The Flip Side of the Coin: 2017

Monday, December 11, 2017

Slant Best Films of the Nineties (2017)

1990

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
Central Park (Frederick Wiseman)
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)

Honorable Mentions: Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton), The Garden (Derek Jarman), Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne), The Killer (John Woo), King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Miami Blues (George Armitage), Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle), Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Trust (Hal Hartley), Wild at Heart (David Lynch)

1991

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)

Honorable Mention: Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai), The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski), La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson), Hangin' With the Homeboys (Joseph Vasquez), JFK (Oliver Stone), Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Madonna: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian), Poison (Todd Haynes), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)

1992

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Life, and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Glengarry Glenn Ross (James Foley)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

Honorable Mention: Candyman (Bernard Rose), Dead Alive (Peter Jackson), Europa (Lars von Trier), Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader), The Living End (Gregg Araki), The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki), One False Move (Carl Franklin), Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)

1993

Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
Hard Boiled (John Woo)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
D'Est (Chantal Akerman)

Honorable Mention: Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira), The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese), Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara), Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick), Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Mercedes (Yousry Nasrallah), The Oak (Lucian Pintilie), Orlando (Sally Potter), The Piano (Jane Campion), Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)

1994

Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)

Honorable Mention: Arizona Dream (Emir Kusturica), Barcelona (Whit Stillman), Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha), The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang), Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa), A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson), Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif), Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone), What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan)

1995

Safe (Todd Haynes)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
Heat (Michael Mann)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Seven (David Fincher)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)

Honorable Mention: The Addiction (Abel Ferrara), Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan), Deseret (James Benning), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembène), I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis), In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter), Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach), The Neon Bible (Terence Davies), Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Spiritual Voices (Alexander Sokurov), Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow), Whisper of the Heart (Kondō Yoshifumi)

1996

Crash (David Cronenberg)
Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Švankmajer)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)

Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport), The Funeral (Abel Ferrara), Mahjong (Edward Yang), The Man on the Shore (Raoul Peck), Rendezvous in Paris (Éric Rohmer), Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion), The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)

1997

Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

Honorable Mention: The Delta (Ira Sachs), Face/Off (John Woo), Family Name (Macky Alston), Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (Errol Morris), Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), The Game (David Fincher), The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson), Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis), La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)

1998

The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
Hana-bi (Kitano Takeshi)
Drifting Clouds (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)

Bulworth (Warren Beatty), The Eel (Imamura Shōhei), Gadjo Dilo (Tony Gatlif), Genealogies of a Crime (Raúl Ruiz), The General (John Boorman), Henry Fool (Hal Hartley), Happiness (Todd Solondz), Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog), Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)

1999

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
Three Kings (David O. Russell)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)

Honorable Mention: Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese), The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca), Genghis Blues (Roko Belic), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch), Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas), The Limey (Steven Soderbergh), Moloch (Alexander Sokurov), Office Space (Mike Judge), Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao), Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)

Reverse Shot Top 10 Films and Offenses

2003

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)

2004
Capsules

Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)

2004 Offenses

Closer (Mike Nichols)
The Passion of Christ (Mel Gibson)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Open Water (Chris Kentis)
Alfie (Charles Shyer)
King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua)
The Clearing (Pieter Jan Brugge)
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)

2005

The New World (Terrence Malick)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
Junebug (Phil Morrison)

2005 Offenses

Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Crash (Paul Haggis)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)
Rumor Has It... (Rob Reiner)
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Domino (Tony Scott)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker)

2006

L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
A Lion in the House (Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann)

2006 Offenses

United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
Babel (Alejandro González Iñarritu)
Little Children (Todd Field)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
Ultraviolet, Apocalypto, Let's Go to Prison, The Illusionist, Unaccompanied Minors, Eragon, Infamous, Mission: Impossible III, The Notorious Bettie Page, Fearless, Running with Scissors, Hoot, Stick It, and assorted other stuff I [Jeff Reichert] saw to pass time

2007

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)

2007 Offenses

Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
300 (Zack Snyder)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Transformers (Michael Bay)
Hostel Part Two (Eli Roth)
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
The Kingdom (Peter Berg)
Introducing the Dwights (Cherie Nowlan)
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)

2008

Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)

2008 Offenses

Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd)
The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)
Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)

2009

Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)

2009 Offenses

Nine (Rob Marshall)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
An Education (Lone Scherfig)
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Cold Souls (Sophia Barthes)
New York, I Love You (Omnibus)

Decade

Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
Kings and Queen (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
Summer Hours (2008, Olivier Assayas)
No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
The House of Mirth (2000, Terence Davies)

