David Davidson
Top Films
- Le livre d’image (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
- P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
- Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
- Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
- Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
- Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier)
- Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
- Restless (Gus van Sant)
- Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Operation Avalanche (Matt Johnson)
- Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- I Used To Be Darker (Matt Porterfield)
- The River (Ross brothers)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichart)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- L’Ombre des femmes (Philippe Garrel)
- Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams)
Top Canadian Films
- nirvanna the band the show (Matt Johnson)
- Acres (Rebeccah Love)
- Tower (Kazik Radwanski)
- Nelly (Anne Émond)
- All You Can Eat Buddha (Ian Lagarde)
- Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
- Edge of the Knife (Helen Haig-Brown, Gwaai Edenshaw)
- Black Conflux (Nicole Dorsey)
- Lessons Injustice (Karen Chapman)
- Café de flore (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- Hyena Road (Paul Gross)
- Vic + Flo ont vu un ours (Denis Côté)
- Genèse (Philippe Lesage)
***
Nick Little
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
- The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
***
Megan Widawski
2010: Easy A (Will Gluck)
2011: Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
2012: Argo (Ben Affleck) / The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
2013: Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)
2014: Gone Girl (David Fincher)
2015: Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
2016: La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
2017: Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon)
2018: A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
2019: Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
***
Zac Goldkind
1. The Woolworth’s Choir of 1979 (Elizabeth Price)
2. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
4. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
5. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
6. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
8. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
9. Bulanti (Zeki Demirkubuz)
10. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Best Canadian Films of the Decade:
- The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson)
- In the Waves (Jacquelyn Mills)
- Soif (Michèle Cournoyer)
- One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharius Kunuk)
- Prototype (Blake Williams)
- We Make Couples (Mike Hoolboom)
- Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto)
- Cityscape (Michael Snow)
- vulture (Philip Hoffman)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
- Malgré La Nuit (Phillipe Grandrieux)
- Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie)
Filmmaker of the Decade: Jodie Mack
***
Sofia Banzhaf
1. The Master (P.T. Anderson)
2. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
3. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
5. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
6. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
7. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
8. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
9. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
10. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
***
Piers Handling
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- Amour (Michael Haneke)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- Paradise trilogy (Ulrich Seidl)
- Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)
- Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
- Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
- Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
***
Diane Doniol-Valcroze
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
3. P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Le Livre d’image (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
7. Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
8. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
9. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
10. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
***
Patrice Blouin
1. ex-æquo : Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Avengers : Infinity Wars (Anthony and Joe Russo)
3. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
5. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
7. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
9. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Bonus court-métrage: La tristesse des androïdes (Jean-Sébastien Chauvin).
***
Jean-Sébastien Chauvin
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Le Paradis (Alain Cavalier)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Mourir comme un homme (João Pedro Rodrigues)
9. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
10. Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier)
***
Clélia Cohen
- Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- Step Up 3D (Jon M. Chu)
- Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Friday Night Lights (Season 5)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- Promised Land (Gus van Sant)
***
Gaspard Nectoux
1. Film Socialisme + Adieu au langage + Le Livre d’image (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
3. À la folie (Wang Bing)
4. Madame Hyde (Serge Bozon)
5. Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
6. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
7. What now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
8. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
9. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
10. Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (Jonas Mekas)
***
Nicole Brenez (Sorbonne nouvelle/Fémis; Cinémathèque française)
- Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Censors Must Die (Ing K)
- The Silent Majority Speaks (Bani Khoshnoudi)
- For Example the Philippines (John Gianvito)
- Sou Hami, la crainte de la nuit (Anne-Laure de Franssu, Mory Coulibaly)
- The End of the World Starts With One Lie (Lech Kowalski)
- Correspondencia (Jonas Mekas, José-Luis Guerin)
- Nana (Valérie Massadian)
- Rubber Coated Steel (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)
- Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
And Ten Other Alternative Films:
- Gens du lac (Jean-Marie Straub)
- Nuit bleue (Ange Leccia)
- L’Héroïque Lande (Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval)
- Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley)
- Impressions (Jacques Perconte)
- Ji-seul (O Muel)
- Film Catastrophe (Paul Grivas)
- The Burden (Niki Lindroth von Bahr)
- Newsreel 63-Train of Shadows (Nika Autor)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
***
Nils Bouaziz
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
- Guilty of Romance (Sono Sion)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Adieu au langage and Le Livre d’image (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Melancholia and The House that Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
- A Touch of Sin and Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
- Enter the Void and Climax (Gaspar Noé)
***
Jean-Jacky Goldberg
HC. Twin Peaks : The Return (David Lynch)
1. How Do You Know (James L. Brooks)
2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
3. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
4. Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
6. Billy Lynn’s Halftime Long Walk (Ang Lee)
7. Everybody Wants Some! (Richard Linklater)
8. Hypernormalisation (Adam Curtis)
9. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Mektoub My Love : Intermezzo (AK)
***
Jean-Jacky Goldberg
HC. Twin Peaks : The Return (David Lynch)
1. How Do You Know (James L. Brooks)
2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
3. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
4. Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
6. Billy Lynn’s Halftime Long Walk (Ang Lee)
7. Everybody Wants Some! (Richard Linklater)
8. Hypernormalisation (Adam Curtis)
9. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Mektoub My Love : Intermezzo (AK)
***
Fermín Villanueva
1. Le Masque de la Méduse (Jean Rollin)
2. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
3. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
4. The Wailing (Na Hong-jin)
5. Yourself and Yours (Hong sang-soo)
6. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
7. Wolfram, a Saliva do Lobo (Joana Torgal, Rodolfo Pimenta)
8. Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
9. Film Socialisme (Jean Luc Godard)
10. Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
11. Nuits blanches sur la jetée (Paul Vecchiali)
12. Danses macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies (Rita Azevedo Gomes, Pierre León, Jean-Louis Schefer)
13. Fango (José Celestino Campusano)
14. Easy Rider (James Benning)
15. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
***
Andrew Burke
1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Cold War (Pavel Pawlikowski)
4. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
5. Orly (Angela Schanelec)
6. The Second Match (Corneliu Porumbiou)
7. Spell Reel (Filipa César)
8. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
10. Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Bubbling under: Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller), Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel), The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson), Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland), Love is the Message, The Message is Death (Arthur Jafa), In the Year of the Quiet Sun (Otolith Group).
***
Sean Rogers
1. Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
3. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
4. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
5. The Master (P.T. Anderson)
6. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
9. L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close (Bertrand Bonello)
10. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
11. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
12. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
13. Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
14. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
15. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
16. Barbara/Phoenix/Transit (Christian Petzold)
17. Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais)
18. Les salauds (Claire Denis)
19. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
20. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
***
Blake Williams
1. Adieu au langage and Les Trois Désastres (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (Elizabeth Price)
3. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
4. August and After + April + Ossuary (Nathaniel Dorsky)
5. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
6. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
7. Knight of Cups + To the Wonder + The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
8. L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close + Nocturama + Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera (Bertrand Bonello)
9. A Minute Ago (Rachel Rose)
10. 2012 (Takashi Makino)
***
Chris Kennedy
Initially wasn’t going to do something like this but decided it might be worth amplifying some things that might fall through the cracks. Alphabetical ranking.
