#3 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2001
Bela Tarr | Menemsha
#4 Werckmeister Harmonies
2001
Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.
#5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
Claire Denis | Film Desk
#6 Trouble Every Day
2001
Wes Anderson | Buena Vista
#7 The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
John Cameron Mitchell | New Line
#8 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
Catherine Breillat | Cowboy
#9 Fat Girl
2001
Christopher Nolan | Newmarket
#10 Memento
2001
Takashi Miike | Vitagraph
#11 Audition
2001
David Wain | USA Films
#12 Wet Hot American Summer
2001
Baz Luhrmann | 20th Century Fox
#13 Moulin Rouge!
2001
Richard Linklater | Fox Searchlight
#14 Waking Life
2001
Joel & Ethan Coen | USA Films
#15 The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Richard Kelly | Newmarket
#16 Donnie Darko
2001
John Fawcett | Lionsgate
#17 Ginger Snaps
John Fawcett | Lionsgate
#17 Ginger Snaps
2001
Pedro Costa | Gemini
#18 In Vanda's Room
2001
Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Cowboy
#19 Cure
2001
Sion Sono | Daiei
#20 Suicide Club
2001
Roy Andersson | New Yorker
#21 Songs from the Second Floor
2001
Lucrecia Martel | Cowboy
#22 La Ciénaga
2001
Jacques Rivette | Sony Pictures Classics
#23 Va Savoir
2001
Shinji Aoyama | Shooting Gallery
#24 Eureka
2001
Tom Green | 20th Century Fox
#25 Freddy Got Fingered
2001
Agnès Varda | Zeitgeist
#26 The Gleaners & I
2001
Lisandro Alonso | Distribution Co.
#27 La Libertad
2001
Karan Johar | Yash Raj
#28 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2001
Terry Zwigoff | United Artists
#29 Ghost World
2001
Alain Guiraudie | Magouric
#30 That Old Dream that Moves
2002
Aleksandr Sokurov | Wellspring
#1 Russian Ark
2002
Hayao Miyazaki | Disney
#2 Spirited Away
2002
Alfonso Cuaron | IFC
#3 Y Tu Mama También
2002
Lynne Ramsey | Palisades
#4 Morvern Callar
2002
Martin Scorsese | Buena Vista
#5 Gangs of New York
2002
Spike Lee | Buena Vista
#6 25th Hour
2002
Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics
#7 Talk to Her
2002
Spike Jonze | Sony
#8 Adaptation
2002
Tsai Ming-liang | WinStar
#9 What Time is It There?
2002
Brian De Palma | Warner Bros.
#10 Femme Fatale
2002
Jean-Luc Godard | Manhattan Pictures Intl.
#11 In Praise of Love
2002
Roman Polanski | Focus Features
#12 The Pianist
2002
Hong Sang-soo
#13 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
2002
Todd Haynes | Focus Features
#14 Far From Heaven
2002
Steven Spielberg | 20th Century Fox
#15 Minority Report
2002
Arnaud Desplechin | Empire
#16 Esther Kahn
2002
Laurent Cantet | THINKfilm
#17 Time Out
2002
Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Strand
#18 Hush!
2002
Shunji Iwai | Cowboy
#19 All About Lily Chou-Chou
2002
Michael Haneke | Kino Intl.
#20 The Piano Teacher
2002
Paul Thomas Anderson | Sony
#21 Punch-Drunk Love
2002
Wang Xiaoshuai | Sony Pictures Classics
#22 Beijing Bicycle
2002
Dover Koshashvili | Magnolia
#23 Late Marriage
2002
Philippe Grandrieux | Mars
#24 A New Life
2002
Michael Snow | Canyon Cinema
#25 *Corpus Callosum
2002
Ashutosh Gowariker | Sony Pictures Classics
#26 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2002
Jiang Wen | Cowboy
#27 Devils on the Doorstep
2002
Zacharias Kunuk | Lot 4&
#28 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
2002
Michael Moore | MGM
#29 Bowling for Columbine
2002
Akihiko Shiota | Nikkatsu
#30 Harmful Insect
2003
Sofia Coppola | Focus Features
#1 Lost in Translation
2003
Jane Campion | Screen Gems
#2 In the Cut
2003
Gaspar Noé | Lionsgate
#3 Irreversible
2003
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | New Yorker
#4 The Son
2003
Peter Jackson | New Line
#5 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2003
Gus Van Sant | Fine Line
#6 Elephant
2003
Olivier Assayas | Palm Pictures
#7 Demonlover
2003
Robert Altman | Sony Pictures Classics
#8 The Company
2003
Jia Zhang-ke | Empire
#9 Platform
2003
Andrew Stanton | Buena Vista
#10 Finding Nemo
2003
Quentin Taratino | Miramax
#11 Kill Bill: Volume 1
2003
Takashi Miike | Media Blasters
#12 Ichi the Killer
2003
Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Palm Pictures
#13 Millennium Mambo
2003
Peyton Reed | 20th Century Fox
#14 Down With Love
2003
Tommy Wiseau | Chloe/TPW
#15 The Room
2003
Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.