2010

Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

2010 Offenses

Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
Catfish (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
Get Low (Aaron Schneider)
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)
Eat Pray Love (Ryan Murphy)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
Going the Distance (Nanette Burstein) and Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick)

2011

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
Historias Extraordinarias (Mariano Llinás)

2011 Offenses

Shame (Steve McQueen)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
In a Better World (Susanne Bier)
Sarah's Key (Gilles Paquet-Brenner)
My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis)
No Strings Attached (Ivan Reitman) and Friends With Benefits (Will Gluck)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh)
The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd)

2012

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
The Kid With the Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)
The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)

2012 Offenses

Ted (Seth McFarlane)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
Bachlorette (Leslye Headland)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
This Is 40 (Judd Apatow)
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)

2013

To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

2013 Offenses

Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Touchy Feely (Lynn Shelton)
This Is the End (Evan Goldberg)
The Counselor (Ridley Scott)
Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)
At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani)
The Way Way Back (Jim Rash & Nat Faxon)
The Family (Luc Besson)
Admission (Paul Weitz)

2014

Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)

2014 Offenses

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
The Sacrament (Ti West)
Jimi: All Is by My Side (John Ridley)
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof)
A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
This Is Where I Leave You (Tom Shadyac)
Neighbors (Nicholas Stoller)
Cake (Daniel Barnz)

2015

In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)

2015 Offenses

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)
Son of Saul (Nemes László)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
The Overnight (Patrick Brice)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpitsky)
Legend (Peter Medak)
Jenny's Wedding (Mary Agnes Donoghue)

2016

No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)

2016 Offenses

Deadpool (Tim Miller)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
Bad Moms (Jon Lucas & Scott Moore)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
Joshy (Jeff Baena)

2017

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)

2017 Offenses

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears)
Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon)
City of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
Bonus Unreleased: I Love You, Daddy (Louis CK)

2018

Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)

2018 Offenses

Vice (Adam McKay)
Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
Halloween (David Gordon Green)
Ocean's Eight (Gary Ross)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer)
Peter Rabbit (Will Gluck)
Tyrel (Sebastian Silva)
Chappaquiddick (John Curran)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
A Quiet Place (John Krasinski)

2019

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
High Life (Claire Denis)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)

2019 Offenses (Implied)

Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
The Two Popes (Fernando Mereilles)
Judy (Rupert Goold)
They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson)
Ma (Tate Taylor)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Joe Berlinger)

Decade

The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Souvenir (2019, Joanna Hogg)
Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins
This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
Poetry (2010, Lee Chang-dong)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)

2020

Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
Time (Garrett Bradley)
I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

2021

Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Annette (Leos Carax)
West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)

2021 Offenses

C'mon C'mon (Mike Mills)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
The Many Saints of Newark (Alan Taylor)
All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony)
House of Gucci (Ridley Scott)
Tick, Tick... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin)

2022

Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
Nope (Jordan Peele)
We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)

2022 Offenses

Empire of Light (Sam Mendes)
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
Men (Alex Garland)
Bullet Train (David Leitch)
TÁR (Todd Field)
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
Spirited (Sean Anders)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
Halloween Ends (David Gordon Green)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)

2023

May December (Todd Haynes)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
Our Body (Claire Simon)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)

2024

Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)

Thursday, November 30, 2017

An American Film Canon

Taken from this thread of American Masterpieces by Jake Mulligan.

2017-2014

Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
Ex Libris – New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Horace and Pete (Louis C.K.)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)

1988-1983

Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman)
Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
The Hitcher (Robert Harmon)
Manhunter (Michael Mann)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
Body Double (Brian De Palma)
Swing Shift (Jonathan Demme)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
The Entity (Sidney Furie)

1956-1955

The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
The Searchers (John Ford)
Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
The Violent Men (Rudolph Mate)

1955-1951

Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
"Duck Amuck" (Chuck Jones)
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks)
Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
Rabbit Fire (Chuck Jones)
The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)

1946-1940

The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
"Let There Be Light" (John Huston)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
A Woman's Face (George Cukor)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)

1939-1933

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
The Women (George Cukor)
You and Me (Fritz Lang)
Jezebel (William Wyler)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
The Whole Town's Talking (John Ford)
Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernst B. Schoedsack)

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Lady Bird Fragment

Autobiography of the nostalgic sort is a tricky topic to manage in film, especially when taking the backward looking, self-obsessed independent scene of modern times. Of course, there have been been numerous successful examples in the past decade – last year's 20th Century Women is a particularly salient point of comparison – but

