1. Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae / Take Care of My Cat (Jae-eun Jeong)
2. Batang West Side (Lav Diaz)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
4. The Ground (Robert Beavers)
5. L'emploi du temps / Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
6. Yeopgijeogin geunyeo / My Sassy Girl (Jae-young Kwak)
7. Dream Work (Peter Tcherkassky)
8. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
9. Nimeh-ye penhan / The Hidden Half (Tahmineh Milani)
10. Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
11. Faat Kiné (Ousmane Sembene)
12. Baran (Majid Majidi)
13. The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14. Riri Shushu no subete / All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
15. Sennen joyû / Millenium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
16. Hatuna Meuheret / Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili)
17. Zir-e poost-e shahr / Unde the Skin of the City (Rakshan Banietemad)
18. Failan (Hae-sung Song)
19. Nekojiru-sô / Cat Soup (Tatsuo Satô)
20. Dagon (Stuart Gordon)
HM - are these OVERRATED? Maybe not but I don't see the need to promote them more -
Mulholland Dr
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away
More HM:
ABC Africa
Âme noire - Black Soul
Atanarjuat
Bomnaleun ganda / One Fine Spring Day
The Deep End
Delbaran
Donnie Darko
El espinazo del diablo / The Devil's Backbone
Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice
Gosford Park
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
La jeune fille et les nuages / The Young Girl and the Clouds
Kairo / Pulse
Karmen Geï
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Lan Yu
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Man Who Wasn't There
Moulin Rouge!
Ndeysaan / The Price of Forgiveness
Otilia Rauda
Qian xi man bo / Millenium Mambo
Raye makhfi / Secret Ballot
La stanza del figlio / The Son's Room
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Waking Life
Y tu mamá también
Zir-e noor-e maah / Under the Moonlight
COMMENT: An especially good year for the cinemas of South Korea, Iran and Japan, with many more for me to see from each, and many more from elsewhere, of course. But even with barely a hundred films seen, this year seems uncommonly strong - a fine welcome to a new century and millenium.