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Sent my list in. Well it's less diverse than I imagined.

US (17)
France (8)
Argentina, Iran, UK (3)
China, South Korea, Taiwan (2)
Australia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Sweden (1)

Several more lists now tallied and we already have our top 100! As a reminder, you have six more days left to either send me your list or revise what you previously submitted. A couple more hints:

1. The titles of two films in the top 100 might be confused if you translate them both into a different language.

2. As far as I can tell, two films in the current top 50 didn't receive a single vote last time.

Another list in, another clue: We now have two films tied for 10th place which are both by the same director. (I have not given a clue about these films or this director before.)

A few more lists are in, and assuming that about half of you are waiting until the last minute to submit, it looks like we're back on track to having 30+ participants this round. Maybe my clues are helping? Here's another one: One release year appears to be the resounding forum favorite, with four of the top six spots having come out then.

I'll have to send In a revised list as I thought of two films found in the early days of green cine that I recently remembered discovering back then.

Failan, is a quiet, beautifully acted, South Korean immigrant story, the titular character is an immigrant into the country and crosses paths via an arranged marriage (but no actual contact between spouses) with an on the outs gangster in a way that changes both their lives, I distinctly remember an abrupt structural shift halfway through the film that really turned it into something, or at least so I remember.

Lies, (gojitmal) is about a school girl who is afraid of all the raping going around, so she decides to be proactive and start an affair with an older man that rapidly descends into sadomasochism. Naturally it's about lies to oneself, to others, lies society tells given the title. I'd never seen in the realm of the senses, a clear influence, at the time, but the film has stuck in my brain in the way haneke films do.

movielocke wrote:I'll have to send In a revised list as I thought of two films found in the early days of green cine that I recently remembered discovering back then.

Failan, is a quiet, beautifully acted, South Korean immigrant story, the titular character is an immigrant into the country and crosses paths via an arranged marriage (but no actual contact between spouses) with an on the outs gangster in a way that changes both their lives, I distinctly remember an abrupt structural shift halfway through the film that really turned it into something, or at least so I remember.

Lies, (gojitmal) is about a school girl who is afraid of all the raping going around, so she decides to be proactive and start an affair with an older man that rapidly descends into sadomasochism. Naturally it's about lies to oneself, to others, lies society tells given the title. I'd never seen in the realm of the senses, a clear influence, at the time, but the film has stuck in my brain in the way haneke films do.

Jang Sun-woo was quite a big deal back in the late nineties (Tony Rayns even made a documentary about him), but I'm afraid I never saw much in his work beyond obvious attention-getting transgression (and Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie was the big deal in that regard - though Lies does feature the protagonists eating each other's shit!). Then he dropped off the edge of the world, both critically and professionally. Unfortunately for the purposes of this project, Lies is a 1999 film. His only film this century is Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (which I haven't seen).

Failan is indeed very good, but it did not make my list (despite the fact that Korean films probably made up the biggest chunk of my list). The two lead performers are both excellent, and the story heartbreaking

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(though I wonder if it does not, in fact, have an ultimately _happy_ ending, albeit a la Grave of the Fireflies-style happy, i.e. posthumously happy).

When I was ready with my list, I realised again what a great decade for film this was. One of the most fascinating.

Yikes. I thought this would be easy & could just throw it together in an hour. I remembered the 2000s as being the decade that world cinema went down the tubes for me (a decade following the decline in the quality of US films), however I went to imdb & it looks like I'll only be able to include 1/2 of the "9" ratings I gave out during the decade to fill out 50 spots. Looks like it wasn't so bad after all. I've decided to exclude all shorts to make it easier & am contemplating weeding out as many documentaries & tv series (as there are many more to include for this decade for me & I don't want my list being a rehash of the documentary list).

Well TV series are ineligible so don't vote for any of those, but please don't leave off shorts & docs purely because they don't conform to the traditional narrative format. That makes the shorts and the docs sad. Just vote for your favorites, whatever they may be.

For example, here is a pretty good short I'd never heard of before that I'm glad someone included on their list.

Guess I read over #2 too quickly, so only miniseries & a single episode from a series, which makes it easy to exclude all tv & make it a bit easier, but I'll still only get to about 1/2 of my "9"s.

Single episode from an anthology series, yes, i.e. a show whose individual episodes might each be thought of as separate films.

I thought one of the fascinating aspects of 21st C filmdom has been the resurgence of documentary feature films. I had 9 docs on my 2000's list, another 2 that could have made the list, plus the mockumentary My Winnipeg, and the recreation of actual events in Road to Guantanamo.

It was also a good era for animation, though I wound up with only 5 on my list.

I had 28 foreign films on my list (and a film like Born into Brothels sure seems like a foreign film, though made by Indian Americans). But nearly half of those (12 films) was comprised of films from Canada (mostly due to Maddin) and other English speaking countries (UK, AUS)
So just 1/3 of my list (16/50) were foreign language films. A somewhat low amount probably attributable to my lack of fondness for 21st C Asian cinema.

26 lists in now and the aggregate list is looking...kind of weird. Like a fourth of this list was nowhere near making the last one, and of course, old favorites have had to move out of the way to make room. If the sound of this alarms you, I am still accepting lists throughout the night. I'll be posting results tomorrow morning including anything else that I have received by the time I wake up.