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Film Comment Year-End Critics' Polls

2000

Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
Time Regained (Raúl Ruiz)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
Gohatto (Ōshima Nagisa)
Croupier (Mike Hodges)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)

2000 Unreleased

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)
The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Werckemeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Voyages (Emmanuel Finkiel)

2001

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Apocalypse Now Redux (Francis Ford Coppola)
Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
Eureka (Aoyama Shinji)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)

2001 Unreleased

I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Imamura Shōhei)
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón)
Pulse (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Lady and the Duke (Éric Rohmer)

2002

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)

2002 Unreleased

Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman)
The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)

2003

Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Bus 174 (José Padilha)
To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)

2003 Unreleased

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio)
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
Since Otar Left (Julie Bertucelli)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Raja (Jacques Doillon)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
Vibrator (Hiroki Ryūichi)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Young Adam (David Mackenzie)

2004

Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

2004 Unreleased

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
The 10th District Court: Judicial Hearings (Raymond Depardon)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Nobody Knows (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Checkpoint (Yoav Shamir)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Five (Abbas Kiarostami)
L'intrus (Claire Denis)
Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
My Summer of Love (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui)

2005

A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Head-On (Fatih Akın)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)

2005 Unreleased

Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
Police Beat (Robinson Devor)
A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
Gabrielle (Patrice Leconte)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
Who's Camus Anyway? (Yanagimachi Mitsuo)
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
Princess Raccoon (Suzuki Seijun)
Mary (Abel Ferrara)
4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
13 Lakes (James Benning)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Le Ponts des Arts (Eugène Green)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Avi Mograbi)

2006

The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Queen (Stephen Frears)
Borat (Larry Charles)
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Old Joy (Kelly Riechardt)
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
Tristram Shandy (Michael Winterbottom)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)

2006 Unreleased

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
Bamako (Abederrahmane Sissako)
Triad Election (Johnnie To)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
In Between Days (So Yong Kim)
Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
The Go Master (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)

2007

No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)

2007 Unreleased

Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Useless (Jia Zhangke)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Éric Rohmer)
The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov)
The Unforseen (Laura Dunn)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
The Pool (Chris Smith)
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)

2008

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)

2008 Unreleased

The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
RR (James Benning)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Birdsong (Albert Serra)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
United Red Army (Wakamatsu Kōji)
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev)

2009

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
Bright Star (Jane Campion)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

2009 Unreleased

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan)
Ghost Town (Zhao Dayong)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
Min Yè... (Tell Me Who You Are...) (Souleymane Cissé)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle)

Decade

Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)
Kings and Queen (2005, Arnaud Desplechin)
Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)

2010

Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
White Material (Claire Denis)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)

2010 Unreleased

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
Ruhr (James Benning)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Tabloid (Errol Morris)
The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg)

2011

The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weeerasethakul)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)

2011 Unreleased

This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler)
Play (Ruben Östlund)
Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
Dreileben (Christian Petzold and Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler)
The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)

2012

Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
Amour (Michael Haneke)
The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
Bernie (Richard Linklater)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Barbara (Christian Petzold)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

2012 Undistributed

Our Children (Joachim Lafosse)
Memories Look at Me (Song Fang)
First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner)
When Night Falls (Ying Liang)
Bwakaw (Jun Robles Lana)
Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira)
differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz)
The Extravagant Shadows (David Gatten)
Three Sisters (Wang Bing)
Dormant Beauty (Marco Bellocchio)
Far From Afghanistan (John Gianvito & Travis Wilkerson & Jon Jost & Minda Martin & Soon-Mi Yoo)
Camille Rewinds (Noémie Lvovsky)
Greatest Hits (Nicolás Pereda)
small roads (James Benning)
Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude)
Shepard and Dark (Treva Wurmfeld)
Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta)
Araf: Somewhere in Between (Yesim Ustaoglu)
Thursday Through Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor)

2013

Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)

2013 Undistributed

Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
A Spell to Ward Off Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell)
Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu)
Stemple Pass (James Benning)
People's Park (Libbie D. Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki)
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
La Ultima Película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson)
Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
Coast of Death (Lois Patiño)
Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky)

2014

Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)

2014 Undistributed

The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki)
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Wilder)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
Socialism (Peter von Bagh)
The Harvest (John McNaughton)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
Young Bodies Heal Quickly (Andrew T. Betzer)
We Come As Friends (Hubert Sauper)
The Japanese Dog (Tudor Cristian Jurgiu)
History of Fear (Benjamín Naishtat)
For the Plasma (Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan)
August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro)
A Girl at My Door (July Jung)
Fort Buchanan (Benjamin Crotty)