Nine Features of Note from the Decade:
- Autrement, la Molussie (Nicolas Rey)
- Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI (Kidlat Tahimik)
- Brûle la mer (Nathalie Nambot, Maki Berchache)
- Contralto (Sarah Hennies)
- Forgetting Vietnam (Trinh T. Minh-ha)
- Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)
- The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)
- twohundredfiftysixcolors (Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus)
- United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I) (Naeem Mohaiemen)
Fifty-Three Short Films Worth Remembering From The Decade:
- Altiplano (Malena Szlam)
- Another Void (Paul Clipson)
- Après le feu (Jacques Perconte)
- As Without So Within (Manuela de Laborde)
- Blue mantle (Rebecca Meyers)
- Brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose)
- Change 变 (Lily Jue Sheng)
- Chooka (Faraz Anoushapour, Parastoo Anoushapour, Ryan Ferko)
- Come to Me, Paradise (Stephanie Comilang)
- Coorow-Latham Road (Blake Williams)
- Despedida (Farewell) (Alexandra Cuesta)
- Dislocation Blues (Sky Hopinka)
- Evidentiary Bodies (Barbara Hammer)
- Fallen Arches (Simon Liu)
- Fantasmas Cromáticos (Claudio Caldini)
- Far From (Barbara Sternberg)
- Field Notes (Vashti Harrison)
- Film Walk (Hangjun Lee)
- Film Walk (Hangjun Lee)
- Fluid Frontiers (Ephraim Asili)
- Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances (Samantha Rebello)
- Forsaken (James Sansing)
- Fugue (Kerstin Schroedinger)
- Garden of the Legend of the Golden Snail (Oliver Husain)
- Ginza Strip (Richard Tuohy, Dianne Barrie)
- The Hot and the Cold (Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, Anje Dornieden)
- The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly)
- Insideout (Tonje Alice Madsen)
- Konrad and Kurfurst (Esther Urlus)
- Kuenta (Jorge Lozano, Alexandra Gelis)
- last light (Ellie Epp)
- Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (Arthur Jafa)
- Marina Abramović, From Tuesday to Friday (Ximena Cuevas)
- A Minute Ago (Rachel Rose)
- Movement of Impossible Time (Movimenti di un tempo impossible) (Flatform)
- Never a Foot Too Far, Even (Daichi Saito)
- Newsreel 63: The Train of Shadows (Nika Autor, Obzorniška Fronta)
- Outlook Expressed (Willy Le Maitre)
- Pacific Sun (Thomas Demand)
- Passage Upon the Plume (Fern Silva)
- Poor Jim (Kenneth Zoran Curwood)
- Resonance (Karen Johannesen)
- Rita Larson’s Boy (Kevin Jerome Everson)
- Slow Volumes (Mike Gibisser)
- Slut Walk: Anatomy of a Protest (Wendy Coburn)
- Sugarcoated Arsenic (Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold)
- The Suppliant (Robert Beavers)
- These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)
- Thing (Anouk De Clercq)
- Things (Ben Rivers)
- Timanfaya (Philippe Cote)
- To Be Here (Ute Aurand)
- Tokyo - Ebisu (Tomonari Nishikawa)
- Wishing Well (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
***
Paul Williams (sorted by IMDB rating)
- One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharias Kunuk): IMDB rating 8.3 / 10 with 14 votes.
- No (Pablo Larrain): IMDB rating 7.4 / 10 with 21,849 votes.
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader): IMDB rating 7.1 / 10 with 38,303 votes.
- Girlhood (Celine Sciamma): IMDB rating 6.9 / 10 with 6,906 votes.
- Bella e Perduta (Pietro Marcello): IMDB rating 6.8 / 10 with 365 votes.
- Inherent Vice (P.T. Anderson): IMDB rating 6.7 / 10 with 87,239 votes.
- Exhibition (Joanna Hogg): IMDB rating 5.8 / 10 with 1,070 votes.
- Golden Exits (USA, Alex Ross Perry) IMDB rating 5.8 / 10 with 1,631 votes.
(Dis)honourable Mention:
- Operation Avalanche (Matt Johnson): IMDB rating 6.1 / 10 with 6,200 votes.
***
Ryan Krahn
2010: The Clock (Christian Marclay)
2011: Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
2012: The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata)
2013: The Police Officer's Wife (Philip Gröning)
2014: A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor)
2015: 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
2016: Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
2017: First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
2018: Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
2019: Heimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
***
Jordan Cronk
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
4. Adieu au langage (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
6. L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close (Bertrand Bonello)
7. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
9. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
10. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
***
Dan Sallitt
Too early to make this list as well but it's probably closer to being settled than the 2019 list…
- Old Dog (Pema Tseden)
- The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)
- Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski)
- A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)
- The Mend (John Magary)
- The Whispering Star (Sion Sono)
- Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh)
- Of Women and Horses (Patricia Mazuy)
- Mes séances de lutte (Jacques Doillon)
***
Aret Frost
1. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
3. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)
4. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne)
5. The Mend (John Magary)
6. A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)
7. Easy: “Swipe Right/Swipe Left” (Joe Swanberg)
8. Old Dog (Pema Tseden)
9. Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert)
10. Rester vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
***
Marko Orlic
1. Shame (Steve McQueen)
2. The Wolf Of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
3. Fish Tank and American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
5. Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
6. Love (Gaspar Noé)
7. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
8. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
9. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
10. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
Honourable Mention: Carlos and Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas), Burning (Lee Chang-Dong), A Prophet (Jacques Audiard), White Material (Claire Denis), The Social Network (David Fincher), Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), La La Land (Damien Chazelle), A Separation (Asghar Farhadi), Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), The Grey (Joe Carnahan), The Master (P.T. Anderson).
