Movies I've Seen in Theaters - 2009

Milk (Gus Van Sant, 128 m) - 1/15
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 116 m) - 1/20
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 114 m) - 1/29
Last Chance Harvey (Joel Hopkins, 92 m) - 1/29
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 119 m) - 1/30

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 104 m) - 2/1
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 90 m) - 2/4
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 115 m) - 2/8
The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 124 m) - 2/15

Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 80 m) - 3/21
Battle for Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas, 80 m) - 3/28

FFF Shorts Program #1: Lost in Space (96 m) - 3/28
-Marooned? (Ryan Nagata, 14 m)
-Flat Love (Andres Sanz, 15 m)
-The Response (Adam Rodgers, 19 m)
-Trece Años (Topaz Adizes, 7.5 m)
-Happy Birthday (Roberta Marie Munroe, 15 m)
-Glory at Sea (Benh Zeitlin, 25 m)

Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley, 102 m) - 3/28
Electric Revolution (Mark Moorman, 12 m) - 3/29
The Rock-afire Explosion (Brett Whitcomb, 70 m) - 3/29
Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton, 78 m) - 3/29

FFF Italian Shorts Program (93 m) - 3/30
-Because There Are Things You Never Forget (Lucas Figueroa, 12 m)
-Retreating (Elisabetta Bernardini, 18 m)
-Barefoot on the Stage (Andrea Rovetta, 6 m)
-A Heart Inside the Sea (Claudia La Bianca, 19 m)
-Clacson (Tak Kuroha, 6 m)
-Afterville (Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro, 32 m)

Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, 89 m) - 3/30
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 82 m) - 3/31

True Adolescents (Craig Johnson, 88 m) - 4/1

FFF Shorts Program #2: Return to Sender (94 m) - 4/1
-Asshole (Chadd Harbold, 10 m)
-Crossroad (Maziar Lahooti, 8 m)
-The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook (Marcel Sawicki, 22 m)
-Abbie Cancelled (Jessica Burstein & Robbie Norris, 16 m)
-Official Selection (Brian Crano, 10.5 m)
-Water Pills (Blake Sennett, 27 m)

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts (91 m) - 4/1
-Birth (Signe Baumane, 12 m)
-Botnik! (Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan, 11 m)
-From Burger It Came (Dominic Bisignano, 7 m)
-Elephant Girl (David Lobser, 4.5 m)
-Tales of Mere Existence: "Different Kinds of Boyfriends I Have Been," "The Various Kinds of Jobs I Could Get," "How We Managed Not to Really Date Each Other" (Lev Yilmaz, 10 m)
-The Royal Nightmare (Alex Budovsky, 4 m)
-Kaleidoscoptics (Janel Bauer, 6 m)
-Flute Babies (Gretta Johnson, 4.5 m)
-Sebastian's Voodoo (Joaquin Baldin, 4 m)
-Horn Dog (Bill Plympton, 6 m)
-I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt, 22 m)

We are the Mods (E.E. Cassidy, 81 m) - 4/1
Pickin' & Trimmin' (Matt Morris, 23 m) - 4/2
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story (Lee Storey, 80 m) - 4/3
Em (Tony Barbieri, 93 m) - 4/3
Sell It To the Hedge Funds (Haven Pell, 4 m) - 4/3
Art + Copy (Doug Pray, 86 m) - 4/3
Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel, 101 m) - 4/3
How My Dad Killed Dracula (Sky Soleil, 14 m) - 4/4
School Play (Rick Velleu & Eddie Rosenstein, 72 m) -4/4
The Wrecking Crew (Denny Tedesco, 97 m) - 4/4

FFF International Animated Shorts (90 m) - 4/4
-Mite (Milbe) (Karl Tebbe, 6 m)
-1977 (Peque Verela, 8 m)
-Patience of the Memory (Vuk Jevremovich, 6.5 m)
-The Big Store (Lars Arrhenius & Johannes Muntzing, 8 m)
-The Cable Car (Die Sielbahn) (Claudius Gentinetta & Frank Braun, 7 m)
-Lies (Jonas Odell, 13 m)
-The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother (Felix Massie, 7.5 m)
-Snowtime (Dana Dorian, 1.5 m)
-The Tourists (Malcolm Sutherland, 3 m)
-Procrastination (Johnny Kelly, 4 m)
-KJFG No. 5 (Alexie Alexeev, 2 m)
-Chainsaw (Dennis Tupicoff, 24 m)