2015

Carol (Todd Haynes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Son of Saul (Nemes László)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Brooklyn (John Crowley)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)

2015 Undistributed

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerín)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (Laura Israel)
Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr)
Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
El Movimiento (Benjamín Naishtat)
88:88 (Isiah Medina)
Microbe & Gasoline (Michel Gondry)
Pervert Park (Frida & Lasse Barkfors)
Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
of the North (Dominic Gagnon)
The Smell of Us (Larry Clark)

2016

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)

2016 Undistributed

Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)
Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa)
Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo)
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean)
Safari (Ulrich Seidl)
Everything Else (Natalia Almada)
All the Cities of the North (Dane Komljen)
Happy Times Will Come Soon (Alessandro Comodin)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton)
Women Who Kill (Ingrid Jungermann)
Le Parc (Damien Manivel)

2017

Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
Faces Places (Agnés Varda & JR)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
Mudbound (Dee Rees)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
The Square (Ruben Östlund)

2017 Undistributed

The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)
A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)
Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz)
Milla (Valérie Massadian)
Tonsler Park (Kevin Jerome Everson)
Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing)
Spoor (Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik)
Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari)
3/4 (Ilian Metev)
The Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder)
Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
Life and Nothing More (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
Until the Birds Return (Karim Moussaoui)
Good Luck (Ben Russell)
Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi)
The Quartet (Elohim, Abaton, Coda, Ode) (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Drift (Helena Wittmann)
Untitled (Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi)

2018

Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)
Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
Personal Problems (Bill Gunn)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)

2018 Undistributed

What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
Black Mother (Khalik Allah)
A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
América (Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll)
Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa)
The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
Casanova Gene (Luise Donschen)
Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub)
The Task (Leigh Ledare)
Sophia Antipolis (Virgil Vernier)
Second Time Around (Dora García)
Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng)
Flight of a Bullet (Beata Bubenets)
Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
Reason (Anand Patwardhan)
Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)
A Wild Stream (Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda)

2019

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
High Life (Claire Denis)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
Us (Jordan Peele)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
Ad Astra (James Gray)

2019 Undistributed

State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
Endless Night (Eloy Enciso)
To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
Present.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze)
Oh Mercy! (Arnaud Desplechin)
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
Belonging (Burak Çevik)
Midnight in Paris (James Blagden & Roni Moore)
No Data Plan (Miko Revereza)
It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
So Pretty (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli)
Just 6.5 (Saeed Roustayi)
Bird Island (Maya Kosa & Sérgio da Costa)
What We Left Unfinished (Mariam Ghani)
You Will Die at 20 (Amjad Abu Alala)
Lina From Lima (María Paz González)
The Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein)

Decade

Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)

2021

Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
Annette (Leos Carax)
Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
Undine (Christian Petzold)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
Titane (Julia Ducournau)

2021 Undistributed

I Want to Talk About Duras (Claire Simon)
Outside Noise (Ted Fendt)
Haruhara-san's Recorder (Sugita Kyoshi)
We (Alice Diop)
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
Taming the Garden (Salmoé Jashi)
Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra)
Shared Resources (Jordan Lord)
Returning to Reims (Jean Gabriel-Périot)
107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes)
Liborio (Nino Martínez Sosa)
Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi)
Out of This World (Chen Guan)
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)

2022

Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
Nope (Jordan Peele)
The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
TÁR (Todd Field)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)
Benediction (Terence Davies)
We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)

2022 Undistributed

The Plains (David Easteal)
Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann)
The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
The United States of America (James Benning)
Afterwater (Dane Komljen)
It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz)
A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)

2023

May December (Todd Haynes)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
Afire (Christian Petzold)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
Our Body (Claire Simon)
Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
Passages (Ira Sachs)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao)

2023 Undistributed

The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
Allensworth (James Benning)
Gush (Fox Maxy)
Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza)
The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
La práctica (Martín Rejtman)
About Thirty (Martín Shanly)
Samsara (Lois Patiño)

2024

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
Dahomey (Mati Diop)
No Other Land (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Anora (Sean Baker)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
A Traveler's Needs (Hong Sang-soo)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (Johan Grimonprez)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)

