What really kept Roof to Roofcoming back to mind over the course of the year, however, was Corbett’s refusal to betray his film with a neat happy ending. By its final scenes, little has been resolved, but everything has been felt. It’s this sensitivity to the open, messy flow of life that marks some of the other films in my Top 10 — Eureka, Together and Amores Perros— the kind you’ll carry with you for years to come.
Ella Taylor's List
Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, Japan)
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel)
Éloge de l’Amour (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, USA)
Shrek (Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, USA)
The Believer (Henry Bean, USA)
L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta, USA)
Fighter(Amir Bar-Lev, USA)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, USA).
(In order of preference.)