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Favorite Films of the Year: Introduction

This article lists my favorite films of recent years.

There are some common subject matter aspects of these films:

And about their lead characters:

And in technique:

An apology: I have seen very few experimental films from these years: which is why they are largely missing.

1975

Arabesque (John Whitney)

At Long Last Love (Peter Bogdanovich)

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

The Dead Don't Die (Curtis Harrington)

Ellery Queen: The Mad Tea Party (James Sheldon)

The Family Nobody Wanted (Ralph Senensky)

Journey From Darkness (James Goldstone)

Knuckle (Norman Lloyd)

Lisztomania (Ken Russell)

Nashville (Robert Altman)

The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)

The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)

1976

Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto)

The Captains and the Kings (Douglas Heyes, Allen Reisner)

Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (Anthony Page)

Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicholas Roeg)

Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich)

The Savage Bees (Bruce Geller)

The Tribal Eye (David Attenborough)

1977

The Chessplayers (Satyajit Ray)

Colour Scheme (Arthur Thompson)

Handle With Care / Citizen's Band (Jonathan Demme)

Providence (Alain Resnais)

Snow Beast (Herb Wallerstein)

Star Wars (George Lucas)

Tendre poulet / Dear Detective (Philippe De Broca)

Three Women (Robert Altman)

1978

Alexandria...Why? (Youssef Chahine)

The Best of Families: Generations (Glenn Jordan)

The Cheap Detective (Robert Moore)

Clouds of Glory (Ken Russell)

Corvette Summer (Matthew Robbins)

Fedora (Billy Wilder)

Flying High: Swan Song for an Ugly Duckling (Dennis Donnelly)

Ishi: the Last of His Tribe (Robert Ellis Miller)

Joi Baba Felunath (Satyajit Ray)

The Long Search (Ronald Eyre)

Nancy Drew: The Lady on Thursday at Ten (Joseph Pevney)

Same Time, Next Year (Robert Mulligan)

Superman (Richard Donner)

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)

1979

Breaking Away (Peter Yates)

Captain America (Rod Holcomb)

The Changeling (Peter Medak)

The Frisco Kid (Robert Aldrich)

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Fiedler Cook)

The Jerk (Carl Reiner)

Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)

The Prizefighter (Michael Preece)

Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)

Samurai (Lee H. Katzin)

Tess (Roman Polanski)

Vegas: Kill Dan Tanna (Curtis Harrington)

1980

Flash Gordon (Michael Hodges)

Flickers (Cyril Coke)

Gloria (John Cassavetes)

Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

The Lathe of Heaven (David Loxton, Fred Barzyk)

Loulou (Maurice Pialat)

Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)

Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (John Davies, Tony Wharmby)

1981

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (Clive Donner)

Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)

Condorman (Charles Jarrott)

The Gangster Chronicles (Richard C. Sarafian)

Heartaches (Don Shebib)

Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev)

Nighthawks (Bruce Malmuth)

Polyester (John Waters)

Porky's (Bob Clark)

Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)

S.O.B. (Blake Edwards)

Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)

Zorro, The Gay Blade (Peter Medak)

1982

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)

Bus Stop (Peter H. Hunt)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner)

Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)

Don't Cry, Its Only Thunder (Peter Werner)

The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)

Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)

Grease 2 (Patricia Birch)

Heat and Dust (James Ivory)

Jinxed (Don Siegel)

Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan)

Livin' the Life / Real Life (Francis Megahy)

The Magic of Dance (Patricia Foy)

Metalstorm (Charles Band)

Missing (Constantin Costa-Gavras)

My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani Brothers)

La Nuit de Varennes (Ettore Scola)

Pictures (Carol Wiseman)

Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis)

Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg)

Say Yes (Larry Yust)

Separate Tables (John Schlesinger)

Tex (Tim Hunter)

Tron (Steve Lisberger)

Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)

Voyagers! (James D. Parriott)

Waltz Across Texas (Ernest Day)

Who Am I This Time? (Jonathan Demme)

The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)

1983

Choices of the Heart (Joseph Sargeant)

Christine (John Carpenter)

A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)

D.C. Cab (Joel Schumacher)

Eddie and the Cruisers (Martin Davidson)

Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)

The Lords of Discipline (Franc Roddam)

The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa)

Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)

The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah)

The Pirates of Penzance (Wilford Leach)

Porky's II: The Next Day (Bob Clark)

