The Essentials (Film): The 2000s

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• Beau Travail / Claire Denis (2000)
• George Washington / David Gordon Green (2000)
• In Vanda's Room / Pedro Costa (2000)
• Time Regained / Raoúl Ruiz (2000)
• The Wind Will Carry Us / Abbas Kiarostami (2000)
• Yi Yi: A One and a Two / Edward Yang (2000)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg (2001)
• The Circle / Jafar Panahi (2001)
• Donnie Darko / Richard Kelly (2001)
• Eureka / Shinji Aoyama (2001)
• Fat Girl / Catherine Briellet (2001)
• Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff (2001)
• The Gleaners and I / Agnès Varda (2001)
• In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai (2001)
• La ciénaga / Lucrecia Martel (2001)
• La libertad / Lisandro Alonso (2001)
• Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson (2001)
• Songs from the Second Floor / Roy Andersson (2001)
• Werkmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr (2001)
• 25th Hour / Spike Lee (2002)
• Adaptation. / Spike Jonze (2002)
• Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2002)
• The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) / Zacharias Kunuk (2002)
• I'm Going Home / Manoel de Oliveira (2002)
• In Praise of Love / Jean-Luc Godard (2002)
• Morvern Callar / Lynne Ramsay (2002)
• Russian Ark / Aleksandr Sokurov (2002)
• Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
• Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar (2002)
• Turning Gate / Hong Sangsoo (2002)
• What Time Is It There? / Tsai Ming-liang (2002)
• Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki (2003)
• Come and Go / João César Monteiro (2003)
• demonlover / Olivier Assayas (2003)
• Elephant / Gus Van Sant (2003)
• Gerry / Gus Van Sant (2003)
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 / Quentin Tarantino (2003)
• Lost in Translation / Sophia Coppola (2003)
• The Man Without a Past / Aki Kaurismäki (2003)
• Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien (2003)
• Mystic River / Clint Eastwood (2003)
• Platform / Jia Zhangke (2003)
• The Son / Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne (2003)
• Unknown Pleasures / Jia Zhangke (2003)
• 13 Lakes / James Benning (2004)
• Before Sunset / Richard Linklater (2004)
• Crimson Gold / Jafar Panahi (2004)
• Distant / Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2004)
• Dogville / Lars von Trier (2004)
• Evolution of a Filipino Family / Lav Diaz (2004)
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-liang (2004)
• Kill Bill, Vol. 2 / Quentin Tarantino (2004)
• Los Angeles Plays Itself / Thom Andersen (2004)
• Moolaadé / Ousmane Sembene (2004)
• Notre musique / Jean-Luc Godard (2004)
• Tarnation / Jonathan Caouette (2004)
• 2046 / Wong Kar-wai (2005)
• Caché / Michael Haneke (2005)
• Café Lumiere / Hou Hsiao-hsien (2005)
• Grizzly Man / Werner Herzog (2005)
• A History of Violence / David Cronenberg (2005)
• The Holy Girl / Lucrecia Martel (2005)
• The Intruder / Claire Denis (2005)
• Kings and Queen / Arnaud Desplechin (2005)
• Last Days / Gus Van Sant (2005)
• Memories of Murder / Bong Joon-ho (2005)
• The New World / Terrence Malick (2005)
• Nobody Knows / Hirokazu Koreeda (2005)
• Saraband / Ingmar Bergman (2005)
• The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach (2005)
• Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2005)
• The World / Jia Zhangke (2005)
• Children of Men / Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu (2006)
• The Departed / Martin Scorsese (2006)
• L’Enfant / Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne (2006)
• Inland Empire / David Lynch (2006)
• Letters from Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood (2006)
• Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro (2006)
• Three Times / Hou Hsiao-hsien (2006)
• The Assassination of Jesse James… / Andrew Dominik (2007)
• Black Book / Paul Verhoeven (2007)
• Colossal Youth / Pedro Costa (2007)
• I Don't Want to Sleep Alone / Tsai Ming-liang (2007)
• I’m Not There / Todd Haynes (2007)
• Los muertos / Lisandro Alonso (2007)
• No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
• Private Fears in Public Places / Alain Resnais (2007)
• RR / James Benning (2007)
• Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2007)
• There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
• West of the Tracks / Wang Bing (2007)
• Zodiac / David Fincher (2007)
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / Cristian Mungui (2008)
• Alexandra / Alexandr Sokurov (2008)
• The Duchess of Langeais / Jacques Rivette (2008)
• Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien (2008)
• In the City of Sylvia / Jose Luis Guerin (2008)
• My Winnipeg / Guy Maddin (2008)
• Still Life / Jia Zhangke (2008)
• Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman (2008)
• Wendy & Lucy / Kelly Reichardt (2008)
• 24 City / Jia Zhangke (2009)
• 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis (2009)
• The Headless Woman / Lucrecia Martel (2009)
• Inglourious Basterds / Quentin Tarantino (2009)
• Liverpool / Lisandro Alonso (2009)
• Police, Adjective / Corneliu Porumboiu (2009)
• A Serious Man / Joel & Ethan Coen (2009)
• Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas (2009)
• Still Walking / Hirokazu Koreeda (2009)
• Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas (2009)
• The Sun / Aleksandr Sokurov (2009)
• The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke (2009)