There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
Once (dir. John Carney)
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird)
Brand Upon the Brain! (dir. Guy Maddin)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Michael Clayton (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Zoo (dir. Robinson Devor)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (dir. Andrew Dominik)
Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
Grindhouse (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
with a nod to Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth)
Starting Out in the Evening (dir. Andrew Wagner)
No Country for Old Men (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Lookout (dir. Scott Frank)
Away from Her (dir. Sarah Polley)
Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (dir. Scott Hicks)
Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Lake of Fire (dir. Tony Kaye)
You, The Living (dir. Roy Andersson)
Waitress (dir. Adrienne Shelly)
The Savages (dir. Tamara Jenkins)
Charlie Wilson’s War (dir. Mike Nichols)
Paris, Je T’aime (dir. 22 Filmmakers)
Snow Angels (dir. David Gordon Green)
Frownland (dir. Ronald Bronstein)
The Mist (dir Frank Darabont)
In the Valley of Elah (dir. Paul Haggis)
Margo at the Wedding (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Juno (dir. Jason Reitman)
Bridges to Terabithia (dir. Gabor Csupo)
Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck)
La Vie en Rose (dir. Olivier Dahan)
No End in Sight (dir. Charles Ferguson)
Terror’s Advocate (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn)
Hairspray (dir. Adam Shankman)
Romance & Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro)
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
The Darjeeling Limited (dir. Wes Anderson)
The Great Debaters (dir. Denzel Washington)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (dir. Seth Gordon)
Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White)
The Brave One (dir. Neil Jordon)

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