While this was an undeniably good year for film it was also a year in which smaller movies had a much harder time getting attention or even in movie theaters at all. With big name directors like Ang Lee, Sidney Lumet and Francis Ford Coppola clogging up art house screens there was less and less room this year for new names and faces. In fact three movies (Reprise, Lost in Beijing and Never Forever) which played at various festivals throughout the year would have certainly made this list but were excluded only because they never got US distribution, meaning only a handful of people were lucky enough to see them. That said, as a film lover it’s hard to complain about a year that gave us such an extremely high level of quality and creativity in such variety.
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