I know I already created something similar to this list a year or two ago but here is an updated version.
1. No Country for Old Men (The Coen Brothers, 2007)
2. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
3. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
4. Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
5. Dancer in the…
That’s a highly respectable top 25!
I think mine would look something like:
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Jee-woon, 2008)
- The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
- City of God (Fernando Mierelles, 2002)
- The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)
- The Proposition (John Hilcoat, 2005)
- Sometimes in April (Raoul Peck, 2005)
- No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
- The Departed (Martin Scorcese, 2007)
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)
- Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
- Control (Anton Corbinin, 2007)
- The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski, 2005)
- Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002)
- Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
- Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
- The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, 2008)
- Kung-Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
- Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, 2005)
- Running Scared (Wayne Kramer, 2006)
- The Road (John Hillcoat, 2009)
- Chicken Heart (Hiroshi Shimizu, 2002)
