Best of the Year 2004

Ten best

1. Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
2. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, Korea)
3. = The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, USA)
Crimson Gold (Jafer Panahi, Iran)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, USA)
In My Father's Den (Brad McGann, New Zealand)
Luna Rossa (Antonio Capuano, Italy)
Pas Sur Le Bouche (Alain Resnais, France)
The Return (Andre Zviaguintsev, Russia)
Two Angels (Mahmad Haghihat, Iran)

Best on DVD (Films not previously seen)

Tu Ridi (Paolo and Vittoria Taviani, Italy)
Ogro (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Yu Lik Wai, Hong Kong)
Liliom (Fritz Lang, France)
The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont, France)
If You Were Me (omnibus of sketch films made by six different directors for the Koran Human Rights Commission)

Guilty Pleasures

Open Range (Kevin Costner, USA)
Immortal (Enki Bilal, France)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, USA)

Narcissism prize

Garden State (Zach Braff, USA)

Best cinephilia moment

The homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris in Francois Dupeyron's M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (France)

Greatest Absence

The last two films made by Hirokazu Kore-eda Distance and Nobody Knows (Japan)

Best old Movies

Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1933)
One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch/George Cukor, USA, 1932)