2008

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
4. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
5. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
6. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
7. Encounters At the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
8. Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. August Evening (Chris Eska)
10. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)

Honorable Mentions:
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant), Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen), Still Life (Jia Zhang Ke), Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh), Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Redbelt (David Mamet), The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen), Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris), The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)