UNDISTRIBUTED FILMS (U.S.)

Here's my list of Best "Undistributed" Films (2006) . (A few mentioned below have been screened in the U.S. in one capacity or another but failed to meet my guidelines for distribution.) Only the films that premiered within the last 5 years and were seen in 2006 qualified for consideration.

in alphabetical order:

All the Fine Promises (Toutes ces belles promesses) - Jean-Paul Civeyrac / France-Bel

Beautiful City (Shahr-e Ziba) - Asghar Farhadi / Iran

Blood and Bones (Chi to Hone) - Yoichi Sai / Japan

Border Cafe (Caf Transit) - Kambuzia Partovi / Iran-Fra

The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chats perchs) - Chris Marker / France

Chain - Jem Cohen / U.S.-Ger

Citadel - Atom Egoyan / Canada

Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper / Austria-Bel-Fra-Can-Fin-Swe

Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? - Shinji Aoyama / Japan

Glue (Glue - historia adolescente en medio de la nada) - Alexis Dos Santos / Argentina-U.K.

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams - Jasmila Zbanic / Bosnia-Herzegovina-Aut-Ger-Cro

Inland Empire - David Lynch / U.S.-Fra-Pol

The Last Mitterrand (Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars) - Robert Gudiguian / France

Los Muertos - Lisandro Alonso / Argentina-Fra-Ned-Swi

Omkara - Vishal Bharadwaj / India

Police Beat - Robinson Devor / U.S.

Regular Lovers (Les Amants rguliers) - Philippe Garrel / France

The Sky Turns (El Cielo gira) - Mercedes lvarez / Spain

Social Genocide (Memoria del saqueo) - Fernando E. Solanas / Argentina-Fra-Swi

Star Spangled to Death- Ken Jacobs / U.S.

Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) - Jia ZhangKe / China-HK

Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon) - Andreas Dresen / Germany

The Sun (Solntse) - Aleksandr Sokurov / Russia-Fra-Ita-Swi

Tale of Cinema (Geuk jang jeon) - Hong Sang-soo / S. Korea

The Taste of Tea (Cha no Aji) - Katsuhito Ishii / Japan

Through the Forest ( travers la fort) - Jean-Paul Civeyrac / France

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Wang Bing / China

The Uncertainty Principle (O Princpio da Incerteza) - Manoel de Oliveira / Portugal-Fra

The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Ken Loach / U.K.-Ire-Ita-Ger-Fra-Spa

Les Yves clairs - Jrme Bonnell / France