James Quandt Top Ten Lists

All of these lists are sourced from Artforum, except as noted, and after 2002 are (roughly) by premiere year.

2002 [Village Voice]

• *Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow)
• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
• I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
• In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
• La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
• The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao)
• Platform (Jia Zhangke)
• Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker & Yannick Bellon)
• Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
• What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)

2003

1. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Come and Go (João César Monteiro)
3. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
4. The Ground/The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers)
5. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
6. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
7. Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker & Yannick Bellon)
8. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)

2004

1. The World (Jia Zhangke)
2. Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. 10e Chambre, Instant d'audiences (Raymond Depardon)
4. Rheimetall/Victoria 8 (Rodney Graham)
5. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
6. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7. Vento di terra (Vincenzo Marra)
8. La Blessure (Nicolas Klotz)
9. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller)
10. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)

2005

1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov)
4. Garlands (T.J. Wilcox)
5. Palast (Tacita Dean)
6. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky)
7. Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. La Trahison (Philippe Faucon)
9. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
10. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

2006

1. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
4. Kodak (Tacita Dean)
5. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
7. Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)
8. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Kristall (Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet)

2007

1. These Encounters of Theirs (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. Pour vos beaux yeux (Henri Storck)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
4. Useless (Jia Zhangke)
5. Tarahi V (Haris Epaminonda)
6. La Morte rouge (Víctor Erice)
7. Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (Wang Bing)
8. The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (Éric Rohmer)
9. Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
10. At Sea (Peter Hutton)

2008

1. Itinerary of Jean Bricard (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. Artemide's Knee (Jean-Marie Straub)
3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
5. Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
6. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
7. United Red Army (Wakamatsu Kōji)
8. Wonderful Town (Aditya Assarat)
9. Cleópatra (Júlio Bressane)
10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

2009

1. Wilhelm Noack oHG (Simon Starling)
2. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
3. To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
4. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
5. Giardini (Steve McQueen)
6. Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
7. In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
8. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Track of the Cat (William Wellman)
10. Huacho (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)

Decade [IndieWire]

1. These Encounters of Theirs (2006, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
4. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
6. In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
7. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel)
8. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
9. Come and Go (2003, João César Monteiro)
10. La Blessure (2004, Nicolas Klotz)

2010

1. Rite of Spring (Manoel de Oliveira)
   The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
2. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
6. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
7. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
8. The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello)
9. The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan)
10. Static (Steve McQueen)

2011

1. Eika Katappa (Werner Schroeter)
   The Death of Maria Malibran (Werner Schroeter)
2. The Clock (Christian Marclay)
3. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
4. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
5. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
6. Play (Ruben Östlund)
7. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
8. Blood of My Blood (João Canijo)
9. Aita (José María de Orbe)
10. Porfirio (Alejandro Landres)

2012

1. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
   La Maleta (Raúl Ruiz)
2. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
3. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
4. No (Pablo Larraín)
5. Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz)
6. The Repentant (Merzak Allouache)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
9. Wild Girl (Raoul Walsh)
10. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

2013

1. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
2. 'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
3. Three Exercises of Interpretation (Cristi Puiu)
4. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
5. The King's Body (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
   Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof)
7. Ravel Ravel (Anri Sala)
8. The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
9. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
10. Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa)

2014

1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
3. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
4. Das Spektrum Europas (Cristi Puiu)
5. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
7. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
8. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
9. Above and Below the Minhocão (Mark Lewis)
10. August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro)

2015

1. Labour in a Single Shot (Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann)
2. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein)
4. Singularity (Albert Serra)
5. Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)
6. Ashes (Steve McQueen)
7. The Films and Videos of Michaël Borremans
8. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
9. Actua 1 (Philippe Garrel)
10. "The Owners of Dixie," from The Arabian Nights Trilogy, Vol. 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)

2016

1. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
2. From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom (Paul Meyer)
3. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
4. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
5. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
7. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
9. Kékszakállú (Gaston Solnicki)
10. As Without So Within (Manuela De Laborde)

2017

1. "The Boat Is Leaking. The Captain Lied." (Fondazione Prada, Venice)
2. Jean Vigo (Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
5. The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)
6. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
7. Closeness (Kantemir Balagov)
8. 12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
9. Caniba (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)

2018

1. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
2. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. A Man Walks in the City (Marcello Pagliero)
4. Thomas Bayrle (New Museum, New York)
5. The Manet and Ravel Sequences from La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. Elegant Beast (Kawashima Yūzō)
7. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
8. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
9. Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
10. The Black Book (Valeria Sarmiento)

2019

1. Luc Tuymans (Palazzo Grassi, Venice)
   The White Album (Arthur Jafa)
2. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
3. Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
4. State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
5. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
6. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
7. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
8. Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz)
9. Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe)
10. Nana (Jean Renoir)

Decade [Film Comment]

1. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
2. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Norte, the End of History (2013, Lav Diaz)
4. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Vitalina Varela/Horse Money (2019/2014, Pedro Costa)
6. Amour Fou (2014, Jessica Hausner)
7. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
8. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
9. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
10. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)

2020

1. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
4. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
5. A Night at the Opera (Sergei Loznitsa)
6. The Monopoly of Violence (David Dufresne)
7. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
8. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
9. While Cursed by Specters (Burak Çevik)
10. Gunda (Victor Kossakovsky)

2021

1. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
2. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
4. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
5. Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
6. Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
7. Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
8. Returning to Reims (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
9. Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko)
10. Dog Star Descending (Aykan Safoğlu)

2022

1. Where Is This Street? Or With No Before and After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
2. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
4. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
5. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
6. Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
7. Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak)
8. The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova)
9. Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967 (Agnès Varda)
10. Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)