***
Mitch Greenberg
1. Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan and André Turpin)
3. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Inherent Vice (P.T. Anderson)
6. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
8. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
9. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan and Yves Bélanger)
10. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
***
Will Sloan
- Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You (Charles Roxburgh)
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
- The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
- A Simple Life (Ann Hui)
- Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
- Who Killed Captain Alex? (Nabwana I.G.G.)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
***
Ethan Vestby
1. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
3. Fatal Pulse (Damon Packard)
4. Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
5. Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)
6. A Burning Hot Summer (Phillipe Garrel)
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
8. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
10. Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
***
Alan Jones
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
- The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
- HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis)
- CHAPPiE (Neill Blomkamp)
- Premium Rush (David Koepp)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
***
Jesse Hawken
- OJ: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
- The Master (P.T. Anderson)
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Welcome To New York (Abel Ferrara)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast)
- The 15:17 To Paris (Clint Eastwood)
***
Michael Longfield
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- American Hustle (David O. Russell)
- Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
- Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo)
- Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen)
- It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
- Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
- The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
- 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
***
Michael Longfield
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- American Hustle (David O. Russell)
- Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
- Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo)
- Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen)
- It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
- Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
- The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
- 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
***
Katie Wackett
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- Le Livre d’image (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
- The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)
- Gone Girl (David Fincher)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
***
C.J. Prince
Here's twenty films, unranked, that I want to highlight from this decade.
- The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
- The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
- Barbara (Christian Petzold)
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
- Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
- Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
- The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
- The Counselor (Ridley Scott)
- The Fool (Yuri Bykov)
- Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
- The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
- Invention (Mark Lewis)
- Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
- Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder)
- Living Stars (Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn)
- Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
- Oculus (Mike Flanagan)
- Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
- A Spell to Ward off the Darkness (Ben Russell, Ben Rivers)
- Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
- White Epilepsy (Philippe Grandrieux)
And here's twenty unranked films from Canada from this decade:
The Absent (Nicolás Pereda)
Altman (Ron Mann)
Backcountry (Adam MacDonald)
Cardinals (Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley)
Dim the Fluorescents (Daniel Warth)
The Editor (Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy)
First Stripes (Jean-François Caissy)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson)
Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté)
Guidelines (Jean-François Caissy)
How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski)
Invention (Mark Lewis)
Joy of Man's Desiring (Denis Côté)
Our Loved Ones (Anne Émond)
Sol (Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Tu dors Nicole (Stephane Lafleur)
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
You Are Here (Daniel Cockburn)
And here's twenty unranked films from Canada from this decade:
The Absent (Nicolás Pereda)
Altman (Ron Mann)
Backcountry (Adam MacDonald)
Cardinals (Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley)
Dim the Fluorescents (Daniel Warth)
The Editor (Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy)
First Stripes (Jean-François Caissy)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson)
Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté)
Guidelines (Jean-François Caissy)
How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski)
Invention (Mark Lewis)
Joy of Man's Desiring (Denis Côté)
Our Loved Ones (Anne Émond)
Sol (Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
Tu dors Nicole (Stephane Lafleur)
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté)
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
You Are Here (Daniel Cockburn)
***
Fred Jeanne
1. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. Tabou (Miguel Gomes) + Arabian Nights
4. Le Soldat dieu (Koji Wakamatsu)
5. Avant que nous disparaissions (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) + Vers l’autre rive + Shokuzai + Creepy + Real etc…
6. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
7. Sayonara (Koji Fukada) + Harmonium + Au revoir l’été
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) + Cemetery of Splendour
10. Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono) + The Land of Hope etc…
11. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
12. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles) + Neighboring Sounds + Aquarius
13. Burning (Lee Chang-dong) + Poetry
14. Les âmes mortes (Wang Bing) + Fengming, Chronique d’une femme chinoise + Les Trois Sœurs du Yunnan + A la folie etc…
15. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
16. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
17. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho) + Mother etc…
18. Aujourd’hui (Alain Gomis) + Félicité
19. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) + Mountains May Depart + A Touch of Sin etc…
20. La Solitude des nombres premiers (Saverio Costanzo)
21. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
22. Les Garçons sauvages (Bertrand Mandico) + Boro in the box + Ultra pulpe etc…
23. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
24. The strangers (Na Hong-jin) + The murderer
25. Saudade (Katsuya Tomita) + Bangkok Nites
26. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
27. L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close (Bertrand Bonello) + Zombi Child + Nocturama
28. Mademoiselle (Park Chan-Wook)
29. Atlantique (Mati Diop) + Mille soleils
30. Inherent vice (P.T. Anderson) + Phantom Thread etc…
31. Une affaire de famille (Hirokazu Kore-Eda) + The Third Murder + I Wish + Air Doll etc…
32. American Honey (Andrea Arnold) + Wuthering Heights
33. Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz) + La Femme Qui Est Partie + The Halt
34. Midsommar (Ari Aster) + Hereditary
35. Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti) + Habemus papam + Santiago, Italia
36. Rester vertical (Alain Guiraudie) + L’Inconnu du lac
37. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) + The Neon Demon + Only God Forgives
38. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier) + The House That Jack Built + Nymphomaniac
39. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar) + Pain and Glory + Julieta etc…
40. Mourir comme un homme (João Pedro Rodrigues) + L’ornithologue etc…
41. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
42. Évolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
43. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen) + Inside Llewyn Davis
44. Grave (Julia Ducournau)
45. We need to talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay) + A Beautiful Day
46. High Life (Claire Denis)
47. Carré 35 (Eric Caravaca)
48. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo) + On the Beach at Night Alone etc…
49. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
50. Ceci n’est pas un film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
+ 4 Séries:
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Too Old to Die Young (Nicolas Winding Refn)
3. P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) + CoinCoin et les Z’inhumains
4. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (Sono Sion)
***
Edouard Sivière
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Mektoub, My Love : Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche)
5. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
6. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
7. The Master (P.T. Anderson)
8. Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)
9. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
10. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
***
Vinz J. Orlof
1. Mektoub, My Love (Abdellatif Kechiche)
2. Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
3. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
4. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
5. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
6. Loving (Jeff Nichols)
7. Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais)
8. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
9. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
10. Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier)
***
Ioannis Kanonakis
1. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasetakhul)
2. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
4. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
6. Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman)
7. Dialogue of Shadows (Jean-Marie Straub)
8. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
9. The Girl from Nowhere (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
10. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
***
Nathan Powell
1. The Dirties (Matt Johnson)
2. Raw (Julia Ducournau)
3. The Social Network (David Fincher)
4. Finding Frances (Nathan Fielder)
5. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
6. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
7. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
8. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
9. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
10. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
***
Anna Swanson
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
- Inherent Vice (P.T Anderson)
- Transit (Christian Petzold)
- Gone Girl (David Fincher)
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
- No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
- Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
***
Joshua Harold Wiebe
1. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
2. Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz)
3. Inherent Vice (P.T. Anderson)
4. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
5. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
6. Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers)
7. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
8. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
9. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
10. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
***
Kurt Walker
- Top of the Lake (Jane Campion)
- Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
- Cry When It Happens (Laida Lertxundi)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Personal Problems (Bill Gunn)
- Semi-Auto Colours (Isiah Medina)
- Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)
- 607 (Liu Jiayin)
- Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
- Starting Sketches #8 (Gina Telaroli)
- The Great Cinema Party (Raya Martin)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- The Ditch (Wang Bing)
***
Kelley Dong
- 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
- Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
- Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
- I Had Nowhere to Go (Douglas Gordon, Jonas Mekas)
- Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz)
- The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
- Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
- Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
***
Neil Bahadur
1. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
2. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
3. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
4. Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
6. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
7. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery (Lav Diaz)
10. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
***
Ilir Pristine
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
- The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
- The Master (P.T. Anderson)
- Pietà (Kim Ki-duk)
- Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
- Amour (Michael Haneke)
- Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
***
Hugh Gibson
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
- Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
- L’Inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie)
- OJ: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- The Vietnam War (Ken Burns, Lynn Novick)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
- Transit (Christian Petzold)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
- Of Men and War (Laurent Bécue-Renard)
- The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Brett Story)
- Porfirio (Alejandro Landes)
- Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
- Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
- Four Years in Ten Minutes (Mladen Kovacevic)
- Les âmes mortes (Wang Bing)
- Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
***
Lars Aumueller
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
3. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
4. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
5. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
6. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
7. Pina (Wim Wenders)
8. Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
9. Everybody wants some!! (Richard Linklater)
10. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
***
Paolo Kagaoan
- Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
- Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
- Coco (Lee Unkrich)
- Your Name (Makoto Shinkai)
- Samsara (Ron Fricke)
- Son of Saul (László Nemes)
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
- Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
- Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
***
Paul Landriau
1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
3. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
4. Ultra Pulpe (Bertrand Mandico)
5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
7. The Social Network (David Fincher)
8. The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin)
9. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
10. L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
***
Eli Fox
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
- Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Hard to be a God (Aleksei German
- Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yinan)
- P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
- The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson)
- Malgré la nuit (Philippe Grandrieux)
- The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
***
Niles Schwartz
1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
4. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
5. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
6. Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
8. Carol (Todd Haynes)
9. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
10. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
***
Pat Mullen
1. Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée)
2. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
3. 20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville)
4. Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
5. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
6. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
7. Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
8. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
9. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
10. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
***
Ben Gordon
- The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
- Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
***
Ben Harrison
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- L’Inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie)
- Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- The Master (P.T. Anderson)
- Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)
- Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub)
- Blowin’ Up (Stephanie Wang-Breal)
- Manakamana (Stephanie Spray)
- No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
***
Nicolas Rioult
1. Song to Song/Knight of Cups/To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
3. Movie 43
4. Les films rêvés (Eric Pauwels)
5. Aloha (Cameron Crowe): Blu-ray, including alternate opening and ending and deleted scenes.
6. The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
7. Mektoub, My Love : Intermezzo – Cannes Cut (Abdellatif Kechiche)
8. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
9. Le baiser (Ovidie)
10. Maniac (Franck Khalfoun)
Honorable Mentions: Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton), Twixt (Francis Coppola), La La Land (Damien Chazelle), Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino), This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb), Cemetery of Splendour(Apichatpong Weerasetakhul), Paradise : Love (Ulrich Seidl), Mercuriales (Virgile Vernier), L’âge atomique (Héléna Klotz), Memory Lane (Mikhaël Hers), CHAPPiE (Neill Blomkamp), Cap Nord (Sandrine Rinaldi), Il n'y a pas de rapports sexuels (Raphaël Sibony and HPG), American Honey (Andrea Arnold), The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn), Un regard neuf sur Olympia 52 (Julien Faraut), Frankenstein (Bernard Rose), Blackhat (Michael Mann), Boyka – Undisputed (Todor Chapkanov)...
***
Barry Greenwald
- Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
- Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
- Son of Saul (László Nemes)
- I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbour (Morgan Neville)
- Unarmed Verses (Charles Officer)
- The Amina Profile (Sophie Deraspe)
- Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
- Hurt / Hope (Alan Zweig)
- Tabloid (Errol Morris)
Honourable Mentions: 15 Reasons to Live (Alan Zweig), Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy), Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR), Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski), Listen To Me Marlon (Stevan Riley), Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade), Mama Colonel (Dieudo Hamadi), Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril), Random Acts of Legacy (Ali Kazimi), Highrise: Universe Within (Katerina Cizek), Postings from Home (Kelly O'Brien).