Michael Kerpan wrote:Failan is indeed very good, but it did not make my list (despite the fact that Korean films probably made up the biggest chunk of my list). The two lead performers are both excellent, and the story heartbreaking

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(though I wonder if it does not, in fact, have an ultimately _happy_ ending, albeit a la Grave of the Fireflies-style happy, i.e. posthumously happy).

i went back through the bottom part of my list and my runners up and "failan" wound up slotting in at 52, so no need to update my list, as I'm reasonably happy with it overall, I've tweaked the order a few times on letterboxed but nothing major. And I really wanted to include "dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog" more than I wanted to include Failan, and the former was probably the only one I was willing to bump.

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I finally watched "mulhullond dr" for this list. I'm a little sad to have watched it, as it's pretty much the only movie, for the past fifteen years to elicit complete shock from people in real life when they found out I hadn't seen it. Really good movie, loved the ambiguity, felt like it was a little bit of a cop out to push it the extreme of David Lynch Chanting "I know something you don't know," over and over again during the end credits, but hey, good for him. (that's a joke). What I liked most is that it is a movie with no correct interpretation whatsoever, so as an audience member, I feel free to project whatever I want to on to the movie to interpret it according to my own narrative desires (and or desires for narrative). So if I want the movie to have a wormhole it has a wormhole, if I want the movie to have a fight club squared function, it can, if I want the movie to be a simple commentary on the nature of performance/roles and actressing, it can be so, if I want it be a dream of a dreamer having a dream of people dreaming a dream of a dreamer having a dream of a dreamer it totally can! I really enjoyed the film, not top fifty, not on a first viewing, but I could see it making a future list with more time for its tentacles to eat their way into my skull.

The other film accompanying mulhullond dr, inevitably in the top two of tomorrow's unveiled list, "in the mood for love" also isn't on my list. I'll be completely honest why. I bought the criterion dvd the day it was released on reputation alone. I watched it that night, and fell asleep, granted I was pretty young, but still, shameful. The next day and feeling self conscious and stupid, I bragged online about how great it was and how much I loved it and thought it was amazing, then I finished watching the film later that next night. Eventually feeling guilty about this I re watched it a couple months later and fell asleep again. Mad at myself for this reaction the film wound up sitting on my shelf for the next ten years, until I decided to sell it in a spring cleaning of my dvd collection.

First, I re watched it though, it is an excellent film, but not one I personally loved, and the only strong connection I felt to the film was lingering regret about not being able to connect to the film the "right" way--the way all the other film people online seemed to so passionately adore it with no reservations. I never got that experience from the film, so I sold it and moved on. Sort of the film that got away for me. So it's not on my list either.

I'm going to finish my list this morning UK time, so it should arrive by the time you wake!

Now submitted my list:

United States - 14
Germany - 8
Italy - 6
United Kingdom - 5
Austria - 3
France, Hong Kong, Romania - 2
Argentina, Iran, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Sweden - 1

I've gone with best fit on a couple of transnational coproductions.

Akin, Aronofsky, Haneke and Sorrentino all have two films on the ballot.

I was mean, only Cantet and Kiarostami got two films out of me.

Thanks to everyone for your participation this round. I'll be releasing the results shortly in the next three posts. Here again is a guide to what the figures listed after each film represent, each separated with a slash mark:

1. Total points (50 for each #1 placement, 49 for each #2, etc.)
2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 28 submitted). If the film appeared in anyone's top 10, the number of top 10 appearances is also denoted in parentheses.
3. Highest placement of the film on any one list. If more than one person ranked the film this high, this is also denoted in parentheses.
4. Change in position from the 2010 list, with movements of 10 or more highlighted.

So for example, the 385/10(5)/1(x3)/-3 shown for Werckmeister Harmonies means that it scored 385 points and appeared on ten lists (and five top 10s), with three people ranking it as high as #1. The film also moved down three positions from its placement on the 2010 list.

For the list of orphans, only figure #3 is displayed (the highest rank, not the score given).

If anyone would like me to PM them a list of how all of their picks fared in the overall tally (rather than having to scour through all of the results) it's a simple thing for me to do. Just let me know.

I'll unlock the 2010-2014 thread in the next little while. In the meantime, feel free to continue discussion in this thread regarding the results of the 2000s project and to share your individual lists (including defenses of your poor-faring favorites).

