RANK | FILM | DIRECTOR | POINTS |
1 | Mulholland Dr. | Curtis Hanson | 91 |
2 | There Will Be Blood* | M. Night Shyamalan | 85 |
3 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 62 |
4 | Brokeback Mountain* | Lou Ye | 54.5 |
5 | No Country for Old Men | Pere Portabella | 54 |
Zodiac | Olivier Assayas | 54 | |
6 | Yi Yi | Edgar Wright | 52 |
7 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Tommy Wiseau | 50 |
The Lord of the Rings | James Benning | 50 | |
8 | Spirited Away | Jafar Panahi | 48 |
9 | United 93 | Patty Jenkins | 36.5 |
Y Tu Mamá También | Guy Maddin | 36.5 | |
10 | Sideways* | Agnes Varda | 31.5 |
11 | Children of Men | Takashi Miike | 30.5 |
Talk to Her | Rian Johnson | 30.5 | |
WALL-E* | Jafar Panahi | 30.5 | |
12 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* | Alain Resnais | 30 |
I'm Not There | Darren Aronofsky | 30 | |
13 | The Incredibles | Ousmane Sembene | 28.5 |
14 | Memento | Pedro Costa | 27.5 |
15 | Synecdoche, New York | Paul Greengrass | 27 |
16 | Oldboy | Alain Resnais | 26 |
Waltz With Bashir | Eran Kolirin | 26 | |
17 | City of God | Tian Zhuangzhuang | 23.5 |
18 | The Lives of Others | Joel and Ethan Coen | 23 |
19 | Caché | Gus Van Sant | 22.5 |
20 | The Best of Youth | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 21.5 |
In the Mood for Love | Thom Andersen | 21.5 | |
21 | Letters From Iwo Jima* | Ridley Scott | 21 |
22 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott | 20.5 |
Lost in Translation | Lajos Koltai | 20.5 | |
23 | The New World | Corneliu Porumboiu | 20 |
24 | Adaptation | Sylvain Chomet | 19.5 |
25 | The Hurt Locker* | Olivier Dahan | 17.5 |
The White Ribbon | Radu Muntean | 17.5 | |
The World | Zack Snyder | 17.5 | |
26 | Far From Heaven | Jeff Tremaine | 17 |
27 | The Pianist | Fatih Akin | 16.5 |
28 | Secret Sunshine | Elia Suleiman | 16 |
29 | Bowling for Columbine | Phil Morrison | 15.5 |
Dogville | Bill Condon | 15.5 | |
Head-On | Michael Mann | 15.5 | |
In Vanda's Room | Andrei Zvyagintsev | 15.5 | |
La Commune (Paris, 1871) | Benoît Jacquot | 15.5 | |
Platform | Nicolas Philibert | 15.5 | |
The Secret of the Grain | Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe | 15.5 | |
30 | Ratatouille | Jacques Rivette | 14.5 |
Slumdog Millionaire | Brian De Palma | 14.5 | |
Star Spangled to Death | James Longley | 14.5 | |
31 | Amélie | Stephen Daldry | 13.5 |
Syndromes and a Century | Christopher Nolan | 13.5 | |
32 | American Splendor* | Kenneth Lonergan | 13 |
33 | Before Sunset | Abbas Kiarostami | 12.5 |
34 | Almost Famous | Jacques Rivette | 12 |
Grizzly Man | Pedro Almodóvar | 12 | |
35 | 2046 | Steven Soderbergh | 11.5 |
Crash | François Ozon | 11.5 | |
Pan's Labyrinth | Pete Docter | 11.5 | |
Time Out | Jason Reitman | 11.5 | |
36 | Million Dollar Baby | Ken Loach | 11 |
Once | Trey Parker | 11 | |
37 | Mystic River | Juan José Campanella | 10.5 |
28 Days Later | Greg Mottola | 10.5 | |
38 | Babel | Paul Thomas Anderson | 10 |
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | David LaChapelle | 10 | |
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith | Martin Provost | 10 | |
39 | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Philip Kaufman | 9.5 |
40 | La Libertad | Jennifer Baichwal | 9 |
The Fast Runner | Danis Tanovic | 9 | |
41 | Munich | Eran Riklis | 8.5 |
The Squid and the Whale | Peter Jackson | 8.5 | |
42 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 8 |
Inglourious Basterds | David O. Russell | 8 | |
Memories of Murder | Paolo Sorrentino | 8 | |
The Supplement | Jean-Luc Godard | 8 | |
The Wrestler | David Lynch | 8 | |
43 | Irréversible | Robert Altman | 7.5 |
Together | Clint Eastwood | 7.5 | |
44 | Casino Royale | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 7 |
The Fog of War | Fernando Meirelles | 7 | |
The Heart of the World | Hubert Sauper | 7 | |
In the City of Sylvia | Stephen Frears | 7 | |
Kill Bill | Johnnie To | 7 | |
Son Frère | Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia | 7 | |
3-Iron | Jan Troell | 7 | |
The Widow of St. Pierre | Claire Denis | 7 | |
45 | Avatar | Ramin Bahrani | 6.5 |
46 | Army of Shadows | Alexander Sokurov | 6 |
Dahmer | Louis C.K. | 6 | |
Elephant | Alexander Payne | 6 | |
The House of Sand | Susanne Bier | 6 | |
The Intruder | Alejandro González Inarritu | 6 | |
Regular Lovers | Sidney Lumet | 6 | |