The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, Jordan Belson)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Jack Clayton)

Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge)

Zelig (Woody Allen)

1984

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension (W.D. Richter)

American Dreamer (Rick Rosenthal)

Before Stonewall (Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller)

Dark Habits (Pedro Almodóvar)

Dreamscape (Joseph Ruben)

Footloose (Herbert Ross)

Fountain of Dreams (Jordan Belson)

The Funeral (Juzo Itami)

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Hugh Hudson)

Her Life as a Man (Robert Ellis Miller)

L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Peter Hall)

Johnny Dangerously (Amy Heckerling)

Julius Caesar (John Michael Phillips)

A Matter of Sex (Lee Grant)

The Mikado (Norman Campbell, Brian MacDonald)

Odd Jobs (Mark Story)

Oxford Blues (Robert Boris)

Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)

Quilombo (Carlos Diegues)

Repo Man (Alex Cox)

The Shooting Party (Alan Bridges)

Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)

The Sun Also Rises (James Goldstone)

Swing Shift (Jonathan Demme)

Teachers (Arthur Hiller)

The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein)

Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)

1985

Agrippina (Thomas Olofsson)

Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Battery Film (Franklin Backus, Richard Protovin)

The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev)

An Early Frost (John Erman)

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Alan Metter)

The Heavenly Kid (Cary Medoway)

Hollywood Beat (Jerry London)

Just One of The Guys (Lisa Gottlieb)

The Legend of Billie Jean (Matthew Robbins)

Mask (Peter Bogdanovich)

Mata Hari (Curtis Harrington)

Midweekend (Caroline Avery)

Misfits of Science (James D. Parriott)

Murder With Mirrors (Dick Lowry)

Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)

Rappin (Joel Silberg)

Les Ripoux / My New Partner (Claude Zidi)

Real Genius (Martha Coolidge)

A Room With a View (James Ivory)

Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (Agnès Varda)

Silverado (Lawrence Kasdan)

Sugarbaby (Percy Adlon)

Trancers (Charles Band)

Tuff Turf (Fritz Kiersch)

Vision Quest (Harold Becker)

1986

Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple)

Back To School (Alan Metter)

The Boy in Blue (Charles Jarrott)

Choke Canyon (Chuck Bail)

Dangerously Close (Albert Pyun)

Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini)

Jumpin' Jack Flash (Penny Marshall)

Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela)

Maurice (James Ivory)

Modern Girls (Jerry Kramer)

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (Michael Lindsay-Hogg)

Night Music (Stan Brakhage)

Off Beat (Michael Dinner)

Out of Bounds (Richard Tuggle)

Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood)

Police Academy II (Jerry Paris)

Power (Sidney Lumet)

Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch)

Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

That's Life! (Blake Edwards)

Top Gun (Tony Scott)

1987

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (Sam Firstenberg)

Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)

Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel)

Back to the Beach (Lyndall Hobbs)

La Bamba (Luis Valdez)

Blind Date (Blake Edwards)

Campus Man (Ron Casden)

Dale Chihuly: Glass Master (Vicki Dunakin)

The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage)

The Dead (John Huston)

Dead of Winter (Arthur Penn)

Eyes on the Prize (Henry Hampton)

Gaby (Luis Mandoki)

Good Morning, Babylon (Taviani Brothers)

Ground Zero (Michael Pattinson, Bruce Miles)

A Hazard of Hearts (John Hough)

The Highwayman (Dean Hargrove)

Intervista (Federico Fellini)

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema)

Law of Desire (Pedro Almodóvar)

The Little Match Girl (Michael Lindsay-Hogg)

Long Gone (Martin Davidson)

Mannequin (Michael Gotlieb)

Masques (Claude Chabrol)

Miss Mary (Maria Luisa Bemberg)

No Man's Land (Peter Werner)

Outrageous Fortune (Arthur Hiller)

The Rosary Murders (Fred Walton)

The Secret of My Success (Herbert Ross)

Someone To Watch Over Me (Ridley Scott)

The Spirit (Michael Schultz)

Stand and Deliver (Ramon Menendez)

Student Exchange (Mollie Miller)

Suspect (Peter Yates)

Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)

A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)

Turner (M. M. Serra)

The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)

1988

The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan)

Arena (Peter Manoogian)

Ashik Kerib (Sergei Paradjanov)

Big Business (Jim Abrahams)

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Robert Altman)

Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)

Damnation (Béla Tarr)

Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)

Die Hard (John McTiernan)

Frantic (Roman Polanski)

Hairspray (John Waters)

Heartbreak Hotel (Chris Columbus)

The "In" Crowd (Mark Rosenthal)

Johnny Be Good (Bud Smith)

The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)

Little Nikita (Richard Benjamin)

Mr. North (Danny Huston)

The Naked Gun (David Zucker)

Out of Time (Robert Butler)

Rage Net (Stan Brakhage)

Shag (Zelda Barron)

Twins (Ivan Reitman)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar)

1989

Ask Me Again (Deborah Reinesch)

Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)

California Casanova (Nathaniel Christian)

Curse of the Corn People (Michael Dinner)

Disorganized Crime (Jim Kouf)

Dream Breakers (Stuart Millar)

Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple)

Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson)

Getting It Right (Randall Kleiser)

Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Joe Johnston)

Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint (Rick Tejada-Flores)

L.A. Takedown (Michael Mann)

Major League (David S. Ward)

Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

The Mighty Civic (Stuart Main, Peter Wells)

Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)

Roger & Me (Michael Moore)

Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (Paul Bartel)

The Taming of the Shrew (Richard Monette)

Torrents of Spring (Jerzy Skolimowski)

True Believer (Joseph Ruben)

1990

Ay, Carmela! (Carlos Saura)

Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappenau)

Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (Christopher Lewis)

Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)

Don't Tell Her It's Me (Malcolm Mowbray)

Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)

Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)

Europa Europa (Agnieska Holland)

Flashback (Franco Amurri)

Fourth Story (Ivan Passer)

Ghost (Jerry Zucker)

Glaze of Cathexis (Stan Brakhage)

Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli)

Hard To Kill (Bruce Malmuth)

Heaven and Earth (Haruki Kadokawa)

Honeymoon Academy (Eugene Quintano)

The Hunt For Red October (John McTiernan)

Johnny Ryan (Robert Collins)

Jury Duty (Michael Schultz)

Lambada (Joel Silberg)

Longtime Companion (Norman René)

Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)

Peacemaker (Kevin S. Tenney)

Rosalie Goes Shopping (Percy Adlon)

Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol (Jonas Mekas)

Shangri-La Plaza (Nick Castle)

Sibling Rivalry (Carl Reiner)

The Station (Sergio Rubini)

Taking Care of Business (Arthur Hiller)

1991

Anima Mundi (Godfrey Reggio)

Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)

Born to Ride (Graham Baker)

Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)

Cool as Ice (David Kellogg)

Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)

Harley Davidson and the Motorcycle Man (Simon Wincer)

Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom)

High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar)

If Looks Could Kill (William Dear)

Intestinal Fortitude (Colin Barton)

Jacquot de Nantes (Agnès Varda)

Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni)

The Krays (Peter Medak)

Late For Dinner (W.D. Richter)

Lyrical Nitrate (Peter Delpeut)

The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan)

Mediterraneo (Gabriel Salvatores)

Mystery Date (Jonathan Wacks)

The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (David Zucker)

Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)

Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)

Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)

Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa)

The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston)

Salmonberries (Percy Adlon)

Switch (Blake Edwards)

True Identity (Charles Lane)

1992

Baraka (Ron Fricke)

Brain Donors (Dennis Dugan)

Chrome Soldiers (Thomas J. Wright)

The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)

Encino Man (Les Mayfield)

A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)

Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

Honeymoon in Vegas (Andrew Bergman)

House of Angels (Colin Nutley)

Into The Sun (Fritz Kiersch)

IP5: L'île aux pachydermes (Jean-Jacques Beineix)

Jersey Girl (David Burton Morris)

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

Let's Kill All the Lawyers (Ron Senkowski)

My Cousin Vinnie (Jonathan Lynn)

Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Prelude to a Kiss (Norman René)

Sister Act (Emile Ardolino)

The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)

Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)

Suddenly, Last Summer (Richard Eyre)

Thunderheart (Michael Apted)

Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich)

Untitled (For Marilyn) (Stan Brakhage)

The Year of the Comet (Peter Yates)

Zebrahead (Anthony Drazan)

1993

The Beverly Hillbillies (Penelope Spheeris)

Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Body Shot (Dmitri Logothetis)

La Bohème (Baz Luhrmann)

Born Yesterday (Luis Mandoki)

Dave (Ivan Reitman)

