Top 5 U.S. Films “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow “The Limits of Control,” Jim Jarmusch “A Serious Man,” Joel and Ethan Coen “Two Lovers,” James Gray “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Wes Anderson —Ray Pride
Top 5 Foreign Films “Summer Hours,” Olivier Assayas “The Headless Woman,” Lucrecia Martel “35 Shots of Rum,” Claire Denis “You, the Living,” Roy Andersson “Night and Day,” Hong Sang-soo —Ray Pride
Top 5 Films “Where the Wild Things Are,” Spike Jonze “A Serious Man,” Joel and Ethan Coen “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Werner Herzog “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow “Up in the Air,” Jason Reitman —Tom Lynch
Top 5 Lead Performances Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Antichrist” Tilda Swinton, “Julia” Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker” Maria Onetto, “The Headless Woman” Nicolas Cage, “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” —Ray Pride
Top 5 Supporting Performances Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” Mo’Nique, “Precious” Paul Schneider, “Bright Star” Peter Capaldi, “In the Loop” Melanie Laurent, “Inglourious Basterds” —Ray Pride
Top 5 Performances Nicolas Cage, “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds” Mo’Nique, “Precious” Michael Stuhlbarg, “A Serious Man” Sam Rockwell, “Moon” —Tom Lynch
Top 5 Directors Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker” Lucrecia Martel, “The Headless Woman” Olivier Assayas, “Summer Hours” Claire Denis, “35 Shots of Rum” James Gray, “Two Lovers” —Ray Pride
Top 5 Documentaries “The Beaches Of Agnes,” Agnes Varda “Of Time And The City,” Terence Davies “Oblivion,” Heddy Honigmann “24 City,” Jia Zhang Ke “Forbidden Lie$,” Anna Broinowski —Ray Pride
Top 5 First Features Steve McQueen, “Hunger” Barry Jenkins, “Medicine for Melancholy” Armando Iannucci, “In the Loop” Antonio Campos, “Afterschool” Oren Moverman, “The Messenger”
Top 5 Films of Previous Years That I Finally Saw in 2009 (with one exception) “The Bands Visit,” Eran Kolirin (2007) “Hidden,” Hanna Heilborn (2002) “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello,” Anthony Lucas (2005) “Paradise Now,” Hany Abu-Assad (2005) “The Unmaking of I Am A Sex Addict,” Caveh Zahedi (2009!) —Damien James
Top 5 Film: January 2020 Chaplin, Kael, Cage, Lubitsch, Altman, Scorsese, Bertolucci, Reichardt, to banish the winter blues.
Film Top 5: July 2019 The best feature film of 2017 marks its 35mm debut; "Hedwig" and "Escape from New York" are digitally restored; Ari Aster follows up "Hereditary" with a sunshiney horror; and Quentin Tarantino numbers his ninth, count 'em, ninth feature.
Top 5 Film: December 2019 Safdies; Sandler; Louisa May Alcott; Greta Gerwig; Saoirse Ronan; Almodóvar; Banderas; Ridley; Driver... Steve Bannon?
Film Top 5: April 2019 Into space with Claire Denis and South Florida miasma with Harmony Korine, as well as morsels of life from Hong Sang-soo, sprawling modern life from Patrick Wang and Alison Klayman deciphering the trail Steve Bannon cannot but leave behind.
