Top Tens: New Discoveries

2023

  1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
  2. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid, 1943)
  3. Early Summer (Yasujirô Ozu, 1951)
  4. A Tale of Springtime (Éric Rohmer, 1990)
  5. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
  6. The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2006)
  7. One Week (Buster Keaton, 1920)
  8. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
  9. The Adversary (Satyajit Ray, 1970)
  10. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)

2022

  1. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
  2. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
  3. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
  4. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
  5. Sátántángo (Béla Tarr, 1994)
  6. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962)
  7. His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
  8. Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
  9. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
  10. Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)

2021

  1. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu, 1957)
  2. My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)
  3. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
  4. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
  5. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1943)
  6. The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer, 1969)
  7. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
  8. Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam, 1998)
  9. Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
  10. Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951)

2020

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
  2. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964)
  3. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
  4. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
  5. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
  6. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
  7. Le bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965)
  8. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
  9. Mammo (Shyam Benegal, 1994)
  10. A Story From Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

2019

  1. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
  2. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
  3. The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, 1997)
  4. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
  5. The Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)
  6. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
  7. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008)
  8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  9. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)
  10. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)

2018

  1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
  2. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
  3. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
  4. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  5. The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963)
  6. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
  7. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
  8. Trikal: Past, Present, Future (Shyam Benegal, 1985)
  9. Bhumika (Shyam Benegal, 1977)
  10. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)

2017

  1. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
  2. Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
  3. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  5. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
  6. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973)
  7. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
  8. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
  9. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
  10. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)