Favorite Movies by Decade

This is a fleshed-out version of a post from last month. You may notice that I used a single director more than once per decade, though I started out trying not to.

2000-09
Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook, 2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2005)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
L'enfant (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2006)

1990-99
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, 1990)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)

1980-89
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983)
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)
Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, 1989)
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1989)

1970-79
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)

1960-69
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1961)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, 1968)

1950-59
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
Touchez pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1956)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

1940-49
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)

1930-39
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)