Cinema Scope Top Tens of the Decade (2000s)

1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
2. In Vanda's Room (2001, Pedro Costa)
3. La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
4. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
5. 13 Lakes (2004, James Benning)
6. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
7. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
8. Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)
9. Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
10. 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)

Thom Andersen

1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
2. Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
3. Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
5. The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
6. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Dracks (2003, Wang Bing)
7. Itinéraire de Jean Bricard (2008, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
8. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009, Adam Curtis)
9. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10. Shara (2003, Kawase Naomi)

Jason Anderson

1. Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Songs From the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
3. The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
4. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)
5. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001, Zacharias Kunuk & Norman Cohn)
6. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
7. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt)
8. An Injury to One (2002, Travis Wilkerson)
9. Oasis (2002, Lee Chang-dong)
10. Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)

Cameron Bailey

1. Daratt (2006, Mahamet-Saleh Haroun)
2. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
3. Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant)
4. A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
5. Iraq in Fragments (2006, James Longley)
6. Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004, Jonathan Stack & James Brabazon)
7. Paradise Now (2005, Hany Abu-Assad)
8. The Road to Guantanamo (2006, Michael Winterbottom)
9. Saddam Hussein Execution Video (2006, Unknown)
10. 13 Tzameti (2005, Gela Babluani)

Serge Bozon

1. War of the Worlds (2005, Steven Spielberg)
2. Woman of Breakwater (2002, Mario O'Hara)
3. Flying With One Wing (2002, Asoka Handagama)
4. Un petit cas de conscience (2002, Marie-Claude Treilhou)
5. L'adolescent (2000, Pierre Léon)
6. Around a Small Mountain (2009, Jacques Rivette)
7. Lady in the Water (2006, M. Night Shyamalan)
8. Crying Fist (2005, Ryoo Seung-wan)
9. Je ne suis pas morte (2009, Jean-Charles Fitoussi)
10. Mansion by the Lake (2003, Lester James Peries)

Tom Charity

1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
2. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
3. Code Unknown (2000, Michael Haneke)
4. Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. 13 Lakes (2004, James Benning)
6. In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)
7. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. L'Enfant (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. Opera Jawa (2006, Garin Nugroho)
10. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)

John Gianvito

• La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
• Demons (2000, Mario O'Hara)
• An Injury to One (2002, Travis Wilkerson)
• Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis)
• Café Lumière (2003, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
• Saraband (2003, Ingmar Bergman)
• Deux (2006, Werner Schroeter)
• Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, Spike Lee)
• These Encounters of Theirs (2005, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
• The Sky, the Earth, and the Rain (2008, José Luis Torres Leiva)

Plus three shorts: Phantom Limb (2005, Jay Rosenblatt), P.S. Beirut, Chapter One (2008, Michael Shamberg), Boundary (2009, Devin Horan)

Miguel Gomes

• In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
• Eureka (2000, Aoyama Shinji)
• Toutes les nuits (2001, Eugène Green)
• La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
• Gerry (2001, Gus Van Sant)
• Be My Star (2001, Valeska Grisebach)
• Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
• The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)

Steve Gravestock

1. La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
2. Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
   Manderlay (2005, Lars von Trier)
3. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
4. A Cock and Bull Story (2005, Michael Winterbottom)
5. Lights in the Dusk (2006, Aki Kaurismäki)
6. Mariages (2001, Catherine Martin)
7. My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin)
8. La Neuvaine (2005, Bernard Emond)
   Contre Tout Esperance (2007, Bernard Emond)
   La Donation (2009, Bernard Emond)
9. Pusher (1996, Nicolas Winding Refn)
   With Blood on My Hands (2004, Nicolas Winding Refn)
   I'm the Angel of Death (2005, Nicolas Winding Refn)
10. A Tale of a Naughty Girl (2002, Buddhadeb Dasgupta)

Christoph Huber & Olaf Möller
The Ferroni Brigade's Eleven Marginalized Friends

1. Notes From the Basement (2000, Rainer Frimmel)
2. Le deuxième souffle (2007, Alain Corneau)
3. The Fine Art of Love (2005, John Irvin)
4. Hanan (2004, Makrand Deshpande)
5. Jogo de Cena (2007, Eduardo Coutinho)
6. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005, Albert Brooks)
7. Matka (2007, Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio)
8. Një Milion Euro (2005, Halil Budakova)
9. The Order (2001, Sheldon Lettich)
10. Penal Battalion (2004, Nikolai Dostal)
11. Perhaps Love (2005, Peter Chan)
12. Shinsengumi (2000, Ichikawa Kon)

