2. Songs From the Second Floor- Roy Andersson
3. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys- Michael Haneke
4. Yi Yi: a One and a Two- Edward Yang
5. The Heart of the World- Guy Maddin [short]
6. Eureka- Shinji Aoyama
7. George Washington- David Gordon Green
8. Werckmeister Harmonies- Bela Tarr
9. Rejected- Don Hertzfeldt [short]
10. Esther Kahn- Arnaud Desplechin
11. Requiem For a Dream- Darren Aronofsky
12. ivans xtc.- Bernard Rose
13. Before Night Falls- Julian Schnabel
14. The House of Mirth- Terence Davies
15. Together- Lukas Moodysson
16. Devils on the Doorstep- Jiang Wen
17. Wonder Boys- Curtis Hanson
18. You Can Count on Me- Kenneth Lonergan
19. Under the Sand- Francois Ozon
20. High Fidelity- Stephen Frears
21. Nurse Betty- Neil LaBute
22. Tully- Hilary Birmingham
23. Amores Perros- Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
Other notable shorts: Play (Anthony Minghella), Engram Sepals (Lewis Klahr)
Ripe for re-appraisal: Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima), Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma), The Yards (James Gray)
Need to see: As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas), Baise-moi (Coralie and Virginie Despentes), The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike), Demons (Mario O’Hara), The Foul King (Kim Ji Woon), The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage), In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa), Jung [War] In the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati), In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa), The Long Holiday (Johan Van Der Kreuken), Platform (Jia Zhang-ke), Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong), El Valley Centro (James Benning), Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo), Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi)
Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Gladiator
César Awards, Best Film: The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier)
Venice, Golden Lion: The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Sundance, Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) and You Can Count on Me
Toronto, Audience Award: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Skandies, Best Film: Yi Yi
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