Top Ten: 1996

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

A Moment of Innocence [Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996]:

A Summer's Tale [Éric Rohmer, 1996]:

Irma Vep [Olivier Assayas, 1996]:

Brigands-Chapter VII [Otar Iosseliani, 1996]:

Drifting Clouds [Aki Kaurismäki, 1996]:

Mission: Impossible [Brian De Palma, 1996]:

Don't Look Up (aka Ghost Actress) [Hideo Nakata, 1996]:

Karaoke / Cold Lazarus [Renny Rye, 1996]:

For Ever Mozart [Jean-Luc Godard, 1996]:

The Pillow Book [Peter Greenaway, 1996]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 1998

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Lovers of the Arctic Circle [Julio Medem, 1998]:

The Truman Show [Peter Weir, 1998]:

The Idiots [Lars von Trier, 1998]:

Buffalo '66 [Vincent Gallo, 1998]:

Festen (The Celebration) [Thomas Vinterberg, 1998]:

Secret Defense [Jacques Rivette, 1998]:

Bullet Ballet [Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1998]:

The Apple [Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998]:

Sombre [Philippe Grandrieux, 1998]:

Ring [Hideo Nakata, 1998]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.

Top Ten: 2002

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Distant [Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002]:

Solaris [Steven Soderbergh, 2002]:

Workers, Peasants [Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 2002]:

Dark Water [Hideo Nakata, 2002]:

The Man Without a Past [Aki Kaurismäki, 2002]:

Waiting for Happiness [Abderrahmane Sissako, 2002]:

Spider [David Cronenberg, 2002]:

The Good Thief [Neil Jordan, 2002]:

Russian Ark [Alexander Sokurov, 2002]:

A Snake of June [Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2002]:

Above, arranged in order of preference, my personal top-ten best films of the year (from what I've seen), accurate at the time of writing.