Top 10 - 2009

1. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
2. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
3. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
4. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
5. Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins)
6. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
7. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
9. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
10. Two Lovers (James Gray)

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Runners-up:

Up (Pete Docter)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine)
Sugar (Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)

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Top 10 - 2008

1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
2. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
4. Disfigured (Glen Gers)
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
6. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
7. The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
8. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
9. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
10. Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):

August Evening (Chris Eska)
Control (Anton Corbijn)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Alex Holdridge)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)

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Movies I've Seen in Theaters - 2010

Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 109 m) - 1/7
Nine (Rob Marshall, 118 m) - 1/16
Avatar (3-D) (James Cameron, 162 m) - 1/18
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 127 m) - 1/19
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 122 m) - 1/19
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 112 m) - 1/29
A Single Man (Tom Ford, 99 m) - 1/29
The Messenger (Oren Moverman, 112 m) - 1/31

Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 90 m) - 2/6
The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 128 m) - 2/11
Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 133 m) - 2/27

The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 128 m) - 3/27
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 107 m) - 3/28

The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, 76 m) - 4/10

FFF Shorts Program #2: Burn - 4/10
-My Mom Smokes Weed (Clay Liford, 17 m)
-Adelaide (Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, 12 m)
-Touch (Jen McGowan, 11 m)
-The Last Cigarette (Brooke Sebold, 7.5 m)
-No Country For Old Yeller (Arbi Pedrossian, 9.5 m)
-Down In Number 5 (Kim Spurlock)
-On The Road To Tel Aviv (Khen Shalem, 15 m)

FFF Shorts Program #4: Extinguish - 4/10
-some boys don't leave (Maggie Kiley, 16 m)
-Laredo, Texas (Topaz Adizes, 11 m)
-Herbert White (James Franco, 14 m)
-Make Up (Scott Tuft, 14 m)
-Quietly (Cole Wiley, 17 m)
-Meth (Michael Maney, 24 m)

FFF Midnight Shorts - 4/10
-My Rabit Hoppy (Anthony Lucas, 3 m)
-Fiddlestixx (David Zellner, 3 m)
-Cosmic Honeymoon (Ondrej Rudavsky, 1.5 m)
-BMZ (Bazillion Mile Zone) (Corky Quakenbush, 1.5 m)
-Tub (Bobby Miller, 12.5 m)
-Shit Chronicles V (Andy London & Zachery Newton, 2 m)
-Feeder (Joseph Ernst, 4 m)
-Rocky: Negative Arne/Swingers (Martin Kellerman, 4 m)
-Lambs (Stephen Huff, 12.5 m)
-Mother's Day (David Lobser, 2 m)
-52 Takes of the Same Thing, Then Boobs (T. Arthur Cottam, 4 m)
-True Confessions (Ian Miller, 1.5 m)
-Beautiful As You Are (Doug Mallette, 7 m)
-Hot Dog (Ondrej Rudavsky, 2 m)
-Renegades (Jim Hosking, 12 m)
-Oral Report (Daniella Urdinlaiz, 3.5 m)
-Treevenge (Jason Eisener, 16 m)

Yamasong (Sam K. Hale, 7 m) - 4/11
The Young Composers Challenge (Lisa Mills, 93 m) - 4/11

FFF Shorts Program #3: Smolder - 4/11
-Ana's Playground (Eric D. Howell, 20 m)
-The One Last Time (Scott Weintrob, 9.5 m)
-Daughters (Chloe Zhao, 9.5 m)
-Cigarette Candy (Lauren Wolkstein, 13 m)
-Waiting Room (Katharine O'Brien, 9 m)
-Love Bug (Kat Candler, 7 m)
-Tired of Being Funny (Rodrigo Garcia, 30 m)

My Life As Cherry (Jennifer Yu, 11.5 m) - 4/12
Lost Sparrow (Chris Billing, 78 m) - 4/12
The S From Hell (Rodney Ascher, 9 m) - 4/12
Best Worst Movie (Michael Paul Stevenson, 93.5 m) - 4/12
Don't Let Me Drown (Cruz Angeles, 99 m) - 4/13
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields (Kerthy Fix & Gail O'Hara, 85 m) - 4/13
Lovely, Still (Nik Fackler, 92 m) - 4/14

FFF Shorts Program #1: Ignite - 4/14
-Winner: Best Short Film (Peter Meech, 4 m)
-Charlie and the Rabbit (Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, 9.5 m)
-The Antagonist (Jessie McCormack, 10.5 m)
-Jitensha (Bicycle) (Dean Yamada, 21 m)
-Me Time (Matt Schuman, 10.5 m)
-La Viuda (The Widow) (David Martin-Porras, 19 m)
-The New Tenants (Joachim Back, 21 m)