- Hurt / Hope (Alan Zweig)
- Tabloid (Errol Morris)
Honourable Mentions: 15 Reasons to Live (Alan Zweig), Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy), Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR), Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski), Listen To Me Marlon (Stevan Riley), Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade), Mama Colonel (Dieudo Hamadi), Angry Inuk (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril), Random Acts of Legacy (Ali Kazimi), Highrise: Universe Within (Katerina Cizek), Postings from Home (Kelly O'Brien).
***
Jeff Wright
- 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
- Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Phantom Thread (P.T. Anderson)
- Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
- Tangerine (Sean Baker)
- We Are the Best (Lukas Moodysson)
***
Brendan Prost
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
3. Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
4. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
5. The Rider (Chloe Zhao)
6. Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)
7. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
8. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
9. The Master (P.T. Anderson)
10. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
Honourable Mentions: Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), Boyhood (Richard Linklater), Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh), Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky), The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese), Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu).
***
Thomas Prieto
1. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
4. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
5. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
9. Transit (Christian Petzold)
10. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
***
Tom MacCammon
1. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
2. The Master (P.T. Anderson)
3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
4. The Social Network (David Fincher)
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
6. The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
7. Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
8. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel and Ethan Coen)
10. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
***
Adrien Alexander Benson
- Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
- Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- In the Family (Patrick Wang)
- Inception (Christopher Nolan)
- Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone)
- The Raid (Gareth Evans)
- The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
***
Eliú Escamilla
1. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
4. Kommunisten (Jean-Marie Straub)
5. Les âmes mortes (Wang Bing)
6. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
7. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo
8. Elohim (Nathaniel Dorsky)
9. A Portuguesa (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
10. The Tree of Life + Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
11. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang)
12. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
13. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
14. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
15. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
16. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
17. The Revenant + Biutiful (Alejandro Iñarritu)
18. Milla (Valérie Massaidan)
19. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
20. Killer Joe (William Firedkin)
***
Eric Bizzarri
- Her (Spike Jonze)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
- Me, Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez Rejon)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
- Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
***
Kendall Grant
1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr) / A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3. Amour (Michael Haneke) / Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
5. Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
6. Son of Saul (László Nemes)
7. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
8. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
9. Burning (Chang-dong Lee) / Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
10. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong) / Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
***
Thomas Loree
Top Ten of the Decade 2010 – 2019 (more or less ranked):
Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch 2017)
The Clock (installation) (C. Marclay 2011)
The Dance of Reality (Jodorowski 2013)
A Quiet Passion (2016 Davies)
The Strange Case of Angelica (2010 Oliveira)
The Turin Horse (2011 Béla Tarr)
Phantom Thread (2017 Paul Thomas Anderson)
Stranger by the Lake (2013 Guiraudie)
Passion (2012 De Palma)
The Sisters Brothers (2017 Audiard)
Other Favourites (alphabetical):
Almayer’s Folly (2011 Akerman)
American Sniper (2014 Eastwood)
Before We Vanish (2017 Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Crown – seasons 1 and 2 (2016-2017 S. Daldry, et al.)
