{"id":1527,"date":"2010-01-05T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2024-12-21T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:20:27","slug":"dynamic-top-10-films-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/dynamic-top-10-films-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Films of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

This list, will be updated each time I see a film that had its world premiere in 2010 and is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

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  1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/li>\n
  2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)<\/li>\n
  3. Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg)<\/li>\n
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/li>\n
  5. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)<\/li>\n
  6. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)<\/li>\n
  7. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)<\/li>\n
  8. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)<\/li>\n
  9. Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)<\/li>\n
  10. The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    My Top 10 Discoveries During 2010<\/span><\/strong> (applies to films made before the 21st century)<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)<\/li>\n
    2. Primate (1974, Frederick Wiseman)<\/li>\n
    3. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928. Buster Keaton)<\/li>\n
    4. Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1977, James Benning)<\/li>\n
    5. S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (1971, Paul Sharits)<\/li>\n
    6. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)<\/li>\n
    7. Buffalo ’66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)<\/li>\n
    8. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)<\/li>\n
    9. \u2018Rameau\u2019s Nephew\u2019 by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1982, Michael Snow)<\/li>\n
    10. A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Other 2010 films I’ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      • Leap Year (Michael Rowe) – 7.2<\/li>\n
      • You Are Here (Daniel Cockburn) – 7.2<\/li>\n
      • The City Below (Christoph Hochh\u00e4usler) – 7.1<\/li>\n
      • Film Socialism (Jean-Luc Godard) – 7.1<\/li>\n
      • Hahaha (Hong Sangsoo) – 7.1<\/li>\n
      • Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 7.0<\/li>\n
      • The Trip (Michael Winterbottom) – 6.9<\/li>\n
      • Catfish (Schulman & Joost) – 6.9<\/li>\n
      • Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino) – 6.8<\/li>\n
      • How Do You Know (James L. Brooks) – 6.8<\/li>\n
      • Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo) – 6.6<\/li>\n
      • Empire North (Jakob S. Boeskov) – 6.5<\/li>\n
      • Beginners (Mike Mills) – 6.5<\/li>\n
      • The Arbor (Clio Barnard) – 6.5<\/li>\n
      • Tabloid (Errol Morris) – 6.5<\/li>\n
      • Guest (Jos\u00e9 Luis Guer\u00edn) – 6.5<\/li>\n
      • The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat) – 6.4<\/li>\n
      • Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield) – 6.4<\/li>\n
      • The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) – 6.4<\/li>\n
      • My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.4<\/li>\n
      • Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
      • How I Ended This Summer (Alexei Popogrebsky) – 6.3<\/li>\n
      • Another Year (Mike Leigh) – 6.3<\/li>\n
      • Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes) – 6.3<\/li>\n
      • Soundtracker (Nick Sherman) – 6.3<\/li>\n
      • Benda Bilili! (Florent de la Tullaye & Renaud Barret) – 6.3<\/li>\n
      • Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Young Girls in Black (Jean Paul Civeyrac) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Senna (Asif Kapadia) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Kaboom (Gregg Araki) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Brownian Movement (Nanouk Leopold) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall) – 6.2<\/li>\n
      • Buried (Rodrigo Cort\u00e9s) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • Cold Weather (Aaron Katz) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois) – 6.1<\/li>\n
      • Please Give (Nicole Holofcener) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • The Social Network (David Fincher) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • 127 Hours (Danny Boyle) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • Picco (Philip Koch) – 6.0<\/li>\n
      • The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira) – 5.9<\/li>\n
      • Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica) – 5.9<\/li>\n
      • Orly (Angela Schanelec) – 5.9<\/li>\n
      • Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • Festival (Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • Carlos (Olivier Assayas) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya (Eric Liebman & Jonathan Schell) – 5.8<\/li>\n
      • El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (Gereon Wetzel) – 5.7<\/li>\n
      • Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham) – 5.7<\/li>\n
      • The Joy (Felipe Bragan\u00e7a & Marina Meliande) – 5.7<\/li>\n
      • Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
      • Step Up 3D (Jon M. Chu) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • Post Mortem (Pablo Larrain) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • Sensation (Tom Hall) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Florin Serban) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • Fair Game (Doug Liman) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • Lily Sometimes (Fabienne Berthaud) – 5.6<\/li>\n
      • Chantrapas (Otar Iosseliani) – 5.5<\/li>\n
      • Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine) – 5.5<\/li>\n
      • Two Gates of Sleep (Alistair Banks Griffin) – 5.5<\/li>\n
      • Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik) – 5.4<\/li>\n
      • On Tour (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.4<\/li>\n
      • The Embrace of the River (Nicolas Rincon Gilles) – 5.4<\/li>\n
      • Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan) – 5.3<\/li>\n
      • Curling (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) – 5.3<\/li>\n
      • Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) – 5.3<\/li>\n