The 2000s List

01. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) 743/19(10)/1(x3)/+1
02. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) 605/15(10)/2(x2)/-1
03. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) 449/14(4)/1(x2)/+5
04. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) 430/13(6)/3/+5
05. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) 428/13(3)/3/+9
06. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001) 420/11(6)/1(x2)/-2
07. Yi yi (Edward Yang, 2000) 419/13(4)/1(x2)/-4
08. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005) 387/12(3)/1/+5
09. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000) 385/10(5)/1(x3)/-3
10. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) 363/10(4)/2(x2)/+1
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) 355/12(2)/6(x2)/-1
12. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007) 332/11(2)/1/+5
13. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000) 320/8(5)/1(x2)/+114
14. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) 282/9(2)/5/+14
15. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) 251/8(4)/4/+3
16. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) 250/8(2)/1/+13
17. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009) 234/9(1)/3/+20
18. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002) 230/7(2)/4(x2)/-2
19. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) 227/6(4)/3/+3
20. City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 2002) 224/7(2)/4/+99
21. The World (Jia Zhang-ke, 2004) 215/7(2)/2/+15
22. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002) 211/6(1)/3/+1
23. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) 210/7(1)/9/+2
24. Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004) 207/6(3)/7/+261
25. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002) 206/7(2)/1/-20
26. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003) 196/6(2)/5/+24
27. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003) 187/6(2)/5/-15
(tie) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) 187/7(1)/5/+76
29. Police, adj. (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009) 183/5(2)/6/+112
30. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) 179/7(1)/5/-23
31. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003) 177/8/16/-12
32. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007) 171/6(2)/3/-6
33. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001) 168/6(1)/3/+8
(tie) Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) 168/7(2)/3/-18
35. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000) 165/5(1)/3/+28
36. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003-2004) 163/5(2)/9/+43
37. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008) 162/5(3)/4/-5
(tie) The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) 162/6(1)/8/+19
39. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004) 158/5(3)/7/+229
40. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008) 155/6/11/+51
41. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) 154/5(2)/1/-14
42. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2000) 152/4(2)/2/+125
43. Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004) 151/4(3)/1/+26
(tie) A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009) 151/7(1)/7/+205
45. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002) 146/6/20/+17
46. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008) 145/5(1)/3/-7
47. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2008) 144/6(1)/3/-17
48. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) 142/4(2)/4/+68
49. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002) 139/6(1)/2/+9
50. Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002) 138/6(2)/1/-8
(tie) Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) 138/5(1)/9/+28
(tie) Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) 138/5(1)/5/+187
(tie) Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009) 138/6/13/+19
54. Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) 137/3(3)/3/+3
(tie) Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000) 137/5(2)/3/+41
56. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2007) 136/4(2)/2/-22
(tie) Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) 136/4(1)/7/-26
58. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) 135/4(2)/1/+78
59. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004) 130/4(1)/5/-35
60. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002) 128/4(1)/9/+114
61. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000) 126/5/13/+244
62. Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004) 125/4(1)/10/+235
(tie) Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008) 125/5/12/+98
64. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003) 123/4(1)/6/-9
65. The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda, 2000) 122/5/17/-17
66. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2001) 121/4(2)/2/--
67. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) 120/5/15/+27
68. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003) 118/4(1)/2/+86
69. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001) 117/4(1)/2/-23
70. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) 114/4(1)/10/+224
(tie) Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) 114/6/25/+102
72. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007) 113/5(1)/10/+241
73. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007) 112/4(1)/2/+123
74. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) 110/5/18/-21
75. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003) 109/4(1)/6/+38
76. La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) 108/3(2)/3/-31
77. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) 107/5/14/+18
78. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) 105/3(2)/3/+67
(tie) The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005) 105/5(1)/5/+28
80. White Material (Claire Denis, 2009) 103/4/16(x2)/New
(tie) 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004) 103/6/18/-28
82. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004) 102/4(1)/10/+9
83. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001) 101/3/11/+15
84. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004) 100/4(2)/8/+97
85. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005) 99/4(1)/6/-35
86. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000) 97/6/22/+53
87. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) 96/4(1)/3/+310
(tie) Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) 96/4(1)/9/-52
(tie) Love Torn in a Dream (Raúl Ruiz, 2000) 96/4/11/New
90. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo, 2000) 95/2(2)/2/-30
(tie) WALL·E (Andrew Stanton, 2008) 95/4/11/-19
(tie) Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007) 95/5(1)/5/-15
93. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004) 94/4/17/New
94. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001) 91/2(2)/1/-48
(tie) Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004) 91/2(2)/1/+35
(tie) Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004) 91/3(1)/4/-36
(tie) The Baxter (Michael Showalter, 2005) 91/3(1)/1/+202
98. Histoire de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003) 90/2(2)/5/+82
(tie) Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) 90/3/17/+81
100. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) 89/2(2)/3/+31
(tie) The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) 89/4/12/-60
(tie) A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, 2008) 89/4/13/-67


Top Directors

Lars von Trier (6 films, 997 points)
David Lynch (3 films, 922 points)
Michael Haneke (5 films, 920 points)
Joel & Ethan Coen (6 films, 797 points)
Wong Kar-wai (3 films, 719 points)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2 films, 655 points)
Wes Anderson (4 films, 622 points)
Tsai Ming-liang (6 films, 498 points)
Michel Gondry (3 films, 483 points)
Steven Soderbergh (9 films, 457 points)

Alfonso Cuarón (2 films, 437 points)
David Fincher (1 film, 430 points)
Steven Spielberg (4 films, 425 points)
Edward Yang (1 film, 419 points)
Quentin Tarantino (4 films, 417 points)
Claire Denis (5 films, 417 points)
Gus Van Sant (6 films, 401 points)
Jia Zhang-ke (4 films, 389 points)
Béla Tarr (1 film, 385 points)
Pedro Almodóvar (4 films, 373 points)

Hayao Miyazaki (1 film, 363 points)
Guy Maddin (6 films, 298 points)
Olivier Assayas (3 films, 294 points)
Bong Joon-ho (4 films, 287 points)
Cristian Mungiu (1 film, 282 points)
Hou Hsiao-hsien (5 films, 259 points)
Noah Baumbach (2 films, 257 points)
Sofia Coppola (2 films, 255 points)
Lucrecia Martel (3 films, 253 points)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (3 films, 251 points)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (3 films, 241 points)
Kelly Reichardt (2 films, 234 points)
Fernando Meirelles (1 film, 224 points)
Richard Linklater (3 films, 223 points)
Spike Lee (5 films, 217 points)
Werner Herzog (3 films, 214 points)
Fatih Akin (2 films, 208 points)
Jafar Panahi (3 films, 208 points)
Abbas Kiarostami (3 films, 206 points)
Michael Mann (4 films, 206 points)

Brad Bird (2 films, 205 points)
Park Chan-wook (3 films, 205 points)
Hong Sang-soo (4 films, 201 points)
Roy Andersson (2 films, 201 points)
Andrew Dominik (2 films, 200 points)
Corneliu Porumboiu (2 films, 198 points)
Lukas Moodysson (2 films, 197 points)
Guillermo del Toro (4 films, 193 points)
Raúl Ruiz (3 films, 191 points)
Hirokazu Koreeda (2 films, 187 points)


Results by Country

USA (290 films, 44.9% of points)
France (175 films, 31.5% of points)
Germany (104 films, 15.3% of points)
UK (96 films, 11% of points)
Japan (65 films, 10.1% of points)
Sweden (15 films, 4.6% of points)
Italy (42 films, 4.5% of points)
Spain (32 films, 4.3% of points)
Canada (35 films, 4.2% of points)
Denmark (11 films, 4% of points)

Hong Kong (18 films, 3.6% of points)
South Korea (27 films, 3.5% of points)
Taiwan (14 films, 3.3% of points)
Austria (15 films, 3.2% of points)
China (22 films, 3% of points)
Romania (9 films, 2.5% of points)
Belgium (21 films, 2.1% of points)
Mexico (11 films, 2% of points)
Iran (12 films, 2% of points)
Netherlands (19 films, 1.9% of points)

Switzerland (11 films, 1.8% of points)
Russia (13 films, 1.6% of points)
Norway (11 films, 1.5% of points)
Hungary (4 films, 1.4% of points)
Australia (11 films, 1.4% of points)
Argentina (11 films, 1.3% of points)
Poland (7 films, 1.1% of points)
Finland (8 films, 1% of points)
Portugal (9 films, 0.9% of points)
Cameroon (2 films, 0.7% of points)

Brazil (3 films, 0.7% of points)
Turkey (4 films, 0.7% of points)
Thailand (4 films, 0.7% of points)
Luxembourg (6 films, 0.5% of points)
Ireland (6 films, 0.5% of points)
India (4 films, 0.5% of points)
Tunisia (1 film, 0.4% of points)
Burkina Faso (1 film, 0.4% of points)
Morocco (1 film, 0.4% of points)
Senegal (1 film, 0.4% of points)

New Zealand (6 films, 0.4% of points)
Greece (3 films, 0.3% of points)
Czech Republic (3 films, 0.3% of points)
Uruguay (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Israel (4 films, 0.3% of points)
Chile (1 film, 0.3% of points)
Ukraine (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Paraguay (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Cayman Islands (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Vietnam (1 film, 0.1% of points)

Slovakia (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Mali (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Sri Lanka (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Georgia (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Ecuador (1 film, <0.1% of points)
Colombia (1 film, <0.1% of points)
Chad (1 film, <0.1% of points)
Mongolia (1 film, <0.1% of points)
Indonesia (1 film, <0.1% of points)


Results by Year




Casualties from the 2010 List

20. L'Intrus (now an also-ran)
21. Platform (now an also-ran)
37. A History of Violence (now an also-ran)
43. Nobody Knows (now an also-ran)
44. You, the Living (now an also-ran)
48. Friday Night (now an orphan)
54. Miami Vice (now an also-ran)
60. Amélie (now an also-ran)
64. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (now an also-ran)
65. L'Enfant (now an also-ran)
67. In the City of Sylvia (now an also-ran)
68. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (now an orphan)
72. The Hurt Locker (now an also-ran)
73. Still Life (now an also-ran)
73. Who's Camus Anyway? (now an also-ran)
76. Woman Is the Future of Man (now an also-ran)
77. Synecdoche, New York (now an also-ran)
79. The Man Without a Past (now an also-ran)
81. Eureka (now an also-ran)
82. I'm Not There (now an also-ran)
83. Linda Linda Linda (now an also-ran)
84. Paranoid Park (now an orphan)
85. Morvern Callar (now an also-ran)
85. George Washington (now an also-ran)
87. Ghost World (now an also-ran)
88. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (now an also-ran)
88. Woman on the Beach (now an orphan)
90. All the Real Girls (now an also-ran)
93. Tokyo Sonata (now voteless)
95. Brand Upon the Brain! (now an also-ran)
98. Innocence (now an also-ran)
98. Café Lumière (now an orphan)

Also-Rans

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008) 88/3(1)/2/-26
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006) 88/4(1)/9/+156
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005) 88/4/18/+37
L'Annulaire (Diane Bertrand, 2005) 86/2(2)/6/New
Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) 86/3(1)/4/-46
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006) 86/3(1)/6/-33
The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald, 2007) 86/4/15/+251
Band of Brothers (Tom Hanks et al., 2001) 85/2(1)/2/+128