FFF Midnight Shorts Program (88 m) - 4/4
-Sexxxy Lumberjack (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-An Evening with Mike & Jessica at the King's Head Inn (David Tamkin, 5 m)
-U-Turn (Warwick Young, 7.5 m)
-Shit Chronicles IV (Andy & Carolyn London, 2 m)
-The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Richard Gale, 10 m)
-Pellet Gunn (Tim Beckhardt, 2.5 m)
-Massage (Ondrej Rudavsky, 8.5 m)
-Fly to Freedom (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-Unbelievable 4 (Sukwon Shin & In Pyo Hong, 4 m)
-The Blindness of the Woods (Martin Jalfen & Javier Lourenco, 12 m)
-Necromance (Kerri Davenport-Burton, 4 m)
-I Live in the Woods (Max Winston, 3.5 m)
-The Creature of the Woods (Amautalab, 30 sec)
-Fuckin' Old Bitch (Jack Truman, 3 m)
-The Lutheran (Brad Bosley, 25 m)

Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 120 m) - 4/23

Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 107 m) - 5/5
Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 107 m) - 5/13
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 127 m) - 5/24
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 90 m) - 5/29

The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 116 m) - 6/6
The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 100 m) - 6/14

Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn, 6 m) - 6/20

Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 96 m) - 6/20
Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 98 m) - 6/27

Tyson (James Toback, 90 m) - 7/2
Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 92 m) - 7/3

DVD Journal - 2009

Baby Mama (Michael McCullers, 99 m) - 1/1
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Bharat Nalluri, 92 m) - 1/1
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 99 m) - 1/4
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 111 m) - 1/4
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 122 m) - 1/6
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 93 m) - 1/10
Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, 106 m) - 1/12
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 113 m) - 1/13
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 124 m) - 1/14
Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia, 111 m) - 1/27

Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 97 m) - 2/17
The Duchess (Saul Dibb, 110 m) - 2/18
The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 117 m) - 2/19

The Go-Getter (Martin Hynes, 93 m) - 3/24

I Really Hate My Job (Oliver Parker, 90 m) - 4/2
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen, 88 m) - 4/14
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 78 m) - 4/15
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, 83 m) - 4/18
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 84 m) -4/19
I Love Your Work (Adam Goldberg, 111 m) - 4/21
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 122 m) - 4/24
Festival Express (Bob Smeaton & Frank Cvitanovich, 90 m) - 4/26

Interview (Steve Buscemi, 84 m) - 5/1
September (Woody Allen, 82 m) - 5/1
In Between Days (So Yong Kim, 83 m) - 5/2
Mo' Better Blues (Spike Lee, 130 m) - 5/11
Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese, 92 m) - 5/21
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen, 85 m) - 5/22
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 124 m) - 5/23
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderberg, 78 m) - 5/23 (HDNet)
Kill Your Idols (Scott Crary, 75 m) - 5/30

Kobe Doin' Work (Spike Lee, 84 m) - 5/30 (ESPN)
Another Woman (Woody Allen, 81 m) - 5/31
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 112 m) - 5/31
Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin, 109 m) - 5/31

Redbelt (David Mamet, 99 m) - 6/1
Westworld (Michael Crichton, 88 m) - 6/5
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 95 m) - 6/6
Invincible (Werner Herzog, 133 m) - 6/7
Bride Wars (Gary Winick, 89 m) - 6/12
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (Robert Weide, 110 m) - 6/13

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 125 m) - 6/15

I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 91 m) - 6/16

Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 108 m) - 7/5
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (Mark Moormann, 82 m) - 7/7

Top 10 - 2007

1. Once (John Carney, 85 m)

2. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 135 m)

3. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 122 m)

4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 158 m)

5. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 108 m)

6. Away From Her (Sarah Polley, 110 m)

7. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 140 m)

8. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, 129 m)

9. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 94 m)

10. 2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, 96 m)

Tied for 11th:

No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson, 102 m)

Deep Water (Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell, 92 m)

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, 79 m)

Zodiac (David Fincher, 158 m)

Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 95 m)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 127 m)

The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 137 m)

Superbad (Greg Mottola, 114 m)

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 113 m)

Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 91 m)

The Hoax (Lasse Hallström, 116 m)

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DVD Journal - 2008

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 127 m) - 1/18
Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken, 115 m) - 1/20
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan, 140 m) - 1/23
Deep Water (Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell, 92 m) - 1/24
Zodiac (David Fincher, 158 m) - 1/26
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, 94 m) - 1/27
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 93 m) - 1/30

L'Iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, 84 m) - 2/10
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 137 m) - 2/12
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, 120 m) - 2/19
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 160 m) - 2/21

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur, 114 m) - 3/13

The 11th Hour (Nadia Conners, Ledia Conners Petersen, 95 m) - 4/14

Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner, 111 m) - 6/8

Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, 84 m) - 7/20

A Guide for the Married Man (Gene Kelly, 89 m) - 8/3
Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese, 122 m) - 8/27
Honeydripper (John Sayles, 124 m) - 8/28
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Lian Lunson, 105 m) - 8/29

Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 83 m) - 9/6

In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 107 m) - 12/11
The Band's Visit (Eran Kollrin, 87 m) - 12/15
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 106 m) - 12/16
Love Songs (Christophe Honoré, 100 m) - 12/19
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Sanaa Hamri, 117 m) - 12/20
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 92 m) - 12/28

Movies I've Seen in Theaters - 2008

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 112 m) - 1/15
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 158 m) - 1/21
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher, 107 m) - 1/21
No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 122 m) - 1/21 (also 11/21/07)

The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 113 m) - 2/7
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 95 m) - 2/17
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 97 m) - 2/22

This is My Cheesesteak (Benjamin Daniels, 39 m) - 3/29
Hamburger America (George Motz, 54 m) - 3/29
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsaio-Hsien, 115 m) - 3/29

FFF Shorts Program #4: Bump (94 m) - 3/29
-FCU: Fact Checkers Unit (Dan Beers, 9 m)
-Buried (John Dion, 6 m)
-Midway (Darius Clark Monroe, 10.5 m)
-Aquarium (Rob Meyer, 17 m)
-Honored (Stephanie Fischette, 19 m)
-Morning Fall (Edward McGinty, 9 m)
-The Replacement Child (Justin Lerner, 25 m)

Married Life (Ira Sachs, 90 m) - 3/29
Mister Foe (David Mackenzie, 95 m) - 3/29
Stuck (Stuart Gordon, 95 m) - 3/29

FFF Shorts Program #3: Shuffle (94 m) - 3/30
-Anatomy of a Kiss (Robert Scott, 6.5 m)
-Pumpkin Hell (Max Finnernan, 22 m)
-The Lonely Bliss of Cannonball Luke (Levi Abrino, 11 m)
-Brandon (Rachel Israel, 13 m)
-Je Dis Non Ali (Jim Eshom, 8 m)
-Hole in the Paper Sky (Bill Purple, 33.5 m)

Disfigured (Glenn Gers, 96 m) - 3/30
Kabluey (Scott Prendergast, 87 m) - 3/30

FFF Shorts Program #1: Hustle (93 m) -4/1
-Shrinks (Gregg Brown, 26 m)
-Check Please (Larry Ziegelman, 5 m)
-X (Josh Brolin, 16 m)
-The Job (Jonathan Browning, 4 m)
-Flourtown (William Slichter, 9 m)
-Small Avalanches (Gillian Munro, 16 m)
-A Day's Work (Rajeev Dassani, 17 m)

Jellyfish (Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen, 78 m) - 4/1
Goliath (David Zellner, 80 m) - 4/2
The Cake Eaters (Mary Stuart Masterson, 95 m) - 4/2

