HALL OF FAME : films rated 9/10 or 10/10

latest :
16th March (The Call of the Wild)

Rating	Film	Year	Director
TOP TEN	Don't Look Now The Elephant Man Festen The Game The Long Goodbye Mirror Nashville Point Blank Punch-Drunk Love Suspiria	1973 1980 1998 1997 1973 1974 1975 1967 2002 1977	Nicolas Roeg David Lynch Thomas Vinterberg David Fincher Robert Altman Andrei Tarkovsky Robert Altman John Boorman Paul Thomas Anderson Dario Argento
10/10	The American Friend American Graffiti Annie Hall Badlands Being John Malkovich Blood Simple Blue Velvet A Canterbury Tale casting a glance Dog Star Man Don't Look Back Elephant The Fog Funny Games Heat A History of Violence The Last Picture Show Robinson in Space Routine Pleasures Stardust Memories The Third Man United 93	1977 1973 1977 1973 1999 1984 1986 1944 2007 1964 1967 2003 1980 1997 1995 2005 1971 1997 1986 1980 1949 2006	Wim Wenders George Lucas Woody Allen Terrence Malick Spike Jonze Joel Coen David Lynch Powell & Pressburger James Benning Stan Brakhage D A Pennebaker Gus Van Sant John Carpenter Michael Haneke Michael Mann David Cronenberg Peter Bogdanovich Patrick Keiller Jean-Pierre Gorin Woody Allen Carol Reed Paul Greengrass
9/10	L'Age d'Or All About My Mother All That Heaven Allows All the President's Men Belle de jour The Birds Blind Mountain Blow Up Boogie Nights Breathless The Call of the Wild Capturing the Friedmans Chinatown City of God Control Cul-de-Sac Cutter's Way Dancer In The Dark Dead Man's Shoes El Valley Centro The Exterminating Angel Fantasma Far From Heaven Five Easy Pieces Frenzy The Gambler Gunnar Goes Comfortable Harold and Maude The Honeymoon Killers The Ice Storm The Intruder Irma Vep King Kong Last Resort London LotR : Return of the King Los Los Angeles Plays Itself McCabe and Mrs Miller Magnolia Man With A Movie Camera Mean Streets Memento The Nasty Girl The Parallax View The Passenger Profit motive and the whispering wind The Quince Tree Sun Rosemary's Baby Rushmore Sheitan The State I Am In Sunset Blvd. Targets Ten Skies The Thing The Thin Red Line 13 Lakes Touch of Evil Tropic of Cancer The Vanishing Veronika Voss Volver Who Is Bozo Texino? Who Killed Cock Robin?	1930 1999 1955 1976 1967 1963 2007 1966 1997 1959 2007 2003 1974 2002 2007 1966 1981 2000 2004 2000 1962 2006 2002 1970 1972 1974 2003 1971 1969 1997 2004 1996 2005 2000 1993 2003 2001 2003 1971 1999 1929 1973 2000 1989 1974 1975 2007 1992 1968 1998 2006 2000 1950 1968 2004 1982 1998 2004 1958 2004 1988 1983 2006 2005 2006	Luis Bunuel Pedro Almodovar Douglas Sirk Alan J Pakula Luis Bunuel Alfred Hitchcock LI Yang Michelangelo Antonioni Paul Thomas Anderson Jean-Luc Godard Ron Lamothe Andrew Jarecki Roman Polanski F Meirelles & K Lund Anton Corbijn Roman Polanski Ivan Passer Lars Von Trier Shane Meadows James Benning Luis Bunuel Lisandro Alonso Todd Haynes Bob Rafelson Alfred Hitchcock Karel Reisz Gunnar Hall Jensen Hal Ashby Leonard Kastle Ang Lee Claire Denis Olivier Assayas Peter Jackson Pawel Pawlikowski Patrick Keiller Peter Jackson James Benning Thom Andersen Robert Altman Paul Thomas Anderson Dziga Vertov Martin Scorsese Christopher Nolan Michael Verhoeven Alan J Pakula Michelangelo Antonioni John Gianvito Victor Erice Roman Polanski Wes Anderson Kim Chapiron Christian Petzold Billy Wilder Peter Bogdanovich James Benning John Carpenter Terrence Malick James Benning Orson Welles Eugenio Polgovsky George Sluizer Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pedro Almodovar Bill Daniel Travis Wilkerson

All Shall Have Prizes : Films and Performances of the Year (1945 to date)

Neil Young's personal favourites : the Top 25, compiled 1993 & 2003

Or: sweet masochism via the dreaded Diorama of Dishonour - films rated 1/10 & 2/10

NB : the above lists are not exhaustive.

NB : the above lists are not exhaustive - they're just all the ones I can think of at the moment which I've seen and which I'd rate at 9/10 or higher. I'm probably omitting quite a few, due to defective memory...

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DECADE+

1997
10/10 : Funny Games // The Game // Robinson In Space
9/10 : Boogie Nights // The Ice Storm

1998
10/10 : Festen
9/10 : Rushmore // The Thin Red Line

1999
10/10 : Being John Malkovich
9/10 : All About My Mother // Magnolia

2000
9/10 : Dancer in the Dark // El Valley Centro // Last Resort //
Memento // The State I am In

2001
9/10 : Los

2002
10/10 : Punch-Drunk Love
9/10 : City of God // Far From Heaven

2003
10/10 : Elephant
9/10 : Capturing the Friedmans // Gunnar Goes Comfortable // The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King // Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004
9/10 : Dead Man's Shoes // The Intruder // Ten Skies // 13 Lakes // Tropic of Cancer

2005
10/10 : A History of Violence
9/10 : King Kong // Who Is Bozo Texino?

2006
10/10 : United 93
9/10 : Fantasma // Satan // Volver

2007
10/10 : casting a glance
9/10 : Blind Mountain // The Call of the Wild // Control // Profit motive and the whispering wind // Who Killed Cock Robin? (2005/06/07)

top ten 2000>
1. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
2. United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
3. A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
4. casting a glance (Benning, 2007)
5. Elephant (Van Sant, 2003)
6. Who Killed Cock Robin? (Wilkerson, 2005/6/07) - 72m edit
7. Los (Benning, 2001)
8. Who Is Bozo Texino? (Daniel, 2005)
9. Dead Man's Shoes (Meadows, 2004)
10. The Call of the Wild (Lamothe, 2007)

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