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2010 TOP TEN
1. The Christening (Poland 2010) Marcin Wrona :[23/28]: (=8/10)
2. The Lord’s Ride (France 2010) Jean-Charles Hue :23: {original rating: 21}
3. Finisterrae (Spain 2010) Sergio Caballero :23:
4. In the Shadows (Germany 2010) Thomas Arslan :22: (=8/10)
5. # Involuntary (Sweden 2008) Ruben Östlund :22:
6. # Monsters (UK 2010) Gareth Edwards :22:
7. #> Animal Kingdom (Australia 2009/10) David Michôd :22:
8. # The Disappearance of Alice Creed (UK 2009) J Blakeson :22:
9. #> Archipelago (UK 2010) J Hogg :22:
10. # My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (USA/Ger 2009) Werner Herzog :22:
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… top ten roundup (of UK new releases) for Tribune magazine (18.Dec.2010)
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Comprising feature-length films which either had their world premiere in 2010, or else were released for the first time in the UK during 2010 (latter are marked with #; 2011 releases are marked with #>.)
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2010 NEXT BEST
(after the top ten, ranked according to film’s rating out of 28)
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_____21 out of 28_____(= 8/10)
# The Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call: New Orleans (USA 2009) Werner Herzog
How I Filmed the War (Canada 2010) Yuval Sagiv :21: [8/10]
#  I Am Love (Italy 2009) Luca Guadagnino 
The Invisible Eye (Argentina 2010) Diego Lerman
#> Kaboom (US 2010) Gregg Araki
# Kick-Ass (UK 2010) Matthew Vaughn
Truce (Russia 2010) Svetlana Proskurina
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_____20+ out of 28_____(= 7+/10)
# Frownland (USA 2007) Ronnie Bronstein
# Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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_____20 out of 28_____(= 7/10)
# Another Year (2010) Mike Leigh
# Catfish (2010) Joost & Schulman
# Crying With Laughter (2009) Justin Molotnikov
# Down Terrace (2009) Ben Wheatley
# Easier With Practice (2008) Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Foreign Parts (2010) Paravel & Sniadecki
# Inception (2010) Christopher Nolan
# The Illusionist (2010) Sylvain Chomet
# The Maid (2009) Sebastian Silva
# The Secret in their Eyes (2009) Juan José Campanella
Traces of a Diary (2010) Martins & Principe
Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) John Gianvito
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_____19 out of 28_____ (= 7/10)
# Cherry Tree Lane (2010) Paul Andrew Williams
#> Cold Weather (2010) Aaron Katz
Dance to the Spirits (2010) Ricardo Iscar
Disfarmer – A Portrait of America (2010) Martin Lavut
Et in Terra Pax (2010) Botrugno & Coluccini
Fanny, Annie & Danny (2010) Chris Brown
The Four Times (2010) Michelangelo Frammartino {aka Le Quattro Volte}
# The Ghost aka The Ghost Writer (2010) Roman Polanski
# The Hole (2009) Joe Dante
It’s Your Fault (2010) Anahi Berneri
The Man From Nowhere (2010) LEE Jeong-Beom
# Police, Adjective (2009) Corneliu Porumboiu
R (2010) Lindholm & Noer
Red Hill (2010) Patrick Hughes
Shelter (2010) Dragomir Sholev
#> Viva Riva! (2010) Djo Tunda wa Munga
Wild Grass (2010) YANG Lina
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_____18 out of 28_____ (= 7/10)
All the Night Long (2010 TVM) Isaki Lacuesta
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010) Andrei Ujica
Blessed Events (2010) Isabelle Stever
# Breathless (2009) Yang Ik-June
Bummer Summer (2010) Zach Weintraub
Congo In Four Acts (2010) Hamadi, Wa Lusala, Kalala & Katembo Siku
Cleveland vs. Wall Street (2010) Jean-Stéphane Bron
# Crazy Heart (2009) Scott Cooper
# The Crazies (2010) Breck Eisner
# Father of My Children (2009) Mia Hansen-Løve
HIGH School (2010) John Stalberg
Incendies (2010) Denis Villeneuve
Majority (2010) Seren Yüce
Matchmaking Mayor (2010) Erika Hníková
Memory Lane (2010) Mikhaël Hers
9 Lives (2010) Maria Speth
# Piranha (2010) Alexandre Aja
Sailor (2010) Norman Leto
# Splice (2009) Vincenzo Natali
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010) Kornél Mundruczó
True Grit (2010) Ethan & Joel Coen
# Unstoppable (2010) Tony Scott
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_____18? out of 28_____ (= 7?/10)
Womb (2010) FLIEGAUF Benedek
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Comprising films which either had their world premiere in 2010, or else were released for the first time in the UK during 2010 (latter are marked with #.)
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2009 top ten
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1 The Wrestler (D.Aronofsky, US 08*) : 10/10 [27]
2 Symbol (H.Matsumoto, Jpn 09) : 9/10 [26]
3 District 9 (N.Blomkamp, USA/NZ 09*) : 9/10 [24]
4 Revolutionary Road (S.Mendes, US/UK 08*) : 9/10 [24]
5 The Wolf’s Mouth (P.Marcello, Ity 09) : 8/10 [23]
6 Green Waters (M.De Rosa, Arg 09) : 8/10 [23]
7 Two Lovers (J.Gray, US 08*) : 8/10 [22]
8 A Serious Man (E. and J.Coen, US 09*) : 8/10 [22]
9 The Last House on the Left (D.Iliadis, US/SA 09 [(c)'08]*) : 8/10 [22]
10 Toto (P.Schreiner, Aut 09) : 8/10 [22]
(’2009 world-premieres and UK new-releases*)

….. 8/10 {22/28}
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (J.Blakeson, UK 09) UK release 2010
A Perfect Getaway (D.Twohy, US 09*)
Encounters at the End of the World (W.Herzog, US 07*)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (W.Herzog, US 09) UK release 2010
….. 8/10 {21/28}
The Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call : New Orleans (W.Herzog, US 09) UK release 2010
Crank – High Voltage (‘Neveldine/Taylor’, US 09)
Home From Home (S.-H. Cho S.-H., Ger 09)
I Am Love (L.Guadagnino, Ity 09) UK release 2010
The Woman with the 5 Elephants (V.Jendreyko, Swi-Ger 09)
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other 7/10s released for the first time in UK cinemas in 2009 include:
Anvil! – The Story of Anvil; Avatar; The Beaches of Agnes; Bronson; The Class; Cold Souls; Il Divo; Fantastic Mr Fox; Fish Tank; Genova; Gran Torino; The Hangover; In the City of Sylvia; King of the Hill; The Limits of Control; Moon; Nowhere Boy; Pontypool; Role Models; Shifty; Sin Nombre; sleep furiously; Star Trek; Three Miles North of Molkom; Up, Zombieland, and also Shane Acker’s 9

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2008 top ten (’2008 films’ and UK new-releases*)
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1 The Wrestler (D.Aronofsky, US 08) : 10/10 [27]
2 René (H.Trestikova, Cz 08) : 9/10 [24]
3 Revolutionary Road (S.Mendes, US/UK 08) : 9/10 [24]
4 WALL-E (A.Stanton, US 08) : 9/10 [24]
5 Unrelated (J.Hogg, UK 07*) : 8/10 [23]
6 Stella (S.Verheyde, Fr 08) : 8/10 [23]
7 Import Export (U.Seidl, Aut 07*) : 8/10 [23]
8 Somers Town (S.Meadows, UK 08) : 8/10 [22]
9 Of Time and the City (T.Davies, UK 08) : 8/10 [22]
10 Two Lovers (J.Gray, US 08 > UK 09) : 8/10 [22]
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8/10 {22/28}
Involuntary (R.Ostlund, Swe 08)
8/10 {21/28}
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (M.Herman, UK 08)
Burn After Reading (E.Coen & J.Coen, US 08)
Funny Games U.S. (M.Haneke, US 07*)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (C.Mungiu, Rom 07*)
Hoopeston (T.Bender, US 08 – copyright-dated 07)
Joy Division (G.Gee, UK 07*)
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2007 top ten (UK new-releases and ’2007 films’)
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1 casting a glance (J.Benning, US 07) : 10/10 [28]
2 Who Killed Cock Robin? (T.Wilkerson, US 06/07) 73m version : 9/10 [26]
3 The Call of the Wild (R.Lamothe, US 07) : 9/10 [26]
4 Satan (K.Chapiron, Fr 06 > UK 07) aka Sheitan : 9/10 [25]
5 With a Girl of Black Soil (S-i.Jeon, SK/Fr 07) : 9/10 [24]
6 Profit motive and the whispering wind (J.Gianvito, US 07) : 9/10 [24]
7 Blind Mountain (Y.Li Chi/Ger 07) : 9/10 [24]
8 Control (A.Corbijn, UK/US 07) : 9/10 [24]
9 Go Go Tales (A.Ferrara, US/It 07) : 8/10 [23]
10 Yella (C.Petzold, Ger 07) : 8/10 [23]
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2006 top ten (new releases in UK and ’2006 films’)
1 United 93 (P.Greengrass, US/UK/Fr 06) : 10/10 [27]
2 Who Killed Cock Robin? (T.Wilkerson, US 06/07) 73m version : 9/10 [26]
3 Satan (K.Chapiron, Fr 06) aka Sheitan : 9/10 [25]
4 Fantasma (L.Alonso, Arg/Neth/Fr 06) : 9/10 [24]
5 Volver (P.Almodovar, Spn 06) : 9/10 [24]
6 Children of Men (A.Cuaron. UK/US 06) : 8/10 [23]
7 The Other Half (YING Liang, China 06) : 8/10 [23]
8 How Is Your Fish Today? (X.Guo, China/UK 06) : 8/10 [23]
9 Bellavista (P.Schreiner, Aut 06) : 8/10 [23]
10 Pan’s Labyrinth (G.Del Toro, Spn/Mex/USA 06) : 8/10 [23]
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2005 top ten (new releases in UK and ’2005 films’)
1 A History of Violence (D.Cronenberg, USA 05) : 10/10 [27]
2 Who Is Bozo Texino? (B.Daniel, USA 05) : 9/10 [26]
3 The Intruder (C.Denis, France 04 > UK 05) aka L’intrus : 9/10 [24]
4 King Kong (P.Jackson, USA 05) : 9/10 [24]
5 Taking Father Home (YING Liang, China 05) : 8/10 [23]
6 Mean Creek (J.A.Estes, USA 04 > UK 05) : 8/10 [22]
7 Broken Flowers (J.Jarmusch, USA 05) : 8/10 [22]
8 Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (M.Gondry, USA 05) : 8/10 [22]
9 Good Night, and Good Luck. (G.Clooney, USA 05) : 8/10 [21]
10 Process (C.S.Leigh, UK/France 04 > UK 05) : 8/10 [21]
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2004 top ten (new releases in UK and ’2004 films’)
1 Elephant (G.Van Sant, USA 03 > UK 04) : 10/10 [27]
2 Dead Man’s Shoes (S.Meadows, UK 04) : 9/10 [26]
3 Capturing the Friedmans (A.Jarecki, USA 03 > UK 04) : 9/10 [25]
4 Los Angeles Plays Itself (T.Andersen, USA 03 > UK 04) : 9/10 [25]
5 Tropic of Cancer (E.Polgovsky, Mexico 04) aka Tropico de Cancer : 9/10 [25]
6 The Intruder (C.Denis, France 04 > UK 05) aka L’intrus : 9/10 [24]
7 Ten Skies (J.Benning, USA 04) : 9/10 [24]
8 13 Lakes (J.Benning, USA 04) : 9/10 [24]
9 Gozu (T.Miike, Japan 03 > UK 04) : 8/10 [23]
10 The Bourne Supremacy (P.Greengrass, US 04) : 8/10 [23]
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La bocca del lupo

