My Top 10 Lists
My Top 10 American Films of All Time (in no particular order)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
Raging Bull
There Will Be Blood
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
No Country for Old Men
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List
My Top 10 Foreign Films of All Time (in no particular order)
The 400 Blows
The Rules of the Game
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red)
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
Tokyo Story
City of God
In the Mood for Love
Pan's Labyrinth
Seven Samurai
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My Top 10 of the 00's (in order)
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Synecdoche, New York
Pan's Labyrinth
Mulholland Dr.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker
25th Hour
City of God
My Top 10 of the 90's (in order)
Schindler's List
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Saving Private Ryan
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red)
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
American Beauty
My Top 10 of the 80's (in order)
Raging Bull
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Platoon
The Right Stuff
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Fanny and Alexander
Ran
Blade Runner
Scarface
My Top 10 of the 70's (in order)
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
The Godfather: Part II
Network
All the President's Men
My Top 10 of the 60's (in order)
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
Last Year at Marienbad
Persona
Winter Light
Dr. Strangelove
Psycho
Breathless
Lawrence of Arabia
My Top 10 of the 50's (in order)
Vertigo
Sunset Boulevard
Tokyo Story
Seven Samurai
The 400 Blows
On the Waterfront
The Seventh Seal
Umberto D.
Rashomon
Rear Window
My Top 10 of the 40's (in order)
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Notorious
The Third Man
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Bicycle Thief
It's A Wonderful Life
Pinnochio
My Top 10 of the 30's (in order)
The Rules of the Game
Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
City Lights
Grand Illusion
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It Happened One Night
My Man Godfrey
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My Top 10 of 2009 (in order)
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air
Up
You, the Living
Precious
Still Walking
Goodbye Solo
My Top 10 of 2008 (in order)
Synecdoche, New York
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
The Wrestler
Chop Shop
Silent Light
Man on Wire
Waltz with Bashir
Revolutionary Road
My Top 10 of 2007 (in order)
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
The Lives of Others
Michael Clayton
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ratatouille
Juno
Zodiac
Atonement
Into the Wild
My Top 10 of 2006 (in order)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Departed
United 93
Children of Men
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Letters From Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
The Queen
Lady Vengeance
Casino Royale
My Top 10 of 2005 (in order)
Brokeback Mountain
The New World
King Kong
Crash
Munich
Sin City
Good Night, and Good Luck
Nobody Knows
Oldboy
Hustle & Flow
My Top 10 of 2004 (in order)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
The Incredibles
The Sea Inside
Hotel Rwanda
Ray
The Return
My Top 10 of 2003 (in order)
City of God
Lost in Translation
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Monster
American Splendor
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Finding Nemo
Mystic River
21 Grams
House of Sand and Fog
My Top 10 of 2002 (in order)
25th Hour
Adaptation
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Spirited Away
The Pianist
Talk to Her
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Minority Report
Gangs of New York
Chicago
My Top 10 of 2001 (in order)
Mulholland Dr.
In the Mood for Love
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Werckmeister Harmonies
Waking Life
Amelie
Gosford Park
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Donnie Darko
Ghost World
My Top 10 of 2000 (in order)
Almost Famous
Yi Yi
Traffic
High Fidelity
The Cell
Requiem for a Dream
Memento
American Psycho
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Gladiator
My Top 10 of 1999 (in order)
Magnolia
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Princess Mononoke
The Sixth Sense
Eyes Wide Shut
The Insider
All About My Mother
The Matrix
Fight Club