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)
- Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
- Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
- Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
- The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg)
My Top 10 Discoveries During 2010 (applies to films made before the 21st century)
- Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
- Primate (1974, Frederick Wiseman)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928. Buster Keaton)
- Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1977, James Benning)
- S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (1971, Paul Sharits)
- Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
- Buffalo ’66 (1998, Vincent Gallo)
- Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
- ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1982, Michael Snow)
- A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Other 2010 films I’ve seen
- Leap Year (Michael Rowe) – 7.2
- You Are Here (Daniel Cockburn) – 7.2
- The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler) – 7.1
- Film Socialism (Jean-Luc Godard) – 7.1
- Hahaha (Hong Sangsoo) – 7.1
- Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 7.0
- The Trip (Michael Winterbottom) – 6.9
- Catfish (Schulman & Joost) – 6.9
- Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino) – 6.8
- How Do You Know (James L. Brooks) – 6.8
- Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo) – 6.6
- Empire North (Jakob S. Boeskov) – 6.5
- Beginners (Mike Mills) – 6.5
- The Arbor (Clio Barnard) – 6.5
- Tabloid (Errol Morris) – 6.5
- Guest (José Luis Guerín) – 6.5
- The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat) – 6.4
- Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield) – 6.4
- The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) – 6.4
- My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.4
- Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 6.4
- How I Ended This Summer (Alexei Popogrebsky) – 6.3
- Another Year (Mike Leigh) – 6.3
- Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes) – 6.3
- Soundtracker (Nick Sherman) – 6.3
- Benda Bilili! (Florent de la Tullaye & Renaud Barret) – 6.3
- Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) – 6.2
- Young Girls in Black (Jean Paul Civeyrac) – 6.2
- Senna (Asif Kapadia) – 6.2
- Kaboom (Gregg Araki) – 6.2
- Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) – 6.2
- Brownian Movement (Nanouk Leopold) – 6.2
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall) – 6.2
- Buried (Rodrigo Cortés) – 6.1
- I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.1
- A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj) – 6.1
- Cold Weather (Aaron Katz) – 6.1
- Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) – 6.1
- Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois) – 6.1
- Please Give (Nicole Holofcener) – 6.0
- The Social Network (David Fincher) – 6.0
- Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.0
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) – 6.0
- 127 Hours (Danny Boyle) – 6.0
- Picco (Philip Koch) – 6.0
- The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira) – 5.9
- Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica) – 5.9
- Orly (Angela Schanelec) – 5.9
- Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.8
- Festival (Jean-Claude Rousseau) – 5.8
- Carlos (Olivier Assayas) – 5.8
- The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.8
- Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek) – 5.8
- Poetry (Lee Chang-dong) – 5.8
- Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya (Eric Liebman & Jonathan Schell) – 5.8
- El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (Gereon Wetzel) – 5.7
- Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham) – 5.7
- The Joy (Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande) – 5.7
- Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross) – 5.7
- Step Up 3D (Jon M. Chu) – 5.6
- Post Mortem (Pablo Larrain) – 5.6
- Sensation (Tom Hall) – 5.6
- If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Florin Serban) – 5.6
- Fair Game (Doug Liman) – 5.6
- Lily Sometimes (Fabienne Berthaud) – 5.6
- Chantrapas (Otar Iosseliani) – 5.5
- Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine) – 5.5
- Two Gates of Sleep (Alistair Banks Griffin) – 5.5
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik) – 5.4
- On Tour (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.4
- The Embrace of the River (Nicolas Rincon Gilles) – 5.4
- Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan) – 5.3
- Curling (Denis Côté) – 5.3
- Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) – 5.3
- Udaan (Vikramaditya Motwane) – 5.3
- The Depths (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) – 5.2
- Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán) – 5.2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates) – 5.2
- Carancho (Pablo Trapero) – 5.2
- Adrienn Pál (Ágnes Kocsis) – 5.1
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (Pip Chodorov) – 5.1
- LENNONYC (Michael Epstein)- 5.1
- 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike) – 5.1
- Outbound (Bogdan George Apetri) – 5.0
- At Night, They Dance (Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault) – 5.0
- The Housemaid (Im Sangsoo) – 5.0
- The Bully Project (Lee Hirsch) – 5.0
- Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell) – 5.0
- Salt (Phillip Noyce) – 5.0
- The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan) – 5.0
- The Peddler (Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich) – 5.0
- Honey (Semih Kaplanoğlu) – 4.9
- A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) – 4.9
- Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny) – 4.9
- Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung) – 4.9
- The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier) – 4.9
- Hubble 3D (Toni Myers) – 4.8
- The Lips (Ivan Fund & Santiago Loza) – 4.8
- Tears of Gaza (Vibeke Løkkeberg) – 4.8
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz) – 4.7
- Aurora Cristi Puiu) – 4.7
- The Ditch (Wang Bing) – 4.7
- Summer of Goliath (Nicolás Pereda) – 4.6
- !Women Art Revolution – A Secret History (Lynn Hershman-Leeson) – 4.6
- Inside Job (Charles Ferguson) – 4.6
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Dmitry Vasyukov & Werner Herzog) – 4.5
- R U There (David Verbeek) – 4.5
- Family Instinct (Andris Gauja) – 4.5
- Father (José María de Orbe) – 4.4
- Tender Son – The Frankenstein Project (Kornél Mondruczó) – 4.4
- The Tourist (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) – 4.4
- Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu) – 4.4
- Howl (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) – 4.4
- The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) – 4.3
- Rubber (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.3
- Morgen (Marian Crisan) – 4.2
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos) – 4.2
- The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet) – 4.2
- Anything You Want (Achero Mañas) – 4.2
- All Good Children (Alicia Duffy) – 4.2
- Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan) – 4.0
- Route 132 (Louis Bélanger) – 4.0
- Revolución (Carlos Reygadas, Gael García Bernal, Mariana Chenillo, Patricia Riggen, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Rodrigo García, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, & Rodrigo Plá) – 4.0
- Erotic Man (Jørgen Leth) – 3.9
- Illegal (Olivier Masset-Depasse) – 3.9
- Shit Year (Cam Archer) – 3.9
- True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 3.8
- TRON: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski) – 3.8
- Our Life (Daniele Luchetti) – 3.8
- Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanovic) – 3.8
- Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) – 3.7
- Mamma Gógó (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) – 3.7
- Inception (Christopher Nolan) – 3.6
- Nainsukh (Amit Dutta) – 3.6
- Home For Christmas (Bent Hamer) – 3.6
- Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman) – 3.5
- The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia) – 3.5
- Cold Fish (Sion Sono) – 3.4
- All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (Nicolás Pereda) – 3.3
- We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau) – 3.3
- Better Mus’ Come (Storm Saulter) – 3.3
- Chongqing Blues (Xiaoshuai Wang) – 3.2
- Route Irish (Ken Loach) – 3.2
- What I Most Want (Delfina Castagnino) – 3.1
- Women Will Come: Feminists Redefining Pornography (Joanne Loton) – 3.1
- Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe) – 3.0
- The Light Thief (Aktan Arym Kubat) – 2.8
- Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) – 2.8
- October (Daniel & Diego Vega) – 2.7
- You All Are Captains (Oliver Laxe) – 2.6
- The Tree (Julie Bertucelli) – 2.5
- Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Andrew Lau) – 2.4
- Outrage (Takeshi Kitano) – 2.3
- Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller) – 2.3
- The Tiger Factory (Ming Jin Woo) – 2.2
- Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Gust Van den Berghe) – 2.0
- ANPO (Linda Hoaglund) – 2.0
- Lights Out (Fabrice Gobert) – 1.8
- The Silent House (Gustavo Hernández) – 1.2
- Dirty Girl (Abe Sylvia) – 0.9