’2009 films’ rated 7/10 or higher

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Symbol (MATSUMOTO Hitoshi, Japan) [26]
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, NZ/USA) [24]
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. Green Waters (Mariano De Rosa, Arg) [23]
The Wolf’s Mouth (Pietro Marcello, Ity) [23]
. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (J.Blakeson, UK) [22]
The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis, USA/SA) [copyright-dated 2008] [22]
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, USA) [22]
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, USA) [22]
A Serious Man (Ethan and Joel Coen, USA) [22]
Toto (Peter Schreiner, Austria) [22]
. The Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call : New Orleans (Werner Herzog, USA) [21]
Crank – High Voltage (‘Neveldine/Taylor’) [21]
Home From Home (Sung-Hyung Cho, Ger) [21]
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, Ity) [21]
The Woman with the 5 Elephants (Vadim Jendreyko, Swi/Ger) [21]
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. Constantin and Elena (Andrei Dascalescu, Rom) [20]
Crying With Laughter (Justin Molotnikov, UK) [20]
Down Terrace (Ben Wheatley, UK) [20]
Easier With Practice (Kyle Patrick Alvarez, USA) [20]
The Land Inhabited (Anna Sanmartí­, Spain) [20] {rated 18 after first viewing}
The Maid (Sebastian Silva, Chile) [20]
Me, Too (Naharro & Pastor, Spain) [20]
Moon (Duncan Jones, UK) [20]
9 (Shane Acker, USA) [20]
Perpetuum Mobile (Nicolas Pereda, Mexico) [20]
A Real Life (Sarah Leonor, France) [20]
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, Argentina) [20]
Up (Docter & Peterson, USA) [20]
The Wondrous World of Laundry (Hans-Christian Schmid, Ger) [20]
. Accident (CHEANG Pou-Soi, HK-Chi) [19]
Berlin-Stettin (Volker Koepp, Ger) [19]
The Blacks (Devic & Juric, Cro) [19]
Birth of a City (Joao Rosas, Por/UK) [19]
Boris Ryzhy (Aliona van der Horst, Neth) [19]
Deep in the Valley (FUNAHASHI Atsushi, Jpn) [19]
Disco and Atomic War (Jaak Kilmi, Fin/Est) [19]
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, UK) [19]
Francesca (Bobby Paunescu, Rom) [19]
Go Get Some Rosemary aka Daddy Longlegs (Safdie & Safdie, USA) [19]
Grey Gardens [TV] (Michael Sucsy, USA) [19]
The Hole (Joe Dante, US/Can) [19]
Letters to the President (Petr Lom, Can/Iran) [19]
Optical Illusions (Cristian Jimenez, Chile) [19]
Perestroika – Reconstruction of a Flat (Christiane Buchner, Ger) [(c) 2008] [19]
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Rom) [19]
Redland (Asiel Norton, USA) [19]
Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga, USA) [19]
10 to 11 (Pelin Esmer, Turkey) [19]
Tourists (Alicia Scherson, Arg) aka Turistas [19]
. Avatar (James Cameron, USA) [18]
Breathless (YANG Ik-June, S.Korea) [18]
Cold Souls (Sophie Barthes, USA/Fr) [18]
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, USA) [18]
Domain (Patric Chiha, Fr) [18]
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, US/UK) [18]
Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve, Fr/Ger) [18]
The Hangover (Todd Phillips, USA) [18]
Nowhere Boy (Sam Taylor-Wood, UK) [18]
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, Canada) [18]
The Red Machine (Argy & Boehm, USA) [18]
Splice (Vincenzo Natali, Canada) [18]
Star Trek (J J Abrams, USA) [18]
Woman Without Piano (Javier Rebollo, Spain) [18]
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, USA) [18]
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’2008 films’ rated 8/10 or higher
10/10 The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
9/10 René (Helena Trestikova, Czech Rep)
9/10 Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, USA/UK)
9/10 WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
8/10 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman, UK)
8/10 Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, USA)
8/10 Hoopeston (Thomas Bender, USA) [(c) 2007]
8/10 Involuntary (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden)
8/10 Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, UK)
8/10 Somers Town (Shane Meadows, UK)
8/10 Stella (Sylvie Verheyde, Fr)
8/10 Two Lovers (James Gray, USA)

