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The Top 50 Non-IP titles of the New Millenium: the individual ballots

Find out how Little White Lies contributors voted in our critical survey of recent non-IP cinema.

Ege Apaydın
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
3. Two Days One Night (The Dardenne Brothers, 2014)
4. Happy Go Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
5. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014)
6. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
7. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
8. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2007)
9. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
10. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

Mark Asch
1. 13 Lakes (James Benning, 2004)
2. L for Leisure (Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman, 2014)
3. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
4. The Hottest August (Brett Story, 2019)
5. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
6. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015)
7. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
8. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004)
9. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2002)
10. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008)

Marina Ashioti
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2. Portrait of a Lady On Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
3. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
4. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
5. Deathproof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
6. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
7. Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)
8. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
9. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
10. Raw (Julia Ducourneau, 2017)

Anton Bitel
1. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
2. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
3. Spider Forest (Song Il-gon, 2004)
4. The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, 2013)
5. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
6. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, 2015)
7. Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2021)
8. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
9. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
10. Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)

Anna Bogutskaya
1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
2. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2000)
3. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
4. Raw (Julia Ducourneau, 2014)
5. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
6. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
7. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
8. Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021)
9. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
10. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

Charles Bramesco
1. A Serious Man (The Coen Brothers, 2009)
2. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014)
3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
4. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
5. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
6. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
7. The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin, 2019)
8. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
9. High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
10. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)

Cheyenne Bunsie
1. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
3. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
4. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
5. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
6. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
7. Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, 2018)
8. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
9. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)

Anna Cale
1. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
2. Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
4. Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 2010)
5. Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014)
6. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
8. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
9. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
10. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)

Jake Cole
1. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
2. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
3. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
5. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
6. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
7. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
8. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
9. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
10. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)

Philip Concannon
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018)
3. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
5. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
6. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
7. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
8. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, 2015)
9. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
10. A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold (Patrick Wang, 2018)

Lillian Crawford
1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
2. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
4. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
5. Song to Song (Terrence Malick, 2017)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
7. Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval, 2019)
8. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
9. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015)
10. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

Nicole Davis
1. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
2. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
3. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
4. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
5. Summer 1993 (Carla Simon, 2017)
6. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
7. The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)
8. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
9. On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi, 2017)
10. Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2012)

Isaac Feldberg
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
4. Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)
6. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
7. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
8. Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg, 2020)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
10. Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2017)

Emma Fraser
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
2. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coen Brothers, 2013)
4. Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010)
5. Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011)
6. Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
7. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)
8. Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
9. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
10. Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre, 2015)

Patrick Gamble
1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
4. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
5. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
6. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
7. 13 (Shinya Isobe, 2020)
8. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
9. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
10. Old Dog (Pema Tseden, 2009)

Katie Goh
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
2. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
3. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)
4. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
5. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
6. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)
7. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
8. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
9. The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019)
10. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Rogan Graham
1. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
3. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, 2020)
4. Roman J Israel esq (Dan Gilroy, 2017)
5. Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
6. Rocks (Sarah Gavron, 2019)
7. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
8. Good Time (The Safdie Brothers, 2017)
9. The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016)
10. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)

Steph Green
1. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
4. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
5. Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)
6. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
7. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
8. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
9. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
10. Pulse (Kiyoshi Korosawa, 2001)

Glenn Heath Jr
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
2. Dying at Grace (Allan King, 2003)
3. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
4. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011)
5. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
6. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
7. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
8. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)
9. The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 2015)
10. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)

Tom Huddleston
1. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
2. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
3. Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, 2018)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
5. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
6. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
7. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
8. Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011)
9. I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2011)
10. Attack the Block (John Boyega, 2011)

Pamela Hutchinson
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
4. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
5. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
6. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
8. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
9. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
10. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018)

David Jenkins
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
3. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
5. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
6. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
7. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
8. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
9. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
10. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007)

Trevor Johnston
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
3. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)
4. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2011)
5. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015)
6. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
7. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
8. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
9. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
10. Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)

Ariel Kling
1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
3. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)
4. Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
5. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
6. Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, 2020)
7. Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011)
8. Mais vous êtes fous (Audrey Diwan, 2019)
9. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
10. Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen, 2012)

Aimee Knight
1. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
2. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
3. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
4. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
5. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
6. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
7. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
8. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
9. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
10. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum, 2021)

Michael Leader
1. Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coen Brothers, 2013)
2. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)
3. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
4. Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
5. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2002)
6. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
7. Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2015)
8. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
10. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)

Saffron Maeve
1. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
4. A Serious Man (The Coen Brothers, 2009)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020)
7. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
8. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
9. Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa, 2019)
10. Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014)

Emily Maskell
1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
3. And Then We Danced (Levan Atkin, 2019)
4. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
5. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
6. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
7. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
8. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
9. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018)
10. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)

Katherine McLaughlin
1. Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
2. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, 2019)
3. The Intruder (Natalia Meta, 2020)
4. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone, 2017)
5. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)
6. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
7. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
8. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
9. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
10. Kaboom (Gregg Araki, 2010)

Ben R Nicholson
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
3. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
4. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018)
5. 200,000 Phantoms (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2007)
6. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
7. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016)
8. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
9. Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2016)
10. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman, 2016)

Caitlin Quinlan
1. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
3. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
4. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
5. School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003)
6. The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
7. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, 2018)
8. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
9. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005)
10. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor, 2018)

Rafa Sales Ross
1. Bacurau (Kléber Mendonça Filho, 2019)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
3. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011)
4. Ex-Machina (Alex Garland, 2015)
5. Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz, 2017)
6. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
7. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
8. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
9. Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000)
10. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)

Fatima Sheriff
1. Woman At War (Benedikt Erlingsson, 2018)
2. The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019)
3. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
5. Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
7. The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)
8. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
10. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)

Josh Slater-Williams
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
4. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
5. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
6. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
7. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
8. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
9. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)
10. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002)

Hannah Strong
1. High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
2. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
4. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
5. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
6. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
7. Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)
8. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2007)
9. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
10. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

Matthew Thrift
1. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013)
4. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
5. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
6. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001)
7. Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2015)
8. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
9. Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
10. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)

Lou Thomas
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
5. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
6. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2007)
7. The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)
8. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)
9. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
10. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Matt Turner
1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
2. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang, 2014)
3. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2002)
4. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
5. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012)
6. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, 2018)
7. Happy Hour (Ryüsuke Hamaguchi, 2015)
8. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
9. Song to Song (Terence Malick, 2017)
10. Nana (Valerie Massadian, 2011)

Sydney Urbanek
1. Lemonade (Beyoncé, 2016)
2. Heartbreakers (David Mirkin, 2001)
3. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
4. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
5. Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)
6. God’s Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017)
7. Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005)
8. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018)
9. Little Miss Sunshine (Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, 2006)
10. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)

Laura Venning
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
3. Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
4. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
5. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2011)
6. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
7. The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)
8. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
9. Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coen Brothers, 2013)
10. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)

Greg Wetherall
1. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
3. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002)
4. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
5. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016)
6. This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
7. Biutiful (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2010)
8. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
9. Inside Out (Peter Docter, 2015)
10. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011)

Sam Wigley
1. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
2. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)
3. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2012)
4. Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás, 2008)
5. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
6. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
7. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
8. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
9. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)
10. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013)

Brianna Zigler
1. Uncut Gems (The Safdie Brothers, 2019)
2. Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
3. Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, 2012)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
5. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2019)
6. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
7. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
8. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
9. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2007)
10. A Serious Man (The Coen Brothers, 2009)

Published 12 Mar 2020

Tags: Bong Joon-ho Claire Denis Coen brothers David Fincher David Lynch Edward Yang Michael Haneke Paul Thomas Anderson Richard Lester Terence Davies Terrence Malick Tsai Ming-Liang Wong Kar-wai

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