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Favorite Films Each Year
- 1926: Nana (Jean Renoir)
- 1927: Sunrise (FW Murnau)
- 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
- 1931: La chienne (Jean Renoir)
- 1932: La Nuit du Carrefour (Jean Renoir)
- 1933: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
- 1934: L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
- 1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
- 1936: Les bas-fonds (Jean Renoir)
- 1937: You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
- 1938: Holiday (George Cukor)
- 1939: La regle du jeu (Jean Renoir)
- 1940: The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
- 1941: Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
- 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
- 1943: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
- 1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
- 1945: Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
- 1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
- 1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
- 1949: Jour de fete (Jacques Tati)
- 1950: In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
- 1951: A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
- 1952: Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
- 1953: The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
- 1954: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph Mankiewicz)
- 1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1956: Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
- 1957: Men in War (Anthony Mann)
- 1958: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
- 1959: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
- 1960: Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
- 1961: Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
- 1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
- 1963: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
- 1964: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1965: Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- 1966: Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- 1967: La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
- 1968: L'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
- 1969: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
- 1970: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- 1971: The French Connection (William Friedkin)
- 1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1973: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
- 1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
- 1975: Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
- 1976: Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
- 1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- 1978: Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
- 1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1980: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
- 1981: Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
- 1982: The Thing (John Carpenter)
- 1983: L'argent (Robert Bresson)
- 1984: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
- 1985: Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)
- 1986: Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
- 1987: Where Is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami)
- 1988: Bird (Clint Eastwood)
- 1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- 1990: Trust (Hal Hartley)
- 1991: My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
- 1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- 1993: Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
- 1994: Les Roseaux sauvages (Andre Techine)
- 1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
- 1996: Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- 1997: Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
- 1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
- 1999: The Insider (Michael Mann)
- 2000: Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- 2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
- 2002: Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
- 2003: All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
- 2004: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
- 2005: Les amants reguliers (Philippe Garrel)
- 2006: L'enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- 2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- 2008: Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- Favorites Wrap-Up
MOST RECENTLY WATCHED
- Passing Fancy (1933)
- Minding the Gap (2018)
- Ishtar (1987)
- Claire's Camera (2018)
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
- In the Realm of Perfection (2018)
- A New Leaf (1971)
- Racetrack (1985)
- Let the Sunshine In (2017)
- Sorry to Bother You (2018)
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