Kathie Smith’s Yearbook Updates
Kathie Smith’s Yearbook Updates
Decade: 2000 - 2009
1. In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
2. Pistol Opera / Seijun Suzuki
3. Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
4. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. Japon / Carlos Reygadas
6. Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr
7. Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien
8. La Ciénaga / Lucrecia Martel
9. Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
10. Inland Empire / David Lynch
11. What Time Is It There? / Tsai Ming-
12. Sympathy for Mr. ... / Park Chan-wook
13. The Saddest Music in ... / Guy Maddin
14. Syndromes ... / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
15. Graveyard of Honor / Takashi Miike
16. Pulse / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
17. Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
18. Old Joy / Kelly Reichardt
19. Cache / Michael Haneke
20. Colossal Youth / Pedro Costa
Year: 2009 (Alphabetical)
Year: 2008 (Alphabetical)
24 City / Jia Zhangke
35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
Antichrist / Lars von Trier
The Beaches of Agnès / Agnès Varda
Bronson / Nicolas Winding Refn
Gomorrah / Matteo Garrone
The Headless Woman / Lucrecia Martel
The Hurt Locker / Kathryn Bigelow
Il Divo / Paolo Sorrentino
Inglourious Basterds / Quentin Tarantino
Munyurangabo / Lee Isaac Chung
Oblivion / Heddy Honigmann
Rembrandt’s J’accuse / Peter Greenaway
Revanche / Götz Spielmann
Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
Still Walking / Hirokazu Koreeda
Summer Hours / Oliver Assayas
The Sun / Aleksandr Sokurov
Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke
Film Yearbook Index
The Golden Rule
4 Months, 3 Weeks and … / Cristian Mungiu
Alexandra / Aleksandr Sokurov
Beaufort / Joseph Cedar
Before I Forget / Jacques Nolot
Cassandra’s Dream / Woody Allen
Encounters at the End of ... / Werner Herzog
Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hunger / Steve McQueen
JCVD / Mabrouk El Mechri
Mad Detective / Johnnie To
Man on Wire / James Marsh
Mister Lonely / Harmony Korine
Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
The Unforeseen / Laura Dunn
Trouble the Water / Carl Deal & Tia Lessin
Waltz With Bashir / Ari Forman
Wendy and Lucy / Kelly Reichardt
Woman on the Beach / Hong Sang-soo
Zidane: A 21st Century … / Douglas Gordon
Year: 2007 (Alphabetical)
Year: 2006 (Alphabetical)
12:08 East of Bucharest / Corneliu Porumbolu
Branded Upon the Brain! / Guy Maddin
Bug / William Friedkin
Chop Shop / Ramin Bahrani
Colossal Youth / Pedro Costa
Dry Season / Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Exiled / Johnnie To
Ghosts of Cité ... / Asger Leth
I Don’t Want to Sleep ... / Tsai Ming-liang
I’m Not There / Todd Haynes
Little Moth / Tao Peng
No Country For Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
No End in Sight / Charles Ferguson
Ping Pong / Fumihiko Sori
Southland Tales / Richard Kelly
Taste of Tea / Katsuhiro Ishii
Tears of the Black Tiger / Wisit Sasanatieng
Triad Election / Johnnie To
The Wayward Cloud / Tsai Ming-liang
West of the Tracks / Wang Bing
4 / Ilya Khrjanovsky
Children of Men / Alfonso Curón
Climates / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Darwin’s Nightmare / Hubert Sauper
Gabrielle / Patrice Chéreau
Inland Empire / David Lynch
L’Enfant / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Man Push Cart / Ramin Bahrani
Marie Antionette / Sofia Coppola
Miami Vice / Michael Mann
Old Joy / Kelly Reichardt
Our Daily Bread / Nikolaus Geyrhaiter
Sympathy for Lady … / Park Chan-wook
The Case of the Grinning Cat / Chris Marker
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
The Descent / Neil Marshall
The Proposition / John Hillcoat
Three Times / Hou Hsiao-hsien
Volver / Pedro Almodovar
Workingman’s Death / Michael Glawogger
Year: 2005 (Alphabetical)
Year: 2004 (Alphabetical)
2046 / Wong Kar-Wai
Caché / Michael Haneke
Café Lumiere / Hou Hsiao-Hsien
The Devil’s Rejects / Rob Zombie
Funky Forest: The First ... / Katsuhiro Ishii
Grizzly Man / Werner Herzog
