Decades - Revised

I posted this last year: this is revision. No huge changes, but plenty of tweaks here and there - including some plain cheating in the 50s and 60s so it's not just the Godard and Imamura greatest hits...

2000s:
1. Inland Empire - USA - David Lynch
2. Yi Yi - Taiwan - Edward Yang
3. Vanda's Room - Portugal - Pedro Costa
4. Kings and Queen - France - Arnaud Desplechins
5. 2046 - China - Wong Kar-wei
6. Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Romania - Christi Puiu
7. Colossal Youth - Portugal - Pedro Costa
8. L'Intrus - France - Claire Denis
9. O Brother Where Art Thou? - US - Coen Brothers
10. Los Angeles Plays Itself - USA - Thom Anderson

1990s: [nothing new - reflection of what I've seen this year, I guess]
1. Rushmore - USA - Wes Anderson
2. Breaking the Waves - Denmark/UK - Lars Van Trier
3. Goodbye, South, Goodbye - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
4. Satantango - Hungary - Bela Tarr
5. Fallen Angels - Hong Kong - Wong Kar-wei
6. Flowers of Shanghai - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
7. Beijing Bastards - PRC - Zhang Yuan
8. Through the Olive Trees - Iran - Abbas Kiarostami
9. Happy Together - Hong Kong - Wong Kar-wei
10. White - France/Poland - Krysztof Kieslowski

1980s:
1. City of Sadness - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
2. Blue Velvet - USA - David Lynch
3. Fitzcarraldo - Germany - Werner Herzog
4. The Elephant Man - USA - David Lynch
5. Do the Right Thing - USA - Spike Lee
6. Peking Opera Blues - Hong Kong - Tsui Hark
7. Brazil - UK/USA - Terry Gilliam
8. Blind Chance - Poland - Krysztof Kieslowski
9. Full Metal Jacket - USA - Stanley Kubrick
10. Blade Runner- USA - Ridley Scott [yet another rerelease, and it's back up here again]

1970s: [no real changes: a strong decade, of films I've seen many times...]
1.McCabe and Mrs Miller - USA - Robert Altman
2. Aguirre Wrath of God - Germany - Werner Herzog
3. A Woman Under the Influence - USA - John Cassavetes
4. Nashville - USA - Altman
5. Celine and Julie Go Boating - France - Jacques Rivette
6. Mystery of Kasper Hauser (Every Man for Himself and God Against All) - Germany - Werner Herzog
7. Killer of Sheep - USA - Charles Burnett
8. Killing of a Chinese Bookie - USA - John Cassavetes
9. The Long Goodbye - USA - Altman
10. Camera Buff - Poland - Krysztof Kieslowski

1960s: [the 50s and 60s are impossible to rank fairly. And Godard and Imamura especially hog the spots on these lists. So they get one each, though I'll list all the films that would make it on their own, roughly inthe order or preference.]
1. Vivre Sa Vie/Pierrot Le Fou/Alphaville/Breathless/Two or Three Things I Know About Her/etc. - France - Jean Luc Godard
2. The Pornographers/Insect Woman/Pigs and Battleships/A Man Vanishes/Intentions of Murder - Japan - Shohei Imamura
3. Gospel According to Matthew - Italy - Pier Paolo Pasolini
4. High and Low - Japan - Akira Kurosawa
5. Playtime - France - Jacques Tati
6. The Sun's Burial - Japan - Nagisa Oshima
7. Doctor Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - US - Stanley Kubrick
8. Mouchette- France - Robert Breson
9. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs - Japan - Michio Naruse
10. A Touch of Zen - Hong Kong - King Hu

1950s: [Same story here: one per director again, with possible multiples noted.]
1. Early Summer/Tokyo Story - Japan - Yasujiro Ozu
2. Vertigo/Rear Window - USA - Alfred Hitchcock
3. Seven Samurai - Japan - Akira Kurosawa
4. Ugetsu Monogatari/Life of Oharu/Sansho the Bailiff - Japan - Kenji Mizoguchi
5. Touch of Evil - USA - Orson Welles
6. Pather Panchali - India - Satyajit Ray
7. The Searchers - USA - John Ford
8. Late Chrysanthemums - Japan - Mikio Naruse
9. Rebel Without a Cause - US - Nicholas Ray
10. Imitation of Life - US - Douglas Sirk

1940s:
1. It's a Wonderful Life - USA - Frank Capra
2. The Maltese Falcon - USA - John Huston
3. Late Spring - Japan - Yasujiro Ozu
4. His Girl Friday - USA - Howard Hawks
5. Ivan the Terrible - USSR - Sergei Eisenstein
6. The Big Sleep - USA - Howard Hawks
7. Fort Apache - USA - John Ford
8. Citizen Kane - USA - Orson Welles
9. Germany Year Zero - Italy - Roberto Rosselini
10. Stray Dog - Japan - Akira Kurosawa

1930s: [Again with the one per director]
1. M - Germany - Fritz Lang
2. Rules of the Game/Crimes of M. Lange - France - Jean Renoir
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - USA - Frank Capra
4. Duck Soup - USA - Leo McCarey
5. I Was Born But.../Passing Fancy/Inn in Tokyo - Japan - Yasujiro Ozu
6. Bride of Frankenstein/Frankenstein - USA - James Whale
7. Osaka Elegy - Japan - Kenji Mizoguchi
8. Love Me Tonight - USA - Reuben Mamoulian
9. Wife! Be Like a Rose! - Japan - Michio Naruse
10. Blue Angel - Germany - Joseph von Sternberg

1920s: [nothing new - haven't seen that many real old films since last year. Bunch of Douglas Fairbanks, mostly, all excellent but not top 10 quite.]
1. The General - USA - Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
2. Nosferatu - Germany - FW Murnau
3.The Gold Rush - USA - Charles Chaplin
4. Our Hospitality - USA - Buster Keaton and John G Blystone
5. Man With the Movie Camera - USSR - Dziga Vertov
6. Earth - USSR - Aleksander Dovzhenko
7. Battleship Potemkin - USSR - Sergei Eisenstein
8. Sherlock Jr. - USA - Buster Keaton
9. October - USSR - Eisenstein
10. Greed - USA - Erich Von Stroheim

Pre-1920s:
1. Birth of a Nation - USA - DW Griffith
2. Les Vampires - Louis Feuillade
3. Broken Blossoms - USA - Griffith
4. The Tramp - USA - Charlie Chaplin
5. Intolerance - USA - Griffith
6. Regeneration - USA - Raoul Walsh
7. True Heart Susie - USA - Griffith
8. South - UK - Frank Hurley [this is the footage shot on the Shackleton expedition]
9. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Germany - Robert Weine
10. The Champion - USA - Chaplin