1. The New World (dir. Terrence Malick)

2. The Phantom Limb / Pan With Us (dir. Jay Rosenblatt / David Russo)

3. 2046 (dir. Wong Kar Wai)

4. Saraband (dir. Ingmar Bergman)

5. Funny Ha Ha / Mutual Appreciation (dir. Andrew Bujalski)

6. A History Of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)

7. Kissing On The Mouth / LOL (dir. Joe Swanberg)

8. Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith / King Kong (dir. George Lucas / Peter Jackson)

9. Last Days (dir. Gus Van Sant)

10. I'll leave this one open for the time being; I've yet to see Cache and The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, and for the present can't decide between Capote and Broken Flowers and Be Here To Love Me and The Squid And The Whale and Brokeback Mountain and Head-On and Me And You And Everyone We Know and Yes and a whole host of exemplary films. It was a damn good year.