Johnny Ray Huston

1. Pulse (2001, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
2. Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The House of Mirth (2000, Terence Davies)
4. Harmful Insect (2001, Shiota Akihiko)
5. SpaceDisco One (2007, Damon Packard)
6. The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho)
7. To Die Like a Man (2009, João Pedro Rodrigues)
8. Agua (2006, Verónica Chen)
9. Light Is Waiting (2007, Michael Robinson)
10. Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000, Shelly Dunn Fremont & Vincent Fremont)

Also restored/previously unreleased work: The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie)
Honorable mentions: Battle in Heaven (2005, Carlos Reygadas), Glue (2006, Alexis dos Santos), Odete (2005, João Pedro Rodrigues), Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul), This Charming Girl (2004, Lee Yoon-ki), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2007, Philippe Parreno & Douglas Gordon)

Robert Koehler

1. In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
2. La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
3. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)
5. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
6. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
7. Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke)
8. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
9. Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
10. RR (2008, James Benning)

Michael Koresky

1. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
2. Faat Kiné (2000, Ousmane Sembène)
3. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma)
4. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. The House of Mirth (2000, Terence Davies)
6. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
7. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
8. Regular Lovers (2005, Philippe Garrel)
9. Twentynine Palms (2003, Bruno Dumont)
10. What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)

Jay Kuehner

1. In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)
2. La blessure (2004, Nicolas Klotz)
3. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
5. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
6. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
7. The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. Profils paysans (2001-2008, Raymond Depardon)
9. Distance (2001, Koreeda Hirokazu)
10. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
11. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
12. RR (2008, James Benning)
13. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
14. Café Lumière (2003, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
15. Kings and Queen (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
16. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002, Hong Sang-soo)
17. Liverpool (2008, Lisandro Alonso)

Dennis Lim

1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
3. Esther Kahn (2000, Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Café Lumière (2003, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
7. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
9. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis)

Charles Mudede

1. Sleep Dealer (2000, Alex Rivera)
2. Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas)
3. Daratt (2006, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
4. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)
5. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
6. Climates (2006, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
7. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
8. Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis)
9. The Sun (2005, Alexander Sokurov)
10. Medicine for Melancholy (2008, Barry Jenkins)

Adam Nayman

1. Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)
2. Dying at Grace (2003, Allan King)
3. The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
4. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
5. Liverpool (2008, Lisandro Alonso)
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
7. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
8. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt)
9. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
10. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)

Cyril Neyrat

• In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
• The Brown Bunny (2003, Vincent Gallo)
• Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• These Encounters of Theirs (2005, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
• The Sun (2005, Alexander Sokurov)
• Honor of the Knights (2006, Albert Serra)
• Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino)
• RR (2007, James Benning)
• De son appartement (2007, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
• L'Heure du berger (2008, Pierre Creton)

Raya Martin

• Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
• Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
• Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)
• Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
• The Taste of Tea (2004, Ishii Katsuhito)
• Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
• Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008, Mark Waters)

Olivier Pére

1. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)
2. Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)
3. Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino)
4. The Brown Bunny (2003, Vincent Gallo)
5. Our Beloved Month of August (2008, Miguel Gomes)
6. Birdsong (2008, Albert Serra)
7. In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
8. The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho)
9. Los muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)
10. The Lady and the Duke (2001, Éric Rohmer)
    Triple Agent (2008, Éric Rohmer)
    The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (2007, Éric Rohmer)

Richard Porton
Best "Political" Films of the Decade

1. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis)
2. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002, Wang Bing)
3. United Red Army (2007, Wakamatsu Kōji)
4. Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003, Eyal Sivan & Michel Kleifi)
5. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
7. Triple Agent (2004, Eric Rohmer)
8. Police, Adjective (2009, Corneliu Porumboiu)
9. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
10. The Case of the Grinning Cat (2004, Chris Marker)

Kong Rithdee

1. Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
3. Werckmeister Harmones (2000, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
4. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
5. Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant)
6. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
7. Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)
8. Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong)
9. Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
10. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)

Jennifer Reeves

1. Lot 63, Grave C (2006, Sam Green)
2. Horizontal Boundaries (2008, Pat O'Neill)
3. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005, Peter Tscherkassky)
4. Tulpan (2008, Sergey Dvortsevoy)
5. Play Pause (2007, Sadie Benning)
6. Bright Star (2009, Jane Campion)
7. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. Footnotes to a House of Love (2007, Laida Lertxundi)
9. Observando el cielo (2007, Jeanne Liotta)
10. Viscera (2005, Leighton Pierce)
11. Last Days in a Lonely Place (2007, Phil Solomon)
12. Persepolis (2007, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
13. Cosmetic Emergency (2007, Martha Colburn)

