The 2003 List
##. Film (Director)
points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking
01. 살인의 추억 [Salinui chueok] [Memories of Murder] (Bong Joon-ho)
354/17(12)/1(x4)
02. 不散 [Bu san] [Goodbye, Dragon Inn] (Tsai Ming-liang)
334/17(12)/1(x2)
03. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
262/13(7)/1(x2)
04. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
253/15(6)/1(x2)
05. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
236/13(7)/1(x2)
06. Kill Bill (2003-2004) (Quentin Tarantino)
222/12(6)/1
07. 올드보이 [Oldeuboi] [Oldboy] (Park Chan-wook)
170/10(3)/2
08. Возвращение [Vozvrashcheniye] [The Return] (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
149/11(2)/3
09. 珈琲時光 [Kōhī jikō] [Café Lumière] (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
148/9(4)/1
10. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
147/11/6
11. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
142/9(3)/1
12. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
134/8(4)/3(x2)
13. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
130/8(3)/2
14. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
126/7(3)/2
15. School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
114/6(2)/1
16. 東京ゴッドファーザーズ [Tōkyō goddofāzāzu] [Tokyo Godfathers] (Satoshi Kon)
111/6(3)/1
(tie) Отец и сын [Otets i syn] [Father and Son] (Aleksandr Sokurov)
111/6(2)/2
18. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
110/6(2)/3
19. Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] (Sylvain Chomet)
109/7(2)/1
20. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
103/8(1)/3
21. طلای سرخ [Talaye sorkh] [Crimson Gold] (Jafar Panahi)
102/6(1)/2
22. In the Cut (Jane Campion)
100/5(3)/2(x2)
23. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
97/8(1)/2
24. The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
96/7(1)/4
25. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
90/5(1)/5
(tie) A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
90/7(1)/4
27. 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 [Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom] [Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring] (Kim Ki-duk)
86/6(2)/5(x2)
28. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
85/6(1)/5
(tie) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
85/6(1)/2
30. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
78/5(1)/4
31. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
77/5(2)/1
32. PTU (Johnnie To)
76/5(1)/2
33. La Fleur du mal [The Flower of Evil] (Claude Chabrol)
73/6/7
34. The Company (Robert Altman)
71/6(1)/5
35. Vai e Vem [Come and Go] (João César Monteiro)
70/4(1)/3
36. Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
66/4(1)/3
37. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
58/5/6
38. Ce jour-là [That Day] (Raúl Ruiz)
57/4(1)/1
39. La meglio gioventù [The Best of Youth] (Marco Tullio Giordana)
56/3(1)/1
40. Um Filme Falado [A Talking Picture] (Manoel de Oliveira)
55/3(2)/1
(tie) Buongiorno, notte [Good Morning, Night] (Marco Bellocchio)
55/3(1)/2
42. アカルイミライ [Akarui mirai] [Bright Future] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
54/4/6
43. Dying at Grace (Allan King)
53/3(1)/1
(tie) เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล [Ruang rak noi nid mahasan] [Last Life in the Universe] (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
53/4/6
(tie) Fast Film (Virgil Widrich)
53/4(1)/5
46. 바람난 가족 [Baramnan gajok] [A Good Lawyer's Wife] (Im Sang-soo)
52/3(1)/4
47. De fem benspænd [The Five Obstructions] (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth)
51/3/6
48. 大隻佬 [Dai zek lo] [Running on Karma] (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
50/3(1)/4
(tie) 장화, 홍련 [Janghwa hongryeon] [A Tale of Two Sisters] (Kim Jee-woon)
50/4/7