About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009) 84/2(2)/8/New
L'Intrus (Claire Denis, 2004) 84/3(1)/10/-91
Ce jour-là (Raúl Ruiz, 2003) 84/4(1)/7/--
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004) 83/2(1)/5/-38
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007) 83/3/12/+143
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001) 83/3/15/-4
Come into My World (Michel Gondry, 2002) 82/2(1)/6/+56
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009) 82/4(1)/4/New
Le Pont des Arts (Eugène Green, 2004) 81/2(1)/4/+16
Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 2005) 81/2(1)/10/-46

Platform (Jia Zhang-ke, 2000) 81/3(1)/3/-98
Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) 81/3/14/New
Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005) 80/2(1)/8/-19
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) 80/2(1)/9/+35
Outerborough (Bill Morrison, 2005) 80/3/13/New
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006) 79/3(1)/3/-11
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008) 79/3/13/+221
Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005) 79/4(1)/9/+275
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007) 79/3/14/-59
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003) 79/3/17/+278

Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006) 79/4/23/+51
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002) 79/5/25/-47
Melody for a Street Organ (Kira Muratova, 2009) 78/2(1)/8/New
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) 78/3(1)/2/+229
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000) 77/3(1)/5/-54
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003) 77/3(1)/7/+65
Che (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) 76/3(1)/5/+47
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005) 76/4/19/-100
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006) 75/3(1)/1/+56
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009) 75/4/26/-7

Sex and Lucía (Julio Medem, 2001) 74/2/11/+50
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) 74/3(1)/8/-77
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007) 74/3(1)/8/+20
Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000) 74/4/20/New
Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard, 2001) 73/2(1)/5/New
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006) 72/2(1)/6/-92
Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009) 70/2(1)/6/New
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) 70/2(1)/8/+227
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005) 69/2(1)/10/-66
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005) 69/2/12/+129

Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006) 68/3/21/-56
A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000) 67/2(1)/2/New
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009) 67/2/16/New
Innocence (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2004) 65/2(1)/2/-56
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007) 65/2(1)/10/-53
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002) 64/2(1)/8/+22
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007) 64/3/27/-112
A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, 2003) 63/2(1)/7/+74
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008) 63/2/16/+32
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000) 62/3(1)/5/-23

Light Is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004) 62/2(1)/10/New
Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002) 62/2/17/-38
The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000) 62/2/20(x2)/+194
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) 62/3/18/+181
Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2009) 61/2/12/New
Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) 61/2/14/New
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002) 60/2(1)/8/-82
Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000) 60/3(1)/9/+82
Morphia (Aleksei Balabanov, 2008) 60/2/16/New
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) 59/2(1)/10/-49

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006) 59/2/12/+138
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000) 59/2/18/-28
Redbelt (David Mamet, 2008) 59/3/15/+162
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004) 59/3/30/+156
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003) 58/2/12/+68
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) 58/3/14/+43
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003) 58/3/28(x2)/+64
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009) 57/3/17/New
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) 57/3/18/-96
Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001) 57/3/20/-76

Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008) 56/2(1)/7/-43
Little Otik (Jan Švankmajer, 2000) 56/2/15/+209
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004) 56/2/17/-51
Un prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009) 55/2(1)/3/+36
Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007) 55/2(1)/9/New
Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002) 55/2/19/+104
Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007) 54/2/15/+190
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007) 54/2/21/-18
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003) 53/2(1)/2/-14
Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami, 2008) 53/2(1)/7/New

Manderlay (Lars von Trier, 2005) 52/2(1)/5/New
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001) 52/3/19/-104
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) 51/2(1)/8/New
Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Sōgo Ishii, 2001) 51/3/16/+205
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002) 50/3(1)/8/New
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan Campanella, 2009) 49/2(1)/4/New
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 2006) 49/2/14/+62
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth, 2003) 48/2/20/+158
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004) 48/3/20/+85
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 2007) 48/4/20/+23

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) 48/3/22/-34
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006) 46/2/16/+34
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008) 46/2/21/New
Va savoir (Jacques Rivette, 2001) 45/2/11/-11
Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) 45/2/13/-90
Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) 45/2/19/-79
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002) 45/2/24/+48
The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) 44/2/17/New
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002) 44/2/20/New
The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002) 44/2/21/New

At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007) 44/2/29(x2)/New
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans, 2001) 43/2/11/New
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2003) 43/2/14/-169
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006) 42/2/18/+27
Cargo 200 (Aleksei Balabanov, 2007) 42/3/31/New
Kontroll (Nimród Antal, 2003) 41/2/16/+126
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007) 41/2/21/New
The Meaning of Life (Don Hertzfeldt, 2005) 41/2/27/New
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007) 40/2/15/+220
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) 40/2/18/-147

Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt, 2000) 40/2/20/New
The Company (Robert Altman, 2003) 39/2/22/+133
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2001) 38/2/24/+56
Down in the Valley (David Jacobson, 2005) 37/2/19/New
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, 2007) 36/2/25/New
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) 36/2/33(x2)/+169
Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) 36/3/35/+48
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, 2004) 35/2/18/+22
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009) 35/2/22/New
The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown, 2008) 35/2/22/+96

Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) 34/2/18/+162
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004) 34/2/21/New
Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2003) 34/2/25/New
Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye, 2006) 34/2/25/--
Imprints (Jacques Drouin, 2004) 33/2/24/New
Blind Shaft (Li Yang, 2003) 33/2/24/+171
Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003) 33/3/29/New
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005) 32/2/31/+145
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2002) 31/3/33/-149
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005) 30/2/32/-152

Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2008) 30/2/36(x2)/New
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2005) 29/3/27/-177
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005) 29/2/28/+145
George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) 28/2/24/-159
The Last Train (Aleksei German Jr., 2003) 28/2/28/New
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002) 28/2/31/-127
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2003) 26/2/38(x2)/New
Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell, 2008) 23/2/36/New
Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004) 21/2/40/New
The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003) 20/2/34/New

Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) 19/2/41/+87
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009) 18/2/40/New
Sound Barrier (Amir Naderi, 2005) 16/2/36/New
The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel, 2002) 16/2/36/New
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004) 14/2/41/-51
The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2005) 13/2/43/-104
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005) 12/2/43/-89
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, 2008) 9/2/45/New
American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, 2003) 8/2/45/-133
Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000) 2/2/50(x2)/New

Orphans

About Love (Ten Shimoyama, Yee Chih-yen & Zhang Yibai, 2005) 50
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002) 14
Ad Lib Night (Lee Yoon-ki, 2006) 15
Adrift in Tokyo (Satoshi Miki, 2007) 45
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier, 2006) 19
Ali (Michael Mann, 2001) 47
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Jonathan Levine, 2006) 27
Amer (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2009) 17
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) 37
Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat, 2004) 24
Anchorman (Adam McKay, 2004) 44
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006) 35
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000) 3
At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2003) 25
The Atrocity Exhibition (Jonathan Weiss, 2000) 1
The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, 2005) 50
Avalon (Mamoru Oshii, 2001) 46
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) 19

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel, 2008) 46
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009) 47
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006) 12
The Banishment (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2007) 26
Baran (Majid Majidi, 2001) 20
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, 2000) 6
Basic (John McTiernan, 2003) 40
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005) 49
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005) 31
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005) 22
The Beautiful Country (Hans Petter Moland, 2004) 50
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001) 27
Beijing Bicycle (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2001) 46
Best in Show (Christopher Guest, 2000) 26
The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003) 9
Between Two Worlds (Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2009) 15
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005) 42
Black and White Trypps Number Four (Ben Russell, 2008) 20
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006) 36
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer, 2002) 50
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) 42
Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006) 37
Blue Gate Crossing (Yee Chih-yen, 2002) 48
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009) 41
Borat (Larry Charles, 2006) 17
Born into Brothels (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman, 2004) 11
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) 24
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) 18
Box 507 (Enrique Urbizu, 2002) 12
Boy A (John Crowley, 2007) 48
Breach (Billy Ray, 2007) 22
Bread and Tulips (Silvio Soldini, 2000) 13
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol, 2004) 39
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee, 2003) 31
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 2009) 7
Broken Sky (Julián Hernández, 2006) 23
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003) 40
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, 2005) 41
Bug (William Friedkin, 2006) 37
Burnt Money (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000) 17
By Player (Kaneto Shindō, 2000) 11

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003) 28
Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005) 39
Casting a Glance (James Benning, 2007) 10
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002) 33
A Chair-a-Plane Flamenco (Geoffrey Jones, 2005) 6
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 2007) 19
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008) 10
Le Cheval 2.1 (Stephen Scott-Hayward, 2005) 50
Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park, 2000) 22
Chopper (Andrew Dominik, 2000) 22
Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta, 2000) 12
Chung Wu Yen (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2001) 22
Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek, 2000) 40
The Claim (Michael Winterbottom, 2000) 33
The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008) 9
Coal Money (Wang Bing, 2009) 5
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003) 48
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006) 4
Conspiracy (Frank Pierson, 2001) 32
The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003) 14
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, 2009) 31
CQ (Roman Coppola, 2001) 38
Crazy (Heddy Honigmann, 2000) 43
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002) 6
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) 24
The Cuckoo (Aleksandr Rogozhkin, 2002) 48

Dan in Real Life (Peter Hedges, 2007) 26
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) 31
Daughter from Đà Nẵng (Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco, 2002) 48
The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, 2000) 32
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 2006) 47
Dead Time: Kala (Joko Anwar, 2007) 50
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) 13
The Decay of Fiction (Pat O'Neill, 2002) 21
Déjà Vu (Tony Scott, 2006) 17
Departures (Yōjirō Takita, 2008) 36
Destino (Dominique Monfery, 2003) 19
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002) 15
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002) 42
Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders, 2005) 41
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon, 2008) 50
Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman, 2001) 28
Il dono (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2003) 31
Double Take (Johan Grimonprez, 2009) 49
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin, 2002) 38
Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney, 2005) 8
Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006) 41
Dying at Grace (Allan King, 2003) 26

Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009) 48
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007) 50
The Edukators (Hans Weingartner, 2004) 21
8 Women (François Ozon, 2001) 30
Eine Stadt wird erpresst (Dominik Graf, 2006) 12
Elite Squad (José Padilha, 2007) 29
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe, 2005) 48
The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000) 48
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005) 44
Er sollte tot… (Dominik Graf, 2006) 22
Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006) 16
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás, 2008) 12

