I saw over 130 films this year. Below are the ones I liked the most. They are listed in chronological order, according to the dates in which I saw them.
- Silent Light/Stellet licht – Carlos Reygadas
- The Beaches of Agnes/Les plages d’Agnès – Agnes Varda
- Hunger – Steve McQueen
- Revanche – Gotz Spielmann
- Julia – Emile Zonka
- Summer Hours/L’heure d’été – Olivier Assayas
- Lorna’s Silence/Le silence de Lorna – Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Still Walking/Aruitemo aruitemo – Hirokazu Koreeda
- La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow – Claudia Llosa
- 35 Shots of Run/ 35 rhums – Claire Denis
- White Material – Claire Denis
- The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans – Werner Herzog
Worth mentioning:
- Revolutionary Road – Sam Mendes
- Gomorra – Matteo Garrone
- Two Lovers – James Gray
- Treeless Mountain – So Yong Kim
- La Ventana/The Window – Carlos Sorin
- Lemmon Tree/Etz Limon – Eran Riklis
- The Baader Meinhoff Complex – Uli Edel
- Jerichow – Christian Petzold
- District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
- La Nana/The Maid – Sebastian Silva
- The Sicilian Girl/La Siciliana Ribelle – Marco Armenta
- Police, Adjective/Politist, adj. – Corneliu Porumboiu
As for revivals/classics, here are a few::
- Made in USA – Jean-Luc Godard (1966)
- Z – Costa Gavras (1969)
- Un Tigre de Papel/Paper Tiger – Luis Ospina (2007)
- Dillinger is Dead – Marco Ferreri (1969)
- Johnny Guitar – Nicholas Ray (1954)
- In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray (1950)
- Odd Man Out – Carol Reed (1947)
- Bitter Rice/Riso Amaro – Guiseppe de Santis (1949)
- Jean de Florette – Claude Berri ( (1986)
- The Sun/Solntse – Aleksandr Sokurov (2005)
