2004 Favourites

Subject to much tinkering, my top ten films of 2004:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)

2. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

3. Somersault (Cate Shortland)

4. Hotel (Jessica Hausner)

5. Adam & Paul (Leonard Abrahamson)

6. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)

7. A Common Thread (Éléonore Faucher)

8. Beautiful City (Asghar Farhadi)

9. Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll)

10. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller)

10= Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)

10= Birth (Jonathan Glazer)

10= The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)

10= DiG! (Ondi Timoner)

10= Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)

10= Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)

10= Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)

10= The Miners' Strike (Steve Condie)

10= Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)

10= Sideways (Alexander Payne)

10= Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)

10= 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)

10= Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)

10= Vital (Tsukamoto Shinya)

10= Yes (Sally Potter)

Other notable films:

The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)

Brothers (Susanne Bier)

Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)

Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)

Enduring Love (Roger Michell)

5x2 (François Ozon)

Head-On (Fatih Akin)

A Hole in My Second Heart (Lukas Moodysson)

The Incredibles (Brad Bird)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)

Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui)

Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)

La Niña Santa (Lucrecia Martel)

Pusher II (Nicolas Winding Refn)

Red Lights (Cédric Kahn)

Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)

Silver City (John Sayles)

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)

A Way of Life (Amma Asante)

Zombie Honeymoon (David Gebroe)

Other yearly favourites.