2012
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| THE TURIN HORSE |
- Amour / Michael Haneke
- Barbara / Christian Petzold
- Beyond the Black Rainbow / Panos Cosmatos
- The Deep Blue Sea / Terrence Davies
- Girl Walk//All Day / Jacob Krupnick
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Peter Jackson
- Holy Motors / Leos Carax
- Lincoln / Steven Spielberg
- The Master / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Oslo, August 31st / Joachim Trier
- ParaNorman / Chris Butler, Sam Fell
- Tabu / Miguel Gomes
- This is Not a Film / Jafar Panahi
- The Turin Horse / Béla Tarr
- Zero Dark Thirty / Kathryn Bigelow
2011
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| THE TREE OF LIFE |
- Armadillo / Janusz Metz
- Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
- City of Life and Death / Lu Chuan
- Drive / Nicholas Winding Refn
- Hugo / Martin Scorsese
- In the Family / Patrick Wang
- Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino
- Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
- Mysteries of Lisbon / Raul Ruiz
- Of Gods and Men / Xavier Beauvois
- Poetry / Lee Chang-dong
- A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Tomas Alfredson
- The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2010
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| LOURDES |
- Alamar / Pedro González-Rubio
- Around a Small Mountain / Jacques Rivette
- Black Swan / Darren Aronofsky
- Carlos / Olivier Assayas
- Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos
- Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl / Manoel de Oliveira
- Letters to Father Jacob / Kläus Haro
- Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
- Prince of Broadway / Sean Baker
- The Red Chapel / Mads Brugger
- Secret Sunshine / Lee Chang-dong
- The Strange Case of Angelica / Manoel de Oliveira
- Toy Story 3 / Lee Unkrich
- White Material / Claire Denis
- Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik
Decade (2000 - 2009)
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| THERE WILL BE BLOOD |
- There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Dogville / Lars von Trier
- Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
- "The Lord of the Rings" / Peter Jackson
- "The Battle of Iwo Jima" / Clint Eastwood
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
- Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
- Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
- Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethekul
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
- Gosford Park / Robert Altman
- The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick
- Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
- The New World / Terrence Malick
- Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two.../ Edward Yang
- Werckmeister Harmonies / Bela Tarr
- Inland Empire / David Lynch
- Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
2009
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| SILENT LIGHT |
- 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
- Antichrist / Lars von Trier
- Fantastic Mr. Fox / Wes Anderson
- Goodbye Solo / Ramin Bahrani
- Liverpool / Lisandro Alonso
- Mary and Max / Adam Elliot
- Munyurangabo / Lee Isaac Chung
- Revanche / Gotz Spielmann
- Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
- Still Walking / Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas
- Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Unmistaken Child / Nati Baratz
- Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze
- The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke
2008
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| 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS |
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
- The Band’s Visit / Eran Kolirin
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne
- Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Gran Torino / Clint Eastwood
- Hunger / Steve McQueen
- In the City of Sylvia / José Luis Guerin
- Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson
- Love Songs / Christophe Honoré
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life / Steven Sebring
- Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
- Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
- WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
- Waltz With Bashir / Ari Folman
- XXY / Lucia Puenzo
2007
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| THERE WILL BE BLOOD |
- 12:08 East of Bucharest / Corneliu Porumboiu
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead / Sidney Lumet
- Control / Anton Corbijn
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Julian Schnabel
- Into the Wild / Sean Penn
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / Seth Gordon
- Michael Clayton / Tony Gilroy
- No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
- Ratatouille / Brad Bird
- Persepolis / Vincent Paronnaud
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Tim Burton
- Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Zodiac / David Fincher
2006
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| CHILDREN OF MEN |
- Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan / Larry Charles
- Brick / Rian Johnson
- Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
- The Descent / Neil Marshall
- Flags of Our Fathers / Clint Eastwood
- House of Sand / Andrucha Waddington
- Inland Empire / David Lynch
- Letters From Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood
- The Lives of Others / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Marie Antoinette / Sofia Coppola
- Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro
- A Prairie Home Companion / Robert Altman
- Shortbus / John Cameron Mitchell
2005
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| TROPICAL MALADY |
- 2046 / Wong Kar-wai
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin / Judd Apatow
- Brokeback Mountain / Ang Lee
- Downfall / Oliver Hirschbiegel
- A History of Violence / David Cronenberg
- King Kong / Peter Jackson
- Me and You and Everyone We Know / Miranda July
- Munich / Steven Spielberg
- The New World / Terrence Malick
- Paradise Now / Hany Abu-Assad
- Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright
- The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
- Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The White Diamond / Werner Herzog
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill / Judy Irving
2004
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| DOGVILLE |
- Bad Education / Pedro Almodovar
- Before Sunset / Richard Linklater
- Cowards Bend the Knee / Guy Maddin
- Dogville / Lars von Trier
- The Door in the Floor / Tod Williams
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-Liang
- I Heart Huckabees / David O. Russell
- House of Flying Daggers / Zhang Yimou
- Kill Bill, Vol. 2 / Quentin Tarantino
- The Motorcycle Diaries / Walter Salles
- Sideways / Alexander Payne
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring / Kim Ki-duk
- The Story of the Weeping Camel / Luigi Falorni
- Vera Drake / Mike Leigh
2003
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| THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING |
- The Barbarian Invasions / Denys Arcand
- Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki
- Divine Intervention / Elia Suleiman
- Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton
- I’m Not Scared / Gabriele Salvatores
- In America / Jim Sheridan
- Kill Bill, Vol. 1 / Quentin Tarantino
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Peter Jackson
- Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
- Lilya 4-Ever / Lukas Moodysoon
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / Peter Weir
- Millennium Actress / Satoshi Kon
- Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Mystic River / Clint Eastwood
- The Triplets of Belleville / Sylvain Chomet
2002
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| SPIRITED AWAY |
- About Schmidt / Alexander Payne
- Adaptation. / Spike Jonze
- Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Bowling for Columbine / Michael Moore
- Far From Heaven / Todd Haynes
- The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) / Zacharias Kunuk
- The Hours / Stephen Daldry
- Late Marriage / Dover Kosashvili
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Peter Jackson
- On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate / Hong Sangsoo
- The Pianist / Roman Polanski
- Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
- Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar
- What Time is it There? / Tsai Ming-Liang
- Y Tu Mamá También / Alfonso Cuaron
2001
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| MULHOLLAND DR. |
- Amélie / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Black Hawk Down / Ridley Scott
- Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
- Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff
- Gosford Park / Robert Altman
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch / John Cameron Mitchell
- In the Bedroom / Todd Field
- In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson
- The Man Who Wasn’t There / Joel Coen
- Memento / Christopher Nolan
- Moulin Rouge! / Baz Luhrmann
- Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
- The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
- Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr
2000
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| CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON |
- Almost Famous / Cameron Crowe
- Beau Travail / Claire Denis
- Battle Royale / Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast Away / Robert Zemeckis
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
- Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
- Gladiator / Ridley Scott
- The Heart of the World / Guy Maddin
- The Idiots / Lars von Trier
- Paragraph 175 / Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Freidman
- Requiem for a Dream / Darren Aronofsky
- Traffic / Steven Soderbergh
- Unbreakable / M. Night Shyamalan
- Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors / Hong Sangsoo
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two… / Edward Yang