FFF Shorts Program #5: Animated Shorts - 4/14
-Cartoon Show (Aaron Augenblick, 2 m)
-Pigeon Impossible (Lucas Martell, 6 m)
-Divers (Paris Mavroidis, 3 m)
-The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (Bill Plympton, 6 m)
-#Circlepic (Bryan Brinkman, 1 m)
-The Incident at Tower 37 (Chris Perry, 11 m)
-The Mouse That Soared (Kyle T. Bell, 6 m)
-Lightheaded (Mike Dacko, 5 m)
-The Machine (Rob Shaw, 5 m)
-Tales Of Mere Existence: "God" and "My Darling?" (Lev Yilmaz, 6 m)
-The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! (Jake Armstrong, 6 m)
-Gretel & Hanzel (Gianna Ruggiero, 2.5 m)
-Believe Me (Roland & Kelly Bigelow Becerra, 17 m)
-Down to the Bone (Peter Ahern, 4 m)
-N.A.S.A. A Volta (Alexei Tylevich, 4.5 m)
-Alma (Rodrigo Blaas, 5.5 m)

Homewrecker (Todd & Brad Barnes, 87 m) - 4/14
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 120 m) - 4/15
Obselidia (Diane Bell, 95 m) - 4/16
Drones (Amber Benson & Adam Busch, 98 m) - 4/16
Stoney (Jacob LaMendola, 16 m) - 4/16
A Million in the Morning (Jason Goldwatch, 58 m) - 4/16

FFF Florida Shorts: The Best of Brouhaha - 4/17
-Picture Day (Ken J. Adachi, 17.5 m)
-World On Fire (Chris Greider, Matthew Hutchens, & Matthew Tinley, 3 m)
-Space Town, Last Stop Before the Moon (Ryan Kindel, 8 m)
-Dim Sum (Jin Sop Kum, 2.5 m)
-Oxygen (Christopher Hendryx, 2.5 m)
-Frank-N-Brain (Michael Hollander, 2.5 m)
-Happy Birthday Jesus (Stanley Pomianowski, 4.5 m)
-The Cost (Michael Hamill, 16 m)
-Keep Your Head Up (Michael Patti, 2 m)
-The Exposition Report (Jesse Chapman, 9.5 m)
-Heavenly Appeals (David Lisbe, 2.5 m)
-Nuri (Kendra Vander Vliet, 2 m)
-The Monster (Andreas Theodorou, 2 m)
-Suspensions (Madeline Eberhard & Natasha Narkiewicz, 13.5 m)

New Low (Adam Bowers, 82 m) - 4/17

FFF International Animated Shorts - 4/17
-Codswallop (The Brothers McCleod, 3 m)
-El Empleo (Santiago "Bou" Grasso, 6.5 m)
-Please Say Something (David O'Reilly, 10 m)
-Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel, 6 m)
-Ink (Justine Wallace, 11 m)
-Runaway (Cordell Barker, 9 m)
-Fard (David Alapont & Luis Briceno, 13 m)
-Land of the Heads (Cedric Louis & Claude Barras, 6 m)
-Wings and Oars (Vladimir Leschiov, 5.5 m)
-Variété (Roelof Van Den Bergh, 5 m)
-Oranus (Mari-Liis Bassovskaja & Jelena Girlin, 17 m)

Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 95 m) - 4/17
The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi, 106 m) - 4/24

Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 124 m) - 5/9

Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 104 m) - 6/10
Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 109 m) - 6/10
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, 90 m) - 6/20
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 127 m) - 6/30

Solitary Man (Brian Koppelman & David Levien, 90 m) - 7/3
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 103 m) - 7/18
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 148 m) - 7/18
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 104 m) - 7/25
Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass, 91 m) - 7/26

Salt (Phillip Noyce, 100 m) - 8/7
Eclipse (David Slade, 124 m) - 8/7
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 100 m) - 8/8
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, 93 m) - 8/11
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 112 m) - 8/14
Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 103 m) - 8/26

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 112 m) - 9/4
The American (Anton Corbijn, 103 m) - 9/6
Easy A (Will Gluck, 92 m) - 9/23
The Town (Ben Affleck, 123 m) - 9/24
Easy A (Will Gluck, 92 m) - 9/25
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, 133 m) - 9/26

