jason's top 10 lists
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2005
(subject to change)

01. riding alone for thousands of miles (zhang yimou) 9.0
02. crash (paul haggis) 9.0
03. innocent voices (luis mandoki) 9.0
04. proposition, the (john hillcoat) 8.9
05. peacock (gu changwei ) 8.7
06. constant gardener, the (fernando meirelles) 8.6
07. beat that my heart skipped, the (jacques audiard) 8.5
08. time to leave (francois ozon) 8.5
09. charlie and the chocolate factory (tim burton) 8.5
10. don't come knocking (wim wenders) 8.4


2004
(subject to change)

01. kill bill : vol. 2 (quentin tarantino) 9.0
02. exils (tony gatlif) 8.6
03. games of love and chance (abdel kechiche) 8.6
04. machuca (andreas wood) 8.5
05. ray (taylor hackford) 8.5
06. incredibles, the (brad bird) 8.5
07. home at the end of the world, a (michael mayer) 8.4
08. purple butterfly (lou ye) 8.4
09. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (michel gondry) 8.4
10. me and my sister (alexandra leclere) 8.3

2003

01. evil (mikael hafstrom) 9.0
02. big fish (tim burton) 8.7
03. mystic river (clint eastwood) 8.7
04. kill bill : vol. 1 (quentin tarantino) 8.7
05. facing window (ferzan ozpetek) 8.6
06. pieces of april (peter hedges) 8.5
07. japanese story (sue brooks) 8.5
08. whale rider (niki caro) 8.5
09. sonny (nicolas cage) 8.4
10. elephant (gus van sant) 8.4

2002

01. the hours (stephen daldry) 9.0
02. irreversible (gasper noe) 9.0
03. morvern callar (lynne ramsay) 8.8
04. punch-drunk love (paul thomas anderson) 8.7
05. the man without a past (aki kaurismaki) 8.7
06. 8 women (francois ozon) 8.7
07. white oleander (peter kosminsky) 8.6
08. the rules of attraction (roger avary) 8.6
09. about a boy (chris weitz & paul weitz) 8.5
10. adaptation. (spike jonze) 8.5
2001

01. memento (christopher nolan) 9.3
02. psycho beach party (robert lee king) 9.3
03. lost and delirious (lea pool) 9.1
04. the piano teacher (michael haneke) 9.1
05. the princess and the warrior (tom tykwer) 9.0
06. moulin rouge (baz ruhrmann) 8.7
07. and your mother too (alfonso cuaron) 8.5
08. felix and lola (patrice leconte) 8.5
09. mulholland dr. (david lynch) 8.5
10. sex and lucia (julio medem) 8.4
2000

01. dancer in the dark (lars von trier) 9.9
02. requiem for a dream (darren aronofsky) 9.5
03. gladiator (ridley scott) 9.1
04. the million dollar hotel (wim wenders) 9.0
05. amores perros (alejandro gonzalez inarritu) 8.8
06. in the mood for love (wong kar-wai) 8.8
07. traffic (steven soderbergh) 8.7
08. billy elliot (stephen daldry) 8.5
09. yi yi (edward yang) 8.5
10. urbania (jon shear) 8.5
1999

01. the talented mr ripley (anthony minghella) 9.4
02. felicia's journey (atom egoyan) 9.2
03. magnolia (paul thomas anderson) 9.0
04. october sky (joe johnston) 9.0
05. eyes wide shut (stanley kubrick) 8.7
06. being john malkovich (spike jonze) 8.7
07. tell me something (yoon-hyun chang) 8.6
08. the blair witch project (danny myrick & eduardo sanchez) 8.6
09. tube tales (various directors) 8.4
10. twin falls idaho (michael polish) 8.3
1998

01. hilary and jackie (anand tucker) 9.5
02. buffalo '66 (vincent gallo) 9.0
03. the red violin (francois girard) 9.0
04. american history x (tony kaye) 8.7
05. the thin red line (terrence malick) 8.7
06. run lola run (tom tykwer) 8.5
07. central station (walter salles) 8.4
08. the negotiator (felix gary gray) 8.4
09. savior (predrag antonijevic) 8.4
10. elizabeth (shekhar kapur) 8.2
1997
01. the sweet hereafter (atom egoyan) 9.6
02. titanic (james cameron) 8.9
03. scream 2 (wes craven) 8.7
04. wilde (brian gilbert) 8.5
05. the taste of cherry (abbas kiarostami) 8.5
06. children of heaven (majid majidi) 8.5
07. nirvana (gabriele salvatores) 8.3
08. gattaca (andrew nicool) 8.3
09. sling blade (billy bob thornton) 8.3
10. her majesty - mrs brown (john madden) 8.2