CHRONOLOGICAL ARCHIVE : 1916 – 1998
| Year | Country | Film (Director) | Rating |
| 1916 . 1917 . . 1919 1921 . . 1922 . . . . 1923 1924 . . . 1925 . . . 1926 1927 . . . . . . 1928 . . 1929 . . . | USA . UK . USA France/UK UK/Neth. Germany USA Den./Swe. UK . USA Denmark USA UK . . USA UK USA . Ger/Aut/UK Japan UK . USA . USSR . Ger/UK France UK UK/France Germany/UK UK/France UK/Germany USSR | His Picture in the Papers (Emerson) The Social Secretary (Emerson) Pimple in ‘The Whip’ … (Evans & Evans) [short] The Whip (Tourneur) The Call of the Blood (Mercanton) The Skin Game (Doxat-Pratt) The Witch [aka Häxan] (Christensen) The Sheik (Melford) Nosferatu (Murnau) Sam’s Boy (Haynes) Trapped by the Mormons (Parkinson) Nanook of the North (Flaherty) The Hill Park Mystery (Sandberg) HE Who Gets Slapped (Sjostrom) Crossing the Great Sagrada … (Brunel) [short] The Rat (Cutts) Greed (Von Stroheim) She (de Cordova) The Phantom of the Opera (Julian) The Lost World (Hoyt) The Road to Happiness (Curtiz) A Page of Madness (Kinugasa) GR Downhill (Hitchcock) The Lodger (Hitchcock) Chicago (Urson) Sunrise (Murnau) The End of St Petersburg … (Pudovkin) Human Law (Elvey) Un chien andalou (Buñuel) [short] The Constant Nymph (Brunel) Weekend Wives (Lachman) Daughter of the Regiment (Behrendt) The Woman He Scorned (Czinner) The Alley Cat (Steinhoff) Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov) | 7/10 6/10 ****/5 . 5/10 6/10 5/10 4+/10 4+/10 5/10 6/10 6/10 6/10 5/10 6/10 ****/5 . 6/10 6+/10 5+/10 7+/10 6+/10 7/10 [9/10] 5/10 6/10 8/10 7/10 8/10 . 7/10 7/10* 8/10 7/10 6/10 6/10 7/10 9/10 |
| 1930 . . . 1931 1932 1933 1934 1936 1937 1939 . . | France Germany UK USA USA USA USA UK USA USA France . . | L’age d’or (Buñuel) M (Lang) Bed and Breakfast (Forde) Animal Crackers (Heerman) The Struggle (Griffith) Scarface (Hawks) Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy) Man of Aran (Flaherty) San Francisco (Van Dyke) Hollywood Boulevard (Florey) Daybreak [aka Le jour se leve] (Carne) The Rules of the Game (Renoir) Midnight (Leisen) | 9/10 8/10 7/10 4/10 4/10 6/10 8/10 5+/10 7/10 4/10 5/10 7/10 8/10 |
| 1940 . 1941 . . . 1942 . 1943 . 1944 . 1945 . 1946 . . . 1947 . 1948 . . 1949 | USA . USA . . . UK USA Denmark France UK . USA . UK . USA . Italy USA USA . . UK | Susan and God (Cukor) The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) Citizen Kane (Welles) Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen) The Lady Eve (Sturges) Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges) Went the Day Well? (Cavalcanti) Cat People (Tourneur) Day of Wrath (Dreyer) The Crow [aka Le corbeau] (Clouzot) A Canterbury Tale … (Powell & Pressburger) Detour (Ulmer) The Lost Weekend (Wilder) Black Narcissus … (Powell & Pressburger) Green For Danger (Gilliatt) To Each His Own (Leisen) Ziegfeld Follies (Minnelli etc) Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini) The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Sturges) Key Largo (Huston) Silver River (Walsh) Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges) The Third Man (Reed) AR | 5/10 8/10 8/10 8/10 4/10 7/10 8/10 6/10 7/10 7/10 10/10 . 8/10 5/10 8/10 … 7/10 8/10 6/10 4/10 4/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 [10/10] |
| 1950 . . . . 1951 . 1952 1953 . . . 1954 . . . . . 1955 . . . . 1956 . . 1957 . . . . . . 1958 . . . . 