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James Quandt, TIFF Cinematheque’s Senior Programmer, said of its poll to determine the most important film of the 21^st century’s first decade, ‘[The voters] perspective should give us a longer view of the films made in this decade, the films that should stand the test of time and be acknowledged as historically influential works in the decades to come.’

Films were allocated points through a system which measured the intensity of support as well as the number of votes.   Those voting included representatives of the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the British Film Institute (London); the UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles); Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus); Filmoteca de la UNAM (Mexico City); George Eastman House (Rochester); Austrian Film Museum (Vienna); World Cinema Foundation (New York); Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver); Centre National de la Cinématographie (Paris); Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa); Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival (Gran Canaria); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley); Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm); Berlin International Film Festival (Berlin); Haghefilm Foundation (Amsterdam); Tokyo FILMeX (Tokyo) and TIFF Cinematheque (Toronto)

Rankings

1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) – 53 votes

2. Platform (Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong, China/China/Japan/France) – 49 votes

3. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, China) – 48 votes

4. Beau travail (Claire Denis, France) – 46 votes

5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, China) – 43 votes

6. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand/Germany/Italy) – 38 votes

7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania) – 35 votes

Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Hungary) – 35 votes

8. Éloge de l’amour (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/ France) – 34 votes

9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) – 33 votes

10. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands) – 32 votes

11. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Germany) – 31 votes

12. The New World (Terrence Malick, USA) – 30 votes

13. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand) – 29 votes

14. Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France) – 27 votes

15. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland) – 25 votes

16. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Agnès Varda, France) – 24 votes

In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, Portugal/Germany/Italy/Switzerland) – 24 votes

Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, Sweden/Denmark/Norway) – 24 votes

17. Caché (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy) – 23 votes

A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA) – 23 votes

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, France/USA) – 23 votes

Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan) – 23 votes

18. Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin, France) – 21 votes

19. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, USA) – 20 votes

20. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) – 19 votes

21. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France)– 18 votes

YI YI (A One and a Two) (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan) – 18 votes

22. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Spain) – 17 votes

23. L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France) – 16 votes

The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada) – 16 votes

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France/Austria) – 16 votes

Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, USA) – 16 votes

24. The World (Jia Zhang-ke, China/Japan/France) – 14 votes

25. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan) – 13 votes

The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain/France/Italy) – 13 votes

L’Intrus (Claire Denis, France) – 13 votes

Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/France) – 13 votes

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada) – 13 votes

Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) – 13 votes

Spirited Away (Hiyao Miyazaki, Japan) – 13 votes

I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, USA) – 13 votes

26. Gerry (Gus Van Sant, USA) – 12 votes

27. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) – 11 votes

Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/UK/France/Germany) – 11 votes

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, USA) – 11 votes

28. Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/France) – 9 votes

demonlover (Olivier Assayas, France) – 9 votes

29. Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada) – 8 votes

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) – 8 votes

30. Longing (Valeska Grisebach, Germany) – 7 votes

Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) – 7 votes

Vai e Vem (João César Monteiro, Portugal) – 7 votes

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, USA/France) – 7 votes

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