Maybe it is a little bit too early for me to post this, especially when there are so many blind spots regrettably missed (Leviathan was shown in Singapore this month, but I did not manage to catch it). However, it is hard to wait when everyone is throwing out his list. So I hereby present my favorite 50 films of the decade so far.
1.
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2.
Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder)
3.
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
4.
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
5.
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
6.
Zero Dark Thirty (Katherine Bigelow)
7.
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
8.
Bastards (Claire Denis)
9.
Fluorentino Hupaldo (Lav Diaz)
10.
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross-Perry)
11.
Neighbouring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
12.
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
13.
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
14.
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
15.
Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier)
16.
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
17.
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
18.
Nostalgia for the light (Patricio Guzman)
19.
Beginners (Mike Mills)
20.
Not Fade Away (David Chase)
21.
This must be the place
(Paolo Sorrentino)
22.
Tuesday, After Christmas
(Radu Mutaen)
23.
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
24.
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
25.
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels)
26.
The Wind Rises (Hayao
Miyazaki)
27.
Leviathan (Verena Paravel)
28.
Only lovers left alive (Jim
Jarmusch)
29.
Oslo, August 31 (Joachim
Trier)
30.
The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
31.
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly
Reichardt)
32.
Elena (Andrey
Zvyagintsev)
33.
Attenberg (Athina Rachel
Tsangari)
34.
In the family (Patrick Wang)
35.
Keep the lights on (Ira
Sachs)
36.
The Missing Picture (Rithy
Panh)
37.
Stranger by the lake (Alain Guiraudie)
38.
Almayer’s Folly (Chantal
Akerman)
39.
Vamps (Amy Heckerlings)
40.
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
41.
Viola (Matías
Piñeiro)
42.
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
43.
Leap Year (Michael Rowe)
44.
4:44 Last Day on earth (Abel Ferrara)
45.
We are the best! (Lukas Moodysson)
46.
The butler (Lee Daniels)
47.
Tabu (Micheal Gomes)
48.
The Day He Arrives (Hong
Sang-soo)
49.
Computer Chess (Andrew
Bujalski)
50.
Project X (Nima Nourizadeh)