Before we move onto our 2005 lists, I think we should resubmit the ones from last year since they were lost.

TOP 15

1. Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu san) - Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan

2. Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) - Michael Haneke / France

3. Dogville - Lars von Trier / Denmark

4. Birth - Jonathan Glazer / U.S.

5. Son Frre - Patrice Chreau / France

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry / U.S.

7. Last Life in the Universe (Ruang Rak noi nid Mahasan) 
- Pen-Ek Ratanaruang / Thailand

8. Notre Musique - Jean-Luc Godard / France

9. The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) - Yoji Yamada / Japan

10.The Village - M. Night Shyamalan / U.S.

11.Moolaad - Ousmane Sembene / Senegal

12.The Brown Bunny - Vincent Gallo / U.S.

13.Crimson Gold (Talaye Sorgh) - Jafar Panahi / Iran 

14.Kill Bill: Volume 2 - Quentin Tarantino / U.S.

15.Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 
(Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom) - Kim Ki-duk / S.Korea

RUNNERS-UP
(alphabetical order only)

Alexander - Oliver Stone / U.S.-Germany

Almost Peaceful (Un Monde presque paisible) 
- Michel Deville / France 

Bad Education (La Mala Educacin) - Pedro Almodvar / Spain

Before Sunset - Richard Linklater / U.S. 

Free Radicals (Bse Zellen) - Barbara Albert / Austria 

Hellboy - Guillermo del Toro / U.S.

The Inheritence (Arven) - Peter Fly / Denmark

Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood / U.S.

Outskirts (Okraina) - Pyotr Lutsik / Russia

Persons of Interest - Alison Maclean & Tobias Perse - U.S.

Raja - Jacques Doillon / France-Morocco 

Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) 
- Tian Zhuangzhuang / China

Strayed (Les gars) - Andr Tchin / France 

Tokyo Godfathers - Satoshi Kon / Japan

The Woodsman - Nicole Kassell / U.S.

Honorable Mention
(alphabetical order only)

Alila - Amos Gitai / Israel

Baadasssss! - Mario Van Peebles / U.S. 

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction - Samuel Fuller / U.S.

Blind Shaft (Mang Jing) - Li Yang / China

Bon Voyage - Jean-Paul Rappeneau / France

Bright Future (Akarui Mirai) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan

Dawn of the Dead - Zack Snyder / U.S.

The Five Obstructions - Lars von Trier & Jrgen Leth / Denmark

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry - George Butler / U.S.

I Heart Huckabees - David O. Russell / U.S.

The Incredibles - Brad Bird / U.S.

Loving Glances (Sjaj u Ocima) - Srdjan Karanovic 
/ Serbia & Montenegro 

Maria Full of Grace - Joshua Marston / U.S.-Columbia 

Reconstruction - Christoffer Boe / Denmark

The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) - Andrei Zvyagintsev / Russia

Sex Is Comedy - Catherine Breillat / France

Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright / U.K.

Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani) - Sabiha Sumar / Pakistan

A Talking Picture (Um Filme Falado) - Manoel de Oliveira / Portugal

Viva Laldjrie - Nadir Moknche / Algeria

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*ALL FILMS WERE DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S. DURING 2004.