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Donna Bowman

  1. The Dark Knight
  2. WALL-E
  3. Synecdoche, New York
  4. My Winnipeg
  5. Transsiberian
  6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
  7. The Wrestler
  8. Standard Operating Procedure
  9. The Edge of Heaven
  10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Matthew Butcher

  1. Woman on the Beach
  2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  3. The Secret of the Grain
  4. Paranoid Park
  5. Silent Light
  6. Summer Palace
  7. Che
  8. Happy-Go-Lucky
  9. My Winnipeg
  10. WALL-E

Dave Cowen

  1. Speed Racer
  2. Synecdoche, NY
  3. City of Ember
  4. The Fall
  5. The Wrestler
  6. Kabluey
  7. My Winnipeg
  8. Chicago 10
  9. The Visitor
  10. Frost / Nixon

Mike D'Angelo

  1. Afterschool
  2. Rachel Getting Married
  3. Burn After Reading
  4. Lorna's Silence
  5. WALL•E
  6. Revanche
  7. Sita Sings the Blues
  8. The Headless Woman
  9. The Brothers Bloom
  10. A Christmas Tale

Bilge Ebiri

  1. Paranoid Park
  2. The Dark Knight
  3. My Winnipeg
  4. Silent Light
  5. Wendy and Lucy
  6. Tell No One
  7. Chicago 10
  8. The Bank Job
  9. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  10. The Liberty Kid

Bryant Frazer

  1. Let the Right One In
  2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  3. Silent Light
  4. Man on Wire
  5. Flight of the Red Balloon
  6. Stuck
  7. The Dark Knight
  8. Paranoid Park
  9. Encounters at the End of the World
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Alex Fung

  1. Rachel Getting Married
  2. Burn After Reading
  3. Wall-E
  4. Wendy And Lucy
  5. Iron Man
  6. Let The Right One In
  7. Happy-Go-Lucky
  8. A Girl Cut In Two
  9. The Last Mistress
  10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Skander Halim

  1. A Christmas Tale
  2. Encounters at the End of the World
  3. Waltz with Bashir
  4. Sex and Death 101
  5. Wendy and Lucy
  6. Still Life
  7. A Girl Cut in Two
  8. Paranoid Park
  9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
  10. The Class

Sky Hirschkron

  1. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  2. Ballast (Lance Hammer)
  3. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
  4. Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
  5. Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  6. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
  7. Gomorra (Matteo Garrone)
  8. Boogie (Radu Muntean)
  9. Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  10. Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)

Rachel Jacobson

  1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
  2. Man on Wire
  3. A Christmas Tale
  4. Happy Go-Lucky
  5. The Edge of Heaven
  6. Milk
  7. Let the Right One In
  8. The Wrestler
  9. Encounters at the End of the World
  10. Paranoid Park

Don Marks

  1. Synecdoche, New York
  2. Still Walking
  3. Funny Games
  4. The Dark Knight
  5. The Class
  6. WALL-E
  7. Four Nights With Anna
  8. 35 Rhums
  9. Redbelt
  10. Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil

Jeff McCloud

Victor Morton

  1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
  2. Silent Light
  3. Rachel Getting Married
  4. The Class
  5. The Dark Knight
  6. Woman on the Beach
  7. Elite Squad
  8. The Wrestler
  9. My Winnipeg
  10. Tropic Thunder

Noel Murray

  1. WALL-E
  2. Burn After Reading
  3. Synecdoche, New York
  4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
  5. The Dark Knight
  6. Surfwise
  7. Rachel Getting Married
  8. Paranoid Park
  9. Milk
  10. My Winnipeg

Charles Odell

  1. The Dark Knight
  2. WALL-E
  3. Paranoid Park
  4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days
  5. Still Walking
  6. My Winnipeg
  7. The Wrestler
  8. Rachel Getting Married
  9. Let the Right One In
  10. In the City of Sylvia

Mark Pittillo

  1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
  2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  3. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
  4. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
  5. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007)
  6. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007)
  7. Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 2007)
  8. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
  10. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007)

Matt Prigge

  1. A Christmas Tale
  2. Silent Light
  3. The Flight of the Red Balloon
  4. Synecdoche, New York
  5. Paranoid Park
  6. Burn After Reading
  7. The Duchess of Langeais
  8. Woman on the Beach
  9. In the City of Sylvia
  10. Che

Zach Ralston

  1. Synecdoche, NY
  2. Rachel Getting Married
  3. Paranoid Park
  4. Funny Games
  5. WALL*E
  6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  7. Iron Man
  8. Milk
  9. Quarantine
  10. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Peter Reiher

Scott Renshaw

  1. Rachel Getting Married
  2. My Winnipeg
  3. WALL-E
  4. The Wrestler
  5. The Dark Knight
  6. Man on Wire
  7. Funny Games
  8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  9. Bigger, Stronger, Faster
  10. Kung Fu Panda

Jim Ridley

Vadim Rizov

  1. A Christmas Tale
  2. Gitmek: My Marlon And Brando
  3. Happy-Go-Lucky
  4. Of Time And The City
  5. Tony Manero
  6. The Order Of Myths
  7. Vicky Christina Barcelona
  8. The Dark Knight
  9. Just Anybody
  10. Tulpan

Josh Rothkopf

  1. The Wrestler
  2. Man on Wire
  3. Happy-Go-Lucky
  4. The Fall
  5. Frost/Nixon
  6. Rachel Getting Married
  7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  8. Paranoid Park
  9. The Duchess of Langeais
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Dan Sallitt

  1. The Tracey Fragments
  2. Silent Light
  3. Ballast
  4. Still Life
  5. The Last Mistress
  6. Nights and Weekends
  7. Woman on the Beach
  8. Before I Forget
  9. The Wackness
  10. Poor Boy's Game

Missy Schwartz

  1. Silent Light
  2. 9 Lou Reed's Berlin
  3. Rachel Getting Married
  4. Man On Wire
  5. Reprise
  6. Momma's Man
  7. Happy-Go-Lucky
  8. 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
  9. Ballast
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Michael Sicinski

  1. When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves)
  2. Origin of the Species (Ben Rivers)
  3. Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
  4. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
  5. Speechless (Scott Stark)
  6. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
  7. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
  8. 7915 KM (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
  9. 1859 (Fred Worden)
  10. Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)

Chris Stults

  1. When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves)
  2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
  3. False Aging (Lewis Klahr)
  4. Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr)
  5. Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
  6. Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  7. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
  8. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers)
  10. Hunger (Steve McQueen)

Froilan Vispo

Daniel Waters

  1. Synecdoche, New York
  2. A Christmas tale
  3. tell no one
  4. in bruges
  5. waltz with bashir
  6. speed racer
  7. reprise
  8. the dark knight
  9. my winnipeg
  10. the machine girl

Andrew Wright

Ryan Wu

  1. The Dark Knight (Nolan)
  2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
  3. Wall-E (Stanton)
  4. 4 Months, 3 Days, and 2 Weeks (Mungiu)
  5. Burn After Reading (Coen)
  6. The Class (Cantet)
  7. In the City of Sylvia (Guerin)
  8. A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
  9. Duchess of Langeais (Rivette)
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen)