Observe and Report (2009)

Best Avoided

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Jody Hill

Cinematographer: Tim Orr

Composer: Joseph Stephens

Cast: Seth Rogen, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña, Anna Faris, Dan Bakkedahl, Jesse Plemons, John Yuan, Matt Yuan, Celia Weston, Collette Wolfe, Randy Gambill

When a local police detective starts stepping on his toes, both professionally and personally, Ronnie, the head of security at a large shopping mall, who secretly dreams of one day becoming a police officer, begins a personal war with him over a pair of open cases and the girl of his dreams, in Hill’s – for the most part – painfully unfunny comedy, which manages, however, to elicit the odd laugh through the presence of the ever dependable Faris. Iain.Stott

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Lovely Rita (2001)

Cautiously Recommended

Austria/Germany

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Jessica Hausner

Cinematographer: Martin Gschlacht

Cast: Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala, Wolfgang Kostal, Karina Brandlmayer

Despite featuring some rather bland photography and generally awkward performances, Hausner’s feature debut, a portrait of a sullen, unloved teenaged girl, is never less than fascinating if not exactly accomplished viewing, as it follows her various sexual misadventures as she struggles to find room for her burgeoning womanhood amidst her repressive bourgeois surroundings. Iain.Stott

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Episodes (2011-)

UK/USA

Television Series

Creators: David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik

Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, John Pankow, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Mircea Monroe

Crane and Klarik’s satirical culture-clash comedy, revolving around the move of a pair of married comedy writers to Los Angeles to remake their successful British sitcom, unsettlingly mixes acerbic yet warm and farcical humour with moments of often dourly serious drama.

Series 1 (2011)

Inappropriate casting decisions, dumbed-down character profiles, a capricious star, a comely co-star, duplicitous, disingenuous executives, and a network president with little interest in anything other than himself ensure that Sean and Beverly’s attempt to recapture their former glories is anything but straightforward, in this promising and often brilliant if slightly uneven (though never less than thoroughly entertaining) first series. Iain.Stott

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United States of Tara (2009-)

USA

Television Series

Creator: Diablo Cody

Cast: Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt, Keir Gilchrist, Brie Larson, Patton Oswalt

Though seldom credible and often quite illogical, this family comedy-drama, revolving around the mother’s dissociative identity disorder, has an emotional honesty and believability that makes it as affecting as it is funny and unpredictable.

Season 1 (2009)

Tara, having recently made the decision to come off her medication in order to achieve a better quality of life, is forced (along with her family) to re-adjust to sharing it with her three alter egos – Alice, a prissy housewife; Buck, an uncouth biker; and T, a hormonal teenaged girl – in this blackly comic, hugely entertaining first season.

Season 2 (2010)

A couple of years have passed; Tara is on new medication, and has been free of her alters for months now; but when a neighbour unexpectedly commits suicide, Buck and friends reappear with a vengeance, bringing with them more and more chaos, in this frequently hilarious second instalment of Diablo Cody’s comedy-drama.

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Caprica (2009-2010)

USA

Television Series

Creators: Remi Aubuchon, Ronald D. Moore

Cast: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, Paula Malcomson, Sasha Roiz, Polly Walker, Brian Markinson, Hiro Kanagawa

Following a devastating terrorist attack, which robbed both of them of loved ones, two families – the Graystones and the Adamas – play key roles in the birth of the Cylons, in Aubuchon and Moore’s sadly short-lived prequel to Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), which deftly mixes science fiction and family drama against a backdrop of religious fundamentalism and organised crime. Iain.Stott

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Modern Life (2008)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Documentary

Original Title: La vie modern

Director/Cinematographer: Raymond Depardon

Featuring: Raymond Privat, Marcel Privat, Alain Rouvière, Cécile Rouvière, Marcel Challaye, Germaine Challaye, Paul Argaud

Depardon’s strikingly photographed, gently revealing, and achingly sad portrait of rural life – the third part of a trilogy, the first two parts of which remain unseen in the UK – explores the lives of a number of ageing, expressively inexpressive farmers in France’s Massif Central region, poignantly capturing their way of life as it enters its final death throes, having finally (just about) admitted defeat to the forces of industrialisation. Iain.Stott

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Men of a Certain Age (2009-)

USA

Television Series

Creators: Ray Romano, Mike Royce

Cast: Ray Romano, Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher, Matt Price, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Richard Gant, Braeden Lemasters, Brian J. White, Brittany Curran, Jon Manfrellotti, Penelope Ann Miller, Emily Rios, Carla Gallo

Romano and Royce’s moving drama follows the lives of three life-long friends – a recently divorced party store owner with a gambling problem, a car salesman with a tendency to over-eat who struggles to survive in the shadow of his domineering father, and a flaky, failed actor who has never grown up – as they tiptoe into middle-age.

