Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
Edward Scissorhands / Ed Wood (1990/1994, Tim Burton)
Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-Wai)
Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
and, to make it an even ten, any of the following miraculous 2001 releases (between which I plan to choose to pick a definitive favorite sometime in the next few years): Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly); Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff); or, The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson).
