The 2008 List
##. Film (Director)
points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking
01. 歩いても 歩いても [Aruitemo aruitemo] [Still Walking] (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
308/16(8)/1
02. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
263/14(6)/1(x3)
03. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
262/14(6)/1
04. Un conte de Noël [A Christmas Tale] (Arnaud Desplechin)
255/13(5)/1(x4)
05. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
228/13(5)/1(x3)
06. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
214/14(4)/3(x3)
07. L'Heure d'été [Summer Hours] (Olivier Assayas)
199/11(7)/1
08. Låt den rätte komma in [Let the Right One In] (Tomas Alfredson)
190/14(4)/2
09. Two Lovers (James Gray)
181/12(3)/4
10. Che (Steven Soderbergh)
179/11(3)/2
11. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
172/10(3)/2(x2)
12. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
167/9(3)/2
13. Gomorra [Gomorrah] (Matteo Garrone)
149/9(2)/2(x2)
14. 35 Rhums [35 Shots of Rum] (Claire Denis)
147/8(5)/2(x2)
15. Revanche [Revenge] (Götz Spielmann)
145/8(2)/2
16. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
139/8(4)/1(x2)
(tie) トウキョウソナタ [Tōkyō sonata] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
139/9(3)/2(x2)
18. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
138/9(3)/2
19. La mujer sin cabeza [The Headless Woman] (Lucrecia Martel)
131/9(2)/1
20. Historias extraordinarias [Extraordinary Stories] (Mariano Llinás)
126/7(3)/1
21. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
116/8(1)/3
22. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
110/7(1)/3
23. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
104/7(1)/2
24. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
97/8(1)/1
25. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
94/6/7
26. Les Plages d'Agnès [The Beaches of Agnès] (Agnès Varda)
89/7(1)/1
27. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
87/6(1)/4
28. Redbelt (David Mamet)
84/4(2)/2
29. 二十四城记 [Er shi si cheng ji] [24 City] (Jia Zhangke)
83/6(1)/4
30. John Adams (Tom Hooper)
76/4(1)/3
31. Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
74/5(2)/3
32. 밤과 낮 [Bam-goa nat] [Night and Day] (Hong Sang-soo)
72/4(1)/3
33. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
71/5(2)/1(x2)
34. Üç Maymun [Three Monkeys] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
70/6/6
35. 崖の上のポニョ [Gake no ue no ponyo] [Ponyo] (Hayao Miyazaki)
63/4(1)/3
36. Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
62/6(1)/1
37. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
59/3(2)/1
(tie) 愛のむきだし [Ai no mukidashi] [Love Exposure] (Sion Sono)
59/4(1)/4
39. Entre les murs [The Class] (Laurent Cantet)
58/4(1)/5
(tie) Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich)
58/4/8
41. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
57/3(1)/3
(tie) Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
57/4(1)/5
43. Il divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
56/3(1)/2
44. The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
54/3(1)/1
45. Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
49/3/7
46. El cant dels ocells [Birdsong] (Albert Serra)
47/2(2)/2
47. Η σκόνη του χρόνου [
I skoni tou chronou] [The Dust of Time] (Theo Angelopoulos)
46/2(2)/1
48. Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin)
45/2(1)/1
49. Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick [Everlasting Moments] (Jan Troell)
44/4/7
50. Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [The Baader Meinhof Complex] (Uli Edel)
42/3(1)/5
ALSO-RANS
ואלס עם באשיר [Vals im bashir] [Waltz with Bashir] (Ari Folman)
40/2(1)/3
De ofrivilliga [Involuntary] (Ruben Östlund)
40/2(1)/4
Cztery noce z Anną [Four Nights with Anna] (Jerzy Skolimowski)
40/2(1)/5
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri)
40/2/6(x2)
Le Premier Jour du reste de ta vie [The First Day of the Rest of Your Life] (Rémi Bezançon)
40/3(1)/5
文雀 [Man jeuk] [Sparrow] (Johnnie To)
37/2(1)/3
The Square (Nash Edgerton)
37/3/9(x2)
Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill)
36/2(1)/4
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne)
35/2(1)/2
Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto [Our Beloved Month of August] (Miguel Gomes)
33/2/8
Тюльпан [Tulpan] [The Tulip] (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
32/2(1)/1
Le Genou d'Artémide [Artemis' Knee] (Jean-Marie Straub)
32/2(1)/5
Nuit de chien [This Night] (Werner Schroeter)
31/2(1)/4
Séraphine (Martin Provost)
31/2(1)/5
Chris & Don: A Love Story (Guido Santi & Tina Mascara)
30/2/8
Splinter (Toby Wilkins)
30/2/11(x2)
Adam Resurrected (Paul Schrader)
29/2(1)/4
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
29/2/9
Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
28/2(1)/3
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
28/2(1)/3
Prince of Broadway (Sean Baker)
28/2/9
Role Models (David Wain)
28/3/12
Generation Kill (Susanna White & Simon Cellan Jones)
27/2/10
Step Brothers (Adam McKay)
26/2/7
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
26/2/9
شیرین [Shirin] (Abbas Kiarostami)
26/2/12
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
26/3/15
Easter Morning (Bruce Conner)
24/2(1)/4
ซอยคาวบอย [Soi Cowboy] (Thomas Clay)
24/2/8
Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
24/2/12
Mesrine (Jean-François Richet)
22/2(1)/5
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
20/2/11
Julia (Erick Zonca)
20/2/13
赤壁 [Chi bi] [Red Cliff] (2008-2009) (John Woo)
