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Kino
of the Crop
(A recent selection
of a dozen
transcendent classics)

Lola
(Demy 1961)

Babette's Feast
(Axel 1987)

The Cranes
Are Flying
(Kalatozov 1957)

Walkabout
(Roeg 1971)

The Player
(Altman 1992)

The Scarlett Empress
(Sternberg 1934)

Raise the
Red Lantern
(Yimou 1991)

Audition
(Miike 1999)

Elevator to
the Gallows
(Malle 1957)

Letter from an Unknown Woman
(Ophüls 1948)

The Best Years of Our Lives
(Wyler 1946)

Laura
(Preminger 1944)

Top 20 films of 2018

1. Mandy
2. First Man
3. The Favourite
4. You Were Never
Really Here
5. Cold War
6. Unsane
7. Annihilation
8. Eighth Grade
9. Mission: ImpossibleFallout
10. Roma
11. The Other Side
of the Wind
12. Lean on Pete
13. Gemini
14. Wildlife
15. First Reformed
16. Leave No Trace
17. Avengers: Infinity War
18. Upgrade
19. The Ballad of
Buster Scruggs
20. Spider-Man:
Into the Spider-Verse

Top 10 films of 2017

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Wind River
3. Lady Bird
4. Last Flag Flying
5. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
6. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
7. Call Me By Your Name
8. The Beguiled
9. Phantom Thread
10. Get Out

Top 10 films of 2016

1. La La Land
2. The Witch
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. The Lobster
5. Everybody Wants Some!!
6. Moonlight
7. The Love Witch
8. Knight of Cups
9. 20th Century Women
10. The Edge of Seventeen

Top 10 films of 2015

1. Room
2. Mistress America
3. Ex Machina
4. Anomalisa
5. Inside Out
6. It Follows
7. Son of Saul
8. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. While We’re Young

Top 10 films of 2014

1. Boyhood
2. Inherent Vice
3. Whiplash
4. Nightcrawler
5. Edge of Tomorrow
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
7. Wild Tales
8. Ida
9. Foxcatcher
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Top 20 films of 2013

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Frances Ha
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. The Great Beauty
5. Before Midnight
6. Prisoners
7. Short Term 12
8. Blue is the
Warmest Colour
9. Coherence
10. The Tale of
Princess Kaguya
11. The Wolf of Wall Street
12. Fruitvale Station
13. Her
14. Enemy
15. Side Effects
16. Spring Breakers
17. The Wind Rises
18. In A World…
19. Stoker
20. Under the Skin

Woody Allen
Top 10 film ranked

1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Husbands and Wives
5. Hannah and Her Sisters
6. Love and Death
7. The Purple Rose of Cairo
8. Match Point
9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
10. Zelig

Paul Thomas Anderson films ranked

1. Inherent Vice
2. The Master
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Boogie Nights
5. Phantom Thread
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Magnolia
8. Hard Eight

Wes Anderson
films ranked

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Rushmore
6. The Darjeeling Limited
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Isle of Dogs
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Noah Baumbach
films ranked

1. Mistress America
2. Frances Ha
3. The Meyerowitz Stories
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. While We’re Young
6. De Palma
7. Kicking and Screaming
8. Greenberg
9. Mr. Jealousy
10. Margot at the Wedding
11. Highball

The Coen Brothers
films ranked

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Man Who
Wasn’t There
5. A Serious Man
6. Fargo
7. Barton Fink
8. Burn After Reading
9. O Brother,
Where Art Thou?
10. Hail Caesar!
11. Raising Arizona
12. The Ballad of
Buster Scruggs
13. Intolerable Cruelty
14. Blood Simple
15. The Hudsucker Proxy
16. True Grit
17. The Ladykillers
18. Miller’s Crossing

David Fincher
films ranked

1. Zodiac
2. The Social Network
3. Fight Club
4. Se7en
5. The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo
6. Gone Girl
7. Panic Room
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. The Game
10. Alien 3

Stanley Kubrick
Top 10 films ranked

1. The Shining
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Barry Lyndon
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Paths of Glory
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Lolita
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. The Killing

