Dynamic Top Tens of 2005

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Far from underwhelming - granted, I haven't seen enough deserving films yet to fill up a top-ten, but from what I have seen the highs are very high indeed. Alphabetically:

01. A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
02. Ghosts (Christian Petzold)
03. I Am Guilty (Christoph Hochhäusler)
04. Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
05. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
06. Sleeper (Benjamin Heisenberg)
07. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)

Yet to see: Notre Musique, The Unpolished, Kings and Queen, The Wayward Cloud, Dead Man's Bluff, L'Enfant, A History of Violence, A Scanner Darkly, The Departed, Three Times, Mary, The Sun, Who's Camus Anyway?,The Red Cockatoo (Dominik Graf), Room (Kyle Henry), etc. etc.

[Aunt Peg]

01. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
02. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
03. Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
04. The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov)
05. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
06. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
07. Hidden (Michael Haneke)
08. The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
09. Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotte & Florence Ayisi)
10. Time to Leave (Francois Ozon)

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2005:

1. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
2. Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin)
3. Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders)
4. The Baxter (Michael Showalter)
5. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
6. Reefer Madness: the Movie Musical (Andy Fickman)
7. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
8. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
9. Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
10. Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)


2004:

1. Dogville (Lars Von Trier)
2. Kill Bill vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
5. Ocean’s Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
6. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
7. Spartan (David Mamet)
8. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)


2003:

1. Kill Bill vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
2. demonlover (Oliver Assayas)
3. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
4. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
5. Anything Else (Woody Allen)
6. That Day (Raul Ruiz)
7. Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
8. A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
10. The Room (Tommy Wiseau)


2002:

1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Sunshine State (John Sayles)
3. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
4. Adaptation (Charlie Kaufman)
5. Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)
6. Frailty (Bill Paxton)
7. The 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
8. Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
9. All Or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
10. Un monde presque paisible (Michel Deville)


2001:

1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
3. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
5. Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
6. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
7. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
8. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
9. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
10. Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem)


2000:

1. Love Torn in a Dream (Raúl Ruiz)
2. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
4. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
5. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
6. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
7. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
8. State and Main (David Mamet)
9. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
10. George Washington (David Gordon Green)