Images of the Khajar Dynasty (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Love Bites (Malcolm Marmorstein)

Malice (Harold Becker)

M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg)

Molly and Gina (Paul Leder)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus)

Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)

Orlando (Sally Potter)

The Pelican Brief (Alan J. Pakula)

Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme)

Posse (Mario Van Peebles)

The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung)

Son of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)

Stellar (Stan Brakhage)

Study in Color and Black and White (Stan Brakhage)

Swing Kids (Thomas Carter)

Taking the Heat (Tom Mankiewicz)

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (Steven M. Martin)

The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)

1994

Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)

The Client (Joel Schumacher)

Desperate Remedies (Stuart Main, Peter Wells)

Dumb and Dumber (Peter Farrelly)

Ed Wood (Tim Burton)

Foreign Student (Eva Sereny)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)

Guarding Tess (Hugh Wilson)

Junior (Ivan Reitman)

Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)

The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner)

A Man of No Importance (Suri Krishnamma)

The Mask (Charles Russell)

Maybe, Maybe Not (Sonke Wortmann)

The Mystery of Rampo (Kazuyoshi Okuyama)

Princess Caraboo (Michael Austin)

Richie Rich (Donald Petrie)

Les Roseaux sauvages / Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)

The Santa Clause (John Pasquin)

The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy)

Speed (Jan DeBont)

Stargate (Roland Emmerich)

The Sum of Us (Kevin Dowling, Geoff Burton)

1995

The American President (Rob Reiner)

The Awakening (George Bloomfield)

Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)

Bullet to Beijing (George Mihalka)

Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (Agnès Varda)

Chameleon (Michael Pavone)

Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

Cold Comfort Farm (John Schlesinger)

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Who Came Down A Mountain (Christopher Monger)

Fair Game (Andrew Sipes)

Flamenco (Carlos Saura)

Hackers (Iain Softley)

Le Hussard sur la toit / The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappenau)

Jefferson in Paris (James Ivory)

Kolya (Jan Sverák)

Living in Oblivion (Tom Di Cillo)

The Net (Irwin Winkler)

Othello (Oliver Parker)

Persuasion (Roger Michell)

Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg)

Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)

Smoke / Blue in the Face (Wayne Wang)

The Star Maker (Giuseppe Tornatore)

A Summer at La Goulette (Férid Boughedir)

Tommy Boy (Peter Segal)

L'Univers de Jacques Demy / The World of Jacques Demy (Agnès Varda)

Unzipped (Douglas Keeve)

Village of Dreams (Yoichi Higashi)

A Walk in the Clouds (Alfonso Arau)

While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub)

1996

The Associate (Donald Petrie)

Black Dju (Pol Cruchten)

Chacun cherche son chat / When the Cat's Away (Cédric Klapisch)

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Kevin Brownlow, David Gill)

Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage)

The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (Francis Megahy)

East Palace, West Palace (Zhang Yuan)

Emma (Douglas McGrath)

Eraser (Charles Russell)

Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)

Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Gang in Blue (Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles)

Ghosts of Mississippi (Rob Reiner)

Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan)

Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen)

A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Mrs. Winterbourne (Richard Benjamin)

That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks)

A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher)

Tornado! (Noel Nosseck)

To Sir With Love II (Peter Bogdanovich)

Les Voleurs / Thieves (André Téchiné)

1997

Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)

American Visions (John Bush, Julia Cave, James Kent, Christopher Spencer, David Wilcock)

Amistad (Steven Spielberg)

The Chambermaid on the Titanic (Bigas Luna)

Character (Mike van Diem)

Contact (Robert Zemeckis)

Cousin Bette (Des McAnuff)

Croupier (Michael Hodges)

Destiny (Youssef Chahine)

The Eel (Shohei Imamura)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)

George of the Jungle (Sam Weisman)

I'll Be Home for Christmas (Jerry London)

In & Out (Frank Oz)

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper (Hiro Narita)

Kundun (Martin Scorsese)

Last Dance (Tsai Ming-liang)

Ma Vie en rose (Alain Berliner)

Merry Christmas, George Bailey (Matthew Diamond)

Picture Perfect (Glenn Gordon Caron)

Rajio no jikan / Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (Koki Mitani)

Red Corner (Jon Avnet)

Sucre amer / Bitter Sugar (Christian Lara)

Trial and Error (Jonathan Lynn)

Wilde (Brian Gilbert)

1998

Aimée & Jaguar (Max Färberböck)

Alice et Martin (André Téchiné)

The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)

Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Big Monday (Michael T. Rehfield)

Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz)

Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura)

Ever After (Andy Tennant)

Frank Lloyd Wright (Ken Burns, Lynn Novick)

Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón)

Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)

Jane Austen's Mafia! (Jim Abrahams)

Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)

Lola Rennt / Run, Lola, Run (Tom Tykwer)

My Date With the President's Daughter (Alex Zamm)

New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)

The Object of My Affection (Nicholas Hytner)

Pecker (John Waters)

Pleasantville (Gary Ross)

Psycho (Gus Van Sant)

Rag and Bone (James D. Parriott)

The Rat Pack (Rob Cohen)

Raw Images from the Optic Cross (Karl Nussbaum)

Return to Paradise (Joseph Ruben)

Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory)

Tango (Carlos Saura)

The 13th Warrior (John McTiernan)

The Wall (Alain Berliner)

The Water Boy (Frank Coraci)

The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci)

Wing Commander (Chris Roberts)

1999

Beau Travail (Claire Denis)

Big Daddy (Dennis Dugan)

Blast From the Past (Hugh Wilson)

Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)

The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)

The Dark Tower (Stan Brakhage)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)

Goya (Carlos Saura)

Happy, Texas (Mark Illsley)

Hit and Runway (Christopher Livingston)

Man of the Century (Adam Abraham)

Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema)

The Match (Mick Davis)

Murdercycle (Tom Callaway)

Never Been Kissed (Raja Gosnell)

Phörpa / The Cup (Khyentse Norbu)

The Prince and the Surfer (Gregory Gieras, Arye Gross)

She's All That (Robert Iscove)

Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièlle Huillet)

Solas (Benito Zambrano)

Tea with Mussolini (Franco Zeffirelli)

Three to Tango (Damon Santostefano)

Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)

The Winslow Boy (David Mamet)

2000

Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)

The Big Animal (Jerzy Stuhr)

Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)

Cecil B. Demented (John Waters)

The Color of Friendship (Kevin Hooks)

The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini)

Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)

The Golden Bowl (James Ivory)

The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (Aviva Kempner)

Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore)

Miss Congeniality (Donald Petrie)

Le Placard / The Closet (Francis Veber)

Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)

Relative Values (Eric Styles)

Samia (Philippe Faucon)

Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey)

The Skulls (Rob Cohen)

Songcatcher (Maggie Greenwald)

Suzhou River (Lou Ye)

A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)

Unbowed (Nanci Rossov)

The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung)

La Veuve de St. Pierre / The Widow of St. Pierre (Patrice Leconte)

Water for Maya (Stan Brakhage)

Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)

2001

All Over the Guy (Julie Davis)

Dark Blue World (Jan Sverák)

The Elite (Terry Cunningham)

Elling (Petter Næss)

Enigma (Michael Apted)

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen)

Gosford Park (Robert Altman)

The Impressionists (Bruce Alfred)

Invincible (Werner Herzog)

Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (Ashutosh Gowariker)

Lovesong (Stan Brakhage)

Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)

Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)

Out in Nature: Homosexual Behavior in the Animal Kingdom (Stéphane Alexandresco, Bertrand Loyer, Jessica Menendez)

Le Pacte des loups / The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans)

The Parole Officer (John Duigan)

Porto da Minha Infância / Oporto of My Childhood (Manoel de Oliveira)

Rock Star (Steven Herek)

Shrek (Andew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)

Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez)

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura)

Zoolander (Ben Stiller)

2002

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)

Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha)

Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)

The Cuckoo (Alexander Rogozhkin)

Daddy and Papa (Johnny Symons)

Der er en yndig mand / This Charming Man (Martin Strange-Hansen)

Deux ans après / Two Year Later (Agnès Varda)

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)

Être et avoir / To Be and To Have (Nicholas Philibert)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)

Good Night Valentino (Edoardo Ballerini)

Hard Corps (David Malver)

Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes (Tom Neff)

L'Homme du train / The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)

I'm With Lucy (Jon Sherman)

In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Martina Kudlacek)

Joe and Max (Steve James)

Maid in Manhattan (Wayne Wang)

Marooned in Iraq (Bahman Ghobadi)

Matir Moina / The Clay Bird (Tareque Masud)