7/10s released for the first time in UK cinemas in 2008 include (in alphabetical order): The Boss of It All; Cloverfield; Couscous; Dance Party, USA; The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Donkey Punch; The Fall (2006); Gone Baby Gone; Happy-Go-Lucky; Hunger; In Search of a Midnight Kiss; I Served the King of England; I’ve Loved You So Long; Jar City; Julia; Killer of Sheep (1977); Man On Wire; The Mist; The Orphanage; [REC]; Savage Grace; The Strangers; Summer; There Will Be Blood; Tropic Thunder; The Violin; The Visitor.
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— 7/10s of 2008 are available HER
— 8/10+s of 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 are listed HERE
— click HERE for the Jigsaw Lounge film and performance of the year, 1945>
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BEST OF THE DECADE, 2000-2009
1. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002) 28
2. casting a glance (Benning, 2007) 28
3. United 93 (Greengrass, 2006) 27
4. A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) 27
5. The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008) 27
6. Elephant (Van Sant, 2003) 27
7. Who Killed Cock Robin? (Wilkerson, 2007) 26
8. Who Is Bozo Texino? (Daniel, 2005) 26
9. Dead Man’s Shoes (Meadows, 2004) 26
10. The Call of the Wild (Lamothe, 2007) 26
11. Symbol (Matsumoto 2009) 26
12. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003) 25
13. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003) 25
14. Satan (Chapiron, 2006) aka Sheitan 25
15. Tropic of Cancer (Polgovsky, 2004) 25
16. Los (Benning, 2001) 25
17. With a Girl of Black Soil (Jeon, 2007) 24
18. René (Trestikova, 2008) 24
19. Fantasma (Alonso, 2006) 24
20. District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009) 24
21. El Valley Centro (Benning, 2000) 24
22. Profit motive and the whispering wind (Gianvito, 2007) 24
23. Volver (Almodovar, 2006) 24
24. The Intruder (Denis, 2004) 24
25. Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier, 2000) 24
26. Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002) 24
27. Gunnar Goes Comfortable (Jensen, 2003) 24
28. The State I Am In (Petzold, 2000) 24
29. Revolutionary Road (Mendes, 2008) 24
30. WALL-E (Stanton, 2008) 24
31. Ten Skies (Benning, 2004) 24
32. 13 Lakes (Benning, 2004) 24
33. Blind Mountain (Li, 2007) 24
34. Memento (Nolan, 2000) 24
35. The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) 24
36. Control (Corbijn, 2007) 24
37. City of God (Meirelles & Lund, 2002) 24
38. Last Resort (Pawlikowski, 2000) 24
39. King Kong (Jackson, 2005) 24

documentaries are in bold

DECADE SUMMARY : top films (1999>) and performances (2000>) by year