The Social Network (David Fincher, 121 m) - 10/2
The Social Network (David Fincher, 121 m) - 10/3
Disorder (Olivier Assayas, 91 m) - 10/11
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger (Woody Allen, 98 m) - 10/15
It's Kind of a Funny Story (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 101 m) - 10/28
I'm Still Here (Casey Affleck, 108 m) - 10/28

Waiting for Superman (Davis Guggenheim, 111 m) - 11/9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates, 146 m) - 11/19

Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 112 m) - 12/4
127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 94 m) - 12/18
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 108 m) - 12/24

DVD Journal - 2010

Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 88 m) - 1/1
Coraline (Henry Selick, 96 m) - 1/5
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 103 m) - 1/11
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 74 m) - 1/12
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 95 m) - 1/15
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, 92 m) - 1/18
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 87 m) - 1/23
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 114 m) - 1/25

In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 106 m) - 2/2
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 112 m) - 2/8
Alexander the Last (Joe Swanberg, 72 m) - 2/10
Peter and Vandy (Jay DiPietro, 95 m) - 2/13
Lollilove (Jenna Fischer, 64 m) - 2/14

New Moon (Chris Weitz, 130 m) - 3/20
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, 121 m) - 3/21
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 136 m) - 3/21
Elsewhere (Nathan Hope, 106 m) - 3/21
Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz, 101 m) - 3/22
The Rocker (Peter Cattaneo, 102 m) - 3/23
Camp (Todd Graff, 114 m) - 3/24

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon, 43 m) - 4/10
Law Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray, 108 m) - 4/26

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 87 m) - 5/30

She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 84 m) - 6/20
Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 119 m) - 6/20
I'm Reed Fish (Zackary Adler, 93 m) - 6/21
Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner, 94 m) - 6/22
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 138 m) - 6/26
Post Grad (Vicky Jenson, 88 m) - 6/28
Stones in Exile (Stephen Kijak, 63 m) - 6/29

It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 98 m) - 7/3

Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker, 78 m) - 8/8
Helvetica (Gary Hustwit, 80 m) - 8/11
Broken Windows (Tony Hickman, 97 m) - 8/16
Serious Moonlight (Cheryl Hines, 84 m) - 8/29
The September Issue (R.J. Cutler, 90 m) - 8/29
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (Kevin Rafferty, 105 m) - 8/30
The Art of the Steal (Don Argott, 101 m) - 8/31
Tales From the Script (Peter Hanson, 105 m) - 8/31

Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 126 m) - 9/22
The Exploding Girl (Bradley Rust Gray, 79 m) - 9/23

Garden Party (Jason Freeland, 88 m) - 11/20
It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers, 120 m) - 11/26

Confessions of a Shopaholic (P. J. Hogan, 104 m) -12/6
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson, 100 m) - 12/10
17 Again (Burr Steers, 102 m) - 12/12
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 99 m) - 12/20
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 63 m) - 12/20
Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch, 89 m) - 12/25
Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 98 m) - 12/26
Nice Guy Johnny (Edward Burns, 89 m) - 12/30

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

Whatever Works (Woody Allen, 92 m) - 7/12

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 131 m) - 8/4

Paper Heart (Nicholas Jasenovec, 88 m) - 9/3
Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 94 m) - 9/5
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 95 m ) - 9/6
Extract (Mike Judge, 92 m) - 9/7

Thirst (Chan-wook Park, 133 m) - 9/23

Bright Star (Jane Campion, 119 m) - 9/26

Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 80 m) - 10/3
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 120 m) - 10/7
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 108 m) - 10/7
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 94 m) - 10/17
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 105 m) - 10/24
Michael Jackson's This Is It (Kenny Ortega, 112 m) - 10/31

An Education (Lone Scherfig, 95 m) - 11/7

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 153 m) - 11/9

The Damned United (Tom Hooper, 98 m) - 11/19

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 110 m) - 11/21
An Education (Lone Scherfig, 95 m) - 11/23

Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine, 105 m) - 12/5
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 87 m) - 12/7
The Road (John Hillcoat, 111 m) - 12/18
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 109 m) - 12/21

Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 128 m) - 12/25
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater, 114 m) - 12/28

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

Hud (Martin Ritt, 112 m) - 7/26

Colma: The Musical (Richard Wong, 100 m) - 9/14
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 97 m) - 9/29

Crazy Love (Dan Klores, 92 m) - 10/24

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 80 m) - 11/20
Two Lovers (James Gray, 110 m) - 11/22

Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, 91 m) - 12/6
Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron, 123 m) - 12/17

I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 105 m) - 12/26

Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, 94 m) - 12/27
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 162 m) - 12/29

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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