#16 Mystic River
2003
João César Monteiro | Gemini Films
#17 Come and Go
2003
Peter Weir | 20th Century Fox
#18 Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
2003
Aki Kaurismaki | Sony Pictures Classics
#19 The Man Without a Past
2003
Peter Watkins | First Run
#20 La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003
Seijun Suzuki | Media Blasters
#21 Pistol Opera
2003
Satoshi Kon | Go Fish
#22 Millennium Actress
2003
Abbas Kiarostami | Zeitgeist
#23 Ten
2003
Gus Van Sant | THINKfilm
#24 Gerry
2003
Travis Wilkerson | Icarus
#25 An Injury to One
2003
Jia Zhang-ke | New Yorker
#26 Unknown Pleasures
2003
Terry Zwigoff | Dimension
#27 Bad Santa
2003
Bill Morrison | Icarus
#28 Decasia
2003
Jacques Rivette | Les Filmes du Losange
#29 The Story of Marie and Julien
2003
Yee Chin-yen | Strand
#30 Blue Gate Crossing
2004
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Thom Andersen | Submarine Entertainment
#1 Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Richard Linklater | Warner Independent
#2 Before Sunset
2004
Lars von Trier | Lionsgate
#3 Dogville
2004
Zhang Yimou | Miramax
#4 Hero
2004
Michel Gondry | Focus Features
#5 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Vincent Gallo | Wellspring
#6 The Brown Bunny
2004
Pedro Almodóvar
#7 Bad Education
2004
Jonathan Glazer | New Line
#8 Birth
2004
Shane Carruth | THINKfilm/IFC
#9 Primer
2004
Tsai Ming-liang | Wellspring
#10 Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2004
Alexander Payne | Fox Searchlight
#11 Sideways
2004
Ken Jacobs
#12 Star Spangled to Death
2004
M. Night Shyamalan | Buena Vista
#13 The Village
2004
Lee Chang-dong | Lifesize Entertainment
#14 Oasis
2004
Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.
#15 Million Dollar Baby
2004
Jean-Luc Godard | Wellspring
#16 Our Music
2004
Andrey Zvyagintsev | Kino Intl.
#17 The Return
2004
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | New Yorker
#18 Distant
2004
Edgar Wright | Rogue
#19 Shaun of the Dead
2004
Alfonso Cuaron | Warner Bros.
#20 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Alan Mok & Andrew Lau | Miramax
#21 Infernal Affairs
2004
Quentin Taratino | Miramax
#22 Kill Bill: Volume 2
2004
Ousmane Sembene | New Yorker
#23 Moolaade
2004
Zhang Yimou | Sony Pictures Classics
#24 House of Flying Daggers
2004
Mel Gibson | Icon
#25 The Passion of the Christ
2004
Manoel de Oliveira
#26 A Talking Picture
2004
Rithy Panh | First Run Features
#27 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2004
Bruno Dumont | Wellspring
#28 Twentynine Palms
2004
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Plexifilm
#29 Blissfully Yours
2004
Farah Khan | Eros Intl.
