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2002 Top Ten List

1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noé)
2. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
3. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5. 8 Women (François Ozon)
6. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
7. Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)
8. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
9. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
10. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)

Other 2002 Films I Enjoyed

• City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
• The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
• Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
• 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
• Zero Day (Ben Coccio)
• Friday Night (Claire Denis)
• Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
• Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
• Hero (Zhang Yimou)
• Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
• All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
• Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
• About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
• Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
• Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
• The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
• Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
• Bus 174 (José Padilha)
• 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
• Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
• Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
• Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
• The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
• Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin)