J. Hoberman 1984

1. Francisca (Manoel De Oliveira)
2. Diary for My Children (Marta Meszaros)
3. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Der Riese (Michael Klier)
5. The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz (Peter Cohen)
6. Tightrope (Richard Tuggle)
7. Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper music video) (Edd Griles)
8. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Kamilla (Vibeke Lokkeberg)
10. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)

J. Hoberman 1983

1. Parsifal (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
2. Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
3. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Wuthering Heights (Luis Bunuel)
5. L’argent (Robert Bresson)
6. The Eighties (Chantal Akerman)
7. Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
8. Danton (Andrzej Wajda)
9. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
10. Huie’s Sermon (Werner Herzog)

J. Hoberman 1982

1. Woman of Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. From the Clouds to the Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub & Danielle Huillet)
3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. So Is This (Michael Snow)
5. Untitled 1982 (Ernie Gehr)
6. Time Stands Still (Peter Gothar)
7. Fucking City (Lothar Lambert)
8. Yol (Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goran)
9. The Atomic Café (Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, & Pierce Rafferty)
10. Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman)
11. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix)

J. Hoberman 1981

1. India Song (Marguerite Duras)
2. Man of Marble/Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
3. Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage)
4. Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer)
5. Doomed Love (Manoel De Oliveira)
6. Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed (Manuel De Landa)
7. Invisible Adversaries (Valie Export)
8. Pixote (Hector Babenco)
9. Reds (Warren Beatty)
10. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)

J. Hoberman 1980

1. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
2. Our Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
3. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen)
6. Angi, Vera (Pal Gabor)
7. Mon oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais)
8. Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
9. The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik)
10. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)