C.S. Roy

1. The Rebirth (2007, Kobayashi Masahiro)
2. Honor of the Knights (2006, Albert Serra)
3. The Living World (2003, Eugène Green)
4. Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
5. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest (2003-2008, Yang Fudong)
6. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2007, Philippe Parreno & Douglas Gordon)
7. La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
8. Milky Way (2007, Benedek Fliegauf)
9. Jimmywork (2004, Simon Sauvé)
10. M (2009, Félix Dufour-Laperrière)

Girish Shambu
Ten unjustly forgotten festival films

1. The Long Holiday (2000, Johan van der Keuken)
2. Wild Blue, Notes for Several Voices (2000, Thierry Knauff)
3. Après la réconciliation (2000, Anne-Marie Mieville)
4. Pine Flat (2005, Sharon Lockhart)
5. Tomorrow We Move (2004, Chantal Akerman)
6. The Orphan of Anyang (2001, Wang Chao)
7. Pin Boy (2004, Ana Poliak)
8. Through the Forest (2005, Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
9. A Dog's Day (2001, Murali Nair)
10. Four Women (2007, Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

Chuck Stephens

• demonlover (2002, Olivier Assayas)
• Face (2000, Sakamoto Junji)
• Gerry (2002, Gus Van Sant)
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
• House of a Thousand Corpses (2002, Rob Zombie)
• I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang)
• In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)
• In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
• Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noé)
• Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino)
• Kings of Power: 4 Billion% (2008, Paul Robertson)
• Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
• Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
• Los muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)
• Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
• Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Primer (2004, Shane Carruth)
• Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong)
• Team America: World Police (2004, Trey Parker)
• Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis)
• Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke)
• What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)
• The Wire (2002-2008, David Simon)
• Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)

Michael Sicinski
Underseen, Underdiscussed Films

• Hybrid (2000, Monteith McCollum)
• Harmful Insect (2001, Shiota Akihiko)
• Group (2002, Marilyn Freedman)
• A Thousand Clouds of Peace... (2003, Julián Hernández)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004, Asia Argento)
• Tokyo Magic Hour (2005, Amir Muhammad)
• Valery's Ankle (2006, Brett Kashmere)
• SpaceDisco One (2007, Damon Packard)
• Definitely, Maybe (2008, Adam Brooks)
• uncertain camera (grained time vol. 1) (2009, Goshima Kazuhiro)

Bart Testa

1. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
2. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)
3. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
4. Infernal Affairs (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
   Infernal Affairs II (2003, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
   Infernal Affairs III (2003, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
5. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang)
6. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
7. Volver (2006, Pedro Almodóvar)
8. Time of the Wolf (2003, Michael Haneke)
9. In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Seasons... (2002, Phil Solomon & Stan Brakhage)

Andrew Tracy

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Adam McKay)
• The Boss of It All (2006, Lars von Trier)
• Crank (2006, Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
• Marseille (2004, Angela Schanelec)
  Afternoon (2006, Angela Schanelec)
• Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
• Shara (2003, Kawase Naomi)
• The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004, Pirjo Honkasalo)
• Une vie nouvelle (2002, Philippe Grandrieux)
• Workingman's Death (2005, Michael Glawogger)
• The Yards (2000, James Gray)

Jerry White

1. Daratt (2006, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
2. Chunyhang (2000, Im Kwon-taek)
3. L'Enfant (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
4. The Journals of Knud Rassmussen (2006, Zacharias Kunuk & Norman Cohn)
5. Helen (2008, Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy)
   Joy (2008, Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy)
6. I'm Not There (2007, Todd Haynes)
7. Itinéraire de Jean Bricard (2008, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
8. Océan (2002, Catherine Martin)
9. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
10. The Wrestlers (2000, Buddhadeb Dasgupta)

Honorable mentions: Best Hollywood film: Good Night and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney); Best television film: Les hôpitaux meurent aussi (2000, Mark Kidel); Best Welsh-language experimental documentary: Sleep Furiously (2008, Gideon Koppel)

C.W. Winter

• Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Colossal Youth (2006, Pedro Costa)
• *Corpus Callosum (2002, Michael Snow)
• La libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
• Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
• Notre musique (2004, Jean-Luc Godard)
• Our Beloved Month of August (2008, Miguel Gomes)
• Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
• The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
• 13 Lakes (2004, James Benning)

Others: La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins), The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Adam Curtis), The Gleaners and I (2000, Agnès Varda)