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After 12 weeks...
1940: The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
1941: Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, USA)
1942: Went the Day Well (Alberto Cavalcanti, UK)
1943: Day of Wrath (Carl Th Dreyer, Denmark)
1944: A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, UK)
1945: Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
1946: Crisis (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
1947: Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, USA)
1948: Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
1949: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
1950: Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis, USA)
1951: The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, UK)
1952: Casque D'Or (Jacques Becker, France)
1953: Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
1954: Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita , Japan)
1955: Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, France)
1956: Flowing (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
1957: The Singing Ringing Tree (Francesco Stefani, Germany)
1958: Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
1959: Der Tiger Von Eschnapur/Das Indische Grabmal (Fritz Lang, Germany)
1960: Conquistador de la Luna (Rogelio A. González, Mexico)
1961: Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, Spain)
1962: Abhijan (Satyajit Ray, India)
1963: 8 and a half (Federico Fellini, Italy)
1964: Devil Doll (Lindsey Shonteff, UK)
1965: Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, Italy)
1966: Father (Istvan Szabo, Hungary)
1967: The Fireman's Ball (Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia)
1968: Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia)
1969: The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, Armenia)
1970: Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
1971: Szindbad (Zoltan Huszarik, Hungary)
1972: Morgiana (Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia)
1973: The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico)
1974: The Night Porter (Liliana Cavini, Italy)
1975: Xala (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)
1976: Who Can Kill A Child (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador , Spain)
1977: Backroads (Philip Noyce, Australia)
1978: Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
1979: Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, Germany)
1980: The Falls (Peter Greenaway, UK)
1981: Rat-Trap (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India)
1982: Interrogation (Ryszard Bugjaski, Poland)
1983: Videodrome (David Cronenberg, Canada)
1984: The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
1985: My Life As A Dog (Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)
1986: The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, Sweden)
1987: In a Glass Cage (Agustí Villaronga, Spain)
1988: Celia (Ann Turner, Australia)
1989: Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti, Italy)
1990: Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
1991: Until The End Of The World (Wim Wenders, Germany)
1992: La Vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland)
1993: Three Colours Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowki, Switzerland)
1994: Vive L'Amour (Ming-Liang Tsai, Taiwan)
1995: The Flower Of My Secret (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
1996: Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia)
1997: The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran)
1998: The Quiet Family (Ji-woon Kim, South Korea)
1999: The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, Iran)
2000: In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong)
2001: Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)
2002: Hukkle (Gyorgy Palfi, Hungary)
2003: L'Esquive (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
2004: The World (Jia Zhangke, China)
2005: The Death of Mr Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
2006: Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb, Algeria)
2007: The Orphanage (Sergio Sanchez, Spain)
2008: Ip Man (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
2009: City of Life & Death (Chuan Lu, China)
2010: Uncle Boonmee (Achipatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
Big thanks to Phurious for putting me on to some of the better films on the list. Atanarjuat, Conspirators of Pleasure, Hukkle and The Falls are all worth a look.
After finally watching In The Mood For Love twelve years after I bought it, I think my next challenge should probably be working my way through the other 100+ unwatched DVDs that have been sitting on my shelves for months/years.
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