Sight & Sound Best Films of 2008

I went through the pdf file of all the votes that Sight & Sound received from their worldwide contributors. I've ordered this list of films (170+!) in order of the number of votes they received.

18
Hunger (McQueen)

11
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, PT)

10
Wall-E (Stanton)

9
Gomorrah (Garrone)

8
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
The Class (Cantet)

7
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
Of Time And The City (Davies)

6
Let The Right One In (Alfredson)

5
In Bruges (McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (Nolan)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman)
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
The Headless Woman (Martel)

4
Man On Wire (Marsh)
Persepolis (Satradi)
Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
Still Walking (Koreeda)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
United Red Army (Wakamatsu)

3
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
Che (Soderbergh)
Liverpool (Alonso)
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
The Silence of Lorna (Dardenne)
Itineraire de Jean Bricard (Straub & Huillet)
Le Genou d'Artemide (Straub)
Our Beloved Month of August (Gomes)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien)
Unrelated (Hogg)

2
35 Shots of Rhum (Denis)
Be Kind, Rewind (Gondry)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
I've Loved You So Long (Claudel)
Il Divo (Sorrentino)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (Holdridge)
Lake Tahoe (Eimbecke)
Lust, Caution (Lee)
Milk (Van Sant)
No Country for Old Men (Coen)
Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher)
Three Monkeys (Ceylan)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
Tony Manero (Larrain)
24 City (Zhang-ke)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
A Week Alone (Murga)
Appaloosa (Harris)
Bullet in the Head (Morales)
Colossal Youth (Costa)
Couscous (Ketiche)
End of the Rainbow (Nugent)
Heartbeat Detector (Koltz)
Import/Export (Seidl)
Julia (Zonca)
Le premier venu (Doillon)
Parque via (Rivero)
RR (Benning)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Gibney)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Tyson (Toback)

1
Adoration (Egoyan)
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (Zhang)
Burn After Reading (Coen)
Charlie Wilson's War (Nichols)
Cloverfield (Reeves)
Edge of Heaven (Akin)
Generation Kill (Simon)
Gone Baby Gone (Affleck)
Helen (Lawlor/Molloy)
Hellboy II (del Toro)
I Served The King of England (Menzel)
In The City of Sylvia (Guerín)
Iron Man (Favreau)
Jar City (Kormakur)
Juno (Reitman)
Katyn (Wajda)
Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie)
Mad Detective (To)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sollett)
Offside (Panahi)
Sleep Furiously (Koppel)
The Changeling (Eastwood)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
The King of Kong (Gordon)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
You, The Living (Andersson)
99 francs (Kounen)
300 (Snyder)
Altar (Ilarde)
Ano Una (Cuaron)
Ballast (Hammer)
Birdwatchers (Bechis)
California Dreamin' (Endless) (Nemescu)
Camino (Fesser)
Caramel (Labaki)
Chaos Theory (Siega)
Chelsea on the Rocks (Ferrera)
Chop Shop (Ghobadi)
Client (Balasko)
Death In The Land of Encantos (Diaz)
Emerald (Weerasethakul)
Fine, Totally Fine (Yosuke)
Frownland (Bronstein)
Good Cats (Liang)
Half Moon (Ghobadi)
Heavy Metal in Baghdad (Alvi)
Hotel Diaries (Smith)
I'm Going To Explode (Naranjo)
I'm Not There (Haynes)
In The Valley of Elah (Haggis)
In The Woods (Vester)
JCVD (El Mechri)
Johnny Mad Dog (Sauvaire)
Joy Division (Gee)
L'aimée (Desplechin)
La Rabia (Carri)
La Terza madre (Argento)
La Vie Moderne (Depardon)
Laila's Birthday (Masharawi)
Last Days (Ponce)
Lawrence of Belgravia (Kelly)
Le Dernier Macquis (Ameur-Zaimeche)
Le Diexieume Souffle (Corneau)
Let's Make Money (Wagenhofer)
Los Bastardos (Escalante)
Love and Other Crimes (Arsenijevic)
Mamma Mia! (Lloyd)
Melancholia (Diaz)
Mongol (Bodrov)
Patria mia, nomad direction (Zagorac)
Prisoner, Terrorist (Masao)
Puffball (Roeg)
Redbelt (Mamet)
Rembrandt's J'accuse (Greenaway)
Revanche (Spielmann)
Savage Grace (Kalin)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Serbis (Mendoza)
Shine a Light (Scorsese)
Shirin (Kiarostami)
Si le vent souleve les sables (Hansel)
Snow (Begic)
Stalags (Libsker)
Step Brothers (McKay)
Stop-Loss (Peirce)
Stranded (Arijon)
Subramanyapuram (Kumar)
Sweeney Todd (Burton)
The Banishment (Zvyagintsev)
The Gift to Stalin (Abdrashev)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru)
The Good, The Bad and the Weird (Kim)
The Happening (Shyamalan)
The Lie of the Land (Dineen)
The Mist (Darabont)
The Orphanage (Bayona)
The Solitary Life of Cranes (Weber)
The Witnesses (Techine)
Tout est pardonne (Hansen-Love)
Tropic Thunder (Stiller)
Trouble The Water (Lessen/Deal)
Tulpay (Dvortsevoy)
Two-Legged Horse (Makhmalbaf, S.)
Uprise (Aguilar)
We Own The Night (Gray)
Years When I Was A Child Outside (Torres)
Yumurta (Kaplanoglu)
Z32 (Mograbi)