Nye scener fra Amerika / New Scenes From America (Jørgen Leth)

The Pianist (Roman Polanski)

The Rosa Parks Story (Julie Dash)

Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)

Santa Jr. (Kevin Connor)

Unconditional Love (P. J. Hogan)

Zhou Yu's Train (Sun Zhou)

2003

Alex and Emma (Rob Reiner)

At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf)

Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappenau)

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Camp (Todd Graff)

Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)

Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)

Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)

Danny Deckchair (Jeff Balsmeyer)

Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson)

Elf (Jon Favreau)

Father and Son (Alexander Sokurov)

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four (Rebecca Cerese, Daniel Blake Smith)

La Finestra di fronte / Facing Windows (Ferzan Ozpetek)

Frazetta: Painting with Fire (Lance Laspina)

Gori vatra / Fuse (Pjer Zalica)

Honey (Bille Woodruff)

Koenig's Sphere (Percy Adlon)

Koktebel / Roads to Koktebel (Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky)

Kontroll (Nimród Antal)

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)

Love Actually (Richard Curtis)

Osama (Siddiq Barmak)

Pas sur la bouche / Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais)

Reconstruction (Christoffer Boe)

The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta)

Shanghai Knights (David Dobkin)

Slings and Arrows (Peter Wellington)

Stuck On You (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)

2004

All the Ships at Sea (Dan Sallitt)

A Boyfriend for Christmas (Kevin Connor)

Bride and Prejudice (Gurinder Chadha)

Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans)

Chasing Liberty (Andy Cadiff)

Les Choristes / The Chorus (Christophe Barratier)

De-Lovely (Irwin Winkler)

Ella Enchanted (Tommy O'Haver)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)

The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben)

Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)

I (Heart) Huckabees (David O. Russell)

I, Robot (Alex Proyas)

Karroll's Christmas (Dennis Dugan)

The Keys of the House (Gianni Amelio)

Kinsey (Bill Condon)

Der Klang des Meeres (Wolfgang Lehmann, Telemach Wiesinger)

Ladder 49 (Jay Russell)

Männer wie wir / Guys and Balls (Sherry Hormann)

Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)

Paper Clips (Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab)

Primer (Shane Carruth)

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Gary Marshall)

Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (John L'Écuyer)

The Red Toy (Dani Rosenberg)

Shall We Dance (Peter Chelsom)

Tanner on Tanner (Robert Altman)

Torque (Joseph Kahn)

A Touch of Pink (Ian Iqbal Rashid)

Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (Robert Greenwald)

Walk on Water (Eytan Fox)

Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (Robert Luketic)

Zwerk (Bart Vegter)

2005

Adam & Steve (Craig Chester)

Assault on Precinct 13 (Jean-François Richet)

Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

Because of Winn-Dixie (Wayne Wang)

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)

Casanova (Lasse Hallström)

Classical Baby (Amy Schatz)

Epilogue (Jordan Belson)

Fantastic Four (Tim Story)

Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)

Guess Who (Kevin Rodney Sullivan)

Homecoming (Joe Dante)

Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion)

The Legend of Zorro (Martin Campbell)

Mardi Gras: Made in China (David Redmon)

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (John Pasquin)

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Dan Ireland)

My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin)

Recruiting (James Noel Hoban, Bobby Roger Poirer)

The Saffron Gates (Philip Schopper)

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days (Marc Rothemund)

Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)

Three Wise Guys (Robert Iscove)

The White Countess (James Ivory)

2006

Amazing Grace (Michael Apted)

As You Like It (Kenneth Branagh)

Available Men (David Dean Bottrell)

Charlotte's Web (Gary Winick)

Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)

High School Musical (Kenny Ortega)

The Illusionist (Neal Burger)

An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

Krrish (Rajesh Roshan)

Mon meilleur ami / My Best Friend (Patrice Leconte)

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Ivan Reitman)

Offside (Jafar Panahi)

The Rape of Europa (Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nichole Newnham)

Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)

Take the Lead (Liz Friedlander)

Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)

Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine)

2007

Caramel (Nadine Labaki)

Firehouse Dog (Todd Holland)

The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)

Hairspray (Adam Shankman)

I Met the Walrus (Josh Raskin)

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Dennis Dugan)

The Last Mimzy (Bob Shaye)

Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski)

My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)

No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)

Ratatouille (Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava)

Sand and Sorrow (Paul Freedman)