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)

J. Hoberman 1979

1. The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
2. Eureka (Ernie Gehr)
3. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Les rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman)
5. She Had Her Gun All Ready (Vivienne Dick)
6. By Night with Torch and Spear (Joseph Cornell)
7. Declarative Mode (Paul Sharits)
8. In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Tally Brown, N.Y. (Rosa Von Praunheim)
10. Spying (Joe Gibbons)

J. Hoberman 1978 - Narrative Films

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
2. The Confrontation (Miklos Jancso)
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
4. Symphony for a Sinner (George Kuchar)
5. American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux)
6. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
7. Violette (Claude Chabrol)
8. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
9. Who’ll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz)
10. Halloween (John Carpenter)