2000s by Year

This I did last year - this year's version I did without looking back at that. Might be some interesting changes. Anyway - these are retrospective top 10s for each year of this decade:

2006: [I do want to make sure this matches the post I just put up.]
1. Inland Empire - US - David Lynch
2. Colossal Youth - Portugal - Pedro Costa
3. The Woman on the Beach - South Korea - Hong Sang-soo
4. The Science of Sleep - France - Michel Gondry
5. United 93 - US - Paul Greengrass
6. Children of Men - UK - Alfonso Cauron
7. Honor de Cavelaria - Spain - Albert Serra
8. The Wind that Shakes the Barley - UK - Ken Loach
9. A Scanner Darkly - US - Richard Linklater
10. Belle Toujours - Portugal/France - Manoel de Oliveira

2005:
1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Romania - Christi Puiu
2. The Squid and the Whale - USA - Noah Baumbach
3. Regular Lovers - France - Philippe Garrel
4. Three Times - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
5. Grizzly Man - US - Werner Herzog
6. L'Enfant - Belgium - Luc & Jean Pierre Dardennes
7. Cache - France/Austria - Michael Haneke
8. The President's Last Bang - South Korea - Im Sang-soo
9. Mutual Appreciation - US - Andrew Bujalski
10. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - South Korea - Park Chan-ho
[And as we go to press, I am a day away from seeing Into Great Silence, Philip Groning's documentary about the Chartreuse monastary - I have not completely thought it through - but it is an extraordinary film: one that might turn up on this list if I waited a few days to post it.]

2004:
1. Kings and Queen - France - Arnaud Desplechins
2. 2046 - China - Wong Kar-wei
3. L'Intrus - France - Claire Denis
4. The House of Flying Daggers - China - Zhang Yimou
5. The World - China - Jia Jiang-ke
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - US - Michel Gondry
7. Nobody Knows - Japan - Kore-eda Hirokazu
8. Innocence - France - Lucille Hadzihalilovic
9. The Holy Girl - Argentina - Lucrecia Martel
10. Clean - France - Olivier Assayas

2003:
1. Goodbye Dragon Inn Taiwan - Tsai Ming-liang
2. Los Angeles Plays Itself - USA - Thom Anderson
3. Memories of Murder - South Korea - Bong Joon-ho
4. Dracula, Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Canada - Guy Maddin
5. Elephant - USA - Gus Van Sant
6. Doppelganger - Japan - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
7. Cafe Lumiere - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
8. Gerry - USA - Gus Van Sant
9. Blind Shaft - China - Li Yang
10. Crimson Gold - Iran - Jafar Panahi

2002:
1. The Son - Belgium - Luc & Jean Pierre Dardennes
2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - South Korea - Park Chan wook
3. Man Without a Past - Finland - Aki Kaurismaki
4. The Pianist - USA - Roman Polanski
5. Unknown Pleasures - China - Jia Jiang Ke
6. Springtime in a Small Town - China - Tian Zhuang Zhuang
7. Millenium Mambo - Taiwan - Hou Hsiao Hsien
8. Devils on the Doorstep - China - Jiang Wen
9. Talk to Her - Spain - Almodovar
10. Dolls - Japan - Takeshi Kitano

2001:
1. Mulholland Drive - USA - David Lynch
2. Ichi the Killer - Japan - Takashi Miike
3. Donnie Darko - USA - Richard Kelly
4. Va Savoir - France - Jacques Rivette
5. The Royal Tenenbaums - USA - Wes Anderson
6. Distance - Japan - Hirokazu Kore-eda
7. Pistol Opera - Japan - Seijun Suzuki
8. Waking Life - USA - Richard Linklater
9. Khandahar - Iran - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
10. Pulse - Japan - Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2000:
1. Yi Yi - Taiwan - Edward Yang
2. Platform - China - Jia Jiang Ke
3. Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors - South Korea - Hong Sang-soo
4. O Brother Where Art Thou - USA - Joel and Ethan Coen
5. Songs from the Second Floor - Sweden - Roy Andersson
6. The Circle - Iran - Jafar Panahi
7. Eureka - Japan - Shinji Aoyama
8. The Gleaners and I - France - Agnes Varda
9. In the Mood for Love - China - Wong Kar-wei
10. George Washington - USA - David Gordon Green

That's that, until next year.