Season 1 (2009-2010)

Generally warm and quietly funny with moments of great poignancy, this first season gently builds up a portrait of these three lives (and the lives of those that touch them) with beautifully drawn characters, touching performances, and affectingly credible writing.

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Berlin, 2011

Golden Bear

A Separation (2011)

Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear

The Turin Horse (2011)

Silver Bear for Best Director

Ulrich Köhler, Sleeping Sickness (2011)

Silver Bear for Best Actress

The actresses of A Separation (2011)

Silver Bear for Best Actor

The actors of A Separation (2011)

Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Wojciech Staron & Barbara Enriquez, The Prize (2011)

Silver Bear for Best Script

Joshua Marston & Andamion Murataj, The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)

Alfred-Bauer Prize

If Not Us, Who (2011)

In Competition

• Come Rain, Come Shine (2011)
• Coriolanus (2011)
• The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
• The Future (2011)
• If Not Us, Who (2011)
• Innocent Saturday (2011)
• Margin Call (2011)
• A Mysterious World (2011)
• Odem (2011)
• Our Grand Despair (2011)
• The Prize (2011)
• A Separation (2011)
• Sleeping Sickness (2011)
• Tales of the Night (2011)
• The Turin Horse (2011)
• Yelling to the Sky (2011)
• Unknown (2011)

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Party Down (2009-2010)

USA

Television Series

Creators: John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, Paul Rudd, & Rob Thomas

Cast: Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr, Lizzy Caplan, Megan Mullally, Jane Lynch

This gentle, pathos-laden, and oft hilarious workplace comedy follows the ups and downs of a group of Los Angeles-based caterers – a ragtag mix of aspiring and failed actors, comedians, and writers – as they cater various oddball parties and events.

Season 1 (2009)

Freshly retired from a not-so-successful acting career, Henry Pollard, down and disillusioned, begins to work for the Party Down catering company, where he slowly begins to find his way in life again (well, sort of), not least with the help of aspiring comedienne Casey, whom he takes a shine to, in this consistently entertaining and surprisingly affecting first season.

Season 2 (2010)

Significant changes to the group dynamic see the show lose its way a little in the opening episodes of this second season, but as it progresses order is slowly restored, as characters return to their more suited roles, and by the end (which it sadly seems to be) it is firing on all cylinders again.

Iain.Stott

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CFB's Top 30 Films of 1967 (2011)

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2. The Graduate (1967)
3. Belle de Jour (1967)
4. In Cold Blood (1967)
5. Playtime (1967)
6. Le Samourai (1967)
7. In The Heat of the Night (1967)
8. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
9. Weekend (1967)
10. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
11. Mouchette (1967)
12. Wait Until Dark (1967)
13. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
14. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
15. Point Blank (1967)
16. Oedipus Rex (1967)
17. The Jungle Book (1967)
18. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
19. Two for the Road (1967)
20. The Red and the White (1967)
21. You Only Live Twice (1967)
22. Marketa Lazarova (1967)
23. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
24. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
25. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
26. Marat/Sade (1967)
27. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
28. Dance of the Vampires (1967)
29. Bedazzled (1967)
30. Hombre (1967)

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CFB's Top 20 Obscure Films of 1967 (2011)

1. Poor Cow (1967)
2. Caprice (1967)
3. Happy Gypsies (1967)
4. The Stranger (1967)
5. Two in the Shadow (1967)
6. Eye Myth (1967)
7. Japan’s Longest Day (1967)
8. Games (1967)
9. Silence and Cry (1967)
   Smashing Time (1967)
10. Report (1967)
11. Half a Sixpence (1967)
12. Stop Look and Listen (1967)
13. Hurry Sundown (1967)
14. Ulysses (1967)
15. A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
16. Privilege (1967)
17. The Fox (1967)
18. The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)
19. The Plea (1967)

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Better Off Ted (2009-2010)

USA

Television Series

Creator: Victor Fresco

Cast: Jay Harrington, Portia de Rossi, Andrea Anders, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Barrett, Isabella Acres

Fresco’s inspired, laugh-out-loud funny series follows the misadventures of five amoral employees of a giant, evil corporation, Veridian Dynamics, which manufactures everything from unbreakable plates and aerodynamic bagels to weaponised pumpkins and cowless beef, all whilst treating its workers like disposable pawns.