Facing Ali (Pete McCormack, 2009) 13
Faithless (Liv Ullmann, 2000) 16
Familienkreise (Stefan Krohmer, 2003) 43
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001) 48
The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) 7
Final Destination 3 (James Wong, 2006) 43
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003) 15
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) 47
La Fleur du mal (Claude Chabrol, 2003) 47
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007) 16
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003) 42
FLCL (Kazuya Tsurumaki, 2000) 28
Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2008) 38
14e Arrondissement (Alexander Payne, 2006) 49
Die Freunde der Freunde (Dominik Graf, 2002) 26
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002) 31

A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2007) 44
Gespenster (Christian Petzold, 2005) 44
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004) 23
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) 45
Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000) 30
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008) 47
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007) 26
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh, 2006) 48
The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta, 2001) 21
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005) 42
A Good Rain Knows (Hur Jin-ho, 2009) 29
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008) 45
Gravity (Nicolas Provost, 2006) 5
Green Tea (Zhang Yuan, 2003) 41
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino, 2007) 22

Haibane renmei (Tomokazu Tokoro et al., 2002) 12
Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai, 2004) 49
Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005) 2
Hardcore (Dennis Iliadis, 2004) 42
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, 2001) 26
Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot, 2003) 32
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000) 8
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001) 50
Heist (David Mamet, 2001) 3
Helen (Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, 2008) 44
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004) 35
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro, 2008) 38
Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 2007) 22
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea, 2009) 48
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000) 5
Honor de cavalleria (Albert Serra, 2006) 23
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006) 1
Hotte im Paradies (Dominik Graf, 2003) 34
The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2008) 41
How to Become Myself (Jun Ichikawa, 2007) 17
How to Fix the World (Jacqueline Goss, 2004) 16
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002) 9
Hurt (Mark Romanek, 2002) 25

I Am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi, 2005) 47
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009) 45
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006) 30
I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004) 8
The Ignorant Fairies (Ferzan Ozpetek, 2001) 27
In Absentia (Stephen & Timothy Quay, 2000) 38
In America (Jim Sheridan, 2003) 10
In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, 2004) 42
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001) 13
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, 2002) 41
Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) 48
Interview (Theo van Gogh, 2003) 19
Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) 36
Ivansxtc (Bernard Rose, 2000) 5

Jarhead (Sam Mendes, 2005) 19
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri, 2008) 36
Jerichow (Christian Petzold, 2008) 34
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson, 2006) 49
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (Isshin Inudō, 2003) 44
Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005) 25
July Rhapsody (Ann Hui, 2002) 9

Kalter Frühling (Dominik Graf, 2004) 25
King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005) 20
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, 2006) 19
Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004) 29
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) 16
Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer, 2003) 7
Krapp's Last Tape (Atom Egoyan, 2000) 11

The Lady & the Duke (Éric Rohmer, 2001) 41
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2006) 22
Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke, 2008) 48
Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders, 2004) 9
Lantana (Ray Lawrence, 2001) 14
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005) 13
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, 2001) 8
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004) 37
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz, 2009) 46
Life Show (Huo Jianqi, 2002) 42
Lifeline (Víctor Erice, 2002) 14
Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismäki, 2006) 8
Lion's Den (Pablo Trapero, 2008) 38
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006) 4
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006) 33
Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman, 2007) 29
Los (James Benning, 2001) 25
A Love to Hide (Christian Faure, 2005) 18
Love, Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003) 8
Lunacy (Jan Švankmajer, 2005) 5

The Machinist (Brad Anderson, 2004) 20
Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo, 2005) 29
Maelstrom (Denis Villeneuve, 2000) 22
Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004) 42
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008) 40
Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2003) 38
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008) 46
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, 2009) 6
May (Lucky McKee, 2002) 26
Melinda and Melinda (Woody Allen, 2004) 45
Men of the City (Marc Isaacs, 2009) 18
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Grant Heslov, 2009) 22
Mid-August Lunch (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2008) 4
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest, 2003) 34
Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) 18
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001) 39
Mirror Mechanics (Siegfried Fruhauf, 2005) 31
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri, 2008) 34
Mississippi Damned (Tina Mabry, 2009) 29
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen, 2002) 3
Le Monde vivant (Eugène Green, 2003) 50
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, 2001) 23
Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) 12
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, 2001) 44
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009) 16
Mother (Bong Joon-ho, 2009) 36
The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004) 30

The Navigators (Ken Loach, 2001) 21
The Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, 2006) 16
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway, 2007) 35
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (Ben Hopkins, 2000) 35
Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000) 24
No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005) 19
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi, 2009) 43
Nonko (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, 2008) 25
North & South (Brian Percival, 2004) 26
The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004) 48
Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link, 2001) 43
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute, 2000) 42

Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) 10
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004) 4
The Officer's Ward (François Dupeyron, 2001) 28
Once (John Carney, 2007) 2
One Fine Spring Day (Hur Jin-ho, 2001) 4
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002) 38
One Man Up (Paolo Sorrentino, 2001) 28
Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew, 2003) 49
Optical Sound (Mika Taanila, 2005) 20
Or (Keren Yedaya, 2004) 49
Our Own (Dmitriy Meshiev, 2004) 45