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts (91 m) - 4/2
-Fantaisie in Bubblewrap (Arthur Metcalf, 4.5 m)
-Tales of Mere Existence (Lev Yilmaz, 8 m)
-Hedgehug (Daniel Pinto, 5 m)
-Bunnyheads (Jim Blashfield, 5 m)
-A Faery's Tale (Sylvia Apostol, 3 m)
-Celebrity Pets (Corky Quakenbush, 4.5 m)
-Lalaland (Ronnarit Lueangwattanakij, 6.5 m)
-Zombie Dearest (Lee Stringer, 8.5 m)
-Last Time in Clerkenwell (Alex Budovsky, 4 m)
-The Coffee Bird (Bryan Brinkman, 5 m)
-Mirage (Youngwong Jang, 8.5 m)
-Zoologic (Nicole Mitchell, 4.5 m)
-Spontaneous Generation (Andy Cahill, 5 m)
-Teat Beat of Sex (episodes #8-11) (Signe Baumane, 7 m)
-A Letter to Colleen (Andy & Carolyn London, 8.5 m)
-The Plush Life (Timothy Heath, 3 m)

Were the World Mine (Tom Gustafson, 95 m) - 4/2
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Alex Holdridge, 98 m) - 4/3
August Evening (Chris Eska, 127 m) - 4/4

FFF International Narrative Shorts Program (100 m) - 4/4
-Hirsute (A.J. Bond, 14 m)
-Bitter Sweet (Yurat Safarov, 6.5 m)
-The Pick-Up Artist (Der Aufreisser) (Steffen Weinert, 14 m)
-Situation Frank (Patrik Eklund, 26 m)
-Tanghi Argentini (Guido Thys, 13 m)
-Found Objects (David Birnbaum, 18 m)
-Spider (Nash Edgerton, 9 m)

FFF International Animated Shorts Program (91 m) - 4/5
-Shaun the Sheep: Still Life (Richard Golesowski, 7 m)
-Dog (Hermann Karlsson, 1.5 m)
-Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski, 17 m)
-Lapsus (Juan Pablo Zaramella, 3.5 m)
-The Pearce Sisters (Luis Cook, 9 m)
-Fetch (Dana Dorian, 1 m)
-Yours Truly (Osbert Parker, 7 m)
-Lavatory Lovestory (Konstantin Bronzit, 9 m)
-Love Sport Love Paintballing (Grant Orchard, 2 m)
-For the Love of God (Joe Tucker, 11 m)
-Paradise (Yi Zhou, 4 m)
-Veterinarian (Signe Baumane, 18.5 m)

FFF Florida Shorts: The Best of Brouhaha (87 m) - 4/5
-Foobie Jesus (Katharine Leis, 7 m)
-Mr. Bubbs (Todd Thompson, 6.5 m)
-The Heathens - "Dirty Jeans" (Danny Daneau, 5 m)
-A Man in the Attic (Ali Imran Zaidi, 7.5 m)
-Respire, Mon Ami (Chris Nabholz, 2 m)
-The Kite (Gwynne Olson-Wheeler, 2 m)
-Escar Go! (Hannah Sherman, 2.5 m)
-Pupsock & Wendell in the Gallery of Doom (Patrick Algermissen, 13 m)
-Borrowed Camera (Christi Doucet, 1 m)
-Wonderful, Wonderful (Trey Chace, 17.5 m)
-Taken (Tony Cabrera, 2 m)
-A Leg Up (Bevin Carnes, 2.5 m)
-Dupleggcated (Robert Huth, 2.5 m)
-Penguin: The Musical (Dave Metzger, 9 m)
-Prombies! (Fredrick Snyder, 7 m)

Young @ Heart (Stephen Walker, 108 m) - 4/5
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (Jon Knautz, 90 m) - 4/5