Season 1 (2009)

Frequently hilarious, often brilliant, and never less than thoroughly entertaining, this outstanding first season, with its beautifully-drawn, strangely likable protagonists, effortlessly mixes much satirical workplace lunacy with some gentler, character-based laugh-getting.

Season 2 (2010)

It’s a case of more of the same, really, in this hugely entertaining second season, which certainly isn’t a bad thing, though it seldom reaches the inspired heights of the first season, with very few episodes coming even close to the likes of the first outing’s trouser-soilingly funny Racial Sensitivity. Iain.Stott

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Drowning Not Waving (2009)

Not Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Moving On (2009-2010)

Director: Gary Williams

Writer: Sarah Deane

Cinematographer: Len Gowing

Composer: Steve Wright

Cast: Christine Tremarco, Jo-Anne Knowles, Richard Armitage, Sharon Duce

Ellie, heavily in debt, and forced to put her house up for sale, becomes seduced by the glamorous lifestyle of her new boyfriend John, whom she believes to be a property developer despite being warned of his drug-dealing past by her best friend Maria, in this mildly diverting if obtrusively scored television play. Iain.Stott

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Bully (2009)

Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Moving On (2009-2010)

Director: Gary Williams

Writer: Mark Pye

Cinematographer: Len Gowing

Composer: Steve Wright

Cast: Mark Womack, Lee Boardman, Julia Ford, Claire Keelan, Jack Ryan, Luke Roskell

Bully begets bully begets bully, in this well acted, boldly scored, and convincingly written if a little too easily resolved tale of two neighbouring families – long-term friends, just back from holidaying together in Spain – torn apart by bullying fathers and sons. Iain.Stott

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The Rain Has Stopped (2009)

Not Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Moving On (2009-2010)

Director: Gary Williams

Writer: Karen Brown

Cinematographer: Len Gowing

Composer: Steve Wright

Cast: Sheila Hancock, Bhasker Patel, Emma Lowndes, Paul Fox, Claire Hackett

Liz, long widowed, meets the Nepalese Damar, a proud former Gurkha, whilst on holiday in Torquay, and the two are soon planning to marry; but their union, and Damar’s presence in the country, is resented by ungrateful offspring, jealous neighbours, and the law, in this well-intentioned and competently acted if never entirely convincing television play, whose characters often feel terribly one-dimensional. Iain.Stott

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Lost (2004-2010)

USA

Television Series

Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, & Damon Lindelof

Cast: Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Kim Yunjin, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Dominic Monaghan, Henry Ian Cusick, Harold Perrineau, Elizabeth Mitchell

The first season is essential viewing, after which it loses its way somewhat, with its various MacGuffins taking over and becoming the show’s central focus, as the often very moving human drama of its origins is slowly replaced with a great deal of (admittedly often inspired) sci-fi guff.

Season 1 (2004-2005)

After their trans-Pacific flight crashes on a remote island, a bunch of disparate survivors attempt to stay alive and await rescue whilst uncovering the mysteries of their new home, in this outstanding first season, which elegantly mixes the enigmatic action of the present with the character-building backstories of the past.

Season 2 (2005-2006)

Survivors from the tail section of the plane joining the action and the corporealisation of the mystical “Others” ensure that this increasingly addictive second season is never less than enthralling if not quite as elegantly and eloquently mounted as before.

Season 3 (2006-2007)

A strange irreverent tone, more dodgy accents than ever before, and a number of episodes that are no more than filler ensure that this third season, which sees the lives of the Oceanic survivors and The Others becoming ever more entwined, though still perversely addictive, is a long way short of the quality of the first one.

Season 4 (2008)

Livened up by the addition of flashforwards to its usual flashbacks, and benefiting from a more streamlined approach to its narrative, this fourth season, detailing the build up to and aftermath of the rescue of The Oceanic 6, is a decided return to form.

Season 5 (2009)

The focus is almost completely narrative based now, with little time spent on the character building of earlier seasons, as two separate narrative strands – one in the present and one in the ‘70s – follow the trials and tribulations of the remaining Oceanic survivors, in this fifth season, which is as gripping as ever if somewhat less substantial.