The Royal Tenenbaums | Julie Gavras | 6 | |
Russian Ark | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 6 | |
Tomorrow Night | Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman | 6 | |
47 | About Schmidt* | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | 5.5 |
After the Wedding | Richard Linklater | 5.5 | |
Amores Perros | Cameron Crowe | 5.5 | |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Werner Herzog | 5.5 | |
Blame It on Fidel | Wong Kar-wai | 5.5 | |
Blissfully Yours | Paul Haggis | 5.5 | |
Born Into Brothels | Guillermo del Toro | 5.5 | |
Chop Shop | Laurent Cantet | 5.5 | |
Climates | Clint Eastwood | 5.5 | |
The Constant Gardener | John Carney | 5.5 | |
Darwin's Nightmare | Clint Eastwood | 5.5 | |
Dirty Pretty Things | Danny Boyle | 5.5 | |
Election / Triad Election | Alejandro González Inarritu | 5.5 | |
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | Tsai Ming-liang | 5.5 | |
Everlasting Moments | George Lucas | 5.5 | |
Friday Night | Cristi Puiu | 5.5 | |
Gosford Park | Lisandro Alonso | 5.5 | |
Gran Torino | Zacharias Kunuk | 5.5 | |
Grindhouse | Steven Spielberg | 5.5 | |
I Heart Huckabees | Noah Baumbach | 5.5 | |
Il Divo | Andrew Dominik | 5.5 | |
In Praise of Love | Quentin Tarantino | 5.5 | |
Inland Empire | Bong Joon-ho | 5.5 | |
Lemon Tree | Krzysztof Zanussi | 5.5 | |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Darren Aronofsky | 5.5 | |
Manufactured Landscapes | Gaspar Noé | 5.5 | |
No Man's Land | Lukas Moodysson | 5.5 | |
Quills | Martin Campbell | 5.5 | |
Punch-Drunk Love | Errol Morris | 5.5 | |
Rize | Guy Maddin | 5.5 | |
Séraphine | José Luis Gu+B235rin | 5.5 | |
Son of the Bride | Quentin Tarantino | 5.5 | |
Superbad | Patrice Chéreau | 5.5 | |
Sweet Sixteen | Kim Ki-duk | 5.5 | |
Team America: World Police | Patrice Leconte | 5.5 | |
Traffic | James Cameron | 5.5 | |
Under the Sand | Jean-Pierre Melville | 5.5 | |
Up | David Jacobson | 5.5 | |
Up in the Air | Gus Van Sant | 5.5 | |
Va Savoir | Andrucha Waddington | 5.5 | |
Volver | Claire Denis | 5.5 | |
The Wind Will Carry Us | Philippe Garrel | 5.5 | |
You Can Count on Me | Wes Anderson | 5.5 | |
48 | Billy Elliot | Lars von Trier | 5 |
The Dark Knight | Fatih Akin | 5 | |
The Duchess of Langeais | Pedro Costa | 5 | |
Femme Fatale | Peter Watkins | 5 | |
Iraq in Fragments | Jia Zhangke | 5 | |
Junebug | Abdellatif Kechiche | 5 | |
Kinsey | Brad Bird | 5 | |
Public Enemies | Danny Boyle | 5 | |
The Return | Ken Jacobs | 5 | |
Right Now | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 5 | |
To Be and to Have | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 5 | |
49 | Brothers of the Head | Terrence Malick | 4 |
Divine Intervention | Spike Jonze | 4 | |
The Edge of Heaven | Kathryn Bigelow | 4 | |
Jackass Number Two | Michael Haneke | 4 | |
La Vie en Rose | Jia Zhangke | 4 | |
The Paper Will Be Blue | Todd Haynes | 4 | |
300 | Roman Polanski | 4 | |
The Triplets of Belleville | Lee Chang-dong | 4 | |
12:08 East of Bucharest | Michael Moore | 4 | |
50 | The Corporation | Ari Folman | 3 |
Fateless | Fernando Meirelles | 3 | |
Kingdom of Heaven | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 3 | |
L'Enfant | Michael Haneke | 3 | |
Los Angeles Plays Itself | Marco Tullio Giordana | 3 | |
Paranoid Park | Wong Kar-wai | 3 | |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Clint Eastwood | 3 | |
Springtime in a Small Town | Julian Schnabel | 3 | |
Wild Grass | Sofia Coppola | 3 | |
51 | The Band's Visit | Ang Lee | 2 |
The Bourne Ultimatum | Todd Haynes | 2 | |
Colossal Youth | Brad Bird | 2 | |
Moolaadé | Christopher Nolan | 2 | |
Not on the Lips | Charlie Kaufman | 2 | |
Requiem for a Dream | Park Chan-wook | 2 | |
52 | Audition | David Lynch | 1 |
Brick | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1 | |
The Circle | Michel Gondry | 1 | |
The Gleaners and I | Ang Lee | 1 | |
Monster | Joel and Ethan Coen | 1 | |
My Winnipeg | David Fincher | 1 | |
Offside | Edward Yang | 1 | |
The Room | Cristian Mungiu | 1 | |
RR | Peter Jackson | 1 | |
Shaun of the Dead | Hayao Miyazaki | 1 | |
The Silence Before Bach | Paul Greengrass | 1 | |
Summer Hours | Alfonso Cuarón | 1 | |
Suzhou River | Alexander Payne | 1 | |
Tropical Malady | Alfonso Cuarón | 1 | |
Unbreakable | Pedro Almodóvar | 1 | |
Wonder Boys | Andrew Stanton | 1 |