The Rules

Updates:

1. •  Secret Sunshine (2010) / Lee Chang-dong
   

2. •  Liverpool (2009) / Lisandro Alsonso
   

3. •  In the City of Sylvia (2008) / Jose Luis-Guerin
   

4. •  Love Songs (2008) / Christophe Honoré
   

5. •  Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) / Bela Tarr
   

2011:

1. •  A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
   

2. •  Armadillo / Janus Metz
   

3. •  Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
   

4. •  City of Life and Death / Lu Chuan
   

5. •  Drive / Nicolas Winding Refn
   

6. •  Le Havre / Aki Kaurismäki
   

7. •  Hugo / Martin Scorsese
   

8. •  Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
   

9. •  Mysteries of Lisbon / Raúl Ruiz
   

10. •  Of Gods and Men / Xavier Beauvois
    

11. •  Poetry / Lee Chang-dong
    

12. •  Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino
    

13. •  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Tomas Alfredson
    

14. •  The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
    

15. •  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    

2010:

1. •  Alamar / Pedro González-Rubio
   

2. •  Around a Small Mountain / Jacques Rivette
   

3. •  Black Swan / Darren Aronofsky
   

4. •  Carlos / Olivier Assayas
   

5. •  Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos
   

6. •  Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl / Manoel de Oliveira
   

7. •  Letters to Father Jacob / Kläus Haro
   

8. •  Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
   

9. •  Prince of Broadway / Sean Baker
   

10. •  The Red Chapel / Mads Brugger
    

11. •  Secret Sunshine / Lee Chang-dong
    

12. •  The Strange Case of Angelica / Manoel de Oliveira
    

13. •  Toy Story 3 / Lee Unkrich
    

14. •  White Material / Claire Denis
    

15. •  Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik
    

Decade: 2009 - 20000:

01. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
02. Dogville / Lars von Trier
03. Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
04. 'The Lord of the Rings' / Peter Jackson
05. 'The Battle for Iwo Jima' / Clint Eastwood
06. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
07. Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
08. Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
09. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
11. Gosford Park / Robert Altman
12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the ... / Andrew Dominick
13. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
14. The New World / Terrence Malick
15. Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier

16. Yi Yi: A One and a Two… / Edward Yang

17. Inland Empire / David Lynch

18. In the Bedroom / Todd Field

19. Eureka / Shinji Aoyama

20. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu

2009:

1. •  35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
   

2. •  Antichrist / Lars von Trier
   

3. •  Fantastic Mr. Fox / Wes Anderson
   

4. •  Goodbye Solo / Ramin Bahrani
   

5. •  Liverpool / Lisandro Alonso
   

6. •  Mary and Max / Adam Elliot
   

7. •  Munyurangabo / Lee Isaac Chung
   

8. •  Revanche / Gotz Spielmann
   

9. •  Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
   

10. •  Still Walking / Hirokazu Kore-eda
    

11. •  Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas
    

12. •  Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    

13. •  Unmistaken Child / Nati Baratz
    

14. •  Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze
    

15. •  The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke
    

2008:

1. •  4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
   

2. •  The Band’s Visit / Eran Kolirin
   

3. •  Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne
   

4. •  Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien
   

5. •  Gran Torino / Clint Eastwood
   

6. •  Hunger / Steve McQueen
   

7. •  In the City of Sylvia / Jose Luis-Guerin
   

8. •  Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson
   

9. •  Love Songs / Christophe Honoré
   

10. •  Patti Smith: Dream of Life / Steven Sebring
    

11. •  Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
    

12. •  Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
    

13. •  WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
    

14. •  Waltz With Bashir / Ari Folman
    

15. •  XXY / Lucia Puenzo
    

2007:

1. •  12:08 East of Bucharest / Corneliu Porumboiu
   

2. •  The Assassination of Jesse James by the ... / Andrew Dominick
   

3. •  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead / Sidney Lumet
   

4. •  Control / Anton Corbijn
   

5. •  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Julian Schnabel
   

6. •  I’m Not There / Todd Haynes
   

7. •  Into the Wild / Sean Penn
   

8. •  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / Seth Gordon
   

9. •  Michael Clayton / Tony Gilroy
   

10. •  No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
    

11. •  Ratatouille / Brad Bird
    

12. •  Persepolis / Vincent Paronnaud
    

13. •  Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    

14. •  There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
    

15. •  Zodiac / David Fincher
    

2006:

1. • Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
   

2. •  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make ... / Larry Charles
   

3. •  Brick / Rian Johnson
   

4. •  Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
   

5. •  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
   

6. •  The Descent / Neil Marshall
   

7. •  Flags of Our Fathers / Clint Eastwood
   

8. •  House of Sand / Andrucha Waddington
   

9. •  Inland Empire / David Lynch
   

10. •  Letters From Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood
    

11. •  The Lives of Others / Florin Henckel von Donnersmarck
    

12. •  Marie Antoinette / Sofia Coppola
    

13. •  Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro
    

14. •  A Prairie Home Companion / Robert Altman
    

15. •  Shortbus / John Cameron Mitchell
    

2005:

