The following lists were thrown together by a handful of Lumière's friends and family; probably with little-to-no thought, mostly just to fill redundant page space.


Aaron Yap

1. demonlover
2. Uzak
3. Bright Future
4. Sweet Sixteen
5. Morvern Callar
6. May
7. Friday Night
8. Spider
9. In My Skin
10. Blue Spring

David Levinson

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Mystic River
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1
4. Turning Gate
5. The School of Rock
6. The Secret Lives of Dentists
7. Irréversible
8. Uzak
9. Talk to Her
10. Russian Ark

Matthew Fairweather

1. Kill Bill Vol. 1
2. Punch Drunk Love
3. City of God
4. Adaptation
5. Battle Royale
6. Irréversible
7. Jackass: The Movie
8. Standing in the Shadows of Mowtown
9. Hero
10. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Tim Wong

1. Irréversible
2. No One's Ark
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Mystic River
6. The Secret Lives of Dentists
7. Dead or Alive
8. Far From Heaven
9. demonlover
10. Dogville (177 min ver.)

Andrew Armitage (Top 10 Rentals)

1. Roger Dodger
Indie film at its best – dazzlingly written, directed and acted.

2. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Blockbuster film-making at its best – spectacular and involving.

3. Ghost World
Perfectly matched ideas and execution.

4. Talk to Her
Wholly original and beautifully crafted.

5. Far From Heaven
A novel pastiche, close to cinema-heaven.

6. Insomnia
Improves on an excellent original.

7. Spirited Away
Boundlessly imaginative.

8. Wendigo
A horror-thriller with real integrity.

9. Bowling for Columbine
Not the best movie of the year, but the most important.

10. Festival in Cannes
Art, commerce, and the Riviera – bliss!

Alistair Kwun (Asian Top 10*)

1. Last Life in the Universe
(Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/Japan/Hong Kong, 2002) | lastlifeintheuniverse.com

2. Wild Berries
(Miwa Nishikawa, Japan, 2002) | kore-eda.com/hebiichigo/index.htm

3. The Best of Times
(Chang Tso-chi, Taiwan. 2002) | changfilm.com.tw/besttimes/b_home.html

4. Into the Mirror
(Kim Sung-ho, Korea, 2003) | intothemirror.co.kr

5. Chicken Poets
(Meng Jinghui, China, 2002)

6. Memories of Murder
(Bong Joon-Ho, Korea, 2003)

7. Bright Future
(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2002)

8. July Rhapsody
(Ann Hui, Hong Kong, 2002)

9. Charlotte Sometimes
(Eric Byler, USA, 2002) | charlottesometimesthemovie.com

10. Dolls
(Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 2002) | office-kitano.co.jp/dolls

*in no particular order

See also:
» Just Another Top Ten List
» Killing William etc.