Top Ten Page
An archive of my annual top ten lists.

2005
  1. The New World
  2. Broken Flowers
  3. Reel Paradise
  4. Grizzly Man
  5. Mysterious Skin
  6. Head-On
  7. Oldboy/Save the Green Planet
  8. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  9. King Kong
  10. Brokeback Mountain

2004
  1. Before Sunset
  2. Sideways
  3. Moolaade
  4. The Incredibles
  5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  6. Million Dollar Baby
  7. Los Angeles Plays Itself
  8. Hero/House of Flying Daggers
  9. The Aviator
  10. I Heart Huckabee's

2003
  1. Capturing the Friedmans
  2. Lost In Translation
  3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  4. Finding Nemo
  5. The Triplets of Belleville
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  7. A Mighty Wind
  8. The Barbarian Invasions
  9. Dirty Pretty Things
  10. The Matrix Reloaded

2002
  1. Spirited Away
  2. Far From Heaven
  3. Talk to Her
  4. Bloody Sunday
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  6. Punch-Drunk Love
  7. The Pianist
  8. Adaptation
  9. The Hours
  10. Lilo & Stitch


Below are two additional lists. The first lists my ten favorite movies of all time, the ones that I can watch over and over again without ever growing bored. The second lists my own picks for the greatest movies ever made, films that have had a profound impact on both my own cinematic education and the art of filmmaking at large. Both lists undergo changes almost every year, but for now, this is where they stand.

Top Ten Favorite Movies
1) Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
2) The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
3) Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
4) Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
5) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
6) Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, 2000)
7) 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
8) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
9) A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
10) Toy Story/Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1995/1999)

Top Ten Movies of All Time
1) The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
2) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
3) The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
4) Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
5) Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
6) Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
7) 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
8) Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
9) Mr. Death (Errol Morris, 1999)
10) Fantasia (Various, 1940)
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