50. 極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 [Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō gozu] [Gozu] (Takashi Miike)
49/3(1)/3
ALSO-RANS
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
47/4(1)/2
The Room (Tommy Wiseau)
46/5/7
Egy hét Pesten és Budán [A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda] (Károly Makk)
45/2(2)/3
Léo, en jouant 'Dans la compagnie des hommes' [Playing 'In the Company of Men'] (Arnaud Desplechin)
45/3/8
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
45/4/6
The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel)
43/2(1)/1
Histoire de Marie et Julien [The Story of Marie and Julien] (Jacques Rivette)
42/2(1)/4
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
42/5/12
Destino (Dominique Monfery)
41/3(1)/4
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
41/3/6
ドッペルゲンガー [Dopperugengā] [Doppelganger] (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
41/4/13
The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott)
40/2(1)/2
Le Monde vivant [The Living World] (Eugène Green)
40/2/6(x2)
Monster (Patty Jenkins)
39/2(1)/3
Les Invasions barbares [The Barbarian Invasions] (Denys Arcand)
39/2/6
Wolfsburg (Christian Petzold)
38/2/6
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
38/4(1)/5
Swimming Pool (François Ozon)
38/4/9
Anything Else (Woody Allen)
37/2/6
The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute)
37/3/9
Salmer fra kjøkkenet [Kitchen Stories] (Bent Hamer)
36/3/8
Le Temps du loup [Time of the Wolf] (Michael Haneke)
35/4/8
Kontroll [Control] (Nimród Antal)
34/3(1)/5
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Peter Greenaway)
32/2/8
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
32/5(1)/5
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Joe Dante)
31/2(1)/3
Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont)
31/3/8
Pas sur la bouche [Not on the Lips] (Alain Resnais)
29/3/9
Songs for Dead Children (Stephen & Timothy Quay)
27/2(1)/1
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
27/2(1)/4
De grønne slagtere [The Green Butchers] (Anders Thomas Jensen)
27/2/8
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
26/2(1)/3
Lichter [Distant Lights] (Hans-Christian Schmid)
26/2(1)/5
X2 (Bryan Singer)
25/2/9
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
25/4/15
Wasp (Andrea Arnold)
24/2(1)/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
24/2/6
Down with Love (Peyton Reed)
24/2/8
座頭市 [Zatōichi] (Takeshi Kitano)
24/4/11
Papillon d'amour [Butterfly of Love] (Nicolas Provost)
22/2/10
The Hunted (William Friedkin)
22/2/15(x2)
To the Happy Few (Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs)
22/3/14
The Animation Show (Don Hertzfeldt)
21/2/8
Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage)
21/2/14
Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
20/2/10
La finestra di fronte [Facing Windows] (Ferzan Özpetek)
20/2/14
Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
17/2/13
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
17/2/14
Après vous... [After You] (Pierre Salvadori)
17/2/15
The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)
16/2/13
盲井 [Mang jing] [Blind Shaft] (Li Yang)
16/2/17
Collage d'Hollywood (Richard Kerr)
15/2/18
Cantando dietro i paraventi [Singing Behind Screens] (Ermanno Olmi)
14/2/18
Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech)
13/2/18
Love Actually (Richard Curtis)
13/2/18
Wheel of Time (Werner Herzog)
12/2/17
Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom)
10/2/20
ORPHANS
Film (Director)
highest ranking
پنج [Panj] [Five Dedicated to Ozu] (Abbas Kiarostami)
2
Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot)
9
Stupeur et Tremblements [Fear and Trembling] (Alain Corneau)
22
Последний поезд [Poslednij poezd] [The Last Train] (Aleksei German Jr.)
