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

12 Mar 2020

Collage of diverse visual elements in shades of pink, purple, and green. Includes musicians, photographers, a goat, and a growling animal.
Collage of diverse visual elements in shades of pink, purple, and green. Includes musicians, photographers, a goat, and a growling animal.
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)

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