Palindromes (Todd Solondz, 2004) 11
Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009) 49
Paper Soldier (Aleksei German Jr., 2008) 19
The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean, 2006) 19
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007) 45
Passing Strange (Spike Lee, 2009) 39
Peter & the Wolf (Suzie Templeton, 2006) 35
Phantom Love (Nina Menkes, 2007) 18
The Pianist (Roman Polański, 2002) 30
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 2008) 39
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003) 49
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez, 2007) 25
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve, 2009) 45
Pootie Tang (Louis C.K., 2001) 33
Porto of My Childhood (Manoel de Oliveira, 2001) 36
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Ann Hui, 2006) 36
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis, 2004) 7
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006) 25
The President's Last Bang (Im Sang-soo, 2005) 33
Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000) 23
The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2009) 29
The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer, 2000) 14
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki, 2005) 48
Private Property (Joachim Lafosse, 2006) 37
Promised Land (Amos Gitai, 2004) 24
Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009) 46

Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, 2008) 4

The Red and the Blue Gods (Ben Russell, 2005) 22
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (Andy Fickman, 2005) 16
Rembrandt's J'accuse (Peter Greenaway, 2008) 21
Reprise (Joachim Trier, 2006) 34
Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006) 32
The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) 34
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, 2008) 32
The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002) 33
The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross, 2006) 44
The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003) 50

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007) 49
Scoop (Woody Allen, 2006) 48
Searchers 2.0 (Alex Cox, 2007) 42
The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph, 2003) 37
Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) 23
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000) 45
Shadow Kill (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 2002) 30
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001) 36
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute, 2003) 21
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003) 19
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003) 32
Sheena Is a Parasite (Chris Cunningham, 2006) 27
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell, 2006) 49
The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella, 2007) 38
Since Otar Left (Julie Bertuccelli, 2003) 31
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 2008) 32
Slogans (Gjergj Xhuvani, 2001) 44
Smokin' Aces (Joe Carnahan, 2006) 49
A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2002) 36
Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000) 40
Son of the Bride (Juan Campanella, 2001) 43
Songs for Dead Children (Stephen & Timothy Quay, 2003) 2
The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001) 12
Le Souffle (Damien Odoul, 2001) 33
South of the Clouds (Zhu Wen, 2004) 23
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Guy Maddin, 2008) 19
Spartan (David Mamet, 2003) 12
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz, 2002) 50
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003) 24
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2002) 47
State and Main (David Mamet, 2000) 32
Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008) 36
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni, 2003) 46
Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001) 44
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster, 2006) 28
Strawberry Shortcakes (Hitoshi Yazaki, 2006) 43
The Studio Lights Dream of Their Real Life at Night (Alexander Kluge, 2007) 49
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, 2002) 49
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005) 8

Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano, 2005) 8
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, 2005) 49
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003) 46
Talladega Nights (Adam McKay, 2006) 17
talhotblond (Barbara Schroeder, 2009) 31
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2006) 41
They Came Back (Robin Campillo, 2004) 33
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008) 23
Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005) 31
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003) 34
Time Out (Laurent Cantet, 2001) 32
Timecode (Mike Figgis, 2000) 13
To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2009) 34
To Each His Own Cinema (Various, 2007) 40
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon, 2003) 23
Tokyo Marigold (Jun Ichikawa, 2001) 47
Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman, 2004) 50
Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, 2004) 45
A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2009) 22
The Town Is Quiet (Robert Guédiguian, 2000) 39
The Tracker (Rolf de Heer, 2002) 15
Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer, 2004) 32
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008) 16
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001) 3
True to Life (Gunvor Nelson, 2006) 13
The Tulse Luper Suitcases (Peter Greenaway, 2003-2005) 10
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006) 36
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, 2003) 43
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2003) 32
The Twilight Samurai (Yōji Yamada, 2002) 23
The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002) 32

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000) 40
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira, 2002) 30
Undisputed (Walter Hill, 2002) 20
United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006) 2
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke, 2002) 44
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007) 48
Up (Pete Docter, 2009) 4
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009) 39
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 2007) 25
The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder, 2005) 35

The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Trần Anh Hùng, 2000) 5
Vibrator (Ryūichi Hiroki, 2003) 46
Visage (Tsai Ming-liang, 2009) 45
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen (Margarethe von Trotta, 2009) 40
A Visit to the Louvre (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 2004) 46
The Voice (Johan Söderberg, 2004) 44
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006) 43

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, 2005) 26
War Photographer (Christian Frei, 2001) 8
Wasp (Andrea Arnold, 2003) 34
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (François Ozon, 2000) 38
Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007) 36
We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007) 38
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001) 15
Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002) 46
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006) 49
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009) 41
Wild Berries (Miwa Nishikawa, 2003) 49
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009) 50
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) 21
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006) 30
Workingman's Death (Michael Glawogger, 2005) 4

XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007) 20

Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (Agnès Varda, 2004) 39
The Young Lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois, 2005) 21

Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003) 43
La zona (Rodrigo Plá, 2007) 40

Clue Answer Key

Spoiler

von Trier
Police, adj.
The Son/The Sun
Melody for a Street Organ/The White Meadows
Tsai
2000

A couple more potentially interesting statistics: Eternal Sunshine appeared on only 2 of the first 15 lists submitted but on all but one of the last 10. Also, About Elly appeared on none of the first 26 lists submitted, but then was in the top 10 of the final two lists, nearly placing it in the top 100.

Great job.
Thanks.
Would've taken me a month to compile all that!

Looks like docs and animation didn't do that well.

Very pleased to see Zodiac place so high as it probably would've topped my list if I submitted to these things. Thanks for compiling, swo!