Hanging Garden / Toshiaki Toyoda
The Holy Girl / Lucrecia Martel
The Intruder / Claire Denis
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area / Park Chan-wook
Pulse / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kings & Queen / Arnaud Desplechin
Match Point / Woody Allen
Memories of Murder / Bong Joon-ho
Mind Game / Masaaki Yuasu
Oldboy / Park Chan-wook
Sympathy For Mr. ... / Park Chan-wook
Tale of Cinema / Hong Sang-soo
Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The World / Jia Zhangke
Blind Shaft / Li Yang
Blood and Bones / Yoichi Sai
Control Room / Jehane Noujaim
Distant / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Dogville / Lars von Trier
The Five Obstructions / Lars von Trier
Ghost in the Shell 2 ... / Mamoru Oshii
Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-liang
Gozu / Takashi Miike
Hero / Zhang Yimou
Infernal Affairs / Andrew Lau
Moolaadé / Ousmane Sembene
Notre Musique / Jean-Luc Godard
The Return / Andrei Zvyagintsev
Saddest Music in the World / Guy Maddin
Shaolin Soccer / Stephen Chow
Springtime in a Small ... / Tian Zhuangzhuang
Tale of Two Sisters / Kim Ji-woon
Time of the Wolf / Michael Haneke
Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi / Takashi Kitano
Year: 2003 (Alphabetical)
Year: 2002 (Alphabetical)
28 Days Later / Danny Boyle
All Tomorrow’s Parties / Yu Lik-wai
La Commune (Paris ... / Peter Watkins
Cremaster 3 / Matthew Barney
Divine Intervention / Elia Suleiman
Dracula: Pages from a ... / Guy Maddin
Gerry / Gus Van Sant
In the Cut / Jane Campion
Irreversible / Gaspar Noé
Japón / Carlos Reygadas
Lilya 4-ever / Lukas Moodyson
Lost in Translation / Sophia Coppola
Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien
Pistol Opera / Seijun Suzuki
Platform / Jia Zhang-ke
Sharasoju / Naomi Kawase
The Son / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Shark Skin Man & Peach ... / Katsuhiro Ishii
The Triplets of Bellville / Sylvain Chomet
Unknown Pleasures / Jia Zhang-ke
Year: 2001 (Alphabetical)
Year: 2000 (Alphabetical)
Amores Perros / Alejandro González Iñárritu
Audition / Takashi Miike
La Ciénaga / Lucrecia Martel
Distance / Hirokazu Koreeda
Electric Dragon 80,000v / Sogo Ishii
Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
Fat Girl / Catherine Breillat
The Gleaners & I / Agnès Varda
The Happiness of ... / Takashi Miike
In the Mood For Love / Wong Kar-wai
Little Otik / Jan Svankmajer
Mulholland Drive / David Lynch
Nabi / Moon Seung-wook
Sexy Beast / Jonathan Glazer
Sobior / Claude Lanzmann
Songs from the Second ... / Roy Andersson
Sorum / Yoon Jong-chang
Together / Lukas Moodyson
Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr
You Shoot, I Shoot / Pang Ho-Cheung
Battle Royale / Kinji Fukasaku
Beau Travail / Claire Denis
Best in Show / Christopher Guest
Croupier / Mike Hodges
Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
Dark Days / Marc Singer
Die Bad / Ryu Seung-wan
Durian Durian / Fruit Chan
The Filth and the Fury / Julien Temple
Taboo / Nagisa Oshima
Not One Less / Zhang Yimou
Nowhere to Hide / Lee Myung-se
O Brother Where Art ... / Joel & Ethan Coen
Peppermint Candy / Lee Chang-dong
Ratcatcher / Lynne Ramsey
Suzhou River / Lou Ye
Traffic / Steven Soderbergh
Virgin Stripped Bare by … / Hong Sang-soo
Wild Zero / Tetsuro Takeuchi
The Wind Will Carry Us / Abbas Kiarostami
All About Lily Chou-Chou / Shunji Awai
Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Devils on the Doorstep / Jiang Wen
Far From Heaven / Todd Haynes
Graveyard of Honor / Takashi Miike
In Praise of Love / Jean-Luc Godard
The Isle / Kim Ki-duk
July Rhapsody / Ann Hui
Morvern Callar / Lynne Ramsey
My Beautiful Girl Mari / Lee Seong-
No Blood No Tears / Ryu Seung-wan
The Piano Teacher / Michael Haneke
Revengers Tragedy / Alex Cox
Spider / David Cronenberg
Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar
Trouble Every Day / Claire Denis
Turning Gate / Hong Sang-soo
Uzumaki / Higuchinsky
What Time is It There? / Tsai Ming-
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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.