Top Ten of 2002

Last Update: 10/12/02 - Added The Rules of Attraction ; Bumped Blade II

01. What Time Is It There?
(Taiwan, d. Tsai Ming-liang)
02. All About Lily Chou-Chou
(Japan, d. Shunji Iwai)
03. Spirited Away
(Japan, d. Hayao Miyazaki)
04. Irréversible
(France, d. Gaspar Noé)
05. Monsoon Wedding
(India, d. Mira Nair)
06. The Piano Teacher
(Austria, d. Michael Haneke)
07. Minority Report
(United States, d. Steven Spielberg)
08. Kaïro
(Japan, d. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
09. The Kid Stays in the Picture
(United States, d. Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen)
10. The Rules of Attraction
(United States, d. Roger Avary)


Top Twenty Older Films Seen for the First Time
(Last Updated - 6/20/02)

01. My Life to Live (France, 1962, d. Jean-Luc Godard)
02. Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953, d. Yasujiro Ozu)
03. Band of Outsiders (France, 1963, d. Jean-Luc Godard)
04. Raging Bull (United States, 1980, d. Martin Scorsese)
05. Au hasard, Balthazar (France, 1966, d. Robert Bresson)
06. Audition (Japan, 1999, d. Takashi Miike)
07. Sunrise (United States, 1927, d. F.W. Murnau)
08. Schindler's List (United States, 1993, d. Steven Spielberg)
09. Va savoir (France, 2000, d. Jacques Rivette)
10. George Washington (United States, 2000, d. David Gordon Green)

11. Paths of Glory (United States, 1957, d. Stanley Kubrick)
12. The Big City (India, 1963, d. Satyajit Ray)
13. Le petit soldat (France, 1960, d. Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Mouchette (France, 1967, d. Robert Bresson)
15. Fires on the Plain (Japan, 1959, d. Kon Itchikawa)
16. Les bonnes femmes (France, 1960, d. Claude Chabrol)
17. The Life of Oharu (Japan, 1952, d. Kenji Mizoguchi)
18. Blow Out (United States, 1981, d. Brian De Palma)
19. The Exterminating Angel (Spain, 1962, d. Luis Bunuel)
20. Nosferatu, The Vampyre (Germany, 1979, d. Werner Herzog)