11 Minutes (2015 Skolimowski)
Elle (2016 Verhoeven)
Endless Poetry (Jodorowsky 2016)
Enemy (2013 Denis Villeneuve)
Fading Gigolo (2013 John Turterro)
The 15:17 to Paris (2018 Eastwood)
Hereafter (2010 Eastwood)
The Hollow Crown (2012 BBC2 R. Goold, R. Eyre, T. Sharrock, D. Cooke)
Holy Motors (2012 Leos Carax)
Inherent Vice (2014 Paul Thomas Anderson)
It Comes at Night (2017 Trey E. Shults)
Jane Eyre (2011 Cary Fukunaga)
The Lady in the Van (2015 Hytner)
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012 João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata)
Like Someone in Love (2012 Kiarostami)
Lizzie (2018 C.W. MacNeill)
Midnight in Paris (2011 Allen)
Mr. Turner (2014 Leigh)
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood (2019 Tarantino)
Pasolini (2014 Ferrara)
Personal Shopper (2016 Assayas)
Source Code (2011 Duncan Jones)
Stan and Ollie (2017 John S. Baird)
Sunset Song (2015 Davies)
Toni Erdmann (2016 Maren Ade)
True Blood (TV series: 2008-2014)
Welcome to New York (2014 Ferrara)
***
Mark Cira
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Four Lions (Christopher Morris)
Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Happy As Lazzaro (Alice Rorwacher)
Invisible Life (Karim Ainouz)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne brothers)
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Cafe De Flore (Jean-Marc Vallee)
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Dave Acacia
1. Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
3. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012)
4. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
5. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
6. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
7. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
9. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012)
10. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
***
Eliú Escamilla
1. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. L’Étrange Affaire Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
4. Kommunisten (Jean-Marie Straub)
5. Les âmes mortes (Wang Bing)
6. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
7. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo
8. Elohim (Nathaniel Dorsky)
9. A Portuguesa (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
10. The Tree of Life + Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
11. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang)
12. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
13. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
14. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
15. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
16. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
17. The Revenant + Biutiful (Alejandro Iñarritu)
18. Milla (Valérie Massaidan)
19. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
20. Killer Joe (William Firedkin)
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Eric Bizzarri
- Her (Spike Jonze)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
- Me, Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez Rejon)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
- Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
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Kendall Grant
1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr) / A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3. Amour (Michael Haneke) / Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
5. Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
6. Son of Saul (László Nemes)
7. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
8. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
9. Burning (Chang-dong Lee) / Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
10. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong) / Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
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Thomas Loree
Top Ten of the Decade 2010 – 2019 (more or less ranked):
Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch 2017)
The Clock (installation) (C. Marclay 2011)
The Dance of Reality (Jodorowski 2013)
A Quiet Passion (2016 Davies)
The Strange Case of Angelica (2010 Oliveira)
The Turin Horse (2011 Béla Tarr)
Phantom Thread (2017 Paul Thomas Anderson)
Stranger by the Lake (2013 Guiraudie)
Passion (2012 De Palma)
The Sisters Brothers (2017 Audiard)
Other Favourites (alphabetical):
Almayer’s Folly (2011 Akerman)
American Sniper (2014 Eastwood)
Before We Vanish (2017 Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The Crown – seasons 1 and 2 (2016-2017 S. Daldry, et al.)
11 Minutes (2015 Skolimowski)
Elle (2016 Verhoeven)
Endless Poetry (Jodorowsky 2016)
Enemy (2013 Denis Villeneuve)
Fading Gigolo (2013 John Turterro)
The 15:17 to Paris (2018 Eastwood)
Hereafter (2010 Eastwood)
The Hollow Crown (2012 BBC2 R. Goold, R. Eyre, T. Sharrock, D. Cooke)
Holy Motors (2012 Leos Carax)
Inherent Vice (2014 Paul Thomas Anderson)
It Comes at Night (2017 Trey E. Shults)
Jane Eyre (2011 Cary Fukunaga)
The Lady in the Van (2015 Hytner)
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012 João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata)
Like Someone in Love (2012 Kiarostami)
Lizzie (2018 C.W. MacNeill)
Midnight in Paris (2011 Allen)
Mr. Turner (2014 Leigh)
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood (2019 Tarantino)
Pasolini (2014 Ferrara)
Personal Shopper (2016 Assayas)
Source Code (2011 Duncan Jones)
Stan and Ollie (2017 John S. Baird)
Sunset Song (2015 Davies)
Toni Erdmann (2016 Maren Ade)
True Blood (TV series: 2008-2014)
Welcome to New York (2014 Ferrara)
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Mark Cira
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Silence (Martin Scorsese)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
All Watched Over by Machine of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Four Lions (Christopher Morris)
Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Happy As Lazzaro (Alice Rorwacher)
Invisible Life (Karim Ainouz)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Two Days, One Night (Dardenne brothers)
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Cafe De Flore (Jean-Marc Vallee)
***
Dave Acacia
1. Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
3. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012)
4. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
5. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
6. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
7. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar, 2019)
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
9. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012)
10. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
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