Reverse Shot Honorable Mentions

2005: The Holy Girl, The World, Munich, War of the Worlds, Nobody Knows, The Devil's Rejects, Last Days
2006: A Praire Home Companion, Inside Man, Fast Food Nation, Iraq in Fragments
2009: Drag Me to Hell, Coraline, The Limits of Control, You, the Living, Liverpool
2011: Poetry, Le Quattro Volte, My Joy, A Separation, Film Socialisme, The Interrupters, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Weekend
2014: Closed Curtain, The Missing Picture, Mr. Turner, Only Lovers Left Alive
2015: Amour fou, Anomalisa, Bridge of Spies, Creed, The Forbidden Room, 45 Years, Inside Out, The Kindergarten Teacher, Li'l Quinquin, Magic Mike XXL, La Sapienza, Taxi, The Wonders
also 2015: Amour fou, Bridge of Spies, Chi-Raq, Creed, Heaven Knows What, Irrational Man, Phoenix, Saint Laurent, La Sapienza, The Wonders

Lists Index

Art of the Real
Cinema Scope Top Tens
Cinema Scope Top Tens (Approximations by Release Year)
Cinema Scope Individual Top Tens of the Decade (2000s)
The Extended Cinema
Filipe Furtado's Lists
Film Comment Year-End Critics' Polls
Grasshopper Film Transmissions 10/10
Locarno in Los Angeles
ND/NF
NYFF Currents
NYFF Projections
NYFF Spotlight on Documentary
Reverse Shot Year-End Lists
Reverse Shot Honorable Mentions
Reverse Shot 2004/2005 Capsules
Slant Best Films of the Nineties
Various Critics' Top Ten Lists

Not compiled by me:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's alphabetized list up to the 53rd iteration.
Cahiers du cinéma Top Tens
Various Critics' Top Tens
TIFF Line-Ups (2011-Present)
Filmmaker Mag 35mm Lists

Cinema Scope Top Tens

2005

L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Homecoming (Joe Dante)

2006

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Borat (Larry Charles)
Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)

2007

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
La France (Serge Bozon)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)

2008

Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
Birdsong (Albert Serra)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
RR (James Benning)
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Itineraire de Jean Bricard (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)

2009

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)

Decade Individual Lists

Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
In Vanda's Room (2001, Pedro Costa)
La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
13 Lakes (2004, James Benning)
Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)
Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)

Honourable Mentions: Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu), In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín), L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis), Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien), Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2010

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujicǎ)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanksi)

Special Mentions: Aurora (Cristi Puiu), Carlos (Olivier Assayas), Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami), Cold Weather (Aaron Katz), Curling (Denis Côté), Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois), Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino), El Sicario, Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi), The Social Network (David Fincher), Unstoppable (Tony Scott)

2011

This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
Dreileben (Christian Petzold and Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
It's the Earth Not the Moon (Gonçalo Tocha)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler)
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)

Special Mentions: 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara), The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry), Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn), Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont), Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols), Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan), Policeman (Nadav Lapid), Target (Alexander Zeldovich), Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)

2012

Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

Honourable Mentions: Barbara (Christian Petzold), Bestiaire (Denis Côté), Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg), In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo), Room 237 (Rodney Ascher)

2013

Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorese)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)

Special Mentions: Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez), The Missing Picture (Panh Rithy), Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard), Jealousy (Philippe Garrel), Redemption (Miguel Gomes)

2014

Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)

Special Mentions: Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner), Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Hann), Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund), Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)

2015

Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)

Special Mentions: 88:88 (Isiah Medina), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson), Carol (Todd Haynes), Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari), In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)

2016

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)

Special Mentions: All the Cities of the North (Dane Komljen), Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson), Hermia and Helena (Matías Piñeiro), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins), The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)

2017

Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
Western (Valeska Grisebach)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)

Special Mentions: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman), Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino), The Day After (Hong Sang-soo), Good Luck (Ben Russell), Araby (João Dumans & Affonso Uchôa)

2018

An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
Transit (Christian Petzold)
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
High Life (Claire Denis)

Special Mentions: Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke), The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack), In My Room (Ulrich Köhler), L. Cohen (James Benning)

2019

I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Liberté (Albert Serra)
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)

Special Mentions: Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais), Present.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze), State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa), The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio), Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)

Decade

Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)

Special Mentions: The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien), Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami), Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax), Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie), Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)

2020

Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
DAU. Degeneration (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)

2021

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
France (Bruno Dumont)
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Annette (Leos Carax)
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)

Special Mentions: The Card Counter (Paul Schrader), The Girl and the Spider (Ramon & Silvan Zürcher), A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia), Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma), The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

2022

Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
The Plains (David Easteal)

Special Mentions: Aftersun (Charlotte Wells), All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras), Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann), TÁR (Todd Field), Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)