#30 Trust Me, I'm Here
2005
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand
#1 Tropical Malady
2005
Terrence Malick | New Line
#2 The New World
2005
Marco Tullio Giordana | Miramax
#3 The Best of Youth
2005
Park Chan-wook | Tartan
#4 Oldboy
2005
George Lucas | 20th Century Fox
#5 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
2005
Ang Lee | Focus Features
#6 Brokeback Mountain
2005
David Cronenberg | New Line
#7 A History of Violence
2005
Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Magnolia
#8 Pulse
2005
Michael Haneke | Sony Pictures Classics
#9 Cache
2005
Bong Joon-ho | Palm Pictures
#10 Memories of Murder
2005
Noah Baumbach | Samuel Goldwyn/Sony
#11 The Squid and the Whale
2005
Philippe Garrel | Ad Vitam
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2005
Neil Marshall | Pathé Distribution
#13 The Descent
2005
Jia Zhang-ke | Zeitgeist
#14 The World
2005
Rob Zombie | Lionsgate
#15 The Devil's Rejects
2005
Werner Herzog | Lionsgate
#16 Grizzly Man
2005
Lucrecia Martel | Fine Line
#17 The Holy Girl
2005
Stephen Chow | Sony Pictures Classics
#18 Kung Fu Hustle
2005
Maren Ade | Film Movement
#19 The Forest for the Trees
2005
Wong Kar-wai | Sony Pictures Classics
#20 2046
2005
Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Leisure Time
#21 Innocence
2005
Arnaud Desplechin | Wellspring Media
#22 Kings and Queen
2005
Gregg Araki | Tartan/TLA
#23 Mysterious Skin
2005
Hirokazu Kore-eda | IFC
#24 Nobody Knows
2005
Andrew Bujalski | Goodby Cruel/Wellspring
#25 Funny Ha Ha
2005
Johnnie To | Tai Seng
#26 Throw Down
2005
Lav Diaz
#27 The Evolution of a Filipino Family
2005
Seijun Suzuki | Nippon Herald
#28 Princess Raccoon
2005
Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Film Movement
#29 Who's Camus Anyways?
2005
Ryuichi Hiroki
#30 Vibrator
2006
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Sony Pictures Classics
#1 L'enfant
2006
Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.
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2006
Michel Gondry | Rogue Pictures
#2 Dave Chapelle's Block Party
2006
David Lynch | 518 Media/Absurda
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2006
Larry Charles | 20th Century Fox
#5 Borat
2006
Michael Mann | Universal
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2006
Alfonso Cuaron | Universal
#7 Children of Men
2006
Cristi Puiu | Tartan USA
#8 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2006
Kelly Reichardt | Kino Intl.
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2006
Guillermo del Toro
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2006
Christopher Nolan | Buena Vista
#11 The Prestige
2006
Sofia Coppola | Sony
#12 Marie Antoinette
2006
Hou Hsiao-hsien | IFC
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2006
Robert Altman | Picturehouse/New Line
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2006
Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.
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2006
Tony Scott | Buena Vista
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2006
Spike Lee | Universal
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2006
Pedro Almodóvar | Sony Pictures Classics
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2006
Park Chan-wook | Tartan
#19 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
2006
Nobuhiro Yamashita | Viz
#20 Linda Linda Linda
2006
Rian Johnson | Focus Features
#21 Brick
2006
Mike Judge | 20th Century Fox
#22 Idiocracy
2006
Frank Coraci | Sony
#23 Click
2006
Liu Jiayin
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2006
Lu Chuan | IDP
#25 Mountain Patrol
2006
John Hillcoat | First Look Intl.
#26 The Proposition
2006
Martin Campbell | Sony
#27 Casino Royale
2006
Asghar Farhadi | Dreamlab
#28 Fireworks Wednesday
2006
Farah Khan | Eros Intl.
#29 Om Shanti Om
2006
Selvaraghavan | Parasakthi
#30 Pudh Pettai
2007
David Fincher | Paramount
#1 Zodiac
2007
Tony Gilroy | Warner Bros.
#2 Michael Clayton
2007
Paul Verhoeven | Sony Pictures Classics
#3 Black Book
2007
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Strand
#4 Syndromes and a Century
2007
Various Directors | Dimension
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2007
Paul Thomas Anderson | Paramount
#6 There Will Be Blood
2007
Joel Coen | Miramax
#7 No Country for Old Men
2007
Wang Bing | Ad Vitam
#8 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
2007
Abderrahmane Sissako | New Yorker
#9 Bamako
2007
Andrew Dominik | Warner Bros.
#10 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Cristian Mungiu | IFC
#11 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
2007
Pedro Costa | Equation
#12 Colossal Youth
2007
Johnnie To | Magnolia
#13 Exiled
2007
Bong Joon-ho
#14 The Host
2007
Greg Mottola | Sony
#15 Superbad
2007
James Gray | Columbia
#16 We Own the Night
2007
Julia Loktev | IFC
#17 Day Night Day Night
2007
Tsai Ming-liang | Strand
#18 The Wayward Cloud
2007
Richard Kelly | Samuel Goldwyn/Destination
#19 Southland Tales
2007
Peter Hutton
#20 At Sea
2007
Jafar Panahi | Sony Pictures Classics
#21 Offside
2007
Valeska Grisebach | Rommel
#22 Longing
2007
Joe Swanberg | IFC
#23 Hannah Takes the Stairs
2007
Wes Anderson | Fox Searchlight
#24 The Darjeeling Limited
2007
Kim Ki-duk | Lifesize Entertainment
#25 Time
2007
Jaume Balaquero & Paco Plaza | Sony
#26 Rec
2007
Mia Hansen-Love
#27 All is Forgiven
2007
Paul Greengrass | Universal
#28 The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
William Friedkin | Lionsgate
#29 Bug
2007
Jun Ichikawa
#30 How to Become Myself
2008
Steven Soderbergh | IFC
#1 Che
2008
Christopher Nolan | Warner Bros.
