
  6. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
  7. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
  9. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  10. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  11. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  12. Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)

75th (2022):

  1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  2. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
  3. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  4. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
  5. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
  6. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
  7. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
  8. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
  9. Close (Lukas Dhont)

76th (2023):

  1. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  2. May December (Todd Haynes)
  3. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  4. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
  5. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
  6. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
  7. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
  8. The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng)
  9. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)