Top Ten: 1991

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero [Jean-Luc Godard, 1991]:

The Suspended Step of the Stork [Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1991]:

Only Yesterday [Isao Takahata, 1991]:

The Fisher King [Terry Gilliam, 1991]:

Barton Fink [Joel & Ethan Coen, 1991]:

Kafka [Steven Soderbergh, 1991]:

Europa [Lars von Trier, 1991]:

JFK [Oliver Stone, 1991]:

Jacquot de Nantes [Agnès Varda, 1991]:

The Visitor (aka The Stranger) [Satyajit Ray, 1991]:

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: 1993

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Oh, Woe is Me! (Hélas pour moi) [Jean-Luc Godard, 1993]:

King of the Hill [Steven Soderbergh, 1993]:

Matinee [Joe Dante, 1993]:

Abraham's Valley [Manoel de Oliveira, 1993]:

Manhattan Murder Mystery [Woody Allen, 1993]:

Three Colours: Blue [Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993]:

D'Est (From the East) [Chantal Akerman, 1993]:

Blue [Derek Jarman, 1993]:

Carlito's Way [Brian De Palma, 1993]:

Faraway, So Close! [Wim Wenders, 1993]:

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.

Top Ten: 2008

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Che: Parts One & Two [Steven Soderbergh, 2008]:

24 City [Jia Zhangke, 2008]:

Melancholia [Lav Diaz, 2008]:

The Beaches of Agnès [Agnès Varda, 2008]:

Frontier of the Dawn [Philippe Garrel, 2008]:

Birdsong [Albert Serra, 2008]:

Un lac [Philippe Grandrieux, 2008]:

The Sky Crawlers [Mamoru Oshii, 2008]:

Adam Resurrected [Paul Schrader, 2008]:

Waltz with Bashir [Ari Folman, 2008]:

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: 2009

Ranking the Decades

A Year in Film List + Image Gallery

Ondine [Neil Jordan, 2009]:

Public Enemies [Michael Mann, 2009]:

Wild Grass [Alain Resnais, 2009]:

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno 

[Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Annonier, 2009]:

The Girlfriend Experience [Steven Soderbergh, 2009]:

Inglourious Basterds [Quentin Tarantino, 2009]:

The Informant! [Steven Soderbergh, 2009]:

The Hole [Joe Dante, 2009]:

Tetro [Francis Ford Coppola, 2009]:

After Last Season [Mark Region, 2009]:

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.