#2 The Dark Knight
2008
Steve McQueen | IFC
#3 Hunger
2008
Tomas Alfredson | Magnet
#4 Let the Right One In
2008
Andrew Stanton | Disney
#5 Wall-E
2008
Jonathan Demme | Sony Pictures Classics
#6 Rachel Getting Married
2008
The Wachowskis | Warner Bros.
#7 Speed Racer
2008
Hou Hsiao-hsien | IFC
#8 The Flight of the Red Balloon
2008
Bryan Bertino | Universal
#9 The Strangers
2008
Hong Sang-soo | New Yorker
#10 Woman on the Beach
2008
Abdellatif Kechiche | IFC
#11 The Secret of the Grain
2008
Jia Zhang-ke | New Yorker
#12 Still Life
2008
Gus Van Sant | IFC
#13 Paranoid Park
2008
Adam McKay | Sony
#14 Step Brothers
2008
Catherine Hardwicke | Summit Entertainment
#15 Twilight
2008
Guy Maddin | IFC
#16 My Winnipeg
2008
Jacques Rivette | IFC
#17 The Duchess of Langeais
2008
Olivier Assayas | Magnolia
#18 Boarding Gate
2008
Lou Ye | Palm Pictures
#19 Summer Palace
2008
Johnnie To | Universe Entertainment
#20 Sparrow
2008
Arnaud Desplechin | IFC
#21 A Christmas Tale
2008
Nacho Vigalando | Magnolia
#22 Timecrimes
2008
Éric Rohmer | Koch Lorber
#23 Romance of Astree and Celadon
2008
Laurent Cantet | Sony Pictures Classics
#24 The Class
2008
James Benning | Cal Arts/Films
#25 RR
2008
Jose Luis Guerin | New Yorker
#26 In the City of Sylvia
2008
Serge Bozon | Kino Intl.
#27 La France
2008
Li Yu | New Yorker
#28 Lost in Beijing
2008
Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Bitters End
#29 All Around Us
2008
John Gianvito | Watchmaker
#30 Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
2009
Carlos Reygadas | Palisades Tartan
#1 Silent Light
2009
Quentin Tarantino | The Weinstein Company
#2 Inglourious Basterds
2009
Lars von Trier | IFC
#3 Antichrist
2009
John Woo | Magnolia
#4 Red Cliff
2009
James Cameron | 20th Century Fox
#5 Avatar
2009
Lucrecia Martel | Strand Releasing
#6 The Headless Woman
2009
James Gray | Magnolia
#7 Two Lovers
2009
Olivier Assayas | IFC
#8 Summer Hours
2009
Antonio Campos | IFC
#9 Afterschool
2009
Wes Anderson | 20th Century Fox
#10 The Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Kathryn Bigelow | Summit Entertainment
#11 The Hurt Locker
2009
Jane Campion | Apparition
#12 Bright Star
2009
Hong Sang-soo | IFC
#13 Night and Day
2009
Terence Davies | Strand Releasing
#14 Of Time and the City
2009
Zack Snyder | Warner Bros.
#15 Watchmen
2009
Corneliu Porumboiu | IFC
#16 Police, Adjective
2009
Claire Denis | The Cinema Guild
#17 35 Shots of Rum
2009
Aleksandr Sokurov | Lorber HT Digital
#18 The Sun
2009
Abbas Kiarostami
#19 Shirin
2009
Jia Zhang-ke | The Cinema Guild
#20 24 City
2009
Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine | Lionsgate
#21 Crank: High Voltage
2009
Joel Coen | Focus Features
#22 A Serious Man
2009
Oren Peli | Paramount
#23 Paranormal Activity
2009
Rob Zombie | Dimension
#24 Halloween II
2009
Nina Paley | GKIDS
#25 Sita Sings the Blues
2009
Adam Curtis
#26 It Felt Like a Kiss
2009
Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Regent
#27 Tokyo Sonata
2009
Lisandro Alonso | The Match Factory
#28 Liverpool
2009
Tsai Ming-liang
#29 Face
2009
Ursula Meier | Lorber Films
#30 Home
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