Here, then, is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced
to make it today:
01. Afterschool (Antonio Campos, USA)
02. Julia (Erick Zonca, France)
03. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, USA)
04. Home (Ursula Meier, Switzerland/France/Belgium)
05. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
06. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy)
07. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
08. Revanche (Götz Spielmann, Austria)
09. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, USA)
10. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/France/Italy/Spain)
01. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands)
02. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, USA)
03. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, USA)
04. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
05. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
06. Funny Games (Michael Haneke, USA)
07. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette, France/Italy)
08. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, Spain)
09. The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
10. Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, USA)