FFF Midnight Shorts Program (86 m) - 4/5
-Karaoke Show (Karl Tebbe, 4 m)
-The Adventures of Baxter & McGuire: The Soccer Game (Mike Blum, 2.5 m)
-Dirty Words: The Letter C (T. Arthur Cottam, 3.5 m)
-At Home with Pib and Pog (Peter Peake, 5 m)
-The Outhouse (Jack Truman, 5 m)
-The Shit Chronicles - Episode III (Andy & Carolyn London, 2 m)
-Frog Jesus (Ben Peters, 1 m)
-The Rambler (Calvin Reeder, 13 m)
-Teat Beat of Sex: Episodes 1,2, & 12 (Signe Baumane, 5 m)
-Red Snow (Corky Quakenbush, 2 m)
-The Sleuth Incident (Jason Kupfer, 12.5 m)
-Role Models (Corky Quakenbush, 1 m)
-The Golden Egg (J. Rick Castaneda, 5 m)
-Halloween 7.5 (Corky Quakenbush, 3 m)
-Kirksdale (Ryan Spindell, 21.5 m)

Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, 106 m) - 4/6

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, 112 m) - 5/12
Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 126 m) - 5/24
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 103 m) - 5/26
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg,
124 m) - 5/31
Control (Anton Corbijn, 122 m) - 5/31

Get Smart (Peter Segal, 110 m) - 6/21
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 103 m) - 6/29
Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson, 92 m) - 6/29

The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 152 m) - 7/19
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro, 110 m) - 7/20

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 96 m) - 8/16
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 111 m) - 8/17

Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 107 m) - 9/01
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 96 m) - 9/01

Baghead (Jay & Mark Duplass, 84 m) - 9/11
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 94 m) - 9/17

11th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival - 9/23
-Ripple (Paul Gowers, 16 m)
-Ode Ober (The Waiter) (Hiba Vink, 8 m)
-Rachel (Chis King, 13 m)
-Teat Beat of Sex (Signe Baumane, 7.5 m)
-Sour Milk (Amit Gicelter, 10 m)
-New Boy (Steph Green, 9.5 m)
-Mother Mine (Susan Everette, 16 m)
-Make My Day (Pele Moeller, 9 m)
-The Game (John Cohen-Du Four, 8 m)
-Change Coming (Mark Alston, 8.5 m)
-Viva Sunita (Bob & Lola, 3.5 m)
-The Golden Thread (Diego Sanchidián Rubio, 16 m)

Religulous (Larry Charles, 101 m) - 10/04
Chris & Don. A Love Story (Tina Mascara & Guido Santi, 90 m) - 10/26

Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 114) - 11/08
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith, 101 m) - 11/12
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 113 m) - 11/12
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, 106 m) - 11/14
Role Models (David Wain, 99 m) - 11/14
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 118 m) - 11/28

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 124 m) - 12/6
Four Christmases (Seth Gordon, 88 m) - 12/13
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 120 m) - 12/14
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 96 m) - 12/22
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 122 m) - 12/22
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 159 m) - 12/25
I've Loved You So Long (Philipe Claudel, 115 m) - 12/27

Top 10 - 2006

1. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 111 m)

2. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 141 m)

3. Something New (Sanaa Hamri, 99 m)

4. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 99 m)

5. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 109 m)

6. Monster House (Gil Kenan, 91 m)

7. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 119 m)

8. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 121 m)

9. The Queen (Stephen Frears, 103 m)

10. Five Minutes, Mr. Welles (Vincent D'Onofrio, 30 m)

The 11-way tie for 11th place:

Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 110 m)

Brick (Rian Johnson, 110 m)

The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 104 m)

The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass, 85 m)

Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry, 103 m)

The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 151 m)

Conventioneers (Mora Stephens, 95 m)

Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, 92 m)

Little Children (Todd Field, 130 m)

Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, 106 m)

My Dad is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin, 16 m)

Top 10 - 2005

1. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 91 m)

2. Millions (Danny Boyle, 98 m)

3. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 129 m)

4. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright, 127 m)

5. The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 129 m)

6. Capote (Bennett Miller, 114 m)

7. Proof (John Madden, 99 m)

8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 141 m)

9. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 116 m)

10. Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, 98 m)