Top 10 this year
1. FORBIDDEN LIE$ (Anna Broinowski, Australia)
2. UP (Pete Docter, USA)
3. SUMMER HOURS (Olivier Assayas, France)
4. LORNA’S SILENCE (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium)
5. REVANCHE (Gotz Spielmann, Austria)
6. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
7. HUNGER (Steve McQueen, Britain)
8. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
9. YOU, THE LIVING (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
10. HUMPDAY (Lynn Shelton, USA)
Runners-up
CORALINE (Henry Selick, USA); ADORATION (Atom Egoyan, Canada); THE HANGOVER (Todd Phillips, USA); DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA); STILL WALKING (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan); MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN (Lucy Bailey, Britain); OBSERVE AND REPORT (Jody Hill, USA); GOODBYE SOLO (Rahmin Bahrani, USA); SOUL POWER (Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, USA)
Viewed alone, “Merde,” the Leos Carax segment of the omnibus film TOKYO!, would be somewhere on this list
8- and 9-grade films from last two years without distribution AFAIK: WINNEBAGO MAN (Ben Steinbauer, USA); NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea); LAST STOP 174 (Bruno Barreto, Brazil); DETROIT METAL CITY (Toshio Lee, Japan); ANGEL (Francois Ozon, France); SECRET SUNSHINE (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea); DAYS OF DARKNESS (Denys Arcand, Canada)
