A Gentle Breeze in the Village(Nobuhiro Yamashita)
Knocked Up(Judd Apatow)
Into the Wild(Sean Penn)
You, the Living(Roy Andersson)
Michael Clayton(Tony Gilroy)
Encounters at the End of the World(Werner Herzog)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story(Jake Kasdan)
Moving Midway(Godfrey Cheshire)
In the Shadow of the Moon(David Sington)
Ratatouille(Brad Bird)
Nightwatching(Peter Greenaway)
The Edge of Heaven(Fatih Akin)
Son of Rambow(Garth Jennings)
The Last Mistress(Catherine Breillat)
Crows Zero(Takashi Miike)
The Simpsons Movie(David Silverman)
The Tracey Fragments(Bruce McDonald)
Night Train(Diao Yi Nan)
Heartbeat Detector(Nicolas Klotz)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(Tim Burton)
Rocket Science(Jeffrey Blitz)
And Along Come Tourists(Robert Thalheim)
Inside(Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo)
Flight of the Red Balloon(Hou Hsiao Hsien)
Fear(s) of the Dark([Various])
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters(Seth Gordon)
Import Export(Ulrich Seidl)
2 Days in Paris(Julie Delpy)
A Stray Girlfriend(Ana Katz)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford(Andrew Dominik)
The Visitor(Tom McCarthy)
Déficit(Gael García Bernal)
Hot Fuzz(Edgar Wright)
Taxi to the Dark Side(Alex Gibney)
The Savages(Tamara Jenkins)
The Witnesses(André Téchiné)
Youth Without Youth(Francis Ford Coppola)
We Own the Night(James Gray)
A Girl Cut in Two(Claude Chabrol)
Juno(Jason Reitman)
Ocean's Thirteen(Steven Soderbergh)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon(Eric Rohmer)
I Am Legend(Francis Lawrence)
Eat, for This Is My Body(Michelange Quay)
Snow Angels(David Gordon Green)
To Each His Own Cinema([Various])
Corroboree(Ben Hackworth)
My Brother Is an Only Child(Daniele Luchetti)
Beowulf(Robert Zemeckis)
Waitress(Adrienne Shelly)
The Sun Also Rises(Jiang Wen)
Superbad(Greg Mottola)
The Axe in the Attic(Ed Pincus & Lucia Small)
Zoo(Robinson Devor)
Surfwise(Doug Pray)
XXY(Lucía Puenzo)
3:10 to Yuma(James Mangold)
Hot Rod(Akiva Schaffer)
Very Young Girls(David Schisgall)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters(Matt Maiellaro & Dave Willis)
In the Valley of Elah(Paul Haggis)
Sukiyaki Western Django(Takashi Miike)
Terror's Advocate(Barbet Schroeder)
Atonement(Joe Wright)
Breach(Billy Ray)
The Counterfeiters(Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Broken English(Zoe Cassavetes)
I'm Not There(Todd Haynes)
Boy A(John Crowley)
Angel(François Ozon)
Weirdsville(Allan Moyle)
Persepolis(Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
Sunshine(Danny Boyle)
Spider-Man 3(Sam Raimi)
The Feast of Love(Robert Benton)
Cassandra's Dream(Woody Allen)
Profit motive and the whispering wind(John Gianvito)
Charlie Wilson's War(Mike Nichols)
Honeydripper(John Sayles)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(Julian Schnabel)
It's a Free World...(Ken Loach)
The Darjeeling Limited(Wes Anderson)
U23D(Catherine Owens & Mark Pellington)
Talk to Me(Kasi Lemmons)
Big Man Japan(Hitoshi Matsumoto)
The Bucket List(Rob Reiner)
Hairspray(Adam Shankman)
Married Life(Ira Sachs)
No End in Sight(Charles Ferguson)
My Blueberry Nights(Wong Kar Wai)
Paranormal Activity(Oren Peli)
Redacted(Brian De Palma)
😊 (Gregg Araki)
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World(Ken Jacobs)
O'Horten(Bent Hamer)
Sicko(Michael Moore)
Secret Sunshine(Lee Chang-dong)
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead(George A. Romero)
Man From Plains(Jonathan Demme)
Reservation Road(Terry George)
Boarding Gate(Olivier Assayas)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets(Jon Turteltaub)
Mad Detective(Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai)
American Gangster(Ridley Scott)
You Kill Me(John Dahl)
Detective Story(Takashi Miike)
The Signal(David Bruckner/Jacob Gentry/Dan Bush)
Four Sheets to the Wind(Sterlin Harjo)
Eastern Promises(David Cronenberg)
The Man From London(Béla Tarr)
The Orphanage(J.A. Bayona)
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project(John Landis)
Freedom Writers(Richgard LaGravenese)
Mongol(Sergei Bodrov)
Death at a Funeral(Frank Oz)
Timecrimes(Nacho Vigalondo)
Flooding With Love for the Kid(Zachary Oberzan)
12(Nikita Mikhalkov)
The Pool(Chris Smith)
Chouga(Darezhan Omirbaev)
Summit Circle(Bernard Émond)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead(Sidney Lumet)
A Mighty Heart(Michael Winterbottom)
Hounddog(Deborah Kampmeier)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(David Yates)
Tehilim(Raphael Nadjari)
Rendition(Gavin Hood)
Beaufort(Joseph Cedar)
The Walker(Paul Schrader)
Love Songs(Christophe Honoré)
Sous les toits de Paris(Hiner Saleem)
Help Me Eros(Lee Kang-Sheng)
Teeth(Mitchell Lichtenstein)
The Mourning Forest(Naomi Kawase)
A Secret(Claude Miller)
Crashing(Gary Walkow)
The 11th Hour(Leila Connors Petersen & Nadia Conners)
Never Forever(Gina Kim)
Breath(Kim Ki-duk)
I Just Didn't Do It(Masayuki Suo)
Promise Me This(Emir Kusturica)
Year of the Dog(Mike White)
Brick Lane(Sarah Gavron)
Katyn(Andrzej Wajda)
Elite Squad(José Padilha)
The Nines(John August)
Actresses(Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)
Lucky You(Curtis Hanson)
Go Go Tales(Abel Ferrara)
Captain Mike Across America(Michael Moore)
Shooter(Antoine Fuqua)
Alexandra(Alexander Sokurov)
Useless(Jia Zhang-Ke)
The Banishment(Andrei Zvyagintsev)
La Vie en Rose(Olivier Dahan)
Glory to the Filmmaker!(Takeshi Kitano)
La France(Serge Bozon)
The State of the World([Various])
Triangle(Tsui Hark/Ringo Lam/Johnnie To)
M(Lee Myung-se)
The Brave One(Neil Jordan)
Sleuth(Kenneth Branagh)
Blind Mountain(Li Yang)
An American Crime(Tommy O'Haver)
The Letterboxd
version of this list has posters for every film and whatnot.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year
it had its world premiere. Films that premiered last year but were
commercially released this year would be on last
year's list.