Richard Linklater
films ranked

1. Waking Life
2. Before Sunrise
3. Before Sunset
4. Boyhood
5. A Scanner Darkly
6. Dazed and Confused
7. Before Midnight
8. School of Rock
9. Everybody Wants Some!!
10. Last Flag Flying
11. Slacker
12. Bernie
13. Tape
14. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
15. Me and Orson Welles
16. SubUrbia
17. The Newton Boys
18. Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
19. Fast Food Nation
20. Bad News Bears

David Lynch
films ranked

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Lost Highway
3. The Elephant Man
4. Eraserhead
5. Blue Velvet
6. Inland Empire
7. Twin Peaks:
Fire Walk With Me
8. The Straight Story
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

Terrence Malick
films ranked

1. The Tree of Life
2. The New World
3. Knight of Cups
4. Badlands
5. The Thin Red Line
6. To The Wonder
7. Days of Heaven
8. Song to Song
9. Voyage of Time

Marvel Cinematic Universe
ranked

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Doctor Strange
3. Iron Man
4. The Avengers
5. Captain America:
Civil War
6. Thor: Ragnarok
7. Ant-Man
8. Iron Man 3
9. Avengers: Endgame
10. Black Panther
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron
12. Guardians of the Galaxy
13. Captain America:
The Winter Soldier
14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
15. Thor: The Dark World
16. Captain Marvel
17. Thor
18. Spider-Man: Homecoming
19. Captain America:
The First Avenger
20. Ant-Man and the Wasp
21. Spider-Man:
Far From Home
22. Iron Man 2
23. The Incredible Hulk

Hayao Miyazaki
films ranked

1. Spirited Away
2. The Castle of Cagliostro
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Kiki's Delivery Service
5. Nausicaa of the
Valley of the Wind
6. The Wind Rises
7. Howl's Moving Castle
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Castle in the Sky
10. Porco Rosso
11. Ponyo

Christopher Nolan
films ranked

1. The Dark Knight
2. Inception
3. The Prestige
4. Memento
5. Dunkirk
6. Batman Begins
7. Following
8. Interstellar
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Insomnia

Pixar
films ranked

1. The Incredibles
2. Ratatouille
3. Up
4. Inside Out
5. Toy Story
6. Toy Story 2
7. Toy Story 3
8. Monsters Inc.
9. Finding Nemo
10. Toy Story 4
11. Incredibles 2
12. Wall-E
13. A Bug’s Life
14. Coco
15. Brave
16. Finding Dory
17. Monster’s University
18. Cars
19. The Good Dinosaur
20. Cars 3
21. Cars 2

Steven Spielberg
Top 10 films ranked

1. War of the Worlds
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Jaws
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Minority Report
6. Schindler's List
7. A. I. Artificial Intelligence
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Jurassic Park
10. Munich

Quentin Tarantino
films ranked

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill Volume 1
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Django Unchained
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Jackie Brown
8. Kill Bill Volume 2
9. The Hateful Eight

Top 10 films of 2012

1. The Master
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. 21 Jump Street
4. The Hunt
5. ParaNorman
6. Django Unchained
7. Seven Psychopaths
8. Holy Motors
9. Like Someone in Love
10. Magic Mike

Top 10 films of 2011

1. The Tree of Life
2. The Descendants
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Drive
5. A Separation
6. Shame
7. Beginners
8. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
9. 50/50
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin

Top 10 films of 2010

1. The Social Network
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Toy Story 3
4. Inception
5. L’Illusionniste
6. City Island
7. Meek’s Cutoff
8. Submarine
9. Never Let Me Go
10. Black Swan

Top 10 films of 2009

1. Up in the Air
2. A Serious Man
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Up
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Adventureland
8. (500) Days of Summer
9. Bad Lieutenant:
Port of Call New Orleans
10. Dogtooth

Top 10 films of 2008

1. Synecdoche, New York
2. In Bruges
3. The Class
4. The Dark Knight
5. Let the Right One In
6. The Wrestler
7. Burn After Reading
8. Be Kind, Rewind
9. Vicky Christina Barcelona
10. Wendy and Lucy

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Film Briefing

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Jump toa month in movies

Kinoof the Crop(A recent selectionof a dozentranscendent classics)

Jump to
a month in movies

Kino
of the Crop
(A recent selection
of a dozen
transcendent classics)