November 2009 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
9 (Shane Acker) 54/100
An Education (Lone Scherfig) 67/100
Army of Crime (L'armée du crime) (Robert Guédiguian) 88/100
Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson) 88/100
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea) 62/100
Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland) 48/100
Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (Shane Meadows) 41/100
Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi) (Shion Sono) 82/100
Tales from the Golden Age (Amintiri din epoca de aur) (Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru) 74/100
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos) 68/100
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) 75/100
Thirst (Bakjwi) (Chan-wook Park) 69/100
Welcome (Philippe Lioret) 71/100

Eager to Watch:

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (Le premier jour du reste de ta vie) (Rémi Bezançon)
Ip Man (Wilson Yip)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Baabarr (Ashu Trikha)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Peter Hyams)
Colin (Marc Price)
Dead Man Running (Alex De Rakoff)
Died Young Stayed Pretty (Eileen Yaghoobian)
District 13 Ultimatum (Patrick Alessandrin)
Driving Aphrodite (Donald Petrie)
The Final Destination (David R. Ellis)
G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers)
Gamer (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor)
Greek Pete (Andrew Haigh)
Jack Said (Lee Basannavar, Michael Tchoubouroff)
Ong Bak The Beginning (Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai)
Passchendaele (Paul Gross)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
Sorority Row (Stewart Hendler)
The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard (Neal Brennan)
The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron) (Nikolai Müllerschön)
Triangle (Christopher Smith)
Whiteout (Dominic Sena)

Edits:
Moved Katalin Varga from Will Watch to Watched 28/10/09
Moved Tales from the Golden Age from Will Watch to Watched 12/11/09
Moved Fantastic Mr. Fox from Eager to Watch to Watched 14/11/09
Moved 9 from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 16/11/09
Moved Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno from Will Watch to Watched 24/11/09
Moved An Education from Eager to Watch to Watched 16/12/09
Moved Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee from Will Watch to Watched 17/12/09
Moved Love Exposure from Might Possibly Watch to Watched 26/12/09
Moved The Cove from Will Watch to Watched 30/12/09
Moved Welcome from Will Watch to Watched 14/3/10

October 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Cherry Falls (Geoffrey Wright) 26/100
Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven) 61/100
Me, Myself and Irene (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly) 65/100
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 74/100
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans) 52/100
Snatch (Guy Ritchie) 73/100

Eager to Watch:
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Bad ma ra khahad bord) (Abbas Kiarostami)

Will Watch:
Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry)
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)

Might Possibly Watch:
Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del corazón) (Montxo Armendáriz)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Elephant Juice (Sam Miller)
Going Off Big Time (Jim Doyle)
Gossip (Davis Guggenheim)
Hotel Splendide (Terence Gross)
Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton)
Love & Sex (Valerie Breiman)
The Luzhin Defence (Marleen Gorris)
Miss Julie (Mike Figgis)
Nightfall (David Twohy)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Play It to the Bone (Ron Shelton)
Shaft (John Singleton)
Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey)
Titus (Julie Taymor)
Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish)

