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• 2011 Yearbook Entry
2011:
01. A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
02. Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
03. Meek’s Cutoff / Kelly Reichardt
04. Martha Marcy May Marlene / Sean Durkin
05. 13 Assassins / Takashi Miike
06. Drive / Nicolas Winding Refn
07. The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
08. Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
09. Mysteries of Lisbon / Raúl Ruiz
10. The Interrupters / Steve James
11. House of Pleasures / Bertrand Bonello
12. The Arbor / Clio Barnard
13. Heartbeats / Xavier Dolan
14. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
15. Terri / Azazel Jacobs
2010:
01. Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos
02. Everyone Else / Maren Ade
03. Amer / Bruno Forzani & Helene Cattet
04. White Material / Claire Denis
05. Scott Pilgrim vs the World / Edgar Wright
06. Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik
07. Rabbit Hole / John Cameron Mitchell
08. Wild Grass / Alain Resnais
09. I Love You Phillip Morris / Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
10. Shutter Island / Martin Scorsese
11. Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
12. Somewhere / Sofia Coppola
13. Four Lions / Chris Morris
14. Marwencol / Jeff Malmberg
15. Catfish / Ariel Shulman & Henry Joost
Decade: 2009 - 20000:
01. Yi Yi: A One and a Two... / Edward Yang
02. Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr
03. Y Tu Mamá También / Alfonso Cuarón
04. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
05. The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
06. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
07. Memento / Christopher Nolan
08. In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
09. When the Levees Broke / Spike Lee
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominik
11. George Washington / David Gordon Green
12. Beau Travail / Claire Denis
13. WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
14. Offside / Jafar Panahi
15. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasthakul
16. Los Angeles Plays Itself / Thom Anderson
17. The Proposition / John Hillcoat
18. Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
19. Lake of Fire / Tony Kaye
20. Who's Camus Anyway? / Mitsuo Yanagimachi
2009:
01. Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
02. Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze
03. 24 City / Jia Zhang-ke
04. 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
05. Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas
06. Headless Woman / Lucrecia Martel
07. In the Loop / Armando Iannucci
08. The Beaches of Agnés / Agnés Varda
09. Julia / Erick Zonca
10. Treeless Mountain / So Yong Kim
11. Revanche / Götz Spielmann
12. Still Walking / Hirokazu Koreeda
13. Tetro / Francis Ford Coppola
14. Bright Star / Jane Campion
15. Sugar / Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
2008:
01. WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
02. In the City of Sylvia / José Luis Guerín
03. Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
04. Reprise / Jaochim Trier
05. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne
06. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
07. Rachel Getting Married / Jonathan Demme
08. A Christmas Tale / Arnaud Desplechin
09. The Dark Knight / Christopher Nolan
10. Paranoid Park / Gus Van Sant
11. Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
12. Chop Shop / Ramin Bahrani
13. Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson
14. My Winnipeg / Guy Maddin
15. The Witnesses / Andre Techin
2007:
01. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
02. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominik
03. Offside / Jafar Panahi
04. Lake of Fire / Tony Kaye
05. No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
06. The Host / Bong Joon-ho
07. My Kid Could Paint That / Amir Bar-Lev
08. Zodiac / David Fincher
09. I'm Not There / Todd Haynes
10. Ratatouille / Brad Bird
11. Rescue Dawn / Werner Herzog
12. Away from Her / Sarah Polley
13. Hot Fuzz / Edgar Wright
14. Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
15. Bug / William Friedkin
2006:
01. When the Levees Broke / Spike Lee
02. The Proposition / John Hillcoat
03. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuarón
04. Inland Empire / David Lynch
05. Conversations With Other Women / Hans Canosa
06. Clean / Olivier Assayas
07. Dave Chapelle's Block Party / Michel Gondry
08. Casino Royale / Martin Campbell
09. Three Times / Hou Hsiao-hsien
10. The Science of Sleep / Michel Gondry
11. Brick / Rian Johnson
12. Volver / Pedro Almodóvar
13. Marie Antoinette / Sophia Coppola
14. Look Both Ways / Sarah Watts
15. The Departed / Martin Scorsese
2005:
01. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
02. Who's Camus Anyway? / Mitsuo Yanagimachi
03. The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
04. Café Lumiere / Hou Hsiao-hsien
05. Regular Lovers / Philippe Garrel
06. Nobody Knows / Hirokazu Kore-eda
07. Junebug / Phil Morrison
08. Munich / Steven Spielberg
09. Grizzly Man / Werner Herzog
10. Kings & Queen / Arnaud Desplechin
11. Keane / Lodge Kerrigan
12. Mysterious Skin / Gregg Araki
13. Wolf Creek / Greg Mclean
14. Memories of Murder / Bong Joon-ho
15. Three... Extremes / Various
2004:
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
02. Los Angeles Plays Itself / Thom Andersen
03. Dogville / Lars von Trier
04. Million Dollar Baby / Clint Eastwood
05. Notre Musique / Jean-Luc Godard
06. Primer / Shane Carruth
07. Before Sunset / Richard Linklater
08. Time of the Wolf / Michael Haneke
09. The Agronomist / Jonathan Demme
10. Bad Education / Pedro Almodóvar
11. Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-
12. The Return / Andrei Zvyagintsev
13. Undertow / David Gordon Green
14. Distant / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
15. BAADASSSSS! / Mario Van Peebles
2003:
01. Gerry / Gus Van Sant
02. Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
03. Friday Night / Claire Denis
04. All the Real Girls / David Gordon Green
05. In America / Jim Sheridan
06. May / Lucky McKee
07. American Splendor / Shari Springer Berman
08. The Son / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
09. Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki
10. Shattered Glass / Billy Ray
11. Five Dedicated to Ozu / Abbas Kiarostami
12. 28 Days Later / Danny Boyle
13. Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton
14. Master & Commander: The Far Side of the ... / Peter Weir
15. School of Rock / Richard Linklater
2002:
01. Y Tu Mama Tambien / Alfonso Cuarón
02. Adaptation. / Spike Jonze
03. What Time Is It There? / Tsai Ming-
04. Esther Kahn / Arnaud Desplechin
05. Trouble Every Day / Claire Denis
06. Talk to Her / Pedro Almodóvar
07. Morvern Callar / Lynne Ramsay
08. Late Marriage / Dover Koshashvili
09. Minority Report / Steven Spielberg
10. Far from Heaven / Todd Haynes
11. Punch-Drunk Love / Paul Thomas Anderson
12. Spider / David Cronenberg
13. 25th Hour / Spike Lee
14. Intacto / Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
15. Rodger Dodger / Dylan Kidd
2001:
01. Werckmeister Harmonies / Bela Tarr
02. The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
03. Memento / Christopher Nolan
04. In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-Wai
05. A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg
06. Code Unknown / Michael Haneke
07. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson
08. Audition / Takeshi Miike
09. Mulholland Drive / David Lynch
10. Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff
11. Fat Girl / Catherine Breillat
12. In the Bedroom / Todd Field
13. Amores Perros / Alejandro Innaritu
14. The Gleaners & I / Agnes Varda
15. Monsters, Inc. / Pete Docter
2000:
01. Yi Yi: A One and a Two... / Edward Yang
02. George Washington / David Gordon Green
03. Beau Travail / Claire Denis
04. Bamboozled / Spike Lee
05. Ratcatcher / Lynne Ramsay
06. Requiem for a Dream / Darren Aronofsky
07. American Psycho / Mary Harron
08. You Can Count On Me / Kenneth Lonergan
09. High Fidelity / Stephen Frears
10. Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
11. Hamlet / Michael Almereyda
12. The Virgin Suicides / Sophia Coppola
13. Unbreakable / M. Night Shyamalan
14. Cast Away / Robert Zemeckis
15. Chicken Run / Peter Lord & Nick Park
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In an effort to maintain some level of continuity, every film has been categorized by its US theatrical release year. If a film never receives a US theatrical release, it’s given a “five year buffer period” before it becomes eligible the year of its earliest public release anywhere in the world. —SCM
