1983

TOP TIER:
A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
The Boys from Fengquei (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Christine (John Carpenter)
Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis)
Eureka (Nicolas Roeg)
First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
Meantime (Mike Leigh)
My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
El Sur (Victor Erice)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg)

ESSENTIAL VIEWING:
Beauty and the Beast (Nils Malmros)
Betrayal (David Jones)
Breathless (Jim McBride)
Careful, He Might Hear You (Carl Schultz)
City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz)
Confidentially Yours (Francois Truffaut)
Danton (Andrzej Wajda)
Dark Habits (Pedro Almodovar)
Entre Nous (Diane Kurys)
Exposed (James Toback)
Farewell to Matyora (Elem Klimov)
The Hunger (Tony Scott)
In the White City (Alain Tanner)
Khandhar (The Ruins) (Mrinal Sen)
Life is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
Loving Walter (Stephen Frears)
Lovesick (Marshall Brickman)
The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa)
Never Cry Wolf (Carroll Ballard)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
A Season in Hakkari (Erden Kiral)
Sheer Madness (Margarethe von Trotta)
Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood)
The Wall (Yilmaz Guney)
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

FURTHER INVESTIGATION:
The Geisha (Hideo Gosha)
The Keep (Michael Mann)
Krull (Peter Yates)
The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah)
Superman III (Richard Lester)
Tchao Pantin (Claude Berri)
Vigilante (William Lustig)