2. Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie, Germany)
3. High Life (Claire Denis, France)
4. Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Thailand)
5. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
6. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, China)
7. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
8. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
9. Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland)
10. Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, Denmark)
2. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
3. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece)
5. Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike, Japan)
6. Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)
7. The Square – (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)
8. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
9. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, UK)
10. Double Lover (François Ozon, France)
2. American Honey (Andrea Arnold, United Kingdom)
3. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
4. After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
5. The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit, Netherlands)
6. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, United States)
7. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
8. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
9. We Are the Flesh (Emiliano Rocha Minter, Mexico)
10. Aloys (Tobias Nölle, Switzerland)
2. Love (Gaspar Noé, France)
3. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
4. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, United States)
5. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Turkey)
6. Taxi (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
7. Office (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
8. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson, Canada)
9. Yakuza Apocalypse (Takashi Miike, Japan)
10. Crumbs (Miguel Llansó, Ethiopia)
2. Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, France)
3. Still the Water (Naomi Kawase, Japan)
4. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
5. The Midnight After (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
6. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, United States)
7. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Australia)
8. Gone Girl (David Fincher, United States)
9. To Kill a Man (Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Chile)
10. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, Canada)
2. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, United States)
3. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
4. Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont, France)
5. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark)
6. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
7. Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)
8. Bastards (Claire Denis, France)
9. Yokomichi Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita, Japan)
10. Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, United States)
2. Amour (Michael Haneke, Austria)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, United States)
4. Barbara (Christian Petzold, Germany)
5. Vulgaria (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
6. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
7. Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, United States)
8. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, France)
9. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, Canada)
10. Eega (S.S. Rajamouli, India)
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
3. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, United States)
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom)
5. Wu Xia (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
6. Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono, Japan)
7. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Hungary)
8. Pina (Wim Wenders, Germany)
9. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, United States)
10. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
For the second year in a row my results have been tabulated along with a panel of my contemporaries courtesy of Michael Anderson at Ten Best Films; please check it out!