Season 6 (2010)

Questions are answered – though the answers are seldom as interesting as the original questions – in this final season, which often feels quite tiresome and drawn-out though still often rather inspired, as it draws together two seemingly unrelated narratives – one on the island, one off it – which head towards its vaguely satisfying conclusion. Iain.Stott

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Time Out's 100 Best British Films (2011)

1. Don’t Look Now (1973)
2. The Third Man (1949)
3. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
4. Kes (1970)
5. The Red Shoes (1948)
6. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
7. Performance (1970)
8. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
9. If… (1968)
10. Trainspotting (1996)
11. Naked (1993)
12. Brief Encounter (1945)
13. The 39 Steps (1935)
14. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
15. Withnail & I (1987)
16. Black Narcissus (1947)
17. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
18. The Innocents (1961)
19. Barry Lyndon (1975)
20. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
21. Nil by Mouth (1997)
22. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
24. Brazil (1985)
25. Great Expectations (1946)
26. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
27. The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972-1978)
28. The Wicker Man (1973)
29. Peeping Tom (1960)
30. The Ladykillers (1955)
31. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
32. Get Carter (1971)
33. Secrets & Lies (1996)
34. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
35. The Servant (1963)
36. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
37. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
38. Went the Day Well? (1942)
39. London (1994)
40. Ratcatcher (1999)
41. Witchfinder General (1968)
42. Listen to Britain (1942)
43. Fires Were Started (1943)
44. Sabotage (1936)
45. Repulsion (1965)
46. The Fallen Idol (1948)
47. Blow-Up (1966)
48. Hunger (2008)
49. Gallivant (1997)
50. Culloden (1964)
51. Local Hero (1983)
52. Robinson in Space (1997)
53. This Sporting Life (1963)
54. Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1974)
55. Radio On (1980)
56. Caravaggio (1986)
57. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
58. Gregory's Girl (1981)
59. Blackmail (1929)
60. The Long Good Friday (1980)
61. Walkabout (1971)
62. Deep End (1970)
63. Nuts in May (1976)
64. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
65. Dracula (1958)
66. Wonderland (1999)
67. Whisky Galore! (1949)
68. Dead of Night (1945)
69. Oliver! (1968)
70. Bad Timing (1980)
71. Edvard Munch (1974)
72. The Long Day Closes (1992)
73. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
74. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
75. A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
76. Penda’s Fen (1974)
77. Piccadilly (1929)
78. Billy Liar (1963)
79. The Offence (1972)
80. Under the Skin (1997)
81. Dr No (1962)
82. Orlando (1993)
83. A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
84. Fish Tank (2009)
85. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
86. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
87. Night and the City (1950)
88. This Is England (2006)
89. The Go-Between (1970)
90. Blue (1993)
91. Land and Freedom (1995)
92. Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
93. Zulu (1964)
94. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
95. London to Brighton (2006)
96. Theatre of Blood (1973)
97. 28 Days Later... (2002)
98. School for Scoundrels (1960)
99. The Railway Children (1970)
100. In This World (2002)

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Black and Blue (1992)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Screen One (1989-1994)

Director: David Hayman

Writer: G.F. Newman

Cinematographer: John Daly

Composer: Bob Last

Cast: Christopher John Hall, Linus Roache, Martin Shaw, Iain Glen, Ray Winstone, Don Henderson, Rowena King, Fraser James, Clive Wedderburn

A young black police officer is brought in from Plymouth to go undercover on a South London council estate (which looks suspiciously like Liverpool) ostensibly to investigate the murder of a prominent solicitor, but instead uncovers rampant racism and corruption in the Metropolitan Police Service, in this often powerful and generally very entertaining if never entirely credible BBC drama, which often feels more like a pilot for a television series than a one-off piece. Iain.Stott

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The Freebie (2010)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/ Director: Katie Aselton

Cinematographer: Benjamin Kasulke

Composer: Julian Wass

Cast: Katie Aselton, Dax Shepard, Ross Partridge, Frankie Shaw, Bellamy Young, Sean Nelson

When a thirty-something married couple realise that they have not had sex for a number of months they begin to discus the idea of allowing each other to have a guilt-free one night stand, which they naively believe will reignite their loving but stagnant relationship, in actress Aselton’s perceptive, painfully authentic feeling, and ultimately rather affecting directorial debut. Iain.Stott

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Boardwalk Empire (2010-)

USA

Television Series

Developer: Terence Winter

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Stuhlbarg, Stephen Graham, Vincent Piazza, Paz de la Huerta, Michael Kenneth Williams, Anthony Laciura, Paul Sparks, Dabney Coleman, Gretchen Mol, Greg Antonacci

Based on, though often rather loosely, Nelson Johnson's fact-based book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City (2002), Terence Winter’s visceral, unpredictable, and thoroughly compelling series depicts the early days of alcohol prohibition in Atlantic City in the 1920s, detailing the exploits of republican politician and criminal mastermind Enoch “Nucky” Thompson.