1959 . . . . . . . . | France Mexico USA . . France USA USA W Germany Japan USA . Mexico . UK USA . . USA . . . India USA . . USA . . USA/UK Italy Sweden . France UK USA . . Poland France . . . UK USA . Venez./France | Orphée (Cocteau) Los olvidados (Buñuel) No Man of Her Own (Leisen) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) Where Danger Lives (Farrow) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot) The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise) This Is Cinerama (various) Der Verlorene (Lorre) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Big Leaguer (Aldrich) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe … (Buñuel) Impulse (Endfield) Apache (Aldrich) Crime Wave (de Toth) World For Ransom (Aldrich) All That Heaven Allows (Sirk) The Big Knife (Aldrich) Killer’s Kiss (Kubrick) Kiss Me, Deadly (Aldrich) Pather Panchali (Ray) Attack (Aldrich) Bigger Than Life (Ray) Nightfall (Tourneur) The Brothers Rico (Karlson) Forty Guns (Fuller) Sorority Girl (Corman) Night of the Demon (Tourneur) Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) The Seventh Seal (Bergman) Wild Strawberries (Bergman) Lift to the Scaffold (Malle) Hell Drivers (Endfield) The Lineup (Siegel) Murder By Contract (Lerner) Touch of Evil (Welles) Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda) Breathless [aka A bout de souffle] … (Godard) The 400 Blows (Truffaut) Pickpocket (Bresson) Our Man In Havana (Reed) City of Fear (Lerner) North By Northwest (Hitchcock) Araya (Benacerraf) | 9/10 8/10 8/10 9/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 6/10 6/10 8/10 6/10 8/10 5/10 . 6/10 5/10 7/10 5/10 9/10 4/10 6/10 7/10 5/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 4/10 7/10 5/10 8/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 8/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 8?/10 7/10 9/10 . 7+/10 6/10 5/10 6/10 8/10 5/10 |
| 1960 . . . . . . . 1961 . . . 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963 . . . 1964 . . . . . . . . 1965 . . 1966 . . . . . 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1968 . . . . . . . . . . 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . | France . Italy Japan UK USA . . France . Mexico USA Japan Mexico France . . Italy Poland USA . . . . USSR France Italy . UK Brazil . France/Italy Italy/France USA . . . . UK USA . Japan Sweden UK USA . . Brazil . Canada/USA France . . . UK . . . . USA . . Cuba . France Italy Sweden UK . USA . . USSR Canada Japan . . UK . . . France France/Italy USA . . . | Purple Noon [aka Plein soleil] … (Clement) Bandits in Orgosolo (de Seta) The Sun’s Burial (Oshima) Peeping Tom (Powell) The Apartment (Wilder) The Savage Eye … (Maddow, Meyers, Strick) Chronicle of a Summer… … (Morin & Rouch) Viridiana (Buñuel) The Exiles (Mackenzie) I Hate But Love (Kurehara) The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel) Cleo From 5 To 7 (Varda) Jules et Jim (Truffaut) Vivre sa vie (Godard) Salvatore Giuliano (Rosi) Knife in the Water (Polanski) The Intruder (Corman) The Manchurian Candidate … (Frankenheimer) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? … (Aldrich) Ivan’s Childhood (Tarkovsky) Le mepris (Godard) 8 ½ (Fellini) Hands Over the City (Rosi) From Russia With Love (Young) At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul … (Mojica Marins) The Diary of a Chambermaid (Buñuel) The Red Desert (Antonioni) Dog Star Man (Brakhage) Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Aldrich) The Masque of the Red Death … (Corman) The Tomb of Ligeia (Corman) Bunny Lake is Missing (Preminger) The Cincinatti Kid (Jewison) The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich) Violence at Noon (Oshima) Persona (Bergman) Cul-de-Sac (Polanski) The Sex Cycle (Sarno) Seconds (Frankenheimer) The Wild Angels (Corman) This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse … (Mojica Marins) Wavelength (Snow) Belle de jour (Buñuel) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her … (Godard) Play Time (Tati) Charlie Bubbles (Finney) Privilege (Watkins) The Sorcerers (Reeves) Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London … (Whitehead) Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker) Point Blank (Boorman) The Trip (Corman) Memories of Underdevelopment … (Gutierrez Alea) The Bride Wore Black (Truffaut) Danger: Diabolik! (Bava) The Hour of the Wolf (Bergman) Witchfinder General (Reeves) One Plus One (Godard) The Boston Strangler (Fleischer) Night of the Living Dead (Romero) Targets (Bogdanovich) Stars of the Day (Talankin) [1966-68] Stereo (Cronenberg) Blue Film Woman (Mukai) Go, Go, Second Time Virgin …(Wakamatsu) The Fall (Whitehead) Kes (Loach) Moonlight on the Highway … (TV: scr.Potter) Ma nuit chez Maud (Rohmer) Army in the Shadows (Melville) The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle) Pit Stop (Hill) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? … (Pollack) | 6/10 . 