      • Udaan (Vikramaditya Motwane) – 5.3<\/li>\n
      • The Depths (Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
      • Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzm\u00e1n) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
      • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
      • Carancho (Pablo Trapero) – 5.2<\/li>\n
      • Adrienn P\u00e1l (\u00c1gnes Kocsis) – 5.1<\/li>\n
      • Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (Pip Chodorov) – 5.1<\/li>\n
      • LENNONYC (Michael Epstein)- 5.1<\/li>\n
      • 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike) – 5.1<\/li>\n
      • Outbound (Bogdan George Apetri) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • At Night, They Dance (Isabelle Lavigne & St\u00e9phane Thibault) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • The Housemaid (Im Sangsoo) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • The Bully Project (Lee Hirsch) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • Salt (Phillip Noyce) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • The Peddler (Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich) – 5.0<\/li>\n
      • Honey (Semih Kaplano\u011flu) – 4.9<\/li>\n
      • A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) – 4.9<\/li>\n
      • Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
      • Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung) – 4.9<\/li>\n
      • The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier) – 4.9<\/li>\n
      • Hubble 3D (Toni Myers) – 4.8<\/li>\n
      • The Lips (Ivan Fund & Santiago Loza) – 4.8<\/li>\n
      • Tears of Gaza (Vibeke L\u00f8kkeberg) – 4.8<\/li>\n
      • Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz) – 4.7<\/li>\n
      • Aurora Cristi Puiu) – 4.7<\/li>\n
      • The Ditch (Wang Bing) – 4.7<\/li>\n
      • Summer of Goliath (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda) – 4.6<\/li>\n
      • !Women Art Revolution – A Secret History (Lynn Hershman-Leeson) – 4.6<\/li>\n
      • Inside Job (Charles Ferguson) – 4.6<\/li>\n
      • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog) – 4.5<\/li>\n
      • R U There (David Verbeek) – 4.5<\/li>\n
      • Family Instinct (Andris Gauja) – 4.5<\/li>\n
      • Father (Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda de Orbe) – 4.4<\/li>\n
      • Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project (Korn\u00e9l Mondrucz\u00f3) – 4.4<\/li>\n
      • The Tourist (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
      • Biutiful (Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu) – 4.4<\/li>\n
      • Howl (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) – 4.4<\/li>\n
      • The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) – 4.3<\/li>\n
      • Rubber (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.3<\/li>\n
      • Morgen (Marian Crisan) – 4.2<\/li>\n
      • Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos) – 4.2<\/li>\n
      • The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet) – 4.2<\/li>\n
      • Anything You Want (Achero Ma\u00f1as) – 4.2<\/li>\n
      • All Good Children (Alicia Duffy) – 4.2<\/li>\n
      • Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan) – 4.0<\/li>\n
      • Route 132 (Louis B\u00e9langer) – 4.0<\/li>\n
      • Revoluci\u00f3n (Carlos Reygadas, Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal, Mariana Chenillo, Patricia Riggen, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Rodrigo Garc\u00eda, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, & Rodrigo Pl\u00e1) – 4.0<\/li>\n
      • Erotic Man (J\u00f8rgen Leth) – 3.9<\/li>\n
      • Illegal (Olivier Masset-Depasse) – 3.9<\/li>\n
      • Shit Year (Cam Archer) – 3.9<\/li>\n
      • True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 3.8<\/li>\n
      • TRON: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski) – 3.8<\/li>\n
      • Our Life (Daniele Luchetti) – 3.8<\/li>\n
      • Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanovic) – 3.8<\/li>\n
      • Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) – 3.7<\/li>\n
      • Mamma G\u00f3g\u00f3 (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) – 3.7<\/li>\n
      • Inception (Christopher Nolan) – 3.6<\/li>\n
      • Nainsukh (Amit Dutta) \u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
      • Home For Christmas (Bent Hamer) – 3.6<\/li>\n
      • Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman) – 3.5<\/li>\n
      • The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia) – 3.5<\/li>\n
      • Cold Fish (Sion Sono) – 3.4<\/li>\n
      • All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda) \u2013 3.3<\/li>\n
      • We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau) – 3.3<\/li>\n
      • Better Mus\u2019 Come (Storm Saulter) – 3.3<\/li>\n
      • Chongqing Blues (Xiaoshuai Wang) – 3.2<\/li>\n
      • Route Irish (Ken Loach) – 3.2<\/li>\n
      • What I Most Want (Delfina Castagnino) – 3.1<\/li>\n
      • Women Will Come: Feminists Redefining Pornography (Joanne Loton) – 3.1<\/li>\n
      • Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe) – 3.0<\/li>\n
      • The Light Thief (Aktan Arym Kubat) – 2.8<\/li>\n
      • Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) – 2.8<\/li>\n
      • October (Daniel & Diego Vega) – 2.7<\/li>\n
      • You All Are Captains (Oliver Laxe) – 2.6<\/li>\n
      • The Tree (Julie Bertucelli) – 2.5<\/li>\n
      • Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Andrew Lau) – 2.4<\/li>\n
      • Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) – 2.3<\/li>\n
      • Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) – 2.3<\/li>\n
      • The Tiger Factory (Ming Jin Woo) – 2.2<\/li>\n
      • Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Gust Van den Berghe) – 2.0<\/li>\n
      • ANPO (Linda Hoaglund) – 2.0<\/li>\n
      • Lights Out (Fabrice Gobert) – 1.8<\/li>\n
      • The Silent House (Gustavo Hern\u00e1ndez) – 1.2<\/li>\n
      • Dirty Girl (Abe Sylvia) – 0.9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        This list, will be updated each time I see a film that had its world premiere in 2010 and is better than at least one of the films already on the list. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog) Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":82,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24897,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/24897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}