November 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
In The Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa) (Kar Wai Wong) 94/100
Memento (Christopher Nolan) 84/100
Road Trip (Todd Phillips) 65/100
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies) 84/100
What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis) 68/100

Eager to Watch:
Goya in Bordeaux (Goya en Burdeos) (Carlos Saura)
Water Drops On Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes) (François Ozon)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The Golden Bowl (James Ivory)
Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
I Could Read the Sky (Nicola Bruce)
It Was an Accident (Metin Hüseyin)
The Little Vampire (Uli Edel)
Nasty Neighbours (Debbie Isitt)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (Peter Segal)
Purely Belter (Mark Herman)
Romeo Must Die (Andrzej Bartkowiak)
Sorted (Alexander Jovy)
Tom's Midnight Garden (Willard Carroll)
Where the Money Is (Marek Kanievska)

Edits:
Moved The House of Mirth from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/1/10

December 2000 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release informatio is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Bring It On (Peyton Reed) 34/100
Coyote Ugly (David McNally) 50/100
Human Resources (Ressources humaines) (Laurent Cantet) 82/100
Loser (Amy Heckerling) 41/100
The Skulls (Rob Cohen) 56/100
Suzhou River (Suzhou he) (Ye Lou) 64/100

Eager to Watch:
The Road Home (Wo de fu qin mu qin) (Yimou Zhang)

Will Watch:
Harry He's Here to Help (Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien) (Dominik Moll)
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)

Might Possibly Watch:
East-West (Est - Ouest) (Régis Wargnier)
Into the Arms of Strangers Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bedazzled (Harold Ramis)
The Best Man (Malcolm D. Lee)
Black and White (James Toback)
Bodywork (Gareth Rhys Jones)
Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
Center Stage (Nicholas Hytner)
Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta)
Complicity (Gavin Millar)
Dinosaur (Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag)
Disney's The Kid (Jon Turteltaub)
Duets (Bruce Paltrow)
Flawless (Joel Schumacher)
Grey Owl (Richard Attenborough)
Gun Shy (Eric Blakeney)
Judy Berlin (Eric Mendelsohn)
Pourquoi pas moi? (Stéphane Giusti)
Siam Sunset (John Polson)
The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie)
Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams)
The Yards (James Gray)

January 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) 81/100
Charlie's Angels (McG) 49/100
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (Ang Lee) 87/100
Meet The Parents (Jay Roach) 70/100

Eager to Watch:
Blackboards (Takhté siah) (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Les Destinées sentimentales (Olivier Assayas)
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen)

Will Watch:
The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Escort (Mauvaise passe) (Michel Blanc)
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
The Original Kings of Comedy (Spike Lee)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
102 Dalmatians (Kevin Lima)
The Art of War (Christian Duguay)
Cecil B. Demented (John Waters)
Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright)
Drôle de Félix (Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau)
La Fidélité (Andrzej Zulawski)
The Grinch (Ron Howard)
Little Nicky (Steven Brill)
Merlin The Return (Paul Matthews)
Ready to Rumble (Brian Robbins)
Saltwater (Conor McPherson)
Second Generation (Shane O'Sullivan)
Urban Legends Final Cut (John Ottman)
The Watcher (Joe Charbanic)

February 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) 88/100
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer) 83/100
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) 73/100
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) 62/100

Eager to Watch:
Faithless (Trolösa) (Liv Ullmann)
State and Main (David Mamet)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Quills (Philip Kaufman)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The 6th Day (Roger Spottiswoode)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (Des McAnuff)
Beautiful Creatures (Bill Eagles)
Bless the Child (Chuck Russell)
Bounce (Don Roos)
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (Rob Schmidt)
The Criminal (Julian Simpson)
Dead Babies (William Marsh)
The Family Man (Brett Ratner)
Lost Souls (Janusz Kaminski)
The Low Down (Jamie Thraves)
Pokemon 2: The Power of One (Kunihiko Yuyama)
Rage (Léa Pool)
Red Planet (Antony Hoffman)
Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
Under Suspicion (Stephen Hopkins)
Vertical Limit (Martin Campbell)
Woman on Top (Fina Torres)

Edits:
Moved Requiem for a Dream from Eager to Watch to Watched 2/12/09

March 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Audition (Ôdishon) (Takashi Miike) 63/100
But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit) 20/100
Dude, Where's My Car (Danny Leiner) 16/100
Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant) 51/100
Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore) 80/100
Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) (Roy Andersson) 94/100
What Women Want (Nancy Meyers) 55/100

Eager to Watch:
Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Liam (Stephen Frears)

Will Watch:
Chocolat (Lasse Hallström)

Might Possibly Watch:
Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
All the Pretty Horses (Billy Bob Thornton)
Born Romantic (David Kane)
The Claim (Michael Winterbottom)
Dark Days (Marc Singer)
Digimon Digital Monsters: The Movie (Mamoru Hosoda, Minoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi)
The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal)
The Gift (Sam Raimi)
Groove (Greg Harrison)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford)
Pay It Forward (Mimi Leder)
Proof of Life (Taylor Hackford)
Second Skin (Segunda piel) (Gerardo Vera)
The Tao of Steve (Jenniphr Goodman)

Edits:
Moved Songs from the Second Floor from Eager to Watch to Watched 28/12/09
Moved Audition from Eager to Watch to Watched 1/2/11

April 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
A One and a Two... (Yi yi) (Edward Yang) 95/100
Bridget Jones' Diary (Sharon Maguire) 54/100
Enemy at the Gates (Jean-Jacques Annaud) 76/100
Hannibal (Ridley Scott) 52/100
Men of Honor (George Tillman Jr.) 47/100

Eager to Watch:
Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Damnation (Kárhozat) (Béla Tarr)
Under the Sand (Sous le sable) (François Ozon)

Will Watch:
Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
Shower (Xizao) (Yang Zhang)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)

Might Possibly Watch:

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Antitrust (Peter Howitt)
Blow Dry (Paddy Breathnach)
The Contender (Rod Lurie)
Dungeons & Dragons (Courtney Solomon)
Les Enfants du siècle (Diane Kurys)
An Everlasting Piece (Barry Levinson)
Girlfight (Karyn Kusama)
The Invisible Circus (Adam Brooks)
One Night at McCool's (Harald Zwart)
Rugrats in Paris The Movie (Stig Bergqvist, Paul Demeyer)
Save the Last Dance (Thomas Carter)
The Wedding Planner (Adam Shankman)

Edits:
Moved Yi yi from Eager to Watch to Watched 8/1/10

May 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
About Adam (Gerard Stembridge) 52/100
The Dish (Rob Sitch) 78/100
Miss Congeniality (Donald Petrie) 20/100

Eager to Watch:
Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Bread and Roses (Ken Loach)
Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) (Michael Haneke)
Le Goût des autres (Agnès Jaoui)
The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist) (Santosh Sivan)
The Captive (La Captive) (Chantal Akerman)

Will Watch:
Bamboozled (Spike Lee)

Might Possibly Watch:
Aimée and Jaguar (Max Färberböck)
Tigerland (Joel Schumacher)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
15 Minutes (John Herzfeld)
Another Life (Philip Goodhew)
Boesman and Lena (John Berry)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (John Madden)
Goodbye Charlie Bright (Nick Love)
Hijack Stories (Oliver Schmitz)
The Hole (Nick Hamm)
The King Is Alive (Kristian Levring)
The Mexican (Gore Verbinski)
Monkeybone (Henry Selick)
The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman)
When Brendan Met Trudy (Kieron J. Walsh)

June 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Blow (Ted Demme) 81/100

Eager to Watch:
Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol)

Will Watch:
101 Reykjavík (Baltasar Kormákur)
Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Crimson Rivers (Les rivières pourpres) (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Along Came a Spider (Lee Tamahori)
The Broken Hearts Club - A Romantic Comedy (Greg Berlanti)
Dracula 2000 (Patrick Lussier)
Exit Wounds (Andrzej Bartkowiak)
Get Over It (Tommy O'Haver)
Hooded Angels (Paul Matthews)
Late Night Shopping (Saul Metzstein)
Le Libertin (Gabriel Aghion)
The Martins (Tony Grounds)
The Monkey's Mask (Samantha Lang)
Price of Glory (Carlos Ávila)
See Spot Run (John Whitesell)
Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan)
Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez)
Valentine (Jamie Blanks)
Very Annie-Mary (Sara Sugarman)
Weak at Denise (Julian Nott)

July 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
High Heels and Low Lifes (Mel Smith) 45/100
Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson) 82/100

Eager to Watch:
À l'attaque! (Robert Guédiguian)
The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin) (Tom Tykwer)
Together (Tillsammans) (Lukas Moodysson)

Will Watch:
Dr T & the Women (Robert Altman)
La Saison des hommes (Moufida Tlatli)

Might Possibly Watch:
Nowhere to Hide (Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda) (Myung-se Lee)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Autumn in New York (Joan Chen)
Down to Earth (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz)
Like Father (Richard Grassick, Ellin Hare, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Murray Martin)
The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers)
Out of Depth (Simon Marshall)
Pearl Harbour (Michael Bay)
Recess School's Out (Chuck Sheetz)
Rien à faire (Marion Vernoux)
Room to Rent (Khalid Al-Haggar)
Say It Isn't So (J.B. Rogers)
Solas (Benito Zambrano)
Sweet November (Pat O'Connor)
Town & Country (Peter Chelsom)
Whipped (Peter M. Cohen)

August 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Evolution (Ivan Reitman) 19/100
Lara Croft Tomb Raider (Simon West) 26/100
The Parole Officer (John Duigan) 45/100

Eager to Watch:
Gohatto (Nagisa Ôshima)
The Isle (Seom) (Ki-duk Kim)

Will Watch:
Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau)

Might Possibly Watch:
Maelström (Denis Villeneuve)
El Mar (Agustí Villaronga)
Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage)

Have No Interest Whatsoever:
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream (Christine Edzard)
Dr. Dolittle 2 (Steve Carr)
Ed Gein (Chuck Parello)
The Farewell (Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer) (Jan Schütte)
Help! I'm a Fish (Hjælp, jeg er en fisk) (Stefan Fjeldmark, Michael Hegner, Greg Manwaring)
Inbetweeners (Darren Fisher)
The Ladies Man (Reginald Hudlin)
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (Andrucha Waddington)
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (Ben Hopkins)
Pokémon 3 Spell of the Unknown (Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama)
When Love Comes (Garth Maxwell)

September 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Someone Like You (Tony Goldwyn) 50/100
Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston) 46/100
Swordfish (Dominic Sena) 58/100

Eager to Watch:
At the Height of Summer (Mua he chieu thang dung) (Anh Hung Tran)
Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru) (Kinji Fukasaku)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
The Colour of Lies (Au coeur du mensonge) (Claude Chabrol)
A Time for the Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha) (Bahman Ghobadi)

Will Watch:
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah talai jone) (Wisit Sasanatieng)

Might Possibly Watch:
What's Cooking? (Gurinder Chadha)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Cats & Dogs (Lawrence Guterman)
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (Simon Wincer)
Final Fantasy the Spirits Within (Hironobu Sakaguchi)
Greenfingers (Joel Hershman)
Heartbreakers (David Mirkin)
The Iron Ladies (Satree lek) (Youngyooth Thongkonthun)
Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan)
A Knights Tale (Brian Helgeland)
Lucky Break (Peter Cattaneo)
Le Secret (Virginie Wagon)
Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich)
Urban Ghost Story (Geneviève Jolliffe)

October 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) 72/100
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 96/100
Enigma (Michael Apted) 59/100
Planet of the Apes (2001) (Tim Burton) 58/100
The Pledge (Sean Penn) 64/100
Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner) 38/100
The Score (Frank Oz) 43/100

Eager to Watch:
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)

Will Watch:
The Circle (Dayareh) (Jafar Panahi)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Centre of the World (Wayne Wang)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Ali Zaoua (Nabil Ayouch)
Angel Eyes (Luis Mandoki)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups) (Christophe Gans)
Crazy/Beautiful (John Stockwell)
The Forsaken (J.S. Cardone)
Jump Tomorrow (Joel Hopkins)
Kiss of the Dragon (Chris Nahon)
Pandaemonium (Julien Temple)
Peaches (Nick Grosso)
Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz)
startup.com (Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim)
Women Talking Dirty (Coky Giedroyc)

Edits:
Moved AI: Artificial Intelligence from Eager to Watch to Watched 15/1/11

November 2001 UK & Ireland

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
American Pie 2 (J.B. Rogers) 47/100
Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic) 57/100
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) 93/100
Mick Bassett England Manager (Steve Barron) 35/100
The Others (Alejandro Amenábar) 44/100
Scary Movie 2 (Keenen Ivory Wayans) 35/100
The Piano Teacher (La pianiste) (Michael Haneke) 93/100

Eager to Watch:
Éloge de l'amour (Jean-Luc Godard)
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
La Ville est tranquille (Robert Guédiguian)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
America's Sweethearts (Joe Roth)
Asoka (Santosh Sivan)
Atlantis The Lost Empire (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
Bloody Angels (1732 Høtten) (Karin Julsrud)
The Brothers (Gary Hardwick)
Down from the Mountain (Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker)
The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen)
Jeepers Creepers (Victor Salva)
Large (Justin Edgar)
New Year's Day (Suri Krishnamma)
Shiner (John Irvin)
Wild about Harry (Declan Lowney)

Edits:
Moved The Piano Teacher from Eager to Watch to Watched 13/8/11

December 2001 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 73/100
Heist (David Mamet) 71/100
Zoolander (Ben Stiller) 63/100

Eager to Watch:
À ma soeur! (Catherine Breillat)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
The Devil's Backbone (El espinazo del diablo) (Guillermo del Toro)
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
Eureka (Yurîka) (Shinji Aoyama)
Storytelling (Todd Solondz)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
The Believer (Henry Bean)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Animal (Luke Greenfield)
Bandits (Barry Levinson)
Christmas Carol The Movie (Jimmy T. Murakami)
Driven (Renny Harlin)
Gabriel & Me (Udayan Prasad)
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Glitter (Vondie Curtis-Hall)
Me without You (Sandra Goldbacher)
My Brother Tom (Dom Rotheroe)
Original Sin (Michael Cristofer)
Rock Star (Stephen Herek)
Strictly Sinatra (Peter Capaldi)
This Filthy Earth (Andrew Kotting)

Edits:
Moved Ghost World from Eager to Watch to Watched 2/1/10

January 2002 UK & Ireland Release

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus) 48/100
In the Bedroom (Todd Field) 93/100
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith) 39/100
The Last Castle (Rod Lurie) 60/100
Mean Machine (Barry Skolnick) 37/100
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) 92/100
The Navigators (Ken Loach) 72/100

Eager to Watch:
The Day I Became a Woman (Roozi ke zan shodam) (Marzieh Makhmalbaf)
Kandahar (Safar e Ghandehar) (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)

Will Watch:

Might Possibly Watch:
Disco Pigs (Kirsten Sheridan)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The 51st State (Ronny Yu)
Baby Boy (John Singleton)
Dog Eat Dog (Moody Shoaibi)
Don't Say a Word (Gary Fleder)
Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green)
Last Orders (Fred Schepisi)
Osmosis Jones (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Penny Marshall)
Serendipity (Peter Chelsom)
Shooters (Glenn Durfort, Colin Teague)
Sidewalks of New York (Edward Burns)

Edits:
Moved In The Bedroom from Eager to Watch to Watched (11/10/09)
Moved The Navigators from Eager to Watch to Watched (4/5/11)

February 2002 UK & Ireland New Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Behind Enemy Lines (John Moore) 60/100
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott) 70/100
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) 87/100
Monsters Inc. (Pete Docter) 89/100
Rat Race (Jerry Zucker) 29/100
Spy Game (Tony Scott) 49/100
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua) 64/100
Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) 44/100

Eager to Watch:
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
The Lady & the Duke (L'anglaise et le duc) (Eric Rohmer)

Will Watch:
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

Might Possibly Watch:
Cool and Crazy (Heftig og begeistret) (Knut Erik Jensen)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Affair of the Necklace (Charles Shyer)
American Outlaws (Les Mayfield)
The Body (Jonas McCord)
The Fluffer (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland)
The Glass House (Daniel Sackheim)
Good Times (Terry Walshe)
Iris (Richard Eyre)
Lava (Joe Tucker)
Long Time Dead (Marcus Adams)
Lovely Rita (Jessica Hausner)
Made (Jon Favreau)
Nobody Someday (Brian Hill)
O (Tim Blake Nelson)
The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall)
Soul Survivors (Stephen Carpenter)

March 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
Ali (Michael Mann) 76/100
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) 72/100
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 88/100
From Hell (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) 61/100
Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) 62/100
Shallow Hal (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly) 65/100
The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) (Nanni Moretti) 83/100

Eager to Watch:
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) (Walter Salles)
Comédie de L'innocence (Raoul Ruiz)
Das Experiment (Oliver Hirschbiegel)

Will Watch:
Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuheret) (Dover Koshashvili)
Muhammad Ali The Greatest (Phil Grabsky)

Might Possibly Watch:
Antanarjuat The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
The Shipping News (Lasse Hallström)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Bangkok: Dangerous (Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang)
Bully (Larry Clark)
Charlotte Gray (Gillian Armstrong)
Domestic Disturbance (Harold Becker)
Evil Woman (Saving Silverman) (Dennis Dugan)
Hearts in Atlantis (Scott Hicks)
Just Visiting (Jean-Marie Poiré)
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (Karan Johar)
Metropolis (Metoroporisu) (Rintaro)
The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington)

Edits:
Moved The Son's Room from Eager to Watch to Watched 28/12/09

April 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) (Alfonso Cuarón) 84/100
Time Out (L'emploi du temps) (Laurent Cantet) 83/100
I Am Sam (Jessie Nelson) 85/100
K-Pax (Iain Softley) 68/100
Orange County (Jake Kasdan) 46/100
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 86/100
We Were Soldiers (Randall Wallace) 52/100

Eager to Watch:
Invincible (Werner Herzog)
Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere) (Lone Scherfig)
No Mans's Land (Danis Tanovic)

Will Watch:
The Pornographer (Le pornographe) (Bertrand Bonello)

Might Possibly Watch:
Dinner Rush (Bob Giraldi)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
Collateral Damage (Andrew Davis)
Crossroads (Tamra Davis)
D-Tox (Jim Gillespie)
Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (John A. Davis)
Kate & Leopold (James Mangold)
The Mystic Masseur (Ismail Merchant)
Pauline & Paulette (Lieven Debrauwer)
Return to Never Land (Robin Budd)
Slackers (Dewey Nicks)
Thir13en Ghosts (Steve Beck)

Edits:
Moved The Royal Tenenbaums from Eager to Watch to Watched 16/1/10

May 2002 UK & Ireland Releases

The following release information is from Sight & Sound.

Watched:
About A Boy (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz) 59/100
Ali G Indahouse (Mark Mylod) 46/100
Rape Me (Baise-moi) (Virginie Despentes) 11/100
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) 54/100
The Closet (Le placard) (Francis Veber) 60/100
Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall) 62/100
Ice Age (Chris Wedge) 66/100

Eager to Watch:
Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) (Jan Sverák)
I'm Going Home (Je rentre à la maison) (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Majestic (Frank Darabont)
Panic Room (David Fincher)
Warm Water under the Red Bridge (Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu) (Shohei Imamura)

Will Watch:
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
Sex and Lucía (Lucía y el sexo) (Julio Medem)
The Warrior (Musa) (Sung-su Kim)
Tosca (Benoît Jacquot)

Might Possibly Watch:
The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds)
Life as a House (Irwin Winkler)

Have No Interest In Whatsoever:
The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner)
Delbaran (Abolfazl Jalili)
Dust (Milcho Manchevski)
Hart's War (Gregory Hoblit)
Hotel (Mike Figgis)
The One (James Wong)
Revelation (Stuart Urban)
Thunderpants (Peter Hewitt)