Season 1 (2010)

The beginning of alcohol prohibition in America allows some of its less honest citizens to quickly build their criminal empires, with Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, Johnny Torrio, and Arnold Rothstein all looking to take illicit advantage of the new law, in this brilliantly written, impeccably crafted, and powerfully acted first season. Iain.Stott

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For Jafar Panahi & Mohammad Rasoulof

This protest film, Untitled, was created by an Iranian filmmaker whose identity and location is protected by Cine Foundation International. It forms part of the campaign initiated by CFI calling for the release of imprisoned film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, and wider reform of human and democratic rights in Iran. It is paramount that the identity of this filmmaker remains undisclosed until such time as the current regime in Iran has been removed, and clear democratic government takes its place.

The filmmaker has issued this statement—

"For the past 32 years (since 1979) the government of Iran tried to heavily repressed and oppressed the artists, scholars, elites, intellectuals, oppositions movements, human rights activists and students using populist strategies and religion in order to keep the power and controlling the oil-money.

Fighting for democracy has 100 years of history in Iran with two revolutions. After the rigged and disputed June 2009 election people of Iran realised that they don’t need another revolution for changing this dictator government. They understood that what they need is a peaceful & none-violence civil right movement.

Panahi and Rasoulof played an important part for this goal and that is why the Iranian regime gave them such an unbelievable sentence (Six years of imprisonment and 20 years banning of almost any activity).

They don’t realise that no one can tell a human being not to grow and flourish! It is impossible to invert this mechanism. We as a citizen of this word must stand with Panahi and Rasoulof and support them to the end … "

-Anonymous Iranian Filmmaker (participant in FOR JAFAR PANAHI AND MOHAMMAD RASOULOF), published via Cine Foundation International.

It is hoped that the audience will not lend itself to games of guesswork, innuendo and investigation into the filmmaker's true identity, as their life and the lives of their loved ones are at risk.

This will continue to be an issue as CFI publishes work by filmmakers resident in countries governed by oppressive regimes in the coming days and weeks.

If you wish to submit work to the campaign anonymously, please contact us in the first instance via this encrypted email address: cfi [at] mac.hush.com and we will instruct you on how to proceed securely. From Cine Foundation International on Vimeo.

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The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films (January, 2011)