1. •  2046 / Wong Kar-wai
   

2. •  The 40-Year-Old Virgin / Judd Apatow
   

3. •  Brokeback Mountain / Ang Lee
   

4. •  The Constant Gardener / Fernando Meirelles
   

5. •  Downfall / Oliver Hirschbiegel
   

6. •  A History of Violence / David Cronenberg
   

7. •  King Kong / Peter Jackson
   

8. •  Me and You and Everyone We Know / Miranda July
   

9. •  Munich / Steven Spielberg
   

10. •  The New World / Terrence Malick
    

11. •  Paradise Now / Hany Abu-Assad
    

12. •  Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright
    

13. •  The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
    

14. •  Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    

15. •  Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill / Judy Irving
    

2004:

1. •  Bad Education / Pedro Almodovar
   

2. •  Before Sunset / Richard Linklater
   

3. •  Cowards Bend the Knee / Guy Maddin
   

4. •  Dogville / Lars von Trier
   

5. •  The Door in the Floor / Tod Williams
   

6. •  Eternal Sunshine of the ... / Michel Gondry
   

7. •  Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-Liang
   

8. •  I Heart Huckabees / David O. Russell
   

9. •  House of Flying Daggers / Zhang Yimou
   

10. •  Kill Bill, Vol. 2 / Quentin Tarantino
    

11. •  The Motorcycle Diaries / Walter Salles
    

12. •  Sideways / Alexander Payne
    

13. •  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring / Kim Ki-duk
    

14. •  The Story of the Weeping Camel / Luigi Falorni
    

15. •  Vera Drake / Mike Leigh
    

2003:

1. • The Barbarian Invasions / Denys Arcand
   

2. •  Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki
   

3. •  Divine Intervention / Elia Suleiman
   

4. •  Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton
   

5. •  I’m Not Scared / Gabriele Salvatores
   

6. •  In America / Jim Sheridan
   

7. •  Kill Bill, Vol. 1 / Quentin Tarantino
   

8. •  Lord of the Rings: Return of the King / Peter Jackson
   

9. •  Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
   

10. •  Lilya 4-Ever / Lukas Moodysoon
    

11. •  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the ... / Peter Weir
    

12. •  Millennium Actress / Satoshi Kon
    

13. •  Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien
    

14. •  Mystic River / Clint Eastwood
    

15. •  The Triplets of Belleville / Sylvain Chomet
    

2002:

1. •  About Schmidt / Alexander Payne
   

2. •  Adaptation. / Spike Jonze
   

3. •  Bowling for Columbine / Michael Moore
   

4. •  Far From Heaven / Todd Haynes
   

5. •  The Fast Runner / Zacharias Kunuk
   

6. •  Gangs of New York / Martin Scorsese
   

7. •  The Hours / Stephen Daldry
   

8. •  Late Marriage / Dover Kosashvili
   

9. •  Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Peter Jackson
   

10. •  The Pianist / Roman Polanski
    

11. •  Punch-Drunk Love / Paul Thomas Anderson
    

12. •  Rabbit-Proof Fence / Phillip Noyce
    

13. •  Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
    

14. •  Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar
    

15. •  Y Tu Mama Tambien / Alfonso Cuaron
    

2001:

1. •  Amélie / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
   

2. •  Black Hawk Down / Ridley Scott
   

3. •  Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
   

4. •  Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff
   

5. •  Gosford Park / Robert Altman
   

6. •  Hedwig and the Angry Inch / John Cameron Mitchell
   

7. •  In the Bedroom / Todd Field
   

8. •  In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
   

9. •  Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson
   

10. •  The Man Who Wasn’t There / Joel Coen
    

11. •  Memento / Christopher Nolan
    

12. •  Moulin Rouge / Baz Luhrmann
    

13. •  Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
    

14. •  The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
    

15. •  Werckmeister Harmonies / Bela Tarr
    

2000:

1. • Almost Famous / Cameron Crowe
   

2. •  Beau Travail / Claire Denis
   

3. •  Cast Away / Robert Zemeckis
   

4. •  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
   

5. •  Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
   

6. •  Gladiator / Ridley Scott
   

7. •  The Heart of the World / Guy Maddin
   

8. •  The Idiots / Lars von Trier
   

9. •  Maléna / Giuseppe Tornatore
   

10. •  Paragraph 175 / Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Freidman
    

11. •  Quills / Philip Kaufman
    

12. •  Requiem for a Dream / Darren Aronofsky
    

13. •  Traffic / Steven Soderbergh
    

14. •  Unbreakable / M. Night Shyamalan
    

15. •  Yi Yi: A One and a Two… / Edward Yang

Matthew Lucas—Film Yearbook

Film Yearbooks

1. •Sam C. Mac
   

2. •Jordan Cronk
   

3. •Luke Gorham
   

4. •Kathie Smith
   

5. •Calum Marsh
   

6. •A.A. Dowd
   

7. •Matthew Lucas

Music Yearbooks

1. •Sam C. Mac
   

2. •Jordan Cronk
   

3. •Luke Gorham
   

4. •Chris Nowling
   

5. •Kyle Fowle
   

6. •Calum Marsh

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

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