18/2/14
Rembrandt's J'Accuse (Peter Greenaway)
17/2/12
河上的爱情 [He shang de ai qing] [Cry Me a River] (Jia Zhangke)
17/2/14
おくりびと [Okuribito] [Departures] (Yōjirō Takita)
17/2/17
Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon)
16/2/14
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime [I've Loved You So Long] (Philippe Claudel)
15/2/13
Body of Lies (Ridley Scott)
13/2/18
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
12/2/20(x2)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
9/2/21
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
6/2/21
ORPHANS
Film (Director)
highest ranking
Parlez-moi de la pluie [Let It Rain] (Agnès Jaoui)
7
Морфий [Morfiy] [Morphia] (Aleksei Balabanov)
3
Burma VJ – reporter i et lukket land [Reporting from a Closed Country] (Anders Østergaard)
7
Wolke 9 [Cloud 9] (Andreas Dresen)
23
God on Trial (Andy De Emmony)
7
天水圍的日與夜 [Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye] [The Way We Are] (Ann Hui)
18
A nyomozó [The Investigator] (Attila Gigor)
24
Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins)
19
Origin of the Species (Ben Rivers)
21
De la guerre [On War] (Bertrand Bonello)
23
Hot Dog (Bill Plympton)
22
Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton)
17
Santa: The Fascist Years (Bill Plympton)
12
Muto (Blu)
8
Serbis [Service] (Brillante Mendoza)
6
Otto; or, Up with Dead People (Bruce LaBruce)
16
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
10
The Ruins (Carter Smith)
5
The Fullness of Time (Cauleen Smith)
8
Le Petit Fût (Claude Chabrol)
21
Luis (Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña & Niles Atallah)
17
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
6
Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis [Welcome to the Sticks] (Dany Boon)
12
Rumba (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy)
12
Presto (Doug Sweetland)
9
Loft (Erik Van Looy)
23
Vinyan [Lost Souls] (Fabrice du Welz)
7
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
12
Pour elle [Anything for Her] (Fred Cavayé)
22
Nights in Rodanthe (George C. Wolfe)
20
Pranzo di ferragosto [Mid-August Lunch] (Gianni Di Gregorio)
1
It's My Mother’s Birthday Today (Guy Maddin)
25
ጤዛ [Teza] (Haile Gerima)
13
Elegy (Isabel Coixet)
23
Camino (Javier Fesser)
14
黑色早餐 [Hei se zao can] [Black Breakfast] (Jia Zhangke)
20
A Corte do Norte [The Northern Court] (João Botelho)
16
Kung Fu Panda (John Stevenson & Mark Osborne)
5
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Josh Safdie)
14
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith)
25
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 [Joeun nom nappeun nom isanghan nom] [The Good, the Bad, the Weird] (Kim Jee-woon)
24
つみきのいえ [Tsumiki no ie] [The House of Small Cubes] (Kunio Katō)
8
Antoine (Laura Bari)
2
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
10
مسخرة [Maskhara] [Mascarades] [Masquerades] (Lyès Salem)
25
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
13
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
3
スカイ・クロラ [Sukai kurora] [The Sky Crawlers] (Mamoru Oshii)
10
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
19
The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown)
20
5 días sin Nora [Nora's Will] (Mariana Chenillo)
21
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (Mark Hartley)
25
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman)
25
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
16
Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin [A Woman in Berlin] (Max Färberböck)
11
Bush's War (Michael Kirk)
15
Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax & Bong Joon-ho)
23
추격자 [Chugyeokja] [The Chaser] (Na Hong-jin)
2
Unmistaken Child (Nati Baratz)
7
The Lucky Ones (Neil Burger)
9
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
2
Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday (Paddy Wivell)
18
Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story (Patty Sharaf)
12
Nordwand [North Face] (Philipp Stölzl)
9
Un lac [A Lake] (Philippe Grandrieux)
6
SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) (Phillip Lachenmann)
5
Taken (Pierre Morel)
6
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
5
La Maison Nucingen [Nucingen House] (Raúl Ruiz)
9
Felon (Ric Roman Waugh)
8
Laskar Pelangi [The Rainbow Troops] (Riri Riza)
14
Nothing But the Truth (Rod Lurie)
20
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
4
Pageant (Ron Davis & Stewart Halpern)
4
十二莲花 [Shi er lian hua] [12 Lotus] (Royston Tan)
9
The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt)
24
きみの友だち [Kimi no tomodachi] [Your Friend] (Ryūichi Hiroki)
15
اسب دوپا [Asbe du-pa] [Two-Legged Horse] (Samira Makhmalbaf)
17
Süt [Milk] (Semih Kaplanoğlu)
9
اشکان، انگشتر متبرک و چند داستان دیگر [Ashkan angoshtar-e motebarek va dastan-haye digar] [Ashkan, the Holy Ring & Other Stories] (Shahram Mokri)
10
西の魔女が死んだ [Nishi no majo ga shinda] [The Witch of the West Is Dead] (Shunichi Nagasaki)
8
나무없는 산 [Namueopneun san] [Treeless Mountain] (So Yong Kim)
10
Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
23
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
12
Disgrace (Steve Jacobs)
16
神様のパズル [Kamisama no pazuru] [God's Puzzle] (Takashi Miike)
16
The Yellow Handkerchief (Udayan Prasad)
15
Home (Ursula Meier)
24
Sveitabrúðkaup [Country Wedding] (Valdís Óskarsdóttir)
13
Muallaf [The Convert] (Yasmin Ahmad)
19
母べえ [Kābē] [Our Mother] (Yōji Yamada)
17
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