1. In the Mood for Love (2000)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3. A One and a Two... (2000)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
5. Spirited Away (2001)
6. There Will Be Blood (2007)
7. Lost in Translation (2003)
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
9. A History of Violence (2005)
10. Talk to Her (2002)
11. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
12. Far from Heaven (2002)
13. Sideways (2004)
14. The Hurt Locker (2008)
15. The Social Network (2010)
16. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
17. No Country for Old Men (2007)
18. Before Sunset (2004)
19. Memento (2000)
20. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
21. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
22. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
23. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
24. Zodiac (2007)
25. Hidden (2005)
26. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
27. City of God (2002)
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
29. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
30. The Death of Mister Lazarescu (2005)
31. The Incredibles (2004)
32. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
33. Adaptation (2002)
34. The Lives of Others (2006)
35. Donnie Darko (2001)
36. Grizzly Man (2005)
37. The Departed (2006)
38. Mystic River (2003)
39. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
40. Dogville (2003)
41. WALL·E (2008)
42. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
43. 2046 (2004)
44. Ghost World (2001)
45. Platform (2000)
46. Winter's Bone (2010)
47. United 93 (2006)
48. Still Life (2006)
49. Children of Men (2006)
50. Moulin Rouge (2001)
51. Elephant (2003)
52. Toy Story 3 (2010)
53. The Gleaners and I (2000)
54. Finding Nemo (2003)
55. Russian Ark (2002)
56. Tropical Malady (2004)
57. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
58. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)
59. A Serious Man (2009)
60. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
61. Summer Hours (2008)
62. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
63. The Queen (2006)
64. The Pianist (2002)
65. You Can Count On Me (2000)
66. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
67. The Child (2005)
68. American Splendor (2003)
69. Oldboy (2003)
70. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
71. Kings & Queen (2004)
72. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
73. Amores Perros (2000)
74. I'm Not There. (2007)
75. The World (2004)
76. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
77. The New World (2005)
78. A Christmas Tale (2008)
79. Almost Famous (2000)
80. Waking Life (2001)
81. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
82. The House of Mirth (2000)
83. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
84. Let the Right One In (2008)
85. Black Swan (2010)
86. The Son (2002)
87. Inland Empire (2006)
88. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
89. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
90. Wendy and Lucy (2008)
91. The Headless Woman (2008)
92. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
93. In the Bedroom (2001)
94. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
95. Gosford Park (2001)
96. Moolaadé (2004)
97. The Circle (2000)
98. About Schmidt (2002)
99. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
100. Amelie (2001)
101. Traffic (2000)
102. Saraband (2003)
103. My Winnipeg (2007)
104. Eloge de l'Amour (2001)
105. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
106. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
107. The Man without a Past (2002)
108. Colossal Youth (2006)
109. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
110. Silent Light (2007)
111. Shrek (2001)
112. The Dark Knight (2008)
113. The Aviator (2004)
114. Munich (2005)
115. Up (2009)
116. La Niña Santa (2004)
117. The White Ribbon (2009)
118. Vera Drake (2004)
119. The Piano Teacher (2001)
120. Time Out (2001)
121. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
122. Together (2000)
123. The Fog of War (2003)
124. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
125. Regular Lovers (2005)
126. The Best of Youth (2003)
127. La Commune (2000)
128. The Ghost (2010)
129. Hunger (2008)
130. Head-On (2004)
131. Three Times (2005)
132. Paranoid Park (2007)
133. Gladiator (2000)
134. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
135. The Intruder (2004)
136. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
137. House of Flying Daggers (2004)
138. Police, Adjective (2009)
139. Sexy Beast (2000)
140. Black Book (2006)
141. The School of Rock (2003)
142. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
143. Bad Education (2004)
144. Volver (2006)
145. Half Nelson (2006)
146. What Time Is It There? (2001)
147. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
148. The Wrestler (2008)
149. Capote (2005)
150. Café Lumière (2003)
151. The Host (2006)
152. Once (2006)
153. In the City of Sylvia (2007)
154. Gangs of New York (2002)
155. Carlos the Jackal (2010)
156. George Washington (2000)
157. 25th Hour (2002)
158. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
159. Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003)
160. I'm Going Home (2001)
161. Inception (2010)
162. The King's Speech (2010)
163. Notre Musique (2004)
164. A Prophet (2009)
165. Wonder Boys (2000)
166. Ten (2002)
167. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
168. Spider (2002)
169. À Ma Soeur (2001)
170. Demonlover (2002)
171. Être et Avoir (2002)
172. Eureka (2000)
173. Last Days (2005)
174. Eastern Promises (2007)
175. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
176. Uzak (2002)
177. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
178. Ratatouille (2007)
179. In America (2002)
180. 127 Hours (2010)
181. Erin Brockovich (2000)
182. Milk (2008)
183. Spellbound (2002)
184. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
185. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
186. Irréversible (2002)
187. True Grit (2010)
188. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
189. Up in the Air (2009)
190. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
191. The Hours (2002)
192. Man on Wire (2008)
193. Two Lovers (2008)
194. Bloody Sunday (2002)
195. Downfall (2004)
196. Kinsey (2004)
197. Inside Job (2010)
198. Chicago (2002)
199. Nobody Knows (2004)
200. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
201. Persepolis (2007)
202. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
203. Minority Report (2002)
204. In the Loop (2009)
205. Morvern Callar (2002)
206. Femme Fatale (2002)
207. 21 Grams (2003)
208. Tarnation (2003)
209. Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks (2003)
210. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
211. Offside (2006)
212. Hero (2002)
213. Chicken Run (2000)
214. Black Hawk Down (2001)
215. The Sun (2005)
216. Crash (2004)
217. Casino Royale (2006)
218. Dogtooth (2009)
219. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
220. Collateral (2004)
221. Maria Full of Grace (2004)
222. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
223. Gerry (2002)
224. High Fidelity (2000)
225. 28 Days Later... (2002)
226. Monsoon Wedding (2001)
227. Woman on the Beach (2006)
228. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
229. I Am Love (2009)
230. Unknown Pleasures (2002)
231. I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
232. Crimson Gold (2003)
233. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
234. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
235. Late Marriage (2001)
236. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
237. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
238. Don't Touch the Axe (2007)
239. Before Night Falls (2000)
240. A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
241. The Fighter (2010)
242. Keane (2004)
243. Match Point (2005)
244. King Kong (2005)
245. Battle in Heaven (2005)
246. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
247. Bright Star (2009)
248. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
249. Blissfully Yours (2002)
250. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

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