5
Haute Tension [High Tension] (Alexandre Aja)
22
Les Égarés [Strayed] (André Téchiné)
6
Los debutantes [The Debutantes] (Andrés Waissbluth)
25
Holes (Andrew Davis)
16
My Life with Morrissey (Andrew Overtoom)
20
Hulk (Ang Lee)
18
Les Côtelettes [The Chops] (Bertrand Blier)
17
Ингэн нулимс [Ingen nulims] [The Story of the Weeping Camel] (Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni)
6
Out of Time (Carl Franklin)
16
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) [Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)] (Cédric Klapisch)
18
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Charles Burnett)
16
La Petite Lili [Little Lili] (Claude Miller)
15
Il ritorno di Cagliostro [The Return of Cagliostro] (Daniele Ciprì & Franco Maresco)
9
Young Adam (David Mackenzie)
22
บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์ [Biutiful boksoe] [Beautiful Boxer] (Ekachai Uekrongtham)
24
Nocturne (Emily Richardson)
19
G.I. Joe PSAs (Eric Fensler)
2
De zaak Alzheimer [The Memory of a Killer] (Erik Van Looy)
18
American Eunuchs (Franco Sacchi & Gian Claudio Guiducci)
13
Ricordati di me [Remember Me, My Love] (Gabriele Muccino)
19
Trailer Town (Giuseppe Andrews)
4
David Blaine: Above the Below (Harmony Korine)
1
Isz (Jacques Perconte)
13
Le Divorce (James Ivory)
22
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Jamie Meltzer)
12
지구를 지켜라! [Jigureul jikyeora] [Save the Green Planet!] (Jang Joon-hwan)
20
La Grande Séduction [Seducing Doctor Lewis] (Jean-François Pouliot)
15
In America (Jim Sheridan)
16
Bukowski: Born into This (John Dullaghan)
15
Basic (John McTiernan)
12
Casa de los babys (John Sayles)
1
Elf (Jon Favreau)
7
Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor [A Thousand Clouds of Peace Surround the Sky, Love, You Will Never Stop Being Love] (Julián Hernández)
4
Depuis qu'Otar est parti... [Since Otar Left] (Julie Bertuccelli)
7
Open Range (Kevin Costner)
6
The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
10
The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
19
Tupac: Resurrection (Lauren Lazin)
23
紫蝴蝶 [Zi hu die] [Purple Butterfly] (Lou Ye)
8
Cavale [On the Run] (Lucas Belvaux)
3
Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezervă [Niki and Flo] (Lucian Pintilie)
10
Take Away (Marc Gracie)
20
Calais: The Last Border (Marc Isaacs)
9
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel)
25
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen [The Forest for the Trees] (Maren Ade)
11
Babae sa Breakwater [Woman of Breakwater] (Mario O'Hara)
20
Magnifico (Maryo J. de los Reyes)
11
Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk)
5
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay)
13
Northfork (Michael Polish)
11
In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
10
Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell)
17
Angels in America (Mike Nichols)
21
خواب ابریشم [Khabe abrisham] [Dream of Silk] (Nahid Rezaei)
9
Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers)
8
沙羅双樹 [Sharasōju] [Shara] (Naomi Kawase)
7
My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn)
9
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield)
7
ばかのハコ船 [Baka no hakobune] [No One's Ark] (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
21
リアリズムの宿 [Riarizumu no yado] [Ramblers] (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
3
Želary (Ondřej Trojan)
13
Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan)
20
Caterina va in città [Caterina in the Big City] (Paolo Virzì)
11
Petites Coupures [Small Cuts] (Pascal Bonitzer)
19
Pieces of April (Peter Hedges)
10
Le Coût de la vie [The Cost of Living] (Philippe Le Guay)
16
องค์บาก [Ong bak] [The Thai Warrior] (Prachya Pinkaew)
15
Il cuore altrove [The Heart Elsewhere] (Pupi Avati)
12
Girls Will Be Girls (Richard Day)
11
Alexandra's Project (Rolf De Heer)
17
The Missing (Ron Howard)
25
Freddy vs. Jason (Ronny Yu)
8
Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
4
پنج عصر [Panj é asr] [At Five in the Afternoon] (Samira Makhmalbāf)
18
High School Reunion (Sarah Jacobson)
17
軒下のならず者みたいに [Nokishitano narazumono mitaini] [Like a Desperado Under the Eaves] (Shinji Aoyama)
15
Queens of the Stone Age: Go with the Flow (Shynola)
25
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
10
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 2 (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
16
(A)Torzija [(A)Torsion] (Stefan Arsenijević)
13
Time Streams (Stephanie Maxwell)
24
The Phantom Museum: Random Forays into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (Stephen & Timothy Quay)
11
Louis and the Nazis (Stuart Cabb)
1
Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi)
4
It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg)
5
Old School (Todd Phillips)
11
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (Tom Hooper)
12
Svjedoci [Witnesses] (Vinko Brešan)
14
にーエルディーケー [Nīerudīkē] [2LDK] (Yukihiko Tsutsumi)
13
ChromiumBlue.com (Zalman King & Scott Sampler)
1
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