8/10 6/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 . 7/10 . 6+/10 7/10 6/10 9/10 8/10 6+/10 6/10 7/10 7/10 7/10 7/10 . 8/10 . 7/10 5/10 5/10 6/10 6/10 5/10 . 7/10 5/10 10/10 7/10 7/10 … 6/10 6/10 5/10 7/10 6/10 5/10 9/10 6/10 6/10 4/10 5/10 . 7/10 9/10 6/10 . 7/10 8/10 6/10 6/10 8/10 . 10/10 10/10 6/10 7+/10 . 5/10 5+/10 7/10 8/10 8/10 5/10 8/10 9/10 7/10 4/10 6/10 5/10 . 2/10 8/10 7/10 . 4+/10 8/10 9/10 7/10 6/10 . |
| 1970 . . . . . . . . . 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975 . . . . . . . . 1976 . . . . . . . . . . 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1978 . . . . . 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Canada UK . . . Italy Switzerland USA . W Germany UK . . . . USA . . . . . . W Germany Belgium Japan Syria UK . . USA . . . . . . . USSR W Germany Austria UK . UK/Italy USA . . . . . . . . Spain . Canada France Philippines USA . . USA/Mexico . USSR . W Germany . . France Italy . Italy/Fra/Spn Canada W Germany USA . . Austria Ethiopia USA . . . . . Philippines Poland/UK W Germany Brazil France/Spn Netherlands UK . Italy Japan Poland Switzerland USA . . USA/WGer. W Germany Yugoslavia . Austria USA . . . . Canada Hungary France Philippines UK/USA UK . . UK/WGer. USA . . . . . USSR W Germany . . | Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg) And Soon the Darkness (Fuest) Blood On Satan’s Claw (Haggard) The House That Dripped Blood (Duffell) Performance (Cammell & Roeg) The Spider’s Stratagem (Bertolucci) The Wedding Day (Goretta) Captain Milkshake (Crawford) Wanda (Loden) Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) Get Carter (Hodges) Macbeth (Polanski) Private Road (Platts-Mills) Twins of Evil (Hough) Harold and Maude (Ashby) The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich) Little Murders (Arkin) McCabe and Mrs Miller (Altman) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm -Take One … (Greaves) The Velvet Vampire (Rothman) Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog) Malpertuis (Kumel) Ecstasy of the Angels (Wakamatsu) The Dupes aka The Deceived (Saleh) Made (Mackenzie) Savage Messiah (Russell) The Stone Tape (TV: scr.Kneale) Bone: A Bad Bad In Beverly Hills … (Cohen) Cisco Pike (Martin) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds … (Newman) The Getaway (Peckinpah) What’s Up, Doc? (Bogdanovich) Solaris (Tarkovsky) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog) I Just Can’t Go On (Cook) The Final Programme (Fuest) O Lucky Man! (Anderson) Don’t Look Now (Roeg) American Graffiti (Lucas) Badlands (Malick) The Crazies (Romero) The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Yates) The Last American Hero (Johnson) The Long Goodbye (Altman) Mean Streets (Scorsese) Soylent Green (Fleischer) The Sugarland Express (Spielberg) The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue … (Grau) Black Christmas (Clark) Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette) Weighed But Found Wanting (Brocka) Gone In 60 Seconds (Halicki) It’s Alive (Cohen) The Working Girls (Rothman) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia … (Peckinpah) The Autumn (Smirnov) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Alice in the Cities (Wenders) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog) Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder) The Beast [aka La bete] (Borowczyk) Deep Red (Argento) Salo (Pasolini) The Passenger (Antonioni) Shivers (Cronenberg) Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder) Nashville (Altman) God Told Me To (Cohen) Hustle (Aldrich) Slow Summer (Cook) Harvest – 3000 Years (Gerima) All the President’s Men (Pakula) Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter) Blue Sunshine (Lieberman) Killing of a Chinese Bookie … (Cassavetes) Mikey and Nicky (May) Insiang (Brocka) The Shadow Line (Wajda) Heart of Glass (Herzog) O abismu (Sganzerla) That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel) Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven) Nuts In May (TV: scr/dir.Leigh) The Squeeze (Apted) Suspiria (Argento) House (Obayashi) aka Hausu The Dancing Hawk (Kroliekiewicz) Violanta (Schmid) Annie Hall (Allen) Julia (Zinnemann) Killer of Sheep (Burnett) Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Aldrich) Stroszek (Herzog) The Dog Who Loved Trains … (Paskaljevic) Clinch (Cook) Big Wednesday (Milius) The Driver (Hill) The Exorcist II – The Heretic (Boorman) Fingers (Toback) The Whole Shootin’ Match (Pennell) The Brood (Cronenberg) Little Valentino (Jeles) The Adolescent (Moreau) Jaguar (Brocka) Alien: Director’s Cut (Scott) – 79/03 Black Jack (Loach) The Long Good Friday (MacKenzie) Casting the Runes (TV: scr.Exton) Radio On (Petit) Breaking Away (Yates) Chilly Scenes of Winter (Micklin Silver) The Ninth Configuration (Blatty) Poto and Cabengo (Gorin) Town Bloody Hall … (Hegedus & Pennebaker) Stalker (Tarkovsky) The Marriage of Maria Braun … (Fassbinder) Woyzeck (Herzog) | 6?/10 5/10 7/10 6/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 6/10 8/10 1/10 7/10 8/10 6/10 7/10 6/10 9/10 10/10 5/10 9/10 7/10 . 6/10 5/10 4/10 4/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 6/10 9/10 . 3/10 6/10 . . 7/10 6/10 6/10 8+/10 8/10 7/10 7/10 10/10 10/10 10/10 7/10 6/10 6/10 10/10 9/10 7/10 7/10 7/10 . 6/10 7/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 7/10 9/10 . 5/10 10/10 6/10 7+/10 9/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 9/10 7/10 7/10 10/10 5/10 7/10 8/10 7/10 9/10 7/10 6/10 7/10 … 5/10 8/10 5/10 8/10 4?/10 8/10 7/10 8/10 7/10 10/10 6/10 9/10 3?/10 10/10 5+/10 7/10 8/10 8/10 8/10 . 7+/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 8/10 7/10 8/10 7/10 4/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 8/10 7/10 9/10 7/10 7/10 5/10 7/10 8/10 . 6/10 7/10 . 6/10 |
| 1980 . . . . . 1981 . . . . . . 1982 . . . . . . . 1983 . . . . . 1984 . . . . 1985 . . . . . . 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987 . . . 1988 . . . . . 1989 . . . . . | Italy Spain UK UK/USA . USA Belgium E Germany UK UK/USA . USA . France Italy Japan . USA . . W Germany Finland France Netherlands Port./Switz. USA . Denmark France . USA . China . Finland Italy/USA USA . . Fra/Switz . Swe/Fra/UK UK USA . . . . . WGer/Portugal . . UK USA . . Canada/US E Germany Netherlands UK . WGer/USA Finland . USA China W Germany . | Inferno (Argento) Arrebato (Zulueta) That Sinking Feeling (Forsyth) The Elephant Man (Lynch) The Shining (Kubrick) The Big Red One (Fuller) [1980/2004] Des morts (Zeno, Farbus, Garny) Jadup and Boel (Simon) Artemis 81 (TV : scr.Rudkin) An American Werewolf In London … (Landis) Basket Case (Henenlotter) Fear No Evil (La Loggia) L’ange (Bokanowski) Tenebrae (Argento) The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September… (Nagasaki) Firefox (Eastwood) The Thing (Carpenter) Cat People (Schrader) Veronika Voss (Fassbinder) Crime and Punishment (Kaurismaki) Sun Less (Marker) The Fourth Man (Verhoeven) In the White City (Tanner) The Flower of Pain (Gianvito) The Keep (Mann) The Element of Crime (Von Trier) Favourites of the Moon (Iosseliani) Love on the Ground (Rivette) Savage Streets (Steinmann) This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner) In the Wild Mountains (Yan) Sacrificed Youth (Zhang) Calamari Union (Kaurismaki) Phenomena (Argento) Mala Noche (Van Sant) The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen) Racetrack (Wiseman) Rise and Fall of a Little Film Company… … (Godard) The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) Thames Film (Raban) Blue Velvet (Lynch) The Fly (Cronenberg) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer … (McNaughton) Manhunter (Mann) Routine Pleasures (Gorin) The King of Roses [aka Der Rosenkonig] … (Schroeter) Withnail and I (Robinson) Barfly (Schroeder) Matewan (Sayles) Prince of Darkness (Carpenter) Dead Ringers (Cronenberg) After Winter Comes Spring (Misselwitz) The Vanishing (Sluizer) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen … (Gilliam) No Frank In Lumberton (Braatz) TV Leningrad Cowboys Go America … (Kaurismaki) The Kill-Off (Greenwald) AR Black Snow (Xie) The Grass Is Always Greener Everywhere Else … (Klier) GR | 8/10 2/10 6+/10 10/10 8/10 7/10 5/10 4/10 8/10 9/10 . 8/10 2/10 8/10 8/10 4?/10 . 5/10 9/10 5/10 9/10 5/10 5/10 7/10 4/10 6/10 6/10 5/10 6/10 3/10 5/10 7/10 5/10 6/10 6/10 7/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 7/10 . 8/10 5/10 10/10 8/10 7/10 . 8/10 10/10 8/10 . . 7/10 5/10 6/10 8/10 6/10 6/10 9/10 5/10 . 8/10 6/10 . [7/10] 6/10 [6/10] . |
| 1990 . . . . 1991 . . . . 1992 . . 1993 . . . . . . 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . 1995 . . . . . . 1996 . . . . . 1997 . . . . . . . . . 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . | Spain USA Poland/Fra. . W Germany USA . Canada . UK Finland France Senegal Canada . Norway UK USA . . Cambodia Canada Finland Hong Kong UK USA . . . . Germany Hong Kong Japan Romania USA . . . USA/UK Japan . USA . . . Austria France Germany Japan Spain . UK USA . . Austria Denmark . France France India Japan . Norway UK . . USA | Warsaw Bridge (Portabella) Metropolitan (Stillman) The Double Life of Veronique … (Kieslowski) How to Live in the FRG (Farocki) My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant) Point Break (Bigelow) AR Manufacturing Consent … (Wintonick & Achbar) Blue Black Permanent (Tait) Darkness In Tallinn (Jarvilaturi) Hell [aka L'enfer] (Chabrol) Hyenas (Diop Mambety) Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance … (Obomsawin) Stella Polaris (Jensen) London (Keiller) Dazed and Confused (Linklater) Six Degrees of Separation … (Schepisi) AR Rice People (Panh) Picture of Light (Mettler) Tigrero… (Kaurismaki) Chung King Express (Wong) Shallow Grave (Boyle) AR Barcelona (Stillman) AR Bullets Over Broadway (Allen) AR Clerks (Smith) AR Quiz Show (Redford) AR Star Trek : Generations (Carson) AR Drifters (TV – scr/dir.Petzold) Fallen Angels (Wong) Another Lonely Hitman (Mochizuki) Passo Doble (Pita) GR Castle Freak (Gordon) Heat (Mann) Kids (Clark) The Usual Suspects (Singer) AR Judge Dredd (Cannon) AR Helpless (Aoyama) Two Punks (Aoyama) The Arrival (Twohy) Paradise Lost … … (Berlinger & Sinofsky – TV) Schizopolis (Soderbergh) Funny Games (Haneke) Gadjo Dilo (Gatlif) Cuba Libre (dir/scr. Petzold) Raigyo (Zeze) Live Flesh (Almodovar) Train of Shadows (Guerin) Robinson In Space (Keiller) Boogie Nights (Anderson) The Game (Fincher) In the Company of Men (Labute) GR Megacities (Glawogger) GR The Celebration [aka Festen] … (Vinterberg) L’ennui (Kahn) Seul contre tous (Noe) The Terrorist (Sivan) Ring (Nakata) Dogs (Nagasaki) Bloody Angels (Julsrud) Following (Nolan) Get Real (Shore) Velvet Goldmine (Haynes) Rushmore (Anderson) | 4/10 8/10 7/10 . 6/10 6/10 [6/10] 6?/10 . 5/10 7/10 5/10 5/10 7/10 . 7/10 9/10 8/10 [8/10] . 5/10 5/10 5/10 7/10 [8/10] [8/10] [7/10] [8/10] [8/10] [8/10] 7/10 8/10 6/10 [?/10] 5/10 10/10 4/10 [8/10] [7/10] 5/10 4?/10 5/10 7/10 . 6/10 10/10 6/10 6/10 7/10 6/10 6/10 10/10 9/10 10/10 [9/10] [8/10] 10/10 . 7/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 5/10 7/10 5/10 4/10 8/10 9/10 |
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