1. Yi Yi: A One and a Two... / Edward Yang

2. Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr

3. Y Tu Mamá También / Alfonso Cuarón

4. Eternal Sunshine of the ... / Michel Gondry

5. The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson

6. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson

7. Memento / Christopher Nolan

8. In the Mood For Love / Wong Kar-wai

9. When the Levees Broke / Spike Lee

10. The Assassination of ... / 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 ... / Mitsuo Yanagimachi

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

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 ... / Kurt Kuenne
06. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and... / 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

01. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
02. The Assassination of ... / 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 ... / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

15. Bug / William Friedkin

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 ... / Hans Canosa
06. Clean / Olivier Assayas
07. Dave Chapelle's Block ... / 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

01. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
02. Who's Camus ... / 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

01. Eternal Sunshine of the ... / 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

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: ... / Peter Weir

15. School of Rock / Richard Linklater

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

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 ... / 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. Monster's Inc. / Pete Docter

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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5.   Film Yearbook - Matthew Lucas
   

6.   Film Yearbook - Kathie Smith

In effort to maintain some continuity, films have been categorized by their US release date. If a film has never seen release in the US, it’s given a ‘Five Year Buffer Period’ before it becomes eligible the year of its earliest release anywhere in the world.